A Taste of Solitude/Transcript

Transcript for , season 2 episode 1 of The Wheel of Time.
Scene numbers match the official scenes on Prime video. Scene 1 is the Prime Video logo.
== Scene 2: Previously on ==
== Scene 3: Tel'aran'rhiod ==
A little girl in the clothes of the Tuatha'an, Niko, plays outside an isolated building in the woods. In the distance, Trollocs see her and scream, and charge toward her. Niko runs inside the building and locks the door. She hides under a table where a meeting is taking place. Except for the man who is speaking, the other 11 attendees are hooded. Beneath the table, Niko can see their clothes: A Whitecloak, a Seanchan noblewoman, an Aes Sedai with a black ring, a Shienaran soldier, and others.
Niko goes to the skirts of a Tuatha'an woman.
The Man who was speaking looks under the table, startling Niko. He speaks kindly.
Niko looks back toward the door.
Niko nods.
The Man takes her hand as they walk toward the door.
At the table, Padan Fain lifts his hood to smile at Niko. The Man leads her out the door where the Trollocs wait.
Niko gasps and looks up at the Trolloc, frightened. The Man kneels to be at her eye level.
He stands and lifts up Niko, holding her on his hip to look at the Trolloc. He reaches out, caressing the side of the Trolloc's face, and the creature leans into his touch.
Niko reaches out, but hesitates before touching it. The Trolloc bares its teeth, and then leans into her touch with a contented growl. She strokes down the side of its face with a giggle. The Man chuckles with her.
Series title.
== Scene: Tifan's Well ==
Moiraine draws buckets of water and carries them uphill to a villa. She heats the water on a stove and fills a bath. In the bath, she washes her clothes by hand. She looks at her hands and lowers one to the water's surface, and cries. (Note: This scene parallels the bath scene from season 1 episode 1 Leavetaking, where Moiraine channels to heat the bathwater for her and Lan.)
Outside, Lan practices sword forms shirtless. He drips heavily with sweat. He's distressed, and rubs his eyes as he's on the verge of crying. He looks over as a horse whinies and a rider approaches the villa.
At the villa, Adeleas lounges on outside while Tomas prepares food at a table. Adeleas is looking at something with binoculars. Verin comes outside.
Verin steps aside, revealing Lan in the distance behind her. He's what Adeleas was looking at with her binoculars. He's still shirtless.
Verin looks back and looks at her sister with an amused and "I can't believe you" expression. Lan is putting a shirt on.
Verin and Lan watch the rider approach.
Moiraine reads letters in her study. There's a knock at her door.
Lan opens the door to reveal the rider with him, and closes the door behind him. Moiraine doesn't look up from her papers.
Irritated, Lan opens the door and the man enters.
Moiraine doesn't look at Lan with the command. Lan steps out and closes the door behind him.
== Scene: The White Tower ==
Egwene empties a pitcher and cups into a bucket and wipes up in the Amyrlin's room. She collects another cup from a desk, and pauses to admire the Amyrlin's golden dress.
As Egwene walks down a hall, Leane Sharif approaches. Egwene bows. Leane doesn't even look at her as she drops her cup into one of Egwene's buckets.
In Alanna Mosvani's room, she scraps food from a plate into her bucket and places the plate and fork into her other bucket. She hears Alanna giggling and looks up to see Alanna, Maksim, and Ihvon fooling around in bed. She quickly gets up to leave, when Alanna notices her.
Egwene quickly leaves the room, another plate in her hand as she hurries down the hall.
She passes Warders training in a sand pit. Aes Sedai and Accepted watch the men. Egwene pauses to look down before continuing.
Egwene enters a kitchen. Nynaeve and three other novices are working at a table. Egwene places her heavy bucket on a table beside Nynaeve and smiles at her.
Egwene places her bag of dirty dishes on the table as well. She begins unloading the dishes for cleaning.
Alanna enters the kitchen.
Alanna passes out a clean glass to each of the novices. She takes another glass and fills it from the bucket of discarded drinks and food that Egwene brought in.
Alanna pours the dirty water through her weave, and it flows clean into another glass. She lifts her glass of clean water and drinks it.
Alanna walks around the table, looking at the Novices trying the weave. One Novice pours her dirty water back into the first glass to try again. Alanna pauses by Egwene, who is not using her hands to help herself channel.
Alanna dismisses the other Novices, who take their glasses and hurry away.
Nynaeve looks at her defiantly.
Nynaeve lifts her glass of filthy water and drinks it. She cringes but downs the whole thing. Egwene looks disgusted.
Nynaeve walks out.
== Scene: Aes Sedai meeting ==
Sheriam looks troubled but leaves.
== Scene: Shienarans ==
Campsite, morning. Perrin sits besides a fire, writing a letter. Loial approaches.
Loial laughs.
Perrin, Loial, and the Shienarans proceed on horseback.
Perrin and Loial laugh. Behind them, Masema shakes his head.
Ont he path before them stands their new tracker, Elyas Machera. He has golden eyes.
Looking at Perrin, Elyas leads them to a slaughtered family of four Tuatha'an.
As Perrin looks at the scene, he hears a wolf howl and his dark brown eyes turn golden. He sees a vision of Padan Fain attacking one of the victims, a Tuatha'an woman. A little girl runs away. Perrin reaches toward the girl and steps forward as thought to follow, but stops. Elyas stands in front of him.
Away from the murdered Tuatha'an family, they find a dead Shienaran soldier besides a dead dog. Flies buzz over the corpses.
Uno spits on the Shienaran's corpse.
Elyas looks at Perrin. Perrin looks back at him, and away.
== Tifan's Well ==
=== Moiraine's study ===
Moiraine lifts an old grey object from her desk and examines it.
Bayle Domon lifts a wrapped object, and he pulls back the cloth to reveal a broken piece white stone -- cuendillar.
He offers it to Moiraine, and she takes it and examines the piece.
=== The garden ===
=== Moiraine's study ===
Bayle Domon pulls a wrapped piece of parchment from his bag. Moiraine reaches for it but he pulls it back.
Moiraine looks at the broken piece of cuendillar and sighs. With a nod, she pulls out a coin purse, reaches inside, and takes out one mark and places it on the table. She takes the poem from Bayle Domon's hand and leans back.
Bayle Domon gathers his things back heads for the door, but turns back to Moiraine.
Bayle Domon opens the door.
Bayle Domon turns to look at her and gives a slight bow, and pulls the door closed behind him. Moiraine opens the poem and reads it, looking troubled as she does so.
== The White Tower ==
=== Scene: Warder's training pit ===
Nynaeve, Ihvon, and Maksim practice with swords in the Warder's sandpit. They're serious, with moments of laughter. Ihvon disarms her.
=== Scene: White Tower halls ===
Nynaeve walks down the hall to Egwene's room. The door is open.
She enters, but the room is empty.
Elsewhere, Egwene raps on a door.
Egwene takes a deep breath and enters. Alanna is lounging on pillows. She gestures for Egwene to sit. Egwene awkwardly sits on a pillow and leans stiffly against a cushion. Alanna offers her a pomegranate. 
Egwene quickly gets up and backs toward the door.
=== Scene: Kitchen ===
In the kitchen, a glass of filthy water is on the table before Nynaeve. She takes a breath, closes her eyes, and moves her hands in the form to channel, but nothing happens. Liandrin walks in. Nynaeve stops.
Liandrin closes the door behind her.
Liandrin reaches up, and suddenly a blade of the One Power is channeled in her hand. Nynaeve eyes it and steps back, threatened.
Liandrin releases the weave and the sword disappears.
Liandrin channels a burst of air at Nynaeve, slamming back against the wall.
Nynaeve channels a burst of power, slamming Liandrin back against the wall and holding her there. Now they are both channeling at each other.
Liandrin channels again, her weaves going through Nynaeve. Suddenly Nynaeve's weave is broken, and Liandrin lands gracefully back on her feet. Nynaeve gasps, straining.
A tears trails down Nynaeve's cheek as she strains. Liandrin approaches her and leans in close.
Liandrin releases the shield, and steps back with a shaky breath. Nynaeve gasps and collapses, breathing heavily. Liandrin shakily leaves. Nynaeve looks down at her hands.
== Scene: Funeral ==
The Shienarans have dug a circle of five graves for the four tuatha'an and the Shienaran darkfriend. The bodies are wrapped, and the Shienarans place the bodies into the graves, and then place a candle on each one. Off the side, Elyas places the dog into its own grave, and sets a candle on it in the same way. Ingtar stands next to Perrin as the men stand in a circle around the five graves.
== Scene: Tifan's Well ==
Lan knocks on the door to Moiraine's study and enters.
Moiraine doesn't respond.
On a cliff above Moiraine and Lan, Verin and Adeleas channel. A high-pitched ringing torments the Fades. One of the Fades is destroyed with the One Power. Tomas kills the other, his sword infused with fire. Lan and Moiraine both lie injured. Lan looks to Moiraine.
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