The Eye of the World (episode)/Transcript

Transcript for The Eye of the World, season 1 episode 8 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: 3000 years ago ==
Outside the window is a a beautiful advanced city. A small ship flies by. (Note that the city shares the design of the ruins seen in episode 1 Leavetaking.)
Scene 4: Opening theme.
== Scene 5: The Blight ==
Moiraine and Rand make their way through the tangled vine-covered forest of the Blight. They advance and come across a corpse of young man, his body being consumed by moss and mushrooms.
== Scene 6: Fal Dara bedroom ==
A bell tolls at Fal Dara. In her bedroom, Egwene is crying and frantically packing things. The door opens and Perrin enters.
Perrin sits besides her on the bed.
Egwene smiles. She moves closer and Perrin puts his arm around her as she cries.
== Scene 7: The Blight ==
Rand and Moiraine continue their journey. Moiraine pauses as she sees towers in the distance.
Moiraine tosses him wrapped food.
== Scene 8: Fal Dara ==
Lan stands on a balcony. Nynaeve joins him.
Lan turns to her, but doesn't answer.
== Scene 9: The Blight ==
Rand startles awake. Moss is growing up his hand and he quickly scrubs it off.
A blade stabs Moiraine from behind, coming out of her mouth. It's pulled back. Moiraine falls.
Rand fires an arrow into The Man's left eye. The Man presses against the shaft of the arrow, pushing it into his face. As he does so, the burned skin slips away, revealing a normal-looking man.
The Man touches Rand's cheek. Rand pushes his hand aside and moves away.
Rand draws his sword and aims it at The Man, who tilts the blade aside to look at it.
Rand turns his sword on himself and thrusts it through his stomach. The Man sighs.
Rand startles awake in the Blight.
Rand walks past her, continuing on their journey.
== Scene 10: The Blight ==
Moiraine pulls out a small carving of a man in a seated position.
Rand takes the figurine.
Moiraine turns to continue their journey.
== Scene 11: Fal Dara ==
Nynaeve stands alone on the balcony. Her eyes are closed as she listens. The wind whistles softly. Egwene joins her.
Egwene looks out over the balcony toward Tarwin's Ga. She closes her eyes and takes a breath. The wind grows louder. There's faint screaming in the distance. The screaming grows louder, into a fierce roar. Egwene gasps and opens her eyes.
== Scene 12: The Blight ==
As Moiraine and Rand continue through the Blight, a creaking sound stops them. Rand knocks an arrow in his bow and Moiraine embraces the One Power. They look around for the source of the sound. A large branch falls. Moiraine and Rand relax, relieved. They continue on.
Rand steps in front of her.
Rand nods and rubs his thumb over the sa'angreal.
== Scene 13: Min's bar ==
Min is working behind the bar counter. A man, Agee, is sitting at the bar. She's looking past him at the door, and then Egwene, Nynaeve, Perrin, and Loial enter and approach her.
Min pauses her work as she has a vision of Egwene and Nynaeve's skin burning, and the vision of Nynaeve falls to her knees. Another vision of soldiers at a nearby table shows them injured and screaming. Min is shaken.
A war horn blares in the distance. The soldiers get up from their table and run out.
== Scene 14: The Blight ==
Rand and Moiraine hear roaring in the distance.
Moiraine and Rand look back through the vines and see a hoard of trollocs approaching Tarwin's Gap.
Moiraine continues on. Rand is shaken as he looks back.
== Scene 15: Fal Dara ==
Agelmar walks through the palace with a retinue.
They step out on a balcony facing Tarwin's Gap. A horn blares in the distance.
Agelmar is shaken by these words, but he focuses back on the Gap.
Agelmar turns and address Yakota and Uno.
Agelmar places a hand to his chest. Yakota does the same in return and bows. Uno turns and marches out to his task. The others go, leaving Agelmar and Amalisa alone on the balcony. Amalisa steps up beside him.
== Scene 16: The Eye of the World ==
Rand and Moiraine approach a wide opening in the ground. The sides of the opening have many stairs descending. It's old and overgrown, but appears to be man-made.
Rand begins to descend down the stairs, but stops and turns back to Moiraine.
Moiraine doesn't respond.
Moiraine gives a small smile and shakes her head, then walks past him, descending into The Eye.
== Scene 17: Lan ==
Lan runs through The Blight, pursuing Moiraine and Rand. He sees the towers of Malkier in the distance and continues on.
== Scene 18: Fal Dara throne room ==
Amalisa helps Agelmar into his armor.
Agelmar looks at the armor on the wall.
Agelmar holds her arms.
Agelmar looks at his father's armor. He approaches it.
He takes a weapon from beneath the armor.
He returns to Amalisa. They take each others' hands.
Agelmar salutes her with a hand to his chest, and Amalisa returns it.
== Scene 19: The Eye of the World ==
Moiraine and Rand reach the bottom of the Eye of the World. They look up at the stone walls, which are covered in vines from the Blight. The stone floor is wet.
Rand steps toward the center. The stone floor has a symbol or a circle, half black and half white, separated by a sinuous line.
Rand looks around the room and sees a vision of Lews Therin, his former life. Lews Therin steps toward the center, facing the man who visited Rand in his dream.
Rand kneels above the symbol and touches it and--
== Scene 20: Vision ==
Rand "awakes" at a farm in the Two Rivers. Sun is shining through the windows and birds are chirping outside. Rand approaches a crib, but it's empty. He hears a baby and a woman laughing, and he goes outside to find Egwene with a little girl. Egwene speaks playfully to the child.
Egwene picks up Joiya and hands her to Rand, who smiles as he takes her. Joiya babbles happily.
Egwene goes inside the farmhouse. Rand looks at the baby and smiles.
In The Eye, Rand has collapsed, unconcious. Moiraine holds his head in her hands, shaking him gently, trying to wake him.
The Man suddenly appears before Moiraine.
Moiraine channels, but the man is faster. He closes a shield around her, and ties a knot with the Power in his hand. Moiraine gasps painfully as he does so.
== Scene 21: Fal Dara ==
An army of roaring Trollocs approaches Tarwin's Gap. At Fal Dara, Lord Agelmar sits on horseback with his army. He draws his sword and holds it up.
The men yell wildly as Agelmar and his men ride to Tarwin's Gap. They split into groups and enter the wall at Tarwin's Gap.
== Scene 22: Fal Dara ==
People and wagons leave the open gates of Fal Dara. Min walks out among them. 
Armswomen prepare weapons to defend Fal Dara. Amalisa gives instruction. She is wearing her father's armor. 
Her armswoman nods with the order.
Min jumps on the back of a wagon heading out of the city.
== Scene 23: Fal Dara ==
Lord Yakota and Uno Nomesta enter the throne room. Other men move the throne off the dais. Yakota and Uno being breaking apart the rock of the dais.
In the city.
Loial approaches.
The trolloc army gets closer to the wall in Tarwin's Gap. In the fortification, Agelmar and his army are ready.
Soldiers shout in unison.
Agelmar and the soldiers aim their crossbows.
A Fade leading the Trollocs screams and advances the Trollocs to attack.
Arrows fall on the trollocs, but they rush the walls and begin climbing.
== Scene 24: Amalisa's stand ==
Outside Fal Dara, between the city and Tarwin's Gap, Lady Amalisa stands with a Malkieri woman and another Shienaran woman. Nynaeve and Egwene join her.
They face the Gap.
== Scene 25: Fal Dara palace ==
== Scene 26: Two Rivers farm ==
Joiya coos softly as Rand holds her. Egwene returns and Rand looks at her.
Egwene takes Joiya and lays her in a crib. Rand looks around.
Egwene reaches for his hand but he pulls away.
Egwene smiles and steps forward and touches his cheek.
They kiss. They pull away, and then Egwene stops moving. Rand steps back and looks around. Joiya has also stopped moving in her crib.
Rand looks at Egwene and the baby.
At The Eye, Moiraine still protectively holds Rand as The Man crouches before her.
Moiraine pulls a dagger and presses it to Rand's throat.
== Scene 27: Fal Dara throne room ==
Yakota and Uno continue to pry up the floor of the dais.
He sees Loial and bows in salute.
Uno picks up a pick axe and offers it to Perrin.
== Scene 28: Battle outside Fal Dara ==
Trollocs continue attacking Tarwin's Gap as arrows rain down on their armies. Night is falling.
Trollocs make it up the side of the wall, and begin breaking at the arrowslits. Agelmar shoots one back. And another. A third throws a spear through the opening, impaling Agelmar.
== Scene 29: Two Rivers farm ==
The Man flexes power in his hand and a deep gash opens over Egwene's throat.
Rand tries to stop the bleeding.
The Man flexes power in his hand and the wound closes, fully healed.
Rand looks around at Egwene, the baby, everything. He looks back at the man.
The man smiles.
In The Eye, the Man walks around. Moiraine's blade is still pressed to Rand's throat. A trickle of blood appears on the blade.
== Scene 30: Fal Dara palace ==
Two armswomen stand at an entrance to the palace. A man knocks and calls from outside the door.
At the code, the women open the door.
Two fades draw their swords and kill the armswomen. Fain and the fades enter the palace.
== Scene 31: Fal Dara throne room ==
There's roaring in the distance from the battle.
== Scene 32: Amalisa's stand ==
Trollocs break through the wall at Tarwin's Gap. A horn blares in the distances.
Trollocs charge toward them and the city.
Amalisa channels through all the women, linking.
== Scene 33: Fal Dara throne room ==
As they continue their work retrieving the Horm, Perrin sees Padan Fain in the hallway. 
Perrin goes after Fain.
== Scene 34: Two Rivers farm ==
Rand the man stand over Joiya's crib.
As Rand looks at the baby, the One Power begins to flow through him.
With the clean flows of power, the darkness of the corruption also channels through Rand.
In The Eye, Moiraine still holds the dagger to Rand's throat.
Rand's blood leaks over Moiraine's blade.
== Scene 35: Battle outside Fal Dara ==
Trollocs roar as they approach.
Amalisa pulls more of the One Power through the women, who struggle and gasp with that much power.
== Scene 36: Throne Room ==
Yakota pulls a chest from beneath the dais. A screeching behind him has the men grab for their weapons.
== Scene 37: Two Rivers farm ==
The One Power flows through Rand.
== Scene 38: Battle ==
The woman gasp and struggle with the power.
As the Trolloc army charges them, Amalisa calls down lightning, decimating the Trollocs.
The Malkieri woman falls, her eyes burnt through from too much power. The One Power linking the women no longer flows through her. 
== Scene 39: Two Rivers farm / The Eye ==
Rand continues channeling the Power. At The Eye, the sa'angreal in his pocket glows with power. Moiraine eyes it.
In The Eye, Rand stands up, holding the sa'angreal and breaking out of the vision. Rand channels at The Man, blasting him away, and he smiles as he fade. The blast cracks the stone floor. Rand stumbles back and Moiraine catches him.
== Scene 40: Fal Dara ==
Perrin walks the halls, looking. He disturbs a bat that flies away. He hears shouting and the swords striking. 
Perrin runs toward it, back to the Throne Room. Two Fades cut down soldiers.
Yakota, Uno, the other soldiers, and Loial are injured or dead on the floor.
Padan Fain pulls a ruby dagger from Loial's chest, and Loial collapses, bleeding.
== Scene 41: Battle outside Fal Dara ==
Amalisa continues channeling. The Trolloc army is dead before them.
The older woman collapses, eyes burnt out from the power. The One Power no longer channels through her.
Egwene falls, screaming. Nynaeve also collapses.
Egwene screams and Nynaeve drags herself to her. Nynaeve grabs Egwene, pulling the power through herself instead.
Amalisa finally cuts off the flow of power. Her eyes are burnt through from the power, and she collapses. Nynaeve also collapses.
== Scene 42 ==
In the Fal Dara throne room. Padan Fain sheaths the ruby blade.
Padan Fain picks up the chest with the Horn of Velere and sits on the throne.
At The Eye, Rand walks around the room, eyeing the cracked stone floor.
Outside Fal Dara, Egwene holds Nynaeve, trying to channel.
In Tar Valon, it's dark. The streets are empty. Mat walks into the city, looking unwell. He looks up at the White Tower.
At the Eye, Rand picks up his pack.
Moiraine nods. Rand walks away.
Rand leaves.
In the Fal Dara throne room.
Perrin picks up an axe.
Fain leaves with the Fades, taking the Horn of Valere.
At The Eye, sunlight is coming down on Moiraine, as she sits on the cracked floor looking at a piece of the broken stone. Lan arrives and goes to her.
Moiraine sobs softly and Lan holds her.
Perrin walks to a balcony. Light is rising. He looks down over the scorched earth of Amalisa's attack.
Egwene still holds Nynaeve, softly sobbing and trying to channel
Power flows through Egwene into Nynaeve, and Nynaeve heals. She wakes, coughing. She and Egwene hug.
Outside The Eye, Rand looks back at the Eye and the rising sun. He turns away and heads into The Blight.
At The Eye, Moiraine holds up a broken piece of the shattered stone floor. Lan takes it.
== Scene 43: The far Western shore ==
A small girl digs sand on a beach. She looks out over the water and stands. Birds rush inland overhead. A fleet of ships with red sails approaches.
On one of the ships, four women step out. Two have elaborate face paint, and two have golden gags in their mouths. The women with face paint give a command in a foreign language. The two women with gags channel the power into the water. The water rises into a massive tidal wave, headed for the shore.
End credits.
(Note: On August 2, 2023, Prime Video added a sneak peek of the first scene for season 2 at the end of this episode. The scene now plays after the last scene and before the end credits.)
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