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! Scenes
Scenes are as identified by the TV series. The non-story scenes are listed first.

* Scene 1 - Amazon Original
* Scene 2 - Previously On
* Scene 8 - Opening Credits
* Scene 23 - End Credits

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! Scene 3 - What Is It?

%%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%%, %%blue [Leane|Leane (Show)]%%, and %%red [Liandrin|Liandrin (Show)]%% stand with [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] in a chamber at the [White Tower] containing the [Three Arches], a [ter'angreal|Angreal] from before the [Breaking of the World|Breaking]. They explain that [ter'angreals|Angreal] serve many purposes, but their creation is a lost art, and many [Aes Sedai] have been killed or burned out studying them. %%blue [Leane|Leane (Show)]%% reassures [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] that this [ter'angreal|Angreal]’s function is known: it forces a novice to confront her greatest fears, though what she experiences remains private, and she need only walk through each arch and return. They then share two rules, kept secret until this moment:

# Once you start, you must continue to the end or otherwise they will be put out of the [Tower|White Tower] with enough money for a year, and never be allowed back.
# "To seek, to strive, is to know danger." and there is the possibility of danger. Some women have never returned.

They offer [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] one last chance to refuse, noting that each woman gets three attempts before permanent expulsion from the [Tower|White Tower]. %%blue [Leane|Leane (Show)]%% admits she failed her first attempt. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] declares she’s ready, and %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%% instructs her to strip to her shift, as she can bring nothing inside and cannot [channel|One Power]. %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%%, %%blue [Leane|Leane (Show)]%%, and %%red [Liandrin|Liandrin (Show)]%% weave to activate the [Three Arches]. %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%% warns, "The way back will come but once."

[Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] steps into the first arch.

! Scene 4 - What Was

Inside the first arch, [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] finds herself in her childhood in the [Two Rivers]. Her father, [Beerien|Beerien (Show)], notices crimsonthorn root in her hand and takes her to a nearby stream to rinse it off. Bandits armed with bows emerge, shooting at [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] and [Beerien|Beerien (Show)]. They flee, pursued by the bandits, until [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)]’s mother, [Elnore|Elnore (Show)], appears with a bow, shooting back to cover their escape. The al’Mearas reach their home, locking the door, and hide [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] in the cellar. [Beerien|Beerien (Show)] urges her to be brave and quiet, saying in the [Old Tongue], "We shall go into the old land so our children can always hold us and will never be alone."[1] As the bandits break in, [Beerien|Beerien (Show)] closes the cellar door and joins [Elnore|Elnore (Show)] upstairs to fight. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] grabs a meat cleaver just as %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%%’s voice echoes, "The way back will come but once," and an arch doorway appears. After a moment’s hesitation, [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] steps through, returning to the [Three Arches] chamber in the [White Tower]. %%red [Liandrin|Liandrin (Show)]%% pours water over her in a symbolic cleansing, and %%blue [Leane|Leane (Show)]%% heals her minor injuries. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] asks if the vision was real, but %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%% replies that no one knows.

The [Three Arches] activate again, and %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%% repeats her warning, "The way back will come but once."

[Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] enters the next arch.

! Scene 5 - What Is

Inside the second arch, [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] awakens on a bed in the [Two Rivers], surrounded by sick villagers in a room possibly within the [Winespring Inn]. [Tam|Tam (Show)], lying in the bed beside her, explains that a fever has ravaged the community since her departure. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] opens his shirt, revealing fever blisters on his chest, and spots crimsonthorn root on a nearby table. [Tam|Tam (Show)] reveals that the new Wisdom, [Natti|Natti (Show)], gave it to him. Confronting [Natti|Natti (Show)], [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] learns she’s administering the root to [Tam|Tam (Show)] and others for a painless death. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] insists [Aes Sedai] can heal the fever, but [Natti|Natti (Show)] retorts that they sought help months ago with no response, accusing [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] of abandoning them and declaring the [Two Rivers] is no longer her home.

Returning to [Tam|Tam (Show)], [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] reassures him he’ll be fine, but he knows the truth and asks her to stay until the herbs "have done their work." %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%%’s voice echoes, "The way back will come but once," and an arch doorway appears. Despite [Tam|Tam (Show)]’s plea to stay, [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] steps through, returning to the [Three Arches] chamber in the [White Tower]. %%red [Liandrin|Liandrin (Show)]%% pours water over her in a symbolic cleansing. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] pleads with the [Aes Sedai] to aid the [Two Rivers] against the plague, but %%red [Liandrin|Liandrin (Show)]%% insists she must continue through the arches.

The [Three Arches] activate again, and %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%% repeats her warning, "The way back will come but once."

[Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] enters the next arch.

! Scene 6 - What Might Be

Inside the third arch, [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] is engulfed in a chaotic vision: screaming voices fill the air as she floats in a void, wearing a red dress, hands pressed over her ears. Fragmented images of [Lan|Lan (Show)] appear, reciting words from a past moment (Scene 8 - [Episode 108]). Abruptly, [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] is flung out of the arch, landing back in the [Three Arches] chamber in the [White Tower] with two bloodstains on her shirt. She admits she doesn’t remember what happened. %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%% pours water over her in a symbolic cleansing, and %%blue [Leane|Leane (Show)]%% examines her, declaring the blood is not hers. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] opens her hand to find she’s clutching [Lan|Lan (Show)]’s [hadori]. %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%% announces that [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] is now [Accepted] and offers her an [Aes Sedai] ring, lacking its stone, but [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] rejects it, declaring that if the test’s purpose is to prioritize the [Tower|White Tower] above all else, she wants no part of it. As she storms out, %%red [Liandrin|Liandrin (Show)]%% warns that leaving means she can never return, but [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] continues out of the chamber.

In her room at the [White Tower], [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] packs her belongings. [Egwene|Egwene (Show)] enters, pleading with her to stay, but [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] insists she came to the [Tower|White Tower] for [Egwene|Egwene (Show)]’s sake, and now that [Egwene|Egwene (Show)] no longer needs her, she’ll honor the true meaning of an [Aes Sedai]—"servants of all"—elsewhere.

[Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] rides away from the [White Tower], and [Lan|Lan (Show)] gallops up to join her. She explains she couldn’t remain at the [Tower|White Tower] and plans to return to the [Two Rivers]. [Lan|Lan (Show)] offers to accompany her, if she’ll have him. She questions his bond with %%blue [Moiraine|Moiraine (Show)]%%, but he doesn’t respond. Faintly, %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%%’s voice echoes, "The way back will come but once," and an arch doorway appears. [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] ignores it, and the doorway vanishes.

! Scene 7 - She Made Her Choice

Within the [Three Arches] chamber at the [White Tower], the final arch closes, marking the end of [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)]’s test. %%blue [Leane|Leane (Show)]%% declares that [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] has made her choice and exits the room. %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%% concedes that %%green [Alanna|Alanna (Show)]%% was correct in her assessment. %%red [Liandrin|Liandrin (Show)]%% attempts to justify the events, but %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%% retorts that [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)]’s trust in them led to her death. %%blue [Sheriam|Sheriam (Show)]%% expresses hope that %%red [Liandrin|Liandrin (Show)]%% will carry eternal guilt, admitting she will as well, before departing. Alone, %%red [Liandrin|Liandrin (Show)]%% — still clutching the water vase intended for [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] — hurls it away in frustration toward the arch.

! Scene 9 - Stolen Land / Bend the Knee and Swear the Oath / All Will Bow

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! Scene 10 - How Long Will It Take You / I Remember You / Brighter Than Any I Had Ever Seen / Control

TBD

! Scene 10 - Hunt for the Horn

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! Scene 11 - She Never Came Out

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! Scene 12 - You Left Them

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! Scene 13 - It's the Ones Who Survive

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! Scene 14 - One Less Poor Mouth

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! Scene 15 - You Can't

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! Scene 16 - Not Now

[Mat|Mat (Show)] finds [Egwene|Egwene (Show)] crying by herself in [Tower|White Tower] garden. He start to go to her but stops and then decides to leave and return to his room.

! Scene 17 - The Door Is Open

[Mat|Mat (Show)] at [Min|Min (Show)] talk. They both decide to leave.

! Scene 18 - Wolf Rescue

[Ishamael|Ishamael (Show)] talks with [Perrin|Perrin (Show)] before the wolves and [Elyas|Elyas (Show)] rescue him.

! Scene 19 - Setup

[Min|Min (Show)] conspires with %%red [Liandrin|Liandrin (Show)]%%.

! Scene 20 - The Roof Is On Fire

[Rand|Rand (Show)] is burning down the house.

! Scene 21 - Help Me Or Leave

[Egwene|Egwene (Show)] tries to bring [Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)] back.

! Scene 22 - Home

[Nynaeve|Nynaeve (Show)]'s life back in [Two Rivers]. It ends badly, but she returns back through the arch where [Egwene|Egwene (Show)] and [Elayne|Elayne (Show)] are sleeping.

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! Characters


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! Notes (Possible Spoilers)

[1|#1] A callback to Scene 30 - [Episode 104]

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