Rand dreams that something is caught in his throat, and then he pulls a dead bat out of his mouth. Not far away, a shadowy figure of a man appears, with embers for eyes. Mat and Perrin has similar dreams. (Episode 102)
Mat sits down next to Perrin in the building. Mat gives Perrin a dagger that Laila made for him. He says that Laila only made tools, not weapons. Perrin reassures Mat hat his sisters will be fine. (Episode 102)
Mat wakes up and goes outside. He sees a shadow move inside a building and follows it. He enters a room with light shining into it and onto an ornate box covered with some debris. He opens the box and finds an ornate dagger with a ruby embedded in it. He's examining the dagger when he hears the horses neighing loudly. (Episode 102)
Mat and Rand run away together and eventually find a way out of the city through a grate. They push a fallen tree into the river and cling onto it as it heads downstream. (Episode 102)
Rand and Mat crest a peak and see a stone canyon below them. There's a town, Breen's Spring, at the bottom. They wander through the town until they find The Four Kings and go inside. They watch Thom sing a song for the crowd while playing his guitar. Mat gets pick-pocketed. (Episode 103)
Rand and Mat talk to Dana about a room for the night. Rand ends up chopping wood and Mat serves drinks. (Episode 103)
Mat walks up to the dead man in the cage, looking at the bright stone. Thom is walking up as well. Thom explains that the dead man is an Aiel.
Rand is running away from Dana. He sees Mat and they start running, with Dana in pursuit, holding Rand's sword. She corners them and explains that the Dark One wants them to join him in the breaking of the Wheel. Thom throws a dagger from behind her and she falls dead. He tells Rand and Mat that he's headed east and they decide to join him. (Episode 103)
Mat and Rand stop for a moment. Mat is having trouble with his horse. Mat and Rand talk about Thom's trustworthiness. Mat reminds Rand that Dana mentioned that there were five of them that could be the Dragon Reborn. Mat wonders who the fifth person would be. (Episode 104)
Thom, Mat and Rand have dismounted and are scouting a farm. Thom says that they'll wait until dark to sneak into the barn, sleep the night, and then be away before they're discovered. Mat's horse is still acting spooked. (Episode 104)
Mat and Rand are mucking out the stalls while Thom is sipping tea. Mat seemed tired and says he needs a break. (Episode 104)
Mat is leaning on a trough and vomiting. The blackness from Shadar Logoth is on the ground and around his mouth. Helga Grinwell comes in, surprising Mat. Mat recovers. She says that her mother sent her to give them a load of bread for their work. Mat thanks her for the bread. He then talks about his sisters, who are home with their parents. Helga then give him a doll to give to his sisters, that she named Birgitte, who protects her when everyone else is asleep. (Episode 104)
Mat and Rand are sleeping in the barn. Rand sits up and reminds Mat that he's here for Mat no matter what happens. (Episode 104)
Rand and Thom rush into the Grinwell's house. They see Mat standing with his back to them. Thom is set to grab Mat, but then Mat raises his hand, which is holding the ruby dagger, and points into the dark upstairs area. He says "I see you" and a Fade's face appears out of the shadows. Thom fights the Fade as Rand and Mat run outside. They see Helga's body out there, but Rand urges Mat to continue on. (Episode 104)
Rand and Mat are walking with other people on a path to Tar Valon. A boy runs too close to Mat and he yells at the boy, who runs away. (Episode 105)
Mat is looking down on the street. Mat sees Logain looking up at him and laughing maniacally. Rand tries to get Mat's attention. Mat looks over at Rand and then back down at Logain, who is slumped in his cage. (Episode 105)
Mat and Rand make a deal with each other that if either of them start to channel then the other one won't let him end up like Logain. (Episode 105)
Nynaeve tries to help Mat, but he yells at her not to touch him. (Episode 105)
Tar Valon
Rand and Mat head for an inn that Thom told Rand about, The Light's Blessing, and get a room.[4] Mat goes directly to a bed and lies down. Rand reassures Mat that he didn't kill any of the Grinwells and that it was the Fade that did it. (Episode 105)
Liandrin and Mat are in a room in the Tower. Liandrin is reading the letter from Perrin to everyone but leaves off any mention of Mat and instead tells him that the letter had no mention of him. She brings up that the last dozen letters didn't mention him either and suggests that it's because he abandoned them. He questions what she wants from him, noting that he hasn't touched the Ruby Dagger in six months and that he's no harm to anyone. (Episode 201)
Mat picks the lantern off the floor and stands up. (Episode 201)
Mat lowers a set of drawers to the floor and starts digging through the bricks on the wall. (Episode 201)
Episode 106 - Rand and Moiraine talk about whether Mat is the Dragon. She says that Mat is very strong, otherwise the ruby dagger would have consumed him weeks ago. She also says that the dagger was feeding off of Mat as much as Mat was off of it.
Episode 106 - Egwene asks Moiraine if Rand and Mat have arrived, and she says that she has people watching for their arrival but knows that they are alive.
Episode 107 - The Two Rivers folk want Moiraine to re-open the Waygate so that Mat can get in, but she doesn't, saying that he made his choice. She remarks that they must continue on, and she and Lan start walking. The Two Rivers folk agree to find Mat when this is all over, and then they too continue onward. Moiraine and Lan discuss the consequences of the Dragon Reborn being Mat and Moiraine says she would not allow him to get close to the Dark One.
, Dónal Finn