We open 103 with Zoe, who plays Nynaeve,
on a chase away from the trolloc
that we saw her grabbed by during the Battle of Two Rivers.
In the books Nynaeve is just there.
We really wanted to tell the story of how Nynaeve arrived.
Even though we’re compressing so much from the books,
we do also expand out sometimes and show things that happened in the books
but weren’t what you read about,
and hopefully those will be exciting things for fans to see too.
Nynaeve has been through it.
The last few nights
we've been in the forest filming her Trolloc battle.
She was dragged by her braid.
which was really fun at whatever time it was in the cold, cold Prague evening.
We've designed this sequence
in order to really start episode three with a bang.
On her way to the Women's Circle, she tumbles down an incline.
We have camera operators on highlines and we have a cable cam
which can travel very, very fast, which is great for action shots.
So you’ll just go as fast as you can, if you feel comfortable doing it.
I actually feel really excited. This is going to be fun, I think,
I actually want to do this. I feel a little bit crazy for saying that.
Three, two, one, action.
Zoe is an unbelievable athlete.
She was running so fast that she actually outran the camera car.
And all of the camera team were like,
"We've never had an actor outrun this before.
"Ever. Man, woman, anyone."
-You're beating the cart, Zoe. -Too fast.
So she is really incredible with the physical stuff.
In classic Nynaeve style she has not only gotten out of that mess,
but she's stolen Trolloc weapons.
It truly speaks to Nynaeve’s character and how tough she is and how smart she is.
Where are my friends?
She's tracked Lan, which is incredibly surprising to us
‘cause Lan is one of the best people at evading being followed.
So that raise some inquiry as to, kind of, quite how powerful this girl might be.
Episode three is the first time Lan and Nynaeve are really spending time together.
And you immediately get that these are two characters
that have a very strong code of honor.
Neither of them brokers the other's shit
and there’s a really great tension to that right from the beginning.
You actually tried to kill me.
The two actors just have such great chemistry together
that you can already begin to feel
where the relationship is headed for the two of them.
Now we give it time.
Today we're in the Breen's Springs quarry which has been repurposed
by the incredible art department to look like this.
When I first saw this in the script I was like,
"All right, so, we’re gonna have, like, a green screen wide,
"and then we’re gonna have the interior of the bar."
"No, no, we just built the whole village."
For a lot of these stories in the first book,
we had to find our way to tell that whole story in one or two episodes.
We combined a lot of the Mat and Rand story
into this one piece in Breen's Springs.
They go to an inn that we called The Four Kings
and you can actually see four king statues in front of it,
so it's a hint to the town that they were in.
Welcome gents.
It's where they meet Thom Merrilin who is in the Two Rivers in the book.
Donation for the gleeman?
Thom is bit different from the books.
We've gone a bit darker with him.
He's not good, he's not bad.
He gets the job done and he has a good time while doing it.
We captured a man calling himself the Dragon Reborn.
So the end of episode three,
the other Aes Sedai declared that they have captured the Dragon Reborn.
He seems completely the wrong age to be the Dragon Reborn,
but he's certainly a man who can channel.
Logain is one of the most interesting characters.
It's really important this idea of a man who can channel.
His arrival is a hugely impactful moment for the series.
It's taking two of the most powerful Aes Sedai to contain him.
And that really rocks Moiraine's world
because she would expect one of them
to be able to handle him on her own, and they can't.