Because of Henney’s performance, you know that Lan feels the weight/almost burden of his bond with Moiraine - to a degree that, coupled with his grieving for Stepin, he can’t help but let loose with a series of anguished wails, all as Henney clearly pounded his own chest red in the moment.
Here, Henney and leading lady Rosamund Pike accomplish so, so much with just traded looks. With warders and Aes Sedai all clad in white for Stepin’s funeral, Lan kneeled beside his fallen friend, as some, and gradually all, rhythmically thumped their breasts with their fists. What followed was the hour’s most impactful scene. Finding his dead friend in the hall dedicated to fallen warders, Lan could only slump to his knees and rest his head on his shoulder. Hours later, Lan awakened to realize Stepin had drugged his drink, so as to slip away and take his life. Stepin posited that life without love would be intolerable, but Lan maintained, “I can tolerate a lot.” (Meaning, he is resistant to any love? Or knows who has already claimed his?) Has she fallen for Lan, Stepin wondered? “That’s a bad idea for her,” Lan scoffed. In a brief, lighter sequence, Lan found himself teased by Stepin, with regard to how Nynaeve touched the One Power for the first time in order to save the life of her new acquaintance. Conveying both loyalty and a fondness just with a look, Henney let us know that the loss Stepin is feeling is one that Lan dreads ever experiencing himself.
After, Lan visited Moiraine in her chambers - to simply kneel at her side and hold her arm, and then her hand. Arriving in Tar Valon, Lan was there for Stepin (a fine Peter Franzén) as his peer recalled how he became Kereen’s unlikely warder, then as he melted the ring that symbolized their bond.
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