Tyrion's eye takes the whole screen as it flutters open. Pycelle is treating him (eek). He yells for Pod and asks Pod to get Varys or Bronn. Tyrion flinches when Pycelle tries to touch him but listens as Pycelle explains that Tywin defeated Stannis. Tyrion's cramped space is his new quarters, as Tywin is taking up his role as hand.
Tywin's horse poos as it walks toward the iron throne. Joffrey names him savior of the city. Joffrey then awards Harrenhall to Littlefinger as reward for bringing the Tyrelles to their cause and Loras requests Joffrey agree to join their houses by marrying Margaery. Margaery lays it on thick but Joffrey says he is promised to another. Cersei notes the council doesn't think it wise for him to marry a traitor's daughter and Pycelle says Robert made the arrangement before the Starks showed themselves false. Joffrey agrees to marry Margaery.
Sansa moves away from people before letting herself smile in relief but Baelish points out Joffrey won't just let her go so easily. He offers to take her home but she insists she will be safe. King's Landing is her home.
Roz covers her black eye as Varys arrives. There is some awkwardness while she tries to seduce him before she figures out who he is. He offers her a partnership. He says he would protect her. She is afraid of Littlefinger.
Brienne pulls a boat ashore with Jaime who taunts her. They come across three women strung up from a tree with a sign “they lay with lions”. He badgers her about the Starks. She ties him to a tree with the intention of burying the women but three men come by. They are cruel about Brienne being a woman and question her on the prisoner. One of them recognizes Jaime and Brienne kills all three. She then cuts down the women.
Cat lectures Robb about marrying Talisa. She claims love that's built slowly out of an arranged marriage and duty is stronger.
Stannis questions Melissandre. He chokes her and says to show him how she fights. “Where is your god now?” She claims he is in Stannis and Stannis stops. He has remorse about killing Renly. She gives a good quote (below) She shows him the flames and he eventually “sees it”.
A regular blowing of a horn outside taunts Theon. Lewin tries to explain but Theon is impatient. Theon wonders about word from his father but none has come and he can't send word himself because he killed all the ravens. Theon remembers the first time he saw Winterfell and then whines about always being reminded how grateful he should be to his captors. Lewin urges Theon to run—take the black. He tells hims he is not the man he is pretending to be, but Theon says he's gone too far to turn back. The next morning he makes a speech to his men about dying that day but going out in glory. As he finishes Dagmar clubs him in the head. Lewin comes out wondering what is going on and Lewin stabs him with a spear, then says to the other men “Let's go home”.
Varys says it was Ser Mandon Moore who tried to kill Tyrion under Cersei's orders. Pod save him. Bronn is no longer head of the city watch and the Hill Tribes were sent away (paid well). Varys warns that he will be distancing himself, too.
Robb weds Talisa. In the light of the seven for some reason.
Dany, Jorah and Kovarro reach the House of the Undying. There is no door. She walks around and Jorah follows as Kovarro stays in one spot. Jorah loses sight of Dany and as he reaches Kovarro again Dany has disappeared. Turns out she is inside. She yells and then hears her dragons.
Arya, Gendry and Hot Pie walk on a path. They see Jaqen and Arya goes to talk to him. She asks him to show her how he killed those guards. He says to learn she must travel with him to Bravos. He mentions the names on her lips and says she could offer them up to the red god one by one. She wants to, but needs to find his family. He gives her a coin and says if she ever needs to find him she should give it to a man from Bravos and say “Valar Morghulis”. He turns away when when he turns back he has a different face.
Osha leads Hodor, Bran and Rickon out of the crypts. Winterfell has been burned. They find Maester Lewin in the godswood. He can't be saved but is so hapy to see Bran and Rickon alive. He tells them they must go north, to Jon. He sends Hodor with the boys and asks Osha to protect them. He then asks her to kill him quickly. The boys, Osha, Hodor and the Direwolves are seen heading north as smoke pours from Winterfell.
Dany wanders, opening a door into a room with many doors. She comes into a version of the throne room that appears to have burned and snow is falling through the roof. She approaches the throne and reaches to touch it but then hears her dragons, so goes on. She walks through a big gate and ends up north of the wall. There she finds a sort of tent and inside is Drogo and baby Rhaego. There is a lovely moment between them but again the dragons cry. She repeats Mirri's words, “When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the rivers run dry and the mountains blow in the wind...” She leaves. Back in the door room she finds her dragons. And Pyat Pree who chains her and explains how he is going to keep Dany and her dragons there because they make the warlock magic strong. She looks behind her at her dragons and says “Dracarys”. The dragons burn Pyat and the chains on her and her dragons dissolve.
Ygritte keeps hitting Jon with a sword. Qhorin attacks Jon and the two fight. Jon kills him. The wildlings cut Jon's bindings. Ygritte leads him to a ridge where they are overlooking an enormous wildling camp.
Dany and company find Xaro and Doreah in bed, take his key and lead them to Xaro's vault. It's ampty. Dany's warriors shut Xaro and Doreah in the vault, collect the treasure around his manse. They will take the treasure to buy a ship.
Sam, Grenn, and Edd pick up shit to burn. Sam prattles about Gilly. They hear the horn. Once. Twice. Three times. Edd yells RUN but Sam is slow. He falls and then sees the hoards coming so he hides. The dead parade by though a White Walker looks right at him before leading the charge onward.
Notable Quotes
Petyr Baelish: Look around you. We are all liars here. And every one of us is better than you.
Catelyn: Treat your oaths recklessly and your people will do the same.
Melissandre: This war has just begun. It will last years. Thousands will die at your command. You will betray the men serving you. And you will betray your family. You will betray everything you once held dear. And it will all be worth it. Because you are the son of fire. You are the warrior of light. You will sweep aside this pretender and that one. You will be king.
Varys: There are some who know without you this city faced certain defeat. The king won't give you any honors. The histories won't mention you. But we will not forget.
Review/Discussion
Let's talk about that Melissandre quote up there... From what we know later we know it's true for Stannis... up until the defeating pretenders and being king... so is it true for the person who Melissandre will eventually realize is more likely Azor Ahai? Jon? He betrays the men serving him (by some interpretation). Will he betray his family? Which family? What about what he once held dear?
Robb and Talisa's wedding... In the book Robb and Jeyne Westerling got married off page but it would have made sense for them to wed in the Light of the Seven because Jeyne is Westerosi. But Talisa, from Volantis, would NOT worship the seven. And Robb, while he was raised with both the Seven and the Weirwoods, would have known a Stark should marry before a Weirwood, or at least a Heart Tree. I guess Catelyn's influence could be blamed. Or their location. But I'm not sure I endorse the decision.
The Book Versus Show House of the Undying... So what Dany sees in the House of the Undying in the SHOW is outlined above. Missing from the book that I think will come TRUE is that I think King's Landing will indeed burn before the snows come. (I think Cersei will burn it). But there is SO MUCH missing from the show version.
Look what Dany finds in the Books:
- A beautiful, naked woman being ravished by four little men who resemble the dwarf servitor. [believed to represent Westeros being ravaged by the armies of the four kings—FOUR because Renly dies before Balon declares himself]
- A feast of slaughtered corpses holding cups, spoons, and food, with a dead man with a wolf's head sitting on a throne wearing an iron crown, [foreshadowing the Red Wedding].
- Daenerys' childhood home with the red door in Braavos.
- A throne room with dragon skulls on the walls where a king resembling Aerys II Targaryensits on a barbed throne and appears to give the order to burn the Red Keep during the Sack of King's Landing.
- A room where a silver-haired man (presumably Rhaegar Targaryen) names his son Aegon, says the child is "the prince that was promised", then plays a harp. He then says, there must be another for the dragon has three heads (his wife Elia can HAVE no more)
- A "splendor of wizards" who falsely claim to be the Undying of Qarth and offer to teach Daenerys the secret speech of dragonkind. They call her "mother of dragons" and "child of three" and tell her some prophesies, saying "three fires must you light... one for life and one for death and one to love... three mounts must you ride... one to bed and one to dread and one to love... three treasons will you know... once for blood and once for gold and once for love..." [This bit has been interpreted to be prophecy for what will happen to Dany... if you can figure it out...]
- The Undying show Daenerys many more visions before attacking her and being slain by Drogon:
- 1.Viserys Targaryen's gruesome death.
- 2.A tall lord with copper-skin and silver-gold hair beneath a banner of a fiery stallion, with a burning city in the background (this may be a glimpse at what Rhaego's future would have been).
- 3.A dying prince (likely Rhaegar Targaryen) mutters a woman's name with his last breath, rubies flying from his chest.
- 4.A blue-eyed king who casts no shadow (possibly Stannis Baratheon) raises a red sword in his hand.
- 5.A cloth dragon sways on poles amidst a cheering crowd.
- 6.A great stone beast takes wing from a smoking tower, breathing shadows.
- 7.Daenerys's silver trots through grass to a darkling stream under a sea of stars.
- 8.A corpse standing at the prow of a ship with bright eyes and grey smiling lips. (we will see this one next season)
- 9.A blue flower growing from a chink in a wall of ice, filling the air with sweetness. (This could indicate Jon Snow's true parentage and potential kinship to Daenerys)
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