Roose BoltonFive Lannisters dead, for every one of ours. We've nowhere to keep these prisoners. We have barely enough food to feed our own.
We're not executing prisoners, Lord Bolton.
Roose Bolton
Of course, Your Grace. The officers will be useful. Some of them may be privy to Tywin Lannister's plans.
Roose Bolton
Well, we'll learn soon enough. In my family, we say: "A naked man has few secrets, a flayed man none."
My father outlawed flaying in the North.
Roose Bolton
We're not in the North...
We're not torturing them!
Roose Bolton
The high road's very pretty, but you'll have a'hard time marching your army down it.
The Lannisters hold prisoners of their own. I won't give them an excuse to abuse my sisters.
[Robb Stark learns that Theon Greyjoy has betrayed him and seized Winterfell]
Roose Bolton
We've had ravens from White Harbour, Barrowtown and the Dreadfort, my lord. I'm afraid it is true.
Roose Bolton
Because the Greyjoys are treasonous whores.
Roose Bolton
We've heard nothing of them... but Rodrik Cassell is dead.
I told you, never trust a Greyjoy!
Roose Bolton
There's still a war to win, Your Grace!
How can I call myself King if I can't hold my own castle? How can I ask men to follow me if...
Roose Bolton
You are a king! And that means you don't have to do everything yourself.
Let me go and talk to Theon.
There will be no talk, he will die for this!
Roose Bolton
Theon holds the castle with a skeleton crew. Let me send word to my bastard at the Dreadfort; he can raise a few hundred men and retake Winterfell before the new moon. We have the Lannisters on the run; if you march all the way back north now, you lose what you gained. My boy would be honoured to bring you Prince Theon's head.
Tell your son Bran and Rickon's safety is paramount. And Theon... I want him brought to me alive. I want to look him in the eye and ask him why, and then I will take his head myself!
Roose Bolton
[as Brienne and Jaime dine with him] I see my men have finally found you something appropriate to wear.
Yes, most kind of the. You're a Stark bannerman, Lord Bolton. I'm acting on Lady Stark's orders to return Jaime Lannister to King's Landing.
Roose Bolton
When King Robb left Harrenhall, his mother was his prisoner. If she wasn't his mother, he'd have hanged her for treason. I should send you back to Robb Stark.
You should. But instead, you're sitting here, watching me fail at dinner. Why might that be?
Roose Bolton
Wars cost money. Many people would pay a great deal for you.
We both know who would pay the most. He'll make you pay the most, if he found out you'd captured me and sent me back up North for a summary execution.
Roose Bolton
You're right. Perhaps, the safest course is to kill you both and burn your bodies.
It would be, if you honestly believe my father would never find out about it.
Roose Bolton
King Robb is keeping your father quite busy. He doesn't have time for anything else.
Roose Bolton
As soon as you're well enough to travel, I will allow you to go to King's Landing as restitution for the mistakes my soldiers made. And you will swear to tell your father the truth. That I had nothing to do with your maiming.
Roose Bolton
I don't partake.
You do understand how suspicious that is to ordinary people? Very well. My lady, may our journey continue without further incident.
Roose Bolton
Oh, she won't be going with you.
I am charged with bringing Ser Jaime to-
Roose Bolton
You are charged with abetting treason.
I'm afraid I must insist...
Roose Bolton
You're in no place to insist on anything. I would've hoped you'd learned your lesson about overplaying your...position.
He complained about this marriage the entire way from Riverrun, and now look at him.
The Gods love to reward a fool.
What? He's my nephew, I love him, and, he's a damn fool.
[Next to them, Roose Bolton prevents a servant girl from pouring him wine.]
Don't you drink, Lord Bolton?
Roose Bolton
Never do, my Lady, dulls the senses.
That's the point. Didn't you marry one of these Frey girls?
Roose Bolton
Aye, Lord Walder let me choose any of his granddaughters and promised me the girl's weight in silver as a dowry. So, I have a fat young bride.
I hope she makes you very happy.
Roose Bolton
Well, she's made me very rich.
Pardon, my Lord, my Lady, I need to find a tree to piss on.
The King in the North arises!
[Catelyn takes Walder's wife hostage and holds a knife to her throat.]
Lord Walder! Lord Walder, enough! Let it end! Please! He is my son, my first son! Let him go and I swear we will forget this, I swear it by the old gods and the new, we will take no vengeance!
You already swore me one oath, right here in my castle. You swore by all the gods that your son would marry my daughter!
Take me for your hostage! But let Robb go. Robb get up, get up and walk out, please! Please!
And why would I let him do that?
On my honor as a Tully, On my honor as a Stark! Let Robb go, or I will cut your wife's throat!
Roose Bolton
The Lannisters send their regards.
[Roose stabs Robb through the heart. Catelyn screams as she cuts Jeyhousse's throat. Black Walder comes up behind her and slits her throat]]
"The late Walder Frey" old Tully called me because I didn't get my men to the Trident in time for battle. He thought he was witty...but look at us now, Tully! You're dead, your daughter's dead, your grandson's dead, your son spent his wedding night in a dungeon and I am Lord of Riverrun! [cackles]
Roose Bolton
The Blackfish escaped.
An old man on the run with no allies. I have Tywin Lannister backing me, who does he have?
Roose Bolton
As you say.
They all laughed at me, all those high lords, they all thought they were better than me: Ned Stark, Hoster Tully...people snigger when I marry a young girl, but who said a word when Jon Arryn married the little Tully bitch?!
Roose Bolton
You'll be needing a new young girl.
Yes...got that to look forward to. And you...the Warden of the North! No more Starks to bow and scrape to! Must have been torture following that stupid boy all over the country.
Roose Bolton
He ignored my advice at every turn. If he'd been a trifle less arrogant...
Calling himself "The Young Wolf"...how's that for pomposity? Well...[raises his goblet in mock toast] Here's to the Young Wolf! [makes a mocking wolf howl]
Roose Bolton
Forever young. [both men chuckle]
Will you move to Winterfell now that the war's over?
Roose Bolton
At some point, perhaps. But Winterfell's in ruins.
Yes...what happened up there? I heard the Greyjoy boy seized the place. I heard he killed all the ravens and then, nothing.
Roose Bolton
I sent my bastard Ramsay to root him out. Robb Stark offered amnesty for the Ironborn if they gave us Theon.
Roose Bolton
[grins] Ramsay delivered the terms. The Ironborn turned on Theon as we knew they would. They handed him over, trussed and hooded, but Ramsay...well, Ramsay has his own way of doing things.
Father. [shoves Theon forward, Roose gets up and inspects him more closely]
Roose Bolton
What did you do to him?
I trained him. He was a slow learner, but he learned.
Roose Bolton
You flayed him.
Peeled a few bits. Removed a few others.
Roose Bolton
This was Balon Greyjoy's son and heir.
We've been flaying our enemies for a thousand years. The flayed man is on our banners.
Roose Bolton
My banners, not yours. You're not a Bolton, you're a Snow. Tywin Lannister has given me the North, but he won't lift a finger to help me take it. As long as the Ironborn hold Moat Cailin, our armies are trapped south of the Neck. Theon was a valuable hostage, not your plaything. I wanted to trade him for Moat Cailin.
I already asked. Lord Greyjoy refused. Savages have...
Roose Bolton
You sent terms to Balon Greyjoy without my consent?
You made me Acting Lord of the Dreadfort. I acted.
Roose Bolton
I had to smuggle myself into my own lands thanks to the Greyjoys. I needed Theon. I needed him whole.
Theon was our enemy. But Reek? Reek will never betray us.
Roose Bolton
I place far too much trust in you.
Reek, how could you let me stand before my father unshaven? It's disrespectful.
[to Locke] Give him the razor.
[Ramsay sits in a chair and Theon is handed a razor; Roose turns around to watch]
I'm not a Bolton, father. What does it matter? Go on, Reek. A nice, close shave.
[Theon begins carefully shaving Ramsay]
Moat Cailin is yours, Father.
Roose Bolton
Walk with me. Has there been any word from Locke?
Roose Bolton
Unimportant. A cripple, and a young boy. None of the Northern lords have seen them. Dead, most likely. Most of the Ironborn have fled the North. Now more will follow, thanks to you. Tell me what you see.
Roose Bolton
Tell me what you see.
Roose Bolton
Not nothing - the North. Ride seven hundred miles that way, you're still in the North. Four hundred miles that way, three hundred miles that way. The North is larger than the other six kingdoms combined. And I am the Warden of the North. The North is mine. Now, tell me. What is your name?
Roose Bolton
No, not Ramsay Snow. [hands him a scroll] Open it. From this day until your last day, you are Ramsay Bolton, son of Roose Bolton, Warden of the North.
[stares at him, kneels] You honor me. I swear, I will uphold your tradition and your name. I will be worthy of you, Father. I promise.
Roose Bolton
We can't hold the North with terror alone.
We can't hold the North if we let these lesser Lords insult us.
Roose Bolton
I sent you there to collect taxes, not bodies.
Lord Cerwyn refused to pay. Said the Warden of the North would always be a Stark, and he'd be damned if he'd kiss a traitor's boot.
Roose Bolton
He left you no choice.
I flayed him living, along with his wife and brother. Made his son watch.
Roose Bolton
And?
The new Lord Cerwyn paid his taxes.
Roose Bolton
I have something to tell you. Stop eating and listen. We don't have enough men to hold the North, if the other Houses rise up against us. Do you understand that?
Our pact with the Lannisters protects...
Roose Bolton
I had a pact with Tywin Lannister, and Tywin Lannister is dead. The remaining Lannisters are a thousand miles away, dealing with that fact. They've never once, in the history of the Seven Kingdoms, sent their army this far North. If you think they will for us, you're a fool. We've become a Great House, by entering into alliance with other Houses and parlaying those alliances into greater power. The best way to forge a lasting alliance, isn't by peeling a man's skin off. The best way is marriage. Now that you're a Bolton by Royal decree, it's high time you married a suitable bride. And as it happens, I've found the perfect girl to solidify our hold on the North.
[to Sansa] I heard you two had been reunited. A fitting place for it. I like to imagine the last time you spoke was in this very room. Are you still angry with him after he...what he did? Don't worry. The North remembers. I punished him for it. He's not Ironborn anymore. He's not Theon Greyjoy anymore. He's a new man. A new person anyway. Aren't you, Reek?
That's his new name. Reek.
Because Reek has something to say to you. Don't you, Reek?
[Ramsay gestures Theon to come closer to the table, which he does.]
An apology? Apologize to Lady Sansa for what you did. Apologize for murdering her two brothers.
Look at her, Reek. An apology doesn't mean anything if you're not looking the person in the eye.
There! Over and done with it. Doesn't everyone feel better? I do. [Sansa wipes away a tear.] That was getting very tense. [Theon walks away from the table in shame.] You know what, my lady? What with him having murdered your brothers and the rest of your family gone, Reek here is the nearest thing to living kin that you have left. Reek! You will give away the bride. Someone has to. What better person? Good? [To Roose] Good?
Roose Bolton
Yes, yes, very good.
Roose Bolton
Walda and I have some good news as well. Since we're all together.
WBWalda Bolton
[smiles] We're going to have a baby!
[Ramsay's smile quickly fades.]
Roose Bolton
From the way she's carrying, Maester Wolkan says it looks like a boy.
Roose Bolton
Sure of what?
That she's pregnant. I mean...how can you tell?
Roose Bolton
Maester Wolkan has assured us beyond all doubt.
So...how did you manage it?
Roose Bolton
Manage what?
Roose Bolton
I imagine you're familiar with the procedure.
Of course but how did you...find it?
Roose Bolton
You disgraced yourself at dinner. Parading that creature before the Stark girl.
Roose Bolton
You're worried about your position?
My position is quite clear. I'm your son. Until a better alternative comes along.
Roose Bolton
You've never asked me about your mother.
Why would I? She had me, she died. And here we are.
Roose Bolton
She was a peasant girl. Pretty in a common sort of way. She was a miller's wife. Apparently they had married without my knowledge or consent. So I had him hanged, and I took her beneath the tree where he was swaying. She fought me the whole time. She was lucky I didn't hang her too. A year later she came to my gates with a squalling baby in her arms. A baby she claimed was mine. I nearly had her whipped, and the child thrown in the river. But then I looked at you, and I saw then what I see now. You are my son.
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