Walder Frey[on his new wife] You see that? Fifteen, she is. A little flower, and the honey's all mine.
I'm sure she will give you many sons.
Walder Frey
Hah! Your father didn't come to the wedding.
He is quite ill, my Lord.
Walder Frey
He didn't come to the last one, either. Or the one before that. Your family's always pissed on me.
Walder Frey
Don't deny it, you know it's true. The fine Lord Tully would never marry any of his children to mine.
I'm sure there are reasons...
Walder Frey
I didn't need reasons. I needed to get rid of sons and daughters. You see how they pile up? Why are you here?
To ask you to open your gates, my Lord. So that my son and his bannermen may cross the Trident and be on their way.
Walder Frey
Why should I let him?
If you could climb your own battlements, you would see that he has twenty thousand men outside your walls.
Walder Frey
They'll be twenty thousand corpses, when Tywin Lannister gets here. Don't try and frighten me, Lady Stark. Your husband's in a cell beneath the Red Keep, and your son's got no fur to keep his balls warm!
You swore an oath to my father.
Walder Frey
Oh, yes, I said some words, but then I swore oaths to the Crown too, if I remember right. Joffrey's' King now, which makes your boy and his corpses-to-be nothing but rebels, it seems to me. If I had the sense the gods gave to a fish, I'd hand you both over to the Lannisters.
Walder Frey
Stark, Tully, Lannister, Baratheon...give me one good reason why I should waste a single thought on any of you.
Walder Frey
My honored guests, be welcome within my walls and at my table. I extend to you my hospitality and my protection in the light of the Seven.
Thank you for your hospitality, my lord. I've come to make my apologies, my lord, and to beg your forgiveness.
Walder Frey
Don't beg my forgiveness, your grace. It wasn't me you spurned, it was my girls. One of them was supposed to be queen. Now none of them are. This is Arwaya, my daughter, my daughter Walda, my daughter Derwa, my daughter Waldra. My eldest granddaughters Janeya and Neyela. Serra and Sarra, granddaughters, twins. You could have had either. You could have both for all I care. My granddaughter Marianne, my granddaughter Freya, my granddaughter...Wertha? Walra? Waldina?
Walder Frey
Fine. And here's my youngest daughter, Shirei. Though she hasn't bled yet, clearly you don't have the patience for all that.
My ladies, all men should keep their word. Kings most of all. I was pledged to marry one of you and I broke that vow. The fault is not with you. Any man would be lucky to have any one of you. I did what I did not to slight you but because I loved another. I know these words cannot set right the wrong I've done to you and your house. I beg your forgiveness and pledge to do all I can to make amends so the Freys of the Crossing and the Starks of Winterfell may once again be friends.
[A bemused Walder claps his hands.]
Walder Frey
Very good.
Walder Frey
[To Robb] Your Grace, I fear I've been, remiss in my duties. I've given you meat and wine and music, but, I haven't shown you the hospitality you deserve. My king has married and I owe my new queen a wedding gift.
[Catelyn notices Roose Bolton is wearing chain mail, and slaps him]
[Robb turns just as Roose Bolton flees from his chair and Lothar Frey walks up behind Talisa and stab her repeatedly in the stomach]
Walder Frey
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!
Walder Frey
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!
Walder Frey
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!
Walder Frey
I'll find another.
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]]
Walder Frey
"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]
Walder Frey
An old man on the run with no allies. I have Tywin Lannister backing me, who does he have?
Walder Frey
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?!
You'll be needing a new young girl.
Walder Frey
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.
He ignored my advice at every turn. If he'd been a trifle less arrogant...
Walder Frey
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]
Forever young. [both men chuckle]
Walder Frey
Will you move to Winterfell now that the war's over?
At some point, perhaps. But Winterfell's in ruins.
Walder Frey
Yes...what happened up there? I heard the Greyjoy boy seized the place. I heard he killed all the ravens and then, nothing.
I sent my bastard Ramsay to root him out. Robb Stark offered amnesty for the Ironborn if they gave us Theon.
Walder Frey
And?
[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.
Walder Frey
You've lost it?!
WRWalder Rivers
Yes father.
Walder Frey
It's a castle, not a bloody sheep. Presumably you still know where it is? You didn't lose Riverrun: you let the Blackfish take it from you!
LFLothar Frey
He surprised us. He knows the castle better than anyone.
Walder Frey
You did lose the Blackfish after the Red Wedding. You had him right here in this hall and you let him leave. And when I told you to hunt him down and kill him, you couldn't find him! That's what it means to lose something! Now he's come back and taken Riverrun!
WRWalder Rivers
I don't think it's fair to blame us.
Walder Frey
For three hundred years, we kissed Tully boots, swore oaths to them and their stinking fish banners! Not again! Riverrun is ours! Take it back!
LFLothar Frey
We don't have the men!
Walder Frey
We've got ten times as many men as the damned Blackfish!
WRWalder Rivers
The Mallisters have risen against us, and the Blackwoods!
LFLothar Frey
The Brotherhood Without Banners is rallying the commoners against us, raiding our supply trains and camps!
WRWalder Rivers
Riverrun can withstand a siege for a year! [Furious, Walder Frey strikes his new child-bride]
Walder Frey
If I want excuses, I'll put her in charge! They're laughing at us! All across the Riverlands, right down to King's Landing, they're laughing at us! I hear it in my sleep! I'm not dead yet -unfortunately for you! - and I'll not leave this world until they all choke on that laughter! Take that castle back!
LFLothar Frey
He'll never yield, Father.
Walder Frey
Oh, he'll yield. You'll show him the knife you used to kill Robb Stark's child in its whore mother's belly and you'll show him the knife you used to open his niece's throat. And you'll remind him who it was that got married at the Red Wedding in the first place! His nephew. [The guards bring in a chained Edmure Tully] Cheer up, Lord Edmure. You're going home.
Walder Frey
You're not one of mine.
SGServing Girl
No, My Lord.
Walder Frey
Didn't think so. Too pretty.
[Lord Walder smacks her bottom. The Serving Girl winces.]
Walder Frey
Where are my damn moron sons? Black Walder and Lothar promised to be here by mid-day.
SGServing Girl
They're here, My Lord.
Walder Frey
Well, what are they doing? Trimming their cunt hairs? Tell them to come here! Now!
SGServing Girl
They're already here, My Lord.
[Lord Walder looks around the empty hall, confused. The Serving Girl points to the slice of meat pie he's been eating.]
SGServing Girl
Here, My Lord.
[Lord Walder lifts up the crust of the pie. Among the filling of chopped meat is obviously a human finger. He gags in disgust.]
SGServing Girl
They weren't easy to carve. Especially Black Walder.
Walder Frey
What...What...?
[Lord Walder turns to the Serving Girl...who takes off her face as if it were a mask, revealing her true identity]
My name is Arya Stark. I want you to know that. The last thing you're ever going to see is a Stark, smiling down at you, as you die.
[Lord Walder tries to get out of his chair, but Arya grabs him by the hair, pulls him back, and slits his throat.]
Walder Frey
You're wondering why I brought you all here. After all, we just had a feast. Since when does old Walder give two feasts in a single fortnight? Well, it's no good being Lord of the Riverlands if you can't celebrate with your family, that's what I say! I've gathered every Frey that means anything so that I can tell you my plans for this Great House, now that winter has come. But first...a toast!
Walder Frey
No more of that Dornish horse-piss! This is the finest Arbor Gold. Proper wine for proper heroes!
Walder Frey
Stand together!
HFHouse Frey
Stand together!
[They drink, but Walder halts his own cup inches from his lips, watching them. Kitty Frey attempts to take a cup and drink but Walder stops her.]
Walder Frey
Not you. I'm not wasting good wine on a damn woman. [To his men] Maybe I'm not the most pleasant man, I'll admit it. But I'm proud of you lot. You're my family. The men who helped me slaughter the Starks at the Red Wedding. [they all start cheering] Yes, yes. Cheer. Brave men, all of you. Butchered a woman, pregnant with her baby. Cut the throat of a mother of five. Slaughtered your guests after inviting them into your home.
[Several of the Freys begin to cough]
Walder Frey
But... you didn't slaughter every one of the Starks. No, no- that was your mistake. You should've ripped them all out, root and stem!
[The Freys all begin choking, many of them vomiting blood and collapsing]
Walder Frey
Leave one wolf alive, and the sheep are never safe.
[As the last of the Freys collapse dead on the floor, Walder reaches up and removes his face, revealing that "he" is actually Arya Stark, who turns to a terrified Kitty Frey.]
When people ask you what happened here, tell them the North remembers. Tell them winter came for House Frey.
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