[As Tyrion approaches, two dragons, Viserion and Rhaegal, appear still shackled in their collars and approach with a roar.]
I'm friends with your mother. I'm here to help. Don't eat the help. When I was a child, an uncle asked what gift I wanted for my name day. I begged him for one of you. "It wouldn't even have to be a big dragon," I told him. "It could be little...like me."
[Puts down his torch and gently advances]
Everyone laughed like it was the funniest thing they had ever heard. Then my father told me the last dragon had died a century ago. I cried myself to sleep that night....But here you are.
[Tyrion removes the locking pin on the dragons' collars. The dragons, now unshackled, retreat back to the shadows as Tyrion picks up the torch and hastily retreats.]
[to Varys] Next time I have an idea like that...punch me in the face.
[Balon starts to cross a rope bridge amid a rainstorm. He notices a hooded figure blocking his way.]
BGBalon Greyjoy
Let me pass. You fool, move aside for your king.
[The hooded figure removes his hood, revealing himself.]
Haven't I always, brother?
BGBalon Greyjoy
I thought you'd be rotting under some foreign sea by now.
What is dead may never die. Has the custom changed since I've been gone? Aren't you supposed to repeat the words?
BGBalon Greyjoy
You can mock our god without my help.
I don't mock the Drowned God. I am the Drowned God. From Oldtown to Qarth, when men see my sails, they pray.
[Balon continues to cross the bridge.]
You're old, brother. You've had your time. Now, let another rule.
BGBalon Greyjoy
I heard you lost your mind during a storm on the Jade Sea. They tied you to the mast to keep you from jumping overboard.
BGBalon Greyjoy
And when the storm passed, you cut out their tongues.
BGBalon Greyjoy
What kind of an ironborn loses his senses during a storm?
I am the storm, brother. The first storm and the last. And you're in my way.
I assume you know why I'm here.
It's about the Lord Commander.
The former Lord Commander.
Do you know of any magic that could help him? Bring him back.
If you want to help him, leave him be.
There are some with this power.
I met a man who came back from the dead, but the priest who did it...it shouldn't have been possible.
But it was. It could be, now.
Not for you? I saw you drink poison that should've killed you. I saw you give birth to a demon, made of shadows.
Everything I believed, the great victory I saw in the flames, all of it was a lie. You were right all along. The Lord never spoke to me.
Fuck him, then. Fuck all of them. I'm not a devout man, obviously. Seven gods, drowned gods, tree gods, it's all the same. I'm not asking the Lord of Light for help. I'm asking the woman who showed me that miracles exist.
[Davos finds Jon, resurrected by Melisandre's spells]
[Melisandre enters the room and stares at Jon, shocked]
They stabbed me. Olly... he put a knife in my heart. I shouldn't be here.
The Lady brought you back.
Afterwards... after they stabbed you, after you died. Where did you go? What did you see?
Nothing. There was nothing at all.
The Lord let you come back for a reason. Stannis was not the Prince who was Promised, but someone has to be.
Could you give us a moment? [Melisandre leaves] You were dead...and now you're not. And it's completely fucking mad, seems to me. I can only imagine how it seems to you.
I did what I thought was right. And I got murdered for it. Now I'm back. Why?
I don't know. Maybe we'll never know. What does it matter? You go on. You fight as long as you can, you clean up as much of the shit as you can.
I don't know how to do that. I thought I did, but... I failed.
Good. Now, go fail again.
[Bran and the Three-Eyed Raven watch a young Ned and five others approach the Tower of Joy]
TEThree-eyed Raven
And that man beside him is Howland Reed, Meera's father.
[Ser Gerold Hightower and Ser Arthur Dayne walk past Bran]
TEThree-eyed Raven
The Sword of the Morning.
My father said he was the best swordsman he ever saw.
[Hightower and Dayne confront Ned and his group]
ADArthur Dayne
Lord Stark.
I looked for you on the Trident.
ADArthur Dayne
We weren't there.
GHGerold Hightower
Your friend, the Usurper, would lie beneath the ground if we had been.
The Mad King is dead. Rhaegar lies beneath the ground. Why weren't you there to protect your prince?
ADArthur Dayne
Our prince wanted us here.
ADArthur Dayne
I wish you good fortune in the wars to come. And now it begins.
[The two sides draw swords and clash]
[about Dayne] He's better than my father.
TEThree-eyed Raven
Far better.
TEThree-eyed Raven
Did he?
I know he did. I heard the story a thousand times.
[Dayne disarms Ned. As he is about to finish him off, Howland stabs Dayne in the back of the neck. Dayne falls to his knees, mortally wounded.]
He stabbed him in the back.
[Ned grabs his sword and kills Dayne. Screams are suddenly heard from the tower. Ned runs towards it.]
TEThree-eyed Raven
That's enough for one day. We visit again another time.
I want to see where he's going.
TEThree-eyed Raven
Time to go.
The Umbers are a famously loyal house.
HKHarald Karstark
Famously loyal to the Starks.
SUSmalljon Umber
And you, Lord Karstark, your people share blood with the Starks, don't they? But here we are. Times change.
When my father became Warden of the North, your house refused to pledge their banners.
SUSmalljon Umber
Your father was a cunt.
My beloved father, the Warden.
SUSmalljon Umber
Your father was a cunt and that's why you killed him. I might've done the same to my father have he hadn't done me the favor of dying on his own.
My father was poisoned by our enemies.
Why have you come to Winterfell, Lord Umber?
SUSmalljon Umber
The bastard Jon Snow let an army of wildlings past the Wall. We're farther North than any of you fuckers. Wildlings come down, we always have to fight them first. I like fighting wildlings, been doing it all me life. But there are too many of them for us to beat back alone.
So now you've come seeking help.
SUSmalljon Umber
We need to help each other. The colder it gets, the farther south those goat fuckers will roam. Won't take 'em long to get here.
You think a horde of wildlings can take Winterfell?
SUSmalljon Umber
If they got Jon Snow leading them, maybe. He knows this place better than we ever will.
Pledge your banners to House Bolton. Swear loyalty to me as Warden of the North, and we will fight together to destroy the bastard and all his wildling friends.
SUSmalljon Umber
I'm not kissing your fucking hand.
Traditionally a bannerman kneels before his lord.
SUSmalljon Umber
I'm not doing that either.
Why would I trust a man who won't honor tradition?
SUSmalljon Umber
Your father honored tradition. Knelt for Robb Stark, called him King of the North. Was Robb Stark right to trust your father?
Then it appears we're at a bit of an impasse.
SUSmalljon Umber
Fuck kneeling and fuck oaths. I've got a gift for you.
A girl, I hope. I prefer redheads.
SUSmalljon Umber
A girl, aye. A wild one.
[Two hooded captives are brought in. One hood is removed, revealing Osha]
SUSmalljon Umber
And the boy. Nice and young. The way Karstark likes them.
SUSmalljon Umber
Rickon Stark.
How do I know that's Rickon Stark?
[Smalljon places the severed head of Shaggydog on a table. Ramsay grins wickedly]
Welcome home, Lord Stark.
[Bowen Marsh, Othell Yarwyck, Ser Alliser Thorne, and Olly are about to be hanged.]
If you have any last words, now is the time.
BMBowen Marsh
You shouldn't be alive. It's not right.
[Jon moves to Othell.]
OYOthell Yarwick
My mother's still living at White Harbor. Could you write her? Tell her I died fighting the wildlings.
[Jon moves to Alliser.]
I had a choice, Lord Commander. Betray you or betray the Night's Watch. You brought an army of wildlings into our lands. [looks to the wildlings] An army of murderers and raiders. If I had to do it all over knowing where I'd end up, I pray I'd make the right choice again.
I'm sure you would, Ser Alliser.
I fought. I lost. Now I rest. But you, Lord Snow, you'll be fighting their battles forever.
[Jon moves to Olly. Olly stares stonily at Jon and says nothing. Jon cuts the rope, hanging all four.]
We should burn the bodies.
[Jon removes his black cloak and hands it to Edd.]
What do you want me to do with this?
Wear it. Burn it. Whatever you want. You have Castle Black. My watch is ended.
The Small Council meeting is postponed, on the King's orders.
I would have thought we were perfectly clear the first time. You're not welcome.
You once spoke of your respect for our father, because he understood the necessity of working with one's rivals.
My dear, you have been stripped of your dignity and authority, publicly shamed, and confined to the Red Keep. What's left to work with?
Cersei is the mother of the King. She has the King's ear and his trust. And, the King has been speaking regularly with the High Sparrow about Queen Margaery, and Ser Loras.
The High Sparrow seized power, knowing full well we'd bicker among ourselves, instead of seizing it back. Here we are. Well done to us. Now, the future of the Seven Kingdoms rests in his dirty peasant hands. In a few days, he'll have a trial for me but, before that, Queen Margaery will make her walk of atonement. Yes. Margaery will repent her sins before the good people of the city.
Ohhh, no. That cannot happen. That will not happen.
You've got the second largest army in Westeros. You will bring them into the city, stop Queen Margaery's humiliation before it starts, and take her back into Crown custody.
The King has ordered me to take no action against the High Sparrow, or the Faith Militant- out of fear for the Queen's safety.
You will take no action at all. When the Tyrell armies come, you will stand down. Were you expressly forbidden from standing down?
No. But, if the King should call...
The whole thing will be over before anyone can call upon you to do anything. When the High Sparrow's back in custody or dead, preferably, and Margaery's back at Tommen's side, do you think the King will be angry at the outcome?
You hate these fanatics as much as we do. You hate what they've done to your son. Do you want Lancel back? Or have you given him up for good?
Of course I want him back.
Then, stand aside. And let the people that took him from you be destroyed.
If it doesn't go as planned the Sparrows have many friends in this city. We'll have civil war. Many will die.
Many will die, no matter what we do. Better them than us.
It's good soup. Do you remember those kidney pies Old Nan used to make?
With the peas and onions. We never should have left Winterfell.
Don't you wish we could go back to the day we left? I want to scream at myself, "Don't go, you idiot!"
I spent a lot of time thinking about what an ass I was to you. I wish I could change everything.
I was awful, just admit it.
You were occasionally awful. I'm sure I can't have been great fun always sulking in the corner while the rest of you played.
There's nothing to forgive.
Alright, alright, I forgive you.
[The two laugh. Jon hands Sansa his cup of ale. Sansa takes a swig and coughs]
You'd think after thousands of years the Night's Watch would learn how to make a good ale.
Where will we go? If I don't watch over you, father's ghost would come back and murder me.
I can't stay here after what happened.
There's only one place we can go: home.
Well, should we tell the Boltons to pack up and leave?
We'll take it back from them.
How many wildlings did you save?
They didn't come here to serve me.
They owe you their lives. Think they'll be safe here if Roose Bolton remains Warden of the North?
Winterfell is our home. It's ours. And Arya's and Bran's and Rickon's. Wherever they are, we have to fight for it.
I'm tired of fighting! It's all I've done since I've left home! I've killed brothers of the Night's Watch, I've killed wildlings, I've killed men I admire, I hung a boy younger than Bran! I fought...and I lost.
If you don't take back the North, we'll never be safe. I want you to help me, but I'll do it myself if I have to.
[reading a letter from Ramsay] "To the traitor and bastard Jon Snow, you allowed thousands of wildlings past the Wall, you have betrayed your own kind, you have betrayed the North. Winterfell is mine, bastard. Come and see. Your brother Rickon is in my dungeon. His direwolf's skin is on my floor. Come and see. I want my bride back. Send her to me, bastard, and I will not trouble you or your wildling lovers. Keep her from me, and I will ride North and slaughter every wildling man, woman, and babe living under your protection. You will watch as I skin them living."
[Jon stops]
It's just more of the same.
[Sansa grabs the letter and reads it]
"You will watch as my soldiers take turns raping your sister, you will watch as my dogs devour your wild little brother, then I will spoon your eyes from their sockets and let my dogs do the rest. Come and see. Ramsay Bolton, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North."
Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North?
His father's dead. Ramsay killed him and now he has Rickon.
How many men does he have in his army?
I heard him say 5,000 once when he was talking about Stannis' attack.
That can march and fight? 2,000. The rest are children and old people.
You're the son of the last true Warden of the North. Northern families are loyal, they'll fight for you if you ask. A monster has taken our home and our brother. We have to go back to Winterfell and save them both.
[Jon nods]
[The Khals of Khalar Vehven are discussing what to do with Daenerys.]
Don't you want to know what I think?
KMKhal Moro
You'd rather be sold into slavery? Or maybe you'd like to show Rhalko here what you taste like?
No. I don't want either of those things.
KMKhal Moro
We don't care what you want. This is the Temple of the Dosh Khaleen. You have no voice here, unless you are Dosh Khaleen. Which you are not, until we decide you are.
I know where I am. I have been here before. This is where the Dosh Khaleen pronounced my child the Stallion Who Mounts the World.
KMKhal Moro
And what happened? You trusted a sorceress, like a fool. Your baby is dead because of you. And so is Khal Drogo.
This is where Drogo promised to take his khalasar west to where the world ends. To ride wooden horses across the Black Salt Sea as no khal has done before. He promised to kill the men in their iron suits and tear down their stone houses. He swore to me before the Mother of Mountains.
KMKhal Moro
And you were dumb enough to believe him.
And here, now, what great matters do the Great Khals discuss? Which little villages you'll raid, how many girls you'll get to fuck, how many horses you'll demand in tribute. You are small men. None of you are fit to lead the Dothraki. But I am. So I will.
[The Khals all start laughing.]
KMKhal Moro
All right. No Dosh Khaleen for you. Instead we'll take turns fucking you. And then we'll let our bloodriders fuck you. And if there's anything left of you, we'll give our horses a turn. You crazy cunt. Did you really think we would serve you?
[Daenerys puts her hand on a burning brazier and is not burnt by it.]
You're not going to serve. You're going to die.
[Daenerys pushes the brazier over, lighting the entire temple on fire. The Dothraki assemble outside to watch the Temple burn. They witness Daenerys emerging from the burning temple naked and unburnt. They all bow.]
Sansa. Lady Brienne. When I heard you'd escaped Winterfell I feared the worst. You have no idea how happy I am to see you unharmed.
Unharmed? What're you doing here?
I rode north with the knights of the Vale to come to your aid. They're encamped at Moat Cailin as we speak.
To come to my aid? Did you know about Ramsay? If you didn't know, you're an idiot. If you did know, you're my enemy. Would you like to hear about our wedding night? He never hurt my face. He needed my face; the face of Ned Stark's daughter. But the rest of me, he did what he liked with the rest of me as long as I could still give him an heir. What do you think he did?
I can't begin to contemplate...
What do you think he did to me?
Lady Sansa asked you a question.
Yes, he enjoyed that. What else do you think he did?
Maybe you did know about Ramsay all along.
I thought you knew everyone's secrets.
I made a mistake. A horrible mistake. I underestimated a stranger.
The other things he did, ladies aren't supposed to talk about those things but I imagine brothel keepers talk about them all the time. I can still feel it. I don't mean, "In my tender heart, it still pains me so." I can still feel what he did in my body standing here right now.
You said you would protect me.
And I will. You must believe me when I tell you that I will.
I don't believe you anymore. I don't need you anymore, you can't protect me. You won't even be able to protect yourself if I tell Brienne to cut you down. And why shouldn't I?
You want me to beg for your life? If that's what you want, I will. Whatever you ask that is in my power, I will do.
What if I want you to die here and now?
You freed me from the monsters who murdered my family and gave me to other monsters who murdered my family. Go back to Moat Cailin. My brother and I will take back the North on our own. I never want to see you again.
I would do anything to undo what's been done to you. I know that I can't. Would you allow me to say one more thing before I go? Your great uncle, Brynden, the Blackfish, has gathered what remains of the Tully forces and retaken Riverrun. You might consider seeking him out. The time may come when you need an army loyal to you.
Your brother's army. Half-brother.
AGAeron Greyjoy
We speak in the presence of the Drowned God. In his name, we gather today to choose a new king as our leader. Who makes a claim?
I am Yara Greyjoy, daughter of Balon Greyjoy, King of the Iron Islands. I claim the Salt Throne.
IIronborn
We never had a queen! Not once!
There are many things we've never done. We've never made our mark upon the world. The great lords of Westeros pay us no mind, until our little raids buzz through their kingdoms long enough to become a nuisance and they swat us down, they conquer us, humiliate us, and go right back to forgetting we exist. We are a sea people! Our god is a sea god. [The crowd cheers] When I am queen, we will build a fleet that...
I2Ironborn #2
You cannot be queen!
I2Ironborn #2
Yes you are! A woman will not lead us, not when Balon's own male heir has returned!
[The crowd looks at Theon. Theon steps forward]
I am Theon Greyjoy, last living son of Balon Greyjoy. And she is your rightful ruler. Those of you that have sailed under her, and there are many of you here, you know what she is. She is a reaver, she is a warrior, she is ironborn! We will find no better leader! This is our queen.
[The crowd cheers, shouting "Yara! over and over]
I'm Euron Greyjoy! I claim the Salt Throne! Niece. Nephew. Little Theon. Heard you managed to fuck things right into the ground. Captured a castle you couldn't keep, got yourself taken prisoner...even heard you have no cock. Which explains why you would think a woman can be king.
When did you return, uncle?
A few days ago. I had some things to take care of. Long overdue.
I'm glad you're here. Now I know what my first act as queen will be: to execute the man who killed my father.
I did. I killed him. Threw him right over a rope bridge. I watched him fall. He was leading us nowhere and we would still be heading there if it weren't for me. No one loved him, no one wanted to follow him, he led us into two wars we couldn't win. I apologize to you all for not killing him years ago.
That would've been hard to do. You weren't here. Last I heard you were galavanting around the world having a grand ol' time.
Galavanting? Is that the sort of thing you start to say once your dick gets chopped off? Did the great lords of Westeros teach you words like that?
You were gone. Yara was here. Being ironborn, leading ironborn, getting ready to bring us back to glory.
And how will she do that?
I will build the largest fleet the world has ever seen.
Bright idea, except I'm the one who's going to build the Iron Fleet because I'm the one who knows how to use it. I've been all over the world, I've seen more of it than all of you combined, and across the sea, there is a person who hates the great lords of Westeros just as much as we do. Someone with a large army, three large dragons, and no husband. I'm going to build that fleet and I'm going to galavant right over and give it to Daenerys Targaryen, along with my big cock.
You're going to seduce the Dragon Queen?
I'm not going to seduce her. The Iron Fleet will seduce her. And together we're going to take the Seven Kingdoms. I wasn't born to be king. I paid the iron price. And here I stand.
[The crowd cheers, shouting "Euron" over and over]
[With Wights chasing them, Meera and Hodor escape the Cave of the Three-Eyed Raven with a comatose Bran. Hodor closes the door behind them]
[Hodor holds the door shut as the Wights try to break through. In the vision, Bran hears Meera shouting, "Hold the door"]
Hold the door! Hold the door!
[In the vision, Wylis somehow hears Meera and is able to see Bran]
[Wylis enters a warg state and suffers a seizure, collapsing]
[Hodor struggles to hold the door]
ONOld Nan
Wylis! What's the matter?
WWylis
Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold the door!
[Meera escapes into the snow with Bran as the door begins to break. Wights stab and claw Hodor, who continues to hold the door]
WWylis
Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold door! Hold door! Hold the door! Hold the door! Hold door! Hold door! Hold door! Hodor! Hodor! Hodor! Hodor! Hodor! Hodor!
Sorry to interrupt. We're here for Queen Margaery and Ser Loras Tyrell. Give them to us, and we'll be on our way.
I don't have the authority to give them to you. And you don't have the authority to take them.
I speak for King Tommen of House Baratheon, first of his name.
The Gods don't recognize his authority in this matter.
You've already insulted one Great House. It won't happen twice. Every last Sparrow will die before Margaery Tyrell walks down that street.
To die in the service of the Gods would please each and every one of us. We yearn for it. But, there is no call for it today. There will be no Walk of Atonement. Queen Margaery has already atoned for her sins, by bringing another into the true light of the Seven.
[the Sparrows open the doors of the Sept, and King Tommen walks out followed by his Kingsguard, whose armor are now embossed with the Seven-pointed Star.]
Together we announce a new age of harmony. A Holy alliance, between the Crown and the Faith.
TBTommen Baratheon
The Crown and the Faith are the twin pillars on which the world rests. Together, we will restore the Seven Kingdoms to glory.
[the crowds cheer]
MTMace Tyrell
What's happening?
He's beaten us! That's what happening.
