Arya and Gendry in the forgeĪs many men pound dragonglass into weapons for the upcoming war, Arya visits Gendry to check in on her weapon, the blueprints for which she gave him in the previous episode. “I suspect one of you will be wearing this before it’s all over,” Tyrion says to Jorah and Varys, indicating his Hand of the Queen pin. If he can’t get his head on straight, she says, she’ll find another Hand. Dany, Tyrion, Jorah, and Varys in the hallwayĭany excoriates Tyrion for believing his sister would help them. She leaves through a different exit, with Tyrion, Jorah, and Varys following close behind. Jon (who’s probably avoiding a certain conversation he needs to have) and Sansa make a quick exit, leaving Dany alone at the head table. Grey Worm, the Unsullied soldier, returns Jaime’s sword. Then Dany relents … or just rolls with it, really. And because of that - and in no small part, because she invoked the memory of her late mother - Sansa relents. He armed me, armored me, and sent me to find you and bring you home because he’d sworn an oath to your mother.”īrienne says she’d vouch for Jaime, she’d fight alongside him, she’d trust him with her life. Without him, my lady, you would not be alive. But when we were both taken prisoner and the men holding us tried to force themselves on me, Ser Jaime defended me - and lost his hand because of it. “You don’t know me well, Your Grace,” Brienne says to Dany. She was, and is, a jewel of unambiguous good in a world where might makes right. Game of Thrones’ world is brutal, amoral, and grim, where evil often triumphs over good and effectively everyone exists in an ethical shade of gray. And then the one person in all of Westeros who could possibly help Jaime steps forward. Jaime says that he’s abandoned family loyalty now because the war with the White Walkers transcends it. “The things we do for love,” the Three-Eyed Raven nee Brandon Stark says, apropos of nothing, but echoing the words that Jaime said when he threw Bran out of the window at the end of Game of Thrones’ first episode. But it does explain and justify (to Jaime, at least) their (terrible) actions. That doesn’t make him or the Lannisters good people. The inevitable consequence of Ned’s discovery - that King Robert Baratheon’s children were, in fact, Cersei and Jaime’s children - would mean the fall of the house of Lannister. The Lannisters were at war with Ned Stark in season 1. I’d do it all again.”Īnd here’s the thing: He’s right. Everything I did, I did for my house and my family. “Do you want me to apologize?” Jaime asks. Sansa says no, because of the part that Jaime played in the death of her father. Tyrion says yes, they can trust his brother, because he came here alone knowing full well how he’d be received. Whether or not they can trust Jaime is the (entirely reasonable) question on everyone’s mind. Even if we defeat the dead, she’ll have more than enough to destroy the survivors.” The Golden Company from Essos, bought and paid for. “She has Euron Greyjoy’s fleet and 20,000 fresh troops. “She never had any intention of sending her army north,” Jaime says. Jaime agrees, but tells of his twin sister’s duplicity. She changes the subject, saying that Cersei pledged to send an army north. About all the things we would do to that man once we took back the Seven Kingdoms and had him in our grasp.” Who sat down on the Iron Throne and watched as his blood poured onto the floor. Who stabbed him in the back and cut his throat. “When I was a child,” she says, “my brother would tell me a bedtime story about the man who murdered our father. In the great hall of Winterfell, where everyone everyone important has gathered, Dany begins by making her case. We begin with the trial of Jaime Lannister, who must answer for all the crap he’s done.
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