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S02E07

A Man Without Honor

Full screenplay script and 540-line transcript across 25 scenes for Game of Thrones S02E07: A Man Without Honor. Includes scene breakdowns for Tywin and Arya at Harrenhal ('Lowborn Girls Say M'lord'). Key settings: Int: Winterfell, Ext: Winterfell, Ext: Woods Outside Winterfell.

25 Scenes540 Lines

Scene 1:Int: Winterfell

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PRINCE THEON GREYJOY wakes and notices that OSHA has gone.

Scene 2:Ext: Winterfell

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THEON dresses down BLACK LORREN while DAGMER watches.
Theon
A cripple? You let a cripple escape? The boy can't walk, but somehow he slipped past you?
Black Lorren
The giant must have took him.
Theon
The giant? Hodor? Oh, that's all right, then. You let a halfwit escape with a cripple. And Rickon, too? The little one?
Black Lorren
Gone, along with the wildling woman. The one you were fucking.
THEON punches BLACK LORREN in the jaw, who falls to the ground. THEON shakes the pain out of his fist. He then kicks BLACK LORREN repeatedly.
Theon
Right. Get the horses and the hounds.
Dagmer
(laughs)

Scene 3:Ext: Woods Outside Winterfell

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Leashed dogs chase the scent of the fugitives. Mounted riders follow.
Man
Come on, find the scent. Where they going?
The dogs seem to have picked up a scent and they pause.
Dagmer
Halt!
The riders stop.
Theon
Enjoying your first hunt?
Luwin
So far, hunting seems very similar to riding, my lord.
Theon
With hunting, there's blood at the end.
Luwin
They're little boys.
Theon
I was a little boy when I was torn away from my home and brought here. So I kept my word. I never ran away. If I find them soon enough, I won't hurt them. Well, I'll hurt them, but I won't kill them.
Luwin
Those boys are of far more value to you alive than dead.
Theon
They have no value to me missing.
Luwin
Robb will have sent a force to retake Winterfell by now.
Theon
Robb's in the Riverlands. My sister's in Deepwood Motte. She'll get here long before they do. And Ned Stark always said 500 men could hold Winterfell again 10,000.
Man
We have a scent!
Theon
The hounds have the scent. Come, Maester, don't look so grim. It's all just a game.
THEON rides on. MAESTER LUWIN follows.

Scene 4:Ext: Woods Outside Winterfell

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The direwolves walk along a stream. HODOR, LORD BRAN STARK, RICKON STARK, and OSHA follow.
Osha
We should have took more food.
Bran
We couldn't risk going to the kitchens.
Osha
Those people all love you. They would have given you whatever you needed.
Bran
And if Theon found out, he'd hang them.
Osha
The boy can't survive on walnuts.
Rickon
I'm fine.
RICKON cracks the walnut he holds.
Osha
We've been walking since before sunrise. Even Hodor will tire.
Hodor
Hodor.
Osha
Even you, sweet giant.
Hodor
Hodor.
The party crests a small rise. The sounds of children shouting playfully can be heard in the distance.
Bran
Wait, I know that farm. I sent those two Winterfell orphans there.
Rickon
Jack and Billy. They'll give us some food.
Bran
We can't risk it. If Theon tracks us here, he'll torture them until he finds out where we are.
Rickon
Billy climbs a tree better than anyone.
Osha
You've never seen me climb a tree, little man.
Bran
They'll be after us with hounds.
Osha
We got a good start on them, but we can't outrun hounds forever.

Scene 5:Ext: North of the Wall

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JON SNOW and YGRITTE sleep, entwined. YGRITTE feels JON's manhood against her.
Ygritte
Did you pull a knife on me in the night?
JON rolls away quickly, embarrassed. He stands.
Ygritte
What's the matter? Can't be the first time you pressed your bone against a woman's arse.
Jon
Let's move.
He pulls her up and checks her binding.
Ygritte
It is the first time. How old are you, boy?
Jon
I'm a man of the Night's Watch.
Ygritte
You're a boy who's never been with a girl. Don't your stones start to hurt if your bone never gets-
Jon
Don't call them that.
Ygritte
What, stones? Or bone?
Jon
Neither. Both.
Having checked her bindings, he picks up his sword and leads her off.
Jon
Move!
Ygritte
I heard they get all swollen and bruised if you don't use them. Of course, maybe that's just what the lads say when they want me feeling sorry for them. As if I'd feel sorry for them. Are there no girl crows?
Jon
There are no women of the Night's Watch, no.
Ygritte
So the lads just do it with each other?
Jon
No.
Ygritte
Never?
Jon
Never. We swore an oath.
Ygritte
You have sheep at the Wall? With your hands, then? No wonder you're all so miserable.
JON pulls at her bound hands.
Jon
Would you please shut up?
Ygritte
Would you please shut up? You think you're better than me, crow. I'm a free woman.
Jon
You're a free woman?
Ygritte
I might be your prisoner, but I'm a free woman.
Jon
If you're my prisoner, you're not a free woman. That's what "prisoner" means.
Ygritte
And you think you're free? You swore some stupid oath and now you can never touch a girl.
Jon
It was my choice to say the words.
Ygritte
So you don't like girls?
Jon
Of course I like girls.
Ygritte
But you chose never to touch them.
Jon
That's the price you pay if you want to be a man of the Night's Watch.
Ygritte
So instead of getting naked with a girl, you'd prefer to invade our lands-
Jon
Invade your lands? Wildlings raid our lands all the time. Some of them tried to kill my little brother, a crippled boy!
Ygritte
They're not your lands! We've been here the whole time. You lot came along and just put up a big wall and said it was yours.
Jon
My father was Ned Stark. I have the blood of the First Men. My ancestors lived here, same as yours.
Ygritte
So why are you fighting us?
YGRITTE turns and walks down the slope. JON follows.

Scene 6:Tywin and Arya at Harrenhal ('Lowborn Girls Say M'lord')

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Ext: Harrenhal Courtyard
Patriarch of House Lannister tests his disguised Stark cupbearerPage-to-Screen InventionClass DisguiseHarrenhal Two-Hander

In George R.R. Martin's A Clash of Kings, Arya Stark serves as cupbearer to Roose Bolton at Harrenhal and never exchanges a word with Tywin Lannister, whom she only glimpses from afar. Pairing Charles Dance's Tywin with Maisie Williams's Arya was David Benioff and D.B. Weiss's most acclaimed page-to-screen invention: it gives Tywin a surrogate child sharp enough to spar with him on Targaryen history while turning every conversation into a high-wire class-disguise thriller.

  • Tywin forces Arya to sit at his own table and eat his rejected mutton, collapsing the physical distance between high lord and servant.
  • Arya eyes the carving knife while Tywin turns his back to the window, before he pivots and catches her off guard with his question on legacy.
In a misty morning, a man twitches while hung by a noose. Another screams in pain.
Man
Go on. Now I want you to tell me what happened. Come on, this way. Come on, speak up. Speak up.
Above the courtyard, LORD TYWIN LANNISTER listens and sniffs a wooden toothpick.
Tywin
Wolfsbane. A rare substance. This is no common assassin.
The Mountain
We hanged twenty men last night.
Tywin
I don't care if you hanged a hundred. A man tried to kill me. I want his name and I want his head.
LADY ARYA STARK sets the table and listens.
The Mountain
We think it was an infiltrator from the Brotherhood Without Banners.
Tywin
Pretentious name for a band of outlaws. We can't allow rebels behind our lines to harass us with impunity. We look like fools and they look like heroes. That's how kings fall. I want them dead, every one.
The Mountain
Killing them isn't the problem. It's finding them.
Tywin
Have you gone soft, Clegane? I always thought you had a talent for violence. Burn the villages, burn the farms. Let them know what it means to choose the wrong side.
SER GREGOR "THE MOUNTAIN" CLEGANE exits.
Tywin
Mmm. Is that mutton?
Arya
Yes, my lord.
Tywin
Don't like mutton.
Arya
I'll bring something else.
Tywin
Leave it. Are you hungry?
Arya
No.
Tywin
Of course you are. Eat.
Arya
I'll eat in the kitchen later.
Tywin
It's bad manners to refuse a lord's offer. Sit. Eat.
ARYA sits and eats the mutton.
Tywin
You're small for your age. I suppose you've been underfed your whole life.
Arya
I eat a lot. I just don't grow.
TYWIN looks out the window.
Tywin
Mmm. This will be my last war. Win or lose.
Arya
Have you ever lost before?
Tywin
Do you think I'd be in my position if I had lost a war?
Arya
(shakes her head)
Tywin
But this is the one I'll be remembered for. The War of the Five Kings, they're calling it. My legacy will be determined in the coming months.
ARYA realizes that TYWIN has let his guard down, and considers her options. But he turns back to her and she starts, suddenly.
Tywin
[Breakdown]
Do you know what legacy means? It's what you pass down to your children and your children's children. It's what remains of you when you're gone. Harren the Black thought this castle would be his legacy. The greatest fortress ever built.
adaptationShow-Original Legacy Monologue

Written specifically for Charles Dance. By having Tywin lecture a disguised Stark daughter on dynasty and Harren the Black's ruin, the adaptation externalises Tywin's dynastic obsession long before his Season 3 scenes with his own children.

TYWIN walks to the fireplace.
Tywin
The tallest towers, the strongest walls. The Great Hall had thirty-five hearths. Thirty-five. Can you imagine? Look at it now. A blasted ruin. Do you know what happened?
Arya
Dragons?
Tywin
Yes. Dragons happened.
TYWIN pours himself some wine.
Tywin
Harrenhal was built to withstand an attack from the land. A million men could have marched on these walls, and a million men would have been repelled. But an attack from the air with dragon fire, Mmm-mmm. Harren and all his sons roasted alive within these walls. Aegon Targaryen changed the rules. That's why every child alive still knows his name
Arya
Aegon and his sisters.
Tywin
Mmm?
Arya
[Breakdown]
It wasn't just Aegon riding his dragon. It was Rhaenys and Visenya, too.
adaptationArya's Targaryen History Tell

Arya correcting Tywin on Rhaenys, Visenya, Meraxes, Vhagar, and Dark Sister is pure television invention, yet it honours her book characterisation while subtly betraying her highborn Winterfell education.

Tywin
Correct. A student of history, are you?
Arya
Rhaenys rode Meraxes. Visenya rode Vhagar.
Tywin
I'm sure I knew that when I was a boy.
Arya
Visenya Targaryen was a great warrior. She had a Valyrian steel sword she called Dark Sister.
Tywin
Hmm. She's a heroine of yours, I take it?
Arya
(smiles)
Tywin
Aren't most girls more interested in the pretty maidens from the songs? Jonquil with the flowers in her hair?
Arya
Most girls are idiots.
Tywin
You remind me of my daughter. Where did you learn all this stuff about Visenya and her Valyrian steel sword?
Arya
From my father.
Tywin
He was a well-read stonemason. Can't say I've ever met a literate stonemason.
Arya
Have you met many stonemasons, my lord?
Tywin
Careful now, girl. I enjoy you, but be careful. Take that back to the kitchen. Eat what you want.
ARYA rises, clearing the dishes and walking away.
Tywin
And, girl.
ARYA stops.
Tywin
"M'lord."
ARYA turns, confused.
Tywin
[Breakdown]
Lowborn girls say "m'lord," not "my lord. " If you're going to pose as a commoner, you should do it properly.
adaptationThe 'M'lord' vs 'My Lord' Linguistic Tell

The 'm'lord' versus 'my lord' class tell is borrowed from George R.R. Martin's later novel A Dance with Dragons (where Roose Bolton explains the exact distinction to Reek/Theon) and transplanted into Season 2 so Tywin can unmask Arya's noble upbringing without realising she is a Stark.

Arya
My mother served Lady Dustin for many years, my lord. She taught me how to speak proper. (corrects herself) Properly!
Tywin
[Breakdown]
You're too smart for your own good. Has anyone told you that?
subtextSurrogate Admiration

Tywin's dry amusement ('You're too smart for your own good') reveals why he lets her cover story slide: surrounded by incompetent bannermen and disappointing heirs, he genuinely enjoys the sparring match with his cupbearer.

Arya
Yes.
Tywin
Go on.
ARYA exits and TYWIN ponders and drinks his wine.

Scene 7:Int: King's Landing

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LADY SANSA STARK walks through a castle hallway. SANDOR "THE HOUND" CLEGANE comes in the other direction.
Sansa
I beg pardon, ser. I should have come to you after to thank you for saving me. You were so brave.
The Hound
Brave? A dog doesn't need courage to chase off rats.
Sansa
Does it give you joy to scare people?
The Hound
No, it gives me joy to kill people.
Sansa
(gasps)
The Hound
Spare me. You can't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.
Sansa
It was his duty. He never liked it.
The Hound
Is that what he told you? He lied. Killing is the sweetest thing there is.
Sansa
Why are you always so hateful?
The Hound
You'll be glad of the hateful things I do someday when you're queen and I'm all that stands between you and your beloved king.
SANSA turns and walks away.

Scene 8:Ext: Qarth Garden

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DAENERYS TARGARYEN and XARO XOHAN DAXOS walk through the garden, anxiously.
Xaro
I've demanded a meeting of the Thirteen. One of them did this or knows who did.
Daenerys
You are one of the Thirteen.
Xaro
If I wanted your dragons, I would have taken them. They mean nothing to me on their own.
Daenerys
Nothing? They're more valuable than anything in the world.
Xaro
Shall we look inside my vault and see what selling your dragons would buy me I cannot buy already? We will get them back.
Daenerys
There is no we, so why would you help me get them back?
Xaro
I took you under my protection in front of the rulers of my city. A man is what others say he is and no more. If they say that Xaro Xhoan Daxos is a liar, my word is worth nothing. I cannot let this thing happen to you under my roof.
Daenerys
But it did happen under your roof.
Xaro
Khaleesi, many times in my life, I have been-
Daenerys
I don't care where you've been.
DAENERYS steps quickly up the stairs. MALAKKO blocks XARO's way.

Scene 9:Ext: The Far North

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JON and YGRITTE continue their trek among the mountaintops. JON keeps looking back at her.
Ygritte
You think we're savages because we don't live in stone castles. We can't make steel as good as yours, it's true, but We're free. If someone tried to tell us we couldn't lie down as man and woman, we'd shove a spear up his arse. We don't go serving some shit king who's only king because his father was.
Jon
No. No, you serve Mance Rayder, the King beyond the Wall.
Ygritte
We chose Mance Rayder to lead us. He was a crow, same as you, but he wanted to be free. You could be free, too. You don't need to live your whole life taking commands from old men. Wake up when you want to wake up. I could show you the streams to fish, the woods to hunt. Build yourself a cabin and find a woman to lie with in the night.
YGRITTE comes closer.
Ygritte
You're a pretty lad. The girls would claw each other's eyes out to get naked with you.
Jon
Walk.
Ygritte
I could teach you how to do it.
Jon
I know how to do it.
Ygritte
You know nothing, Jon Snow.
YGRITTE walks ahead. JON follows.

Scene 10:Ext: The Riverlands, Stark Camp

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The Stark war camp is quiet. SER ALTON LANNISTER reports to KING ROBB STARK while LORD RICKARD KARSTARK, LORD ROOSE BOLTON, and other councilors look on.
Robb
And what did she say?
Alton
She admired your spirit, Your Grace.
Robb
And what then?
Alton
She, uh...
Robb
If every man were held accountable for the actions of every distant relative, Ser Alton, we'd all hang.
Alton
She tore the paper in half, Your Grace.
Robb
You've acted with honor. I thank you for it. Lord Karstark, see that Ser Alton's pen is clean, and give him a hot supper.
Rickard Karstark
Ser Alton's pen is occupied, Your Grace. The prisoners from the Yellow Fork.
Roose
Too many prisoners.
Robb
Is there room for Ser Alton?
Rickard Karstark
Does he need to lie down?
Robb
Have the men build him a new pen. Put him in with the Kingslayer for now. Have your boy watch over them.
Rickard Karstark
Torrhen.
TORRHEN moves forward to take charge of his newly-assigned ward.
Robb
That will be all.
TORRHEN grabs ALTON's shoulder and leads him out of the tent, followed by RICKARD KARSTARK and the other councilors. ROOSE BOLTON stays behind. He moves to speak to ROBB when LADY TALISA MAEGYR enters. She is wearing a blood-stained apron and wiping her hands with a rag in similar condition.
Talisa
Your Grace. A minute of your time?
ROOSE BOLTON leaves, eyeing TALISA.
Talisa
I've been treating your wounded men.
Robb
And my enemies, as some of my bannermen are fond of mentioning.
Talisa
They're not my enemies.
Robb
That's what I tell my bannermen.
Talisa
I've already run through the supplies I brought with me. Some are easily replaced. Egg yolks, turpentine, oil of roses.
Robb
But some are not.
Talisa
I need silk for stitching.
ROBB walks from behind the small table to stand in front of TALISA. He gazes at her face while she speaks.
Talisa
I need fennel root for those with fever, willow bark. Mostly I need milk of the poppy. You saw what it was like to amputate a foot without any. I assume there will be more loss of limb before this war is over.
Robb
If you need help finding these-
Talisa
I know where to find them. I'm sorry, I shouldn't interrupt you.
Robb
Continue, my lady.
Talisa
You're riding to the Crag to negotiate a surrender?
Robb
Yes.
Talisa
The Crag will have a maester and he will have what I need.
Robb
I expect he will.
Talisa
If I could write a list-
Robb
Come with me to the Crag.
Talisa
I don't think that will be-
Robb
Let the maester show you his stores. I want the wounded men to be treated well, all the wounded men.
ROBB exits.

Scene 11:Ext: Farm Outside Winterfell

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THEON's search party has come upon the farmhouse. They mill around, trying to pick up the scent.
Woman
Children, come inside, quick. Come on.
Child
Hurry up!
Man
Can't find anything, ser. They've lost the scent.
Theon
Try again.
Man
We've circled this farmhouse twice. There's no sign of them.
The MAN continues to lead his dog through the farm.
Luwin
We could start the search fresh in the morning, my lord.
THEON grabs LUWIN.
Theon
I'm looking at spending the rest of my life being treated like a fool and a eunuch by my own people. Ask yourself, is there anything I wouldn't do to stop that from happening? The hounds will find the scent again. I'll beat them until they do. I'll whip every man here until I have both those boys in hand. And once I've got them, the pampered little shits It's better to be cruel than weak.
Two Ironborn lead the WINTERFELL SHEPHERD to THEON.
Man
Prince Theon.
Theon
Where are they?
Winterfell Shepherd
Who, m'lord?
Theon
The Stark boys. Where are they?
Winterfell Shepherd
I don't know. I seen no one.
THEON punches him in the gut.
Theon
Think harder.
Winterfell Shepherd
I swear, m'lord. I don't know.
THEON makes to punch him again, but DAGMER has found something by the hay bales.
Dagmer
My lord, over here. I think I've found what we're looking for.
THEON comes over and DAGMER shows him a handful of walnut shells. THEON looks around.
Dagmer
Send the old man home.
Theon
(nods)
THEON walks up to LUWIN.
Theon
Go back to Winterfell. Take him back.
Luwin
Theon, don't do this.
The Ironborn take LUWIN away.

Scene 12:Int: Qarth, Daenerys's Chambers

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DAENERYS TARGARYEN stands sadly. SER JORAH MORMONT enters.
Daenerys
You came back.
Jorah
As soon as I heard. Do you know anything?
Daenerys
Irri is dead.
Jorah
I know. She was a good-
Daenerys
She's dead. She died alone. She died for me and I couldn't protect her.
Jorah
Doreah?
Daenerys
We can't find her. She must be dead, too. I led my people out of the Red Waste and into the slaughterhouse.
Jorah
I should have been here.
Daenerys
You went to find me a ship.
Jorah
My place is by your side. I shouldn't have left you alone with these people.
Daenerys
"These people"?
Jorah
They are not to be trusted.
Daenerys
And who is to be trusted? Who are my people? The Targaryens? I only knew one, my brother, and he would have let a thousand men rape me if it had got him the crown. The Dothraki? Most of them turned on me the day that Khal Drogo fell from his horse.
Jorah
Your people are in Westeros.
Daenerys
The people in Westeros don't know I'm alive.
Jorah
They will soon enough.
Daenerys
And then what? They'll pray for my return? They'll wave dragon banners and shout my name? That's what my brother believed and he was a fool.
Jorah
You are not your brother. Trust me, Khaleesi.
Daenerys
There it is. "Trust me. " And it's you I should trust, Ser Jorah? Only you? I don't need trust any longer. I don't want it and I don't have room for it.
Jorah
You are too young to be so-
JORAH reaches for her.
Daenerys
And you are too familiar.
Jorah
Forgive me, Khaleesi. No one can survive in this world without help. No one. Let me help you, please. Tell me how.
Daenerys
Find my dragons.
JORAH exits.

Scene 13:Ext: The Far North

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JON and YGRITTE are still walking in the desolate snowlands.
Ygritte
How long till we get back to your crows?
Jon
We're close.
Ygritte
What, a day? A half-day? You don't know, do you? Do you even know where they are?
Jon
We're close.
Ygritte
What do you think they'll say when they hear about you and me?
Jon
Nothing happened between you and me.
Ygritte
"I swear it, Old Master King Crow, ser, we were only close together for warmth. And then I felt it, right up against me backside like a club. I can show you the bruise on me tailbone. And before I knew what was where, his his Well, it was all out in the open, all angry as you like. And I didn't want to want it, but oh, I did! And he spread me legs and ruined. The shame of it. Now I can never marry a perfumed lord. What will me poor savage father say?"
Jon
Turn back around.
Ygritte
"And I thought that we were done, but he said, ''Turn back around.'" I'll tell you what, Jon Snow. Since it's gonna be your word against mine, and since you can't talk about it without blushing, we may as well just-
Jon
What, right here in the muck?
Ygritte
I'll keep you warm enough.
JON pulls on her restraints, releasing her hands.
Ygritte
Are you that afraid of it?
Jon
That's enough.
Ygritte
It's nice and wet and warm.
Jon
Enough!
Ygritte
It don't have teeth.
YGRITTE comes closer. JON is tempted, but comes to his senses and grab the hilt of his sword. YGRITTE backs off.
Ygritte
All right! All right. Gods, you're dull.
YGRITTE quickly snares the rope around her leg and pulls JON down to the ground. He grunts and she takes off running. Jon gets up and chases her. She disappears down a slope. Jon runs to where he last saw her, and finds her bindings, cut. He hears a whistle, and looks up to see YGRITTE and two other wildlings on a ledge above him. She is smiling. Jon looks around to see that he is surrounded by wildlings.
Ygritte
Should have took me while you had the chance.

Scene 14:Int: King's Landing

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SANSA is having a nightmare, reliving the attempted rape by the rioters.
Sansa
No, no!
She wakes in a start, and pulls back the covers to see that her first period has begun. She is distraught
Sansa
No. Oh, no.
SANSA gets up, grabs a knife and tries to remove the bloodstain. SHAE enters the chamber with SANSA's breakfast. She rushes over to help
Shae
It's all right. Give me that.
Sansa
If the Queen sees, I can have Joffrey's children now.
Shae
Help me flip it over.
While SHAE and SANSA try to flip the mattress, another handmaiden enters. They stop. The handmaiden turns and rushes out of the room. After exchanging a glance with SANSA, SHAE follows her.

Scene 15:Int: Dark Hallway

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The handmaiden moves quickly. SHAE pursuers her.
Shae
Where are you going?
Handmaiden
To tell Her Grace.
SHAE pulls a knife and holds it to the handmaiden's throat.
Shae
You'll say nothing to anyone. Do you understand?
The HANDMAIDEN nods in fear and then runs off. SHAE watches her go, then returns.

Scene 16:Int: Sansa's Room

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SHAE rushes back to SANSA's room. THE HOUND is already there. SANSA sits on her bed, dejected.

Scene 17:Int: Cersei's Room

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CERSEI and SANSA enter.
Cersei
Your mother might have prepared you. You flowered, my dear. No more.
Sansa
My mother told me, but I thought it would be different.
Cersei
In what way?
Sansa
I thought it would be less messy.
Cersei
Wait until you birth a child.
SANSA sits on the edge of the bed.
Cersei
You're a woman now. Do you have any idea what that means?
Sansa
I'm fit to bear children for the king?
Cersei
A prospect that once delighted you, bringing little princes and princesses into the world, the greatest honor for a queen.
Sansa
(nods)
Cersei
Joffrey has always been difficult. Even his birth, I labored a day and a half to bring him into this world. You cannot imagine the pain. I screamed so loudly, I was sure Robert would hear me in the Kingswood.
Sansa
His Grace was not with you?
Cersei
Robert was hunting. That was his custom. Whenever my time was near, my royal husband would flee to the trees with his huntsmen and his hounds. And when he returned, he would present me with some pelts or a stag's head, and I would present him with a baby. Not that I wanted him there, mind you. I had Grand Maester Pycelle, an army of midwives, and I had my brother. When they told Jaime he wasn't allowed in the birthing room, he smiled and asked which one of them proposed to keep him out. Joffrey will show you no such devotion.
SANSA looks down.
Cersei
You may never love the king, but you will love his children.
Sansa
I love His Grace with all my heart.
Cersei
That's so very touching to hear. Permit me to share some womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. The more people you love, the weaker you are. You'll do things for them that you know you shouldn't do. You'll act the fool to make them happy, to keep them safe. Love no one but your children. On that front, a mother has no choice.
Sansa
But shouldn't I love Joffrey, Your Grace?
Cersei
You can try, little dove.
SANSA looks down, sadly.

Scene 18:Ext: Riverlands, Stark Camp, Night

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A guard checks on the prisoners in the Stark encampment. JAIME and ALTON share a cell.
Jaime
Who did you say your mother was again?
Alton
Cinda Lannister.
Jaime
Is she the fat one?
Alton
Well, perhaps she's gotten a little larger than she-
Jaime
No, no. There's only one fat Lannister. If she was your mother, you'd know it.
Alton
I squired for you once, you know.
Jaime
When?
Alton
The tournament, the day of Willem Frey's wedding.
Jaime
I went to Willem Frey's wedding?
Alton
You did. Your squire had gotten so drunk the night before that he threw up.
Jaime
He threw up on his horse on the way to the tourney grounds. What was his name?
Alton
Bryan.
Jaime
Poor lad. That was my brother's doing, I seem to recall. I remember you. You'd never squired for anyone before.
Alton
That's right. I ran up and volunteered. "Let me, my lord. Let me." My father was furious. Afraid I'd embarrass our family in front of the Family.
Jaime
You didn't, though.
Alton
You really remember?
Jaime
You knew when you were needed and when to go away. It's a rare talent. Most of my squires, they mean well, but young men with big jobs, they tend to overdo them.
Alton
When I think back to that day-
Guard
Shh!
Jaime
You were saying?
Alton
I- Never mind. It's embarrassing.
Jaime
More embarrassing than being chained to a post covered in your own shit?
Alton
I remember everything about that day, your helmet, your horse, the rake lines in the dirt along the list, where the sun was in the sky when you knocked Balon from his horse, and the dent in your shield when you handed it back to me. I'll remember it all until I die. That was the best day of my life. And I remember being on the field after it was over. All the competitors were done. I was the last one out there. And I couldn't leave. I couldn't bring myself to go and sit with my family at a table so far on the edge of the feast you could barely even see the bride. And I couldn't bear to tell them what it had been like squiring for you, when I knew that they could never have the faintest idea what I was talking about.
Jaime
I understand completely.
Alton
How could you? Sorry, I I didn't mean to doubt you.
Jaime
It's just that I, I was sixteen once. I also had to replace someone's squire on short notice.
Alton
Which knight was it?
Jaime
Barristan Selmy. The fight against the Kingswood Outlaws. Before your time.
Alton
What was he like?
Jaime
He was a painter. A painter who only used red. I couldn't imagine being able to fight like that, not back then. And to help him do that, to be a part of something that perfect. I don't need to explain how that felt, not to you.
Alton
It's hard to put into words.
Jaime
It's like stepping into a dream you've been dreaming for as long as you can remember, and finding out that the dream is more real than your life.
Alton
(nods) Leaving that battlefield was like being dragged off to prison.
Alton
Did you squire for him again?
Jaime
No. I didn't have your gift. He couldn't take a step without stepping on me. I was awful, a complete liability. Until one of the outlaws decided to take on a sixteen-year-old squire.
Alton
(smiles)
Jaime
It's a good thing I am who I am. I'd have been useless at anything else. I'm not well-suited for imprisonment. Shocking, I know. Some men are. Ned Stark, I imagine he made an excellent prisoner right up until the end. Not me, though. My life has left me uniquely unfit for constraint.
Alton
And have you thought about
Jaime
Of course. Every day.
Alton
And?
Jaime
Good prisoners breed good jailers, apparently. The Starks are very careful.
Alton
(nods)
Jaime
But there is a way, I think. It wasn't possible until now.
Alton
What is it?
JAIME looks out at the guards.
Jaime
It's actually quite simple.
Alton
Well, let me help you.
Jaime
You'll only have to do one thing.
Alton
Tell me.
Jaime
(whispers)You'll have to die.
JAIME headbutts ALTON and then beats him to death with his chained hands. TORRHEN comes to check on his bloodied body. JAIME chokes TORRHEN with his chained hands until his neck snaps. JAIME takes the keys to complete his escape.

Scene 19:Ext: Qarth, Garden

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JORAH enters a garden where QUAITH covers the back of a man with symbols painted in blood.
Quaith
Jorah the Andal. This man must sail past old Valyria. All who travel too close to the doom must have protection.
Jorah
I didn't come here for lessons.
Quaith
No, you came for the dragons.
Jorah
You have them? Where are they?
Quaith
Draw your sword. See what your steel is worth. You want to please the Mother of Dragons.
JORAH does not answer. She returns to painting.
Quaith
You love her.
Jorah
Where are the dragons?
Quaith
Will you betray her again, Jorah the Andal?
JORAH does not answer.
Quaith
Will you betray her again?
Jorah
Never.
Quaith
The thief you seek is with her now.
QUAITH returns to painting and JORAH exits, quickly.

Scene 20:Int: Qarth, Council of the Thirteen

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DAENERYS appears before the Thirteen to plead for her dragon's return.
Spice King
I did not leave the comfort of my home to come to yours and be called a thief.
Xaro
No one is calling you a thief. Who is she to accuse us?
Daenerys
Please, they're my children. I'm begging you.
Silk King
Begging us? It wasn't very long ago you were threatening us.
Daenerys
Without me, the dragons will die.
Spice King
It will be for the best. Your dragons will bring the world nothing but death and misery, my dear. If I knew where they were, I would not tell you.
Pyat Pree
You are cruel, my friend. The Mother of Dragons is in the right. She must be reunited with her babies. I will help you, Khaleesi.
Daenerys
How?
Pyatt Pree
I will take you to the House of the Undying where I have put them.
Daenerys
You have my dragons?
Pyat Pree
When I learned you were coming to our city, I made an arrangement with the King of Qarth. He procured them for me.
Daenerys
But there is no King of Qarth.
Xaro
There is now. That was the other half of the arrangement.
XARO stands.
Xaro
You would keep your gates and your minds closed to everything outside your walls, but Qarth cannot remain the greatest city that ever was if it refuses to change. I will open Qarth to the world as I have forced it to open itself to me.
PYAT PREE joins XARO's side.
Spice King
Your ambition is an inspiration. But like all upstarts, you overreach. Three dragons the size of cats and an alliance with a charlatan do not make you a king.
Xaro
An upstart and a charlatan? Empires have been built by less. Those on the margins often come to control the center, and those in the center make room for them, willingly or otherwise.
Pyat Pree
The Mother of Dragons will be with her babies. She will give them her love and they will thrive by her side, forever.
PYAT PREE's doppelgangers slit the throats of the other members of the Thirteen, simultaneously. DAENERYS is horrified, and flees. She encounters another PYAT PREE clone. KOVARRO comes to her side to defend her, but JORAH stabs PYAT PREE from behind first.
Pyattpree
A mother should be with her children.
JORAH removes his sword and PYATTPREE collapses into a pile of empty clothes, an illusion. Another clone appears.
Pyat Pree
Where will you run to, Daenerys Stormborn? Your dragons wait for you in the House of the Undying. Come see them.
DAENERYS, JORAH, and KOVARRO exit.

Scene 21:Int: Riverlands

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LADY CATELYN STARK sits in her tent, writing. JACKS tries to enter.
jack
Jack
Lady Stark!
LADY BRIENNE OF TARTH blocks JACKS at the door.
Brienne
No farther.
jack
Jack
Keep your hands off me, woman.
Brienne
Don't enter without an invitation, man.
jack
Jack
Forgive me. Lady Stark.
Catelyn
What is it?
jack
Jack
They caught the Kingslayer.

Scene 22:Cut To: The Camp

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JAIME is being led in chains by a mounted soldier, back into camp. The other soldiers assault him verbally. They jostle at one another in an attempt to make the assault physical, but his captors keep the other men away.
Man
Kingslayer!
Man
Kill the fucking Kingslayer!
Man
Hang him!
Man
Hang him!
Man
You'll die today.
Man
Justice for the Karstark.
They proceed further into the camp, but the angry soldiers eventually overpower JAIME's protectors. One man clubs him over the head and JAIME falls. The crowd gathers around to further abuse him. JAIME lies in pain. The horseman rides away, leaving JAIME in the hands of his captors, with a thick crowd behind him. They bring JAIME to his feet. He walks a few paces and then falls to his knees under the pressure of the crowd.
Man
Gut him!
RICKARD KARSTARK swiftly approaches the crowd and draws his sword.
Rickard Karstark
Get back! I want his head! Any man who stands between a father and his vengeance asks for death.
CATELYN, BRIENNE, and JACKS enter.
Catelyn
Lord Karstark, this man is our prisoner.
Rickard
This monster killed my son.
Catelyn
And crippled mine. He will answer for his crimes, I promise you, but not here.
Rickard Karstark
I will have his head. And if you try and stop me
Catelyn
You will strike me down? Have you forgotten me, ser? I am the widow of your liege, Lord Eddard Stark. I am the mother of your king!
Rickard Karstark
And where is our king now?
Robb
You know very well.
Rickard Karstark
He has gone to the Crag to accept the surrender. Aye, gone to the Crag, but not to negotiate. He brought that foreign bitch with him.
Catelyn
How dare you!
BRIENNE starts to draw her sword.
Brienne
Threatening my lady is an act of treason.
Rickard Karstark
Treason? How can it be treason to kill Lannisters?
Catelyn
I understand your grief, my lord, better than most, I understand it. But in the name of my son, the King in the North, stand down.
Rickard Karstark
When your son returns, I will demand this murderer's head.
Catelyn
Wise men do not make demands of kings.
Rickard Karstark
Fathers who love their sons do. I will have his head.
RICKARD KARSTARK exits.
Jaime
Thank you for fighting on my behalf, Lady Stark. I would have come to your defense, but-
Catelyn
Take him to the stockades. Bind him with every chain you can find!
Jaime
You've become a real she-wolf in your later years. There's not much fish left in you.
Catelyn
And gag him!

Scene 23:Int: King's Landing

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CERSEI and TYRION are in her bedroom. CERSEI is lighting candles with a long straw.
Tyrion
Since when do you light your own candles?
Cersei
Since I decided that I can't stand to look at any of my handmaidens for another instant.
She blows out the flame on the straw's end.
Cersei
How many times can you read one raven scroll?
Tyrion
Stannis Baratheon's fleet has been spotted sailing north past Tarth, two hundred ships.
Cersei
More than we have.
Tyrion
Yes, that's more than we have. He'll be at our gates within five days, four if he has the wind.
Cersei
We have strong, high walls. We'll rain fire down on them from above.
Tyrion
"Rain fire on them from above." You're quoting Father, aren't you?
Cersei
Why not? He has a good mind for strategy, doesn't he?
Tyrion
Call it tactics, not strategy. But, yes, he does have a good mind for it. The best mind, some would say. Sadly, he's not here. It's just you, me and Joffrey, the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm.
Cersei
I'm sure you'll make a point eventually.
Tyrion
He needs to start acting like a king. This war you started is coming to our doorstep. And if the entire city wants Joffrey dead
Cersei
I'm not the one giving the boy whores to abuse.
Tyrion
I thought the girls might help him.
Cersei
Did you?
Tyrion
I was wrong. If we can't control him
Cersei
Do you think I haven't tried? He doesn't listen to me.
Tyrion
It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on its head.
Cersei
I always hoped he'd be like Jaime. He looks like him. In a certain light.
Tyrion
The boy is more Robert than Jaime.
Cesei
Robert was a drunken fool, but he didn't enjoy cruelty. Sometimes I wonder. What? If this is the price for what we've done, for our sins.
Tyrion
Sins?
Cersei
The Targaryens wed brother and sister for hundreds of years, I know. That's what Jaime and I would say to each other in our moments of doubt. It's what I told Ned Stark when he was stupid enough to confront me. Half the Targaryens went mad, didn't they? What's the saying? "Every time a Targaryen is born, the Gods flip a coin."
Tyrion
You've beaten the odds. Tommen and Myrcella are good, decent children, both of them.
CERSEI begins to cry. TYRION approaches, perhaps to comfort her, but there is no closeness between them.

Scene 24:Ext: Robb's Camp at Night

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The soldiers mill about. Two of them are engaged in an argument.
Man
Then why wait?
Man
We're sworn to the king.
Man
There's not a king.
Man
That's treason.
Man
So is saving Lannisters, yeah?
Man
Back off, you.
Man
No, I won't.
BRIENNE and CATELYN watch from a distance, concerned about the lack of order.
Brienne
Your son returns at dawn, my lady?
Catelyn
So they say.
Brienne
The Kingslayer won't last the night. The more they drink, the angrier they'll get. And when the Karstarks draw their swords Who wants to die defending a Lannister?
Catelyn
Come.
BRIENNE follows CATELYN. A guard leads them into JAIME's cage. He is covered in blood.
Catelyn
I need to be alone with him.
Guard
My lady, our orders-
Catelyn
Your orders, which I just gave you, are to leave me alone with him.
The guard exists. BRIENNE moves outside the cage.
Jaime
Come to say goodbye, Lady Stark? I believe it's my last night in this world. Is that a woman?
Catelyn
Do you hear them out there? They want your head.
Jaime
Old Lord Karstark doesn't seem to like me.
Catelyn
You strangled his son with your chains.
Jaime
Oh. Oh. Was he the one on guard duty? He was in my way. Any knight would have done the same.
Catelyn
You are no knight. You have forsaken every vow you ever took.
Jaime
So many vows. They make you swear and swear. Defend the king, obey the king, obey your father, protect the innocent, defend the weak. But what if your father despises the king? What if the king massacres the innocent? It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or another. Where did you find this beast?
Catelyn
She is a truer knight than you will ever be, Kingslayer.
Jaime
Kingslayer. What a king he was. Here's to Aerys Targaryen, the Second of His Name, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm, and to the sword I shoved in his back.
Catelyn
You are a man without honor.
Jaime
Do you know, I've never been with any woman but Cersei. So in my own way, I have more honor than poor old dead Ned. What was the name of that bastard he fathered?
Catelyn
Brienne.
Jaime
No, that wasn't it. Snow, a bastard from the North. Now, when When good old Ned came home with some whore's baby, did you pretend to love it? No. You're not very good at pretending. You're an honest woman. You hated that boy, didn't you? How could you not hate him? The walking, talking reminder that the honorable Lord Eddard Stark fucked another woman.
Catelyn
(to BRIENNE) Your sword.
BRIENNE unsheathes her sword and hands it to CATELYN.

Scene 25:Ext: Winterfell

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THEON address the crowd.
Theon
I told you what would happen. All of you. I told you what would happen if you served me loyally. And what would happen if you did not.
DAGMER and an Ironborn raider lead LUWIN through the crowd.
Luwin
What are you doing? What have you done?
Theon
If there are any who still question whether your new lord means what he says, here is the answer to your question.
THEON gestures behind him. The raiders raise two bodies of children, hanged by their necks and burned beyond recognition. The crowd is horrified.
Luwin
No!
THEON looks upon the bodies, and then looks down, feeling a pang of guilt.

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All Game of Thrones Seasons (73 Episodes)
S02E01
The North Remembers
S02E02
The Night Lands
S02E03
What Is Dead May Never Die
S02E04
Garden of Bones
S02E05
The Ghost of Harrenhal
S02E06
The Old Gods and the New
S02E07
A Man Without Honor
S02E08
The Prince of Winterfell
S02E09
Blackwater
S02E10
Valar Morghulis