After visiting the Lady of the Leaves in a hidden treetop village, the kingsmen take Arya to Sallydance, High Heart, and Acorn Hall. Lady Smallwood has seen Lord Beric Dondarrion recently when Thoros brought her sheep. Arya ruins a pretty acorn dress wrestling with Gendry. The Haughty Tullys The leader at Sallydance has a lightning bolt stitched into his cloak, but where is the Tully fish? Tom's song about a floppy fish suggests local contempt for the imperious regional lords

Though Brienne reins in Jaime's escape attempt, impressing him with her strength and sword skill, his antics lead to their capture and The Bloody Mummers cut off Jaime's hand. Oathbreaker Jaime promises Brienne he'll swear an oath not to harm her if she grants him a sword, yet he's still half-inclined to kill her. Though he claims they'd never have been taken if she'd armed him, Jaime is not necessarily correct or even trying to be. Jaime isn't an oathbreaker by choice, it s

When the bodies of the Lannister boys are discovered, Robb rages at having been made guilty of war crimes. Robb executes Lord Rickard Karstark. Jeyne asks Catelyn for advice about how to be a good wife to Robb in his struggles. Catelyn envisions first Bran & Rickon, then Sansa layed out naked when she sees the squires' bodies. The Lannisters may kill Sansa now. Edmure points this out, suggesting they hide this crime. Robb says he owes the boys' fathers the truth. Edmure argue

At Tywin's small council, Tyrion is informed he's being made new Master of Coin and given the north through Sansa Stark. "It has all been settled beforehand, he concluded, and this discussion's no more than show." Currently, it reads to me that Littlefinger had a conversation with Tywin before this small council wherein he handled several points of business: Leaking the Tyrell plan to steal Sansa: Did Littlefinger suggest to Olenna that Sansa might be a bride for Willas so as

"...someone else is walking..." "He did not remember running, but he must have" Pursued by wights as he runs from the Fist of the First Men, Sam finally is too weak to go on and falls in the snow, prepared to die. Grenn and Small Paul won't leave him. When wights attack again, Sam kills a wight with the dragonglass dagger Jon gave him, discovering wights can be killed. What makes the difference between life and death? Friendship. Can't Go On "But if he stopped he died" The c

Sansa is unable to see through the plan to wed her to Lannister. It seems she cannot hear the word "bridal" through the seamstress's...

Someone must have promised Arya they were taking her and Gendry to Riverrun, because she's upset at the signs they're going the wrong...

Bran and party emerge from their hiding place in the crypts to see Winterfell has burned. Maester Luwin tells Osha the princes must be...

Qhorin Halfhand orders Jon to survive as a spy among the wildlings to escape and report back to Castle Black, leveraging his own death to...

Tyrion wakes from a fever dream to realize he's in Cersei's clutches in Maegor's, kept sleeping with milk of the poppy and silent by a...

After threatening to hang little Beth Cassel and realizing he's doomed, Theon sees the sense in surrendering and joining the Night's...

The Lannister award ceremony sours when Stannis loyalists prefer to die denouncing Joffrey as a bastard born of incest than be pardoned....

News of Winterfell's fall and Bran and Rickon's deaths reaches Harrenhal. Arya despairs. When Roose Bolton says he'll not take her with...

After Arstan Whitebeard saves Dany from a Sorrowful Man's manticore, he says he and Strong Belwas have been sent by Illyrio with ships to...

When Cersei leaves with Lancel, Dontos tells Sansa to lock herself in her chambers. But the Hound is drunk in her bed. He threatens to...

Tyrion rides onto the bridge of ships, where Ser Mandon Moore cuts Tyrion's face in his attempt to kill him.

In the Queen's Ballroom, Cersei gets tipsy and menaces Sansa with threats of Ser Ilyn. Assuming Sansa has been praying for Stannis to...

Tyrion's conscience is troubled by the success of his trap, but knows it's not enough. When the Hound says he won't go out again, Tyrion...

Under the vainglorious command of Ser Imry Florent, Davos and his sons sail into Tyrion's trap on the Blackwater. A cog full of wildfire...

At the House of the Undying, Dany sees many prophetic visions. But it's a trap. Drogon rescues her, burning the Undying Ones and their...