She’s touched, but merely says, “I’d better get back,” and walks off. She calls him out on how he hasn’t ever talked to her this long without insulting her, so he gets to the point of the matter: “I’m not the fighter I used to be, but I’d be honored to serve under your command if you’ll have me,” he says, perhaps more humble than he’s ever been, including the time he nearly passed out, naked, in a hot stew of his own filth and shame. The words “left flank” are uttered, but alas, not in the way I always hoped in my fan fiction heart of hearts they might be. Then Jaime and Brienne talk military strategy. “Maybe after I’m dead, I’ll march down to King’s Landing and rip her apart,” Tyrion jokes. You always knew exactly what she was, and you loved her anyway.” Then they talk about how they’ll likely die at Winterfell, which at least will deny Cersei the pleasure of murdering them. Jaime says that their sister is great at snowing people, but Tyrion stops him: “She never fooled you. The upshot: Cersei is good at lying, but she’s telling the truth about the pregnancy. “I’m not that person anymore.” Bran is all “the end is the beginning is the end” about it and says that he didn’t out Jaime as his attacker because he’s needed in the fight, and that if Bran were still Bran he wouldn’t be the three-eyed raven and honestly this scene is just too low-key adult for me.Īfterward, Jaime and Tyrion catch up in the courtyard. “I’m sorry for what I did to you,” Jaime says. HOUSE LANNISTER: LONG-TIME-COMING EDITION | Jaime finds Bran in the godswood and apologizes for crippling him for life. So she says she knows death, and casually flings a few blades to drive home her point, and he’s impressed/scared. That’s what they’re like,” he adds, getting all insistent. You want to know what they’re like? Death.
She asks/mocks him about being a fighter, but then her curiosity takes over. He tells her that she should go down to the crypt when the fighting begins, because it’s safer. HOUSE STARK: IS-THAT-DRAGONGLASS-IN-YOUR-POCKET-OR-ARE-YOU-JUST-HAPPY-TO-SEE-ME? EDITION | Arya checks on Gendry’s progress on making her weapon. And when Jon says “We need every man we can get,” it’s all over but the flop sweat drying: Grey Worm hands Jaime a sword, Jaime thanks Daenerys, and that’s that.īehind the scenes, Daenerys rips into Tyrion for believing his sister and says that if he can’t help her take back the Iron Throne, “I’ll find another Hand who can.” Aw, poor Tyrion. And because Sansa trusts Brienne implicitly, “We should let him stay,” the Lady of Winterfell rules. “He armed me, armored me and sent me to find you and bring you home because he’d sworn an oath to your mother,” she says, which sways the redhead a little bit. īrienne stands and notes that Jaime saved her live, and that Sansa is alive because of him. “The things we do for love,” Bran pipes up, in a callback to the series’ premiere. Jaime says they were at war, and he was protecting his family. Tyrion jumps in to defend his brother, but Sansa says not to trust the Kingslayer, because he attacked Ned and his men in the streets of King’s Landing way back when. “She lied to me, as well,” Jaime replies, adding that he wants to fight for the living. It appears your sister lied to me,” she notes. Not only is khaleesi mad about the whole him-killing-her-dad thing, she wants to know where Cersei’s army is. HOUSE LANNISTER: PARDON-ME EDITION | The hour opens with Jaime standing trial, of a sort, before Daenerys. Read on for the highlights of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.”