Game of Thrones

I'm so sorry, my queen.

He was a good man.

"Barristan the Bold" they called him.

He crossed a continent to serve me.

He was a loyal friend.

And he died in an alley,

butchered by cowards who hide behind masks.

We could pull back to the pyramid district,

secure it, and use it as a base from which to operate.

Then we clean the city out,

neighborhood by neighborhood, street by street,

until the rats have nowhere left to hide.

I prefer your earlier suggestion.

Round up the leaders of each of Meereen's great families and bring them to me.

But I'm the leader of my family.

No, Your Grace!

I had nothing to do with this.

Your Grace!

Don't want to overfeed them.

Tomorrow perhaps.

"And though Daenerys maintains her grip on Slaver's Bay,

forces rise against her from within and without.

She refuses to leave until the freedom

of the former slaves is secure."

She sounds like quite a woman.

And she's alone,

under siege,

no family to guide her or protect her.

Her last relation thousands of miles away,

useless, dying.

Don't say that, Maester Aemon.

A Targaryen alone in the world

is a terrible thing.

Maester Aemon.

Lord Commander.

Sam, I'd like to speak to the maester alone.

How are you feeling?

Oh, like a hundred-year-old man

slowly freezing to death.

I need your advice.

There's something I want to do, something I...

have to do.

But it'll divide the Night's Watch.

Bitterly.

Half the men will hate me the moment I give the order.

Half the men hate you already, Lord Commander.

Do it.

But you don't know what it is.

That doesn't matter.

You do.

You will find little joy in your command.

But with luck,

you will find the strength to do what needs to be done.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow.

Winter is almost upon us.

Kill the boy

and let the man be born.

Where are the rest of the free folk now?

Where have they gone?

Who leads them?

They followed Mance.

They won't follow anyone else.

What about you?

Hard to lead when you're in chains.

What if I unchained you?

Why would you do that?

Because you are not my enemy.

And I'm not yours.

You sure seemed like my enemy when you were killing my friends.

For 8,000 years the Night's Watch have sworn an oath

to be the shield that guards the realms of men.

And for 8,000 years we've fallen short of that oath.

You belong to the realms of men.

All of you.

And now everything is going to change?

- It is. - Why now?

Because now I am Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.

What would you have me do,

Lord Commander?

I'd have you go north of the Wall.

Gather the remaining free folk wherever they are and bring them back here.

I'll open the gates for them and let them through.

I'll find them lands to settle south of the Wall.

They won't kneel for you and neither will I.

I don't want them to kneel for me.

I want them to fight with me when the time comes.

The day I ask my people to fight with the crows

is the day my people cut my guts from my belly

and make me eat them.

And how many of your people can't fight?

The women, the children, the old, the sick--

what happens to them?

You're condemning them to death.

Worse than death because you're too proud to make peace.

Or maybe you're not proud.

Maybe you're just a coward.

Easy thing to say to a man in chains.

Your people need a leader.

And they need to get south of the Wall before it's too late.

We don't have much time and they have less.

The walkers are coming and they'll hit your people first.

I'm not asking you to make peace to save your skin.

Make peace to save your people.

Most of them are at Hardhome.

You know where that is?

Up on Storrold's Point.

I can give you 10 horses and nine other men.

You can get there in a week.

We'll need ships.

I'll talk to King Stannis about lending you his fleet.

All right, then.

You're coming with me.

You're the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.

They need to hear it from you.

They need to know the ships they are boarding

won't be torched in the middle of the sea.

You come with me or I don't go.

You'd bring wildlings here through our gates?

Men, women, and children will die by the thousands if we do nothing.

Let them die. We got our own to worry about.

Less enemies for us.

Fewer.

- What? - Nothing.

Look, well, there is good farmland in the Gift.

Land that no one uses now.

A dozen abandoned villages.

And why do you think the farmers abandoned those villages?

Because the wildlings raided them for years.

Cut them down!

Just like they did this boy's people.

Aye!

We've been fighting them for thousands of years.

They've slaughtered villages.

They've slaughtered our brothers.

And we've slaughtered theirs.

I will follow you anywhere, you know that.

- But they killed Grenn. - Yes.

- And they killed Pyp. - Aye.

They killed 50 of our brothers.

I can't forget that.

I can't forgive it.

You were at the Fist of the First Men.

If we abandon them, you know what they become.

We can learn to live with the wildlings

or we can add them to the army of the dead.

Whatever they are now, they're better than that.

Thank you.

Olly.

If you have something you want to say to me,

say it.

It's all right.

You don't mean it, do you?

Telling the wildlings you want to make peace.

You're just doing it to trick them.

It's not a trick.

They burned my village.

They put an arrow through my father's head

right in front of me.

They butchered my mother, everyone I ever knew.

I know what it's like to lose the people you love.

I know this is hard for you.

But winter is coming.

We know what's coming with it.

We can't face it alone.

Will there be anything else you need, Lord Commander?

No.

She's far away from the Lannisters.

This is her home.

Maybe Lady Sansa is better off here.

Better off with the Boltons

who murdered her mother and brother?

Sansa's in danger even if she doesn't realize it.

Thank you.

You've lived here a long time?

Aye.

Did you know Lord Eddard?

I knew him

and his father before him.

The Starks are gone now.

Not all of them.

I know who's inside that castle.

Everyone knows.

The Boltons.

I'm not talking about the Boltons.

I need to get a message to her.

To Sansa Stark.

Who are you?

Someone who swore to keep her safe.

Swore to who?

Her mother.

Her mother's dead.

That doesn't release me from an oath.

I served Lady Catelyn.

I serve her still.

Who do you serve?

Come back here.

Myranda.

I saw you staring at her.

I'm going to marry her.

That will involve looking at her from time to time.