Game of Thrones

You're wondering why I brought you all here.

After all, we just had a feast.

Since when does old Walder

give us two feasts in a single fortnight?

Well, it's no good being Lord of the Riverlands

if you can't celebrate with your family.

That's what I say!

Yes!

I've gathered every Frey who means a damn thing

so I can tell you my plans for this great house

now that winter has come.

But first, a toast!

No more of that Dornish horse piss!

This is the finest Arbor gold!

Proper wine for proper heroes!

Stand together!

Stand together!

Not you.

I'm not wasting good wine on a damn woman.

Maybe I'm not the most pleasant man.

I'll admit it. But I'm proud of you lot.

You're my family, the men who helped me

slaughter the Starks at the Red Wedding.

Yes, yes.

Cheer.

Brave men, all of you.

Butchered a woman pregnant with her babe.

Cut the throat of a mother of five.

Slaughtered your guests after inviting them

into your home.

But you didn't slaughter every one of the Starks.

No, no, that was your mistake.

You should have ripped them all out, root and stem.

Leave one wolf alive

and the sheep are never safe.

When people ask you what happened here...

tell them the North remembers.

Tell them winter came for House Frey.

You wildlings?

I'm Meera Reed, daughter of Howland Reed.

This is Brandon Stark,

son of Ned Stark.

How do I know that's true?

You were at the Fist of the First Men.

You were at Hardhome.

You've seen the Army of the Dead.

You've seen the Night King.

He's coming for us.

For all of us.

Okay, come on.

Let's get them inside.

I want every northern maester to scour their records

for any mention of dragonglass.

Dragonglass kills white walkers.

It's more valuable to us now than gold.

We need to find it, we need to mine it,

we need to make weapons from it.

Everyone aged 10 to 60

will drill daily with spears, pikes, bow and arrow.

It's about time we taught these boys of summer how to fight.

Not just the boys.

We can't defend the North

if only half the population is fighting.

You expect me to put a spear in my granddaughter's hand?

I don't plan on knitting by the fire while men fight for me.

I might be small, Lord Glover, and I might be a girl,

but I am every bit as much a Northerner as you.

Indeed you are, my lady. No one has questioned...

And I don't need your permission to defend the North.

We'll begin training every man, woman, boy, and girl on Bear Island.

Aye!

While we're preparing for attack,

we need to shore up our defenses.

The only thing standing between us and the Army of the Dead is the Wall,

and the Wall hasn't been properly manned in centuries.

I'm not the king of the Free Folk.

But if we're going to survive this winter together...

You want us to man the castles for you?

Aye.

Last time we saw the Night King was at Hardhome.

The closest castle to Hardhome is Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.

Then that's where I'll go.

Looks like we're the Night's Watch now.

If they breach the Wall,

the first two castles in their path

are Last Hearth and Karhold.

The Umbers and the Karstarks betrayed the North.

Their castles should be torn down

with not a stone left standing.

The castles committed no crimes.

And we need every fortress we have for the war to come.

We should give the Last Hearth and Karhold to new families,

loyal families who supported us against Ramsay.

Aye!

The Umbers and the Karstarks

have fought beside the Starks for centuries.

They've kept faith for generation after generation.

And then they broke faith.

I'm not going to strip these families of their ancestral homes

because of the crimes of a few reckless sons.

So there's no punishment for treason

and no reward for loyalty?

The punishment for treason is death.

Smalljon Umber died on the field of battle.

Harald Karstark died on the field of battle.

They died fighting for Ramsay.

Give the castles to the families

of the men who died fighting for you.

When I was Lord Commander of the Night's Watch...

I executed men who betrayed me.

I executed men who refused to follow orders.

My father always said,

"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword,"

and I have tried to live by those words.

But I will not punish a son for his father's sins,

and I will not take a family home away

from a family it has belonged to for centuries.

That is my decision,

and my decision is final.

Ned Umber.

Alys Karstark.

For centuries, our families fought

side by side on the battlefield.

I ask you to pledge your loyalty once again to House Stark,

to serve as our bannermen

and come to our aid whenever called upon.

Stand.

Yesterday's wars don't matter anymore.

The North needs to band together,

all the living north.

Will you stand beside me, Ned and Alys,

now and always?

Now and always!

You are my sister, but I am king now.

Will you start wearing a crown?

When you question my decisions

in front of the other lords and ladies, you undermine me.

So I can't question your decisions anymore?

Of course you can, but...

Joffrey never let anyone question his authority.

You think he was a good king?

Do you think I'm Joffrey?

You're as far from Joffrey as anyone I've ever met.

Thank you.

You're good at this, you know.

- At what? - At ruling.

No.

You are.

You are.

They respect you, they really do,

but you have to...

Why are you laughing?

What did father used to say?

Everything before the word "but" is horse shit.

He never said that to me.

No. No, he never cursed in front of his girls.

Because he was trying to protect us.

He never wanted us to see how dirty the world really is,

but Father couldn't protect me and neither can you.

Stop trying.

All right, I'll stop trying to protect you

and you stop trying to undermine me.

I'm not trying to undermine you!

You have to be smarter than Father.

You need to be smarter than Robb.

I loved them, I miss them, but they made stupid mistakes,

and they both lost their heads for it.

And how should I be smarter?

By listening to you?

Would that be so terrible?

A raven from King's Landing, Your Grace.

"Cersei of House Lannister, First of Her Name,

Queen of the Andals and the First Men,

Protector of the Seven Kingdoms..."

What does she want?

Come to King's Landing.

Bend the knee or suffer the fate of all traitors.

You've been so consumed with the enemy to the north,

you've forgotten about the one to the south.

I'm consumed with the Night King because I've seen him.

And believe me, you'd think of little else if you had, too.

We still have a wall between us and the Night King.

There's nothing between us and Cersei.

There's a thousand miles between us and Cersei.

Winter is here. The Lannisters are a southern army.

They've never ranged this far north.

You're the military man, but I know her.

If you're her enemy, she'll never stop until she's destroyed you.

Everyone who's ever crossed her, she's found a way to murder.

You almost sound as if you admire her.

I learned a great deal from her.

What is this?

It's what we've been waiting for our whole lives.

It's what Father trained us for, whether he knew it or not.

He knew it.

Made me memorize every damn city, town,

lake, forest, and mountain.

It's ours now. We just have to take it.

You've been quiet since you came home.

Are you angry with me?