History Recap / GameOfThronesS1E5TheWolfAndTheLion

* DeathGlare: Tyrion to the minstrel when he starts acting as TheNarrator (unfortunately we don't have the moment [[hottip:From the books:where Tyrion gets his revenge by stepping on the minstrel's fingers and breaking them in the melee]]).

* InsigniaRipOffRitual: Ned does this with his insignia pin when he resigns as hand, after he disagrees with Robert about killing Daenerys. In episode six [[spoiler: Robert gives it back to him as he still needs him as hand]].

* OhCrap: Catelyn's face when she realises that Lysa's off her nut. Ned when the Kingslayer rides up with his men, whose numbers greatly outmatch his own.

** Arguably, also the Hound kneeling to the king... in the middle of a sword fight. Gregor nearly takes his head off as he drops. Loyalty Before Reason?
*** His kneeling actually saved his life, so this is more a case of Both Honor And Reason.

* DeathGlare: Tyrion to the minstrel when he starts acting as TheNarrator (unfortunately we don't have the moment in the novel where Tyrion gets his revenge by stepping on the minstrel's fingers and breaking them in the melee).

-->'''Knight:''' He doesn't look like a prisoner.

-->'''Knight:''' (significantly) Yes, my lady. She will at that.

* OhCrap: Catelyn's face when she realises that Lysa's off her nut. Ned when the Kingslayer rides up with his men, whose numbers outmatch his own.

Meanwhile, elswhere in the Red Keep, Arya is chasing cats as per her instructions from Syrio. It flees into a storage basement crowded with dragon skulls--hey, remember Viserys's ruminations last episode? There's the answer!--and then ducks into the shadows when two strangers walk by holding a cryptic conversation. It's Varys - and Magister Illyrio, the man who sheltered the Targaryen siblings in Pentos! Conspiracy! They recap what has happened so far with between [[TitleDrop the wolf and the lion]], discuss whether Khal Drogo is ready to invade, and imply that Ned's sleuthing might put him in danger. Arya hurriedly returns to their house to warn her father -- and [[ForeShadowing is mistaken twice for a boy in the process]]-- but can only recount bits of the conversation, since she didn't understand half of it, lacks the context for the rest, and didn't recognize the people involved. And while she manages to blurt out that they suggested offing him, that isn't really news to him. In the end, she is led away by Jory whilst Yoren, who was present for Catelyn's little kidnapping enterprise at the end of the last episode, drops in and updates Ned on what he saw.

* OhCrap: Catelyn's face when she realises that Lysa's off her nut.

* HairTriggerTemper: Ser Gregor Clegane's response to losing at a jousting match involves chopping off the head of his own horse and attacking the winner from behind in front of the King and hundreds of witnesses.

* DeathGlare: Tyrion to the minstrel when he starts acting as TheNarrator (unfortunately we don't have the moment in the novel where Tyrion gets his revenge by stepping on the minstrel's fingers and breaking them in the melee.

-->'''Knight:''' (significantly) Yes, my lady. She will at that."

-->'''Knight:''' Yes, my lad. She will at that."
** Arya is repeatedly mistaken for a boy.

* StopHelpingMe: Variant: Jaime loves fighting, and he didn't appreciate a guardsman stepping in during his duel with [[spoiler:Ned Stark]]. Related: The Mook doesn't understand the DuelToTheDeath trope and averts it. Jaime, being GenreSavvy, is so incensed he [[TapOnTheHead punches the Mook in the face]].

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When the party is attacked, Tyrion briefly considers fleeing, but then comes to Cat's rescue, despite the fact that she and the party had taken him prisoner. Made somewhat pragmatic by the fact that Tyrion reasoned he wouldn't have survived had a ran away.

Whilst Ned packs furiously, Robert and Cersei fret over what to do if the Dothraki do invade, and the absolute PR disaster it would be. They then have a startlingly heart-felt conversation, toasting each other and 17 years' mutual resentment, and wonder whether they ever had a chance at making their marriage work. (The verdict: [[TheLostLenore Lyanna says no]].) As for Ned, he's distracted when Littlefinger offers to take him to "the last person Jon Arryn spoke with before falling ill." It's a whore, barely more than a child, who has borne Robert Baratheon's bastard baby. "She looks like him, don't she, m'lord? She has his nose, his black hair." Jon Arryn, when he came to visit, merely enquired into the health of the child; Littlefinger doesn't know why. But as they leave, a new problem emerges: the Kingslayer rides up with a score of Lannister guardsmen and demands the return of the Imp. While Littlefinger runs to summon the gold cloaks, the Kingslayer has Ned's three guardsmen killed. Wil and Hewett go down on the instant; Jory gives a good account of himself, but he's no match for the Kingslayer. Ned Stark is, and the two go at it in a furious SwordFight that ends only when one of the Lannister guardsmen, on his own initiative, stabs Ned through the thigh. The Lannister contingent rides away, leaving Eddard Stark in the street with his dead.

-->'''Baelish:''' And tell me Lord Renly, when will you be [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean having]] [[HoYay -your- friend?]] ''(in reference to Tyrell)''