History Recap / GameOfThronesS2E7AManWithoutHonor

** Quaithe to Jorah: "Will you betray her again?"[[note]]Referring to his selling information about Daenarys and Viserys to Varys.[[/note]]

* RagsToRoyalty: Xaro Xoan Daxos finally achieves this even without marrying Daenarys, through the more expedient, though possibly bloodier means of murdering his fellow members on the Council of Thirteen.

* {{Seers}}: Quaithe is implied to be one, as she strikes a conversation with Jorah regarding stuff she's not privy to.[[labelnote: From the books...]]Unfortunately, this episode (alongside Episode 5) happens to be the last appearance of Quaithe, who is a more significant character in the books. Daenerys tends to have prophetic dreams that guide an important part of her decisions, and more than once she has encountered Quaithe in those. It's implied that Quaithe is responsible for psychically implanting suggestions into Daenerys's mind, setting the young Queen on a path that is not yet clear.[[/labelnote]]

* TalkToTheFist: Theon punches one of his men for snarking him, then [[FailedAttemptAtDrama winces in pain]].
* TheUnhug: Tyrion seems rather uncomfortable at the sight of his distraught sister and can't work out how he should (or whether he should) comfort her. Likewise, Cersei needs comforting but is too proud to ask for it from her despised dwarf brother.

'''Far beyond the Wall''' Jon and Ygritte are passing down through a large depression in the ice; Jon is pretty clearly still lost. Ygritte pulls out the MaliciousSlander card: "What do you think they'll say when they hear about you and me? I swear it, O [[BuffySpeak Master King Crow Ser]], we were [[IntimateHealing only close together for warmth]]! And then I felt it: right up against me backside like a club. I can show you the bruise on me tailbone!" (She sure knows how to put on airs, this Ygritte, kissed by fire. She's channeling a SouthernBelle, and those don't even ''exist'' in the Seven Kingdoms!) "And before I knew what was where, his, his... Well, it was all out in the open, [[UnusualEuphemism angry]] as you like, and [[SexIsEvil I didn't want to want it]], but [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny oh!, I did]]. And he spread me legs and... ''Ruined.'' [[SlutShaming The shame of it.]] Now I can never marry a perfumed lord. What will my poor savage father say?" Jon [[ActuallyPrettyFunny can't help but smirking a little]], but he tells her to turn back around. "And I thought we were done, but he said, ''turn back around.''" ''Now'' he looks irritated, probably because her impression of him is uncannily good. "Since it's going to be your word against mine, and you can't talk about it without blushing, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark we may as well just]]..." But Jon grabs his sword--no, ''[[CoolSword Longclaw]]''; sheesh, you guys--and she backs off. And then, while he's distracted, she runs. As it turns out, she's been leading him right into a wildling ambush. "Shoulda took me while you had the chance," Ygritte smirks.

'''The Stark encampment''' is at a boil, with some willing to stand by Robb and protect Jaime, and others... not so much. Catelyn brings Brienne with her to confront him. Jaime defends his semi-honorable actions by pointing out the LogicBomb created by all the oaths one must swear: "[[PraetorianGuard Defend the king.]] [[MyMasterRightOrWrong Obey the king.]] [[ThickerThanWater Obey your father.]] [[KnightInShiningArmor Protect the innocent. Defend the weak.]] And what if your father [[BrokenPedestal despises the king]]? What if the king massacres the innocent? It's too much. [[ConflictingLoyalty No matter what you do you're forsaking one vow or another.]]" (And pray recall that he's speaking from personal experience on all of this.) Catelyn still pronounces him [[TitleDrop a man without honor]], and Jaime responds that he's never been with any woman besides Cersei, making him more honorable ([[FromACertainPointOfView in some ways]]) than Ned Stark was to Catelyn. "What was the name of that bastard he fathered?"

'''Somewhere even further north''', Jon and Ygritte are cuddled up against the cold. Jon looks a little disturbed when he wakes up, especially when Ygritte asks, "[[OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe Did you pull a knife on me in the night?]]" Jon springs away, tugging at his tunic. Even better, Ygritte manages to deduce that Jon has never done it before, and begins teasing him about it mercilessly. If one didn't know better, one might think these two were being set up for a DatingCatwoman situation. "Are there no girl crows? ...So the lads just [[YaoiFangirl do it with each other]]? ...[[BestialityIsDepraved Do you have sheep at the Wall?]] ...[[ADateWithRosiePalms With your hands then?]] No ''wonder'' you're all so miserable." ([[labelnote:In the books...]]The nearest (civilian) settlement to Castle Black is called Mole's Town, and they in fact do have a brothel there, where the black brothers go to "dig for buried treasure." And yes, Jon knows about it; it's an open secret. But can you blame him for not bringing it up?[[/labelnote]])

-->'''Jaime''': Kingslayer. ''[scoffs]'' [[TheCaligula And what a king he was!]]

Sansa stops the Hound in the halls of '''the Red Keep''', thanking him for saving her life. He's a typical BloodKnight about it. "Killing's the sweetest thing there is," he tells her. "Why are you always so hateful?" she asks him. "You'll be [[NecessarilyEvil thankful for it someday]] when you're the queen, and I'm all that stands between you and your ''beloved'' king." Sansa, whose training did not cover the Care and Feeding of {{Antihero}}es, has no answer to that.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Jaime is as aware as any of them that he is likely to get killed by the mob that night, and continues to insult everyone around him. (Someday, someone is going to do a study of the Lannister family genome and discover that they're all born without the gene that makes them PHYSICALLY CAPABLE OF KEEPING THEIR BIG MOUTHS SHUT when they have the chance to say something snarky. This is neither the first time nor the last time it nearly gets one of them killed.)

* WickedStepmother: Jaime accuses Catelyn of being this to Jon Snow, implying that she mistreated the boy simply because he was a living reminder that [AffairBlameTheBastard her husband fucked another woman]].

* AdaptedOut: During Catelyn's interrogation and deriding of Jaime, in the books, he [[ShutUpKirk shuts up her criticism of him]] by telling her how her betrothed Brandon and her father-in-law Rickard Stark were [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutally killed]] on Aerys's orders, reducing Catelyn to StunnedSilence. There's no mention of such in the episode [[labelnote: From the books...]]When [[BigBrotherInstinct Brandon learned Rhaegar had absconded with Lyanna]], he left Catelyn at the altar and immediately went to King's Landing with a [[TrueCompanions handful of friends]] to demand Rhaegar return his sister. Aerys had the lot of them imprisoned on charges of plotting regicide against the crown prince and demanded the fathers of the young men present themselves at court to explain their sons' actions. Rickard demanded the right to prove his son's innocence through TrialByCombat, which Aerys allowed...only to then declare that [[KillItWithFire fire was House Targaryen's champion]]. Rickard was cooked alive in his own armour over a massive bonfire, while Brandon, [[ForcedToWatch who was tied up while this was happening]] with a noose around his neck and a sword just out of his reach, strangled himself to death trying to reach the sword to save his father. It's implied Ned always knew what happened to his father and brother (As alluded to in ''[[Recap/GameOfThronesS1E3LordSnow Lord Snow]]), but deliberately kept his wife ignorant of the horrific details of her former betrothed's death, instead claiming that Aerys had Brandon and Rickard [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] without trial[[/labelnote]].

** Jaime's rant about the multiple, often conflicting oaths of a knight is hard to debate. There's also his resentment over the fact that people like to taunt him with the epithet Kingslayer while overlooking that the King he assassinated was a tyrannical lunatic who [[KillItWithFire burned innocent people alive]] [[ForTheEvulz for his own cruel amusement]].

* BreakTheCutie: Invoked in-universe by Sandor Clegane. He explicitly states that the reason he's so harsh towards Sansa is so that she'll be better prepared once she's married to Joffrey. And now that she's had her first period, this may quickly become a reality.

** Theon points out that for all the anger about him taking Bran and Rickon hostage the people of Winterfell had no problem with the starks doing the same to him.

** Jaime's rant about the multiple, often conflicting oaths of a knight is hard to debate. There's also his resentment over the fact that people like to taunt him with the epithet Kingslayer while overlooking that the King he assassinated was a tyrannical lunatic who burned innocent people alive in droves for his own cruel amusement.

** Jaime's rant about the multiple, often conflicting oaths of a knight is hard to debate. There's also his resentment over the fact that people like to taunt him with the epithet Kingslayer while overlooking that the King he assassinated was a lunatic, pyromaniac tyrant who murdered innocent people in droves.

We begin at '''Winterfell''', where Theon wakes up to an empty bed--several empty beds, as a matter of fact. There's a dead guard on the floor, of course, and several fled citizens. Theon questions one of his ironborn, a great lumpy potato of a man, about letting a child slip by, and the man defends himself by claiming the giant must have took him. [[InsaneTrollLogic Because, of course, giants are harder to detect than crippled boys.]] Theon [[SurroundedByIdiots keeps his temper with effort]], but when Mr. Potato Head points out that Theon let down his guard along with his pants, Theon decks him. [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown And kicks him for good measure.]] Then he calls for the dogs and begins the hunt, with most of his ironborn and Maester Luwin in tow. Luwin counsels him not to hurt Bran and Rickon, but Theon is determined to keep ahold of Winterfell.

Somewhere out in the countryside, Osha, Bran, Rickon and Hodor are making slow time. Osha complains that they didn't grab enough food, but Bran defends his choice, since they would have needed the help of the kitchen staff to steal anything more, and Theon would torture anyone who knew anything about their whereabouts. At a stroke of luck, they come across a farm where two orphan boys play--remember, the ones Bran sent out two episodes ago?--but can't decide whether to ask for help or not.

Jorah Mormont has tracked down Quaithe of the Shadow on the other side of '''Qarth''' and wants her help in finding Dany's dragons. Before she consents, she asks him an important question: "[[TheMole Will you betray her again?]]" She then tells him, "The thief you seek is with her now." ...Which is only so helpful, because Dany is in conference with all thirteen of The Thirteen, including Xaro Xhoan Daxos, the Spice King and Pyat Pree. Basically the only suspect Quaithe has managed to rule out is herself. [[MathematiciansAnswer Helpful, lady.]] Fortunately the thief is in a monologuing mood. Pyat Pree has struck a bargain with Daxos. Daxos declares himself king of Qarth, tired of the head-in-the-sand conservatism the Thirteen seem to favor, and Pyat Pree supports him by using his clones to assassinate the other eleven. He invites Dany to visit her dragons, which Daxos procured for him, at the House of the Undying at any time. Terrified, Dany and Dothraki bloodrider Kavarro try to escape, but are confronted by a Pyat Pree clone at the exit. Jorah arrives and stabs him in the back, but the body vanishes, leaving the clothes behind, and more clones appear.

* AdaptedOut: During Catelyn's interrogation and deriding of Jaime, in the books, he [[ShutUpKirk shuts up her criticism of him]] by telling her how her betrothed Brandon and her father-in-law Rickard Stark were [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutally killed]] on Aerys' orders, reducing Catelyn to StunnedSilence. There's no mention of such in the episode [[labelnote:From the books...]]When [[BigBrotherInstinct Brandon learned Rhaegar had absconded with Lyanna]], he left Catelyn at the altar and immediately went to King's Landing with a [[TrueCompanions handful of friends]] to demand Rhaegar return his sister. Aerys had the lot of them imprisoned on charges of plotting regicide against the crown prince and demanded the fathers of the young men present themselves at court to explain their sons' actions. Rickard demanded the right to prove his son's innocence through TrialByCombat, which Aerys allowed...only to then declare that [[KillItWithFire fire was House Targaryen's champion]]. Rickard was cooked alive in his own armour over a massive bonfire, while Brandon, [[ForcedToWatch who was tied up while this was happening]] with a noose around his neck and a sword just out of his reach, strangled himself to death trying to reach the sword to save his father. It's implied Ned always knew what happened to his father and brother (As alluded to in ''[[Recap/GameOfThronesS1E3LordSnow Lord Snow]]), but deliberately kept his wife ignorant of the horrific details of her former betrothed's death, instead claiming that Aerys had Brandon and Rickard [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] without trial[[/labelnote]].
* AffablyEvil: Xaro Xoan Daxos and Pyat Pree during their murder of the Thirteen and the revelation of their complicity in the theft of Daenarys' dragons.

* BackForTheDead: The unnamed members of the Thirteen reappear this episode... and get killed.
* BaitTheDog: Jaime is genuinely supportive and encouraging to the young cousin who clearly hero-worships him. He then beats him to death to create a diversion which might let him escape.

** Maester Luwin upon seeing Bran and Rickon's apparent dead bodies.[[labelnote:From the books...]]In the books it's heavily implied that, adding insult to injury, one of the two boys that Theon tried to pass as Bran and Rickon was an illegitimate son of Theon himself.[[/labelnote]]

* BreakTheCutie: Invoked in universe by Sandor Clegane. He explicitly states that the reason he's so harsh towards Sansa is so that she'll be better prepared once she's married to Joffrey. And now that she's had her first period, this may quickly become a reality.

** Once again, the Spice King is a condescending prick, but makes a very good point. His statement that Daenerys' dragons will bring death and misery and that it would be better if they died could well be true. Sure enough, when Daenerys brings her dragons to Westeros a few seasons down the line, one gets killed and raised as a zombie to burn down the Wall and bring the ZombieApocalypse to Westeros. And the big one turns King's Landing into a charred warzone.
** Jaime's rant about the multiple, often conflicting oaths of a knight is hard to debate. There's also his resentment over the fact that people like to taunt him with the epithet Kingslayer, while overlooking that the King he assassinated was a lunatic, pyromaniac tyrant who murdered innocent people in droves.

** Cersei laments that Joffrey didn't end up as Jamie. "He looks like him... [[BlatantLies in a certain light]]." In the books Joffrey is the spitting image of Jamie, and it is one of the clues that led Ned Stark to realize that he was the biological father to Cersei's children.

** Shae drawing a knife on an informant to cover up Sansa having her first period is pointless, since the Hound turns up soon after and finds out anyway.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Dany's statement that of course the missing Doreah is dead. Possibly a wink to the fact that she actually ''is'' long since dead by this point in the book.

** Cersei's genuinely well-intentioned advice to Sansa on how to best deal with her upcoming marriage to Joffrey. She later admits to Tyrion that her son is completely out of control, and she's regretting putting him on the throne. She also adds that while Robert was a drunk, a brute and a philanderer, at least he wasn't a sadist like his successor.
** In the latter moment above, Cersei nearly breaks down in tears and wonders aloud if Joffrey's cruelty is the price she and Jaime must pay for their [[BrotherSisterIncest sins]]. Tyrion awkwardly tries to comfort Cersei, telling her that Tommen and Myrcella are both good children. Things trail off rather quickly as neither of them have any idea what to say to the other, but it's nonetheless heartwarming to see Tyrion and Cersei actually managing a moment of human emotion together.
** Arya is already pretty well established as Tywin's MoralityPet, but his permitting her to eat his supper even after her impertinence is quite striking. However, it's implied he was making use of her as a food taster (following Lorch's poisoning) so possibly subverted in that respect.
* PowerTattoo: Quaithe draws a big one on a naked guy's back, because he must sail past [[EldritchLocation Old]] [[ForbiddenZone Valyria]] and [[AsYouKnow all who travel too close to the Doom must have protection]].

* {{Seers}}: Quaithe is implied to be one, as she strikes a conversation with Jorah regarding stuff she's not privvy to.[[labelnote:From the books...]]Unfortunately, this episode (alongside Episode 5) happens to be the last appearance of Quaithe, who is a more significant character in the books. Daenerys tends to have prophetic dreams that guide an important part of her decisions, and more than once she has encountered Quaithe in those. It's implied that Quaithe is responsible for psychically implanting suggestions into Daenerys's mind, setting the young Queen in a path that is not yet clear.[[/labelnote]]
* ShamingTheMob: Played with. Catelyn manages to stop Karstark killing Jaime on the spot, but nobody has any illusions about Jaime's chances of survival when the mob gets increasingly drunk and restless that night.

* TheUnhug: Tyrion seems rather uncomfortable at the sight of his distraught sister, and can't work out how he should (or whether he should) comfort her. Likewise Cersei needs comforting, but is too proud to ask for it from her despised dwarf brother.

* RealityEnsues: Theon finds out that punching someone is harder than it looks, as shown by his wincing after punching Black Lorren.

** Theon Points out that for all the anger about his treatment of Bran and Rickon everyone was fine with him being ripped away from his home and made a prisoner.

* AdaptedOut: During Catelyn's interrogation and deriding of Jaime, in the books, he [[ShutUpHannibal shuts up her criticism of him]] by telling her how her betrothed Brandon and her father-in-law Rickard Stark were [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutally killed]] on Aerys' orders, reducing Catelyn to StunnedSilence. There's no mention of such in the episode [[labelnote:From the books...]]When [[BigBrotherInstinct Brandon learned Rhaegar had absconded with Lyanna]], he left Catelyn at the altar and immediately went to King's Landing with a [[TrueCompanions handful of friends]] to demand Rhaegar return his sister. Aerys had the lot of them imprisoned on charges of plotting regicide against the crown prince and demanded the fathers of the young men present themselves at court to explain their sons' actions. Rickard demanded the right to prove his son's innocence through TrialByCombat, which Aerys allowed...only to then declare that [[KillItWithFire fire was House Targaryen's champion]]. Rickard was cooked alive in his own armour over a massive bonfire, while Brandon, [[ForcedToWatch who was tied up while this was happening]] with a noose around his neck and a sword just out of his reach, strangled himself to death trying to reach the sword to save his father. It's implied Ned always knew what happened to his father and brother (As alluded to in ''[[Recap/GameOfThronesS1E3LordSnow Lord Snow]]), but deliberately kept his wife ignorant of the horrific details of her former betrothed's death, instead claiming that Aerys had Brandon and Rickard [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] without trial[[/labelnote]].