History Recap / GameOfThronesS2E7AManWithoutHonor

* BaitTheDog: Jaime's interactions with his cousin.

** Subverted. 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.

* [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snarking]] [[BullyingADragon at a Dragon]]:
** Tywin is impressed that Arya is well-versed in the women who fought alongside Aegon the Conqueror, and comments that he'd never known such an educated stonemason (in regards to her "father"). Arya is quick to respond:
--->'''Arya:''' Have you met many stonemasons, my lord?\\
'''Tywin:''' ''[{{beat}}]'' Careful now, girl. I enjoy you, but be careful.
** Likewise Jaime can't resist antagonizing the only person in the Stark camp with a motive to keep him alive.

** 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, [[spoiler: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]].

* BigNo: 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, the two boys that Theon tried to pass as Bran and Rickon were illegitimate sons of Theon himself.[[/labelnote]]
** Also, Sansa when waking up and seeing she has started menstruating.

* CatapultNightmare: Sansa has one regarding the attempted rape from the previous episode.

* DeadGuyOnDisplay
* [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snarking]] [[BullyingADragon at a Dragon]]: Tywin is impressed that Arya is well-versed in the women who fought alongside Aegon the Conqueror and comments that he'd never known such an educated stonemason (in regards to her "father"). Arya is quick to respond:
-->'''Arya:''' Have you met many stonemasons, my lord?
-->'''Tywin:''' (beat) Careful now, girl. I enjoy you, but be careful.

* DeathGlare: As Jaime and Alton talk, a Northern guard comes by and tells them to shut up. Alton looks meek and obedient. Jaime's look may well have given the guy cancer. [[spoiler: Although since Jaime kills him off in short order anyway, I guess we'll never really know]].
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Alton Lannister (Cleos Frey in the books)]] is killed by Jaime in prison; in the books, he dies at the hands of outlaws with Jaime and Brienne on the way to King's Landing.
* DecompositeCharacter: In the books, it is Farlen the one who leads the hounds in the hunt for Bran and Rickon. In the episode, a different character, presumably a member of Theon's crew, is the master of hounds.

* 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.

-->'''Cat:''' Take him to the stockade and bind him with every chain you can find!
-->'''Jaime:''' You've become a real she-wolf in your later years. (dragged off) ''There's not much fish left in you!''
-->'''Cat:''' And ''gag'' him!

* {{Irony}}: Sansa has gone from wanting to have Joffrey's children in "A Golden Crown" to dreading the prospect.

* JerkassHasAPoint: 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, [[spoiler: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 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.

* LogicBomb: Jaime cites all the contradictory oaths he had to swear as a reason for [[TheOathbreaker his breaking some of them.]] Catelyn and Brienne are not impressed.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The last time we saw Pyat Pree's duplication trick, it was unclear whether it was real magic or just a trick using a double. [[spoiler: This episode quite clearly confirms that he does have real magic.]]
* MoralityPet: Further evidence that Arya is one for Tywin, and Sansa is one for the Hound. This episode also confirms that Shae is willing to stick her neck out for Sansa, too.

* MythologyGag: Of ''course'' Robb invites Talisa to visit the Crag. The character Talisa replaces, Jeyne Westerling, grew up there.
** 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 was pointless since the Hound turned up soon after and found out anyway.

* OpenSecret: In her conversation with Tyrion, Cersei doesn't bother hiding the fact that Jaime is the father of her children.[[note]]In ''A Clash of Kings'', Tyrion reveals that he knew about his siblings early on in the book (and gets slapped by Cersei for joking about it). This is the first time he openly acknowledges the affair in the show, though.[[/note]] Similarly, Jaime openly admits it to Cat and Brienne.

-->"Any man who stands between a father and his vengeance asks for death!"

* PrecisionFStrike:
-->"The walking, talking reminder that the [[PunctuatedForEmphasis honorable, Lord, Eddard Stark]] ''fucked'' another woman!"
* RagsToRoyalty: Xaro Xoan Daxos finally achieved this even without marrying Daenarys.

-->"It don't have teeth."

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, knowing that 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.

'''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]])

Down in '''Harrenhal''', Lord Tywin is randomly hanging men from his garrison to root out the assassin who killed Ser Amory Lorch, on the assumption (logical, though incorrect as it happens) that he himself was the target. Ser Gregor Clegane thinks (also logically, also incorrectly) that the assassin must have come from the Brotherhood without Banners[[note]]You'll see them next season; for now, just think of them as LaResistance[[/note]], and Lord Tywin orders him to root them out as well. Finally, Arya arrives with mutton stew, and Lord Tywin offers it to her instead. ([[PetTheDog Petting The Dog]]? Or checking for poisons?) While he monologues about his legacy and the fact that this will be his last war, Arya toys with the knife in her hand and eyes his neck. (There's more banter, particularly concerning the lore of Harrenhal itself--built by Harren the Black, who once sat the Seastone Chair which Balon Greyjoy's arse currently warms, and completed on the very same day Aegon the Conqueror set foot on Westeros; its towers are all burnt out by dragonfire--but suffice to say that Arya and Tywin have a bit of a WorthyOpponent / FriendlyEnemies vibe going on.)

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.

Over in '''Qarth''', Dany is still in a froth about her missing dragons, and there's little Daxos can say to calm her. Also, Ygritte is still trying to tempt Jon to turn his cloak and join the wildlings--or, as they call themselves, the Free Folk. There's some truth to this claim, as they live outside the feudal obligations of medieval society. It's clear Jon is tempted, but he tries to claim he knows better. "[[ArcWords You know nothing, Jon Snow]]," Ygritte replies.

Head over to '''the Westerlands''', where Robb has received Alton Lannister, who has returned with Cersei's latest terms. Robb doesn't really have time for him at present... and, even more amusingly, they've taken so many prisoners that he doesn't have any prison pens to store Alton in either. "Is there room for Ser Alton?" Robb asks Lord Rickard Karstark. "Does he need to lie down?" Lord Rickard returns with venomous sarcasm. They end up berthing him with the Kingslayer for the nonce, and Karstark's son Torrhen is assigned to watch over them. Roose Bolton then tries to get Robb's attention, but Lady Talisa diverts him. With two armies' casualties to look after, she's running out of medical supplies; as he's heading to the Crag tomorrow to accept a surrender from House Westerling, she would like to give him a shopping list to acquire from their maester. Instead, Robb invites her to go with him.

Back in '''the North''' Theon's hounds lead him straight to the farm with the two orphan boys, but there the trail goes cold. Theon is very, very pissed about it. "It's better to be cruel than weak," he pronounces. It takes some knowing glances from Dagmer and a presentation of evidence--walnut shells--before Theon is satisfied. He sends Maester Luwin back to Winterfell, watching him go with a KubrickStare that is starting to become rather permanent.

'''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.

Sansa lies abed in '''the Red Keep''', having a CatapultNightmare about her NearRapeExperience. In the dream, one of the men has a knife, and she wakes up grabbing her throat. There's no blood there... But there ''is'' red on her thighs. Sansa Stark is a woman flowered.

-->'''Sansa:''' "If the Queen sees... [[FateWorseThanDeath I can have Joffrey's children]]."
-->'''Shae:''' "...[[OhCrap Help me flip it over]]."

They look up and see yet another handmaiden standing in the doorway. Shae has to chase her down and threaten her with a knife, which is pretty darn awesome... but when she gets back, the Hound has seen it all.

The next we see of Sansa, she's with Cersei, having TheTalk. "I thought it would be less... messy." To Cersei's credit, she's able to manage with some gracefulness. "Try birthing a child." She talks some about her own labors, and how Robert would hunt in the kingswood while Jaime stayed by her side, and then provides this pearl of wisdom: "The more people you love, the weaker you are."

Speaking of the Kingslayer, here we are in '''the Stark camp'''--specifically, Jaime's cage, where he and Alton chat. Alton admits that he squired for Jaime once, at the tourney for the wedding of Willem Frey. ("I went to Willem Frey's wedding?") Jaime thanks him for being a good squire, mentioning that when he (Jaime) himself squired for Ser Barristan Selmy, during the campaign against the [[http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Kingswood_Brotherhood Kingswood Brotherhood]], he was [[UnwantedAssistance constantly underfoot]]. Fortunately, one of the outlaws thought a sixteen-year-old squire easy pickings, which gave Jaime a chance to [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass show what he could really do]]. Jaime, keeping an eye out for Torrhen Karstark, then confesses to Alton that he has devised a way to escape. Unfortunately, it's a one-man ticket, as the method involves Jaime bludgeoning Alton to death and using the corpose to lure Torrhen into the cell. He strangles Torrhen with his chains and makes a dash for it.

Back at '''Robb's camp''' Catelyn Stark is relieved to hear that Jaime has been recaptured, especially since Robb is away at the Crag. However, Lord Rickard is in a froth over his dead sons: Eddard died on the Kingslayer's blade at the Whispering Wood, and now Torrhen has joined him in the earth. He wants the Kingslayer's head, and it takes all of Catelyn's diplomacy to get him to back down. Meanwhile, she orders Jaime chained up. "And gag him!"

From one Lannister sibling to the other two as we jump to '''King's Landing''': Cersei has, for some reason, invited Tyrion to dinner. The two make small talk about Stannis's oncoming fleet, which is due at King's Landing in five days or less, and the conversation moves from there to Joffrey's recalcitrance. Tyrion believes they need him on the front lines, which will be dangerous when the whole city seems to want him dead. We are greeted with the startling sight of Cersei actually in tears, realizing that this whole mess is basically her fault. Tyrion tries to move in and comfort her, but she glares him off. [[BrokenBird Ahh, sisterly love]].

'''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?"

At '''Winterfell''', Theon strides back and forth before the assembled citizens of the castle, claiming that they brought this on themselves by refusing to cooperate. Maester Luwin looks on in horror as the bodies of the two boys, tarred and with one arm chopped off each, are produced. Theon [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone has the grace to look ashamed]], but that sure doesn't help Bran and Rickon out much.

* {{Seers}}: Quaithe is implied to be one, as she strikes a conversation with Jorah regarding stuff she's not privvyto.[[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]]

* BigNo: Maester Luwin upon seeing Bran and Rickon's apparent dead bodies.

* JerkassHasAPoint: 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, [[spoiler:one gets killed and raised as a zombie to burn down the Wall and bring the ZombieApocalypse to Westeros]].

** Jaime's rant about the multiple, often conflicting oaths of a knight is hard to debate.

* JerkassHasAPoint: 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.

** 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.

* [[FaceDeathWithDignity Face Death With Insults]]: 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.

* ChekhovsGun: "A man is what others say he is and no more." [[spoiler:Xaro's vast wealth is revealed to be a fraud in the final episode.]]

** 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 Cerseis children.

** 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 Cerseis children.

'''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 [[AManIsNotAVirgin 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]])

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Invoked by Ygritte to Jon.

Speaking of the Kingslayer, here we are in '''the Stark camp'''--specifically, Jaime's cage, where he and Alton chat. Alton admits that he squired for Jaime once, at the tourney for the wedding of Willem Frey. ("I went to Willem Frey's wedding?") Jaime thanks him for being a good squire, mentioning that when he (Jaime) himself squired for Ser Barristan Selmy, during the campaign against the [[http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Kingswood_Brotherhood Kingswood Brotherhood]], he was [[StopHelpingMe constantly underfoot]]. Fortunately, one of the outlaws thought a sixteen-year-old squire easy pickings, which gave Jaime a chance to [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass show what he could really do]]. Jaime, keeping an eye out for Torrhen Karstark, then confesses to Alton that he has devised a way to escape. Unfortunately, it's a one-man ticket, as the method involves Jaime bludgeoning Alton to death and using the corpose to lure Torrhen into the cell. He strangles Torrhen with his chains and makes a dash for it.

* PetTheDog: Subverted. 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.

* PrecisionFStrike

* UnresolvedSexualTension: The scene between Robb and Lady Talisa is ''crawling'' with it. Karstark has noticed it too, as he angrily points out that Robb took Talisa with him to negotiate a surrender with another castle.

* {{Wham Line}}: Tywin doesn't buy Arya's "stonemason's daughter" story one bit... m'lord.
-->'''Tywin:''' "If you're going to pose as a commoner, you should do it properly."

* IShallTauntYou: Jaime tosses Ned's infidelity and her treatment of Jon Snow in her face, presumably in the belief that he'll get a quicker death from her than the mob -- there's a smile on his face when Cat orders Brienne to give her a sword.

* KickTheDog: Tywin has dozens of his own men hanged and sends Gregor Clegane to terrorize the surrounding countryside just to solve one murder, clearly with less interest in finding out who's guilty and more in sending a message about what happens when he's upset.

Over in '''Qarth''', Dany is still in a froth about her missing dragons, and there's little Daxos can say to calm her. Also, Ygritte is still trying to tempt Jon to turn his cloak and join the wildlings--or, as they call themselves, the Free Folk. There's some truth to this claim, as they live outside the feudal obligations of medieval society. It's clear Jon is tempted, but he tries to claim he knows better. "[[ArcWords You know nothing, Jon Snow.]]," Ygritte replies.

Over in '''Qarth''', Dany is still in a froth about her missing dragons, and there's little Daxos can say to calm her. Also, Ygritte is still trying to tempt Jon to turn his cloak and join the wildlings--or, as they call themselves, the Free Folk. There's some truth to this claim, as they live outside the feudal obligations of medieval society. It's clear Jon is tempted, but he tries to claim he knows better. "[[ArcWords You know nothing, Jon Snow.]]"