History Recap / GameOfThronesS1E5TheWolfAndTheLion

'''Baelish:''' And tell me Lord Renly, when will you be having ''your'' [[HoYay friend]]? ''[in reference to Loras]''

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When Jaime finds out about Tyrion's capture, he's ''furious'' and immediately starts making plans to get him back.

* {{Guile Hero}}ine: Catelyn tells everyone she’s taking the Imp to Winterfell, only to take the road to the Vale instead.

* TooDumbToLive: In his rage, Ser Gregor Clegane tries to murder Ser Loras Tyrell, a member of one of the major Houses of Westeros, in full view of the Royal Court. If Sandor didn't stop his brother, he'd have killed the only male heir to the Lord of Highgarden. The Tyrells would be demanding Clegane's head from King Robert, and even Clegane's liege lord Tywin Lannister would be obliged to hand him over to receive the King's Justice for committing such a blatant crime during peacetime that reflects badly on the Lannisters.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: A DiscussedTrope.

** Catelyn's face when she realises that Lysa's off her nut. Varys when Littlefinger reveals he knows about his meeting with Illyrio. Ned when the Kingslayer rides up with his men, whose numbers greatly outmatch his own.

'''Cersei:''' Well, 17 years is quite a long time.

The next tilt shown is between Ser Gregor Clegane against Ser Loras Tyrell, called "The Knight of Flowers," by universal acclaim the [[PrettyBoy prettiest]] knight in the Seven Kingdoms. He wins by riding a mare in heat, causing Clegane to have trouble controlling his stallion. Whilst Littlefinger and Sansa debate whether this makes Loras a CombatPragmatist or a cheater, The Mountain, turning out to be a massively SoreLoser, deals with his recalcitrant horse by [[OffWithHisHead hacking off its head]] and then going after his opponent. He is stopped only by the intervention of his brother The Hound, and then the booming commands of his king. For his decisive action, Sandor Clegane is proclaimed the hero of the day.

On the '''eastern road''', Tyrion is unhooded and discovers that Catelyn is taking him to the Eyrie, ruling seat of her sister, Jon Arryn's widow Lysa, despite having announced ("often, and loudly") that they were making for Winterfell. The ragged party, including a sellsword named Bronn and a singer named Marillion, are almost immediately waylaid by one of the Mountain Clans of the Vale, and Tyrion first shows his BadassBookworm side by beating one of them to death with a shield. Tyrion ends the battle in much better state than he began: no longer tied up, a bit of rapport with Bronn, and doubts planted in Catelyn's mind after he points out, correctly, that had he sent a mercenary after Bran, he would not have armed the man with his own blade.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Red Keep, Arya is chasing a cat 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 has no idea who the conspirators were. (In the book, she can only describe them via appearance since she's never met either of them, and Varys, a MasterOfDisguise to begin with, is unrecognizable anyway. Unobservant readers might never have figured out their identities at all.) And while she manages to blurt out that they suggested killing Ned, death threats aren'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.

-->'''Jory:''' If you threaten my lord again--
-->'''Jaime:''' Threaten? As in, I'm going to open your lord from balls to brains and see what Starks are made of?

* MyBelovedSmother: Lysa. Breastfeeding your kid when he's ''eight?!'' {{Squick}}alicious.

** “STOP THIS MADNESS IN THE NAME OF YOUR KING!”
* TooDumbToLive: In his rage, Ser Gregor Clegane tries to murder Ser Loras Tyrell, one of the High Lords of Westeros, in full view of the Royal Court. If Sandor didn't stop his brother, he'd have killed the only male heir to the Lord of Highgarden. The Tyrells would be demanding Clegane's head from King Robert, and even Clegane's liege lord Tywin Lannister would be obliged to hand him over to receive the King's Justice for committing such a blatant crime during peacetime that reflects badly on the Lannisters.

* TheLostLenore: Lyanna Stark

* Implied in that Joffrey looks fearful for Sandor's safety while the Hound and Gregor are hacking away at each other.

* AbsenteeActor: Emilia Clarke, Jason Momoa, Iain Glen and Harry Lloyd (Daenerys, Khal Drogo, Ser Jorah Mormont and Viserys Targaryen) do not appear, though their characters remain the subject of some heated debate.

-->'''Robert:''' I warned you this would happen. Back in the North, I warned you, but you didn't care to hear. Well, hear it now! I want 'em dead. Mother and child both.

** Jory's death.

--->'''Knight:''' [Tyrion] doesn't look like a prisoner.
--->'''Catelyn:''' My sister will decide what he looks like.
--->'''Knight:''' ''[significantly]'' Yes, my lady. [[TheMentallyDisturbed She will at that.]]

-->'''Robert:''' Sometimes I don't know what holds [the Seven Kingdoms] together.
-->'''Cersei:''' [[AwfulWeddedLife Our marriage.]] ''[both [[ActuallyPrettyFunny crack up laughing]]]''
-->'''Robert:''' So, here we sit, 17 years later, holding it all together. Don't you get tired?
-->'''Cersei:''' Every day.
-->'''Robert:''' How long can hate hold a thing together?
-->'''Cersei:''' Well, 17 years is quite a long time.

* AgonyOfTheFoot: Ned fights a one-on-one duel with Jaime only to be stabbed in the leg by a bystander, one of the Lannister soldiers who were standing around watching and saw a chance to avert MookChivalry.

* RealityEnsues: Ned fights a one-on-one duel with Jaime only to be stabbed in the leg by a bystander, one of the Lannister soldiers who were standing around watching and saw a chance to avert MookChivalry.

* ChekhovsGun: The necklace that Tyrion gave to Roz becomes significant in Season 2.