History Recap / GameOfThronesS4E7Mockingbird

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Before pushing Lysa out the Moon Door, Littlefinger makes sure she knows that he loved Catelyn and not her.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Bronn's reasoning for avoiding a fight with The Mountain is full of this.

* EveryoneHasStandards: While Bronn doesn't hesitate to take Cersei's bribe and abandon Tyrion, he doesn't actually ''want'' Tyrion to die, isn't the least bit happy about what his actions mean for Tyrion's fate, and does make a point of giving Tyrion a chance to top the offer as they'd previously discussed.

* {{Fanservice}}: In a season mostly devoid of straight examples, leaning more to the FanDisservice side, this episode throws us a [[IncrediblyLamePun bone]]. We get another Melisandre nude scene as well as a shirtless Daario.

* HopeSpot: Sansa builds a snow castle with Robin and Robin promises that when they're married he'll send anyone who threatens them out the Moon Door and Sansa smiles and says she'd like that, and for a second it looks like Sansa has finally found some level of safety and happiness for her future. A slip of the hand and some harsh words later, and things don't look quite so hopeful.

--> "You seem to be in good form"

* ManlyTears: Tyrion struggles to hold back tears when Oberyn relates how his sister mistreated him and wanted him dead even as a baby. Again when Oberyn says he will be his champion and Tyrion realizes he's got a chance of getting out of this alive.

** Sandor shows Arya where to stab a man in the heart so he dies quickly. Arya puts it in to practice. Sandor congratulates her.

** One minute Littlefinger is being charming and kind, talking about Sansa as if she could have been the daughter he had with Cat. Then he comes on to her, telling her that she's even more beautiful and kisses her.

It's night-time in '''Meereen'''. Daenerys enters her private chambers for some shut-eye, to find, surprise, surprise, Daario! She demands to know how he got past her guards. He confesses that the windows are left unattended at ''the summit'' of her 800 foot-tall base of operations. He even brought her wild flowers, claiming that he swam to a distant isle to bring them back for her. Daenerys doesn't exactly [[IceQueen take]] to these obvious pulls. He then asks her for a favor. The gods gave him only two talents-- war and women-- and he can't pursue either of them as the Second Sons are now policing Meereen's streets trying to keep the peace. Dany brushes him off, reminding him that preventing the revenge killings in her city is far more important to her than slaking his thirst for open battle. And as for women, there are plenty of the fairer sex to pursue. To which he retorts with a gentle push that there is only ''one'' woman he desires, and she will not have him. If she orders it, he'll stay and be her city watchdog, but he had sworn his ''[[DoubleEntendre sword]]'' to her service and he would gladly kill her enemies. ''Any'' enemy, ''anywhere''. The game finally comes to a head and Daenerys decides to treat herself after what must have been a hard day's ruling over a divisive populace. With a goblet of fine red in hand, and a smoldering expression on her face, she tells him to ''do what he does best'' and he strips at her command. What follows next... Well, [[CoitusEnsues it's not hard to guess.]]

* TantrumThrowing: Robin wrecks the snow castle and gets [[ArmorPiercingSlap Sanslapped]].

--> '''Petyr:''' Oh, my sweet wife. My sweet, ''silly'' wife. ''(Helps her to her feet)'' I have only loved ''one'' woman... [[FalseReassurance Only one]], my ''entire'' life.
--> '''Lysa:''' ''(Dopey grin)''
--> '''Petyr:''' Your sister.
--> '''Lysa:''' ''([[OhCrap Face twists in horror and realization]])''

* BackForTheDead: Biter and Rorge

* DamnWithFaintPraise: Jaime sarcastically comments re Tyrion's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, "They'll be talking about it for days to come" implying Kings Landing will have forgotten about it by the end of the month.

* ManlyTears: Tyrion struggles to hold back tears when Oberyn relates how his sister mistreated him and wanted him dead even as a baby. Again when Oberyn says he will be his champion and Tyrion realises he's got a chance of getting out of this alive.

* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Rorge and Biter show up only to be quickly polished off by our favourite BadassAndChildDuo.

* WhamLine: InUniverse only. Was anyone in the audience seriously surprised about what happened next?

** Jaime tells off Tyrion for stuffing up the Nights Watch deal, but Tyrion is still too bitter to care much.

Later on, Sansa is summoned to the central chamber. Lysa is waiting for her, and the Moon Door is laid wide open. She amiably tells Sansa to come over to the Door, and casually talks about how long the fall is and of what happens to the bodies. She tells Sansa that she knows what she did. Sansa begins to apologize for hitting Robin, when Lysa cuts her off. ''You kissed him,'' she says and holds Sansa ''over'' the nearly two-hundred meter drop, raving about how she ''saw'' it, and how Petyr's ''hers'', and how her father, her husband, her sister, everyone in her family that stood between them are now all ''dead''!

* HopeSpot: Sansa builds a snowcastle with Robin and Robin promises that when they're married he'll send anyone who threatens them out the Moon Door and Sansa smiles and says she'd like that, and for a second it looks like Sansa has finally found some level of safety and happiness for her future. A slip of the hand and some harsh words later, and things don't look quite so hopeful.

-->'''Sansa''': ''[mortified]'' I shouldn't have hit him.
-->'''Littlefinger''': [[BaitAndSwitch No]]...his ''[[MyBelovedSmother mother]]'' should have, a long time ago.

* NotSoDifferentRemarkL

** Robin is also left speechless after Sansa strikes him. Clearly it's the first time anyone's ever hit him to discipline him.

* AbsenteeActor: In Meereen, only Daenerys, Daario and Jorah are present. In King's Landing, Tywin Lannister doesn't have any screen time, just as King Tommen, Ellaria Sand, Varys and every Tyrell still around. However, the only really notorious absence is that of Aemon Targaryen at the Night Watch's meeting, who ''should'' have been at the table to counterbalance Alliser Thorne's dismissal of Snow's proposals, because of his role as head of the Stewards.

* TooDumbToLive: Rorge and Biter, who are both quickly dispatched by Arya and Sandor respectively. This is lampshaded by Sandor, who states that not only were they stupid enough to come by themselves and without their whole group, but also because they were ill-equipped for the task. Doubly so for Biter, who instead of doing the unthinkable and just, say, stab The Hound whilst his back was turned, decided to attack him unarmed by [[ManBitesMan trying to tear his throat out with his teeth]]! He is rewarded with a [[RealityEnsues broken neck]].

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Bronn's been very clear from the start that his only loyalty is to the highest bidder. True to form, he abandons Tyrion upon receiving a better offer, though he does give Tyrion a chance to offer him more. In an interesting variation, he genuinely likes Tyrion and hopes that he survives, but isn't willing to put his own life on the line without adequate payment.
* PetTheDog: Oberyn Martell to Tyrion Lannister, telling him his reaction to first glimpsing him as a child, when everyone else had called him a monster.

As they leave, Brienne senses that Pod wants to say something. When he does, it's to impart that maybe they shouldn't advertise their mission like that, given all the Lannister swords on Sansa's trail. Hot Pie joins them outside. He tells Brienne that she seems trustworthy, and tells her that while he doesn't know where Sansa is, he do know that Arya is alive, that she is with the Hound, and asks Brienne to give Arya a gift from him when she finds her, namely a loaf of bread in the shape of a direwolf. Brienne sends her squire a gloating ''you were saying?'' look, and he quietly swallows his humble pie. Later, on the road, Brienne and Podrick discuss the next move. Tyrion had made Pod memorize the vast spider web that is Westerosi' genealogy, so he knows that the Arryns are her last living kin. To the East!

-->'''Littlefinger''': [[BaitAndSwitch No]]...his ''[[MyBelovedSmother mother]]''should have, a long time ago.

* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Bronn had a great run serving as Tyrion's champion and bodyguard, but he decides to not fight as Tyrion's champion against the Mountain. He does not like his chances against such a fearsome opponent and more importantly Tyrion cannot really offer him anything that would make that kind of risk worthwhile.

* RealityEnsues: Despite the friendship between Tyrion and Bronn, at the end of the day, Tyrion is paying Bronn for his services, and when Bronn gets a better offer that doesn't involve great risk to his life, he takes it. Bronn knows that he has almost no chance of winning a fight against the Mountain and also knows that Tyrion is in no position to offer him anything that would make it worth the risk; taking Cersei's bribe is the move that works out the best for him and he has no reason not to accept. As he said a long time ago, he doesn't loan his sword out...he sells it.

Back in '''Meereen''', morning has broken. Jorah runs into a hastily dressed Daario just outside their Queen's apartments. The swaggering merc just ''has'' to remark on Daenerys' newly improved mood. It's safe to say Mormont puts two and two together and ''definitely'' doesn't approve. He marches into Daenerys' war room and demands to know how she could have faith in a man who killed his two former captains merely for ''philosophical differences.'' "I could ''never'' have faith in a man like Daario," she replies firmly, and tells him that her paramour and the Second Sons are going to be sent to retake Yunkai. Jorah is less than thrilled with this, pointing out that the Wise Masters will just bide their time after her victory and undo her work again. She cheerfully tells him that she has considered that hitch, which is why Daario is under order to [[MurderIsTheBestSolution solve the problem by exterminating the degenerates]]... all of them, actually. She begins to reel off all the reasons why they have had it coming while he argues that this is [[NotSoDifferent comparable]] to how ''they'' would then be acting, but doesn't get anywhere until he points out that he was once a slaver himself. If Ned Stark had treated him as she intends to treat Yunkai, then he wouldn't be here today. This strikes a chord with her, and she decides to then send Hizdahr zo Loraq as her ambassador. The Yunkish will instead be offered a choice: live in her new world, or ''die'' in their old one. But an offer of clemency will at least be made, much to Jorah's relief and happiness that his counsel is being acted upon. Dany also tells Jorah to inform Daario of her change of heart and more importantly, ''who'' was responsible for it.

* NotSoDifferent:

** Subverted when Tyrion remarks that being disapointed by him is a common feeling shared by Oberyn and the Lannisters. The subversion comes when Oberyn elaborates that the letdown came when he learned that Tyrion ''wasn't'' the monster he was promised.

* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Bronn had a great run serving as Tyrion's champion and bodyguard but he decides to not fight as Tyrion's champion against the Mountain. He does not like his chances against such a fearsome opponent and more importantly Tyrion cannot really offer him anything that would make that kind of risk worthwhile.

** Subverted when Tyrion remarks that being dissapointed by him is a common feeling shared by Oberyn and the Lannisters. The subversion comes when Oberyn elaborates that the letdown came when he learned that Tyrion ''wasn't'' the monster he was promised.

** Oberyn who's been snarky and impolite to all Lannisters displays genuine warmth to Tyrion.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: Averted with Bronn.

* ConsummateLiar[=/=]BelievingTheirOwnLies: Oberyn discusses Cersei trying to gain sympathy from him by discussing Myrcella in a blatant attempt to turn him against Tyrion, he noted that she might have even been sincere or started believing it while she was lying. Tyrion agrees:

* [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Establishing Character Re-Introduction]]: Just in case the audience forgot the kind of man Ser Gregor Clegane is, he's re-introduced by [[TestedOnHumans using lowborn prisoners as living practice dummies]].

* WrongGenreSavvy: Lysa was cocksure she and Littlefinger were two [[OutlawCouple equal co-conspirators and lovers against the rest of the world]]. In reality she was merely another of his pawn sacrifices.
--> '''Lysa:''' My father, my husband, my sister! They all stood between us and now they're all dead! ''That's'' what happens to people who stand between Petyr and me!

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: During her questioning by the Lords of The Vale, Sansa compares her forced marriage to Tyrion to her aunt Lysa's marriage to Jon Arryn, saying that Lysa "did as her father commanded, as so many of us have." As she says this, the camera cuts to Lady Waynwood, who closes her eyes in silent acknowledgment of a noblewoman's usual role in Westerosi society.