Recaps

Randyll Tarly learned that Bronn had arrested Dickon and his men, while Corleone hosted a banquet attended by Olenna Redwyne, Sansa, Margaery, Rorge, and Varys. Varys worried that Corleone knew about his plans and Aegon Targaryen, then was knocked down when the banquet hall door burst open.

• Lyn Corbray warned Randyll Tarly that his soldiers might cause trouble in King's Landing, and Randyll's adjutant reported that Bronn had arrested Dickon and his men.
• Randyll ordered his troops to assemble and set off for Flea Bottom, suspecting Corleone had arranged the arrests.
• Olenna praised Sansa at the banquet, while Margaery thanked Rorge for rescuing her and invited Corleone to dance, but he declined.
• Drunk Earl Ralf Leek tried to demonstrate his swordsmanship, fell onto Varys, and vomited on him.
• Varys feared Corleone had discovered his connection to Aegon Targaryen and his plans with Illyrio Mopatis, then headed for the door to wash.
• The main entrance burst open and struck Varys, knocking him to the floor.

Randyll Tarly confronted Vito Corleone over Dickon’s arrest and presented fabricated evidence accusing Black Hand Mafia members of crimes. Corleone exposed the witnesses as fakes, leaving Randyll to blame Varys and concede his failure before Corleone revealed that he had witnesses of his own.

• Randyll Tarly burst into Corleone’s banquet and demanded an explanation for Dickon’s arrest, but Rorge ordered his knights out of the hall.
• Corleone explained that Bronn had been unable to command the City Watch and asked Randyll why he had sidelined the Gold Cloaks.
• Rorge brought Randyll’s documents to Corleone, who read out their accusations against Rorge, Yego, and the Hound; all three denied the charges.
• Randyll saw the supposedly injured butcher dancing and the supposedly maimed merchant using his hand, realizing the evidence and witnesses had been staged.
• Randyll admitted he had no witnesses and blamed Varys for the false intelligence, while Corleone said he had witnesses of his own.

Corleone confronted Randyll Tarly with Ros’s accusation that Dickon had assaulted her, while Randyll tried to discredit her and secure his son’s custody. After Corleone revealed that Oberyn demanded punishment and would champion Ros in a trial by combat, he rejected Randyll’s proposal to have the Gold Cloaks handle the case and exposed a sack of bloody body parts.

• Two Black Hand Mafia members brought the battered Dickon into the hall with Ros, and Corleone asked her to describe what happened.
• Ros testified that Dickon had drunkenly chased geese, tried to force himself on her, and was beaten by Oberyn after urinating on him from a windowsill.
• Randyll blamed Ros’s work at a brothel for undermining her accusation, but Corleone argued that Dickon’s conduct—not her occupation—should determine his guilt.
• Corleone said Oberyn demanded severe punishment and would fight as Ros’s champion if Dickon chose trial by combat; Margaery and Olenna declined to support Randyll.
• Randyll proposed transferring Dickon to the Gold Cloaks and personally supervising the hearing, but Corleone rejected the plan and had his men spill a bloodstained sack of mangled body parts onto the floor.

Corleone confronted Randyll Tarly with evidence of corruption among his men, then persuaded him to remain Master of Laws and take on the Riverrun problem. He told Randyll he would need no army, then introduced his fiancée, Lady Sansa Stark, before the Small Council.

• Margaery Tyrell saw the bloody remains as Corleone listed the crimes of Randyll Tarly’s men and showed him the soldiers’ detailed testimony.
• Randyll Tarly accepted that Corleone had outmaneuvered him, while Olenna Redwyne stayed silent as Randyll criticized House Tyrell’s betrayal.
• Corleone refused to dismiss Randyll and asked him to lead a swift operation to bring Riverrun back under the crown’s control.
• Randyll agreed to take the assignment but warned that raising and marching an army from Horn Hill would take at least two months.
• Corleone said Randyll would not need to send troops and introduced Lady Sansa Stark as his fiancée.

Edmure Tully endured another day of Frey humiliation outside Riverrun while Brynden Tully watched from the walls. Randyll Tarly arrived with royal reinforcements, destroyed the gallows, and told Edmure he had come to negotiate terms.

• Edwyn Frey had Edmure Tully placed beneath the gallows again and refused his request to see Roslin, who was pregnant.
• Edmure endured the Freys' daily insults while Brynden watched from Riverrun and judged his nephew's character.
• Brynden spotted a dust cloud approaching and ordered the garrison to arms when he recognized the banners.
• Randyll Tarly arrived with a force of knights, dismissed Edwyn's claims that the gallows tactic was working, and ordered a great-hammer knight to smash it down.
• Randyll rode up to the fallen Edmure and said he had come to discuss terms on behalf of the Iron Throne, with a reason Edmure could not refuse.

Randyll Tarly arrived at the Frey camp to take command of the siege of Riverrun, where Sansa Stark revealed herself and reunited with her uncle Edmure Tully. Sansa asked Edmure to help win Riverrun for her cause and promised he could remain Duke if Aemon Frey died, just as Aemon arrived at the feast.

• Randyll Tarly entered Lyman Frey's tent, mocked his failed siege, and announced he would take command of the campaign.
• Sansa Stark revealed herself to Edmure Tully and identified him as her uncle, stopping Lyman from having him hanged again.
• At the Freys' feast, Sansa told Edmure she was betrothed to Vito Corleone and that he had promised to help her retake Winterfell.
• Sansa asked Edmure to persuade Brynden Tully to surrender Riverrun, but Edmure said he could not sway him and that the Iron Throne had promised the castle to Aemon Frey.
• Sansa told Edmure that if Aemon died, she would guarantee Edmure remained Duke of Riverrun after its fall.
• Aemon Frey entered the feast, and Sansa addressed Edmure as her plan came into focus.

Sansa Stark faced Aemon Frey's insults and turned his demand to execute Edmure Tully into a chance to arrange Riverrun's peaceful surrender to House Frey. Edmure agreed to persuade Brynden to open the gates, while Aemon left believing he had secured the outcome and Sansa quietly considered her future husband, Vito Corleone.

• Aemon Frey insulted Sansa and demanded that Lyman Frey hang Edmure Tully, prompting Randyll Tarly to threaten him with a court in King's Landing.
• Lyman defied Aemon by asserting his future inheritance and telling his uncle to guard Riverrun as an earl.
• Sansa declared that she had come to help House Frey take Riverrun and explained that she served Vito Corleone's interests as his betrothed.
• Sansa invited Edmure to confirm her account, and he agreed to persuade Brynden to surrender Riverrun peacefully to House Frey.
• Aemon left smugly, Lyman smashed his wine cup in anger, and Sansa watched the others' reactions while thinking of Vito Corleone.

Aemon Frey celebrated taking Riverrun, then overheard Lyman Frey plotting to kill him and hurried to prepare a counterattack. Both men arrived at the feast expecting the other to strike, and their sons each claimed to have arranged an ambush, leaving the family poised for violence.

• Aemon Frey watched Riverrun's gates open and led his men into the castle after the silver trout banner was lowered.
• At the victory feast, Aemon boasted about becoming Earl of Riverrun and reveled in being free of Genna Lannister's control.
• Aemon overheard Lyman Frey and Edwyn discussing a plan to kill him, then told Lyonel, who arranged for twenty armed men to wait in the armory.
• Lyman came to the feast wearing hidden mail after hearing that Aemon might attack, and he and Aemon exchanged wary smiles when they noticed each other's armor.
• Lyonel and Edwyn each returned to the hall and told their fathers that armed men were ready to attack when a cup smashed, though Lyman had not given Edwyn those instructions.

Sansa and Brynden Tully arranged to turn the Freys against one another during Riverrun’s victory feast. After Brynden staged a fight with Edmure, Lyman Frey and Aemon Frey mistook each other for conspirators, and Brynden’s final words pushed the hall into open violence.

• Sansa explained to Brynden that Randyll Tarly’s cooperation required no persuasion because Riverrun’s peaceful recovery served the Iron Throne’s interests.
• Sansa asked Brynden to fuel the Freys’ conflict, and Brynden struck Edmure and staged a sword fight with him to provoke confusion.
• Lyman and Aemon misread the staged duel as a signal of betrayal, drew daggers on each other, and called their soldiers to attack.
• Lyonel Frey and Edwyn Frey’s signals brought armed Frey soldiers into the banquet hall, where Lyman and Aemon accused each other of plotting an ambush.
• Brynden killed a young Frey who tried to stop the fighting, declared that House Tully supported the Freys, and Lyman and Aemon ordered their sides to kill the others.

A sudden order sparked a bloody fight between the Freys in Riverrun's hall, where they could not distinguish allies from enemies. After the slaughter left Edwyn Frey alive among the bodies, the Maiden told him he was first in line to inherit the Twins.

• Aemon Frey's and Lyman Frey's forces began fighting, and the Freys' identical clothes made it impossible to tell friend from foe.
• Edmure Tully and Brynden Tully fought through the Freys, while Aemon and Lyman hesitated in a standoff at the edge of the hall.
• A black-armored knight killed Aemon and Lyman, then joined the battle and crushed the Freys with his warhammer.
• Edwyn Frey killed the last living opponent he could find and discovered Lyman's corpse beneath the fallen twin-tower banner.
• The Maiden arrived with Black-armored Knights and congratulated Edwyn, telling him he was first in line to inherit the Twins.

Petyr Baelish learned that Sansa Stark was to marry Vito Corleone and was startled when she arrived at the Eyrie seeking an audience. Sansa came to win the Vale’s support for reclaiming the North, despite Randyll Tarly’s warnings about Petyr and the danger of entering the Eyrie.

• Nestor Royce told Petyr Baelish and Lysa Tully that Sansa Stark’s wedding to Vito Corleone was set for the next month’s harvest feast.
• Petyr privately resolved not to give up Sansa, but a knight announced that she had arrived at the Bloody Gate and requested an audience.
• Randyll Tarly warned Sansa that House Frey would retaliate over its losses at Riverrun, while Sansa hinted that Edwyn Frey would become Earl of the Twins.
• Sansa explained that she wanted the Vale’s support to help her and her husband reclaim the North, and she pressured Randyll by invoking Dickon Tarly’s safety.
• Petyr hurried to meet Sansa as she approached the Eyrie, while a flame briefly flashed in the eye sockets of the hammer-carrying Black-armored Knight behind Randyll.

Tyrion mocked his comatose father, Tywin, and slapped him, prompting Tywin to murmur Jaime’s name. At the House of Order, Corleone exposed the Iron Bank’s missing collector affair as a staged cover-up and sent the Hound to the Eyrie.

• Tyrion taunted Tywin over House Lannister’s decline, slapped him, and left as Tywin faintly murmured Jaime’s name.
• Gannanos asked Corleone for help finding Naho Dimittis, who had disappeared after being sent to collect the Iron Bank’s debt.
• The Hound reported that Naho’s assistant had killed himself when confronted and that a chest containing at least eight hundred gold dragons had been found in his room.
• Corleone and the Hound presented the assistant as Naho’s murderer, and Gannanos accepted the explanation and apologized for the Iron Bank’s mistake.
• After Gannanos left, the Hound admitted he had not informed Bronn about the supposed pay fine, and Corleone explained that Gannanos had seen through their story.
• Corleone told the Hound to go to the Eyrie, saying he had a more important task for him.

Corleone sent the Hound and Lyn Corbray to protect Sansa in the Vale, then planned to use Daenerys’s dragons against the Iron Bank rather than repay its debt. After reading Corleone’s letter condemning financial power as another form of slavery, Daenerys decided to go to Braavos, declaring that she had dragons.

• Corleone explained that Sansa had gone to the Eyrie and sent the Hound to protect her, giving him Lady Forlorn and assigning Lyn Corbray to accompany him.
• Rorge reported that the Braavosi emissary had escaped, but Corleone dismissed the concern and argued that he would not repay Petyr Baelish’s debt to the Iron Bank.
• Corleone revealed that he intended to use Daenerys’s dragons against the Iron Bank and sent a letter to Queen Daenerys through Ser Barristan Selmy.
• Half a month later in Meereen, Daenerys read Corleone’s letter comparing capitalists to slave masters and warning her that the Iron Bank would oppose her claim to the Iron Throne.
• Daenerys announced that she was going to Braavos and told Jorah Mormont, “I have dragons!”

Petyr Baelish tried to approach Sansa at the Eyrie, while Sansa and Randyll Tarly prepared to use his interest in her for their plans. After Petyr left, convinced she was being held against her will, he vowed to claim her.

• Petyr grew restless after half a month of Sansa keeping to herself at the Eyrie and decided to bring her lemon cake.
• Randyll Tarly learned that Walder Frey and at least fifty of his descendants had been poisoned, and Sansa said House Frey’s forces were nearly dismantled.
• Sansa told Randyll Tarly they could begin their plan when Petyr requested an audience with lemon cake.
• Sansa and Randyll staged an argument, making Petyr believe she was being controlled, while the Black-armored Knights initially barred him from entering her room.
• Petyr spoke privately with Sansa, offered to help her, and heard her claim she would soon return to King’s Landing before Randyll ended the visit.
• Petyr left the room convinced Sansa was being forced to obey Randyll and vowed that she belonged to him.

Petyr manipulated Lysa into inviting Sansa to dinner, hoping to learn whether she was truly caught in the Vale or pursuing her own aims. Meanwhile, the Hound and Lyn failed to secure help at Heart's Home and rode toward Redfort, but their hunt for food brought them face-to-face with twenty armed knights.

• Petyr suggested that Vito Corleone might be using Sansa to gain the Vale's support and warned Lysa that Corleone could expose their crimes.
• Petyr persuaded Lysa to invite Sansa to dinner by claiming they needed to protect themselves and Robin from Corleone's suspicions.
• Lyn told the Hound that Lyonel had refused them entry at Heart's Home, so they decided to seek help and food at Redfort.
• The Hound and Lyn smelled roasting meat and charged toward it, with the Hound boasting that he could take on twenty men.
• The Hound and Lyn halted when they emerged into a clearing surrounded by at least twenty armed knights, and Lyn challenged the Hound to prove his boast.

At the Eyrie, Sansa concealed her purpose while Petyr tried to learn whether Corleone was investigating Jon Arryn’s death. Petyr then persuaded Randyll Tarly to lead a campaign against the Mountain Clans before the Vale would consider sending troops to support the Iron Throne.

• At dinner, Lysa berated Sansa and ordered Corleone’s Black-armored Knights away, but Sansa insisted they stay to protect her.
• Petyr asked Sansa about Corleone’s investigations, and she said he had stopped looking into Jon Arryn’s death; Lysa and Petyr left dinner reassured.
• The next day, Petyr told Randyll Tarly that Mountain Clan raids prevented the Vale from sending troops to the Iron Throne and asked him to deal with the raiders.
• Randyll agreed to take men out on the condition that Petyr guarantee Sansa’s safety until he returned, and Petyr promised she was safe at the Eyrie.

Petyr Baelish lured Sansa Stark into a staged Mountain Clan ambush, intending to fake her death and keep her for himself. Sansa rejected him after he confessed, and as his guards moved to seize her, an armored rider arrived.

• Randyll Tarly rode from the Eyrie with nearly a hundred Black-armored Knights to deal with the Mountain Clans, while Petyr Baelish persuaded Sansa to ride out with him.
• Petyr's guards disrupted Sansa's escort during a Mountain Clan ambush, and a wounded mare carried Sansa away from the battle.
• Petyr arrived with a fresh group of guards and urged Sansa to leave with him, but she refused unless he returned to save her knights.
• Petyr confessed that he planned to fake Sansa's death and take her away so they could live together, and Sansa condemned his deception.
• As Petyr ordered his guards to seize Sansa, an axe killed one of them, and an armored rider approached on a black warhorse.

Gendry fought to protect Sansa from Petyr Baelish’s guards and the Mountain Clansmen, awakening a fiery power when he was overwhelmed. Randyll Tarly’s Black Hand Knights routed the attackers, but Petyr escaped with Sansa toward the Eyrie, and Randyll set out to pursue them.

• Petyr Baelish ordered his guards to kill Gendry, but Gendry smashed through their formation with his warhammer.
• More than a hundred Mountain Clansmen swarmed Gendry, eventually pinning him down as he struggled to protect Sansa.
• Gendry’s heart began pounding, and a golden-red glow spread across his hammer before a scorching shock wave blasted enemies away.
• Randyll Tarly and the Black Hand Knights charged into the valley and slaughtered the remaining Mountain Clansmen.
• Randyll learned that Petyr had fled toward the Eyrie with Sansa and ordered his forces to pursue them.

Petyr Baelish convinced Lysa Tully that the Iron Throne threatened the Vale, then poisoned her with Tears of Lys and framed Sansa for her death. Randyll Tarly reached the Bloody Gate but could not persuade Ser Donnel Waynwood to open it, leaving him unable to reach the Eyrie.

• Petyr returned to the Eyrie with Sansa unconscious and told Lysa that the Mountain Clans had ambushed her party, while blaming Randyll Tarly for marching on the Eyrie.
• Lysa ordered the Bloody Gate sealed and agreed to use Sansa as leverage against Corleone and the Iron Throne.
• Petyr persuaded Lysa to drink Arbor Gold poisoned with Tears of Lys, then sent Robert Arryn away as she died.
• Sansa woke in the banquet hall beside Lysa's corpse, and Petyr accused her of killing Lysa as the Eyrie's household rushed in.
• Randyll Tarly demanded that Ser Donnel Waynwood open the Bloody Gate and surrender Petyr, but Donnel refused under Lysa's orders.

Randyll Tarly’s forces were trapped at the Bloody Gate until Brynden Tully seized it from within and joined the Vale lords. After the Vale heard that Lysa had died and Sansa was accused, Brynden and Yohn Royce urged them to seek the truth at the Eyrie, while Brynden hinted that help was already on its way.

• Randyll Tarly retreated from the Bloody Gate’s arrow volley, only to find Yohn Royce and the Lords Declarant blocking the mountain road.
• Yohn Royce told Randyll that Brynden Tully had summoned the Lords Declarant to confront Petyr Baelish over evidence linking him to Jon Arryn’s murder.
• Brynden Tully opened the Bloody Gate from within after taking Donnel Waynwood captive, and the allied Vale troops entered the fortress.
• Donnel announced that Lysa had been murdered and accused Sansa Stark, prompting the Vale knights to turn against Randyll until Brynden defended Sansa’s honor and Yohn Royce called for an investigation.
• Randyll warned that the remaining castles could delay their advance to the Eyrie, but Brynden said they had time because three people should already have arrived.

Sansa was targeted by Marillion in the Sky Cells, but the Hound rescued her and killed him. As Petyr Baelish’s schemes unraveled amid a fire at the Eyrie, Lyn Corbray and Myranda Redfort confronted him on behalf of the Black Hand Mafia.

• Mord let Marillion into Sansa’s cell, where he threatened to assault her on Petyr Baelish’s orders.
• Sansa warned Marillion that she was betrothed to Vito Corleone, but he continued toward her.
• The Hound surprised Marillion, stabbed him through the face, and kicked him off the cliff.
• Petyr celebrated his plan to frame Sansa for Lysa’s murder, then became unnerved by sounds and a fallen wine cup at Lysa’s coffin.
• A servant told Petyr that the Eyrie was on fire, and Petyr rushed to secure Sansa before the allied army arrived.
• Lyn Corbray and Myranda Redfort caught Petyr trying to leave the sept, and Myranda declared that the Black Hand Mafia sent its regards.

Lyn Corbray and Myranda Redfort cornered Petyr Baelish in the Eyrie's sept, but a tremor let him escape before the Hound and Sansa stopped him at the Moon Door. Sansa exposed Petyr's crimes and forced him toward the open door, where the Hound kicked him into the abyss.

• Myranda revealed he had only used the Black Hand Mafia's signature phrase because it sounded cool, while Petyr recognized Lyn and Myranda and tried to bargain for his life.
• Petyr offered to help Lyn become Earl of Heart's Home, but Lyn rejected the offer and declared his Kingsguard vows more important than inheritance or lands.
• Lyn accused Petyr of murdering Lysa Tully and poisoning Jon Arryn with Tears of Lys, then said the Vale lords would question him.
• A violent tremor shook the sept, allowing Petyr to flee as Lyn and Myranda chased him through the Eyrie.
• The Hound stopped Petyr in the hall, and Sansa confronted him with the truth about Lysa's and Jon Arryn's deaths before ordering him to climb toward the Moon Door.
• Petyr pleaded and offered the Hound money, but the Hound kicked him through the Moon Door and into the abyss.

Corleone saw Tywin off as the Old Lion returned to the Westerlands to deal with Euron Greyjoy’s raid on Lannisport, while promising to bring Jaime back to inherit Casterly Rock. Jaime reached Castle Black with two hundred Bolton cavalrymen, but Alliser Thorne called Jon Snow a traitor and ordered the Watch to shoot at them.

• Corleone reviewed the latest reports: Lysa and Petyr were dead, unrest threatened Dorne, the Reach had been pacified, and Euron Greyjoy had plundered Lannisport.
• Tywin left King's Landing for the Westerlands after reminding Corleone to send Jaime home to inherit Casterly Rock.
• Corleone promised Tywin he would bring Jaime back, threatening to march into the North if Jaime refused.
• Jaime reached Castle Black with two hundred Bolton cavalrymen after learning Stannis had sailed for Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.
• Alliser Thorne claimed command of Castle Black, called Jon Snow a traitor, and ordered the Night's Watch to loose arrows at Jaime's party.

Jaime Lannister arrived at Castle Black with Roose Bolton’s men and learned that Jon Snow had been sent to the wildling camp to negotiate and attempt an assassination. After seeing the vast wildling army and hearing Stannis Baratheon’s forces were nearby, Jaime planned to take his reinforcements through a secret passage after dark.

• Alliser Thorne ordered archers to shoot at Jaime’s party, but Janos Slynt recognized Jaime and ordered the gate opened.
• Jaime entered Castle Black and promised to consider writing Tywin Lannister for Slynt’s pardon.
• Slynt revealed that Jon Snow had been sent to the wildling camp to negotiate with Mance Rayder and assassinate him, prompting Jaime to condemn the decision.
• Jaime climbed the Wall and saw the vast wildling army gathered below, while Slynt explained that Stannis Baratheon’s forces had joined the planned ambush.
• Jaime asked Slynt to lead him and his reinforcements through the secret passage after dark, offering to write Tywin in return.

Jaime and the Bolton cavalry watched Stannis’s forces ambush the Wildlings, but mammoths and giants turned the battle against the heavy cavalry. As Hake’s men prepared to abandon Stannis, Jaime drew his sword and ordered them to charge the Wildlings.

• Jaime warned the Bolton cavalry to stay quiet as the Wildlings began attacking the Wall.
• Night’s Watch rangers drew Wildling cavalry into the woods, where Stannis’s heavy cavalry charged the Wildling flank from three directions.
• The Wildling main force arrived with mammoths ridden by giants, whose charge shattered Stannis’s cavalry formation.
• Hake and the Bolton riders decided to wait for Stannis’s defeat and return to report to Lord Bolton.
• Jaime drew his sword, ordered his men to mount, and commanded them to charge the Wildling army.