Recaps

Jaime urged Hake’s Bolton horsemen to aid Stannis’s beleaguered forces against the Wildlings, then charged into the enemy alone when Hake refused. After Jaime’s horse was killed, Hake and two hundred Bolton riders finally swept down from the hills to join him.

• Jaime challenged Hake and the Bolton horsemen for standing by while Stannis’s men fought, then rode alone into the Wildling army.
• Jaime cut down Wildlings and forced his way through the encirclement, but the press of enemies gradually trapped him and wounded his horse.
• Jaime escaped on his dying horse, dismounted when it collapsed, and prepared to face the Wildlings on foot.
• Hake led two hundred Bolton riders into the charge, and he pulled Jaime onto his horse as the Flayed Man banner advanced.
• Hake and Jaime charged toward the battlefield together as Jaime noticed that only two of Stannis’s Stag Banners remained.

Jaime Lannister helped Stannis Baratheon and the Bolton Cavalry turn the battle against the Wildlings, then killed a giant and a mammoth while rescuing Wol. With more mammoths turning back toward them, Jaime rallied the Boltons and charged toward Mance Rayder’s camp.

• Hake and Jaime led the Bolton Cavalry through the Wildlings’ flank, while Stannis recognized their banner and ordered his knights to attack alongside them.
• The Bolton Cavalry and Stannis’s knights crushed the Wildlings between them, but mammoths charged into the fight and killed two Bolton riders.
• Hake charged a mammoth, and the Bolton Cavalry surrounded several beasts; Jaime killed one mammoth and dragged its giant rider down, then stabbed the giant to death.
• Jaime survived the mammoth’s fall and raised his sword as Stannis regrouped his remaining troops for another attack.
• Hake named Jaime the Giants Slayer, and Jaime rallied the Bolton Cavalry to charge toward Mance Rayder’s lightly guarded camp.

Jaime led a desperate charge through the Wildlings to kill Mance Rayder, with Bolton riders, Stannis’s cavalry, and Night’s Watch rangers fighting alongside him. After Jaime raised Mance’s head, the Wildling army panicked and fled, leaving Jaime to think of the unconscious Corleone.

• Jaime and the Bolton riders charged the Wildlings’ rear camp, where Tormund’s spearmen intercepted them and killed most of the riders as they fought to clear a path for Jaime.
• Stannis sent Davos and twenty House of the Stag knights to help Jaime, while Black Jack Bulwer led the Night’s Watch rangers into the fight.
• Davos and Black Jack joined forces, broke through the Wildling line, and helped Jaime and the remaining Bolton riders reach the high ground.
• Jaime forced his way past Mance Rayder’s guards and cut Mance’s throat with his sword.
• Jaime cut off Mance’s head and raised it before the armies, causing the Wildlings to panic and flee.
• Jaime watched the retreating Wildlings and thought of Corleone, reflecting that he had finally become the person he wanted to be.

After the Wildlings fled, Jaime Lannister confronted Stannis Baratheon, who declared Jaime and the Bolton riders traitors despite their help in the battle. Jaime accused Stannis of treason and challenged him, leaving the two forces on the verge of fighting while the Night's Watch declined to intervene.

• Jaime watched the Wildlings retreat after killing Mance Rayder, then counted only forty-seven surviving Bolton riders and learned Stannis's forces had also suffered heavy losses.
• Stannis approached Jaime and thanked him for helping defeat the Wildlings, then claimed his right as heir to judge Jaime and the Boltons for treason.
• Wol angrily rebuked Stannis for threatening the men who had just fought beside him, while Davos watched the confrontation.
• Jaime accused Stannis of ordering the Great Sept of Baelor's destruction, Cersei Lannister's murder, and an attempt to kill Vito Corleone, then called Stannis the traitor.
• Jaime drew his sword and asked the Bolton riders if they still had strength to fight; they answered with shouts against the Baratheons as Stannis's knights formed a defensive line.
• Black Jack Bulwer told a young ranger that the Night's Watch would not interfere in the quarrel between Jaime and Stannis.