Recaps

Vito Corleone turned Flea Bottom into a source of power, earned a knighthood, and proved himself against Gregor Clegane while navigating Lannister politics. Sent to secure Stannis Baratheon’s surrender, he offered Dragonstone supplies and help lifting the siege of Storm’s End, but left after bloodshed and growing tensions with Melisandre.

• Corleone celebrated the House of Order’s completion, ended free food in favor of paid work, and promised a new future for Flea Bottom.
• A riot erupted after Meryn Trant attacked a desperate father, and Corleone rescued Joffrey and Cersei before securing lenient sentences for the captured rioters and authority to expand Flea Bottom’s security.
• Tywin Lannister knighted Corleone at the Great Sept, and Corleone later confessed to Jaime that he had orchestrated the riot and Meryn Trant’s death.
• Corleone accepted Petyr Baelish’s offer of properties and faced Petyr’s debts before Tywin approved Flea Bottom’s expansion and tasked Corleone with persuading Stannis to surrender Dragonstone.
• Corleone challenged Gregor Clegane after the Mountain injured Yego, defeated him, and cut out his tongue when Gregor lunged at him instead of apologizing.
• Corleone met Stannis on Dragonstone, offered him wheat and other supplies, and presented Davos Seaworth and Gendry as gifts before Alester Florent was executed by fire.
• Corleone proposed using Margaery Tyrell’s position to make Mace Tyrell lift the siege of Storm’s End, but Melisandre’s warnings led Axell Florent to attack him.
• Corleone killed Axell with his own sword, and Stannis killed two knights who moved against him before declaring Corleone his guest and sending him to rest.

Corleone rescued Shireen and Gendry from Dragonstone, then returned to King’s Landing and forced Tywin to grant Flea Bottom limited autonomy. As Tyrion’s trial began, Corleone faced the problem of finding a champion against the restored Mountain, and Sansa Stark arrived at the Great Sept.

• Corleone freed Gendry from Dragonstone’s dungeon, rescued Shireen with Gendry and Eron, and helped the loyalists repel Redwyne attackers before Gendry killed Melisandre.
• Stannis recognized Gendry as Gendry Baratheon, and Gendry’s resemblance to Robert frightened the Redwyne troops into retreating, though Paxter chose to blockade Dragonstone.
• Corleone negotiated with Hobber Redwyne, who killed Desmond and later helped Corleone kill Paxter and take control of the fleet.
• At Joffrey’s wedding feast, Joffrey died of poisoning and Cersei had Tyrion arrested, while Tywin learned that Corleone had killed Paxter.
• Corleone returned to King’s Landing as Flea Bottom residents protested food shortages, and he organized aid and resistance as Tywin imposed martial law and the Black Hand Mafia killed Gold Cloak officers.
• Corleone confronted Tywin and secured the Gold Cloaks’ withdrawal from Flea Bottom, along with a tax-free period and a reduced rate afterward.
• Bronn asked Corleone to save Tyrion, but revealed that Cersei and Qyburn had restored the Mountain, leaving Tyrion facing a dangerous trial by combat.
• At Tyrion’s trial, hired witnesses accused him and Tyrion denounced his family before Sansa Stark entered the Great Sept.

Sansa’s testimony and new witnesses reshape Tyrion’s trial, while Corleone becomes entangled in the investigation into Elia Martell’s murder and a plot against Oberyn. The Hound takes Oberyn’s place against the Mountain, and the arena’s opening ends with a confrontation between Cersei and Falyse interrupted by an approaching figure.

• Sansa testified that Dontos Hollard had abducted her and defended Tyrion, then Jaime brought Dontos before the court as new evidence.
• Petyr kept Lysa from sending him to King’s Landing, while Tyrion accepted Sansa’s public divorce and Jaime left to relearn swordsmanship at the Wall.
• Oberyn pushed to reopen the investigation into Elia Martell’s murder, but Gregor Clegane killed Lochy before he could name who gave the order, then killed Qyburn during his fight with Corleone.
• Corleone arranged a public trial by combat between Oberyn and the Mountain at the Free Fighting Arena, while he investigated the outlaws near Chelsted Castle and discovered House Yronwood’s involvement.
• Daemon Sand and Andrey Dalt attacked Oberyn at the Hummingbird, and Oberyn escaped after Ellaria sacrificed herself to help him before Garin stabbed him in an alley.
• The Hound killed Garin’s companions, and Corleone arrived to operate on Oberyn before offering the Hound a share of the arena’s wagers to fight the Mountain in his place.
• Corleone’s arena opened to a packed crowd, where Ralf Leek introduced Herb Lake to Tommen and Tyrion appeared beside Bronn in the nobles’ section.
• Falyse accused Cersei of causing Robert and Joffrey’s deaths, and Tywin prepared to silence them as the crowd parted for someone approaching.

Corleone strengthened his hold over King’s Landing while defeating Lyn Corbray and arranging the Hound’s new role. His debt negotiations became entangled with the Sand Snakes’ effort to rescue Oberyn, and the discovery of Arianne’s conspiracy and Anders Yronwood’s death left the Dornish succession in crisis.

• Corleone publicly affirmed his authority at the Ring of Order, then defeated Lyn Corbray and won Lady Forlorn before the Hound killed the Mountain with it.
• Corleone hired the Hound to protect Flea Bottom, attended a Small Council meeting, and agreed to negotiate with the Iron Bank over the Crown’s debt.
• Corleone confronted Osney Kettleblack, warned Margaery that someone was plotting against her, and accompanied her to Flea Bottom, where Sansa settled a dispute with Laila.
• Corleone questioned Iron Bank envoy Naho about the missing part of the Crown’s loan and proposed a new loan, while the Sand Snakes abducted Naho to learn what he knew about Oberyn.
• The Sand Snakes killed Naho after mistaking him for one of Corleone’s men, and Corleone captured them and explained that he had treated Oberyn rather than abducted him.
• Oberyn reunited with his daughters and learned from Garin that Arianne’s supporters had plotted to kill him and frame House Yronwood to protect Arianne’s claim to Dorne.
• Oberyn ordered Garin to inform Doran and Nymeria to reassure Anders Yronwood, but Nymeria revealed she had already killed Anders.
• Corleone told Tywin that Naho was dead, explained how he had covered up the death and prepared forged letters, and said he had caught Naho’s murderer.