Download Game of Thrones Season 2 Episode 8 - The Prince of Winterfell
Theon holds down the fort, Arya calls in a debt; Robb is betrayed, Dany ignores Jorah's advice and Stannis and Davos approach their destination.
Game of Thrones Season 2 Episode 8 Trailer
TV-MA | 54min | Action, Adventure, Drama | Episode aired 20 May 2012
Director:
Alan Taylor
Writers:
George R. R. Martin, David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Vanessa Taylor, Bryan Cogman, Jane Espenson, Dave Hill
Stars:
Sean Bean ... Eddard 'Ned' Stark
Mark Addy ... Robert Baratheon
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ... Jaime Lannister
Michelle Fairley ... Catelyn Stark
Lena Headey ... Cersei Lannister
Emilia Clarke ... Daenerys Targaryen
Iain Glen ... Jorah Mormont
Harry Lloyd ... Viserys Targaryen
Kit Harington ... Jon Snow
Sophie Turner ... Sansa Stark
Maisie Williams ... Arya Stark
Richard Madden ... Robb Stark
Alfie Allen ... Theon Greyjoy
Isaac Hempstead Wright ... Bran Stark
Jack Gleeson ... Joffrey Baratheon
Rory McCann ... Sandor 'The Hound' Clegane
Peter Dinklage ... Tyrion Lannister
Donald Sumpter ... Maester Luwin
Conleth Hill ... Lord Varys
James Cosmo ... Jeor Mormont
Owen Teale ... Alliser Thorne
John Bradley ... Samwell Tarly
Stephen Dillane ... Stannis Baratheon
Carice van Houten ... Melisandre
Jerome Flynn ... Bronn
Game of Thrones Season 2 Episode 8 Synopsis
Theon welcomes riders with his sister, Yara, and she immediately mocks him for killing the Stark boys. He says the Northerners would have thought he was weak if he hadn't killed them.
She's not there to defend Winterfell, she's there to bring him home. She thinks there will be hell to pay when Robb Stark finds out what Theon has done to the Stark boys. But Theon says he's killed the ravens and is holding the horses so Robb won't find out. Yara asks him nicely to come home with her so he doesn't die there.
Beyond the Wall
Ygritte brings her prisoner Jon Snow to her people. They order him killed until she points out he's Ned Stark's bastard son. She thinks Mance will want to decide what to do with him. They've also captured Qhorin Half-hand.
Robb's camp
Robb talks to Talisa about his promised marriage to Lord Walder Frey's daughter to get a key bridge. He says he's fighting because he believes in justice. Robb tells Talisa how much he loved his father Ned, and she says he was loved by his people. A rider approaches and tells them that Jaime Lannister has escaped.
Robb rides back to camp and confronts his mother. She tells him that she let Jaime go back to King's Landing in return for Arya's and Sansa's freedom.
Robb tells her that Jaime played her for a fool and weakened their position, and she did it all behind his back. He orders her guarded and orders more men sent after Jaime.
Out on the road, Brienne marches Jaime in chains. He tries to goad her into undoing his chains and fighting him. They get in a small boat and float down a river as Brienne paddles.
Harrenhal
Ayra hears a briefing about Stannis approaching King's Landing. Scouts are saying Robb is North. They know Robb sent a splinter force to Winterfell and think he's weakened.
Tywin announces they'll ride at nightfall. He orders the Mountain, Ser Clegane to hold Harrenhal and track down the Brotherhood without Banners. He tells Arya to stay there.
Arya tries to track down Jaqen H'ghar and hears he's on watch. She can't find him.
Beyond the wall
Jon and Qhorin are marched through the snow. Qhorin whispers that Jon might be able to get intel from inside about Mance's plans to march on the Wall, if Jon does "what needs to be done." He says one man behind the lines is worth a thousand outside.
Qhorin yells at Jon for the wildling's benefit, calling him a traitor and kicking him down a hill.
King's Landing
Tyrion and Bronn try to plan a defense of King's Landing, by consulting history books. Varys joins them.
Tyrion worries about how well Stannis knows King's Landing, he sees Mud Gate as a place Stannis might attack, since it's near the sea. Tyrion says his defense plan involves pig poop.
Fist of the First Men
Samwell, Grenn and Dolorous Edd dig trenches in the snow for latrines. Edd assumes Jon and Qhorin are dead. They dig until they hit stone. Sam recognizes it as a marking by the first men.
They turn over the stone and find a hollow space containing a bundle of obsidian daggers and spear-tips wrapped in a Night's Watch cloak. Samwell refers to them as Dragon-Glass.
Harrenhal
Arya finally runs into Jaquen. She's irritated she missed her chance at Tywin, so she says the man Jaquen must kill is Jaquen. He takes it very seriously and demands she un-name him. She agrees; if he helps her and her friends escape. He resists, she names him again.
He relents and tells her to be ready at midnight.
King's Landing
Tyrion and Cersei share dinner. Tyrion thinks Joffrey going to war and fighting is a good idea, but Cersei thinks he's taking her children away from her.
She tells Tyrion she has his "whore." She says a Lannister always pays her debts, and reminds him about him sending Myrcella away. She knows he cares about her and promises if Joffrey is hurt, she'll do whatever is done to him to his "whore." Tyrion is visibly shaken.
Cersei orders the whore brought in. It's Ros. He doesn't blink, and tries to pretend he cares about Ros, and tells her to be brave and that he will free her. Cersei smirks an evil smirk. You can tell she is enjoying this game.
"I will hurt you for this," Tyrion says with great gravity. "A day will come when you think you're safe and happy and your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth -- and you'll know the debt is paid."
Tyrion leaves and races home to Shae. She's unharmed and waiting for him. He tells her she's beautiful and that they have to be more careful. He kneels at her feet and looks pained as he looks up at her and tells her there are people who want to hurt him. He says he'd kill for her, and he suspects he'll have to before it's all over. He loves her very much and he says she is his, and she says he is hers.
Robb's camp
Robb tells Roose Bolton to give word at Winterfell that any Iron man who surrenders will be allowed to return home, unharmed. Any except Theon.
Talisa drops by. She asks how he is doing and he unloads the long list of his troubles. Then he apologizes, saying that's not the King he wants to be.
She confesses she was raised to play the harp and recite poetry. He offers her wine and asks how she went from reciting poetry to sawing off men's feet.
She tells a story of when she was 12 and her parents went to a Valyrian wedding out of town. She and her little brother went to the river to play and she lost track of him. She found him floating face down and dragged him from the water.
She screamed and shook him, but he was dead. A fishing boat slave pushed her out of the way -- an offense punishable by death -- and started pressing on her brother's chest until he spit up the water and was revived.
She decided that day that she didn't want a life of poetry and harps and that she'd never live in a slave city again.
She stops and apologizes for going on.
He's totally mesmerized. Robb interrupts, saying he doesn't want to marry the Frey girl.
"I don't want you to marry the Frey girl, but you needed that bridge. I hope it's a very beautiful bridge," she says.
He kisses her and they race to take each other's clothes off.
Harrenhal
At midnight, Arya, Gendry and Hot Pie wait to escape, but Jaquen didn't offer a lot of direction. They see guards on either side of the gate, but Arya decides to trust he'll keep his word. She walks out in full view. As they get closer to the guards they see they're dead, hanged in place.
At Sea
On Stannis' boat, they're a day away from King's Landing. Stannis remembers nearly starving to death trying to hold Storm's End. He says they ate the horses first, then the cats, then the dogs, then the rats. He talks about Davos smuggling in Onions and helping to break the siege. He tells Davos he wants him to be his Hand when he is on the Iron Throne.
King's Landing
Varys tells Joffrey he hasn't heard word from the North for a long time. Joffrey isn't taking the approach of Stannis seriously and says he plans to ride out and greet him with his sword. He makes several boastful threats, which of course Tyrion laughs at.
Left alone, Varys and Tyrion talk about the future. Tyrion likes being the King's Hand and would like to keep doing it. Varys has heard that Danerys is alive in Qarth and she has three dragons, but it will be years before they're fully grown.
Qarth
Jorah tells Danerys he has found them a ship leaving tonight, but she won't go without her dragons. She wants to go after them in the House of the Undying, but he worries because it's exactly what the warlock wants. She reminds him of her magic that protected her from the fire and tells him again to take her to the dragons.
Winterfell
Theon suggests it's time to take down the burnt bodies. He has gold for the farmer's "troubles" -- presumably the loss of his two sons. He is told the farmer is dead.
Maester Luwin is walking through the courtyard and sees Osha sneaking bread. He looks twice at the burnt bodies, trying to decide if they're Bran and Rickon.
He follows her down into the cellar. Osha describes the path she took through the land and the river to throw off the hounds. They doubled back to Winterfell because it's the last place anyone would look.
They figure the dead boys were the orphans who worked for the farmer, but agree not to tell the Stark boys. We see Bran and Rickon, safe and sound in the dark. Bran hears Osha and Luwin talking about the death of the orphan boys who he tried to protect, and tears well up in his eyes.
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