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| preceded by = [[Game of Thrones/Recap/S1/E05 The Wolf and the Lion|The Wolf and the Lion]]
| followed by = [[Game of Thrones/Recap/S1/E07 You Win or You Die|You Win or You Die]]
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Eddard Stark stirs fitfully in his bed, his leg broken from the events of the previous episode. He awakens to find King Robert Baratheon and Queen Cersei Lannister looming above him, each angry for their own reasons--Cersei for her brother's kidnapping, Robert for the disruption of the peace. It isn't long before the two of them are bickering... and not long after that before Robert slaps her across the face. Jaime has fled the city, of course, and Robert denies Ned the chance to bring him to justice, declaring the feud over. He then gives Ned the silver-hand badge, officially refusing to accept Ned's resignation. It will be Ned's job to handle things whilst Robert hunts in the kingswood.
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More check-ins: Joffrey visits Sansa, interrupting a pretty serious snark-fest between her and Septa Mordane. He gives her a necklace (and a kiss!) and promises never to mistreat her again. Meanwhile, Theon finds his favorite whore Ros on the kingsroad, heading to the greener (fleshier?) pastures of the capitol. She gives him one more flash of her cooter. That's the only appropriate word for the circumstances.
Ned assembles his daughters and announces that he's sending them home for their own safety. Sansa, her head full of dreams, protests that she has to marry Joffrey: "He'll be the greatest king there ever was, a golden lion, and I'll give him sons with [[Hair of Gold|beautiful blond hair]]!" "The lion's not his sigil, idiot," says Arya with a trace of smugness. "He's a stag, like his father." "He's not, he's nothing like that old drunk king," Sansa retorts. Both of them are completely oblivious to the [[Eureka Moment]] kindling behind their father's eyes. Ned sends them from the room and attends his giant book, ''The Lineage and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms'', where he sees that black hair is [[In the Blood|a Baratheon family trait]]. Every Baratheon has it, as does Gendry and the whore's infant from last episode. Every Baratheon has it... [[
It's Vaes Dothrak, and there's a feast. Things are going pretty well for Drogo and Dany until Viserys stumbles in, either drunk or more insane than usual. (He was drunk in the book, but the TV show doesn't say anything either way.) When the Dothraki shame him, he draws his sword, threatening to spill blood in the sacred city. He demands the [[Title Drop|golden crown]] he was promised in exchange for his sister keeping her skin intact. Khal Drogo agrees. He pulls off his medallion-encrusted belt and tosses it into a pot over the cookfire, where the gold begins to melt. To quote the book, "Viserys began to scream the high, wordless scream of the coward facing death." In a moment, he's got his golden crown... but he doesn't seem to enjoy it very much. He hits the ground with clanking finality and stays there.
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=== Tropes in this episode include: ===
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Viserys'}} death could almost come off as this, given how sympathetically he's played in that scene.
** Of course, considering just how he acted in the rest of the episode, it's also easy to take it as a [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]].
* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]: "In the Iron Islands, you're not a man until you've killed your first enemy."
* [[As You Know]]: Littlefinger lets Ned know exactly what's going on as he hears the report of Gregor Clegane's atrocities, including the sigil of his own wife's family. Justified as subtly insulting Ned with how little he's prepared for this.
** Littlefinger may also have been trying to provoke Ned into doing something ill-considered. He wasn't especially subtle or quiet about pointing out the symbolism of the fish.
* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: {{spoiler|So very, very subverted.}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: {{spoiler|Viserys}} managed to push Khal Drogo's by threatening Daenerys and her unborn son.
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