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Once again we are in the black cells beneath the Red Keep, where Eddard Stark rots in the dark. Varys visits with more news, particularly of Sansa's pleas for his life. Ned asks if he can free him, and Varys admits that he can, but won't. He's playing the long game; what he wants is peace, and he asks Lord Stark to bend the knee because it will best serve [[The Needs of the Many]]. He believes Ned will be allowed to take the black and join the Night's Watch. Ned is dismissive of the offer: "You think my life is some precious thing to me? That I would [[Honor Before Reason|trade my honor]] for a few years of..." Varys walks away, pitying: "And what of ''[[I Have Your Wife|your daughter's]]'' life, my lord? Is that a precious thing to you?"
Outside The Twins, ancestral seat of House Frey, Theon is putting his skills as [[The Archer]] to good use, felling any messenger ravens. Robb frets over the situation: [[Storming the Castle]] would take too long, he cannot meet Lord Frey within for fear of being taken hostage, and he cannot send other men to do his work for him. Catelyn, [[No Man of Woman Born|plainly no man]], goes in his stead. Lord Walder Frey is just as [[Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!|prickly]] and [[Dirty Old Man|lecherous]] as we've been led to believe, and he sees no point in aiding any of the other Houses, all of whom look down on him and his. "[[All of the Other Reindeer|Stark, Tully, Lannister, Baratheon]]... Give me [[I Just Want to Have Friends|one good reason]] why I should waste a single thought on any of you." (Not that the Walder Frey himself really helps the issue. Have we mentioned he's on his eighth wife? Have we mentioned she's 15 and he's 90?)
Up at the Wall, Lord Commander Mormont checks in with Jon Snow. Jon's hand is healing from its burns, which means it's time for Mormont to give Jon his reward: Longclaw, a [[Cool Sword]] made of Valyrian steel which Mormonts have carried for five centuries. Even better, it's a half-and-a-half sword, sometimes known as a "[[What Do You Mean
Catelyn returns just after sundown; she has found one good reason why House Frey should ally itself with the Starks, and has won Robb his crossing, as well as Lord Frey's levies. In return, Robb: takes on one of Frey's sons, Olyvar, as a squre; trades Arya's hand in [[Arranged Marriage]] to another son, also named Walder; and trades his ''own'' hand in [[Arranged Marriage]] to one of Lord Frey's daughters.
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'''Bronn:''' "Well, I imagine that was the end of all that..."<br />
'''Tyrion:''' "Not quite. First my father had Jaime tell me the truth. The girl was a whore, you see. Jaime had [[Meet Cute|arranged the whole thing]]. The road, the rapers... [[Prank Date|All of it]]. He thought it was [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|time I had a woman]]. After my brother confessed, my father brought in my wife and [[Multi Mook Melee|gave her to his guards]]. He paid her well: silver for each man. How many whores command that kind of price? He brought me into the barracks and made me watch. By the end, she had so much silver that the coins were slipping through her fingers and rolling onto the floor."<br />
'''Bronn:''' "[[This Is Unforgivable!|I woulda killed the man did that to me]]."<br />
'''Shae:''' "[[Genre Blind|You should have known she was a whore]]."<br />
'''Tyrion:''' "Really? I was sixteen, drunk and in love."<br />
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* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|King Joffrey}} crosses it at the end of the episode when he {{spoiler|breaks his word to Sansa and has Ned executed}}.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Shae.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Varys, in an attempt to stop the Lannister-Stark war, tries to persuade Ned to confess treason to save his life and the lives of his daughters. {{spoiler|However, Joffrey has him executed anyway, eliminating any chance for peace.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Off With His Head]]: Ned Stark's fate.}}
* [[Puppet King]]: Joffrey seems to be this, generally following along behind the Queen Regent. {{spoiler|Nastily subverted when he goes off-script at a critical moment and in front of several thousand people.}}
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