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May 13, 2012 · Action Adventure Drama. Bran and Rickon have escaped Winterfell. Theon tries to hunt them down. Daenerys' dragons have been stolen. Jon travels through the wilderness with Ygritte as his prisoner. Sansa has bled and is now ready to have Joffrey's children. Director. David Nutter. Writers.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- David Nutter
- 2012-05-13
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"A Man Without Honor" is the seventh episode of the second season of Game of Thrones. It is the seventeenth episode of the series overall. It premiered on May 13, 2012 on HBO. It was written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and directed by David Nutter.
At Winterfell
At Winterfell, now held by the Ironborn, Theon Greyjoy awakens to find that Osha is gone and she has escaped with Hodor, Bran Stark, Rickon Stark and their direwolves. Theon berates Black Lorren for allowing them to escape. When Lorren counters that Theon is also to blame for sleeping with Osha and letting his guard down, Theon furiously beats him. Theon leads the Ironborn on horseback to hunt down the boys with hounds to track them. The search leads them to a shepherd's farm, but the farmer says that he hasn't seen anyone. Dagmer finds some walnut shells, so they know that Bran and Rickon were there, but the hounds can't get the scent. Theon tells them the hunt is over and to return Maester Luwin to Winterfell: he knows where they are, and his mercy has been exhausted. Theon returns to Winterfell. He announces that he is going to show them what happens to those who are not loyal to him: he hoists two bodies of small children, burned black and beyond recognition, to either side of the main gate. Seeing them, Maester Luwin cries out in grief and anguish, believing Bran and Rickon have been killed.
At Harrenhal
At Harrenhal, Tywin Lannister is discussing the assassination of Amory Lorch with Ser Gregor Clegane. Tywin is convinced that it was an assassination attempt on himself, unaware that Jaqen H'ghar actually killed Lorch on the request of Arya Stark. Ser Gregor speculates that the Brotherhood Without Banners may have been responsible. Enraged, Tywin orders Gregor to burn out villages and farms in reprisal for this assassination attempt. Tywin later suspects that Arya is highborn, because she doesn't pronounce "m'lord" the way commoners do and says "my lord" instead, possessing an educated vocabulary. Arya makes the excuse that her mother, whom she said was a handmaiden for years to royalty, had taught her to speak properly like them.
In King's Landing
In King's Landing, Sansa Stark comes to thank Sandor "The Hound" Clegane for saving her life during the recent riot in the city and says that he was very brave. Sandor simply says that a dog doesn't need courage to fight off rats. Sansa is perturbed by his "hateful speech," but Sandor cautions that a day will come when his penchant for violence is all that stands between her and her "beloved" King Joffrey. Sansa awakens in her bed from a nightmare, only to find the sheets covered in blood because she has had her first period. As she will be expected to marry and conceive a son with Joffrey when she begins menstruating, Sansa panics and frantically tries to get rid of the bloody sheets to remove the evidence. Shae tries to help Sansa hide the sheets but Sandor finds them. Terrified of being brought to Joffrey, Sansa is instead brought before Queen Regent Cersei Lannister, who in her own way tries to comfort her. Cersei reveals that King Robert Baratheon had abandoned her to hunt as she birthed each of her children, but that her brother Jaime Lannister insisted on being by her side the whole time, noting that Sansa should never expect such devotion from Joffrey. Cersei says that while Sansa will never love Joffrey, she will love their children and advises Sansa to love no one but her children — whom a mother can't help but love — because "the more people you love, the weaker you are." When Sansa asks if she should not love Joffrey, Cersei only answers, "You can try, little dove." Privately, Cersei meets with Tyrion and expresses regret at having children with her own brother Jaime. She wonders if Joffrey's violent personality is the price of her and Jaime's sins. Tyrion earnestly points out that her other two children, Myrcella and Tommen, are good and decent children. Cersei and Tyrion share an odd moment of sympathy.
Firsts
•Torrhen Karstark •Billy •Jack •Bernadette
Deaths
•Ser Alton Lannister •Torrhen Karstark •11 of the Thirteen, including: •The Spice King •The Silk King •The Copper King •Winterfell shepherd •Winterfell shepherd's wife •Billy •Jack •At least 20 Lannister soldiers
Starring
•Peter Dinklage as Lord Tyrion Lannister •Lena Headey as Queen Cersei Lannister •Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Ser Jaime Lannister •Michelle Fairley as Lady Catelyn Stark •Emilia Clarke as Khaleesi Daenerys Targaryen •Iain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont •Kit Harington as Jon Snow •Charles Dance as Lord Tywin Lannister •Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Prince Bran Stark •Richard Madden as King Robb Stark •Sophie Turner as Princess Sansa Stark •Maisie Williams as Princess Arya Stark •Alfie Allen as Prince Theon Greyjoy •Sibel Kekilli as Shae •Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane
Guest starring
•Donald Sumpter as Maester Luwin •Ian Hanmore as Pyat Pree •Nicholas Blane as the Spice King •Nonso Anozie as Xaro Xhoan Daxos •Natalia Tena as Osha •Michael McElhatton as Lord Roose Bolton •Rose Leslie as Ygritte •Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth •Oona Chaplin as Talisa Maegyr •Ralph Ineson as Dagmer Cleftjaw •Laura Pradelska as Quaithe •John Stahl as Lord Rickard Karstark •Karl Davies as Ser Alton Lannister •Forbes KB as Black Lorren •Kristian Nairn as Hodor •Steven Cole as Kovarro •Ian Whyte as Ser Gregor Clegane •Art Parkinson as Prince Rickon Stark •Donagh Deeney as a Winterfell shepherd •Sara Dylan as a Bernadette •Steve Wilson as Theon Greyjoy's master of hounds •Slavko Juraga as the Silk King •Tyrone McElhennon as Torrhen Karstark •Neill Fleming as a Karstark soldier •Peter Ballance as Farlen •David Coakley as Drennan •Paul Caddell as Jacks •Duncan Lacroix as a Karstark soldier •David Sheenan [sic] as a Stark guard •Aidan Crowe as Quent •Reg Wayment as a rioter
Uncredited
•Paul Monahan as Stark Guard •Unknown as Palla •Unknown as Billy •Unknown as Jack •Unknown as Malakho •Unknown as a Stark guard •Unknown as the Silk King •Unknown as the Copper King
Sansa Stark: "I beg pardon, Ser. I should have come to you after, to thank you for saving me. You were so brave."
The Hound: "Brave? A dog doesn't need courage to chase off rats."
Sansa: "Does it give you joy to scare people?"
The Hound: "No, it gives me joy to kill people. Spare me. You can't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man."
Sansa: "It was his duty. He never liked it."
The Hound: "Is that what he told you? He lied. Killing is the sweetest thing there is."
•The title of the episode comes from a line by Catelyn Stark to Jaime Lannister, the Kingslayer: "You are a man without honor."
•The soundtrack playing over the credits is a rendition of the House Greyjoy theme. It did not appear in the official soundtrack release.
•Tywin Lannister states that the current civil war in the Seven Kingdoms is being called "the War of Five Kings." This is the first time that the conflict has been named on-screen - though the formal name is ultimately the "War of the Five Kings." It is referred to in dialogue as the "War of the Five Kings" in Season 4 episode "The Lion and the Rose".
•Tywin claims that every child alive still knows Aegon the Conqueror's name 300 years after his death. This is incorrect because at that point of the show, the year is 299 AC, and Aegon died on 37 AC, thus 262 years passed since his death. Note that the years in Westeros are counted from Aegon's conquering of the realm, not from the year he died.
•In the "ThronesCast" interview series, actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (who plays Jaime Lannister) mysteriously refers to a scene in this episode as his favorite moment in the series and his favorite scene he's ever acted in. He later explained in the HBO featurette for this episode that he was referring to the scene between Jaime and Alton Lannister.
•Tyrion made comments similar to Ygritte's back in Season 1 when he visited the Wall, pointing out that the "wildlings" are basically just those people whose ancestors were unfortunate enough to happen to be living north of the Wall when it was built. Both the inhabitants of the North (south of the Wall, ruled by the Starks) and the wildlings are descended from the First Men. They have much closer ethnic ties to each other than the foreign Andal invaders who now dominate all of southern Westeros. Both groups even have the same religion, worshiping the Old Gods, as Osha pointed out in Season 1.
•The episode is adapted from the following chapter of A Game of Thrones:
•Chapter 63, Catelyn X: Torrhen Karstark is killed by Jaime.
•The episode is adapted from the following chapters of A Clash of Kings:
•Chapter 20, Tyrion IV: Cersei breaks down about the safety of her children.
•Chapter 26, Arya VI: Arya recalls the burning of Harrenhal.
•Chapter 30, Arya VII: Arya recalls the burning of Harrenhal.
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