(DRAGON ROARING)
I offer you a choice.
One of the things that Dany has
found immensely frustrating
in the beginnings of this war
against Cersei is that
 she is being asked to fight on
 a certain moral standard
 and... Cersei isn't.
 Because of that, Cersei has
 an advantage over her.
 The more ruthless opponent
 will often win.
Your Grace...
Nothing scrubs bold notions from
a man's head
like a few weeks in a dark cell.
I meant what I said.
I wouldn't say she's acting like
the Mad King because
it's rational.
 She's given them a choice and
 they choose not to
 bend the knee to her and she
 accepts that choice
 and she does exactly what she
 told them she would do.
And from her standpoint,
she's not acting insane
in any way.
She's just being tough, which is
 what she needs to be to win.
 That's one perspective. Tyrion
 has a different perspective
and hopefully people watching
will have their own
and they'll decide for
themselves whether they think
what she did was just
or immoral.
 Dracarys.
(MEN GROANING)
(HORSE WHINNYING)
Arya is very used to being more
clever and more stealthy
and smarter than any of the
people she's up against
 and she hasn't dealt with
 Littlefinger for awhile, so,
 she gets roped into spying on
 somebody who's actually
 leading her by the nose to
 something that he wants her
 to have.
SERVANT: I found it, My Lord.
Lady Stark thanks you for
your service.
He's looking for a way to
prevent this sister bond
from developing further because
the tighter that bond is,
 the more definitively he is
 caught on the outside of it.
(CROWS CAWING)
On the Sansa end of
the relationship,
he's seen the opening
and now all he needs to do
is give Arya cause to display
real rage towards Sansa
and he knows full well that with
what's going on in Sansa's head,
with regards to Arya and how
dangerous she is,
 when Arya starts to act
 dangerous and act angry,
he knows where Sansa's
going to turn.
How will Jon Snow try to
convince people to fight for him
against an enemy they've
never seen before?
Cersei thinks the Army of
the Dead is nothing but a story.
TYRION LANNISTER:
What if we prove her wrong?
D.B. WEISS:
 When the first Whites
 got through in season one,
 they sent Alliser Thorne down
 with a hand that was,
at the time,
probably still doing this,
to prove to everybody that this
 was going on.
By the time this hand got down
there, it had...
rotted away to nothing
and stopped doing this.
There was the idea that bringing
 one of these things down south
had been put out there before
in a way that didn't work,
but, in theory, you could bring
 one of these things down
 and have it still functional
 by the time it gets to
 King's Landing.
That seemed like that would,
on a story level, do the trick.
First White I ever saw was
brought into Castle Black from
beyond The Wall.
Bring one of these things
down to King's Landing and
show her the truth.
Like many of these situations
on the show,
the one who figures it out
is Tyrion.
 The only way you're gonna
 prove it to people
 is to show it to people.
 And obviously we can't bring
 everyone up there,
so, that means bringing
one of them down here.
And how would you get into
King's Landing?
Wasn't sure I'd find you.
Thought you might still be
rowing.
WEISS:
Gendry played an important part
in the lives of more than
one main character in the show.
It wasn't so much a question of
 whether to bring him back,
 as it was,
 how to bring him back.
 Given the relationship he had
 to Davos in season three,
and we ended up with a situation
where Davos was the only way
 Tyrion was gonna get to
 King's Landing to do what he
 needed to do.
We realized that Davos
could either be sitting,
waiting by the boat,
 twiddling his thumbs
 or he could go and look for
the guy who ended up
being almost like
a surrogate son to him.
His role just kind of took shape
 from there.
I'm Robert Baratheon's son.
Bastard son.
He's not going to lie to
Jon about who he is
and especially when telling
him the truth could
help him be a part of things,
which is something he's probably
 wanted very much for
 the past three or four years.
Sir Davos told me where you are
going, Your Grace, and why.
Let me come with you.
Gendry is a little bit like Jon,
I think it's part of the reason
 they start to like each other
 relatively quickly is,
he just wants to be honest,
and he's meeting this
young man he's never met before
who's quite powerful,
he's the King of the North but
also, they're both bastard sons
of powerful men who were
friends of each other.
We could use the help.
WEISS: The end of five, where
you get the whole team together,
within two minutes,
you realize that
 everybody has a good reason
 to hate everybody else.
It's a real quick enmity
ping-pong match between them
and you realize that all these
guys are gonna walk out
 into the wilds of the North
 together
 and try to do something
 extremely dangerous.
(GUSTS BLOWING)
