Game of Thrones Season 4: Inside the Episode #10 (HBO)

What’s a man of the Night's Watch
doing in a wildling camp?

My name is Jon Snow, your grace.

I'm Ned Stark’s son.

[music]

This is a world where bloodlines mean
everything

and particularly for Stannis,

I mean, whose whole claim on the throne

is based on the fact
that he is the rightful heir.

He is the,

he is the true blood relation
to Robert Baratheon, his older brother.

And now he's meeting a young man
who, while a bastard, is still descended

from Ned Stark.

And Ned was the one who informed Stannis
about his rightful claim to the throne.

And so Stannis has a lot of respect

for the memory of Ned,
and so he has respect for Ned's family.

Stannis is a person who takes obligations
very seriously,

and he has a debt to Ned
Stark, and Ned Stark

died for Stannis’ birthright,
and I think he'll never forget that.

And it definitely factors
into his decision to take Jon seriously.

We were right there in front of you

and you didn't see us. One look in the past
20 years.

One real

look at your own children

and you would have known.

Known what?

It's a huge gamble on Cersei's part.

You need to be steely and tough as hell
to pull a move like this on

a person like Tywin.
She goes up against him and she wins.

And she wins with the one thing
that she holds over him,

which is his family legacy.

She has a piece of information
that could destroy

the most important thing in the world
to him,

the thing that he's worked on his, his
in his entire life.

And I think that Tywin looks in her eyes,
and when she tells him the truth,

he realizes that she is someone who will
do exactly what she claims she'll do.

She's very much
her father's daughter in that way.

[metal scraping]

[music]

Ruling is about maintaining order

and creating an environment
for your people that is safe.

And her dragons, which were such an asset
in scaring the shit out of everybody

and making people throw down their swords
and run in the other direction,

when she would come knocking
as a conqueror, they’re

becoming a liability
that she can't afford anymore.

It's one thing to be killing
people's goats

and you can pay off a goat herder
for his goats.

You can't pay off a goat herder
for his children.

So she realizes that she has
to put the interests

of her people ahead of her dragons,
who are the only real children

she's ever going to have.

[music and footsteps]

You’re Arya Stark.
Arya is really impressed

by her, up until the moment
where Brienne figures out who she is.

And then Arya gets really suspicious
because her travels over

the last few years have taught her

to be quite suspicious of strangers,
even strangers who might appear friendly

at first, and the fact Brienne admits
her association with Jaime Lannister

and as the hound points out, Brienne’s
carrying a Lannister sword.

You know, Arya has no idea

that's the Valyrian steel
that was melted down from ice.

It's just she knows it's Lannister gold
because the hound says it is,

and Brienne doesn't deny it.

So all of a sudden,

this woman, who Arya was quite taken with,
seems to be an agent of the Lannisters,

and Arya doesn't want any part of her.
Brienne’s really caught unawares here.

I don't know if she's thinking too far
into the future about what

she's going to do with this little girl
once she gets her hands on her,

but I think that right now, her sole
concern is saving this girl from the hound.

She obviously doesn't believe
that the hound is protecting Arya,

somewhat tragically, because by the time
we get to this point in the story,

the hound is protecting Arya
when he says he's looking after her.

By the time
he says that, he actually means it.

[heavy breathing]
[music]

Go on,

do it.

Do it.

Arya is, in some ways
the product of this education,

where the hound's, you know,

telling her you're very soft
and you've always been soft

and if you're going to stay soft,
you're not going to survive.

And look at all your soft,

Stark relatives who died for being soft-
hearted or whatever.

And Arya's not anymore.

You know, she's become quite tough.

And as much as there's been a growing,

you know, closeness between her
and the hound at some points

in the season, she's never forgotten
what the hound has done.

And the hound was on her list.

And so the hound now wants something
very badly from her,

and she's not going to give it to him,
you know?

And, and, it's kind of a brutal moment
because you kind of so want

Arya didn't give him mercy,
you know, just to be kind of sweet there,

but that sweetness is gone,
if it was ever there.

And partly, the reason for that
is because of the hound himself.

And she gets her revenge, finally,
for, you know, the murder of her friend.

Kill me!

[music]

Tyrion
definitely has impulsive tendencies,

especially when it comes to his father,
and I think he just thinks about

what kind of a father Tywin
has been to him, and the fact that Tywin

was willing to have him executed
for something that he knows

Tywin knows he didn't do.

I think at the end of the day,
he just decided it was time for Tywin

to be called to task for the way
he behaved towards his son for the past

40 odd years.

Tywin, my lion.

[music]

Tyrion

is coming to to deal with his father
and had no idea he was going to run

into Shae, and it's heartbreaking for him,
especially of hearing her say, my lion,

which was always what, what Shae
called Tyrion, and hearing it

and realizing it's meant for Tywin,
not Tyrion,

is a shock and kind of the final betrayal
that just makes Tyrion snap

in this moment.

As horrible as everything has been,
that's, in a way, the most horrible thing

he could possibly see
because she wasn't a whore. By the time

they have become committed to each other,

she's no longer a whore.

When he tell - when he calls her a whore,

it's not that he believes
this is what she is. It's

what he desperately needs
to tell her to save her life, in his mind.

And ironically, he's ended up turning her

into that very thing
that she was, was running from.

So the fact that she would betray him
with his father

in that way,
I just think something breaks in him.

It's kind of the tragedy of these
two people who genuinely loved each other

and who both felt betrayed by one another
and end up trying to kill each other.

[music]

[footsteps]
[creak of door]

Tyrion.

Put down the crossbow.

You know, one of the great things
about Tywin, one of the reasons

he is so good at what he does
is he's the master poker player.

And part of that means never showing shock
and if you’re going to be

to be the master of the situation,

you can't admit that you are stunned
by the turn of events.

And so I think he's
definitely surprised. But,

but Tywin is Tywin and he,
and he very quickly tries to manipulate

the situation again and, and tell Tyrion
I was never going to let them execute you.

You're my son.

And I think he's quite convinced that

he'll be able to talk his way
out of this one. In this game

that so many of the characters are playing
no one's played it better than Tywin,

and he doesn't believe that this can be
the end.

It's not going to end like this.

Tywin Lannister does not die
sitting on the toilet,

you know, murdered by his own son.

And he's kind of shocked right up until
the moment the first bolt hits him,

and then even more shocked
because he can't believe that,

this is how it's going to end.

It's all of Tywin shortcomings as a person
and a father coming

together in a perfect storm,
in this moment to fatal effect.

This whole season is about learning
hard lessons from your ruthless elders.

And Tyrion learned that lesson.

This is a man

who's been trying to eliminate him
really from the time he was born, and

Tyrion gets his revenge.

[footsteps and music]
[clang]

[door opening sound]

What have you done?

[music]