“Do you know who this belonged to?”
Bran asks Littlefinger, and we really wish he would tell us.
Even in the relatively brief period of the show’s timeline, this knife has had quite the history.
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Then Catelyn brought the dagger to King’s Landing, where Littlefinger said he once owned it.
Yet Littlefinger claimed he lost it to Tyrion in a bet, something that apparently wasn’t true.
Littlefinger reclaimed the dagger after Ned was arrested and has held it until now.
A very similar-looking dagger was in the book Samwell was reading earlier this season.
This is one of Littlefinger’s motivational speech declarations to Varys back in season 3.
This worries Littlefinger, as well as it should.
It’s like Bran just started reciting Lord Baelish’s internet tool history.
If Bran knows that about Littlefinger, what else does he know?
But I remember so much else now."
I loved that spunky Arya line, but it evolved to her calmly explaining that Winterfell is her home.
In the crypt, Sansa and Arya reunite.
They’ve never been the closest family members, but they are both genuinely happy to see each other.
It’s downright heartwarming to have Arya look a bit like her old self after her homicidal spree.
Arya mentions her death list to Sansa, who at first thinks she’s joking.
Arya and Sansa go outside to interface with the Branbot-9000.
He’s sitting in his new wheelchair by the weirwood tree.
We bet he’s been tapping tree roots to watch upcoming episodes ofGame of ThronesBran’s the ultimate hacker.
(Maybe Bran’s the one who infiltrated HBO?
Somebody get to work on that fan theory!)
Bran notes he saw Arya at the crossroads and that Cersei is on her death-list of names.
Sansa is startledshe realizes Arya wasn’t messing around.
Bran gives Arya the dagger, and Sansa’s threat alert is triggered.
She is never going to be entirely comfortable with him lurking around, nor should she be.
In the courtyard, Arya enters and challenges Brienne to spar.
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Arya and Brienne sparring is pure joy.
And then there is Sansa.
Her reaction to her kid sister’s skills is so interesting.
What’s going on here?
Angry that she never learned how do defend herself in the same way?
Part of the reason Arya is doing this is so her big sister can see her.
She’s thinking about what her sister’s departure might mean.
Unfortunately, there’s no hot spring pool in here like he enjoyed with Ygritte.
This is what we need to do.
They’re making some serious eyes at each other.
He still won’t do it.
“Isn’t [the North’s] survival more important than your pride?”
Men and their commitment issues, am I right?
Outside, they run into her advisors, who have more bad news on the warfront.
She rips into Tyrion for his failed strategies and even questions his loyalty.
Then she puts Jon Snow on the spot.
This is a big moment in their relationship.
Dany’s treating him like a trusted insider rather than an outsider.
Later, Davos accuses Jon of having a Dany crush.
The King in the North claims he doesn’t have time for such shenanigans.
We of course disagree.
The Onion Knight also continues happily chatting up Missandei.
Is he…flirting?Being fatherly?
Is this right-hand man to right-hand woman chat?
Now I’m not so sure.
I don’t think we’ve ever seen him this cheerful.
“Will you forgive me if I switch sides?”
Next, Theon returns to Dragonstone.
Kit Harington chooses a rather surprising Jon Snow Expression for this moment that’s really effective.
He sees Theon and looks…hurt.
He’s like:You…how could you.
Then he shifts into wanting to beat the hell out of him.
Only Theon rescuing Sansa has saved the craven turn cloak.
King’s Landing: A quick beat with Cersei and Tycho.
But she shouldn’t get too comfy.
Lady Olenna’s calculating seed-planting predictions about his sister might have found root.
Bronn, ever attuned to approaching danger, hears it firsta horde of Dothraki screamers on the charge.
The result is less a battle than an ambush.
Jaime orders the men to cluster together.
Next: Reign of fire
Dany rides Drogon into war, and the resulting action is just stunning.
Some on Twitter were calling this the bestGoTaction sequence they’ve ever seen.
Finally, seven seasons into this fantasy series, we really see what a fully-grown dragon can do.
It’s like dropping napalm on men who are merely carrying large knives.
Many productions use computer effects to depict people on fire and rarely looks convincing.
Doing it for real is time consuming, costly, and dangerous.
Thrones set more stunt people on fire than any Hollywood production in history for this sequence.
It’s also an impressively cool-looking dragon-killing weapon.
He scores a direct hit on Drogonnot fatal, yet still serious.
The dragon blasts the scorpion as Bronn leaps aside.
She tries to pull the giant spear out of her dragon’s hide.
Where are her Dothraki?
They should be protecting their queen.
Jaime spots her and charges to take her out.
Now that it’s actually happening we don’t want to lose any of them.
It looks like Jaime might actually skewer Daenerys, but Drogon spots the threat.
His throat glows, which is rad.
This is normally the last thing a dragon victim sees.
What did you think?
Here’s a trivia question.
Winner gets an “I’ve Brought Ice and Fire Together” mug from the HBO Store.
Question: Arya and Davos have both mentioned a dragon that does not belong to Dany.
What’s the dragon’s name?
First right to ewdigital@ew.com gets it.
We’ll have another trivia question in the podcast tomorrow.
