- Jon Snow: Why do you read so much?
- Tyrion Lannister: Look at me and tell me what you see.
- Jon Snow: Is this a trick?
- Tyrion Lannister: What you see is a dwarf. If I had been born a peasant, they might have left me out in the woods to die. Alas, I was born a Lannister of Casterly Rock. Things are expected of me. My father was the Hand of the King for twenty years.
- Jon Snow: Until your brother killed that king.
- Tyrion Lannister: Yes. Until my brother killed him. Life is full of these little ironies. My sister married the new king, and my repulsive nephew will be king after him. I must do my part for the honor of my house; wouldn't you agree? But how? Well, my brother has his sword, and I have my mind. And a mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.
- Eddard Stark: [to Jon] There's great honor in serving the Night's Watch. The Starks have manned the Wall for thousands of years, and you are a Stark. You may not have my name, but you have my blood.
- Tyrion Lannister: Before you go, you will call on Lord and Lady Stark and offer your sympathies.
- Joffrey Baratheon: What good will my sympathies do then?
- Tyrion Lannister: None. But it is expected of you. Your absence has already been noted.
- Joffrey Baratheon: The boy means nothing to me. And I can't stand the wailing of women.
- [Tyrion slaps Joffrey]
- Tyrion Lannister: One word and I hit you again.
- Joffrey Baratheon: I'm telling mother!
- [Tyrion slaps Joffrey again]
- Tyrion Lannister: Go! Tell her. But first you will get to Lord and Lady Stark, and you will fall on your knees and tell them how very sorry you are, that you are at their service and that all your prayers are with them. *Do you understand?*
- Joffrey Baratheon: You can't!
- [Tyrion slaps Joffrey again]
- Tyrion Lannister: Do you understand?
- [Joffery leaves angrily]
- Sandor Clegane: The prince will remember that, little lord.
- Tyrion Lannister: I hope so. If he forgets, be a good dog and remind him.
- Jaime Lannister: But even if the boy lives he would be a cripple, a grotesque. Give me a good, clean death anyday.
- Tyrion Lannister: Speaking for the grotesques, I have to disagree. Death is so final, yet life is full of possibilities. I hope the boy does wake. I'd be very interested to hear what he has to say.
- Jaime Lannister: My dear brother, there are times you make me wonder whose side you're on.
- Tyrion Lannister: *My* dear brother, you wound me. You know how much I love my family.
- Viserys Targaryen: What does Ned Stark want you for? Buying from a slaver?
- Jorah Mormont: Selling to one. Some poachers I caught on my land.
- Viserys Targaryen: Under my reign, you won't be punished for such nonsense. You can rest assured of that.
- Doreah: You will make him like it, Khaleesi. Men want what they never had. And the Dothraki take slaves like a hound takes a bitch. Are you a slave, Khaleesi?
- [Daenerys shakes her head]
- Doreah: Then don't make love like a slave.
- [Daenerys hesitates, then flips Doreah over so Daenerys is on top]
- Doreah: Very good, Khaleesi! Out there he is the mightly Khal, but in this tent, he belongs to you.
- Daenerys Targaryen: I... I don't think this is the Dothraki way.
- Doreah: If he wanted the Dothraki way, why did he marry you?
- [as Cersei enters, Catelyn is watching over comatose Bran, then stands, embarrassed for not being dressed properly]
- Cersei Lannister: Please.
- Catelyn Stark: I would have dressed, your Grace.
- Cersei Lannister: This is your home. I'm your guest.
- [Catelyn sits. Cersei approaches Bran's bed]
- Cersei Lannister: Handsome one, isn't he? I lost my first boy.
- [surprised, Catelyn stares at Cersei]
- Cersei Lannister: A little black-haired beauty. He was a fighter too... tried to beat the fever that took him. Forgive me. It's the last thing you need to hear right now.
- Catelyn Stark: [shakes her head] I never knew.
- Cersei Lannister: It was years ago. Robert was crazed, beat his hands bloody on the wall, all the things men do to show you how much they care. The boy looked just like him. Such a little thing... a bird without feathers. They came to take his body away and Robert held me. I screamed and I battled, but he held me.
- [Cersei's eyes are filled with tears]
- Cersei Lannister: That little bundle. They took him away and I never saw him again. Never have visited the crypt, never.
- [long moment of silence]
- Cersei Lannister: I pray to the mother every morning and night that she return your child to you.
- Catelyn Stark: [nods] I am grateful.
- Cersei Lannister: Perhaps this time she'll listen.
- [Cersei leaves. Catelyn caresses Bran's hair]
- [Jaime finds Jon at the blacksmith's forge, examining Arya's sword]
- Jaime Lannister: A sword for the Wall?
- Jon Snow: I already have one.
- Jaime Lannister: Good man. Have you swung it yet?
- Jon Snow: Of course I have.
- Jaime Lannister: At someone, I mean.
- [Jon does not answer]
- Jaime Lannister: It's a strange thing, first time you cut a man. You realize we're nothing but sacks of meat and blood, and some bone to keep it all standing.
- [pause]
- Jaime Lannister: Let me thank you ahead of time for guarding us all from the perils beyond the Wall. Wildlings and white walkers and whatnot. We're grateful to have good, strong men like you protecting us.
- Jon Snow: We've guarded the Kingdoms for eight thousand years.
- Jaime Lannister: Is it "we" already? Have you taken your vows, then?
- Jon Snow: Soon enough.
- Jaime Lannister: Give my regards to the Night's Watch. I'm sure it will be thrilling to serve in such an elite force. And if not...
- [Jaime smiles and shrugs]
- Jaime Lannister: ...it's only for life.
- Robb Stark: You've said goodbye to Bran? He's not going to die. I know it.
- Jon Snow: You Starks are hard to kill.
- Robb Stark: My mother?
- Jon Snow: She was very kind.
- Robb Stark: Well, good. Next time I see you, you'll be all in black.
- Jon Snow: It was always my color.
- [Arya packs her belongings]
- Arya Stark: [to Jon] Septa Mordane says I have to do it again. My things weren't properly folded, she says. Who cares how they're folded? They're gonna get all messed up, anyway.
- Jon Snow: It's good you've got help.
- Arya Stark: Watch. Nymeria, gloves.
- [Nymeria sits there and whimpers]
- Jon Snow: Impressive.
- Arya Stark: Shut up.
- Jorah Mormont: [to Daenerys] You need to drink, child. And eat.
- [Jorah hands Daenerys a piece of dried meat]
- Daenerys Targaryen: Isn't there anything else?
- Jorah Mormont: The Dothraki have two things in abundance: grass and horses. People can't live on grass.
- [Daenerys finds the taste of dried horse meat repulsive]
- Tyrion Lannister: The charms of the North seem entirely lost on you.
- Cersei Lannister: I still can't believe you're going. It's ridiculous, even for you.
- Tyrion Lannister: Where's your sense of wonder? The greatest structure ever built, the intrepid men of the Night's Watch, the wintry abode of the White Walkers.
- Jaime Lannister: Tell me you're not thinking of taking the black.
- Tyrion Lannister: And go celibate? The whores would go begging from Dorne to Casterly Rock. No, I just want to stand on top of the wall and piss off the edge of the world.
- [Robert, Ned, and their escorts rest during the journey to King's Landing]
- Robert Baratheon: Gods, this is country! I've half a mind to leave them all behind and keep going.
- Eddard Stark: I've half a mind to go with you.
- Robert Baratheon: What do you say, just you and me on the Kingsroad, swords at our sides, a couple of tavern wenches to warm our beds tonight.
- Eddard Stark: You should have asked me 20 years ago.
- Robert Baratheon: Heh. There were wars to fight, women to marry. We never had the chance to be young.
- Eddard Stark: I recall a few chances.
- Robert Baratheon: [sharing a laugh] There was that one... oh, what was her name? That common girl of yours? Becca? With the great big tits you bury your face in.
- Eddard Stark: Bessie. She was one of yours.
- Robert Baratheon: Bessie! Thank the gods for Bessie and her tits. Yours was, uh... Aleena? No. You told me once. Uh, Meryl? Your bastard's mother.
- Eddard Stark: Wylla.
- Robert Baratheon: That's it. She must have been a rare wench to make Lord Eddard Stark forget his honor. You never told me what she looked like.
- Eddard Stark: Nor will I.
- Robert Baratheon: We were at war. None of us knew if we were gonna go back home again. You're too hard on yourself. You always have been. I swear if I weren't your king, you'd have hit me already.
- Eddard Stark: The worst thing about your coronation, I'll never get to hit you again.
- Robert Baratheon: Trust me, that's not the worst thing.
- Daenerys Targaryen: Why did the trader from Qarth tell you these stories?
- Doreah: Men like to talk when they're happy. Before your brother bought me for you, it was my job to make men happy.
- Daenerys Targaryen: How old were you?
- Doreah: I was nine when my mother sold me to the pleasure house.
- Daenerys Targaryen: Nine?
- Doreah: I did not touch a man for three years, Khaleesi. First, you must learn.
- Daenerys Targaryen: Can you teach me how to make the khal happy?
- Doreah: Yes.
- Daenerys Targaryen: Will it take three years?
- Doreah: No.
- Jorah Mormont: We're still not far from Pentos, Your Grace. Magister Illyrio has extended his hospitality. You'd be more comfortable there.
- Viserys Targaryen: I have no interest in hospitality or comfort. I'll stay with Drogo until he fulfills his end of the bargain and I have my crown.
- Jorah Mormont: As you wish, Your Grace.
- Viserys Targaryen: Well, Mormont, as brutish as this life is, I suppose it is preferable to beheading.
- Daenerys Targaryen: Have you ever seen a dragon?
- Irri: Dragon gone, Khaleesi.
- Daenerys Targaryen: Everywhere? Even in the East?
- Irri: No dragon. Brave men kill them. It is known.
- Jhiqui: It is known.
- Doreah: A trader from Qarth told me that dragons come from the moon.
- Daenerys Targaryen: The moon?
- Doreah: He told me the moon was an egg, Khaleesi, that once there were two moons in the sky. But one wandered too close to the sun and it cracked from the heat. Out of it poured a thousand, thousand dragons and they drank the sun's fire.
- Irri: [giggling] Moon is no egg. Moon is goddess, wife of sun. It is known.
- Jhiqui: It is known.
- Daenerys Targaryen: Leave me with her.
- [Irri and Jhiqui leave to give her and Doreah privacy]
- Catelyn Stark: 17 years ago, you rode off with Robert Baratheon. You came back a year later with another woman's son. And now you're leaving again.
- Eddard Stark: I have no choice.
- Catelyn Stark: That's what men always say when honor calls. That's what you tell your families, tell yourselves. You do have a choice. And you've made it.
- Eddard Stark: Cat...
- Catelyn Stark: [crying] I can't do it, Ned. I really can't.
- Eddard Stark: You can. You must.
- Robert Baratheon: There was a rider in the night.
- Eddard Stark: [taking a parchment note] Daenerys Targaryen has wed some Dothraki horselord. What of it? Should we send her a wedding gift?
- Robert Baratheon: A knife perhaps, a good sharp one, and a bold man to wield it.
- Eddard Stark: She's little more than a child.
- Robert Baratheon: Oh, soon enough that child will spread her legs and start breeding.
- Eddard Stark: Tell me we're not speaking of this.
- Robert Baratheon: Oh, it's unspeakable to you? What her father did to your family, that was unspeakable. What Rhaegar Targaryen did to your sister, the woman I loved. I'll kill every Targaryen I get my hands on.
- Eddard Stark: But you can't get your hands on this one, can you?
- Robert Baratheon: This Khal Drogo, it's said he has 100,000 men in his horde.
- Eddard Stark: Even a million Dothraki are no threat to the realm, as long as they remain on the other side of the Narrow Sea. They have no ships, Robert.
- Robert Baratheon: There are still those in the Seven Kingdoms who call me usurper. If the Targaryen boy crosses with a Dothraki horde at his back, the scum will join him.
- Eddard Stark: He will not cross. And if by chance he does, we'll throw him back into the sea.
- Robert Baratheon: There's a war coming, Ned. I don't know when, I don't know who we'll be fighting, but it's coming.
- Robert Baratheon: Now, child... tell me what happened. Tell it to all and tell it true. It's a great crime to lie to a king.
- Sansa Stark: I don't know. I don't remember. Everything happened so fast. I didn't see.
- [Arya grabs Sansa by the hair]
- Arya Stark: Liar! Liar, liar, liar!
- Eddard Stark: Hey, stop it! That's enough of that.
- Arya Stark: Liar, liar, liar!
- [Ned pulls his daughters apart]
- Eddard Stark: Stop! Arya!
- Cersei Lannister: She's as wild as that animal of hers. I want her punished.
- Robert Baratheon: What would you have me do, whip her through the streets? Damn it, children fight. It's over.
- Jon Snow: I have something for you. And it has to be packed very carefully.
- Arya Stark: A present?
- Jon Snow: Close the door.
- [Arya does, and Jon reveals a sword in its scabbard]
- Jon Snow: This is no toy.
- [Jon unsheathes the sword]
- Jon Snow: Be careful you don't cut yourself.
- Arya Stark: It's so skinny.
- Jon Snow: So are you. I had the blacksmith make it for you special. It won't hack a man's head off, but it can poke him full of holes if you're quick enough.
- [Arya is falsely accused of an unprovoked attack on Joffrey]
- Robert Baratheon: Ned, see to it that your daughter is disciplined. I'll do the same with my son.
- Eddard Stark: Gladly, Your Grace.
- Cersei Lannister: And what of the direwolf? What of the beast that savaged your son?
- Robert Baratheon: I'd forgot the damned wolf.
- Jaime Lannister: We found no trace of the direwolf, Your Grace.
- Robert Baratheon: No? So be it.
- Cersei Lannister: We have another wolf.
- Robert Baratheon: As you will.
- Eddard Stark: You can't mean it.
- Robert Baratheon: A direwolf's no pet. Get her a dog. She'll be happier for it.
- Sansa Stark: He doesn't mean Lady, does he? No, no, not Lady! Lady didn't bite anyone! She's good!
- Arya Stark: Lady wasn't there! You leave her alone!
- Sansa Stark: [to Ned] Stop them. Don't let them do it. Please, please, it wasn't Lady!
- Eddard Stark: [to Robert] Is this your command, Your Grace?
- [Robert leaves without answering]
- Cersei Lannister: Where is the beast?
- Jaime Lannister: Chained up outside, Your Grace.
- Cersei Lannister: Ser Ilyn, do me the honor.
- Eddard Stark: No. Jory... take the girls to their rooms. If it must be done, then I'll do it myself.
- Cersei Lannister: Is this some trick?
- Eddard Stark: The wolf is of the North. She deserves better than a butcher.
- Sansa Stark: [referring to Ilyn Payne] Why won't he speak to me?
- Sandor Clegane: He hasn't been very talkative these last 20 years. Since the Mad King had his tongue ripped out with hot pincers.
- Joffrey Baratheon: He speaks damn well with his sword, though. Ser Ilyn Payne, the King's Justice. The royal executioner.
- [Joffrey notices Sansa is scared]
- Joffrey Baratheon: What is it, sweet lady? Does the Hound frighten you? Away with you, dog. You're scaring my lady.
- Jon Snow: I came to say goodbye to Bran.
- Catelyn Stark: You've said it.
- [Jon moves to Bran's beside]
- Jon Snow: I wish I could be here when you wake up. I'm going north with Uncle Benjen. I'm taking the black.
- [Jon kneels down]
- Jon Snow: I know we always talked about seeing the wall together, but you'll be able to come visit me at Castle Black when you're better. I'll know my way around by then. I'll be a sworn brother of the Night's Watch. We can go out walking beyond the Wall, if you're not afraid.
- Catelyn Stark: I want you to leave.
- Eddard Stark: What is the meaning of this? Why was my daughter not brought to me at once?
- Cersei Lannister: How dare you speak to your king in that manner?
- Robert Baratheon: Quiet, woman. Sorry, Ned. I never meant to frighten the girl. But we need to get this business done quickly.
- Cersei Lannister: Your girl and that butcher's boy attacked my son. That animal of hers nearly tore his arm off.
- Arya Stark: That's not true! She just... bit him a little. He was hurting Mycah.
- Cersei Lannister: Joff told us what happened. You and that boy beat him with clubs while you set your wolf on him.
- Arya Stark: That's not what happened!
- Joffrey Baratheon: Yes, it is! They all attacked me and she threw my sword in the river.
- Arya Stark: Liar!
- Joffrey Baratheon: Shut up!
- Robert Baratheon: Enough! He tells me one thing, she tells me another. Seven hells! What am I to make of this?
- Catelyn Stark: What I am about to tell you must remain between us. I don't think Bran fell from that tower. I think he was thrown.
- Maester Luwin: The boy was always sure-footed before.
- Catelyn Stark: Someone tried to kill him twice. Why? Why murder an innocent child? Unless he saw something he wasn't meant to see.
- Theon Greyjoy: Saw what, my lady?
- Catelyn Stark: I don't know. But I would stake my life the Lannisters are involved. We already have reason to suspect their loyalty to the Crown.
- Rodrik Cassel: Did you notice the dagger the killer used? It's too fine a weapon for such a man. The blade is Valyrian steel, the handle dragonbone. Someone gave it to him.
- Robb Stark: They come into our home and try to murder my brother? If it's war they want...
- Theon Greyjoy: If it comes to that, you know I'll stand behind you.
- Maester Luwin: What, is there going to be a battle in the Godswood? Huh? Too easily words of war become acts of war. We don't know the truth yet. Lord Stark must be told of this.
- Catelyn Stark: I don't trust a raven to carry these words.
- Robb Stark: I'll ride to King's Landing.
- Catelyn Stark: No. There must always be a Stark in Winterfell. I will go myself.
- Robb Stark: Mother, you can't.
- Catelyn Stark: I must.
- Rodrik Cassel: I'll send Hal with a squad of guardsmen to escort you.
- Catelyn Stark: Too large a party attracts unwanted attention. I don't want the Lannisters to know I'm coming.
- Rodrik Cassel: Let me accompany you, at least. The kingsroad can be a dangerous place for a woman alone.
- Robb Stark: [Cat nods in agreement] What about Bran?
- Catelyn Stark: I have prayed to the Seven for more than a month. Bran's life is in their hands now.
- [Joffrey offers Sansa a canteen of wine]
- Sansa Stark: I probably shouldn't have any more. Father only lets us have one cup at feasts.
- Joffrey Baratheon: My princess can drink as much as she wants.
- Joffrey Baratheon: And who are you, boy?
- Mycah: Mycah, my lord.
- Sansa Stark: He's the butcher's boy.
- Arya Stark: He's my friend.
- Joffrey Baratheon: A butcher's boy who wants to be a knight, eh?
- [drawing his sword]
- Joffrey Baratheon: Pick up your sword, butcher's boy. Let's see how good you are.
- Mycah: She asked me to, my lord. She asked me to.
- Joffrey Baratheon: I'm your prince, not your lord, and I said pick up your sword.
- Mycah: It's not a sword, my prince. It's only a stick.
- Joffrey Baratheon: And you're not a knight. Only a butcher's boy. That was my lady's sister you were hitting, do you know that?
- Arya Stark: Stop it!
- Sansa Stark: Arya, stay out of this.
- Joffrey Baratheon: I won't hurt him... much.