00:00Order your man to step aside, or there will be violence.
00:04I choose violence.
00:08Should I fail to persuade the Blackfish to surrender,
00:11and if you attack the castle, honor compels me to fight you.
00:16I love Cersei.
00:17And if I have to slaughter every Tully who ever lived to get back to her,
00:22that's what I'll do.
00:31No!
00:42This isn't what we agreed to.
00:43These aren't White Walkers.
00:45This isn't an army of the dead.
00:47This isn't our fight.
00:51When this idea of taking Winterfell comes up,
00:54I know immediately that this is going to be a hard sell.
00:58It's hard to ask your people to go to a war you probably won't win
01:02when you've just lost like 95% of your total population.
01:06And now suddenly we are a part of a much larger political picture.
01:11The Boltons, the Karstarks, the Umbers,
01:14they know you're here.
01:16They know that more than half of you are women and children.
01:19After they finish with me, they'll come for you.
01:21We're aware of Ramsay's numbers and how battle-hardened they are
01:26and how prepared they are for war.
01:28And we aren't.
01:29Our gang is a kind of ragtag group of ne'er-do-wells.
01:32It's certainly not a cohesive force by any means.
01:35The Free Folk, they are more simple.
01:37To talk about politics in Westeros with these southern twats,
01:41it doesn't help much.
01:43It's more like if somebody sacrificed their life for you,
01:46then you have something going on.
01:48If it weren't for him, none of us would be here.
01:52All of you would be meat in the Night King's army.
01:54And I'd be a pile of charred bones just like Mance.
01:57So I have to get down to the deep emotions
02:00and point out what Jon has done for us.
02:03He almost sacrificed his life for us in Hardhome,
02:06and now they killed him because he did that.
02:08And if he hadn't, we'd all be dead.
02:12In a sense, we kind of already know
02:14that we're going to be severely outnumbered.
02:16Probably don't have a chance.
02:19But the right thing has to be done.
02:22Snow.
02:36Do I have to beg you?
02:39Do it.
02:42Do it.
02:46The Hound's just left there on his own up in the mountains.
02:49I might be a bit of a shock because, you know, I thought he was dead.
02:52Then I'm sure there'll be a few that are going,
02:54I knew it! I knew it!
02:57You know, the Hound's quite hard to kill.
02:59When I found you, I thought you'd been dead for days.
03:01I was going to give you a proper burial, and then you cuffed.
03:04Nearly shit myself.
03:05I'm like a lead with this sort of group of people
03:08who don't believe in violence anymore.
03:10So obviously I'm not going to last more than one episode.
03:15There's a reason you're still here.
03:16There's a reason I'm a big fucker and I'm tough to kill.
03:19No reason.
03:21Gods aren't done with you yet.
03:23My character, it's in there to highlight maybe
03:27some kind of change for the Hound.
03:29The Hound's just been told so many times
03:32that there is a reason you're still alive.
03:34And he has been listening and he likes this ray,
03:37but he's still looking for direction, I think.
03:39Oh, there's plenty of pious sons of bitches
03:41who think they know the word of God or gods.
03:43I don't. I don't even know their real names.
03:46That's the principle of what my character is.
03:49There's something greater than any of us.
03:51Whether it be God, it doesn't matter,
03:53just as long as you know that you're not the top of the food chain
03:56and have a little humility now and again.
03:58I reckoned you were going to die by the time I loaded you on the wagon,
04:02but you didn't. What kept you going?
04:08Hate. Just that one word. Hate.
04:11But I don't think the Hound, he's full of hate, as he was.
04:15I think Santa Clegane is starting off with a little bit of peace, actually.
04:20I'm sure that could change like that, though.
04:22You know, especially if he hasn't had breakfast or something.
04:29How many men did it take to cut you down?
04:32Just one.
04:36He must have been some kind of monster.
04:39He was a woman.
04:45I think suffering a near-death experience probably changes anyone,
04:49and that certainly has changed Santa or Clegane.
04:52He's a more thoughtful person than he was when we last saw him.
04:55He's probably more aware of his vulnerabilities.
04:58He knows how close he came to dying,
05:00and he's really thinking about his past in a way that he never had before.
05:04Never too late to stop robbing people, to stop killing people.
05:08Start helping people.
05:11It's never too late to come back.
05:13You can feel the very subtle effect
05:16that Ray and his community are having on the Hound,
05:19and he's starting to see
05:21that there's perhaps a different way of living your life.
05:24What are you doing here?
05:26Well, we're talking about life.
05:29You?
05:31You?
05:33Protecting the people.
05:35The unfortunate, ugly reality
05:38is that the kind of pacifism that Ray is preaching
05:41is often suicidal when you're in the middle
05:44of the kind of world that they're all in.
05:46Something sad about the fact that this person
05:49who tried desperately to walk away from what he was
05:53is being given no real choice but to go full throttle
05:56back in the direction of what he really is, which is a killer.
06:02This isn't your fight.
06:04You shouldn't have to come to Winterfell with me.
06:07I shouldn't be asking you.
06:09I need you with me if we're gonna beat them,
06:12and we need to beat them if you're gonna survive.
06:15John is not a wildling.
06:17John grew up in a castle raised by a noble father,
06:20but John has a much easier time with the kind of plain talk
06:24that the people north of the Wall resonate with.
06:27He died for us.
06:29If we are not willing to do the same for him,
06:32we deserve to be the last of the free folk.
06:35These wildlings that he's convincing
06:37are people whose lives he's saved.
06:39They're people who've seen the same things he's seen.
06:42They are reticent to follow anyone,
06:44especially a non-wildling, but they're all smart enough
06:47and practical enough to realize that the old rules
06:50that governed their existence for hundreds of years
06:53are no longer in effect.
06:55So he does a very good job convincing them,
06:58I served under your uncle at Castle Black.
07:00I was his steward. In fact, I...
07:02I think we've had enough small talk.
07:04Why are you here?
07:05We were excited about the prospect of the character,
07:08because she's mentioned in passing in the previous season.
07:11Do you know this wretched girl?
07:14Lyanna Mormont.
07:15The Lord Commander's niece.
07:17Lady of Bear Island, and a child of 10.
07:20The more we thought about it, John is gonna come up
07:23against so many old guys with beards in the north
07:26that, like, what if she was a tougher audience?
07:29It seemed like an inherently fun scene to watch.
07:32It also is terrifying,
07:33because it's putting a lot of dramatic weight
07:35on the shoulders of somebody who needs to be very young.
07:38And we're very lucky to have found Bella,
07:40because she is doing such a great job
07:42of just talking smack to these guys
07:44who are used to being the heroes who make proclamations.
07:48What you have to understand, my lady, is that...
07:50I understand that I'm responsible for Bear Island
07:54and all who live here.
07:55So why should I sacrifice one more Mormont life
07:58for someone else's war?
08:02I'll never hurt you, little brother.
08:05Don't you know that?
08:06Yara does love Tiana, and one could argue
08:09that she's the only one who's ever really loved him.
08:12Yara's always been there for him.
08:13She's the only person who tried to rescue him
08:16when he was Ramsay's prisoner.
08:17I know you've had some bad years.
08:19Bad years?
08:20I'm tired of watching you cower like a beat dog.
08:23Drink the goddamn ale!
08:25It's a very tough love, though.
08:26Yara's not a therapist in our kind of sense of the word.
08:30She's not there to, you know, tell him to buck up
08:32and everything's gonna be okay.
08:33If you're so broken that there's no coming back,
08:37take a knife and cut your wrists.
08:40End it.
08:41It's a pretty brutal kind of therapy,
08:44but that's who they are.
08:45I mean, they're essentially a Viking people.
08:47There's not a lot of room for sort of soft and gentle psychology.
08:52I think it's the kind of tough love
08:54that Theon needed at this point,
08:56and when he finally raises his eyes
08:58and looks into her eyes,
08:59we see a glimpse of the old Theon
09:01that had been lost for so long.
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