Game of Thrones Episode Guide

Baelor
Season 1
Episode Number: 9
Season Episode: 9

Originally aired: Sunday June 12, 2011

Writer: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss
Director: Alan Taylor
Show Stars: Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy), Sean Bean (Eddard Stark ”Ned”), Emilia
Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen ”Dany”), Nikolaj Coster Waldau (Ser Jaime
Lannister), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Michelle Fairley (Catelyn
Stark ”Cat”), Aidan Gillen (Petyr Baelish ”Littlefinger”), Jack Gleeson
(Joffrey Baratheon), Iain Glen (Ser Jorah Mormont), Kit Harington (Jon
Snow), Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Richard Madden (Robb Stark),
Rory McCann (Sandor Clegane ”the Hound”), Sophie Turner (Sansa
Stark), Maisie Williams (Arya Stark)
Recurring Role: Amrita Acharia (Irri), Josef Altin (Pypar ”Pyp”), David Bradley (Lord
Walder Frey), John Bradley-West (Samwell Tarly ”Sam”), James Cosmo
(Jeor Mormont ”the Old Bear”), Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister), Ron
Donachie (Ser Rodrik Cassel), Jerome Flynn (Bronn), Elyes Gabel
(Rakharo), Ian Gelder (Ser Kevan Lannister), Julian Glover (Grand
Maester Pycelle), Conleth Hill (Lord Varys), Wilko Johnson (Ser Ilyn
Payne), Mark Lewis Jones (Shagga), Sibel Kekilli (Shae), Francis Magee
(Yoren), Clive Mantle (Jon Umber ”Greatjon”), Luke McEwan (Rast),
Roxanne McKee (Doreah), Jason Momoa (Khal Drogo), Dar Salim
(Qotho), Mia Soteriou (Mirri Maz Duur), Mark Stanley (Grenn), Peter
Vaughan (Maester Aemon)
Guest Stars: Marcus Lamb (Night’s Watch Brother), Edward Mercieca (Baker)
Summary: With Sansa’s life in danger, Ned makes a fateful decision. Catelyn bro-
kers an unsavory deal with the slippery Walder Frey. Tyrion acquires
a mistress and is forced by his father to fight on the front lines. Robb
wins his first major victory and captures a prized prisoner. Jon is re-
warded for his valor and discovers a dark secret about Maester Aemon.
As Drogo’s wound festers, Dany defies his bloodrider Qotho and puts
her trust in the enslaved witch Mirri Maz Duur.

Varys pays Ned another visit in the dun-

geon to tell him about Sansa pleading for
his life. Varys tells Ned he could free him,
but won’t. As the master of whisperers,
he tries to stay out of things. Varys says
he just wants peace. He tells Ned about
Robb going to war. Varys tries to con-
vince Ned to go along with Joffrey as the
heir and call off war. Ned would rather
die with honor than go along with it, but
Varys mentions that Sansa might be in
danger, too.
Robb and Theon shoot down ravens
from Lord Walder, trying to figure out how to get across. They know Twyin is marching north.
Robb decides to enter the twins alone to bargain with Lord Walder. Catelyn suggests she’ll go
instead, she doesn’t think he’ll hurt her.

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In Lord Walder’s court, Catelyn greets him. His sons admonish the old man for not being more
polite. He’s busy groping a15 year old. Catelyn speaks to him alone to ask him to open his gates
so Robb can cross the Trident. He enjoys his young conquest but gripes about having too many
offspring and not enough families to marry them to. He thinks Robb doesn’t stand a chance
against Twyin and he sees Robb and his men as rebels. But he’s not inclined to get involved.
At the wall, the Lord Commander Mormont gives Jon Snow his family sword, made with
Valerian steel and a new pommel in the shape of a wolf. It was supposed to go to Jorah, his
disgraced outcast son, but Jon gets it out of gratitude for saving his life.
Mormont is tired of Jon’s tiff with Lord Thorne, so he sent him to King’s Landing with the
hand from the beast to lay at Joffrey’s feet – and to get him away from Jon.
All the Night’s Watch men are impressed by the sword and take turns trying it out. Sam
hesitates and then tells Jon Snow he read the note from a raven – he tells him Robb is heading
south to war. Jon thinks he should be there.
Catelyn rejoins Robb and tells him Walder granted their crossing and will lend his men to
fight. He wants his son Oliver to serve as Robb’s personal squire. And Arya has to marry one of
his sons and Robb has to marry one of his daughters. Catelyn says one of them was OK. Robb
agrees.
The blind old man at the Wall talks to Jon Snow about the difficulty of putting honor before
family. He tells Jon about the day he got word that his brother and his family had been killed.
Jon asks who he is.
His father was Micah. He’s Amon Targaryen, the brother of the Mad King Arys. He says he’s
now just the master of the citadel, bound in service to the Night’s Watch.
He tells Jon he has to choose whether to stay or go and live with his choice.
Daenerys and Drogo ride with the Dothraki. He’s seriously ill from his wound and falls off his
horse. Daenerys demands that men bring her the witch, Mirri Maz Duur.
Twyin tells Tyrion that Shagga and the wild men will be in the vanguard on the front lines.
He tells the Stone crows got in a bloody fight last night over a sausage. Tyrion is not thrilled to
be tied to them.
Tyrion comes back to his tent to find a pretty whore named Shay. Bronn took her from another
man’s tent, but since Tyrion expects to die at war, he’s not worried about retaliation.
At the Dothraki camp, Drogo is delirious with fever. His wound is infected. Jorah looks at it
and thinks he’ll die tonight. Jorah encourages Daenerys to leave now. When Drogo dies there
will be a fight to be Khal and she’ll have no standing. One of Drogo’s men makes this point to her
again. She insists she’s the blood of the dragon, but the man isn’t impressed.
Daenerys tells Jorah to wear his armor tonight.
Daenerys promises the witch her freedom if she can save Drogo. She says she knows of a
spell, but it is blood magic. She calls for the horse.
In the tent, the witch slits its throat. Jorah think she made a mistake by not leaving. One of
Drogo’s men tries to go into the tent to kill the witch. He knocks Daenerys on her very pregnant
stomach and Jorah fights him. Jorah wins.
Daenerys says the baby is coming. Jorah carries her back into the tent where the witch is
chanting her spell.
Tyrion plays drinking cames with Bronn and Shay. He suggests a game where he makes a
statement and if it’s true they drink and if he’s wrong, he drinks, like a reverse ”I never.”
Tyrion suggests Bronn has been north of the wall and Bronn drinks.
He guesses that Shay’s mother was a whore and her father left when she was young. He’s 0
for 2.
We learn Tyrion used to be married. He tells a story about being out riding with Jaime when
he was 16 and rescuing a woman named Tysha from rapists. He took her for food and ended up
in bed with her. They got married the next day.
It turned out it was all set up by Jaime, who thought it was time Tyrion had his first woman
and hired the whore. His father brought Tysha before court and let all his men have her for silver
while he forced Tyrion to watch.
Shay says he should have known because a girl who was almost raped doesn’t invite a man
into her bed two hours later. She spends the night with him.

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Bronn wakes him up the next morning to tell him the war is underway. Tyrion suits up and
rallies the savages, who cheer for the ”half-man.” Then he promptly gets accidentally knocked
out by one of their clubs and stepped on.
He comes to after the fight, being dragged in a wagon by Bronn. They won.
Twyin tells them it was only 2,000 of Robb Stark’s men. Tyrion asks where the other 18,000
are.
Robb rides back to greet his mother, with Jaime Lannister as prisoner. He knew he was
sending the 2,000 decoys to their death.
He addresses his bannermen, telling them the war is far from over.
Arya catches a pigeon in a street in King’s Landing. She hears everyone running toward
something and someone tells her they’re doing something with the Hand of the King.
She runs to the square, jampacked with people and sees Ned brought out in chains. He sees
her above the crowd. As he’s lead up to Cersei, he points her out to one of his men.
He addresses the crowd as Sansa, Joffrey and everyone listen. Sansa nods him on as he says
he’s come to confess his treason. He says he plotted to murder Joffrey and seize the throne. He
proclaims Joffrey the one true heir to the Iron Throne.
Joffrey says Cersei wants him to let Ned serve the Night’s Watch and Sansa has begged him
for mercy. But he says they have the ”soft hearts of women” and treason cannot go unpunished.
”Bring me his head!” Joffrey says.
Arya runs toward her father but his man grabs her and keeps her from watching. Sansa
screams and has to be restrained.
Ned is forced to kneel as the executioner raises his giant sword. Ned sees that Arya isn’t
watching and takes a deep breath, calmly baring his neck for the blade. The sword comes down
and we hear the sound of his head coming off.

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