- Tyrion Lannister: So... you roam the Seven Kingdoms collaring pickpockets and horse thieves and bring them here as eager recruits.
- Yoren: Aye. Well, it's not all of 'em's done bad things. Some of 'em's just poor lads looking for steady feed. Some of 'em's highborn lads looking for glory.
- Tyrion Lannister: Better chance of finding feed than glory.
- Benjen Stark: [walks in] The Night's Watch is a joke to you, is it? Is that what we are, Lannister? An army of jesters in black?
- Tyrion Lannister: You don't have enough men to be an army, and aside from Yoren here, none of you are particularly funny.
- Benjen Stark: I hope we provided you with some good stories to tell when you're back in King's Landing. That's something to think about when you're drinking your wine down there, enjoying your brothels. Half the boys you've seen training will die north of the Wall. Might be a wildling's axe that gets them. Might be sickness. Might just be the cold. They die in pain... and they do it so plump little lords like you can enjoy their summer afternoons in peace and comfort.
- Tyrion Lannister: [to Yoren] Do you think I'm plump?
- [Yoren smiles and looks away]
- Tyrion Lannister: Listen, Benjen - may I call you Benjen?
- Benjen Stark: Call me what you like.
- Tyrion Lannister: I'm not sure what I've done to offend you. I have great admiration for the Night's Watch. I have great admiration for you as First Ranger...
- Benjen Stark: You know, my brother once told me that nothing someone says before the word "but" really counts.
- Tyrion Lannister: But... I don't believe that giants and ghouls and white walkers are lurking beyond the Wall. I believe that the only difference between us and the wildlings is that when that Wall went up, our ancestors happened to live on the right side of it.
- Benjen Stark: You're right. The wildlings are no different from us. A little rougher, maybe. But they're made of meat and bone. I know how to track 'em and I know how to kill 'em. It's not the wildlings giving me sleepless nights. You've never been north of the Wall, so don't tell me what's out there.
- [Benjen turns to leave]
- Yoren: You going below?
- [Yoren and Benjen shake hands]
- Yoren: Keep well, keep warm.
- Benjen Stark: Enjoy the capital, brother.
- Yoren: Oh, I always do.
- [Benjen walks out]
- Tyrion Lannister: I think he's starting to like me.
- Eddard Stark: Handsome armor. Not a scratch on it.
- Jaime Lannister: I know. People have been swinging at me for years and they always seem to miss.
- Eddard Stark: Chosen your opponents wisely, then.
- Jaime Lannister: I have a knack for it.
- [Eddard gives a gift to Sansa]
- Eddard Stark: This is for you, love.
- [Sansa unwraps a doll]
- Eddard Stark: The same doll-maker makes all of Princess Myrcella's toys.
- [Sansa is less than thrilled]
- Eddard Stark: Don't you like it?
- Sansa Stark: I haven't played with dolls since I was eight.
- [Sansa rises]
- Sansa Stark: May I be excused?
- Septa Mordane: But you haven't eaten a thing.
- Eddard Stark: [to Sansa] It's all right. Go on.
- [as Sansa leaves, Eddard tells the septa:]
- Eddard Stark: War was easier than daughters.
- [Jaime enters the room]
- Robert Baratheon: Surrounded by Lannisters. Everytime I close my eyes I see their blonde hair and their smug, satisfied faces. It must wound your pride, huh? Standing out their like a glorified sentry. Jaime Lannister, son of the mighty Tywin... forced to mind the door while your king eats and drinks and shits and fucks. So come on. We're telling war stories. Who was your first kill, not counting old men?
- Jaime Lannister: One of the outlaws in the brotherhood.
- Barristan Selmy: [to Jaime] I was there that day. You were only a squire, 16 years old.
- Jaime Lannister: [to Selmy] You killed Simon Toyne with a counter riposte. Best move I ever saw. A good fighter, Toyne, but he lacked stamina.
- Robert Baratheon: Your outlaw... any last words?
- Jaime Lannister: I cut his head off, so... no.
- Barristan Selmy: Hmm.
- Robert Baratheon: What about Aerys Targaryen? What did the Mad King say when you stabbed him in the back? I never asked. Did he call you a traitor? Did he plead for a reprieve?
- Jaime Lannister: He said the same thing he'd been saying for hours... "Burn them all".
- [Robert gapes at Jaime]
- Jaime Lannister: If that's all, Your Grace...
- [Jaime bows to Robert and Selmy, then leaves the room]
- Jaime Lannister: It must be strange for you... coming into this room. I was standing right here when it happened. He was very brave, your brother. Your father too. They didn't deserve to die like that. Nobody deserves to die like that.
- Eddard Stark: But you just stood there and watched.
- Jaime Lannister: Five hundred men just stood there and watched. All the great knights of the Seven Kingdoms. You think anyone said a word, lifted a finger? No, Lord Stark. Five hundred men and this room was silent as a crypt. Except for the screams, of course, and the mad king laughing. And later... when I watched the mad king die, I remembered him laughing as your father burned... it felt like justice.
- Eddard Stark: Is that what you tell yourself at night? You're a servant of justice? That you were avenging my father when you shoved your sword in Aerys Targaryen's back?
- Jaime Lannister: Tell me: if I'd stabbed the mad king in the belly instead of the back, would you admire me more?
- Eddard Stark: You served him well when serving was safe.
- Yoren: Bear's balls.
- Tyrion Lannister: Oh, you're joking.
- Yoren: And his brains, and his guts, his lungs, and his heart, all fried in his own fat. Well, when you're a hundred miles north of the Wall and you ate your last meal a week ago, you leave nothing for the wolves.
- Tyrion Lannister: And how do a bear's balls taste?
- Yoren: Bit chewy.
- [Tyrion and Yoren laugh]
- Yoren: What about you, my lord? What's the strangest thing you've eaten?
- Tyrion Lannister: Do Dornish girls count?
- [Tyrion and Yoren laugh again]
- Cersei Lannister: A good king knows when to save his strength... and when to destroy his enemies.
- Joffrey Baratheon: So you agree? The Starks are our enemies.
- Cersei Lannister: Everyone who isn't us... is an enemy.
- Cersei Lannister: When Aerys Targaryen sat on the Iron Throne, your father was a rebel and a traitor. Someday, you'll sit on the throne, and the truth will be what you make it.
- Joffrey Baratheon: [about Sansa] Do I have to marry her?
- Cersei Lannister: Yes, she's very beautiful, and young... and if you don't like her, you only need to see her on formal occasions, and when the time comes, to make little princes and princesses... and if you'd rather fuck painted whores, you'll fuck painted whores. And if you'd rather lie with noble virgins, so be it. You are my darling boy, and the world will be exactly as you want it to be.
- [a crow lands in the window]
- Old Nan: Don't listen to it. Crows are all liars. I know a story about a crow.
- Bran Stark: I hate your stories.
- Old Nan: I know a story about a boy who hated stories. I could tell you about Ser Duncan The Tall, those were always your favorites.
- Bran Stark: Those weren't my favorites. My favorites were the scary ones.
- Old Nan: Oh my sweet summer child, what do you know about fear? Fear is for the winter, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides for years and children are born and live and die, all in darkness. That is the time for fear, my little lord, when the white walkers move through the woods. Thousands of years ago there came a night that lasted a generation. Kings froze to death in their castles, same as the shepherds in their huts. And women smothered their babies rather than see them starve, and wept and felt the tears freeze on their cheeks. So is this the sort of story you like?
- [Bran nods]
- Old Nan: In that darkness, the white walkers came for the first time. They swept through cities and kingdoms, riding their dead horses, hunting with their packs of pale spiders big as hounds...
- [the door opens and Robb enters]
- Jaime Lannister: We'll say he was lying. We'll say he was dreaming. We'll say whatever we like. I think we can outfox a ten year old.
- Cersei Lannister: And my husband?
- Jaime Lannister: I'll go to war with him if I have to... they can write a ballad about us, "The War for Cersei's Cunt!"
- [Cersei slaps Jaime. He chuckles, and she tries to slap him again, but he grabs her arm and holds her from behind, firmly but gently]
- Cersei Lannister: Let me go...
- Jaime Lannister: Never.
- Cersei Lannister: Let me go...
- Jaime Lannister: [whispers reassuringly in Cersei's ear] The boy won't talk. And if he does, I'll kill him, Ned Stark, the king, the whole bloody lot of them until you and I are the only people left in this world.
- [Cersei and Jaime quietly sink into a loving embrace]
- Maester Aemon: The Starks are always right eventually; winter is coming. This one will be long and dark things will come with it... When winter does come, gods help us all if we're not ready!
- [Viserys rides wildly toward Daenerys, waving his sword]
- Viserys Targaryen: You dare! You give commands to me? To me?
- [Viserys dismounts, approaches Daenerys and grabs her throat with his left hand]
- Viserys Targaryen: You do not command the dragon. I'm lord of the Seven Kingdoms. I don't take orders from savages or their sluts.
- [Viserys moves his sword near Daenerys' face]
- Viserys Targaryen: Do you hear me?
- [suddenly Rakharo wraps his whip around Viserys' throat, pulling him away from Daenerys and dragging him on the ground]
- Syrio Forel: [to Arya] All men are made of water, do you know this? If you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.
- Eddard Stark: Look at me. You're a Stark of Winterfell. You know our words.
- Arya Stark: Winter is coming.
- Arya Stark: I'm a girl.
- Syrio Forel: Boy, girl... You are a sword, that is all. That is the grip. You are not holding a battle-axe. You are holding...
- Arya Stark: A needle.
- Benjen Stark: We've been receiving disturbing reports.
- Jon Snow: What kind of reports?
- Benjen Stark: The kind I don't want to believe.
- Jaime Lannister: [mocking Ned's appointment as Hand of the King] The king shits, and the Hand wipes.
- Robert Baratheon: Yes, its been a long time. But I still remember every face. You remember your first?
- Barristan Selmy: Of course, Your Grace.
- Robert Baratheon: Who was it?
- Barristan Selmy: A Tyroshi. Never learned the name.
- Robert Baratheon: Hmm. How did you do it?
- Barristan Selmy: Lance through the heart.
- Robert Baratheon: Quick one. Lucky for you. Mine was some Tarly boy at the Battle of Summerhall. My horse took an arrow so I was on foot, slogging through the mud. He came running at me, the dumb high-born lad, thinking he could end the rebellion with a single swing of his sword. I knocked him down with the hammer. Gods, I was strong then. Caved in his breastplate. Probably shattered every rib he had. Stood over him, hammer in the air. Right before I brought it down he shouted, "Wait! Wait".
- [Robert chuckles to himself]
- Robert Baratheon: They never tell you how they all shit themselves. They don't put that part in the songs. Stupid boy. Now the Tarly's bend the knee like everyone else. He could have lingered on the edge of the battle with the smart boys, and today his wife would be making him miserable, his sons would be ingrates, and he'd be waking three times in the night to piss into a bowl.
- Tyrion Lannister: Never forget what you are, the rest of world will not. Wear it like an armor and it can never be used to hurt you.
- [the Dothraki tribe travels on string of horses]
- Daenerys Targaryen: Tell them all to stop.
- Jorah Mormont: You want the entire horde to stop? For how long?
- [Daenerys dismounts confidently]
- Daenerys Targaryen: Until I command them otherwise.
- Jorah Mormont: You're beginning to talk like a queen.
- Daenerys Targaryen: Not a queen. A Khaleesi.
- Eddard Stark: You were born in the long summer. You've never known anything else. But now winter is truly coming. And in the winter, we must protect ourselves, look after one another. Sansa is your sister.
- Arya Stark: I don't hate her. Not really.
- Eddard Stark: I don't want to frighten you, but I won't lie to you, either. We've come to a dangerous place. We cannot fight a war amongst ourselves. All right?
- [giving her sword back]
- Eddard Stark: Go on. It's yours.
- Arya Stark: I can keep it?
- Eddard Stark: Try not to stab your sister with it.
- Eddard Stark: Whose sword is that?
- Arya Stark: [defensively] Mine.
- Eddard Stark: Give it to me.
- [Eddard inspects the sword]
- Eddard Stark: I know this maker's mark. This is Mikken's work. Where did you get this?
- [Arya does not respond]
- Eddard Stark: It is no toy. Little ladies shouldn't play with swords.
- Arya Stark: I'm not playing. And I don't want to be a lady.
- Eddard Stark: Come here.
- [Eddard pats seat next to him]
- Eddard Stark: Now, what do you want with this?
- Arya Stark: It's called Needle.
- Eddard Stark: Oh. A blade with a name. And who were you hoping to skewer with this? Your sister? Do you know the first thing about sword-fighting?
- Arya Stark: Stick 'em with the pointy end.
- Eddard Stark: [chuckles] That's the essence of it.
- Irri: [conversing in Dothraki] The Khaleesi wants to eat something different tonight. Kill some rabbits.
- Rakharo: There are no rabbits.
- Irri: Find some ducks. She likes ducks.
- Rakharo: Have you seen any ducks, woman? No rabbits, no ducks. Do you have eyes in your head? Do you?
- Irri: Dog, then. I have seen many dogs.
- Jorah Mormont: [in English] I don't think she wants to eat dog.
- Jorah Mormont: For a man on horseback, the curved blade is a good thing, easier to handle. It's a good weapon for a Dothrakan. But a man in full plate...
- Jorah Mormont: [in Dothraki] Shori tawakof.
- Jorah Mormont: [switching back to English] The arakh won't get through the steel. That's where the broadsword has the advantage. Designed for piercing plate.
- Rakharo: [in Dothraki] Dothraki don't wear steel dresses.
- Jorah Mormont: Armor.
- Rakharo: Armor. Armor make a man, um... vroz?
- Jorah Mormont: Slow.
- Rakharo: Slow.
- Jorah Mormont: It's true, but it also keeps a man alive.
- Rakharo: [switching to Dothraki] My father taught me how to fight. He taught me that speed defeats size.
- Jorah Mormont: [switching languages] I've heard that your father was a famous warrior.
- Rakharo: He was bloodrider to Khal Bharbo. And your father, Jorah the Andal? He was a warrior also?
- Jorah Mormont: [in English] He still is. A man of great honor, and I betrayed him.
- [Daenerys has learned she is pregnant]
- Daenerys Targaryen: [conversing in Dothraki] It's a boy.
- Khal Drogo: How do you know?
- Daenerys Targaryen: I know.
- Petyr Baelish: The mere suggestion that the queen's brother tried to kill your boy would be considered treason.
- Catelyn Stark: We have proof. We have the blade.
- Petyr Baelish: Which Lord Tyrion will say was stolen from him. The only man who could say otherwise has no throat, thanks to your boy's wolf.
- Catelyn Stark: Petyr has promised to help us find the truth. He's like a little brother to me, Ned. He would never betray my trust.
- Petyr Baelish: I'll try to keep you alive, for her sake. A fool's task, admittedly, but I've never been able to refuse your wife anything.
- Catelyn Stark: I won't forget this. You're a true friend.
- Petyr Baelish: Don't tell anyone. I have a reputation to maintain.
- Daenerys Targaryen: What are you doing?
- Irri: When was last time you bleed, Khaleesi? You change, Khaleesi.
- [in Dothraki, as Daenerys touches her stomach]
- Irri: It's a blessing from the Great Stallion.
- [Jon handily defeats his fellow recruits in training]
- Alliser Thorne: Well, Lord Snow, it appears you're the least useless person here. Go clean yourselves up. There's only so much I can stomach in a day.
- Irri: The Khaleesi have baby inside her. It is true. She does not bleed for two moons. Her belly start to swell.
- Rakharo: [in Dothraki] A blessing from the Great Stallion.
- Irri: [in English] She does not want to eat horse.
- Jorah Mormont: I'll have the boys butcher a goat for supper.
- [Irri leaves]
- Jorah Mormont: I need to ride to Qohor.
- Rakharo: Uh, we ride for Vaes Dothrak.
- Jorah Mormont: Don't worry. I'll catch you. The horde's easy to find.
- Catelyn Stark: How did you know I was coming?
- Lord Varys: Knowledge is my trade, my lady. Did you bring the dagger with you, by any chance?
- [noticing her glance at Rodrik]
- Lord Varys: My little birds are everywhere, even in the North. They whisper to me the strangest stories.
- [Rodrik hands the dagger over]
- Lord Varys: Valyrian steel.
- Catelyn Stark: Do you know whose dagger this is?
- Lord Varys: I must admit I do not.
- Petyr Baelish: [snickering] Well, well, this is an historic day. Something you don't know that I do. There's only one dagger like this in all of the Seven Kingdoms. It's mine.
- Catelyn Stark: Yours?
- Petyr Baelish: At least it was, until the tournament on Prince Joffrey's last nameday. I bet on Ser Jaime in the jousting, as any sane man would. When the Knight of the Flowers unseated him, I lost this dagger.
- Catelyn Stark: To whom?
- Petyr Baelish: Tyrion Lannister. The Imp.
- Catelyn Stark: You little worm! You take me for some back-alley Sally that you can drag into a...
- [a prostitute appears with her john]
- Petyr Baelish: Psst!
- [Littlefinger ushers the prostitute away]
- Petyr Baelish: I meant no disrespect to you of all people.
- Catelyn Stark: How dare you bring me here! Have you lost your mind?
- Petyr Baelish: No one will come looking for you here. Isn't that what you wanted? I'm truly sorry about the locale.
- Catelyn Stark: How did you know I was coming to King's Landing?
- Petyr Baelish: A dear friend told me.
- [Varys enters]
- Lord Varys: Lady Stark.
- Catelyn Stark: Lord Varys.
- Lord Varys: To see you again after so many years is a blessing.
- Syrio Forel: You are skinny. That is good. The target is smaller. Now the grip, let me see.
- [inspecting how she holds the handle]
- Syrio Forel: Yes. The grip must be delicate.
- Arya Stark: What if I drop it?
- Syrio Forel: The steel must be part of your arm. Can you drop part of your arm? No. Nine years Syrio Forel was first sword to the Sealord of Braavos. He knows these things.
- Jon Snow: I'm sorry to see you leave, Lannister.
- Tyrion Lannister: It's either me or this cold. And it doesn't appear to be going anywhere.
- Jon Snow: Will you stop at Winterfell on your way south?
- Tyrion Lannister: I expect I will. Gods know there aren't many feather beds between here and King's Landing.
- Jon Snow: If you see my brother Bran, tell him I miss him. Tell him I'd visit if I could.
- Tyrion Lannister: Of course.
- Jon Snow: He'll never walk again.
- Tyrion Lannister: If you're going to be a cripple, it's better to be a rich cripple.
- Grenn: You broke my nose, bastard!
- [Jon gives Grenn a once-over]
- Jon Snow: It's an improvement.
- [as they grab Jon, Grenn puts a dagger to his throat]
- Grenn: If we threw you over the Wall, I wonder how long it would take you to hit.
- Pypar: I wonder if they'd find you before the wolves did.
- [Tyrion enters behind them]
- Grenn: What are you looking at, half-man?
- Tyrion Lannister: I'm looking at you. Yes. You've got an interesting face. Hmm, very distinctive faces. All of you.
- Rast: And what do you care about our faces?
- Tyrion Lannister: It's just I think they would look marvelous decorating spikes in King's Landing. Perhaps I'll write my sister, the queen, about it.
- [Grenn lets Jon go]
- Grenn: We'll talk later, Lord Snow.
- Jon Snow: Everybody knew what this place was and no one told me. No one but you. My father knew and he left me to rot at the Wall all the same.
- Tyrion Lannister: Grenn's father left him, too, outside a farmhouse when he was three. Pyp was caught stealing a wheel of cheese. His little sister hadn't eaten in three days. He was given a choice: his right hand or the Wall. I've been asking the Lord Commander about them. Fascinating stories.
- Jon Snow: They hate me because I'm better than they are.
- Tyrion Lannister: It's a lucky thing none of them were trained by a master-at-arms like your Ser Rodrik. I don't imagine any of them have ever held a real sword before they came here.
- [Tyrion turns to leave]
- Tyrion Lannister: Oh... your brother Bran.
- [Tyrion hands over a parchment note]
- Tyrion Lannister: He's woken up.
- [Benjen is at the edge of the Wall with Jon]
- Benjen Stark: I wanted to be here when you saw it for the first time. I'm leaving this morning.
- Jon Snow: You're leaving?
- Benjen Stark: I'm the First Ranger. My job is out there.
- Syrio Forel: You are late, boy. Tomorrow, you will be here at midday.
- Arya Stark: Who are you?
- Syrio Forel: Your dancing master, Syrio Forel.
- [Syrio tosses a wooden sword to Arya; trying to catch it, it clatters to the ground]
- Syrio Forel: Tomorrow, you will catch it. Now pick it up.
- [Arya complies]
- Syrio Forel: That is not the way, boy. This is not a greatsword that is needing two hands to swing it.
- [Arya tries to hold it one-handed]
- Arya Stark: It's too heavy.
- Syrio Forel: It is heavy as it needs to be to make you strong.
- [Syrio balances his own sword on his hand]
- Syrio Forel: Just so. One hand is all that is needed.
- Robb Stark: Bran, I've seen you climb a thousand times. In the wind, in the rain; a thousand times. You never fall.
- Bran Stark: I did, though. It's true, isn't it, what Master Luwin says about my legs?
- [Robb nods sadly]
- Bran Stark: I'd rather be dead.
- Robb Stark: Don't ever say that.
- Bran Stark: I'd rather be dead.
- Cersei Lannister: Do something nice for the Stark girl.
- Joffrey Baratheon: I don't want to.
- Cersei Lannister: No, but you will. The occasional kindness will spare you all sorts of trouble down the road.
- Joffrey Baratheon: We allow the northerners too much power. They consider themselves our equals.
- Cersei Lannister: How would you handle them?
- Joffrey Baratheon: I'd double their taxes and command them to supply 10,000 men to the Royal Army.
- Cersei Lannister: A Royal Army?
- Joffrey Baratheon: Why should every lord command his own men? It's primitive, no better than the hill tribes. We should have a... a standing army of men loyal to the crown, trained by experienced soldiers, instead of a mob of peasants who've never held pikes in their lives.
- Cersei Lannister: And if the northerners rebel?
- Joffrey Baratheon: I'd crush them. Seize Winterfell and install someone loyal to the realm as Warden of the North. Uncle Kevan, maybe.
- Cersei Lannister: And these 10,000 Northern troops, would they fight for you or their lord?
- Joffrey Baratheon: For me. I'm their king.
- Cersei Lannister: Mm-hmm. But you've just invaded their homeland, asked them to kill their brothers.
- Joffrey Baratheon: I'm not asking.
- Cersei Lannister: The North cannot be held, not by an outsider. It's too big and too wild. And when the winter comes, the Seven Gods together couldn't save you and your Royal Army.
- Petyr Baelish: I've hoped to meet you for some time, Lord Stark. No doubt Lady Catelyn has mentioned me.
- Eddard Stark: She has, Lord Baelish. I understand you knew my brother Brandon, as well.
- Petyr Baelish: All too well. I still carry a token of his esteem from navel to collarbone.
- Eddard Stark: Perhaps you chose the wrong man to duel with.
- Petyr Baelish: Well, it wasn't the man that I chose, my lord. It was Catelyn Tully. A woman worth fighting for, I'm sure you'll agree.
- Arya Stark: I hate them! I hate all of them. The Hound, the queen and the king, and Joffrey and Sansa.
- Eddard Stark: Sansa was dragged before the king and queen and asked to call the prince a liar.
- Arya Stark: So was I! He *is* a liar.
- Eddard Stark: Shh, darling, listen to me. Sansa will be married to Joffrey someday. She cannot betray him. She must take his side even when he's wrong.
- Arya Stark: But how can you let her marry someone like that?
- [Cersei tends to Joffrey's wound]
- Joffrey Baratheon: It's ugly.
- Cersei Lannister: A king should have scars. You fought off a direwolf. You're a warrior like your father.
- Joffrey Baratheon: I'm not like him. I didn't fight off anything. It bit me and all I did was scream. And the two Stark girls saw it, both of them.
- Cersei Lannister: That's not true. You killed the beast. You only spared the girl because of the love your father bears her father.
- Lord Varys: I was grievously sorry to hear of your troubles on the Kingsroad. We are all praying for Prince Joffrey's full recovery.
- Eddard Stark: A shame you didn't say a prayer for the butcher's son.
- Renly Baratheon: My brother instructs us to stage a tournament in honor of Lord Stark's appointment as Hand of the King.
- Petyr Baelish: Mm, how much?
- Eddard Stark: 40,000 Gold Dragons to the champion, 20,000 to the runner-up, 20,000 to the winning archer.
- Grand Maester Pycelle: Can the treasury bear such expense?
- Petyr Baelish: I'll have to borrow it. The Lannisters will accommodate, I expect. We already owe Lord Tywin three million gold. What's another 80,000?
- Eddard Stark: Are you telling me the crown is three million in debt?
- Petyr Baelish: I'm telling you the crown is six million in debt.
- Eddard Stark: How could you let this happen?
- Petyr Baelish: The Master of Coin finds the money. The king and the Hand spend it.
- Eddard Stark: I will not believe Jon Arryn allowed Robert to bankrupt the realm.
- Grand Maester Pycelle: Lord Arryn gave wise and prudent advice, but I fear His Grace doesn't always listen.
- Renly Baratheon: "Counting coppers," he calls it.
- Eddard Stark: I'll speak to him tomorrow. This tournament is an extravagance we cannot afford.
- Petyr Baelish: As you will. But still, we'd best make our plans.
- Eddard Stark: [more aggressively than intended] There will be no plans until I speak to Robert.
- [Eddard calms down]
- Eddard Stark: Forgive me, my lords. I'm... I had a long ride.
- Lord Varys: You are the King's Hand, Lord Stark. We serve at your pleasure.
- Jaime Lannister: Look at Me. You're a Stark of Winterfell. You know our words.
- Tywin Lannister: Winter is coming