Game of Thrones Episode Guide

The Wolf and the Lion

Season 1
Episode Number: 5
Season Episode: 5

Originally aired: Sunday May 15, 2011

Writer: D.B. Weiss, David Benioff
Director: Brian Kirk (II)
Show Stars: Mark Addy (Robert Baratheon), Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy), Sean
Bean (Eddard Stark ”Ned”), Nikolaj Coster Waldau (Ser Jaime Lannis-
ter), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark
”Cat”), Aidan Gillen (Petyr Baelish ”Littlefinger”), Jack Gleeson (Joffrey
Baratheon), Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Isaac Hempstead-Wright
(Brandon Stark ”Bran”), Richard Madden (Robb Stark), Rory McCann
(Sandor Clegane ”the Hound”), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), Maisie
Williams (Arya Stark)
Recurring Role: Gethin Anthony (Renly Baratheon), Ciaran Bermingham (Mord), Esmé
Bianco (Ros), Susan Brown (III) (Septa Mordane), Kate Dickie (Lysa
Arryn), Ron Donachie (Ser Rodrik Cassel), Emun Elliott (Marillion),
Lino Facioli (Robin Arryn), Jerome Flynn (Bronn), Julian Glover (Grand
Maester Pycelle), Conleth Hill (Lord Varys ”the Spider”), Finn Jones
(Ser Loras Tyrell ”the Knight of Flowers”), Francis Magee (Yoren), Bren-
dan McCormack (Ser Vardis Egen), Ian McElhinney (Ser Barristan
Selmy ”the Bold”), Aimee Richardson (Myrcella Baratheon), Eugene Si-
mon (Lancel Lannister), Jamie Sives (Jory Cassel), Conan Stevens (Ser
Gregor Clegane), Donald Sumpter (Maester Luwin), Callum Wharry
(Tommen Baratheon), Antonia Christophers (Mhaegen)
Summary: King Robert is enraged to hear of the fruit of the Targaryen alliance
with the Dothraki and orders an assassination that does not please
Ned. Catelyn takes her Lannister prisoner to the Eyrie to see her sister.
Arya overhears a conversation that threatens her father’s life.

After the joust, Ned visits the dead body

of Ser Hugh. He wonders who determined
the uneven draw.
He and Ser Bannister talk about their
admiration for Ned’s father.
Ned is bothered that Hugh was a
squire until a few months ago and was
now wearing a fancy suit of armor. Where
did he get the money to afford such fin-
ery?
Ned visits King Robert trying to
squeeze into his suit of armor. Robert
taunts his squire cousin Lannister, send-
ing him on a fool’s errand to look for a ”breast plate stretcher”. Ned tries to explain to his king
that anyone he jousts with will let him win.
Robert explains Cersei made him take the young Lannister on as a squire. He’s drunk, as
usual, and Ned has to remind him to get dressed before he goes back out.
At the next match, Ser Loras Tyrell, the Knight of the Flowers, presents one to Sansa but
makes eyes at Lord Renly Baratheon (the king’s brother). He’s up against Ser Gregor, ”the Moun-
tain.” Sansa worries that the knight is toast.

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Instead, they race at each other and Loras wins, knocking the Mountain of a man down to
everyone’s surprise.
Petyr makes a crack about Loras’ being gay, but before that goes any further a very angry
Gregor picks up his giant sword and cleanly beheads his losing horse.
Then he goes after the man who beat him, but soon his brother The Hound steps in. They
fight until the King calls a stop to it.
Ser Loras Tyrell thanks him for saving his life and lifts the Hound’s hand in victory.
A tied-up Tyrion Lannister is brought before Catelyn Stark. They’re not on the King’s Road,
to Westeros. He realizes they’re going to the Vale, to her sister’s. Tyrion says her sister is a bit
”touched.”
Tyrion asks what kind of imbecile arms an assassin with his own blade.They’re interrupted
by rocks flying out of the hills and an attacking horde.
Catelyn and Tyrion duck for cover and she acquiesces to his request that she untie him. He’s
about to jump on a horse when he sees Lady Stark is about to be attacked. He steps in with a
shield and whacks her attacker, knocking him down. He beats him senseless, pounding his face
to a bloody pulp.
When it is over only a handful of Lady Stark’s people remain. One of them looks at Tyrion
appreciatively and suggests that after a fight they should visit a whore house.
At Winterfell, Bran practices his recitations of the Houses, their sigils and their words with
Maester Luwin. Bran is hurt that his mother left.
He watches Theon Greyjoy practice archery and wonders if he’ll ever shoot again.
Later Theon enjoys the company of a young woman. He compares himself to Tyrion, then
brags about the House of Greyjoy. The whore reminds him he’s Ned Stark’s ward because his
father rebelled against King Robert.
Varys the eunuch has a private moment with Ned, telling him the king is a ”fool” and ”doomed”
unless Ned saves him. After a month, Varys finally trusts him. He says the King is at risk from
the same thing that got to Jon Arryn, a clear tasteless poison. He says someone he trusted gave
it to him. Ned guesses it was Ser Hugh. Ned asks who paid him and why, after Arryn had been
the hand for 14 years. ”He started asking questions,” Varys says.
Arya chases a cat down into the cellar and overhears Varys telling someone that Ned is getting
closer to the truth. He mentions ”the fools tried to kill his son,” but botched it. ”We will be at war
soon,” Varys says. The man he’s talking to suggests another hand could die, but Varys says Ned
isn’t like Arryn. The other man says Khal Drogo won’t attack until his son is born.
Varys slinks up on Petyr in the throne room. Petyr invites him to visit his brothel and they
use the conversation to show off who knows more about various unnamed people’s sexual pec-
cadilloes. Who’s got more intel and dirt.
Varys lets Petyr know he has eyes on him. He mentions that it would be bad if word got out
that he helped convince Ned that the Lannisters were behind the injury to Bran.
He thinks he has the upper hand, but then Petyr mentions he saw him talking with Ned that
morning and then later with a certain ”foreign dignitary.”
”Of course you would have friends from across the Narrow Sea,” Petyr says. He mentions
vaguely how bad it would be if that word got out.
They’re interrupted by Lord Renly.
Varys says there’s disturbing news from far away. ”Hadn’t you heard?” he taunts.
Arya follows the secret exit from the castle out onto the shore and back into the castle. Two
guards think she’s a beggar boy, but she threatens to turn them over to her dad.
She tells Ned what she heard. She’s not sure who said it but she thinks one was fat. She
relays that they said he found the bastard and something about a savage.
They’re interrupted by a Night’s Watchman, looking for recruits. He says he came for Benjen’s
sake and that the whole city will know by tomorrow.
He wants to speak in private. He tells Ned that his wife has ”taken the imp.”
Catelyn runs into Lady Arryn’s guards. She identifies Tyrion as her prisoner and they head
off to the aerie.
Ned is summoned to see the king and the council, he just learned Daenerys is pregnant.
He wants her and her baby and her brother Viserys killed. Ned argues that would make them
no better than the Mad King and questions where Varys got his information. He says Jorah
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the Dothraki crossing the Narrow Sea. King Robert is apoplectic. Maester Pycelle argues killing
her might stave off war. The council is all for it, but Ned tells the king he won’t do it. The King
tells him to do as he commands or he’ll find a Hand who will. Ned removes his sigil and resigns.
The king bellows at him, running him off back to Winterfell.
Back in his room, Ned packs furiously. Petyr visits, saying if Ned stick around until night he’ll
take him to see the last person Jon Arryn spoke with before he fell ill. Ned orders his daughter’s
protected as he goes with Petyr.
At Lady Lysa Arryn’s, Tyrion and Catelyn try not to stare as Lysa, Jon Arryn’s third wife,
nurses her much-too-old-for-nursing son, Robin. Lysa rants about all Lannisters being liars.
Robin wants to see him ”fly.”
Catelyn reminds her nutty sister that Tyrion is her prison. The men of the Vale take Tyrion to
a dungeon that opens up to open sky and shows just how impossibly high up they are.
Renly complains to his lover Loras that his brother the king doesn’t consider him a man
because he hasn’t been to war. He thinks Robert will forgive Ned. He thinks killing Daenerys is
the way to go. Renly thinks Robert became king because he was good at killing things. Loras
suggests that Renly would make a good king, even though he doesn’t love killing.
Catelyn gloats to her husband about Ned leaving. Robert worries about the Dorthraki crossing
the sea. She reminds him Dothraki don’t sail. But he’s still worried about their skilled, united
army. He wonders what keeps their back-stabbing kingdom together. ”Our marriage,” she sug-
gests. They share a god laugh. ”How long can hate hold a thing together?” he asks. ”Well, 17 years
is quite a long time,” she says. Cersei asks what ”she” was like, the first time she’s ever asked.
She says there’s no harm Liona Stark’s memory could do that they haven’t done to each other
already. He mentions a hole her death left that can never be filled. She says she felt something
for him once, before their first boy died. She asks if he feels the same. No. But that doesn’t make
her feel anything.
Ned meets with the mother of King Robert’s illegitimate daughter. She says Jon Arryn only
wanted to know if she was happy. Ned asks Petyr why Arryn tracked down all the king’s bastards.
He doesn’t really have the answer.
Jamie Lannister rides up outside the brothel. He asks Ned what happened to Tyrion. Ned
says he was taken on his command. Jamie draws his sword. He orders Ned taken alive and his
men killed. Ned’s squire fights Jaime, who draws a dagger and stabs him through the eye. Jaime
and Ned fight fiercely until one of Jaime’s men skewers Ned through the back of the leg. Jaime
responds by knocking his own man out. ”My brother, Lord Stark, I want him back,” Jaime says
and rides off.

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