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Walk of Punishment
"Walk of Punishment" is the third episode of the third season of Game of
Thrones. It is the twenty-third episode of the series overall. It premiered on April Walk of Punishment
14, 2013. It was written and directed by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss.
Season 3 Episode 3

Contents [show]

Plot
Tyrion shoulders new responsibilities. Jon is taken to the Fist of the First Men.
Daenerys meets with the slavers. Jaime strikes a deal with his captors.
Air date April 14, 2013
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Runtime 57 minutes

Summary Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss

Directed by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss

In Astapor Episode Guide
In Astapor, Daenerys, accompanied by Ser Jorah Mormont and Ser Barristan
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Selmy, walks along a sea wall known as the "Walk of Punishment." Here, any
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slave who showed insubordination of any type is strapped to a cross and left to Words" Ended"
die out in public, as a warning to all other slaves. Daenerys offers a condemned
man water, but he refuses to drink, saying he just wants to die quickly.

Jorah and Barristan continue to disagree on whether or not Daenerys should purchase the Unsullied. Jorah insists that it is their
only chance to get an army, but Barristan believes this is not the honorable way, as slavery is illegal and abhorred in the Seven
Kingdoms. Jorah claims that not only will the slave soldiers be treated better in her service, but innocent people will also be
spared in war because the Unsullied only do as they are ordered. They have no human or masculine urges in their bodies, and
therefore will not kill civilians or rape innocent women, unlike most male soldiers who would succumb to those urges in the heat
of battle. Barristan retorts that when her older brother Rhaegar led his army in the Battle of the Trident, men fought and died for
Rhaegar because they believed in him, because they loved him - not because they were slave soldiers whose free will had been
stripped away. Jorah responds that Rhaegar indeed fought honorably and nobly, but that in the end Rhaegar died. Daenerys was
born months after Robert Baratheon killed Rhaegar at the Battle of the Trident, and only knew her cruel and half-mad brother
Viserys, so she asks Ser Barristan if he knew Rhaegar. Selmy was a member of the Targaryen Kingsguard and thus knew
Rhaegar well: he fought beside him and bled beside him at the Trident. Barristan says that Rhaegar was the finest man he ever
met, the last dragon. Daenerys grows quiet and says she wishes she'd known her older brother, but that Rhaegar was not the
last dragon (she is).

Daenerys speaks with Kraznys mo Nakloz, as he shows her his slave soldiers, the Unsullied.
He repeatedly insults and mocks Daenerys in his native tongue, leaving his slave translator
Missandei of Naath to clean up his crude and very insulting words into more respectful
language. At one point, she pauses, wondering how to twist a particularly coarse insult from
Kraznys, and Daenerys notices her reluctance to directly translate.

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Daenerys says she will take all 8,000 Unsullied soldiers, including those in training. Kraznys Daenerys bargains with Kraznys
laughs and retorts that she can barely afford 100 Unsullied. Daenerys surprises him by telling for the Unsullied.
him she has dragons, and is willing to trade one. This offer stops Kraznys in his tracks,
yet Daenerys repeatedly affirms that he may only have one of her dragons. They strike a deal
that she may have all the Unsullied soldiers in exchange for her biggest dragon. Both Jorah and Selmy strongly object, and
plead to Daenerys that while soldiers are valuable, it is dragons that will ultimately win her the Iron Throne. She ignores them,
and concludes the deal with Kraznys, and also demands Missandei as a token of faith. Upon leaving the room, she scolds Jorah
and Selmy, telling them that while she values their advice, they should never again question her in public.

Daenerys speaks with Missandei and asks her if she has a family; she says no. Daenerys tells her of the man who turned down
her offer of water, and asks why he would simply say, "Let me die." Missandei replies that in the afterlife, there is no master.
Thus, the man would rather be dead than alive in the Slavers Bay. Daenerys proceeds to explain the dangers Missandei will be
facing in Daenerys's service and asks if that will be a problem. Missandei simply replies, "Valar morghulis" ("all men must die").
Daenerys acknowledges the truth of the words, but quips, "We are not men."

Beyond the Wall

The Free Folk army of King-Beyond-the-Wall, Mance Rayder, including Jon Snow, arrive at
the Fist of the First Men. They survey the bloody aftermath of assault on the Night's Watch by
the White Walkers and their army of undead wights. Mance grimly remarks that the White
Walkers are "always the artists": the severed corpses of all of the Watch's horses have been
carefully arranged into a large-scale, ceremonial spiral pattern. However, there is no sign of
Horse carcasses specially
any human corpses - which Orell insists were there when he scouted ahead earlier by
arranged by the White Walkers.
warging into his eagle, but have now vanished. Jon says that there were three hundred men
of the Night's Watch at the Fist, and asks Mance if Mormont could still be alive. Mance says
that with Mormont, it's possible he was able to escape, but that even if he did he and his men took quite a beating and are
trapped miles away from the Wall with the White Walkers in close pursuit. Mance warns Jon that all of the missing corpses from
the Fist are no longer his friends and brothers from the Night's Watch, but have been resurrected as undead monsters who serve
the White Walkers.

Mance orders Tormund to take a force of twenty men to scale The Wall to attack Castle Black from its exposed rear. The
fortresses of the Night's Watch were purposefully built to only defend from attack over the Wall, without defenses on their
southern sides, so they wouldn't be a threat to the lords of the Seven Kingdoms. Mance's plan is for Tormund's small band to
distract Castle Black by attacking their exposed southern side, at which point Mance's main army will assault it from the north.
Tormund will know that Mance is in position when his army makes a massive signal fire; Mance boasts that "I'm going to make
the biggest fire the North has ever seen!" Mance orders Tormund to take Jon with him, as Jon knows the layout of Castle Black,
and it will prove a key test of his loyalty: if it turns out that he won't really betray the Night's Watch, Tormund can easily throw him
off the Wall to his death.

Farther south, Lord Commander Jeor Mormont leads the ragged survivors of the Night's Watch expedition to Craster's Keep.
Craster mocks the survivors of the Battle of the Fist of the First Men when they reach his Keep. He initially wants to refuse them
shelter until he notices some of them stroking their weapons. Fearful that in desperation they might try to rush him, he relents. As
the black brothers warm by his hearth, Craster mocks them. Craster insists that the black brothers should be grateful for his
generosity, and that he is a "godly man" for helping them. Mormont tensely questions Craster's claim to be a godly man, but
Craster insists that he is - to the "real gods," the White Walkers, who consume entire armies on their way to the Wall but will

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spare Craster for his loyalty. He admits that he's feeding his pigs better than them - as pigs are valuable to him - and half-
seriously suggests to his guests that they should eat the fat Samwell Tarly. He is also annoyed by Gilly's loud wailing from
birthing pains. Sam leaves the main house to a birthing hut where he witnesses Gilly giving birth with the aid of a few other
women. To her horror, the baby is a boy. Sam and Gilly wordlessly realize that Craster will want to sacrifice him to the White
Walkers.

At Riverrun
At Riverrun in the Riverlands, the castle-seat of House Tully, the funeral of the recently
deceased Lord Hoster Tully is held on the banks of the Red Fork of the Trident River. King
Robb Stark has arrived with the main force of the Northern army, and he helps launch his
maternal grandfather's funeral boat, along with Hoster's younger brother Brynden "The
Blackfish" Tully. Catelyn and Robb's new wife Queen Talisa look on with the assembled crowd
Brynden takes aim.
of bannermen on the dock. Hoster's youngest child, Catelyn's younger brother Edmure Tully,
attempts to light the funeral boat on fire with a flaming arrow but fails three times. Just as the
boat is about to disappear around a bend of the river, Brynden pushes his nephew out of the way and skillfully makes the shot.
Knowing his accuracy was true and the shot would hit the boat, the Blackfish turns around to walk away (dismissively showing
up Edmure at the same time) as soon as he releases the arrow.

In Catelyn's old chamber in the castle, she mourns with her uncle Brynden over her father's death. She asks him if he made
peace with his older brother, with whom he had been fighting for the past thirty years. Brynden explains that he did: on his
deathbed Hoster told him to stop calling himself "the Blackfish" as it was a stupid joke created over thirty years ago by Brynden
to symbolize his bad relationship with his older brother, and it wasn't very funny to begin with. Brynden emotionally joked back to
his dying brother that people had been calling him "Blackfish" for so long that they'd practically forgotten his real name. Catelyn
is happy that her uncle was able to make peace with her father before he passed, and is upset that she couldn't have been
there. She reminisces that she watched from this window in her childhood whenever her father left, but now he won't be coming
back. She tearfully wonders if her sons Bran and Rickon similarly watched at Winterfell for her return when she failed to arrive to
save them. Brynden insists that neither he nor Robb have given up hope that the boys may be alive and in hiding, and urges her
to be strong for Robb.

King Robb, Brynden, and Edmure confer in Riverrun's meeting room. The war is not going well for them. The Lannisters have
defeated their enemies in the south and secured King's Landing from attack, as well as a marriage-alliance with House Tyrell.
They have superior numbers, wealth, and strategic position. Edmure begins to speak of his recent victory at the Battle of Stone
Mill, which pushed the Lannister army under Ser Gregor Clegane from the Riverlands. Robb and Brynden, however, are furious
with Edmure: their grand strategy was to lure Tywin and Gregor's armies into the Westerlands, where they would be vulnerable,
out of position, and unable to defend the capital against the Baratheons. Edmure's role in this was to offer token defense as a
feint to lure the Lannisters back west across the Red Fork of the Trident. Instead, by successfully attacking the Lannisters at
Stone Mill, Edmure kept them penned in the Riverlands, and thus close enough to King's Landing that Tywin was able to rush to
the defense of the city at the Battle of the Blackwater. The Starks' strategic position in the war has been ruined. Edmure insists
that they took valuable captives in the battle, Willem and Martyn Lannister, but Robb angrily points out that he didn't stop fighting
because his sisters are held captive. Considering that Tywin didn't stop to negotiate when his own eldest son was captured,
taking his younger nephews hostage will have no impact on the war. Edmure tries to at least point out that they lost only two
hundred men at Stone Mill and multiple Lannister soldiers died for every man they lost, at which Robb cuts him off and shouts
that they need their men more than Tywin Lannister needs his (who already outnumber the Starks significantly). At this point, the

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Lannisters are in such a good strategic position that they can afford to be patient, and grind down Robb's forces through simple
attrition.

In the prison cells at Riverrun, Queen Talisa bandages the minor wounds of Willem and Martyn Lannister. They are boys, only 14
and 15 years old. One of them asks if Robb really transforms into a wolf eats the flesh of his enemies. Talisa says yes - but that
he does not eat the flesh of children, except during the full moon. She asks a guard if it's currently a full moon, and reassures the
now terrified child that he is safe.

In King's Landing
At King's Landing, Tywin Lannister calls the first meeting of the Small Council since he arrived in the city and assumed his
position as Hand of the King. He has the meeting place changed to a room next to his own quarters in the Tower of the Hand,
asserting his dominance. Tywin arrives early and has all of the council members called in at once. All of the seats are on one
side of the table, as a non-verbal test to see how each of them reacts around him. Petyr Baelish ambitiously pushes his way past
everyone else to be the one who sits closest to Tywin. Varys rolls his eyes at Littlefinger's naked ambition and lets him pass,
content to sit in the second-closest seat (for now). Grand Maester Pycelle, who is most focused on survival by avoiding direct
conflict, doesn't try to fight over a better seat with either of them, instead quietly taking the third seat away from Tywin. Tywin's
daughter Cersei arrives to find the seats are all occupied, but not wanting to play that game and be relegated to a lowly position,
she pulls up a chair so she is sitting at Tywin's right hand, opposite Littlefinger. Tyrion is the only one who even mildly stands up
to Tywin's posturing, by not even trying to sit closest to Tywin: instead he takes a new chair and makes a point of noisily
dragging it across the ground until it is positioned at the exact opposite end of the table from his father.

Tywin is upset with the three advisors, noting that between them, they possess the greatest number of spies in the world, yet
none of them can locate his son Jaime, even though the entire Northern army has heard of his escape. Tywin asks what news
there is of the war, and Varys reports that Robb has taken the bulk of his army to Riverrun for his grandfather's funeral, while
leaving Lord Roose Bolton in command of Harrenhal. Varys makes a jab at Littlefinger's recent, titular promotion as Lord of
Harrenhal, noting that this makes Roose Bolton the current Lord of Harrenhal in practice if not in name. However, Tywin says
that Roose can keep it, because the title alone is enough to give Littlefinger the social standing to be a suitor to Lady Lysa Arryn.
Littlefinger states that they have known each other since childhood, and Lysa has always adored him, and thus she will soon
remarry to him. Pycelle notes that this will make Littlefinger the acting Lord Paramount of the Vale, an even more important
position (Baelish is even wearing a more expensive tunic than usual, laced with gold, to reflect his new status).

Tywin states that this will confirm that the Vale of Arryn, which has been neutral in the war up to now, will not support Robb Stark,
who is increasingly being hemmed in by enemies (other marriage alliances, with House Tyrell of the Reach and House Martell of
Dorne, combined with the crushing of the Baratheons, have in turn secured the rest of southern Westeros under Lannister
control). Tyrion points out that if Baelish departs for the Vale that leaves a vacancy on the Small Council, and Tywin reveals that
he has appointed Tyrion as the new Master of Coin to replace him. While this may seem like giving Tyrion a position of relative
power again, Tyrion quickly points out that he has no prior experience in finance. With backhanded compliments, Cersei makes it
clear that this promotion is really intended to give him an opportunity to make mistakes he will be blamed for.

After the meeting, Tyrion, Podrick Payne, and Ser Bronn drop by Littlefinger's office in his brothel, where he keeps his ledgers.
Pod loads them all into a cart as Ros flirts with him. Littlefinger says it was the safest place to keep such records, but Tyrion
notes that his brothel hasn't been the safest place for bastards. Baelish says he hopes Tyrion does well in the position, as he
owes him for securing the release of Ros (after Cersei arrested her, mistaking her for Shae) but Tyrion says it was just a
misunderstanding. Tyrion and Bronn then lead Pod into another room of the brothel, where Tyrion says that he wants to reward

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him for saving his life during the Battle of the Blackwater: he has paid for Podrick (who has never had sex with a woman) to
enjoy the services of not one, but three prostitutes: Marei, Genna, and a contortionist named Kayla (one of only four women in
the world who can properly perform a "Meereenese Knot").

Later, Tyrion is reading through the financial records, and explains to Bronn that not all is as Baelish would like the court to think.
Bronn asks if he thinks Littlefinger has been stealing to obtain the crown's money, but Tyrion says the problem is more that he's
been borrowing all of it. Littlefinger always acted like he was a financial genius who could raise money seemingly out of
nowhere, but in reality the Iron Throne is heavily in debt, and Littlefinger procured enough money to balance the books every
year by borrowing massive sums of money from foreign banks.

In particular, much of their debt is owed to the Iron Bank of Braavos, the largest bank in the
Free Cities. Tyrion warns Bronn that when debtors to the Iron Bank cannot repay their loans,
the Iron Bank will first refuse to give out new loans, and ultimately support rebellions against
them. Tyrion fears that if they can't repay the debt, the Iron Bank will eventually cut them off
and start supporting Robb Stark or Stannis Baratheon. Podrick then returns, with the money
Tyrion gave him to pay the prostitutes. Tyrion is concerned that he lost heart and fled, but Pod Tyrion is fascinated at Pod's
ability to pleasure women.
innocently says he did "all sorts of things" with the prostitutes - they simply refused his offer of
payment. Impressed that the women would provide their services for free, Tyrion and Bronn
ask Pod to explain in detail what transpired, so they can take "copious notes."

On Dragonstone
At Dragonstone, King Stannis Baratheon speaks with Melisandre as she prepares to depart by boat. He is worried that his
enemies think he is defeated and are laughing at him, and that now even she is abandoning him. She assures him that she still
thinks he is the Lord's Chosen, but she must travel to an unknown location to obtain something vital for his cause. Stannis says
that he wants her, and that he wants Joffrey and Robb dead, and asks her to make "a son" again with him (like the Shadow-
creature she conjured to assassinate Renly). Melisandre says that she cannot: creating a shadow-creature drains some of the
fire of a man's life-force, and she fears that creating another would kill Stannis. Over his protests, she explains that what she is
seeking is even more powerful than a shadow-creature, and will change his fortunes in this war, but she needs a king's blood to
do it. Stannis doesn't understand, but Melisandre implies that she needs to burn a human sacrifice who possesses a king's blood
as an offering to the Lord of Light. She can't kill Stannis himself to achieve this, but as she points out, "There are others with your
blood in their veins" - any of his brother King Robert's bastard children who managed to survive the purge.

In the North
At an undisclosed location, Theon Greyjoy escapes from the dungeon with the help of a
young man, who gives him a horse and tells him to ride east. Theon thanks him and says he'll
make him a lord of the Iron Islands for this, but the boy says that they aren't in the Iron Islands
now. Theon is later hunted down by his captors in a prolonged chase on horseback through
the woods. Ultimately his pursuers split into two groups and trap Theon between them, and
he is knocked off his horse with a flail. Theon's captors pin him to the ground, and pull down Theon is nearly raped by his
his pants: the leader declares that he intends to rape Theon as punishment for trying to run torturer.
away. However, Theon's unidentified savior returns and snipes all of the captors from afar
using his bow, rescuing him at the last minute.

In the Riverlands
At the Inn at the Crossroads in the Riverlands, Arya Stark, Gendry, and Hot Pie are still in the company of the Brotherhood
Without Banners, who are preparing to depart. Gendry has finished fixing a steel breastplate which Thoros puts on, and Arya
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asks why Gendry is helping them. Thoros says that they're not prisoners, it's just that the war-
torn Riverlands aren't a safe place for Ned Stark's daughter. Arya notices that they are
loading Sandor "The Hound" Clegane into a prisoner cart, so she walks over and angrily asks
him if he remembers the last time he was here, but he simply says all poor inns look the
same.

As they get ready to leave, Hot Pie explains that he isn't going with them: he baked some Hot Pie tries to prove his loyalty
bread for the innkeeper, and as he was a baker's apprentice when he lived in King's Landing, to Arya through bread.

the innkeeper thought it was the best bread they'd ever had, and offered him a job. This life of
fighting and traveling isn't really for him, plus Thoros formally made a deal with the innkeeper
to pay for the free meals they enjoyed with Hot Pie's services. Before they go, he gives Arya a present he made for her: a loaf of
bread shaped like a direwolf, though Arya implies the tail looks like a head. Arya is a bit brusque but the three wish each other
well as they depart, and as they are riding away Arya starts eating the wolf-bread, and turns back to shout to Hot Pie that it is
very good.

Somewhere else in the Riverlands, Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth have been taken captive by Locke and a detachment of
men from House Bolton. As they ride along, the men sing a rousing chorus of The Bear and the Maiden Fair. Tied up back to
back on one of the horses, Jaime warns Brienne that when they make camp for the night, they will rape her, more than once,
and that his honest advice is to give no resistance, and just think of Renly. They were only sent to capture Jaime, therefore
Brienne means nothing to them, so at the slightest provocation they will kill her without hesitation. Brienne says she will fight
even if they kill her, and Jaime agrees that if he were a woman, he would fight to the death before being raped, too.

Later that night Locke's men make camp, and do indeed drag Brienne kicking and screaming
into the bushes to gang-rape her. Jaime is disgusted by this pointless brutality, so he points
out to Locke that Brienne is actually a noblewoman and the sole heir of Lord Selwyn of Tarth,
the "Sapphire Isle," and her father will pay them a ransom of her weight in sapphires -
provided that she is unharmed. Locke agrees and calls his men back before they are able to
rape Brienne, and they tie her up to a tree again. Jaime tries to smooth-talk Locke once again Brienne is beaten down as the
captors prepare to rape her.
with offers of how his father Tywin will make him extravagantly rich if he lets Jaime go.

Tiring of Jaime's frequent attempts to bribe him into turning over to the Lannister side, Locke
decides to prove that Jaime's father will never deal with the likes of him. At first Locke has his
men untie Jaime on the pretext of letting him go, but then his men hold him down on a
chopping block while Locke grabs a carving knife, threatening to stab Jaime in the eye. Locke
reasons that maiming Tywin's son will be the ultimate proof that the Lannisters would never
deal with Locke, much less bribe him. Locke says that Jaime's father can't help him now, and Jaime loses his sword-hand.
"this should help you remember!" - as he swings down the carving knife and hacks off Jaime's
sword-hand. For half a second, Jaime stares at his severed right hand in shock, before what
just happened can register in his mind and then he begins to scream both in horror and agony.

Appearances

Main: Walk of Punishment/Appearances

First

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Lord Hoster Tully (deceased)

Ser Brynden Tully
Lord Edmure Tully
Martyn Lannister
Willem Lannister
Karl Tanner
Craster's wife
Gilly's baby
Tortured slave
Greizhen mo Ullhor
Genna
Kayla

Deaths
Master Torturer
3 unnamed Bolton soldiers

Production
Cast

Starring Guest starring

Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister Ciarán Hinds as Mance Rayder

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Ser Jaime Lannister Robert Pugh as Craster
Lena Headey as Queen Cersei Lannister Ian McElhinney as Ser Barristan Selmy
Emilia Clarke as Queen Daenerys Targaryen Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth
Kit Harington as Jon Snow Mackenzie Crook as Orell
Richard Madden as King Robb Stark Paul Kaye as Thoros of Myr
Iain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont Clive Russell as Ser Brynden Tully
Michelle Fairley as Lady Catelyn Stark Tobias Menzies as Lord Edmure Tully
Aidan Gillen as Lord Petyr Baelish Kristofer Hivju as Tormund Giantsbane
Charles Dance as Lord Tywin Lannister Julian Glover as Grand Maester Pycelle
Stephen Dillane as King Stannis Baratheon Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Snow
Carice van Houten as Melisandre Noah Taylor as Locke
Alfie Allen as Prince Theon Greyjoy Mark Stanley as Grenn
John Bradley as Samwell Tarly Ben Crompton as Eddison Tollett
Maisie Williams as Princess Arya Stark Luke Barnes as Rast
Oona Chaplin as Queen Talisa Stark Burn Gorman as Karl Tanner
Joe Dempsie as Gendry Hannah Murray as Gilly
Rose Leslie as Ygritte Ben Hawkey as Hot Pie
James Cosmo as Lord Commander Jeor Mormont Esme Bianco as Ros
Conleth Hill as Lord Varys Daniel Portman as Podrick Payne
Jerome Flynn as Ser Bronn Philip McGinley as Anguy
Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane Dan Hildebrand as Kraznys mo Nakloz
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Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei

Michael Shelford as Master Torturer
Clifford Barry as Greizhen mo Ullhor[1]
Gary Lightbody as Bolton soldier
Michelle Costello as Craster's wife
Lisa Walsh as Craster's younger wife
Josephine Gillan as Marei
Kylie Harris as Genna
Pixie Le Knot as Kayla
Dean-Charles Chapman as Martyn Lannister
Timothy Gibbons as Willem Lannister
Mark Drake as a tortured slave[2]

Uncredited

Dennis McKeever as Night's Watch Officer

Christopher Newman as Lord Hoster Tully
Matt Butcher as Riverrun Nobleman
Tyrone Kearns as Brotherhood Member

Cast notes
22 of 28 cast members for the third season appear in this episode.
Starring cast members Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth), Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell), Jack Gleeson (Joffrey
Baratheon), Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran Stark), Sibel Kekilli (Shae), and Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) are not credited
and do not appear in this episode.
Dean-Charles Chapman first appears in the role of Martyn Lannister in this episode. However, in Season 4, Chapman
returns portraying a different character: Tommen Baratheon, who was played by Callum Wharry in previous seasons.
Richard Bradshaw, Matt Crook, David Forman, Paul Herbert, Phil Lonergan, Michelle McKeown, Camilla Naprous, Daniel
Naprous, David O'Connor, Peter Olivant, Florian Robin, C.C. Smiff, Matthew Stirling, and Ian van Temperley were stunt
performers in this episode.

Notes
The title of the episode comes from the Walk of Punishment in Astapor, where tortured or punished slaves are displayed.
The song played during the end credits is The Bear and the Maiden Fair, performed by The Hold Steady.
This is the first episode of the series to be directed by showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss: however, only Benioff is
credited as directing it. Both directed the episode, but due to the way that Director's Guild of America rules work, only one
of them could be officially credited with directing it.[3]
The scene in which the Small Council members arrange their chairs, non-verbally signifying their tactics towards seeking
power, was invented for the TV show. Production designer Gemma Jackson explained a small issue they ran into on set: at
one point the script calls for Cersei to drag her chair from one side of the table over to where she can sit at her father's
right hand side, but the actual chairs are very heavy - more than actress Lena Headey could actually lift. Therefore the
chair that Cersei uses had to be specifically built to be lighter so Headey could successfully move it around.[4]
Bran and Rickon Stark's storyline does not appear in this episode. Sansa Stark, Joffrey Baratheon, Margaery and Olenna
Tyrell do not appear in this episode. The preceding episode focused on the Sansa/Joffrey/Tyrell activities in King's Landing,

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while Tywin Lannister and the Small Council did not appear. This episode follows up on the other half of that, not featuring
the characters seen last episode to focus on the activities of Tywin and the Small Council.
Jaime Lannister mentions to Brienne that he used to have trouble reading, so his father made him read for two hours a day
before he could begin his sword practice. Tywin mentioned Jaime's reading difficulties, and his solution to them, in the
Season 2 episode "The Old Gods and the New," during a conversation with Arya Stark at Harrenhal, though he said that
he would make Jaime read for four hours, not just two. So far, the books have made no mention of Jaime having a
dyslexia-like condition.
In this episode the Iron Bank of Braavos is mentioned for the first time .
The Iron Throne's debt problems, with the realm being an astonishing six million Gold Dragons in debt, were mentioned
way back in episode 3 of Season 1, "Lord Snow," exactly twenty episodes ago. The outbreak of the War of the Five Kings
didn't make such massive debts simply go away, and now the Lannisters have to come around to addressing this as a
major problem. As Tyrion explains, Littlefinger always acted like he was brilliant at finding money, but it turns out that he
was really borrowing massive amounts of money from foreign banks, such as the Iron Bank of Braavos.
Tyrion says that they (namely the Crown) owe the Iron Bank "tens of millions," but apparently he was exaggerating.
According to the books, the Crown owes about three million to the Lannisters, about two million to the Iron Bank, the
Tyrells and several Tyroshi trading cartels (together), and nearly one million to the Faith. Back in "Lord Snow,"
Baelish clearly stated on-screen that the crown was six million Gold Dragons in debt (thus the debt hasn't been
drastically altered in the TV continuity). Baelish also stated on-screen that King Robert owed three million to Tywin
Lannister, and as Bronn points out, Tywin's own puppet grandson is now seated on the Iron Throne (so the
Lannisters can't pay themselves back three million).

In the "Inside the Episode" featurette, Peter Dinklage explains that Tyrion wanted to reward Podrick so extravagantly
because he feels bad about how his own father didn't reward him for any of his service in defending King's Landing. Tyrion
is honestly grateful that Podrick saved his life and expects nothing in return, he just likes rewarding people who deserve to
be rewarded when he can.
Arya Stark challenges Sandor "The Hound" Clegane about what he did the last time he was at this inn, referring back to
when he rode down and killed her friend Mycah the butcher's boy on Joffrey's orders, all the way back in the second
episode of Season 1, "The Kingsroad." The fact that a major war has broken out hasn't erased the fact that Joffrey had a
child brutally killed on a whim, nor has Arya simply forgotten.
Catelyn's uncle Brynden Tully calls himself "the Blackfish" because of his rocky relationship with his older brother,
stemming from Brynden's refusal to take part in a marriage-alliance to House Redwyne which Hoster proposed for him.
This led to Hoster calling him the black sheep of the Tully family, but pointing out that the Tully symbol is a fish, Brynden
decided that this made him the "Black-fish" of the Tully family. Brynden took as his personal sigil the normal blue and red
Tully heraldry, but with the silver fish replaced with a black one.
In a moment of anger, Robb Stark tells Edmure Tully that Tywin Lannister has his own sisters captive (really, just Sansa),
yet this hasn't made Robb stop fighting, thus Tywin Lannister won't stop fighting just because Edmure captured Tywin's
"father's brother's great-grandsons!" Willem and Martyn Lannister are actually the younger sons of Kevan Lannister (and
younger brothers of Lancel), and thus Tywin's nephews. Robb's point still holds that they're younger nephews and thus
minor relations compared to Tywin having Robb's own sisters, plus Tywin didn't even stop the war when his own eldest son
Jaime was Robb's prisoner. Robb was apparently just speaking loosely out of anger, to punctuate his point, rather than
drastically changing the family relationships of Willem and Martyn (i.e., it was similar to shouting "his fifth cousin three
times removed!"). Two episodes from now in "Kissed by Fire," Edmure refers to them as Tywin's nephews, confirming that
Robb's line in this episode was simply exaggeration.
Writer Bryan Cogman explained that initially, Martyn and Willem only appeared in "Kissed by Fire." However, after the
table-read the production team felt that their sudden introduction and then major scenes in that episode happened
too quickly, and would confuse the audience. As a result they created the brief extra scene in this episode introducing
both of them in a Riverrun prison cell, to set them up for later.[5]

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In the books, tortured slaves in Astapor are put on display in the "Plaza of Punishment," not a "Walk of Punishment" on the
battlements. This change arose from complications in the shooting location: the old city section of Essaouira, Morocco
where the scenes in Slaver's Bay are filmed features an esplanade of gunpowder cannons, which could not be physically
removed. This posed something of a problem, as Production Designer Gemma Jackson explained: "A whole line of
cannons...they were absolutely immovable. And we don't have cannons in our world [Westeros and Essos]... We decided
to incorporate them into the Walk of Punishment and we built 'cannon covers.' And actually, the repetition of them made
them look even better. I don't think anybody would question that they weren't there, all the time."[6]
When Jorah asks him how many wars he has fought in, Ser Barristan Selmy says three. These were the War of the
Ninepenny Kings, the Greyjoy Rebellion, and Robert's Rebellion.
Jon says that there were three hundred men of the Night's Watch at the Fist. This is what he said in the book, and the
actual number of the Night's Watch men who participated the Great Ranging in the books, but it contradicts the number
Qhorin Halfhand said in The Ghost of Harrenhal - 400.
The corpses of the Watch's horses are not simply scattered around - they are arranged in a symbolic pattern of a spiral of
seven spokes, spinning counterclockwise.
Note that the wildlings' corpses, found in the opening scene of "Winter Is Coming", were also arranged in a pattern (a
diamond shape bisected by a vertical line).

Tyrion says that the contortionist-prostitute Kayla is one of only four women in the known world who can properly perform a
sexual position known as the "Meereenese Knot." This is a subtle in-joke for fans of the books. In the A Song of Ice and
Fire fandom, the "Meereenese Knot" is a reference to a complex series of plot problems George R.R. Martin encountered
while writing the fifth novel in the series, A Dance with Dragons, problems which delayed the novel for a considerable
amount of time.
Gary Lightbody, front man of the band Snow Patrol, makes a cameo appearance as the Bolton soldier singing The Bear
and the Maiden Fair as they ride.
Because they had to appear in a wide shot, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime) and Gwendoline Christie (Brienne) are indeed
sitting tied back to back on a live horse, not a prop horse: "the dismounting was something of a process."[7]
Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss explained that they put the lively Indy Rock cover version of The Bear and the
Maiden Fair in over the ending credits, as an abrupt jump-cut immediately after Jaime Lannister's right hand is cut off, in
order to intentionally create as much mood dissonance as possible, to try to make the shock the TV audience feels match
the shock the book readers had when they read that Jaime lost his hand:
"The wildly mismatched pairing of the violence and a rock song by a contemporary band was a very deliberate move.
'It's such a shocking ending and when we read the scene in the books it was so shocking to us,' Weiss says. 'To
really hammer home the shock of that moment you need something unexpected. There's no version of a traditional
score that would keep you as off balance as we wanted that scene to leaving you feeling...I can't imagine having that
conversation with Ramin [Djawadi] our composer — 'Now we need the Jaime-gets-his-hand-chopped-off
music'...What we always loved in An American Werewolf in London, we see our hero shot and killed and then his
lover runs to embrace his dead body — it's a sad ending — but then we cut to black and it's [the bouncy 1961
Marcell's hit] 'Blue Moon.' And that jarring juxtaposition was fantastic."[8]

This episode was nominated for the 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costuming For A Series.[9]

In the books

See Differences between books and TV series - Season 3#Walk of Punishment

This episode is adapted from the following chapters of A Storm of Swords:

Chapter 15, Jon II: The wildling host arrives at the Fist of the First Men. Mance Rayder sends Jon Snow with a small
party, including Ygritte, to climb the Wall and attack Castle Black.

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Chapter 17, Arya II: The Brotherhood Without Banners departs the inn; Hot Pie remains behind to work at the inn.
Chapter 19, Tyrion III: The Small Council convenes, Lord Petyr Baelish agrees to travel to the Eyrie to woo Lysa
Arryn and form an alliance against the Starks.
Chapter 21, Jaime III: Jaime manages to saves Brienne from being gang-raped and killed by telling his captor that
she comes from a rich house, but gets his hand cut off.
Chapter 23, Daenerys II: Daenerys debates with Jorah Mormont and Barristan Selmy on whether to purchase the
Unsullied, and wonders what her brother Rhaegar would have done.
Chapter 25, Davos III: Melisandre explains that she cannot make more shadows because Stannis is too weak.
Chapter 27, Daenerys III: Daenerys agrees to buy all of the Unsullied in Astapor for one of her dragons, and
purchases Missandei from the Good Masters.
Chapter 32, Tyrion IV: Tyrion expresses his concern about the massive debts of the crown.
Chapter 33, Samwell II: The Night's Watch survivors arrive at Craster's Keep. Gilly gives birth.
Chapter 35, Catelyn IV: The Tullys honor Lord Hoster with a traditional funeral. Robb Stark learns of a strategic
blunder by Edmure.

The episode is adapted from the following chapters of A Dance with Dragons:
Chapter 12, Reek I: Theon escapes from his imprisonment.

Memorable quotes
Lord Edmure Tully: [to King Robb] "If I may, nephew, I encountered a situation with one of my lieutenants at the Stone Mill
which may have some bearing--"
Ser Brynden Tully: "Why don't you shut your mouth about that damned mill? And don't call him "nephew". He is your king."
Edmure: "Robb knows I meant him no disr--"
Brynden: "You're lucky, I'm not your king. I wouldn't let you wave your blunders around like a victory flag."
Edmure: "My blunder sent Tywin's mad dog scurrying back to Casterly Rock with his tail between his legs. I think King Robb
understands we're not gonna win this war if he's the only one winning any battles. There's glory enough to go around!"
King Robb Stark: "It's not about glory. Your instructions were to wait for him to come to you."
Edmure: "I seized an opportunity."
Robb: "What value was the mill?"
Edmure: "The Mountain was garrisoned across the river from it."
Robb: "Is he there now?"
Edmure: "Of course not. We took the fight to him! He could not withstand us."
Robb: "I wanted to draw the Mountain into the west, into our country where we could surround him and kill him. I wanted him to
chase us, which he would have done because he is a mad dog without a strategic thought in his head. I could have that head on
a spike by now. Instead, I have a mill."

King Robb Stark: "Do you think he'll sue for peace because we have his father's brother's great-grandsons?"

Edmure: "No."
Robb: "How many men did you lose?"
Edmure: "208. But for every man we lost, the Lannisters..."
Robb: "We need our men more than Tywin needs his!"
Edmure: "I'm sorry. I didn't know."
Robb: "You would have. Right here today at this gathering if you had been patient."

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Brynden: "We seem to be running short of patience here."

Robb: "You know who isn't? Tywin Lannister."

Barristan Selmy: "When your brother Rhaegar led his army into battle at the Trident, men died for him because they believed in
him, because they loved him. I fought beside the last dragon on that day, your Grace. I bled beside him."

Jorah Mormont: "Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly. And Rhaegar died."
Daenerys Targaryen: "Did you know him well, Ser Barristan?"
Barristan: "I did, your Grace. Finest man I ever met.
Daenerys: "I wish I had known him, but he was not the last dragon."

Ser Jaime Lannister: "I hope you're pleased. If you had armed me, they never would have taken us."

Lady Brienne of Tarth: "You were armed when we were taken."

Jaime: "I was in chains if you recall. Our little match would have ended quite quick if my hands weren't bound."
Brienne: "All my life I've been hearing, "Jaime Lannister, what a brilliant swordsman." You were slower than I expected. And
more predictable--"
Jaime: "I've been sitting in a muddy pen wrapped in chains for the past year."
Brienne: "And I'm a woman. I was still beating you."
Jaime: "You were not beating me."
Brienne: "Maybe you were as good as people said... once. Or maybe people just love to overpraise a famous name."

Locke: "You think you're the smartest man there is. That everyone alive has to bow and scrape and lick your boots."

Jaime: "My father--"

Locke:" And if you get in any trouble, all you got to do is say "my father" and that's it, all your troubles are gone."
Jaime: "Don't."
Locke: "Have you got something to say? [threatens Jaime with a knife] Careful. You don't want to say the wrong thing. You're
nothing without your daddy and your daddy ain't here. Never forget that. Here, this should help you remember!" [cuts Jaime's
hand off]

Mance Rayder: "And whether he is Lord Commander of the Night's Watch or a blue-eyed corpse, he's a long way from home".

Tyrion Lannister: [reviews the kingdom's ledgers] "For years I've heard that Littlefinger is a magician: whenever the Crown
needs money, he rubs his hands together and - poof! - mountains of gold."

Bronn: "Let me guess: he's not a magician."

Tyrion: "No."
Bronn: "He's stealing it?"
Tyrion: "Worse: he's borrowing it."
Bronn: "What's wrong with that?"
Tyrion: "We can't afford to pay it back. That's what's wrong with it. The Crown owes millions to my father."
Bronn: "Seeing as it's his grandson's ass on the throne, I imagine he'll forgive that debt."
Tyrion: "Forgive a debt? My father? For a man of the world, you're strangely naive."
Bronn: "I've never borrowed money before. I'm not clear on the rules."
Tyrion: "Well, ahem, the basic principle is I lend you money, and after an agreed-upon period of time, you return it with interest."
Bronn: "And what if I don't?"
Tyrion: "Well, you have to."
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Bronn: "But what if I don't?"

Tyrion: "This is why I don't lend you money. Anyway, it's not my father I'm worried about, it's the Iron Bank of Braavos. We owe
them tens of millions. If we fail to repay these loans, the Bank will fund our enemies. One way or another, they always get their
gold back."

Gallery

Robb Tyrion and Littlefinger Tyrion Lannister

See also
Walk of Punishment on Wikipedia

Walk of Punishment on IMDb

Walk of Punishment on A Wiki of Ice and Fire

References
1. ↑ [1] 7. ↑ Making Game of Thrones blog , April 17th, 2013

2. ↑ [2] 8. ↑ 'Game of Thrones': Nikolaj Coster-Waldau on Jaime's

big surprise , EW.com, April 14th, 2013.
3. ↑ [3]
9. ↑ Emmys.com
4. ↑ Making Game of Thrones Blog
5. ↑ Westeros.org, Season 3 Interview: Bryan Cogman.
6. ↑ "From the Set: The Walk of Punishment" , HBO
Behind-the-Scenes extra feature, reposted on
WinterIsComing.net
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