Inside Game Of Thrones - Season 1 - Episode 22

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Inside Game Of Thrones - Season 1 - Episode 22

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And then they learn a shocking revelation when Petyr admits that the dagger belongs to him.

Usedto belong to him, more accurately, since, according to him, it was now the property of Tyrion Lannister, the Queen’s dwarf brother.
As you can understand, Catelyn and her husband Ned were finding it a bit difficult to follow Littlefinger’s story, so he explained. On Joffery’s last name day— his birthday —his father had organized a tourney in his honor.

In case you don’t understand, a tourney is an event where knights compete, riding against each other with tourney lances, long spear-like things that splinter on impact, one knight against another, a game known as “jousting”. Each race is decided by who remains in his saddle after each joust. The last knight standing— or, rather, sitting —wins.

Each tourney is a chance for anyone who knows the odds to win a bit of money on betting. On this particular tourney, the majority favourite to win was no other than golden-haired Ser Jaime Lannister, the Kingslayer, Queen Cersei’s twin brother. Ser Jaime was a knight revered for his prowess at not just swordplay, but also jousting, and the majority of King’s Landing, both highborns and commonfolk, had bet on him to win.
Majority of King’s Landing found themselves short a few coppers, however, when Jaime Lannister was unseated in the finals by Ser Loras Tyrell of all people, a knight who was scarcely more than a boy. The Knight of Flowers— as Loras was known —won the tourney, and Littlefinger, who had bet his pricey dagger on the Kingslayer, lost it to the Imp, who, oddly, had picked the Knight of Flowers as his favourite.

The dagger belonged to the Imp.

Catelyn and her husband were stunned. They had recieved the Lannisters into their home, and Tyrion himself had not proved to be as proud or vain as his brother and sister, so what reason could he possibly have to want their son dead?

The answer was clear enough. Bran had seen something he wasn’t supposed to see, and the dwarf had decided to do away with him. The only thing thatwasn’tclear was what exactly that thing was.

Catelyn missed her daughters and wanted to see them since they were all in the same city, but she also knew she must not, not if she wanted her coming to the capital to remain a secret. And so she left with a heavy heart, she and her faithful master-at-arms, back for Winterfell, but this time they went North by the Kingsroad, rather than by sea, as they had come.

Their return journey took a while, and under bad weather, too, with rain pouring down ceaselessly and turning the Kingsroad to mud that made for bad footing for their horses. All along the way, they were passed by Lords and their sons and groups of knights on their destriers all heading South for King’s Landing, for the tourney Robert had declared to honor her husband on his appointment as his Hand.

On the voyage to the capital, Ser Rodrik’s bouts of seasickness had him vomiting over the side of the ship several times a day, and each time he did, the strong winds would blow all of the vomit right back into his face until it was so bad that his white beard, moustache, and prominent white sidewhiskers got crusted with stale vomit, and he’d had to shave it off.

Aside from that, the ordeal had made him lose so much weight that he was hardly recognizeable, even to Catelyn. Now, with the bad weather on their trip back home, dirt, dust and mud made all those lords and knights heading toward King’s Landing and the Hand’s Tourney to look at them as no more than two common travelers.

And Catelyn, after her experience with the Imp, doesn’t know who wishes them good and who wishes them bad, so she decides that the lady of Winterfell and her master-at-arms are better off unrecognized, and to that end she decides that they will travel as father and daughter instead.

Along the Kingsroad, they reach a crossroads, to the left of which branches off the road to Riverrun, her father’s castle. At the crossroads itself is an inn at which they decide to spend the night. Catelyn used to lodge there with her father, Lord Hoster, when she was a little girl, and so she remembers the innkeep, a fat woman by the name of Masha Heddle, distinguishable by the deep-red tint of her teeth brought about by her habit of chewing a plant called “sourleaf”.

Masha remains largely unchanged even after all the years, except that she looks a little older and doesn’t recognize the daughter of her liege lord.

At the inn, Catelyn and Ser Rodrik take a couple of rooms and then come down to the common room for some supper, and are enjoying conversation with a singer and some commonfolk when the door opens and in walks a dwarf, along with a few men.

But it isn’t just any dwarf. Distinguishable by his golden-blonde hair and mismatched black-and-green eyes is Tyrion Lannister, son of Lord Tywin.

The man who owned the dagger that had been sent to kill Lady Stark’s son, Bran.
The dwarf just walks in bold as you please, and orders a room for himself and his men and hot supper as well. Much as Catelyn wants to murder the little man, she wants to remain anonymous even more, so she just looks on at the rich lordling like every other person in the common room. Tyrion was already following Masha into the kitchen to see about his supper when the blasted singer, a young man named Marillion who had been boasting to them of his friendship with Lord Hoster Tully’s son, decided to speak.