I believe Petyr Baelish will die this weekend.
It seemed to take Gendry two minutes to return to Eastwatch. How long will it take the zombies to get there?
HBO says of the 80-minute “The Dragon and the Wolf”:
Nothing.
Previously. On “Game of Thrones”:
* Tormund Giantsbane wondered aloud how many died for Manse Rayder’s pride.
* Sandor Clegane asked Gendry if Melissandre was naked as she applied her leeches.
* Jon said he’s glad Ned Stark didn’t catch and execute Jorah.
* Jorah refused Longclaw.
* Arya accused Sansa of helping the Lannisters kill Ned Stark. Sansa reminded Arya that Arya made no effort to prevent the blade from slicing off Ned’s head. “You’re scared the northern lords will read it,” Arya says of Sansa’s note begging Robb Stark to bend the knee.
* The Hound learned Tormund wants to make giant babies with Brienne of Tarth.
* Beric Donderrion told Jon it was King’s Hand Ned Stark who dispatched him to hunt down Lannister henchman Gregor Clegane.
* Daenerys rejected Tyrion Lannister’s notion that Jon Snow is in love with her. She also complained that Jon is too small.
* Tyrion incorrectly told the Khaleesi that she will enter King’s Landing with two armies and three dragons. Tyrion also remembered the Mother of Dragons said she cannot have children. (Perhaps Dany remembers what the witchy midwife told her about her stillborn son Rhaego: “He was scaled like a lizard, blind, with leather wings like the wings of a bat. When I touched him, the skin fell from his bones. Inside he was full of graveworms.”) “We will discuss the succession after I wear the crown,” she told Tyrion.
* A very large zombie bear took a bite out of Thoros, reminding us all that more than dead humans serve The Night King. The Hound turned away as Beric used his flaming sword to cauterize Thoros’ wound. (There is something more than a little lightsaber-y about the way Beric and Thoros activate their own light-sabers.)
* “If they found out that I wrote that letter – a woman who’s married not one but two enemies of her house – by the time Jon comes back he’ll have no army left,” Sansa told Baelish, who reminded Sansa that Brienne is sworn to protect both Stark daughters.
* Jorah remembered fighting beside (or just behind) a drunk and god-like Thoros of Myr during the first Greyjoy rebellion, which united the Baratheon, Lannister and Stark forces against the Iron Islands. Jorah (at the time a Stark bannerman) – and Thoros (an agent of House Baratheon) fought alongside Ned Stark, Jaime Lannister and Robert Baratheon in that Siege of Pyke, which transpired six years after Robert wrested the Iron Throne from Dany’s crazy dad. It was in that battle against Balon and Euron that Theon’s brothers perished, and Theon almost immediately after became Ned’s ward. The battle also resulted in Jorah’s knighthood.
* When Jon cut down a bearded zombie with Lord Mormont’s Valerian-steel sword Longclaw, a handful of other zombies unexpectedly shattered to bits as well. The surviving zombie became Team Jon’s hostage.
* With many, many more zombies approaching, Gendry was dispatched to alert Eastwatch.
* Miraculously, the zombie horde fell into a freezing lake, unable to reach Team Jon until the lake refroze.
* Gendry collapsed at Eastwatch. Davos demanded a raven be sent to Dany.
* Thoros froze to death. The Hound stole his liquor. Beric burned the corpse of the red priest who resurrected him six times.
* Sansa received an invitation to King’s Landing and dispatches Brienne in her stead. “It’s not safe leaving you with Littlefinger,” Brienne warned. Sansa told Brienne to hurry it up.
* Tyrion counseled Dany to do nothing. “Without you we’re lost.” “I’m not doing nothing again,” replied Dany as she mounts Drogon.
* The Hound’s rock alerted the zombies to the refrozen nature of the lake. Many swords are swung.
* Toting their hostage zombie, most of Team Jon climbed aboard Drogon behind Dany.
* The Night King speared Viserion, who crashed and drowned.
* Jon, screaming for Dany to depart with Team Jon, was tackled into the freezing lake by zombies.
* A second zombie spear nearly impaled Drogon.
* Jon emerged from the freezing lake and was set upon by zombies. Uncle Benjen, swinging a great ball of fire, put Jon on Benjen’s horse and sent it galloping to Eastwatch.
* Sansa found Arya’s faces and learned of her training in Braavos. “I could even become you,” Arya told Sansa, grabbing her fancy dagger – and handing it to Sansa.
* “You have to see it to know. Now I know,” Dany told Jon. “We are going to destroy the Night King.” Jon figuratively bent the knee.
* Zombies with giant chains hauled Visirion out of the drink.
