

Brienne recognizes Arya and explains her oath to Catelyn, but Arya rebuffs her and Sandor is unconvinced of her loyalties. Tyrion then escapes on a ship bound for Essos with help from Varys, who boards with him after Tywin's death is discovered.īrienne and Podrick meet Sandor and Arya. He then confronts Tywin as he sits on the privy, and kills him with a crossbow when he repeatedly dismisses his son's feelings. Realizing that Tywin has turned Shae against him, Tyrion remorsefully strangles her to death. Tyrion, before escaping, sneaks into the Tower of the Hand, where he finds Shae in Tywin's bed. In the dungeons, Tyrion awaits his execution, but Jaime helps him escape. Cersei rebuffs Tywin's insistence to marry Loras and confirms her incest with Jaime to him. Gregor lies dying from Oberyn's poisoned spear, but Qyburn says that he can save him and Cersei ousts Pycelle from his laboratory and gives his care over to Qyburn. Drogon has not returned but Daenerys, guilt-ridden, chains the other dragons in the sewers as a precaution. The next supplicant is a grieving father carrying the charred bones of his three year-old daughter, who was killed by Drogon. She allows him to have a temporary contract of service with his former master. The Child leads them to meet an old man, the “Three Eyed Raven“, who tells Bran that, while he will never be able to walk again, he will "fly".ĭaenerys receives a supplicant who wishes to be sold back into slavery because his life as a slave was safer than as a freedman. Jojen is killed, but Hodor, Meera, and Bran are saved by a Child of the Forest.

At the captured Tormund's urging, Jon later privately cremates Ygritte north of the Wall.Īs Bran's group reaches the Heart Tree, they are attacked by wights. A mass cremation is held for the slain brothers of the Night's Watch Melisandre looks intriguingly at Jon over the flames. Mance surrenders and is taken captive on Jon's suggestion. They are interrupted by a massive cavalry charge led by Stannis and Davos that overruns the wildling encampment. Jon meets Mance Rayder and tells him that he wants to parley, but Rayder quickly realizes that Jon intends to kill him. This episode marks the final appearances of Sibel Kekilli ( Shae), Rose Leslie ( Ygritte) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster ( Jojen Reed). "The Children" was praised for the handling of the deaths of Shae and Tywin Lannister, Bran reaching the Heart Tree and the fight scene between Brienne and Sandor "The Hound" Clegane. The tenth and final episode of the fourth season, the episode was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. " The Children" is the fourth season finale of HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones, and the 40th overall.

10th episode of the fourth season of Game of Thrones " The Children"
