Game of Thrones (TV Series)

Winter Is Coming (2011)

Michelle Fairley: Catelyn Stark

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• [Ned is cleaning his sword in Winterfell's godswood after Will's execution] 

  Catelyn Stark : All these years, and I still feel like an outsider when I come here.

  Eddard Stark : You have five northern children. You're not an outsider.

  Catelyn Stark : I wonder if the old gods agree.

  Eddard Stark : It's your gods, by all the rules.

  [pause. Then Catelyn produces a parchment from her sleeve] 

  Catelyn Stark : I am so sorry, my love.

  Eddard Stark : Tell me.

  Catelyn Stark : There was a raven from King's Landing. Jon Arryn is dead. A fever took him.

  [Ned slowly looks away in shock] 

  Catelyn Stark : I know he was like a father to you.

  Eddard Stark : Your sister, the boy...

  Catelyn Stark : They both have their health, gods be good.

  [Catelyn sits down next to Ned] 

  Catelyn Stark : The raven brought more news. The king rides for Winterfell... with the queen, and all the rest of them.

  Eddard Stark : If he's coming this far north... there's only one thing he's after.

  Catelyn Stark : You can always say no, Ned.

• [Ned and Catelyn are watching the boys at archery practice when Ser Rodrik walks up] 

  Ser Rodrik Cassel : Lord Stark... milady. The guardsmen just rode in from the hills. They've captured a deserter from the Night's Watch.

  [pause] 

  Eddard Stark : Get the lads to saddle their horses.

  Catelyn Stark : Do you have to?

  Eddard Stark : He swore an oath, Cat.

  Ser Rodrik Cassel : Law is law, milady.

  Eddard Stark : Tell Bran he's coming, too.

  [Ser Rodrik nods and walks away] 

  Catelyn Stark : Ned... ten is too young to see such things.

  Eddard Stark : He won't be a boy forever... and winter is coming.

• Catelyn Stark : We'll need plenty of candles for Lord Tyrion's chamber. I'm told he reads all night.

  Maester Luwin : I'm told he drinks all night.

  Catelyn Stark : How much could he possibly drink, a man of his... stature?

  Maester Luwin : We've brought up eight barrels of ale from the cellar. Perhaps we'll find out.

  Catelyn Stark : In any case, candles.

• [Catelyn sees Bran climbing off the roof] 

  Catelyn Stark : How many times have I told you? No climbing.

  Bran Stark : But he's coming right now, down our road.

  Catelyn Stark : I want you to promise me, no more climbing.

  Bran Stark : I promise.

  Catelyn Stark : Do you know what? You always look at your feet before you lie.

• Eddard Stark : I'm a Northman. I belong here with you, not down south in that rat's nest they call a capital.

  Catelyn Stark : I won't let him take you.

  Eddard Stark : The king takes what he wants. That's why he's king.

  Catelyn Stark : I'll say, "Listen, fat man. You are not taking my husband anywhere. He belongs to me now."

  Eddard Stark : How did he get so fat?

  Catelyn Stark : He only stops eating when it's time for a drink.

• Eddard Stark : [Catelyn receives a letter from her sister]  What news?

  Catelyn Stark : She's fled the capital. She says Jon Arryn was murdered. By the Lannisters. She says the king is in danger.

  Eddard Stark : She's fresh widowed, Cat. She doesn't know what she's saying.

  Catelyn Stark : Lysa's head would be on a spike right now if the wrong people had found that letter. Do you think she would risk her life, her son's life, if she wasn't certain her husband was murdered?

  Maester Luwin : If this news is true and the Lannisters conspire against the throne, who but you can protect the king?

  Catelyn Stark : They murdered the last Hand. Now you want Ned to take the job?

  Maester Luwin : The king rode for a month to ask for Lord Stark's help. He's the only one he trusts. You swore the king an oath, my lord.

  Catelyn Stark : He's spent half his life fighting Robert's wars. He owes him nothing. Your father and brother rode south once on a king's demand.

  Maester Luwin : A different time. A different king.