Game of Thrones (TV Series)

Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things (2011)

Sean Bean: Eddard 'Ned' Stark

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• Petyr Baelish : I hear you're reading a boring book.

  Eddard Stark : Hm. Pycelle talks too much.

  Petyr Baelish : Oh, he never stops. Do you know Ser Hugh of the Vale?

  [Ned shakes his head] 

  Petyr Baelish : Not surprising. Until recently, he was only a squire. Jon Arryn's squire. He was knighted almost immediately after his master's untimely death.

  Eddard Stark : Knighted for what?

  [Baelish gives Ned a knowing look] 

  Eddard Stark : Why are you telling me this?

  Petyr Baelish : I promised Cat that I'd help you.

  Eddard Stark : Where is Ser Hugh? I'll speak to him.

  Petyr Baelish : A singularly bad idea. Do you see that boy, there?

  [Baelish nods at the boy] 

  Petyr Baelish : One of Varys' little birds. The Spider has taken a great interest in your comings and goings. Now look, there.

  [Baelish nods at a nearby gardener] 

  Petyr Baelish : That one belongs to the queen. And do you see that septa pretending to read her book?

  [Baelish nods at the septa] 

  Eddard Stark : Varys or the queen?

  Petyr Baelish : No, she's one of mine. Is there someone in your service whom you trust completely?

  Eddard Stark : Yes.

  Petyr Baelish : The wiser answer was no, my lord. Get a message to this paragon of yours, discreetly. Send him to question Ser Hugh. After that, you might want him to visit a certain armorer in the city. He lives in a large house at the top of the Street of Steel.

  Eddard Stark : Why?

  Petyr Baelish : I have my observers, as I said, and it's possible that they saw Lord Arryn visit this armorer several times in the weeks before his death.

  Eddard Stark : Lord Baelish, perhaps I was wrong to distrust you.

  Petyr Baelish : Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed off your horse.

• Cersei Lannister : You're just a soldier, aren't you? You take your orders and you carry on. I suppose it makes sense. Your older brother was trained to lead, and you were trained to follow.

  Eddard Stark : I was also trained to kill my enemies, Your Grace.

  Cersei Lannister : As was I.

• [Ned finds Arya trying to balance on one leg at the top of some steps] 

  Arya Stark : Syrio says a water dancer can stand on one toe for hours.

  Eddard Stark : It's a hard fall down these steps.

  Arya Stark : Syrio says every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better.

  [Arya puts her foot down] 

  Arya Stark : Tomorrow I'm going to be chasing cats.

  Eddard Stark : Cats? Syrio says...

  Arya Stark : He says every swordsman should study cats. They're as quiet as shadows and as light as feathers. You have to be quick to catch them.

  Eddard Stark : He's right about that.

  Arya Stark : Now that Bran's awake, will he come live with us?

  Eddard Stark : Well, he needs to get his strength back first.

  Arya Stark : He wants to be a knight of the Kingsguard. He can't be one now, can he?

  Eddard Stark : No, but someday he could be lord of a holdfast, or sit on the king's council, or he might raise castles like Brandon the Builder.

  Arya Stark : Can I be lord of a holdfast?

  [Ned chuckles and kisses Arya's forehead] 

  Eddard Stark : You will marry a high lord and rule his castle, and your sons shall be knights and princes and lords.

  Arya Stark : No... that's not me.

  [Arya resumes standing on one leg] 

• Eddard Stark : What are you doing here?

  Cersei Lannister : I might ask the same of you. What is it you even hope to accomplish?

  Eddard Stark : The King called on me to serve him, and the realm, and that's what I'll do until he tells me otherwise.

• Cersei Lannister : You're missing your tournament.

  Eddard Stark : Putting my name on it doesn't make it mine.

  Cersei Lannister : I thought we might put what happened on the Kingsroad behind us; the ugliness with the wolves. And forcing you to kill the beast was extreme. Though sometimes we go to extremes where our children are concerned. How is Sansa?

  Eddard Stark : She likes it here.

  Cersei Lannister : She's the only Stark who does.

• Janos Slynt : It's the Hand's tournament that's causing all this trouble, my lords.

  Eddard Stark : The king's tournament. I assure you the Hand wants no part of it.

  Janos Slynt : Call it what you will, Lord Stark, ser, the city is packed with people and more flooding in every day. Last night we had a tavern riot, a brothel fire, three stabbings, and a drunken horse race down the Street of Sisters.

  Lord Varys : Dreadful.

  Renly Baratheon : If you can't keep the king's peace, perhaps the city watch should be commanded by someone who can.

  Janos Slynt : I need more men.

  Eddard Stark : You'll get 50. Lord Baelish will see it paid for.

  Petyr Baelish : I will?

  Eddard Stark : You found money for a champion's purse, you can find money to keep the peace.

• Grand Maester Pycelle : "The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, with Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and their Children."

  Eddard Stark : [opening it and flipping through pages]  "Harkon Umber, first of his name, born to Lord Hother Umber and Lady Amaryllis Umber in the 183rd year after Aegon's landing, at the last hearth. Blue of eye, brown of hair, and fair complected, died in his 14th year of a wound sustained in a bear hunt."

  Grand Maester Pycelle : As I said, my lord, a ponderous read.

  Eddard Stark : Did Jon Arryn tell you what he wanted with it?

  Grand Maester Pycelle : He did not, my lord. And I did not presume to ask.

• Eddard Stark : I've been hoping to talk to you about Jon Arryn.

  Grand Maester Pycelle : Lord Arryn? Oh, his death was a great sadness to all of us. I took personal charge of his care, but I could not save him. His sickness struck him very hard and very fast. I saw him in my chambers just the night before he passed. Lord Jon often came to me for counsel.

  Eddard Stark : Why?

  Grand Maester Pycelle : I have been grand maester for many years. Kings and Hands have come to me for advice since...

  Eddard Stark : What did Jon want the night before he died?

  Grand Maester Pycelle : Oh, he came inquiring after a book.

  Eddard Stark : A book? What book?

  Grand Maester Pycelle : Oh, I fear it would be of little interest to you, my lord. A ponderous tome.

  Eddard Stark : No, I'd like to read it.

• Eddard Stark : When Lord Arryn came to visit you, what would you talk about?

  Gendry : He just asked me questions is all, my lord.

  Eddard Stark : What kind of questions?

  Gendry : About my work at first, if I was being treated well, if I liked it here. But then he started asking me about my mother.

  Eddard Stark : Your mother?

  Gendry : Who she was, what she looked like.

  Eddard Stark : What did you tell him?

  Gendry : S-She died when I was little. She had yellow hair. She'd sing to me sometimes.

  Eddard Stark : [seeing him avoiding eye contact]  Look at me.

  [as Gendry does, he gives him a once-over glance] 

  Eddard Stark : Get back to work, lad.

  [to Tobho] 

  Eddard Stark : If the day ever comes when that boy would rather wield a sword than forge one, you send him to me.

  [leaving, he returns to where Jory waits] 

  Jory Cassel : Find anything?

  Eddard Stark : King Robert's bastard son.

• Eddard Stark : Jon's death...

  Grand Maester Pycelle : Such a tragedy.

  Eddard Stark : ...did he say anything to you during his final hours?

  Grand Maester Pycelle : Nothing of import, my lord. Oh... there was one phrase he kept repeating. Uh, "the seed is strong," I think it was.

  Eddard Stark : The seed is strong?

  Grand Maester Pycelle : Mmm.

  Eddard Stark : What does that mean?

  Grand Maester Pycelle : Oh, the dying mind is a demented mind, Lord Stark. For all the weight they're given, last words are usually as significant as first words.

  Eddard Stark : And you're quite certain he died of a natural illness?

  Grand Maester Pycelle : Well, what else could it be?

  Eddard Stark : Poison.

  Grand Maester Pycelle : A disturbing thought. No, no, no, I don't think it likely. The Hand was loved by all. What sort of man would dare...

  Eddard Stark : I've heard it said that poison is a woman's weapon.

  Grand Maester Pycelle : Yes, women, cravens... and eunuchs. Did you know that Lord Varys is a eunuch?

  Eddard Stark : Everybody knows that.

  Grand Maester Pycelle : Yes, yes. Yes, of course. How that sort of person found himself on the king's council, I will never know.

  Eddard Stark : [closing the book]  I've taken enough of your time.

  Grand Maester Pycelle : No trouble at all, my lord. It's a great honor...

  Eddard Stark : [taking it with him]  Thank you. I'll find my own way out.