Game of Thrones (TV Series)

Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things (2011)

Kit Harington: Jon Snow

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• Samwell Tarly : So why exactly did you not make love to Ros with the perfect...?

  Jon Snow : What's my name?

  Samwell Tarly : Jon Snow.

  Jon Snow : And why is my surname Snow?

  Samwell Tarly : Because... you're a bastard from the North.

  Jon Snow : I never met my mother. My father wouldn't even tell me her name. I don't know if she's living or dead. I don't know if she's a noblewoman or a fisherman's wife... or a whore. So I sat there in the brothel as Ros took off her clothes. But I couldn't do it. Because all I could think was what if I got her pregnant and she had a child, another bastard named Snow? It's not a good life for a child.

  Samwell Tarly : So... you *didn't* know where to put it?

• [Jon is standing watch atop the Wall when Sam walks over] 

  Samwell Tarly : Hello. Ser Alliser said I'm to be your new watch partner. I should warn you, I don't see all that well.

  Jon Snow : Come stand by the fire. It's warmer.

  Samwell Tarly : No, that's all right, I'm fine.

  Jon Snow : You're not. You're freezing.

  [Sam walks over to the fire and peers over the edge of the Wall] 

  Samwell Tarly : I don't like high places.

  Jon Snow : You can't fight... you can't see... you're afraid of heights and almost everything else, probably.

  [pause] 

  Jon Snow : What are you doing here, Sam?

  Samwell Tarly : On the morning of my eighteenth nameday, my father came to me. "You're almost a man now," he said, "but you are not worthy of my land and title. Tomorrow you're going to take the black, forsake all claim to your inheritance, and start north. If you do not," he said, "then we'll have a hunt, and somewhere in these woods your horse will stumble, and you'll be thrown from your saddle to die. Or so I'll tell your mother. Nothing would please me more."

  [pause] 

  Samwell Tarly : Ser Alliser's going to make me fight again tomorrow, isn't he?

  Jon Snow : Yes, he is.

  Samwell Tarly : [groans]  I'm not going to get any better, you know.

  Jon Snow : Well, you can't get any worse.

  [Sam and Jon start laughing] 

• [Thorne walks in on Jon and Sam horsing around in the mess hall] 

  Alliser Thorne : Enjoying yourselves?

  [Jon and Sam quickly get back to work] 

  Alliser Thorne : You look cold, boys.

  Samwell Tarly : It is a bit nippy.

  Alliser Thorne : Bit nippy, yeah. By the fire, indoors... it's still summer. Do you boys even remember the last winter? How long has it been now? What, ten years?

  Jon Snow : I remember.

  Alliser Thorne : Was it uncomfortable at Winterfell? Were there days when you just couldn't get warm, never mind how many fires your servants built?

  Jon Snow : I build my own fires.

  Alliser Thorne : That's admirable. I spent six months out there, beyond the Wall, during the last winter. Supposed to be a two-week mission. We heard a rumor Mance Rayder was planning to attack Eastwatch, so we went out to look for some of his men, capture them, gather some knowledge. The Wildlings who fight for Mance Rayder are hard men... harder than you'll ever be. They know their country better than we do. They knew there was a storm coming in. So they hid in their caves and waited for it to pass... and we got caught in the open. Wind so strong, it yanked hundred-foot trees straight from the ground, roots and all. If you took your gloves off to find your cock to have a piss, you lost a finger to the frost. And all in darkness.

  [pause] 

  Alliser Thorne : You don't know cold. Neither of you do. The horses died first. Didn't have enough to feed them, to keep them warm. Eating the horses was easy... but later, when we started to fall... that wasn't easy.

  [Thorne walks over to Sam, who starts shuddering] 

  Alliser Thorne : We should've had a couple of boys like you along, shouldn't we? Soft, fat boys like you. We'd have lasted a fortnight on you, and still have bones left over for soup. Soon we'll have new recruits, and you lot will be passed along to the Lord Commander for assignment. And they will call you "men of the Night's Watch," but you'd be fools to believe it. You're boys, still. And come the winter, you will die... like flies.

• Samwell Tarly : I know for a fact that some of the officers go to that brothel in Mole's Town.

  Jon Snow : I wouldn't doubt it.

  Samwell Tarly : Don't you think it's a little bit unfair? Making us take our vows while they sneak off for a little Sally on the side?

  Jon Snow : Sally on the side?

  Samwell Tarly : It's silly, isn't it? What, *we* can't defend the Wall unless we're celibate? It's absurd.

  Jon Snow : I didn't think you'd be so upset about it.

  Samwell Tarly : Why not? Because I'm fat?

  Jon Snow : No.

  Samwell Tarly : But I like girls just as much as you do. They might not like me as much. I've never... been with one. You've probably had hundreds.

  Jon Snow : No. As a matter of fact, I'm the same as you.

  Samwell Tarly : Yeah. Yeah, I... I find that hard to believe.

  Jon Snow : I came very close once. I was alone in a room with a naked girl, but...

  Samwell Tarly : Didn't know where to put it?

  Jon Snow : I know where to put it.

  Samwell Tarly : Was she... old and ugly?

  Jon Snow : Young and gorgeous. A whore named Ros.

  Samwell Tarly : What color hair?

  Jon Snow : Red.

  Samwell Tarly : Oh, I like red hair. And her... her...

  [Sam places his hands on his chest] 

  Jon Snow : You don't want to know.

  Samwell Tarly : What, that good?

  Jon Snow : Better.

• Pypar : Where have you been?

  Jon Snow : Watch duty with Sam.

  Pypar : Ah, Prince Porkchop. Where is he?

  Jon Snow : He wasn't hungry.

  Pypar : Impossible!

  Jon Snow : That's enough. Sam's no different from the rest of us. There was no place for him in the world, so he's come here. We're not gonna hurt him in the training yard anymore. Never again, no matter what Thorne says. He's our brother now, and we're going to protect him.

  Rast : You ARE in love, Lord Snow. You girls can do as you please. But if Thorne puts me up against Lady Piggy, I'm gonna slice me off a side of bacon.