Game of Thrones (TV Series)

The Watchers on the Wall (2014)

John Bradley: Samwell Tarly

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• Samwell Tarly : Pyp, open the gate!

  Pypar : I can't!

  Gilly : Sam, is that you?

  Samwell Tarly : Yes!

  Pypar : Look, Thorne gave me strict orders to not open the gate.

  Samwell Tarly : Oh, Pyp, open the fucking gate!

  [pause, then Pyp starts opening the gate] 

  Pypar : I never heard you curse before.

  Samwell Tarly : Yes, well, best get used to it.

• Pypar : I got one. Right through the heart. He's dead.

  Samwell Tarly : Oh, is it over?

  Pypar : No.

  [Sam hands Pypar another crossbow] 

  Samwell Tarly : Well, then!

• [Maester Aemon surprises Sam at the library] 

  Maester Aemon : And what is it that couldn't wait until morning, Tarly?

  Samwell Tarly : Maester Aemon. How did you know...

  Maester Aemon : That it was you? Who else but Samwell Tarly would be wasting candles to read in the middle of the night?

• Pypar : You're not afraid?

  Samwell Tarly : Of course I'm afraid. There's a band of wildlings coming to kill us.

  Pypar : If you're afraid of a band of wildings how in seven hells did you manage to get a white walker?

  Samwell Tarly : I didn't know I was going to kill it. But I had to do something, I didn't have any choice. It was going to kill Gilly and take the baby. If someone had asked me my name, right there, I wouldn't have known. I wasn't Samwell Tarly anymore. I wasn't the steward of the Night's Watch, or son of Randyll Tarly, or any of that. I was nothing at all. When your nothing at all there's no more reason to be afraid.

  Pypar : But you're afraid now.

  Samwell Tarly : Yes, well, I'm not nothing anymore.

• Samwell Tarly : So, what's it like?

  Jon Snow : It's... there's this person, this whole other person. And you're wrapped up in them, and they're wrapped up in you. And you... for a little... for a little while, you're more than just you. You're... well, I don't know! I'm not a bleeding poet.

  Samwell Tarly : No, you're really not.

  Jon Snow : What did I get for it? An arrow six inches from my heart.

• Samwell Tarly : Where are we going?

  Jon Snow : Going to find Mance.

  Samwell Tarly : You can't do that. No one gave you any orders.

  Jon Snow : Who's left to give orders? The Wildling army's only an army because of Mance. He united 100 warring tribes. Without Mance, they lose their leader. They lose their purpose. They go back to fighting each other. Scatter back to their home.

  Samwell Tarly : Without Mance? You're going to kill him?

  Jon Snow : I'm gonna try.

  Samwell Tarly : They'll never let you within 100 yards of him. And even if they did, even if you managed to kill him...

  Jon Snow : They'll kill me? If I don't go, they'll kill me anyway. They'll kill the rest of us, too.

  Samwell Tarly : They won't just kill you. They'll boil you, they'll flay you, they'll make it last days.

  Jon Snow : You're right. It's a bad plan... What's your plan?

• [last lines] 

  Jon Snow : [handing his sword to Sam]  In case I don't come back.

  [the outer gate opens] 

  Samwell Tarly : Jon.

  [Jon turns to Sam] 

  Samwell Tarly : [concerning]  Come back.

  [Jon smiles at Sam, then leaves to find Mance Rayder] 

• Jon Snow : What do you want me to say?

  Samwell Tarly : I want you to tell me what it was like to have someone. To be with someone. To love someone and have them love you back. We're all gonna die a lot sooner than I'd planned. You're the closest I'll ever get to knowing.

  Jon Snow : So you and Gilly never...?

  Samwell Tarly : No. She just had a baby.

  [pause] 

  Samwell Tarly : And she never offered.

  Jon Snow : But if she had, you would have? You'd have broken your vows?

  Samwell Tarly : The interesting thing is, our vows never specifically forbid intimate relations with women.

  Jon Snow : What?

  Samwell Tarly : "I shall take no wife." Yes, that's in there. There's no denying that. "I shall father no children." It's very specific. But what our vows have to say about other activities is open to interpretation.

  Jon Snow : I don't think Ser Alliser cares much for interpretation.