The season seven finale is titled as “The Dragon and the Wolf”.
It will by far be the longest episode of the entire series, clocking in at 81 minutes.
The episode starts with King’s landing where all the major characters meet for a parley.
Dany brings her armies of Dothraki and the unsullied and places them outside the King’s
Landing in case Cersei might be preparing a trap.
Jaime and Bronn are shown in a castle observing the armies of Danaerys.
In another scene, Jon, Jorah, Tyrion, Devos, Theon and the Hound arrive at king’s landing
on a ship.
They have the wight with them in a cage.
Brienne and Podrick also arrive as representatives of the lady of Winterfell.
Brienne and the Hound see each other and Brienne is surprised to see that the Hound is still
alive.
They talk about Arya and Brienne tells him that the only person who needs protection
is the one who comes in Arya’s way.
The Hound smiles and says that he doesn’t want to be the one to do that.
Another reunion is Tyrion and Podrick.
Podrick still admires and respects Tyrion and he even says that Tyrion is still his
lord.
Cersei arrives in the Dragonpit with Euron, the mountain and Qyburn and they all sit.
The hound brings the cage that houses the wight to the middle of the amphitheater.
Cersei asks Tyrion where Dany is.
This is when Dany arrives on top of Drogon along with Rhaegal.
Cersei and Euron are amazed to see the dragons.
Tyrion stands up and explains what the meeting is about.
Jon then tells everyone that the white walkers and the army of the dead are real and that
they all need to unite if they want to survive the long night.
Cersei refuses to believe them upon which the hound opens the cage and the wight tries
to attack Cersei but the hound has him chained up.
Cersei is amazed and scared.
The hound demonstrates how a wight cannot be killed as he chops its body into pieces
but it still keeps moving.
Jon yells out that there are only two ways to kill a wight.
The first is fire.
Jon sets fire to one of the wight’s arms and it stops moving.
The second is dragon glass.
Jon then stabs the wight with dragon glass and the wight dies.
Jon then gives a speech about the long night and how they need to come together to fight
the Nightking.
Euron seems scared and he asks Jon about how many of these creatures are there.
To which Jon replies, “hundreds of thousands”.
“Well!
Can they swim?”, Euron asks.
Jon responds with a no.
Euron then says that he is going back to Pyke and leaves.
Cersei now sees the danger but she still wants to be the queen more than anything else.
She offers Jon to be the warden of the north.
But Jon swears an oath to Danaerys in front of everyone and says that he can only serve
one queen and that queen is Danaerys Targaryan.
Cersei is pissed that a “northern savage” has said this and she too leaves.
Brienne tries to convince Jaime to change Cersei’s mind.
Jaime says that he admires her loyalty to Starks.
Brienne says, “Fuck loyalty.
This is about survival.”
Dany and Jon now have seen the Cersei’s response and they know that they won’t have
the southern armies to fight the wights in the north.
Tyrion heads to the red keep with the mountain behind him.
Tyrion and Cersei have a conversation in which Cersei again blames Tyrion for all the problems
their family has gone through.
Tyrion says that its not his fault and that his father wanted him dead so he had no choice
but to kill him.
He further says that if I’m so evil then why don’t you order the Mountain to kill
me.
Cersei doesn’t reply to this.
Tyrion then tells her about how he prevented Dany to attack king’s landing and that he’s
not as bad as she thinks.
He pours wine for both of them but Cersei doesn’t drink.
This is when Tyrion finds out about her pregnancy.
He asks her but she doesn’t reply.
Though her expressions say it all.
Tyrion and Cersei then head back to Dragonpit where Cersei agrees to send her troops to
the north to fight against the white walkers.
Meanwhile in Winterfell, Littlefinger is still trying to get inside Sansa’s head.
He tells Sansa that Arya is dangerous and will try to frame her.
In Dragonstone, Dany, Tyrion and Jorah discuss their strategy against the white walkers,
where Jorah displays a great deal of knowledge about the strategies of Targaryan kings.
He tells Dany that they must adopt a defensive strategy and not an offensive one.
Jon asks Theon that whether he’ll come with them to North.
To which Theon says no because he must rescue Yara first.
Jon wishes him luck.
Theon gathers the remaining Iron Born to come with him to rescue Yara.
A fight between Harrag and Theon takes place.
Harrag kicks Theon in the nuts a few times but Theon doesn’t feel a thing.
He gives Theon a pretty badass beating but then Theon gets his shit together and defeats
him.
He then heads out with the Iron Born to rescue Yara.
Back at Winterfell, Sansa calls a meeting of all the Northern Bannermen.
In the presence of all the lords, she calls on Arya to come forward.
She then says that its time to judge the great treacheries that have been done to the north.
She looks at Arya and says, “You need to tell me how many times have you betrayed north”.
Arya can’t believe her ears.
Sansa says again, “You need to tell me how many times have you betrayed north….Lord
Baelish.”
She then starts listing all of Littlefinger’s treacheries and betrayals.
“You betrayed my father, you killed Lysa and Jon Arryn”.
This is also when she pulls out the Valyrian Steel Dagger, which Littlefinger had once
gave to catspaw assassin to murder Bran.
Bran is sitting next to her and he’s the one who has told her all of these things.
Bran then says, “you once told my father, “I told you not to trust me.””
Littlefinger is shocked to hear this.
Sansa then tells the lords how he sold her to the Boltons.
Littlefinger tries to talk his way out of this and asks Yohn Royce’s help.
No one listens to him and Sansa says, ”Thank you for all your lessons, Lord Baelish.”
She then nods to Arya who slits Littlefinger’s throat, probably with the Valyrian Steel Dagger.
He starts to choke on his own blood and falls to the ground holding his throat and dies.
In King’s Landing, Jaime has a conversation with Cersei about the upcoming war.
Jaime looks at the map of the North and intends to gather Lannister armies to go north.
This is when Cersei reveals her true intentions that she won’t be sending her armies to
the north and that she wants white walkers to kill all of her enemies.
She also tells him that Euron’s cowardly escape was actually her plan all along and
that he’s travelling to Essos to hire the Golden Company on her behalf.
The Golden Company is the largest and most expensive band of mercenaries in the Free
Cities.
Jaime is disgusted by Cersei and continues to argue, at which the mountain draws his
sword, in case things get ugly.
After this ordeal, Jaime leaves Cersei and we see Jaime leaving the city.
On his way out of the King’s Landing, he stops to fix his golden hand and looks back
to the Red Keep.
This is when the first snowflakes begin to fall on king’s landing.
In Winterfell, Bran is visited by Sam, who tells him that he needs to see Jon Snow.
Bran says that he knows that Jon is Rhaegar & Lyanna’s son and that he was born in Dorne.
So his real name is Jon Sand, not Jon Snow.
Sam tells him that Jon’s not a sand because he has seen it in the records that Rhaegar
had his marriage with Elia annulled and married Lyanna.
He asks Bran that if he can see into the past and the future, then he should see for himself,
which Bran does.
Bran sees the marriage of Rhaegar and Lyanna in a forest.
As he sees it, he realizes that Robert’s rebellion was all based on a lie.
Then scenes start to switch back and forth between Jon and Dany on the boat and flashbacks
of Rhaegar and Lyanna.
Jon and Dany enter a cabin together and start making love with each other.
Tyrion is the only one who notices them going into the cabin.
Then we see Ned Stark in the tower of joy where Lyanna tells him that the baby’s name
is Aegon Targaryan.
Bran is shown watching this and he then tells Sam that Aegon Targaryan is the legitimate
heir to the Iron Throne.
In another scene, Arya and Sansa finally reconcile.
Arya tells Sansa that she’s the strongest woman she has ever met and Sansa tells her
that she could’ve never achieved the things that Arya did.
As the episode comes to an end, we see the wall through the eyes of the Bran who’s
warged into a bunch of crows.
We are shown the Eastwatch where Beric and Tormund are.
They are shocked when they see the Nightking flying in on Viserion out of nowhere.
Viserion attacks the wall and wall starts to break apart in a V-shape.
The episode ends with Nightking flying through the wall on Viserion.