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Breaker of Chains
"Breaker of Chains" is the third episode of the fourth season of Game of
Thrones. It is the thirty-third episode of the series overall. It premiered on April Breaker of Chains
20, 2014. It was written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss and directed by Alex
Season 4 Episode 3
Graves.

Contents [show]

Plot
Tyrion ponders his options. Tywin extends an olive branch. Sam realizes Castle
Air date April 20, 2014
Black isn't safe, and Jon proposes a bold plan. The Hound teaches Arya the
Runtime 57 minutes
way things are. Dany chooses her champion.
Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss

Directed by Alex Graves

Summary Episode Guide

At King's Landing Previous Next

"The Lion and the "Oathkeeper"

With King Joffrey dead, Cersei mourns the death of her elder son with the heir
Rose"
apparent and, still holding Joffrey in her arms, demands that Sansa Stark be
found. Her father seals the capital, so no one can leave. Prince Tommen
Baratheon, pays his respects to his dead brother in the Great Sept of Baelor. Tywin Lannister,
also present, immediately begins instructing the young prince on the qualities of a good king.
As Tywin and Tommen leave, Jaime enters to see Cersei calling for the death of the accused
Tyrion and his wife, Sansa Stark. Jaime sends the septon and septas away so he can be
alone with Cersei. He tries to comfort her through his affections. She refuses initially, but
Jaime is aggressive. Cersei insists that the sept during a private viewing of their son's corpse Joffrey's body is displayed at the
is a highly inappropriate place for sex, and asks Jaime to stop, saying "It isn't right, it isn't Great Sept of Baelor.
right..." and Jaime refuses to stop, saying, "I don't care, I don't care...". They then have sex
next to their dead son's corpse.

A flashback to the wedding reveals Sansa escaping with Ser Dontos Hollard from King's Landing to a ship off the coast. As
Sansa is taken aboard, she is greeted by Lord Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish. He remembers that he still owes Dontos his fee, but
Baelish has two men kill him with crossbows. He explains to Sansa that Ser Dontos was a drunken fool and an unreliable ally
who only helped Sansa for money and would turn her in for money. To prove his point, he shows that the priceless necklace
Dontos gave her was actually made a few weeks ago on Baelish's orders. Sansa is confused and horrified, but Baelish promises
to keep her safe.

Tywin interrupts Oberyn Martell and his group sex act with Ellaria Sand and Olyvar to discuss Tyrion's up-coming trial for the
murder of Joffrey. Tywin brings up Oberyn's knowledge of poisons and the link between that and Joffrey's death – as some say
the King was poisoned – and wonders whether Oberyn had helped Tyrion. The topic changes to the murder of Oberyn's sister
Elia by Tywin's "pet," the Mountain, during the Sack of King's Landing. Tywin denies ordering her death, but promises to arrange
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a meeting between Oberyn and the Mountain so he can have his justice. He also offers Oberyn a position on the Small Council,
if Oberyn agrees to be the third judge at Tyrion's trial. He explains that he is eager to bring Dorne back into the fold, wanting to
unite the Seven Kingdoms against more obvious threats; the Greyjoys are in rebellion, a Wildling army is advancing on the Wall,
and there is a Targaryen girl in the East with a powerful army and three dragons, who will eventually threaten Westeros. Tywin
observes that only the Dornish successfully resisted Aegon Targaryen's dragons during his invasion of Westeros three centuries
ago; Oberyn dryly notes it must be hard for Tywin to admit he needs the Dornish for help.

Tyrion is in a cell in King's Landing. He is visited by his squire, Podrick Payne, who has
smuggled in some food and other items for him. Pod has been asked to compile a list of
Tyrion's witnesses. He names his wife, Sansa, but Pod informs him that she disappeared
moments after Joffrey's death. He cannot speak to Bronn either because, as a close
associate of Tyrion, he is also under investigation. Pod confirms that there has been no word
Podrick visits Tyrion in his cell.
of Shae, which Tyrion takes as good news. Tyrion then asks to speak with Jaime. He also
warns Pod to be aware of his surroundings and watch out for "They," "They" being the spies
of Tywin, Cersei, Varys or more or less anyone else. He opines that many people had a motive for killing Joffrey. Cersei is the
only person he rules out. He urges Pod to get out of King's Landing as he would be in much danger due to his close relations
with Tyrion, especially after refusing to testify against Tyrion, despite the offer of a knighthood. As Pod is about to leave,
Tyrion calls him back and tells him that "there has never lived a more loyal squire."

In the Riverlands
Meanwhile, Arya Stark and the Hound, crossing the Riverlands, are spotted by a farmer and
his young daughter while making their way to the Vale where Arya can be ransomed to her
"rich" aunt, Lysa Tully. Arya quickly fabricates a story that the Hound and she are father and
daughter, with Clegane as a knight in service of House Tully. The farmer believes it and
allows the pair to stay the night in his home and share a meal. Famished, Arya and the Hound
scarf the food down hastily. Arya wakes the following morning to hear the farmer's daughter The Hound and Arya eating
screaming. Clegane has assaulted the farmer and taken his silver. Confused and horrified, inside the farmer's house.
Arya demands to know why Clegane did that. He simply states, "a dead man doesn't need his
silver," claiming the farmer is weak and he and his daughter will not survive the upcoming
winter.

At Dragonstone
On Dragonstone, Stannis Baratheon learns of Joffrey's death and warns Ser Davos that their time to lay claim to the Iron throne
dwindles if no army can be secured to wage war again. Shortly after, when Ser Davos begins his reading lessons with princess
Shireen Baratheon, he realizes a possible ally across the Narrow Sea, the Iron Bank of Braavos.

At the Wall and the North

At Castle Black, Samwell Tarly fears for the safety of Gilly and moves her to a vassal town
that frequently services the Nights Watch brothers in bodily vices. Sam is resolute in keeping
Gilly safe from all harm however and pledges to visit Gilly as much as possible, instructing the
inn at which he leaves her, that she will not be touched. Meanwhile, a village south of the wall
is attacked by raiding wildlings under Tormund and the cannibalistic Thenns. While the village
is massacred, a lone boy is sent by the Styr as a messenger to Castle Black to relay an
Grenn and Eddison arrives at
account of the massacre and also a warning that more would follow. The Lord Commander
Castle Black after a successful
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states that they do not have the manpower to afford venturing away from the Wall. They are escape from Craster's Keep.

interrupted when two rangers, Edd and Grenn, arrive back at Castle Black after escaping
Craster's Keep. Jon reveals he told Mance Rayder that a thousand men armed Castle Black
and therefore points out that when Mance reaches Craster's Keep, Rast and Karl will not hesitate in revealing the truth. Jon then
insists the Night's Watch send a party to Craster's Keep to kill their traitor brothers before Mance gets to them first.

Outside Meereen
In Slaver's Bay, Daenerys Targaryen marches on the city of Meereen as she begins her siege
of the slave city. She is faced with a champion's duel where a riding knight of Meereen
challenges her to choose a champion that will fight for her. Grey Worm, Jorah and Barristan
all volunteer to stand as her champion; she refuses all three as too valuable to her. Daario
Naharis, commander of the Second Sons, then volunteers to be Dany's champion, and she
accepts. As Naharis quickly dispatches the Meereen champion by killing the champion's
Daario Naharis offers himself as
horse, Dany begins her siege of the city by speaking of freedom to the gathered slaves and
Dany's champion.
then catapulting the broken chains of those she has freed across the city walls, demonstrating
her previous successes. As the slaves examine the broken chains, the Great Masters look on,
perhaps in fear.

Appearances

Main: Breaker of Chains/Appearances

First
Farmer
Sally
Mole's Town whore
Mole's Town madam
Whore
Olly
Guymon
Olly's mother
Oznak zo Pahl
Hizdahr zo Loraq
Hizdahr zo Loraq's manservant
Slave master
Slave master
Slave
Slave master
Night's Watch man (Breaker of Chains)

Deaths
Dontos Hollard
Guymon
Olly's mother

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Oznak zo Pahl
Many unnamed Villagers

Production
Cast
Starring Guest starring

Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister Diana Rigg as Olenna Tyrell

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister Pedro Pascal as Oberyn Martell
Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister Indira Varma as Ellaria Sand
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen Michiel Huisman as Daario Naharis
Kit Harington as Jon Snow Peter Vaughan as Aemon
Aidan Gillen as Petyr Baelish Ian McElhinney as Barristan Selmy
Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister Julian Glover as Pycelle
Natalie Dormer as Margaery Tyrell Owen Teale as Alliser Thorne
Liam Cunningham as Davos Seaworth Yuri Kolokolnikov as Styr
Stephen Dillane as Stannis Baratheon Dominic Carter as Janos Slynt
Jack Gleeson as Joffrey Baratheon Jacob Anderson as Grey Worm
Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei
Maisie Williams as Arya Stark Mark Stanley as Grenn
Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane Ben Crompton as Eddison Tollett
John Bradley as Samwell Tarly Daniel Portman as Podrick Payne
Rose Leslie as Ygritte Tony Way as Dontos Hollard
Kristofer Hivju as Tormund Will Tudor as Olyvar
Hannah Murray as Gilly Dean-Charles Chapman as Tommen Baratheon
Gwendoline Christie as Brienne Tarth Josef Altin as Pypar
Conleth Hill as Varys Ian Beattie as Meryn Trant
with Iain Glen as Jorah Mormont Joel Fry as Hizdahr zo Loraq
Finbar Lynch as Farmer
Kerry Ingram as Shireen Baratheon
Brenock O'Connor as Olly
Jem Wall as Guymon
Raewyn Lippert as Olly's mother
Lois Winstone as a Mole's Town whore
Lu Corfield as a Mole's Town madam
Joseph Gatt as a Thenn warg
Brian Fortune as Othell Yarwyck
Paul Bentley as the High Septon
Patrick Molloy as a Night's Watch man
Emilio Doorgasingh as a slave master
Trixiebelle Harrowell as Sally
Josephine Gillan as Marei

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Xena Avramidis as a whore

Derek Horsham as a slave master
Joshua Sher as a slave
Conor Watters as a Hizdahr zo Loraq's manservant

Uncredited

Daniel Naprous as Oznak zo Pahl (credited as Stunt

Performer)
James Bleakney as Mole's Town Brothel Patron
Michael Stuart as Night's Watch Officer
Laurence Doherty as slave master[1]
Marion McDowell as Mole's Town Whore

Cast notes
21 of 27 cast members for the fourth season appear in this episode.
Starring cast members Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy), Jerome Flynn (Bronn), Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran Stark), Sibel
Kekilli (Shae), Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Snow), and Carice van Houten (Melisandre) are not credited and do not appear in this
episode. Conleth Hill (Varys) and Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth) very briefly appear among the wedding crowd in
the background of the first scene.
Ian McElhinney is, mistakenly, not credited for his role as Barristan Selmy in this episode. This was later corrected on the
DVD and Blu-Ray release.
This episode is the final appearance of starring cast member Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon) due to the death of his
character at the end of the previous episode.
Hannah Murray is added to the main cast and her name appears in the opening credits starting with this episode. She
previously recurred in the second and third season.
Richard Bradshaw, Dave Forman, Paul Herbert, Ivo Kristof, Leona McCarron, Camilla Naprous, Daniel Naprous, Mark
Slaughter, CC Smiff, Richard Wheeldon, Annabel Elizabeth Wood and Gudni Kristjansson were stunt performers in this
episode.

Notes
The title of the episode is a reference to one of the honorifics Daenerys Targaryen assumes after the Sack of Astapor:
"Breaker of Chains."
Jack Gleeson returns to "play" Joffrey Baratheon's corpse as it lies in state in the Great Sept of Baelor. He filmed this
scene before filming for his actual death scene last episode. As Gleeson recounted, he had a wonderful time during the
shooting of this scene (despite the fact that it involves his character's parents having sex right next to his dead body),
noting that he was being paid to just take a nap during an entire day of filming.[2]
While mourning Joffrey in the Great Sept of Baelor, Cersei repeats the words that Tyrion said to her in "The Prince of
Winterfell": "I will hurt you for this. The day will come when you think you're safe and happy, and your joy will turn to ashes
in your mouth... and you will know the debt is paid." This was not actually a threat from Tyrion, but was merely meant to
convince Cersei that she had found his whore. In fact, she had not found Shae, but mistakenly thought Ros was his lover.
Tywin treats Tommen affectionately, so differently than the disdainful manner he has treated Joffrey ("The Bear and the
Maiden Fair", "Mhysa"). Tywin must have realized that Tommen can be much better king than his psychopathic brother,
who was no more than a burden on his house.
There is no character named "Elyo Grivas" in the books. The character is most likely named after Elio Garcia, who runs the
Westeros.org fansite, and who co-authored the World of Ice and Fire sourcebook along with his partner Linda.

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There is no "King Orys the First" in the books. The only character by that name is Orys Baratheon, but he never was a
king. There is the possibility that he was a local king before the Seven Kingdoms were unified, in spite of the Valyrian-
sounding name. Nor does any Targaryen king match the description given for him: enacting well-received reforms but
ruling less than a year before his own brother murdered him in his sleep.
As Elio Garcia of Westros.org, co-author of the World of Ice and Fire sourcebook explained, this was also not simply
a matter of Charles Dance (Tywin) mispronouncing a name, because he had seen the broadcast script, and it clearly
said "Orys the First" (the on-screen subtitles also spell this name the same way). Garcia stated that Benioff and
Weiss had apparently just invented this "Orys the First" and he doesn't correspond to any character from the books.
In order to reconcile this, Garcia said that this "Orys the First" should probably be interpreted as just a king of the
independent Kingdom of the Stormlands, from long before the Targaryen Conquest - in which case he was not one of
the established Targaryen kings but a local king of House Durrandon. This would make his full name "Orys I
Durrandon." Tywin therefore wasn't citing him as a king who sat on the Iron Throne, but an infamous example of a
(local) king, remembered over three centuries later for how his own brother murdered him. Garcia also pointed out
that "Orys" was not a common name used in the Stormlands until after Orys Baratheon became their new ruler during
the Targaryen Conquest.[3]

In the books, Daenerys's army had no siege engines, nor was there enough surrounding timber to construct any. To
construct siege engines to take Meereen, she had her army disassemble the ships which she sailed to Astapor in, which
had been following her army north along the coast. In the TV series, Daario Naharis explicitly remarks in "Second Sons"
that her Unsullied besieging Yunkai have no siege weapons - yet her army has mysteriously acquired multiple catapults
since they left Yunkai. It is possible that they were acquired from either the Second Sons or the Yunkish, or constructed
from timber acquired on the road.
Sam mentioned Mole's Town back in Season 1, when he complained to Jon that some of the Night's Watch members
would sneak off to visit the brothel there.
Though Sam doesn't mention it, there's a song about the dangers for women at the Wall: "Brave" Danny Flint was a girl
who dressed as a boy to serve in the Night's Watch. She was raped and murdered at the Nightfort by unknown people.
As a New World crop, potatoes (aka "taters") do not exist in Westeros in the books, because Westeros is based on
medieval Europe. This marks at least the third time that the TV series had mentioned them in passing (see: Food and
Drink#New World crops).
As the Hound previously explained, he is crossing back south from the Twins through
the Riverlands so he can reach the Vale of Arryn and ransom Arya back to her only
remaining free and wealthy relative, her aunt Lysa Arryn at the Eyrie. The Twins bridge
over the Green Fork of the Trident River. The quickest way from the Twins to the Bloody
Gate (the mountain pass that leads into the Vale) is to travel south along the Kingsroad,
located east of the Green Fork. In this episode, Arya asks where they are, and Sandor
says he thinks they are near the town of Fairmarket, which is located along the Blue
Fork of the Trident River. The Blue Fork itself is west of the Green Fork. Arya and the
Hound are therefore traveling south, then east, instead of east, then south along the
Kingsroad. The Hound must have chosen to avoid taking the main highway in the Fairmarket is located along the
region, for fear of Lannister patrols, in favor of slowly making his way through the back Blue Fork of the Trident.
country (explaining why it took him the second half of Season 3 to travel from the mouth
of the Trident to the Twins, but it is taking all of Season 4 to travel back).
The Hound steals the farmer's money, although he previously stated to Arya in "Two Swords" that he was not a thief.
When discussing with Oberyn his sister Elia Martell's rape and murder by Gregor Clegane, Tywin insists that soldiers
commit atrocities all the time in war without being ordered to do so by their commanders. In the novels, Gregor was tasked
with killing Rhaegar's children but Tywin simply gave him no specific orders about what to do with his wife Elia. It is unclear
if he non-verbally implied that he wanted her killed. However, in a rare break with his usual stoicism, Tywin firmly denies to
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because that would imply that Tywin was somehow at fault for what happened. Whatever the case, Tywin's denial in this
episode is hypocritical: in Season 1's "Baelor," Tyrion complained that the hill tribesmen he hired as sellswords were
fighting each other, and Tywin chastised him that when soldiers act in an undisciplined manner their commander is always
responsible.
Prince Oberyn's line that some people think the sky is blue because the world is inside the eye of a giant is a reference to a
line Robb Stark said exactly thirty episodes ago, in Season 1's "Lord Snow". Robb chided his brother Bran not to pay heed
to all of Old Nan's nursery stories, as one of them was that the whole world is inside the eye of a blue-eyed giant named
Macumber. No mention of this myth has been made in the books.
Tywin implies that Oberyn is the one who poisoned Joffrey, in view of his knowledge of poisons, the grudge he bears
against the Lannisters, and his conversation with Tyrion on the day he arrived at the capital. This is perhaps a reference to
the fan theory that in the book, Oberyn, unaware of the Tyrells and Littlefinger's plan, attempted to kill Joffrey, by using the
scorpion-shaped golden brooch (which could have been coated with poison) he gave Joffrey as a gift; the Tyrells, however,
have beaten him to it.
The first time that Samwell Tarly's nickname "the Slayer" is mentioned.
Sansa leaves King's Landing for the first time since her arrival in Season 1's "Lord Snow." Her escape from the city marks
the end of her brutal captivity at Joffrey's court, which lasted for over two years.
The first time that the phrase "Red Wedding" is used on the show as a reference to the massacre at the Twins.
Podrick Payne tells Tyrion that a man he didn't know tried to bribe him with a knighthood to testify against Tyrion, and say
that he saw him buy a poison known as "The strangler." This is the first time that the poison used to kill Joffrey is
specifically named in the TV series, though Pycelle also identifies it later in Season 4. What isn't clear is who tried to bribe
Podrick: the real assassins wanted to frame Tyrion to divert suspicion from themselves (as he points out), and only they
would already know what kind of poison was used in the assassination. On the other hand, Pycelle might just have already
determined what poison was used to kill Joffrey (in the past few hours or days), simply off-screen, after which he told
Cersei - who is so convinced that Tyrion did it that she then had one of her agents try to bribe Podrick.
According to the show's linguist David Peterson, the Mereenese champion's insults are actually a translation of the French
knight's insults from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.[4]
When asked about memorable moments from filming in Season 4, Pedro Pascal recounted that during the scene where
Tywin interrupts the orgy that Oberyn is having at the brothel, one of the actresses playing one of the prostitutes (he didn't
specify which one) wouldn't put her robe on between takes. This has been brought up by other actresses filming past nude
scenes: repeatedly disrobing over and over again for multiple takes during an entire day of filming, as if performing a strip-
tease for the filming crew each time, can actually be more stressful than just staying naked between takes. What Pascal
thought was odd was that this was a long day of filming, and the actress would stay naked even during long breaks, to the
point that she later sat around in the green room entirely naked, while playing Words With Friends on her iPhone with
David Benioff.[5]

The Jaime/Cersei sex scene in the Great Sept

See full sub-article Breaker of Chains/Jaime-Cersei sex scene

Multiple reviewers and websites were very confused and upset by the sex scene between
Jaime Lannister and Cersei Lannister in the Great Sept of Baelor in this episode - saying that
it was apparently portraying Jaime raping Cersei. This allegation/interpretation was near-
universal – not simply "on messageboards" but in every measurable manner, as a reaction
seen on almost every major critic or review website. These ranged from io9 and the A.V. club,
[6][7], to the front page of Yahoo News,[8], Entertainment Weekly and Time magazine,[9][10], Freeze-frame clearly reveals that
Lena Headey is embracing the
and even the front page of The New York Times itself.[11]
back of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's
head to lean in for a kiss -

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What made this all the more baffling is that the sexual encounter between Jaime and Cersei indicating the actors were never

in this scene in the books is presented as consensual. instructed to play it as a non-

consensual rape scene. This was
TV-first viewers were offended, while book-first readers didn't understand why the TV show hidden by bad camerawork and
was, apparently, changing it into a rape scene – particularly because it simply didn't fit with bad editing.
Jaime's overall storyarc of redemption and trying to be a better person after losing his sword-
hand. Moreover, Jaime in particular is a character who as a result of his backstory is horrified
by rape: at King Aerys II Targaryen's court, he was forced to stand guard outside the doors as the Mad King raped his wife
Queen Rhaella; later on and in the show itself, he saves Brienne of Tarth from being raped by Locke's men even though she was
his captor and he could easily have just let it happen.

The TV writers were slow to respond to such massive outcry, and what few statements they did make were very vague, leaving
reviewers and critics even more confused and to draw their own conclusions. As the premiere of Season 5 neared, it became
obvious that the implication that Jaime was raping Cersei was never intended by the writers, not in the script, and purely
the result of bad camerawork and bad editing. Both the actors and director have publicly stated that they were never told this
was intended as a rape scene nor did they play it as such. This is confirmed by closer freeze-frame analysis of the footage. Even
George R.R. Martin wasn't informed that the scriptwriters ever intended such a massive change.

It is unknown why HBO did not simply re-edit and re-release the episode as soon as possible, as has been done in the past in
Season 1. Apparently, one of two scenarios occurred: the first is that Benioff and Weiss were embarrassed by the bad editing,
and somehow felt it was more embarrassing to admit the mistake happened on their watch, then to simply pretend that it was a
controversial artistic choice they made on purpose - then they avoided making any further comment on the controversy, just
hoping that with the passage of time it would fade from public memory without the need to give a clear answer. The second
scenario is that Benioff and Weiss simply became honestly frightened that anything they said in response, i.e. "we never
intended it as a rape scene", would be taken out of context and they would be accused of rape denial - in which case, apparently
it didn't occur to them that while merely saying an explanation was no longer sufficient, re-editing and re-releasing the episode
was still an option. Many critics were outright more upset and bewildered that the episode was not re-edited and re-released,
and few if any said that re-editing it would be rape denial.

It is tacitly assumed that the executive producers or HBO will eventually realize that their silence only inflamed this controversy,
which would not have happened if they had addressing it immediately as simply a technical error. It is assumed (or at least
hoped) that at some point they will re-edit and re-release the scene and episode, just as they would for any other technical error.

For a longer explanation of all of the evidence indicating that the scriptwriters could not possibly have intended this as a rape
scene, and it only appears to be so due to bad camerawork and editing, see the longer sub-page: "The Jaime/Cersei sex
scene in "Breaker of Chains"

However, in a 2017 interview - David Benioff openly admitted that the scene in question was indeed "non-consensual" when
questioned about Ramsay and Sansa's wedding night in Season 5 - thus negating all previous statements to the contrary.

For sure, because there had been a scene in the previous season with Jaime and Cersei, where it was not quite as violent but
was very much a non-consensual sex scene, and there was a massive uproar about that. And this was darker.

In the books

See: Differences between books and TV series - Season 4#Breaker of Chains

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The episode is adapted from the following chapters of A Storm of Swords:

Chapter 48, Jon VI: Jon learns that Jeor Mormont was betrayed and killed by the mutineers at Craster's Keep.
Chapter 54, Davos V: Stannis complains that he does not have enough troops nor funds to hire sellswords.
Chapter 55, Jon VII: Jon and the Night's Watch prepare for the wildling attack by Styr, Ygritte and the other raiders.
Chapter 57, Daenerys V: Daenerys arrives at Meereen with Jorah Mormont, Barristan Selmy, Missandei, Daario
Naharis, Grey Worm and the Unsullied. Meereen sends out Oznak zo Pahl as their hero, but he is promptly
dispatched by Daenerys's champion.
Chapter 61, Sansa V: Sansa escapes from King's Landing in a small boat with Dontos Hollard's help. She arrives to a
ship, where Littlefinger reveals that he was the one who saved her. When Dontos asks for his reward of ten thousand
gold dragons, Littlefinger commands him to be killed.
Chapter 62, Jaime VII: Jaime and Cersei meet at Joffrey's funeral in the Sept. Cersei asks him to kill Tyrion for
murdering their son, and they have sex in front of Joffrey's corpse.
Chapter 63, Davos VI: Stannis is informed about Joffrey's death.
Chapter 65: Arya XII: Arya and the Hound find temporary refuge in a small village, in exchange for work.
Chapter 66, Tyrion IX: Imprisoned, Tyrion learns who his judges will be for his upcoming trial: his father, Mace Tyrell,
and Oberyn Martell. Someone implies that Oberyn is the one who killed Joffrey.
Chapter 72, Jaime IX: Tywin intends to appease Dorne in order to foil an enemy of the Lannisters.

The episode is adapted from the following chapter of A Feast for Crows:
Chapter 42, Brienne VIII: Someone states that the guest right does not mean much anymore, ever since the Red
Wedding occurred.

Memorable Quotes
Tyrion Lannister: "Pod.... there has never lived a more loyal squire."

Tywin Lannister: "So, we have a man who starves himself to death, a man who lets his own brother murder him, and a man
who thinks that winning and ruling are the same thing. What do they all lack?"

Tommen Baratheon: "Wisdom?"

Tywin: "Yes!"
Tommen: "Wisdom is what makes a good king.
Tywin: "Yes. But what is wisdom? Hmm? A house with great wealth and fertile lands asks you for your protection against
another house with a strong navy that could one day oppose you. How do you know which choice is wise and which isn't?
You've any experience of treasuries and granaries or shipyards and soldiers?"
Tommen: "No."
Tywin: "No, of course not. A wise king knows what he knows and what he doesn't. You're young. A wise young king listens to his
counselors and heeds their advice until he comes of age. And the wisest kings continue to listen to them long afterwards. Your
brother was not a wise king. Your brother was not a good king. If he had been, perhaps he'd still be alive."

Jaime Lannister: "You're a hateful woman. Why have the gods made me love a hateful woman?"

Petyr Baelish: "Money buys a man's silence for a time. A bolt in the heart buys it forever."

Tywin: "We are not Seven Kingdoms until Dorne returns to the fold. The king is dead, the Greyjoys are in open rebellion, a
wildling army marches on the Wall and in the East, a Targaryen girl has three dragons. Before long, she will turn her eyes to
Westeros. Only the Dornish managed to resist Aegon Targaryen and his dragons."

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Oberyn Martell: "You're saying you need us? That must be hard for you to admit."
Tywin: "We need each other. You help me serve justice to the King's assassins, and I will help you serve justice to Elia's."

[The Hound has just stolen silver from a farmer with a child.]

Arya Stark: "You are the worst shit in the Seven Kingdoms!"
The Hound: "There's plenty worse than me. I just understand the way things are. How many Starks they got to behead before
you figure it out?"

Olenna Tyrell: "Our alliance with the Lannisters remains every bit as necessary to them as it is unpleasant for us. You did
wonderful work on Joffrey. The next one should be easier."

See also
Breaker of Chains on Wikipedia

Breaker of Chains on IMDb

Breaker of Chains on A Wiki of Ice and Fire

References
1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ [2]
3. ↑ Westeros.org forum, "King Orys the First"?
4. ↑ http://www.makinggameofthrones.com/production-diary/2014/5/8/interview-with-linguist-david-peterson
5. ↑ [3]
6. ↑ [4]
7. ↑ [5]
8. ↑ [6]
9. ↑ [7]
10. ↑ [8]
11. ↑ [9]

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