Scripting Episode 10

Scripting Episode 10

The last episode of our ten-part “scripting” series is going to cause some heads to ‘splode. This isn’t the endgame; it is what happens after the endgame has been played and the playing pieces still lie strewn across the playing board.

It confirms the death of you-know-who; because there still may be various disbelieving audience members who go, “No, they wouldn’t do THAT…!” Some of them will need an episode like this to get their mourn on. The need closure. And just when you begin to think “closure” is all you’re going to get, across the Narrow Sea…

ur (very) rough Season One outline can be found HERE. Episodes 2 – 9 can be found here: Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6, Episode 7, Episode 8, Episode 9. PLEASE NOTE that none of these scripts are official. Episode 10 encompasses the following pages from “A Game of Thrones” (U.S. softcover): pages 694 – 701 (The Battle of Whispering Wood), and pages 729 – 807.

Spoilers are everywhere! This thing is all about spoilers. You’ve been dutifully warned.

Introductions: Lord Jason Mallister, Squire Olyvar Frey, Patrek Mallister, Smalljon Umber, Daryn Hornwood, Dacey Mormont, Robin Flint, Ser Harys Swyft, Ser Flement Brax, Lommy Greenhands, Hot Pie

Deaths: Daryn Hornwood, Eddard Karstark, Torrhen Karstark, Khal Drogo, Mirri Maz Duur

Sex: Dany tries to have sex with an unresponsive Drogo. Fail.

EXT. WHISPERING WOOD – EMBANKMENT – NIGHT [half page]

Catelyn waits on a high hill in the dark, watching the forested river path below. Hal Mollen assures her it won’t be long now. Hal commands thirty men kept back to ensure her safety. “When it comes it comes,” she says. She is used to waiting, and has done it her entire life…

FLASHBACK TO:

EXT. RIVERRUN – BATTLEMENTS – DUSK [half page]

Young Catelyn Tully bids a younger-looking Lord Hoster Tully farewell before he rides out. “Watch for me, little Cat,” he whispers to his daughter.

EXT. RIVERRUN – BATTLEMENTS – DAWN [quarter page]

Young Catelyn is there to greet her father upon his return. “Did you watch for me?” he asks as he takes her in a great hug. “Did you, Cat?”

EXT. RIVERRUN – BATTLEMENTS – DUSK [quarter page]

A Teenaged Catelyn Tully is on the battlements with her betrothed, Brandon Stark. “We will be wed on my return,” he says to her.

INT. RIVERRUN SEPT – DAWN [quarter page]

Teenaged Catelyn instead weds Brandon’s brother, a younger Eddard Stark.

EXT. WINTERFELL – GATES – DAY [quarter page]

Catelyn Stark bids her husband Ned farewell as he gets on his horse to head south with King Robert to become his Hand.

BACK TO PRESENT:

EXT. WHISPERING WOOD – EMBANKMENT – NIGHT [2 pages]

Catelyn watches her son Robb move amongst his men, giving cheer as needed before the coming battle. LORD JASON MALLISTER has joined them with a force from Seagard. Robb’s squire, OLYVAR FREY helps him mount. “I must ride down the line, mother,” Robb says to Catelyn. “Go, let them see you,” she replies, and that is their farewell. Amongst Robb’s cohorts are many younger fighters eager to prove themselves: Torrhen and Eddard Karstark, PATREK MALLISTER, SMALLJON UMBER, DARYN HORNWOOD, DACEY MORMONT, and a few older, like Ser Wendel Manderly and ROBIN FLINT. Theon Greyjoy is here, as ever, and Grey Wind. They watch as the Lannister men ride into the trap, led by Ser Jaime Lannister himself. A horn is sounded, Grey Wind howls, and Robb leads the charge down the embankment. game of thrones dvd

EXT. WHISPERING WOOD – BATTLE – NIGHT [1 page]

Robb cries “Winterfell!” in the dark as arrows whizz by. A nighttime battle is joined with only the moon for light. Flashes of the fight are seen, choppy and chaotic; Jaime’s forces are overcome but he rides hard for Robb, cutting through the defenses. Jaime kills Daryn Hornwood and beheads Eddard Karstark; Jaime is nearly close enough to kill Robb but his sword is caught in the neck of a dying Torrhen Karstark. Robb is almost on him so he leaves the sword in Karstark’s neck pulls a wicked looking dirk–