Nikolaj Coster-Waldau credited as playing...
Jaime Lannister
- Jaime Lannister: I was sixteen once. I also had to replace someone's squire on short notice.
- Alton Lannister: Which knight was it?
- Jaime Lannister: Barristan Selmy. The fight against the kingswood outlaws, before your time.
- Alton Lannister: What was he like?
- Jaime Lannister: He was a painter. A painter who only used red.I couldn't imagine being able to fight like that. Not back then. And to help him do it, to be a part of something that perfect. I don't need to explain how that felt, not to you.
- Alton Lannister: It's hard to put into words.
- Jaime Lannister: It's like stepping into a dream you've been dreaming for as long as you can remember and finding out that the dream is more real than your life.
- Jaime Lannister: I'm not well suited for imprisonment. Shocking, I know. Some men are. Ned Stark? I imagine he made an excellent prisoner right up until the end. But me, though... my life has left me uniquely unfit for constraint.
- Alton Lannister: And have you thought about...
- Jaime Lannister: Of course. Every day.
- Alton Lannister: And?
- Jaime Lannister: Good prisoners breed good jailers, apparently. The Starks are very careful. There is a way, I think. It wasn't possible until now.
- Alton Lannister: What is it?
- Jaime Lannister: It's actually quite simple.
- Alton Lannister: Well, let me help you.
- Jaime Lannister: You'll only have to do one thing.
- Alton Lannister: Tell me.
- [Jaime leans in close to whisper in Alton's ear]
- Jaime Lannister: You'll have to die.
- [Alton stares at Jaime in confusion for a moment. Jaime suddenly attacks Alton and beats him to death]
- [Jaime has been recaptured after his escape attempt]
- Rickard Karstark: Stand back! I want his head!
- [the Stark guards draw their swords]
- Rickard Karstark: Any man who stands between a father and his vengeance asks for death!
- Catelyn Stark: Lord Karstark! This man is our prisoner.
- Rickard Karstark: This monster killed my son.
- Catelyn Stark: And crippled mine! He will answer for his crimes, I promise you, but not here.
- Rickard Karstark: I will have his head, and if you try and stop me...
- Catelyn Stark: You will strike me down? Have you forgotten me, ser? I am the widow of you liege lord, Eddard Stark! I am the mother of your king!
- Rickard Karstark: And where is our king now?
- Catelyn Stark: You know very well! He has gone to the Crag to accept the surrender!
- Rickard Karstark: Aye, gone to the Crag. But not to negotiate. He brought that foreign bitch with him.
- Catelyn Stark: How dare you!
- [Brienne draws her sword]
- Brienne of Tarth: Threatening my lady is an act of treason!
- Rickard Karstark: Treason! How can it be treason to kill Lannisters?
- Catelyn Stark: I understand your grief, my lord. Better than most, I understand it. But in the name of my son, the King in the North, stand down!
- Rickard Karstark: When your son returns, I will demand this murderer's head.
- Catelyn Stark: Wise men do not make demands of kings.
- Rickard Karstark: Fathers who love their sons do. I will have his head.
- [Rickard Karstark stalks away]
- Jaime Lannister: Thank you for fighting on my behalf, Lady Stark. I would've come to your defense, but...
- [Jaime holds up his chained wrists]
- Catelyn Stark: [to the guards] Take him to the stockade. Bind him with every chain you can find!
- Jaime Lannister: You've become a real she-wolf in your later years. There's not much fish left in you.
- Catelyn Stark: And gag him!