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Ser Jorah Mormont fought for his life to secure the city of Yunkai for Daenerys Targaryen. Besides being fiercely loyal to her, he is also in love with her. He’s jealous of Daario Naharis and how he openly flirts with Daenerys. The fact that her first question is about Daario really hurts Jorah.
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The worst fear of any mother is to see her child die before her eyes. Catelyn Stark watches her first born son (and in her mind, the only son she has left), Robb Stark, die just a few feet away. After losing her husband, Ned Stark, and supposedly her other sons, the pain is too much to bear and she cries out louder than the band’s previous performance. Walder Frey could care less, this is exactly what he wanted to see: the simultaneous downfall of House Tully and House Stark.
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After seeing his wife, unborn child and soldiers murdered, Robb finally accepts his fate. Weak, he turns to his mother and calls her. He doesn’t get to finish his thoughts but it’s easy to see that he was giving up.
ROOSE: The Lannisters send their regards.
[ROOSE thrusts a dagger into ROBB'S heart. Game of Thrones – The Rains of Castamere
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Roose Bolton conspired with Walder Frey and Tywin Lannister in the betrayal of House Stark. Seeing that Robb was on the verge of losing the war, Tywin “made them an offer they couldn’t refuse”: kill Robb at the wedding and receive pardons from the king. Roose and Walder strengthened their alliance when Roose married Walder’s daughter, Walda Frey. All that was left was getting rid of Robb and most of his army. Right before killing Robb, Roose wanted him to know that the Lannisters were ultimately behind the assassination. Roose specifically quotes Jaime Lannister in a previous episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t05D3EsUaHI
This differs from the the third book, A Storm of Swords, in that Roose tells Robb before he kills him that “Jaime Lannister sends his regards”.
The manner in which Robb is killed is reminiscent of a scene in the 1974 gangster epic film, The Godfather Part II. The don, Michael Corleone, survives an assassination attempt. In his quest to find the culprits, he tells one of his top henchmen, Frank Pentangeli, to make peace with his sworn enemies (The Rosato Brothers), in the hopes of rooting out the person who ordered the hit as well as appease Hyman Roth (who Michael believes probably ordered the hit). The peace meeting between Pentangeli and the Rosato Brothers goes horribly wrong, and he’s nearly killed in the process. Right before the attempted strangulation, one of the hitmen tells Pentangeli, “Michael Corleone says hello”, in order to make Pentangeli think that Michael betrayed him so that he could get revenge on Michael without Hyman having to get his hands too dirty.
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ROBB: So, Casterly Rock? I'm asking your advice.
[CATELYN pauses, staring at ROBB. She then looks at the map]
CATELYN: We have enough men?
[ROBB grabs a House Frey piece]
ROBB: If Walder Frey cooperates.
CATELYN: If Walder Frey cooperates. Game of Thrones – The Rains of Castamere
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Robb Stark asks his mother, Catelyn Stark, for advice regarding his plan of attacking Casterly Rock, the ancestral seat of House Lannister. Catelyn is leery of the plan mainly because she doesn’t think that Robb has enough men for the attack. Robb lost the military support of House Frey when he broke his vow to marry one of Lord Walder Frey’s daughters or granddaughters.
Instead, Robb chose to marry Talisa Maegyr. However, Robb believes that if he can get Edmure Tully (his uncle and heir to Riverrun, the ancestral seat of House Tully) to marry one of the Frey women, House Frey will once again join the Stark army.
Catelyn isn’t dumb, she’s very much aware of how difficult it’s going to be to win Walder’s support again.
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