Episode Report Card Montykins: A | 425 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Don't Lose the Hostages
By Montykins | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2012.05.06
Three of the intended rapists catch up with Sansa in the stables. She slaps one. He hits her. She's knocked to the ground and asked, "You ever been fucked, little girl?" Back in the safe area, Tyrion tells someone to get some soldiers and find the Stark girl. But the answer is, "I take my orders from the king." Joffrey looks around and I think he's started crying. Joffrey leaves, pointedly not giving any orders about Sansa's safety.
With Sansa about to undergo a fate worse than death, the Hound shows up and starts killing rapists. He kills them all, in exceptionally bloody fashion. Then he tells her, "You're all right now, little bird. You're all right." She meekly lets him pick her up. I really wasn't sure how far that scene was going to go, since the parental advisory warning said there was going to be nudity in this episode.
Out in the city, people are fighting and raping. You know that song in Camelot, "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" The answer on this show is "fight and rape." The Hound carries Sansa back into the safe zone and says that the little bird should be taken back to her cage. Tyrion thanks him, but he says he didn't do it for Tyrion.
Enough of them. Off to Qarth! Daenerys is hanging out in a lush courtyard with Xaro Xhoan Daxos. She's mad that the Spice King (the second wealthiest man in Qarth) is making her wait. Daxos tells her that she should have married the wealthiest man... which is him. Then he piles on a bunch of compliments until she has to tell him that flattery doesn't work on her. He says no women are immune to flattery.
Ah! The Spice King is the guy I've been calling Kingpin. That's close enough. He finally appears at the top of some stairs with a big retinue behind him. He says he had terrible dreams and that Dany is beautiful. People sure like to tell her she's pretty. He calls Daxos a glorified dockworker and Daxos brings up the fact that the Spice Kingpin's grandfather married someone much prettier and more handsome than he was. Spice Kingpin does not blink: "Every lady alive was lovelier and higher born than my grandfather." Dany decides it's time to take over the scene and says she wants her birthright: the seven kingdoms of Westeros. The Spice Kingpin basically shrugs and says, "I cannot give you what I do not have." So she asks for ships, which he does have, but the problem there is that he uses his ships himself. She promises that she's going to retake the Iron Throne, so he quibbles over whether she can technically "retake" something she never had. I think it's clear that she means that she's going to take it back for the Targaryens, who did in fact have someone sitting on it at one time. She tells him that she didn't come here to argue grammar, which is a shame. Spice Kingpin tells her she doesn't have exalted ancestors, so he has to judge each trade on its merits. And since she doesn't have an army or actual allies in Westeros, he judges her odds to be slim. She says that once she's in Westeros, the people will rise to fight for their rightful queen. He does not consider this likely and certainly not worth the large investment involved in giving her all his ships.