By Montykins
Things are heating up! While Ned rots in jail, Cersei and the King's Council lean on Sansa to send Robb a letter about how great King Joffrey is. So naturally Robb rounds up eighteen thousand men so he can march to war. The process of establishing authority over his father's bannermen goes pretty smoothly once his wolf bites off a few fingers. Then they have to decide whether they want to fight Jaime Lannister's enormous army or Tywin's equally enormous army. But before they do either one, they have to cross a bridge, apparently. I hope this isn't that riddle about the fox, the chicken, and bag of corn. I guess it would probably be a lion, a dire wolf, and, I don't know, probably still a bag of corn.
On the Lannister side, not much happens except that Tyrion walks out of the Vale with Bronn the mercenary and a small army of crazy-looking hill people. Catelyn also went from the Vale to show up at Robb's camp, so I guess it's a good thing they didn't meet on the way.
Out east, Daenerys has decided to interfere with the Dothraki way of life, by which I mean that she makes them stop raping all the women they find. This doesn't go over terribly well, so Khal Drogo kills an objecter with his bare hands and rips his throat out. Then Dany makes one of the women start brewing up a healing salve that Drogo wouldn't have even needed if he hadn't deliberately cut himself up to make himself look more savage.
Up at The Wall, they find a couple of corpses, one of which is missing that hand that Ghost found. Jon Snow gets himself sent to his room, which means that he's in a perfect situation to set fire to the corpses when they come back to life and start causing trouble.
Finally (and most awesomely), Arya appears to escape from King's Landing when Syrio holds off several heavily armored knights while using nothing but a wooden sword.