After saying goodbye to those that died in the battle against the White Walkers with funeral pyres, those who survived celebrate at a feast at Winterfell. As Gendry leaves the feast to find Arya, Daenerys calls out to him, revealing she knows him as Robert Barartheon's son, and names him Lord of Storm's End in a move to secure his loyalty to her. Gendry finds Arya practising archery and asks for her hand in marriage, which she declines.
Jamie, Tyrion, Brienne and Podrick play Tyrion's drinking game, and afterwards Jamie follows Brienne to her quarters where the pair make love.
After the feast Daenerys finds Jon in his room and tries to reconcile their relationship after the revelation of their heritage by trying to convince Jon to never tell anyone. Always the honourable man though, Jon is insistent that he must tell Sansa and Arya.
The following day at the war council Daenerys is eager to move their armies to King's Landing, while Tyrion continues to caution against any irrational decisions, and Jon agrees that if they wait Cersei out the people of the city will rebel against her, while Sansa is adamant that their armies get rest after the battle of Winterfell. Jon and Ser Davos plan to take the King's Road with the Northern troops with the remaining bulk of the Dothraki and the Unsullied, while a smaller group return to Dragonstone with Daenerys and her dragons. Jamie decides to stay at Winterfell with Brienne.
Sansa, Arya and Bran take Jon to the Godswood to caution him against Daenerys, and tell him that they don't trust her. There he feels compelled to confess the truth about his true heritage.
That night Jamie and Tyrion are confronted by Bronn, who reveals Cersei has sent him to kill them, but admits he knows that Cersei is on the lovely side, so he has come to them to ensure he gets a better offer from those he thinks will win the war, and Tyrion offers him Highgarden.
Arya, on horseback, approaches The Hound as he rides out of Winterfell heading for King's Landing. They both have unfinished business and don't plan on coming back, and they leave together.
Tyrion tries to convince Sansa that she should trust Daenerys, as he needs them to be allies, and she reveals to Tyrion Jon secret.
Tormund farewells Jon, telling him he and the free folk are returning to the true North, and Jon offers him Ghost, who he thinks also belongs there. Sam and Gilly also say goodbye, revealing that they are pregnant.
As Daenerys returns to Dragonstone her ships are attacked by Euron's Greyjoy fleet. Rhaegal is killed, and her boats are destroyed - Tyrion, Varys, and Grey Worm wash ashore - but Missandei is captured and Euron takes her back to King's Landing.
Varys speaks candidly with Daenerys after the attack and tells her, like Tyrion earlier, that she risks becoming what she swore to defeat if she attacks the Red Keep and kills thousands of innocents to get to Cersei. Tyrion suggests that they wait for Jon and the armies to arrive at King's Landing and demand Cersei's surrender, offer her her life in exchange for the throne. Later, Varys reveals he no longer trusts Daenerys to be the best ruler of the realm.
Back at Winterfell under cover of night Jamie prepares his horse to leave and is confronted by Brienne. She tries to convince him that he's a good man and that he doesn't need to return to King's Landing to try and save and ultimately die with Cersei. He tells her that he is not a good man, and that he has Cersei are both hateful and rides away.
At the walls of King's Landing Tyrion, accompanied by Daernys, Varys, Grey Worm and a small group of Unsullied, tries to convince Cersei to surrender for her unborn child. She ignores him and has Missandei killed by The Mountain atop the walls of the city.
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