Theon holds the fort at Winterfell: Yara arrives and criticizes his seizing a castle he will receive no reinforcements to hold, but he refuses to return to Pyke with her. Robb is betrayed by his own mother, learning that Catelyn secretly freed Jaime, whom Brienne is escorting to King's Landing to exchange for Sansa and Arya; Robb places her under house arrest and sends men to recapture Jaime. When Tywin leaves Harrenhal to attack Robb, Arya calls in her debt with Jaqen, coercing him into helping her, Gendry and their friend Hot Pie escape. In King's Landing, Cersei gets revenge on Tyrion for sending Myrcella to Dorne by abducting Ros, whom she mistakenly believes is his secret lover, and Joffrey prepares to lead the attack against Stannis himself.
Approaching their destination, Stannis promises to make Davos his Hand of the King. Beyond the Wall, the Wildling leader "Rattleshirt" leads the captured Jon and Halfhand toward his king, Mance Rayder, while at the Fist of the First Men the brothers of the Night's Watch find a hidden cache of dragonglass weapons. In Qarth, Jorah agrees to accompany Daenerys to the House of the Undying to retrieve her dragons. Bran and Rickon are revealed to be alive, hiding in the Winterfell crypts.