Game of Thrones - Spoiler Alert - Wasn't expecting that

Oh my god, Game of Thrones was top notch today and well worth watching at 5am this morning after last week I was kind of expecting maybe a quiet episode, oh boy was I wrong.

In Winterfell, things escalated when a baby boy was announced to Lord Roose Bolton after his wife Lady Walda gave birth to a boy. Remember Ramsay Bolton is the bastard son and during an awkward father-son hug, Roose whispers he (Ramsay) is still his first-born son. You could see the tension on Ramsay’s face as he slipped his knife into his father’s gut commanding a message be sent to all the northern houses, informing them that Lord Bolton is dead poisoned by his enemies.

Ramsay later meets with Lady Walda and her son, and asks to hold him. Then Ramsay leads Walda and her son to the kennels, and begins unlocking the cells to the hounds. Walda begs for mercy, saying that she will leave Winterfell and return to the Riverlands. Ramsay ignores her pleas, and signals the hounds to maul her and her son to death, as he looks on, indifferent.

King Balon Greyjoy is old miserable self, arguing with his daughter, Yara, and with a storm, raging decides to cross a creaky suspension bridge connecting two royal towers. A dark shadowy figure at one end of the bridge turns out to be his long-lost younger brother, Euron, and not much love there. They edge closer and closer to each other, the rain pounding down on them, the wind furious then a tussle and R.I.P King Greyjoy.

John Snow for most of the episode was laed out on the table defended by a few loyal men and Davos. The rest of the Night’s Watch were outside demanding to come in and when they decide to smash their way in those inside are saved when the wildings attack Castle Black. Davos seeks out Melisandre wanting to know if she has any magical skills that could help bring him back.

She washes the blood from his wounds throwing in some chanting while trimming locks of his hair and beard, tossing them into the flames. She then places her hands on his body, continuing with her chanting but nothing happens so Jon Snow is dead. One by one those present leave the room until just a sleeping ‘Ghost’ Jon Snow’s wolf and the man himself is left in the empty room with the camera flickering between the two … The tension is unbearable. Ghost stirs. Jon breathes again. Jon Snow lives but who or what he could be next week is going to be interesting.