Game of Thrones (TV Series)

And Now His Watch Is Ended (2013)

James Cosmo: Jeor Mormont

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• Craster : [slams his chest]  I am a godly man!

  Rast : You're a stingy bastard!

  Craster : [enraged]  Bastard?

  [Craster takes an axe off the wall] 

  Craster : Out with you, you little thief.

  [Craster turns to Karl] 

  Craster : And you!

  [Craster turns to Eddison Tollett] 

  Craster : And you!

  [Craster looks threateningly at everyone] 

  Craster : Go sleep in the cold on empty bellies. I'll chop the hands off the next man who calls me bastard.

  [a long moment of tension. No one moves. At last Craster lowers his axe. Mormont grabs Rast to lead him out the doorway] 

  Karl : [to Craster]  You are a bastard.

  [Craster turns to face Karl] 

  Karl : A daughter-fucking, wildling bastard.

  [Craster snarls in rage and charges at Karl, waving his axe, but Karl is faster: he draws a dagger and shoves it into Craster's throat. Craster rasps in agony, blood fills his mouth. Karl lets go of Craster, who falls on the ground, straining to breath. Karl strikes one of Craster's wives] 

  Jeor Mormont : The gods will curse us for this! By all the laws...

  Karl : There are no laws beyond the Wall!

  [Karl grabs the woman he struck and puts his dagger at her throat] 

  Karl : Now show us where he hides the food, or you'll get the same as he did.

  Jeor Mormont : [draws his sword]  Unhand her!

  [Karl lets go of the woman and faces Mormont with his dagger] 

  Jeor Mormont : I shall have your head for this...

  [Rast stabs Mormont in the back. Mormont gasps and drops his sword. For a moment the men stare in shock, then Grenn yells in rage and charges at Karl, tackling him. A bloody brawl breaks out between the mutineers and the ones who remain loyal to Mormont. Craster lies on the ground unmoving, dead. Mormont turns around to face Rast, grabs him by the throat, lifts him off his feet, then spins him around and hurls him against the opposite wall. Sam does not take part in the fighting, but instead rushes outside to find Gilly. Mormont nearly manages to choke Rast to death, but then the wound he sustained takes its toll. Blood pours from Mormont's mouth. He lets go of Rast and sinks to the ground. Rast recovers, grabs a knife and stabs Mormont repeatedly in the chest until he is dead. Meanwhile, Sam enters the hut where Gilly is with her baby. Gilly helplessly watches the brawl through a crack in the wall] 

  Samwell Tarly : Quickly. Quickly.

  Gilly : What's happening? I'm not going out there.

  Samwell Tarly : No, we have to go. Now!

  [the baby cries. Gilly picks him. They go outside] 

  Samwell Tarly : Follow me. I know the best way. Come on.

  [as the brawl continues, Sam, Gilly and her baby escape. No one takes notice of them except Rast. He comes outside and shouts after Sam] 

  Rast : Run fast, Piggy, and sleep well! I'll be cutting your throat one of these nights.

• [at Craster's Keep, the ranger Bannen died of the injuries he had sustained at the battle at the Fist of the First Men. His corpse is burnt on a pyre. His sworn brothers hold a funeral for his memory] 

  Jeor Mormont : His name was Bannen. He's a good man, good ranger. He came to us from... where did he come from?

  Eddison Tollett : Down White Harbor way.

  Jeor Mormont : He came to us from White Harbor. Never failed in his duty. Kept his vows best he could. He rode far, fought fiercely. We shall never see his like again.

  [everyone recite the traditional closing line of the eulogy of the Night's Watch "and now his watch is ended"] 

  Jeor Mormont : And now his watch is ended.

  Grenn : Didn't think a broke foot could kill a man.

  Rast : It wasn't his foot that killed him. That bastard Craster starved him to death.

  Samwell Tarly : Craster got his daughters to feed.

  Rast : You on his side?

  Samwell Tarly : We can't just show up and steal all his food. We're brothers of the Night's Watch, not thieves.

  Rast : The day we leave, Craster will tap a barrel of our wine and sit down to a feast of ham and potatoes and laugh at us starving in the snow. He's a bloody wildling all he is.

  Eddison Tollett : Never knew Bannen could smell so good.

• [after the funeral, Lord Commander Mormont is sitting at the main hall and checking a map in his journal, while Craster continues to eat and berate the men of the Night's Watch] 

  Craster : You have one son, don't you, Mormont? I had my 99th. You ever meet a man with 99 sons?

  [Mormont shakes his head indifferently] 

  Craster : And more daughters than I can count.

  Jeor Mormont : [dryly]  I'm glad for you.

  [the other Night Watch's members enter the hall, shivering of the cold weather] 

  Craster : Are you now? Me, I'll be glad when you and yours have gone.

  Jeor Mormont : As soon as our wounded are strong enough.

  Craster : [sneers]  Ah. They're as strong as they're gonna get. Them that's dying, why don't you cut their throats and be done with it? Or leave them if you've not the stomach, and I'll sort them myself.

  [Craster eats. Mormont looks at him with disgust] 

  Karl : Whose throat you gonna cut, old man?

  Jeor Mormont : [to Karl]  Wait outside.

  Karl : It's cold outside and there's nothing to eat.

  Craster : My wives gave you bread.

  Karl : There's sawdust in the bread.

  Craster : You don't like it, you go out there and eat the snow.

  [Karl steps forward threateningly] 

  Karl : I'd rather eat what you've got hidden away.

  [Mormont stands on his feet] 

  Jeor Mormont : I told you to wait outside.

  Rast : [angrily]  He's sitting there, drinking our wine, eating his fill while we die!

  [Craster stands up angrily, throwing the food on the floor] 

  Craster : I gave you crows enough. I've got to feed my women!

  Rast : So you admit you've got a hidden larder, then? How else'd you make it through winter?

  Jeor Mormont : [raises his voice]  Enough! Out!

  [Mormont grabs Rast roughly]