ACT THREE
EXT. THE ISLE OF FACES – DAY
Sansa pushes Bran through the weirwood forest. Ash leads them. Brienne follows.
The party comes to a clearing where the sun illuminates an enormous weirwood tree.
ASH
This is the oldest tree in the world. This is where the Pact was forged many years ago.
BRANDON STARK
Sansa, please bring me closer.
Sansa wheels Bran to the great weirwood tree.
BRANDON STARK (CONT’D)
I need your help, Sansa.
SANSA STARK
Of course. Anything.
BRANDON STARK
I must bond with this tree. I do not know what will happen once I do. Whatever you do, do not break my connection. It is vital that I uncover this knowledge. I must know how to defeat the Night King.
SANSA STARK
Will you be safe?
BRANDON STARK
I don’t know. Do this for me, Sansa. It is my fate.
SANSA STARK
I promise.
BRANDON STARK
This tree will allow me to see the secrets of the world. The secrets that have been forgotten to time.
Bran places his hand on the weirwood tree’s large face.
As soon as his fingers graze the rough bark, Bran gets access to all of history in a single instant.
BRANDON STARK (CONT’D)
Show me what I must know.
EXT. NORTHERN FIELD – DAY – VISION
Bran stands in a grassy field. A younger version of BRAN watches NED STARK swing his great sword ICE and behead WILL of the Night’s Watch.
NED STARK
He who passes the sentence must swing the sword. He swore an oath.
BRANDON STARK (V.O.)
Father always believed in the importance of keeping one’s word. He believed in duty. Honor.
INT. TOWER OF JOY – BEDCHAMBER – DAY – VISION
Bran now stands in the Tower of Joy. A young Ned kneels over the bloodied bed of LYANNA STARK.
LYANNA STARK
Promise me Ned, promise me.
BRANDON STARK (V.O.)
Father made the ultimate promise. One he would take to his grave.
Ned is handed baby Jon Snow.
EXT. FOREST – NIGHT – VISION
White Walker picks up an INFANT of Craster from the snow.
BRANDON STARK (V.O.)
Agreements can be made to protect the innocent, or to harm them.
EXT. NORTH OF THE WALL – NIGHT – VISION
In a different forest outside the Wall, a young Jon Snow kneels in front of a weirwood tree with SAMWELL TARLY as he swears his oath to the Night’s Watch.
JON SNOW
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death…I pledge my life and honor…
BRANDON STARK (V.O.)
Jon took after father in that regard. Always keeping his word.
EXT. GRASSY FIELD – DAY – DISTANT PAST – VISION
Thousands of years ago –- The Children of the Forest push a dragonglass arrowhead into the heart of a First Man. The man’s eyes turn an icy blue.
BRANDON STARK (V.O.)
It is when pacts are broken that men suffer.
END VISION
EXT. THE ISLE OF FACES – DAY
Sansa holds Bran as he convulses. Bran grips the tree tightly as red sap oozes from the weirwood’s eyes.
Blood streams from the milk-white eyes of the Three-eyed Raven.
EXT. KING’S LANDING – FISHMONGER’S SQUARE – DAY
The living clash with the dead.
Hordes of wights race up the streets to battle Jon’s forces.
The Unsullied use dragonglass-tipped long spears to destroy the wights.
Men fire hundreds of dragonglass-tipped arrows at the incoming horde, wiping out scores of mindless corpses.
Stymied, the White Walkers lock eyes with each other, then with the Night King in the sky.
The dead cease their frontal barrage and climb the surrounding walls like spiders. They leap over the blockade and attack the soldiers.
Jon sees that the blockade has been breached.
DAVOS SEAWORTH
The line’s fallen. There are too many.
BERIC DONDARRIAN
We need higher ground. There.
Beric points at the Red Keep.
JON SNOW
Fall back!
Soldiers continue dying by the hundreds.
EXT. KING’S LANDING – SKY – DAY
As Viserion prepares to unleash blue hell on another gate, Drogon collides with his undead brother.
Mid air, Drogon’s claws scratch at Viserion’s wings. Viserion snaps at Drogon’s neck.
Viserion flies higher and breathes blue flame toward Drogon, but the black beast swoops low to avoid the column of blue fire.
Daenerys circles Drogon back to meet the Night King on Viserion. The two dragons unleash fire and fury on each other.
Drogon’s red fire meets Viserion’s ice blue in a massive explosion. Two unstoppable forces collide in a beautifully destructive moment.
EXT. THE SILENCE – SAILING – DAY
Euron watches as eight massive tentacles break the surface and rise from the depths of Blackwater Bay. They slither like snakes from the water and surround the enemy ships.
EURON GREYJOY
You’re more beautiful than I could have possibly imagined. Now destroy them. Kill them all!
The slimy and puckered tentacles split ships in half with a smash. Men are crushed and drowned as ship after ship is crushed by the mighty kraken.
Euron watches in ecstasy until…
…the two dragons cause a massive fiery explosion.
Euron strides to the bow, where a barely lucid Yara hangs.
EURON GREYJOY (CONT’D)
Are you familiar with High Valyrian, my sweet? Foul language, but it is imbued with certain properties. Combine it with a little blood and you’ve got something terribly wicked.
Euron slashes Yara’s wrist.
Instead of letting her blood fall into the waters below, he sucks her blood from the wound, drinking deeply.
He staggers back. He shouts to the heavens in a foreign tongue.
EURON GREYJOY (CONT’D)
Great winds above, bend to my will!
The sky above King’s Landing darkens as a storm materializes. Lightning crackles and thunder booms.
The winds gain velocity as rain lashes the war-torn city.
EXT. KING’S LANDING – FISHMONGER’S SQUARE – DAY
Jon Snow looks to the sky where storm clouds form. Rain peppers his face.
Jon looks at his forces. Men die left and right, impaled and ripped apart by the undead monsters.
Their dragonglass weapons fall and shatter. Valyrian steel blades are forgotten as men’s bodies are ripped apart.
These men believed in Jon. He failed them.
THEN –- A volley of FLAMING ARROWS rains down, igniting hundreds of wights.
A fresh complement of allied soldiers charge. They wear red ornate armor over orange robes. Some carry bows and flaming arrows, others flaming swords. The soldiers have flames tattooed across their cheeks. They are the FIERY HAND, soldiers of the Lord of Light.
MELISANDRE leads the army to Jon’s position. She wields a fiery spear.
MELISANDRE
The cold is here, and the night that never ends. But our hearts are fire, and the Lord shines upon us. For the night is dark and full of terrors.
Melisandre slashes wights with inhuman speed. Wights explode at the priestess’ touch.
BERIC DONDARRIAN
For the night is dark and full of terrors.
JON SNOW
Advance! Push them back!
The men drive back the Army of the Dead.
A White Walker arrives on undead horseback. He charges through the defensive line of the living.
A soldier of the Fiery Hand shoots the undead horse in the side, igniting its body. The horse throws the White Walker. The Walker lets out a deafening, icy screech.
Jon charges. The Walker brings up his icy spear to meet Jon’s blade. The two lock weapons.
The Walker releases the hold and lunges at Jon. Jon sidesteps. The blade stabs the air. Jon slashes the White Walker with Longclaw. The Walker shatters.
Thousands of surrounding wights freeze mid-fight. The living watch as the wights collapse.
DAVOS SEAWORTH
Is that it? Is that the last of ’em?
JON SNOW
No. That was only the beginning.
MELISANDRE
Lead us, Jon Snow. Show the darkness the power of the light.
JON SNOW
Burn the dead. Don’t allow them to be turned. Follow me.
Beric, Melisandre, and the Fiery Hand spread their flames to the dead.
Jon leads his men to the Red Keep.
EXT. KING’S LANDING – SKY – DAY
The blood magic storm grows in power. Drogon and Viserion battle.
The intense winds toss the two dragons off course. Drogon and Viserion spin wildly before they collide.
The Night King reaches for Daenerys. Daenerys hangs on tightly, avoiding the Night King’s grasp. The winds change and push the dragons apart.
The two dragonriders regain control of their mounts. Dany flies toward Jon, who is heading to the Red Keep.
EXT. KING’S LANDING – FISHMONGER’S SQUARE – DAY
The Night King hovers Viserion above Fishmonger’s Square. He sees the great fire consuming the bodies below.
Viserion unleashes his blue flame upon the orange ones on the ground. He covers the square with his blue breath, subduing the fires below. The bodies no longer burn.
The Night King lands and dismounts the beast. He looks over the broken remains of the White Walker Jon killed and the thousands of corpses that litter the ground.
Three White Walkers approach on horseback and look to the Night King.
EXT. THE ISLE OF FACES – DAY
Sansa holds onto Bran as he navigates his vision.
EXT. SNOWY BATTLEFIELD – NIGHT – VISION
The first Long Night that occurred thousands of years ago.
Bran watches. Men and the Children of the Forest fight against the Army of the Dead.
Countless soldiers die on both sides.
The world is shrouded in darkness. Winter falls all over the earth.
The Night King raises his fallen foes.
END VISION
EXT. KING’S LANDING – FISHMONGER’S SQUARE – DAY
The Night King and the White Walkers raise their arms. The deceased rise. Their eyes pale blue.
EXT. KING’S LANDING – STREETS – DAY
Jon leads the remaining forces.
Thousands of wights now populate the city.
They stand still. All eyes on Jon.
Jon halts. The men turn to see the threat.
DAVOS SEAWORTH
What do we do?
JON SNOW
We run.
(to the men)
Run!
They run.
END OF ACT THREE