The Bells

"The Bells" is the fifth episode of the eighth season of Game of Thrones. It is the seventy-second episode of the series overall. It premiered on May 12, 2019. It was written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss and directed by Miguel Sapochnik.

Plot
Jaime faces a hard choice, while the dead surround King's Landing.

Summary
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Summary (abridged)

 * In the Red Keep, Jaime reunites with Cersei. At this point, Cersei is growing increasingly more desperate after hearing that the dead have crossed the Trident.
 * The Baratheon fleet arrives in Blackwater Bay and the Baratheon forces offload. Despite Jon’s protests, Daenerys orders her men to prepare to storm the city should Cersei refuse to surrender. Owing to Drogon’s injuries from fighting Viserion, Daenerys decides to mount Rhaegal.
 * Jaime and Cersei are attacked by Arya. Jaime defends Cersei from her long enough for the Mountain to arrive and engage Arya. Jaime, Cersei and Qyburn flee while Arya and the Mountain fight in Maegor’s holdfast. The Mountain quickly gains the upper hand over Arya, but before he can finish her off, the Hound rushes in (after secretly following Jaime and Davos) and begins fighting his brother. Arya flees.
 * Cersei tries to order her men to attack the sieging army, but before she can, Daenerys launches her own attack. With Cersei’s men caught by surprise, Drogon and Rhaegal make short work of the large but unwieldy scorpions lining the walls of King’s Landing.
 * The Hound and the Mountain die after the Hound crash-tackles the Mountain out of Maegor’s Holdfast and into the flaming battlements below.
 * As Cersei’s men begin surrendering, Cersei commands Qyburn to “burn them all” by igniting the wildfire caches under the city. Jaime, almost on instinct, kills Qyburn before stabbing Cersei. Cersei dies in Jaime’s arms.
 * The dead appear on the horizon as the Unsullied, Dothraki, Stark, Baratheon, Arryn, Tully and Wildling forces enter the city, joining the Lannister and Golden Company forces. Yara Greyjoy and a token force of Ironborn warriors also ride in from the west. The defenders desperately douse the flames on the battlements to replace troops on the walls.
 * Arya reunites with Jon, Sansa, Bran and Gendry, regretting her decision to try and kill Cersei.
 * Tyrion enters the Throne room to discover Jaime mourning over Cersei’s corpse. Tyrion joins him, but the two brothers are eventually forced to take her body outside and burn it.
 * The Army of the Dead surround the walls of King’s Landing
 * Daenerys walks up to the Iron Throne, but ultimately does not touch it and returns to marshalling her men to defend the city from the dead.
 * Left alone in the Throne Room, Bran asks Jon to help him onto the Iron Throne. Bran once again begins warging and sees many past events tied to the Iron Throne and the swords that it is made of, before being brought back to the events preceding Robert’s Rebellion. Bran discovers that Rhaegar had become consumed by both the Old Gods as well as a prophecy that the ‘Prince that was Promised’ would be ‘born of his bloodline’. Bran also discovers how Rhaegar justified himself in leaving his wife and children; Rhaegar assumed that the prophecy heralded the coming of a second Long Night, and thus he decided that he must have a child born of a Stark woman due to their strong connection to the Old Gods. Bran also learns why Rhaegar annulled his marriage to Elia and remarried Lyanna; he believed that his child would need to rule from the Iron Throne in order to end the second Long Night. Bran is then once again pulled out of his visions of the past by a vision of the Night King disembarking off a ship crewed by wights onto the mainland, in sight of King’s Landing.
 * The Night King begins his attack on King’s Landing. Most of the women and children again go into hiding in Maegor’s holdfast.
 * Many are killed in the fighting as the living are pushed back towards the Red Keep. Ultimately, Daenerys and Rhaegal are brought down by an ice spear thrown by the Night King, sending them tumbling into the Throne Room. With both dragon and rider presumed dead, a desperate retreat into the Red Keep is ordered.

Deaths

 * Sandor Clegane
 * Ser Gregor Clegane
 * Lord Hand Qyburn
 * Queen Cersei I Lannister
 * Rhaegal
 * Several White Walkers
 * Many wights
 * Many Lannister soldiers
 * Many Baratheon soldiers
 * Many Tully soldiers
 * Many Arryn knights of the Vale
 * Many Stark soldiers
 * Many wildings
 * Many Unsullied
 * Many Dothraki
 * Many Golden Company sellswords
 * Many citizens of King's Landing

Events

 * Siege of King's Landing
 * Battle of King's Landing