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Ah. Was wondering how exactly he had obtained his burner phone inventory without straight-up stealing them from the store.

Don't forget Jimmy made some cash with the hummel figurine too. He also got the ~$5k from Chuck's estate and is presumably sharing a lot of expenses with Kim, who is making big money now.

Yes, Mike is her father in law. And the little girl is Kaley, his granddaughter.

The "not talking to each other" stuff is understandable to me, because imagine if someone called you and said "the dead are rising and eating people!" You'd think they were nuts and hang up the phone. Add to that the fact that they themselves don't fully understand what is going on. I think the show is doing a good job of gradually ramping up the tension and chaos, but I think by the next episode we need to start seeing some sort of federal response.

Or because they have bannermen who have sworn them oaths of fealty, who in turn have knights of their households and levies of peasants to forcibly conscript in times of warfare. This is a brutal medieval world where "good ideas" are much less important than honor, blood, and feudal obligations. If you're lucky, you'll have a lord who believes in treating people fairly as well (like Ned). But I think we have to be careful about applying modern ideas of the social contract to a place like Westeros.

I think it's important to point out that Dany didn't sacrifice anyone in the fighting pit, she flew Drogon (and herself) to safety, which is exactly what Jorah, Daario and the rest of her men wanted anyway, for her to live. If she made Drogon stay and fight and keep getting wounded by spears, possibly killed, that would not have been a good outcome. Her presence was the only reason the Harpies were even attacking.

I agree, that would be at least some justice, knowing that he brutally murdered his sweet little girl for absolutely no reason. I wanted to chime in on the whole issue of Dany flying away on Drogon; many seem to be under the impression that her abandoning her men was selfish and inconsiderate, but what you're forgetting is the whole reason they are in that situation, they are fighting for HER. Dany escaping to safety is EXACTLY what they wanted. Their own safety was entirely secondary at that moment. Plus, I think that Drogon had sufficiently evened the odds such that the Harpies would have reconsidered whether fighting Jorah, Daario and a bunch of angry Unsullied was actually the best use of their time.

They tend to gloss over this a bit in the show, but there actually remain at this point 3 manned castles along the wall, Castle Black being only one of them. And I do believe that Jon Snow was actually going to send Janos Slynt and a few other men to a 4th castle to prepare it to be used as well, before he disagreed and lost his head for it. So after the Wildling assault on Castle Black, THEY are down to 50 men, but presumably Eastwatch and the Shadow Tower have at least a couple hundred men between them.