Watch the inside the episode video for the Game of Thrones season 3 episode “And Now His Watch is Ended” for commentary by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss!

In the video, we see Jaime’s pitiful fight with his captors, and showrunner D.B. Weiss takes us inside this scene. He explains that when Jaime steals the sword, it is, “In some ways an attempt to see in his delirious, fevered state whether he can do anything with his left hand, and in other ways… when he realises that he can’t do anything.”

Co-creator David Benioff also weighs in, saying, “[Jaime is] such a prideful human, he just doesn’t want to exist as a lesser version of Jaime Lannister.” Now, Weiss explains, these foes, who he’d have had no problem beating before, become his superiors, and he becomes “like a child to them.”

“Fighting is his life, he’s the very best in the world at what he does, and now the skill that made him who he was is gone,” Weiss explains. “Whether they were a good person or a bad person or someone in between, you’re seeing somebody, who is a human being, being denigrated, toyed with in a way that’s gonna make anybody – including Brienne – feel pity for that person.”

In the end, it is Brienne who reminds Jaime that there is a reason to keep going, and Benioff explains how this shames him into regaining his courage.

Moving on to discuss the events beyond the Wall, where the Old Bear was killed by his own men, Weiss says, “The killing of Mormont definitely could not have come at a worse time.” He was the glue which held the Night’s Watch together.

“It’s not just that Mormont died, it’s that he was murdered, stabbed in the back, by his own man,” Benioff adds. “And it’s been a long time since there’s been this kind of dissent in the Night’s Watch.”

And finally, Daenerys frees the slaves in an epic moment of empowerment. “We’ve never really gotten a sense of her capacity for cruelty,” Weiss says. “She’s surrounded by people who are terrible people, but haven’t done anything to her personally.”

But as Weiss further explains, “as the sphere of her empathy widens, the sphere of her cruelty widens as well.”

In this episode, Benioff says, Dany becomes harder to dismiss. “For a long time people have been saying that even if she was alive, the only threat she poses is her name. She’s a Targaryen, great, but she’s a little girl at the edge of the world,” he says. But now, “she’s starting to knock on people’s doors a little bit.”

This is the moment when Dany becomes a conqueror, and a force to be reckoned with. We can’t wait to see what she does next!

Game of Thrones returns this Sunday at 9/8 on HBO with 3×05 “Kissed by Fire”!