Maisie Williams

Williams appears as Arya Stark in the eighth episode of the second season of Game of Thrones, The Prince of Winterfell. Charles Dance plays Lord Tywin Lannister, and Tom Wlaschiha plays the assassin Jaqen H’ghar. At the castle of Harrenhal, Lord Tywin decides to march his army west to face Robb Stark, Arya’s older brother. Arya realizes that she has missed the chance to have Lord Tywin assassinated by Jaqen H’ghar. With the help of H’ghar, she and her companions are able to escape Harrenhal.

Williams appears as Arya Stark in the sixth episode of the second season of Game of Thrones, The Old Gods and the New. Charles Dance plays Lord Tywin Lannister and Aidan Gillen plays Lord Petyr Baelish, the royal treasurer. At the Lannister army encampment at Harrenhal castle, Lord Tywin has taken Arya into service as a cupbearer. Arya is surprised by the visit of Lord Petyr, who she is familiar with from her time in King’s Landing, but she is able to keep her identity as a Stark secret from him and from Lord Tywin. While Lord Tywin is distracted, she notices that a letter on his table refers to her older brother Robb Stark, who is fighting a war with the Lannister armies. She steals the letter and runs outside, but a Lannister loyalist sees her carrying it and becomes suspicious. She is able to alert Jaqen H’ghar, an assassin who is in her debt, and he kills the man before he is able to inform Lord Tywin of what he saw.

Williams appears as Arya Stark in the fourth episode of the second season of Game of Thrones, Garden of Bones. Joe Dempsey plays the character Gendry, one of a group of Night’s Watch recruits that Arya is traveling with. The recruits and Arya are taken by Lannister soldiers to the castle of Harrenhal where a Lannister army is encamped. They witness the torture of several captives by Lannister men seeking valuables as spoils of war, as well as information about a secret society known as the Brotherhood. As Gendry is about to be tortured, Lord Tywin Lannister arrives and tells the men to put Gendry and the other captives to work instead. Lord Tywin, played by Charles Dance, notices that Arya is a girl disguised as a boy, and takes her on as a servant.

Williams appears as Arya Stark in the second episode of the second season of Game of Thrones, The Night Lands. Francis MaGee plays the Night’s Watchman Yoren. Joe Dempsey plays Night’s Watch recruit Gendry. A disguised Arya travels north on the Kingsroad with the Night’s Watch recruits. She approaches three caged prisoners and one tells her that his name is Jaqen H’ghar. The other two threaten her. The group is approached by two of the City Watch from King’s Landing. Arya suspects that they are looking for her however they inquire after Gendry. The City Guards leave after being threatened by Yoren, threatening to return with reinforcements. Arya asks Gendry why he is wanted but, unaware that he is the illegitimate child of King Robert Baratheon, Gendry replies that he doesn’t know.

Williams appears as Arya Stark in the tenth episode of the first season of Game of Thrones, Fire and Blood. Francis MaGee plays Yoren the Night’s Watchman. Joe Dempsey plays Night’s Watch recruit Gendry. Following the execution of her father, Yoren smuggles Arya out of the city of King’s Landing disguised as a boy. Intending to take her north to the Stark stronghold Winterfell, he tells her that they will be traveling with other Night’s Watch recruits made up of criminals, and she must not reveal her identity. The recruits Lemmy and Hotpie, played by Eros Vlahos and Ben Hawkey, try to take her sword Needle but she threatens them that she has already killed a boy with it and will do so again. Gendry, who is secretly the illegitimate son of King Robert Baratheon, protects Arya from the other recruits.

Williams appears as Arya Stark in the eighth episode of the first season of Game of Thrones, The Pointy End. Miltos Yerolemou plays her fencing master, the Braavosi swordsman Sylvio Forel. Arya is having a fencing lesson and is unaware of her father’s arrest for treason. Lannister guards appear and claim that her father has sent them, but she realizes that this is a trick. Using his wooden training sword, Sylvio is able to defeat all of but one of the guards. As he faces the last man, Arya escapes without knowing what Sylvio’s fate will be. Arya runs to the stables where Stark men were waiting to transport her to a ship traveling for Winterfell, but the men are dead. She finds her sword in the bottom of her trunk. As a stableboy attempts to accost her from behind, she accidentally impales him with the sword. Arya escapes into the dungeons of the Red Keep.

Williams plays Arya Stark in the fifth episode of the first season of Game of Thrones, The Wolf and the Lion. While chasing a cat as part of her fencing training, she enters the dungeons of the royal castle and overhears two men plotting for the impending war between the Lannister and Stark noble families. She realizes that they are discussing assassinating her father Lord Eddard Stark, the Hand of the King, and rushes to warn him.

Williams appears as Arya Stark in the third episode of the first season of Game of Thrones, Lord Snow. Sean Bean plays her father, Lord Eddard Stark. In King’s Landing, Lord Eddard discovers Arya’s sword, Needle. Lord Eddard is hesitant about her possessing a dangerous weapon, but allows her to keep it as long as she learns how to use it. He contracts the Braavosi swordsman Sylvio Forel, played by Miltos Yerolemou, to teach Arya the swordfighting style of Braavos, known as the Water Dance.