'Game of Thrones' Recap: The Stage Is Set for All-Out War

[Warning: This story contains spoilers for the fifth episode of Game of Thrones' seventh season, "Eastwatch."]

"If we don't put our enmities aside," Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham) once warned, "then it won't matter whose skeleton sits on the Iron Throne."

At the time, the Onion Knight's words of warning fell on deaf ears, as Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) could focus on nothing but her own impending conquest of Westeros. She brushed off the reports of White Walkers as nothing more than myth. But Game of Thrones viewers knew all too well how real these mythical monsters truly are, and now, not only is the Dragon Queen starting to appreciate the threat, but even the Queen of King's Landing is beginning to chew on the idea.

Much of the action of "Eastwatch," the fifth episode of Thrones' seventh season, centers on a plan hatched by Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) and enacted by Jon Snow (Kit Harington) to convince their uneasy allies and enemies alike to set aside their differences and consider the true catastrophe heading toward the Seven Kingdoms: the Night King and the Army of the Dead. As a means of convincing everyone involved that the White Walkers need to be considered the foremost hazard on the board, Jon assembles a veritable who's who of Westeros' best and boldest — a group that includes Davos, the freshly healed Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen), the recently resurfaced Gendry (Joe Dempsie), the Free Folk commander Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju), Sandor "The Hound" Clegane (Rory McCann), Thoros of Myr (Paul Kaye) and the Lightning Lord Beric Dondarrion (Richard Dormer) — for a mission to travel beyond the Wall and apprehend a wight, with the purpose of bringing it back to King's Landing to sell Cersei (Lena Headey) on the existence of the undead.

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Game of Thrones also stars Lena Headey and Maisie Williams.