probably not, but how else would they know? Its not like they are following every former FBI guy.

Since they clearly did not want to hurt him, it was probably feeling him out for info. I sensed maybe offering him money, They know he was fired and Thailand would be a perfect place to see if maybe he was now willing to talk, way away from prying eyes. Unfortunately Gaad panicked and ran. He thought they were going…

what the hell ever happened to bullion cubes anyway?

Not know if it was mentioned..but Arkady stating the Gaad thing was his operation, he could have only received the info about Gaad from Phillip when Stan told him he was going to Thailand. So Phillip effectively killed Gaad. If Stan ever finds out about Phillip, he will never forgive that ever since he will put two…

I guess, but they seem really tangential and are a lot of story if they are just going to be providing ships. They could have cut the whole thing out and just done tht with a line of dialog.."Kaleesi, there are a proud boat people in Westeros who are sailers with ships, I will contact them"..instead of all of this…

yeah, i meant that

I admit, I still have no idea the purpose of the Iron Islands and the Greyjoys in the overall story. They have been presented as vultures who raid when their neighbors are weak. At least we can see the point of the Vale now that Littlefinger is running it to the overall story, and I believe Dorne will destroy the…

I feel in the long term the Lannisters and the tyrells are doomed. They let themselves be put into this position where religious fanatics are humiliating them. Tommen is sane, but is too weak and nice. Dorne I think is going to wipe them out after they beat the faith and it will destroy kings landing. They should…

I took it as she was controlling the fire and spreading it herself.

it makes sense about Rikkon. Since this story is now clearly about Jon Snow, having a male Stark survive is clearly not in the plans of the overall narrative. I bet Ramsey kills him very soon. He has been given no story at all in the show or the books, so it is literally a plot device.

These spy missions are obviously fascinating, but I would think a seven month long con with a targets wife is just too complicated for a real life practical spy mission. I mean, you are putting that much time and effort into maintaining a friendship with a woman just so maybe you can poke around her house then…

I am sure it will work for this show, but I stated below this is a rather huge betrayal of the country for blackmail to work and for him not to just tell his wife. That level 4 stuff is nasty and if he works there, he knows it. It is not only treason but the stuff on that level can kill. I think no matter how…

man, that was one long con..seven months of friendship with the wife just to seduce Don. Kind of seemed Rube Golberg-ian. I am always skeptical of how these things would really play in real life. I think it is just as likely he would tell his wife than give her level 4 access codes. It sounds like there is nasty…

you are confusing artsy with opaque and intentionally vague and no character motivation for subtext.

um, you know this is a fictional story, right???

interesting theory

exactly. Hence my original comment I really am not understanding the motivation here.

As I said, that explains being done with the Starks, but aligning with the Boltons seem to be a bridge too far for me. They betrayed the Starks in what we were told is in an unforgivable way and the Bolton's killed their relatives in the red wedding too.

Delivering Rikkon Stark to Ramsey is pretty good evidence that they are not tricking him and its genuine. He is the last of the Starks and went to them precisely because they were supposed to be loyal. I kind of always known Rikkon would be killed, since he has had zero story and it would be pretty weird for him to…

and where would he be going? I know the wildlings like him and are loyal, but they do not seem to be the type to march to Winterfell to fight in a war that has nothing to do with them.