The Faceless Men aren't in it for the money (and they've been known to accept/require other forms of payment), but their prices -however they're denominated- are always exorbitant.

Darn. I guess it would look pretty cheesy if they used that plot device again. . .I guess Arya will have to settle for escaping Braavos with her life.

She can; but I bet whole gigabytes of footage have been left on the cutting room floor because either Clarke or someone else in the shot broke down laughing in the middle of one of those harangues. If there's ever a documentary made about this series, I hope at least a few of those takes are included.

Was there ever really a contract on Lady Crane's life? It seems implausible that the Faceless Men would actually go around murdering innocent people to resolve every petty dispute that arises in Braavos. Honestly, I'd expect them to kill at least a third of the people who try to hire them, just to make the point that…

That's definitely Arya's plan. . .sit in the dark and wait for the Waif to show up, then kill her. The Waif isn't expecting Arya to have a sword. . .and I'm pretty sure one of the first things Arya learned from "Syrio Forel" is that a sword will beat a stick almost every time. So it's certainly plausible that things…

I suspect that Margery got the same kind of education as Sansa, and knows about as much as Sansa does. . . but I get the distinct impression that the religious education of noble young ladies goes very light on the kind of "fire-and-brimstone-condemnation-of-the-filthy-sinners" passages that Margery has been forced to…

. . .Or Arya could just shove a sword through her eye and leave town. I may have overthought this.

That's. . . . bloody brilliant. And it makes perfect sense. Also, the Hound would have to conquer his own fear of fire in order to wield it.

One last stray thought. I agree that there's more to Jaqen and Arya's friendship than either one of them is letting on. If the story plays out the way I think it might, it could be a pretty devastating scene.

We don't really know that much about the Waif. I keep getting the sense that she's actually much older than she appears to be. . . to the point where her problem might be that she's been doing this job for too long.

She'll have to give a new speech to the Dothraki. . . who might be like, "Um, Khaleesi. . .aren't we here to kill the men in iron suits and stone houses? Because they're your enemies and all? You never said anything about us fighting frost demons and a legion of the dead in order to save your sworn enemies from…

I don't think Arya actually will kill the Waif, although she'll probably put up a good fight. What I think will happen is that Arya will hurt Waif just badly enough to stoke her fury and make her disregard her instructions to kill Arya painlessly.

Another thought that occurs to me is. . . what if the Seven Gods are actually somewhat real? If they are, they might object to an obscenity like Frankenclegane setting foot in the Holy Sept. It would serve Cersei right if he collapsed the moment he stepped into the ring to face the Holy Champion Lancel Lannister.. . .

I had the same thought as you, but I was amused by it. One of the great pleasures of the show is watching Emilia Clarke shout whole paragraphs of vehement, tongue-twisting nonsense and somehow still sell the hell out of it.

1. I think it's kind of amusing that Dany is completely unaware of the White Walkers and is instead planning to focus her awesome (and literal) firepower on the schmucks at King's Landing. One of the darkest ironies of the story is the fact that literally nobody seems to care much at all about the APPROACHING LEGIONS…

It could be, although it's not impossible that the original "No One" who founded the Faceless Men was a Valyrian noble who renounced the crimes of his ancestry, and his whole identity along with it. It's even possible that a story like this could be the background of Jaqen H'gar.

That's a very odd detail, actually. . .since Arya never really mastered the art of fighting blind. It's possible that the Waif never mastered it either (perhaps the Waif endured a completely different set of soul-crushing tribulations as part of her training), but that's a pretty thin reed to stake her life on.

Well, the Faceless Men are inherently mysterious, so it's possible that he was on his way to the Wall to claim someone's life, and this was just an inconspicuous way for him to travel. Faceless Men don't seem to require much in the way of luxuries, so I'm thinking they'd be completely indifferent between traveling by…

You may be right. . . but if the inevitable killing of the Waif by Jaqen for disobeying his order not to let Arya suffer results in Arya once again being "owed a life". . . she might just be cold enough to name Jaquen's life as the debt that is owed to her instead of simply choosing to leave with her own.

Exactly. I think he's testing the Waif the same way he tested Arya: to see if she'd let her emotions interfere with her duty. My guess is that the Waif will, in fact, do just that by trying to make Arya suffer. . .and Jaqen will kill her as a result, before telling Arya that this botched assassination attempt means,…