Game of Thrones season 7: 5 predictions for episode 5

Episode 63 (season 7, episode 3), debut 7/30/17: Ellie Kendrick, Isaac Hempstead Wright.

photo: Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO

After “The Spoils of War,” Game of Thrones has plenty of things to guess about for episode 5. Here are 5 things that could happen in next week’s episode.

Warning: If you haven’t seen “The Spoils of War,” episode 4 of Game of Thrones season 7, this would be the time to step aside, check out Culturess’ recap, watch the episode, and so on and so forth.

Game of Thrones just ended on a particularly rough note, didn’t it? (Or perhaps we should say “watery,” but that implies that we’re sad about something, and we might not have to be sad yet.) But just you wait, my prediction enthusiasts, because yours truly has some things to say about that ending and how it’ll have an impact on next week’s episode.

Like with last week, we’ll also be warning you if we dip into spoiler territory here to help aid our predictions. We’ll refer to the below preview as well:

What sort of prediction-making writer would I be if I didn’t use what HBO has already provided? Sure, there’s no episode title to go off of at the moment, but that doesn’t matter quite so much. It’s time to jump in.