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'Game Of Thrones' Season 7, Episode 4: 'Enough With The Clever Plans'

In the Game of Thrones episode "The Spoils of War," someone goes home, someone goes spelunking and many, many, many someones go to an impromptu barbecue.
<em>Do It, Casterly Rockapella!</em>: In "The Spoils of War," Tycho (Mark Gatiss) and Cersei (Lena Headey) prepare for the bonus round of <em>Where in the World is Dany Targaryen? </em>

We're recapping Season 7 of HBO's Game of Thrones here on Monkey See. We'll try to turn them around overnight, so look for them first thing on Mondays. And of course: Spoilers abound.

Reunions and battles. Battles and reunions. If they aren't the stuff you tune in for, I've got bad news. Because they're all we're going to get, from here on out – together they form the two-stroke engine that'll propel us toward the ending. (Yes, OK, sure, there'll also be some Cersei-quaffs-red-wine mixed in there, too, because fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly and Cersei's gotta guzzle.)

We begin with Jaime, Bronn and the Lannister army riding toward Kings Landing with the loot they've plundered from Highgarden. Jaime opens one of the wagons, takes a Scrooge McDuck dip into the piles of gold and hands Bronn a satchel so full of money it might as well have a cartoonishly large dollar sign scrawled across it. Bronn is appreciative. Up to a point.

"You've just won the biggest prize in the world," Bronn says. "What are you gonna do next?"

"I'M GOIN' TO DISNEY WORLD!" screams Jaime, except no he doesn't. But for a hot second you thought he would. We all

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