See Arya’s Fight With The Waif (Video)

Ever since Arya decided to go rogue a second time and disobey the Faceless Men for her own emotional needs, we’ve known that her life is technically forfeit. After all, as Jaqen H’ghar says, a face will be added to the hall, and the Faceless Men don’t really care whose. (Let’s be real, it doesn’t matter if they wear Arya’s face or Lady Crane’s face for their next kill, does it? And not fulfilling contracts is what is known as “bad for business.”)

Arya seemed surprisingly startled at how fast the Faceless Men, embodied by the Waif, came for her last week, much to the confusion and consternation of everyone else who thought she should be smarter than that. This week, the trailer clearly suggested that the showdown between the two of them this week was going to be epic. Just how epic?

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First things first, at the top of the episode, Arya is being nursed back to health by Lady Crane, confirming that was her for the people trying to fantasize it somehow was not. After the antics of last week, it’s good to see her back with the players. One might think that Arya has found safety and a friend.

But Lady Crane was promised to the Hall, and if Arya won’t do her job, someone else will. Namely, the Waif. This both teaches Arya a lesson that you cannot fight fate, as well as the futility of fighting the commercial interests of the House of Black and White LLC.

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The chase is afoot!

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For those who worried that Arya’s condition from last week would be forgotten, it is not.

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In fact, that trial of blood from her wound comes in quite handy, when she leads the Waif down to the tunnels where she she’s lying in wait with Needle.

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….and the Waif falls for it.

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Jaqen, for the record tries to act like this is some sort of test she’s passed. Arya’s not having it.

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She’s not No One. She’ll never be No One. it’s time to go back to Westeros where she belongs.