Episode 01 - Valar Dohaeris

the episode starts with samwell barely escaping a white walker.
samwell is alone in the tundra running towards something. then he comes upon a white walker. he tries to escape but ghost and the surviving members come to his rescue and kill the beast. then mormont asks samwell if he was able to send out the ravens. samwell says he wasn't able to and mormont is pissed. he says that if they don't get back to castle black and warn them, that everybody he has ever known will be dead by the time winter is over.

davos is shown marooned on the tiny island and is rescued by sallahdor saan. then he has a scene with stannis and melisandre where she basically mocks his dead son and says that if he hadn't convinced stannis to leave her at dragonstone, he would be sitting on the iron throne right now. he then attempts to stab her and is taken away to the dungeon.

robb has a scene where he and roose bolton come upon a couple hundred dead northerners at harrenhall. he sends his mother to a "cell" and then him and talisa come upon a not quite dead "maester" qyburn.
they didn't explain it all that well for people not familiar with the books. they just show robb coming upon harrenhaal with roose and talking about how tywin's army has been dodging them when he wants to fight. they walk in to find at least a couple hundred people slaughtered and qyburn is the only one left alive. talisa tells him that he's lucky to be alive and he says, "lucky?"

Tyrion probably has the most scenes in the episode.
he has a scene with cersei where he basically plays around the fact that she tried to murder him. then he has a short scene with bronn where bronn asks him to double his pay.then, the big finale of course, is with tywin where he asks his father to make him the heir to casterly rock and tywin tells him to go *beep* himself.

sansa has a small scene where her and shae are watching boats and then littlefinger comes to speak with her and she asks him to get her out of king's landing. he says he might have an "assignment" coming up in the near future that will take him away and that he will try to get her on his ship. as her and littlefinger are talking, ros (who was accompanying him) tells shae to watch out for sansa, especially around petyr baelish.

we got to meet tormund giantsbane, mance rayder, and even got to see a giant in action.no mammoths. they showed the lord of bones briefly escorting jon into the camp, but he didn't have any lines.

margaery had a couple nice scenes though, including one where she looks very sympathetic and visits an orphanage in the slums, telling the septa who ran the place to come to her personally when she needs anything.

her other scene was at dinner with joffrey, loras, & cersei. cersei tells her it was a bad idea to visit fleabottom, and that they were assaulted by a mob last year and nearly killed. joffrey then tells margaery that they actually weren't in any real danger, and that his mother has less use for facts as she gets older. that little bastard.

Dany first scene is on the boat to astapor and is the one from the trailer with the dragon flying beside the boat.she meets with the owner of the unsullied and he, of course, insults the hell out of her and jorah because he doesn't think she understands his language. then he cuts off a nipple of one of the unsullied, thankfully not too graphicly.then as i mentioned before the show ends with a little girl trying to kill her with some crazy insect/scorpion thing and barristan saving her life.