You Win or You Die. Game of Thrones. Track 7 on Season 1 Scripts. Produced by. D.B. Weiss & David Benioff. You Win or You Die is the seventh episode of the HBO medieval fantasy television series
Joffrey goes against the wishes of his small council and his mother and, instead, has Ned Stark beheaded, thus plunging Westeros into the War of Five Kings. All the pain and suffering since has
Renly Baratheon's shadowy death changed Westerosi (and Game of Thrones) history. As we count down to the Game of Thrones series finale, we're looking back at the most pivotal moments of the show's first seven seasons. While the final season of Game of Thrones has focused on the Great War (against the Night King’s undead army) and the Last WarGame of Thrones fans whooped and mourned in unequal measure last night, when the tyrannical reign of King Joffrey came to an end in season 4 episode 2, "The Lion and the Rose". *Spoilers everywhere* Game of Thrones S2E1: "The North Remembers". The episode begins in King's Landing with the Hound in a fight—that ends very quickly, as he knocks his opponent over the edge of the battlement they're fighting on. The opponent doesn't land so much as a splash on the courtyard below, and everyone claps. It's Joffrey's name day tournament. Ding dong, the witch is dead, let’s topple the statues on Coruscant. Joffrey was an evil, psychotic, murderous child despot, but he was still a child, and when he dies in his helpless parents .