Arya's Revenge - Game of Thrones

It took a while but Arya got her revenge against Polliver for taking her "Needle" and killing her pal, Lommy. Doing so slow, gradually sliding Needle into Polliver's throat while he chokes on his own blood, Arya smiles as she watches him die. Melisandre looked into her eyes when Arya scolded the Brotherhood Without Banners for letting her take Gendry and saw darkness. And why wouldn't there be darkness? She's experienced a LOT of trauma, losing both parents and a brother, never getting to say goodbye to Ned and Cat. Gendry and Hotpie gone. Tortured folks by Tywin's men at Harrenhal, pouring the wine for the Lion as a cupbearer, unable to find Jaqen in time to kill him. If she just could have, how different would have things been? And now with The Hound, a giant warrior with a burned face and vicious, vile torturing brother who stuck his face in the fire when they were younger, Arya wants to kill him for murdering her buddy, a baker's son, who was blamed for what she did to Joffrey way back in the early first season. The Hound and Arya are quite an unusual duo, much like Jaime and Brienne. The Hound is right, though, when he tells her that surviving without him might indeed have been quite difficult. And time and again, The Hound, sword in hand, is a force to be reckoned with. Demanding chickens while Polliver threatens him, The Hound rests at a wooden tavern table guzzling liquor as Arya scans the room always seething, just waiting to get her Needle back, just biding her time. Smiling as she rides her own horse, no longer a concern of The Hound regarding her fleeing so he couldn't get something of profit for her, Arya is again satisfied with her execution of Polliver...he will hurt no one no more.

When approaching the tavern while moving towards Arya's aunt's as The Hound stopped off for rest you see how the Lannister men rampage through leaving the corpses of women, children, and decimated carts and carriages in their wake. As Polliver opines with no grief, The Mountain and his love of torture while his men have fun with girls as playthings, Arya waits, listens, and gets her chance. The Mountain, who murdered a man for snoring, isn't quite as sympathetic as The Hound.

Game of Thrones - Two Swords