Catelyn 503

Good grief, what a lot of information in this chapter. Let's see if I can break it down:

• Brienne has pledged service to Catelyn but still wants to kill Stannis, given the opportunity.
• Catelyn has made it from Storm's End via Bitterbridge back to Riverrun, where she gets updated by her brother Edmure, visits her dying father and agrees to write to her sister Lysa. Her father says Lysa had an affair with a "young stripling" before she was married. I wonder if that was Littlefinger.
• Tyrion's secret agents tried to rescue Jaime but Edmure caught them in the act and hung them. All the rest of Catelyn's men are now in the dungeon at Riverrun.
• Tywin is marching West but, Edmure thinks, not to Riverrun. Maybe to Oxcross or wherever Robb is by now.
• Edmure has a plan. He doesn't want to let Tywin cross his land without attacking him, but he doesn't have enough men (8000 foot and 3000 horse vs. Tywin's double that number) at Riverrun. So he will use the forces of the 10,000 men of Roose Bolton (who may or may not still be interested in Lady Hornwood's land) and the men garrisoned by Robb at The Twins led by Helman Tallhart, to take Harrenhal in Tywin's absence. If this works Tywin should end up trapped between Riverrun and Harrenhal, and surrounded by Edmure, Robb and Bolton.
• The Freys at The Twins might be a problem but two of them are warded/held hostage at Winterfell, Robb is going to marry another, and the Freys anyway have been loyal so far.
• Stannis is still besieging Ser Cortnay Penrose at Storm's End. No-one knows whether Stannis is going to be help or hindrance.
• King Robert's bastard son Edric Storm is at Storm's End and Stannis wants him for something, but I have no idea about his significance.

Phew. I think that covers it. I wouldn't fancy turning that lot into a script for a TV show. I wonder if Arya will get out of the way before Roose Bolton turns up.