A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS Finale Sends Dunk and Egg Riding Toward a Bigger Destiny

I’ve got to say it, I loved the first season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. This show just hit differently. It made me happy in a way no other Game of Thrones series has. After the brutal gut-punch of last week’s “In the Name of the Mother,” the finale, “The Morrow,” gives us reflection, consequence, and the promise of new adventures.

This final episode doesn’t try to outdo the chaos of the “Trial of Seven.” Instead, it lets the smoke clear. Dunk survived against the odds. The realm didn’t. Prince Baelor Targaryen is dead, and everyone left standing has to deal with what that means.

We open on Ashford Meadow in the aftermath. Dunk lies beneath his tree, battered and emotionally wrecked. Ser Lyonel Baratheon and a Maester hover nearby. Lyonel flops down beside him, nursing an aleskin, and declares, “It’s been a wonderful tournament. Shame it’s all over.”

Dunk, of course, isn’t exactly reminiscing fondly.

The Maester pokes at his wounds with concern, but Lyonel waves him off in peak Laughing Storm fashion. “An itchy asshole is beyond your abilities, my friend. Be gone, witch! F*ck off with you!” Then, reassuring Dunk with absolute confidence, he adds, “You’re fine. He’s a terrible Maester.”

Lyonel extends an offer that actually feels sincere under all the bluster: “Come with me to Storm’s End, and I will love you like a brother. If not, f*ck you. I’ll hate you like a brother.”

It’s classic Westerosi bonding.

But Dunk is drowning in guilt. Baelor fought for him. Baelor died for him. When Lyonel dares to question the fallen prince’s heroism, things turn tense. “Your prince fought for you against men who were sworn to protect him,” Lyonel snaps. “He risked nothing. And the gods don’t favor a fraud.”

Dunk fires back with the question haunting him: “Then why have they favored me?”

Before limping off, Lyonel hints at larger trouble brewing. There’s a war coming. And his caravan departs after “the roast.” That roast, of course, is Baelor’s funeral pyre, and the episode cuts straight to the inferno.

The Targaryens gather in pale silence. Prince Maekar’s face is impossible to read. Grief? Guilt? Calculation? The camera lingers but doesn’t give us answers.

Dunk later approaches Baelor’s son, Prince Valarr. The young prince is measured but unflinching. “He had it in him to be a great king,” Valarr says. “Why would the gods take him and leave you?”

Dunk admits what’s been eating at him: “I’ve wondered the same.”

As the tournament grounds are dismantled, friendships are tested and reforged. Ser Raymun Fossoway parts ways with his sour cousin and proudly reveals his new green apple sigil. “He’s just mad that he lost,” Raymun says of Steffon.

Raymun’s now with Rowan, visibly pregnant, and Dunk processes that development with the kind of awkward silence that is part of Dunk’s lovable personality.

Then comes an unexpected summons from Prince Maekar.

Instead of threats, Maekar offers honesty. He’s sending Aerion to the Free Cities, hoping distance might cure cruelty. He doubts it. He also knows the whispers about Baelor’s death won’t stop. “Some men will say I meant to kill my brother. The gods know it is a lie, but I will hear the whispers until the day I die.”

Dunk doesn’t dodge his own guilt. “it was for me Prince Baelor died.”

Maekar acknowledges they’ll both carry the burden. “You will hear them whisper as well.”

What follows is one of the best exchanges of the season. Dunk explains why he couldn’t accept losing a hand and foot instead of choosing trial by combat.

“Every day, at evenfall, Ser Arlan would say, ‘I wonder what the morrow will bring,’” Dunk says. “Mightn’t it be that some morrow will come when I’ll have need of that foot, when the realm will need that foot even more than a prince’s life?”

Maekar offers him a place at Summerhall so Egg can squire in comfort. Dunk declines with quiet resolve. “I think I’m done with princes.”

Egg overhears. The hurt on his face says everything. “Maybe you’re not the knight I thought you were,” he tells Dunk.

We flash back to Ser Arlan of Pennytree. Dunk finally asks the question he’s carried for years: “Why did you never knight me?” Arlan drifts off so long it feels like he’s died mid-story, then jolts back to life with, “And that’s why they call it the Pennytree!” Before adding, “A true knight always finishes a story.”

That memory pushes Dunk forward.

Back at the tavern, a drunken Daeron Targaryen corners him. “Have you no shame? Those men are dead because of you,” Dunk scolds. But Daeron has a different concern. “Will you take Egg to squire?”

He argues that Aerion wasn’t born monstrous. He was shaped that way. Maybe Egg doesn’t have to follow the same path.

The tension peaks when we see Egg creeping toward his sleeping brother with a knife. Maekar stops him before anything happens, but the implication is clear. Egg stands at a crossroads.

Dunk returns to the castle with his decision. “Before your brother died, he said the realm needed good men,” he tells Maekar. “I will take Egg to squire, but not at Summerhall.” Away from castles and royal influence, Egg might actually have a chance.

Maekar resists. “I forbid him to live as a peasant,” he hisses.

Dunk lays it out plainly. Maekar raised Daeron and Aerion his way. Look how that turned out.

“He’s my last son,” Maekar says.

And just like that, the future of Westeros quietly shifts.

As Dunk prepares to leave, Sweetfoot returns, thanks to Raymun buying her back. Dunk refuses to take her, believing she’ll be happier in Raymun’s orchard. It’s a small but telling moment. Dunk doesn’t cling to what he wants. He chooses what’s right.

Before riding off, he nails a penny to his tree in tribute to Ser Arlan. One last goodbye.

Then comes the voice we’ve been waiting for. “Ser Duncan! My lord father says I am to serve you.” Dunk pauses, joy flickering beneath his stoic exterior. “’Serve you… ser.'”

And just like that, Dunk and Egg ride off together. They joke about there being nine kingdoms. The overhead shot of Dunk, Egg, and the memory of Ser Arlan riding together is unexpectedly emotional and Ser Arian rides off in a different direction.. The torch has officially been passed.

Back at Ashford Meadow, Maekar realizes his youngest son is gone. “Where the f*ck is he?” he bellows as the screen cuts to black.

The episode closes with “Sixteen Tons” performed by Tennessee Ernie Ford, another offbeat needle drop that somehow fits perfectly with this quirky, heartfelt series.

Season 1 ends not with a massive battle, but with a choice. Dunk chooses responsibility. Egg chooses humility. And we’re left with the promise of a long road ahead.

Season two is already slated for next year, and if it sticks close to George R. R. Martin’s novellas, many of these faces may not return. But that’s part of the charm. Dunk and Egg are wanderers. Their story is about the people they meet, the choices they make, and the kind of men they decide to be.

Ashford Meadow is behind them.

The morrow awaits.

As a season finale, “The Morrow” doesn’t try to outdo the spectacle of the Trial of Seven. Instead, it leans into character, consequence, and the emotional weight of choice. That’s exactly why it works. 

The episode gives Dunk room to wrestle with guilt, allows Egg to stand at the edge of who he might become, and lets Maekar show cracks in his armor. It’s thoughtful and heartfelt.

What I love aboutA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms the most is its intimacy. This isn’t a story about dragons scorching cities or armies clashing for a throne. It’s about a hedge knight trying to be decent in a world that rarely rewards decency. That smaller scale gives the show a warmth that’s been missing from Westeros for a long time.

By the time Dunk and Egg ride off together, it doesn’t feel like an ending. It feels like the real story is just getting started, and I can’t wait to see where the road takes them next.