Quote:There could be more to it than that.  The wolfs head was small and it might be a ploy just to get the boltons out of winterfell and into the open

I'm hoping so. In the books one of the Umbers are stationed outside Winterfell's walls setting up traps and pit falls and blowing warhorns trying to lure them out. This could be the show writers way of doing that I suppose.

 

That is one hell of a risk though, bringing presumably the only true living son of Ned Stark into the Bolton's hands in the hopes that they might go outside where you have a trap set. The Umber's know that Ramsay killed his father, and they know how much of a total psycho the dude is, so that is a pretty huge risk.

 

One thing though, is that the Umber's in the books completely despise wildlings, being that their house/castle Last Hearth is the Northern most castle in the North besides the Nights Watch castles, so they deal with a lot of pillaging and raids and abductions from the wildlings. So, maybe because Jon has allowed a hell of a lot of wildlings through the wall and is allowing them to settle south of the wall, that pretty much just set off the Umbers and now they are going to ally with someone they hate to destroy someone they hate a bit more. Hopefully not though.

 

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if we see the pink letter delivered to Jon within the next few episodes with a "piece" of Rickon to go along with it.

 

 

Edit: Also now that I think about it, any time one of the Direwolves is killed, the characters always have a sense that something has happened, and the other Direwolves usually show some emotions to it as well. They may be saving that scene for the next episode, because I would imagine we would have seen Ghost howling or maybe seen something from Jon in the final scene of the last episode. The Starks and the direwolves are all linked together very closely and we are shown that quite often throughout the series(Books and show, mainly books though). Maybe we will get a Bran scene in the next episode where it confirms what happened to Shaggydog.

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