Tyrion and Jaime’s Best Moments on Game of Thrones
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In the series' second episode, "The Kingsroad," Tyrion shares with Jaime and his sister that Bran Stark's fall isn't fatal. He's shrewd enough to know their reaction isn't what it should be. As the conversation continues, he reveals his desire to go to the Wall to feed his sense of adventure and "piss off the edge of the world." But when his sister leaves with her children, Jaime reopens the topic of Bran, stating that to have such a fall and become a cripple is "grotesque" and that a clean death is what he'd prefer.
Tyrion replies, "Speaking for the grotesques, I'd have to disagree. Death is so final. Whereas life, ah, life is full of possibilities. And if the boy does wake, I'd be very interested to hear what he'd have to say."
The statement makes Jaime wonder which side his brother is really on, which highlights what will always be their fundamental moral difference — fighting for the greater good vs. fighting for yourself.