<Tr> <Td> ← Previous "Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things" </Td> <Td> Next → "A Golden Crown" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Game of Thrones (season 1) List of Game of Thrones episodes </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Wolf and the Lion" is the fifth episode of the HBO medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones, first aired on May 15, 2011 . It was written by the show creators and executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and directed by Brian Kirk . </P> <P> The events of the episode primarily deal with Lord Eddard Stark's investigations into the death of the previous Hand . In the city of King's Landing, the Tourney of the Hand comes to an end while the various factions that plot for power are revealed to the viewer . This delicate balance is undone when news arrives that Tyrion Lannister has been arrested by Catelyn Stark . The title of the episode refers to the fact that the Starks, whose sigil is a wolf, may soon be at war with the Lannisters, whose sigil is the lion . </P>

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