Game of Thrones, Season 4

Mance Rayder:
You're wearin' a black cloak again.

Jon Snow:
I've been sent to negotiate with you. [Mance indicates for him to enter the tent, and they sit]

Mance Rayder:
It appears my trusting nature got the better of me. It's happened before. I was hoping your loyalty was real when you pledged yourself to us, Jon Snow. Truly, I was.

Jon Snow:
The Halfhand ordered me to join your army and bring back whatever information I could to Castle Black. He made me kill him, so that you'd trust me. I was loyal... to him, and to my Night's Watch vows.

Mance Rayder:
[smiles] All of your vows? [Jon looks away, thinking of Ygritte] She wasn't enough to turn you, eh? Were you enough to turn her?

Jon Snow:
[smiles] She put three arrows in me when I escaped.

Mance Rayder:
Did you see her again at Castle Black?

Jon Snow:
Yes.

Mance Rayder:
And?...

Jon Snow:
She's dead.

Mance Rayder:
[pause] Your doing?

Jon Snow:
[shakes his head] No.

Mance Rayder:
We'll drink to her. [nods to one of his men, who pours a drink for him and Jon; Mance notices Jon eyeing the cup warily and snorts in disbelief] Of all the ways I'd kill you, poison would be the last. [He and Jon raise their cups in a toast] Ygritte.

Jon Snow:
Ygritte. [they drink, and Jon coughs] That's not wine.

Mance:
[chuckles] No, that's a proper Northern drink, Jon Snow. You did well, fought hard. Killed some of our strongest men. One of our giants went into your tunnel, and never came out again- Mag the Mighty.

Jon Snow:
[nods] He's dead. He killed my friend Grenn.

Mance Rayder:
He was their King- last of a bloodline that stretches back before the First Man.

Jon Snow:
Grenn came from a farm.

Mance Rayder:
[raises his cup again] Mag and Grenn.

Jon Snow:
Grenn and Mag. [they drink again]

Mance Rayder:
Fellback, can I trouble you for something to eat? I don't imagine our guest has eaten anything for quite some time. [Jon eyes Fellback's knife as he brings food to the table] So- you're here to strike a bargain.

Jon Snow:
Turn your army around, and go home

Mance Rayder:
{irritated at Jon's bluff] You know I know you're low on arrows. You're low on oil, you're low on men. [gives Jon a direct look] How many are left? Fifty?

Jon Snow:
I told Tormund and Orrel- we have more than a thousand men.

Mance Rayder:
I showed you everything I had- the whole army, 100,000 strong, and what did you do? [Fellback sticks his knife into the table next to them, catching Jon's attention] You fired on us with everything you had. It wasn't much. Soon as I saw that, I sent 400 men to climb the Wall- an unmanned stretch five miles west of here. [Jon looks directly at him, realizing his bluff has failed] A lot of them will die climbing, but most of them will be over by the end of the day. Here's me being honest with you, Jon Snow, which is more than you've ever done for me. My people have bled enough. We're not here to conquer, we're here to hide behind your Wall, just like you. We need your tunnel. Now, we both know that winter is coming- and if my people aren't south of the Wall when it comes in earnest, we'll all end up worse than dead. You want to strike a bargain with me? Here's the bargain. You go back, you open the gates to us, and I swear to you that no-one else will die. Refuse- and we'll kill every last man in Castle Black. [he suddenly sees Jon eyeing the knife in the table again and realizes he's really come to assassinate him; two of his men draw their swords and advance on Jon, but Mance stops them, smiling coldly at Jon] Ohhh...that's why you're here. I reckon you could do it before any of 'em could stop you. They'd kill you, of course- they'd kill you slow- but you knew that when you came in here. Are you capable of that, Jon Snow? Killing a man in his own tent when he's just offered you peace? Is that what the Night's Watch is? Is that what you are? [Jon stares back at him, and then a battle horn sounds, followed by Wildlings shouting. Mance grabs the knife and holds it to Jon's throat] You attackin' us?!

Jon Snow:
[genuinely surprised] No- it's like you said, we don't have the men!