**Warning: this contains spoilers for Game Of Thrones episode three**
As we’re still clutching our pearls and trying to catch our breath following the epic battle of Winterfell earlier this week, we wonder what is to become of the villains of Game Of Thrones.
No, not Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) – we’re sure she’ll get her comeuppance pronto.
We’re talking about the White Walkers and the Night King (played by Vladimir Furdik), after that massive twist.
You know, the one where *SPOILERS* Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) heroically stabs the Night King right in the gut and he shatters into a million pieces of glass.
The Long Hour was the episode we’ve been waiting the best part of a decade for as The Night King and his dead army descended on Westeros to destroy Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright).
Sadly for the frontman of the White Walkers, Arya flew out of nowhere, plunged a dagger into his side and seconds later The Night King and his troupe of the walking dead were dust.
It. Was. Awesome.
With him he takes his army of the undead and the North is in the hands of the Starks and is no longer under threat by the blue-eyed wrinkly bunch.
However, now the dude is gone and the North can breathe again, what’s going to happen to the White Walkers on Game Of Thrones now the Night King is dead?
Great question.
According to Watchers On The Wall’s deputy editor Luke Nieto, the White Walkers are all but gone. But that doesn’t mean all our questions about the Night King will be answered.
‘I don’t believe magic and mystery won’t play a part in the last three episodes, but the threat of the White Walkers and the army of the dead appears to be over for good,’ he told Metro.co.uk after that breathtaking(ly dark) episode.
‘[George RR] Martin was always interested in the “what comes after” question. The supernatural threat is defeated; so now what?
‘Now the humans have to contend with what they’ve got left, and try to make the best of it. In this case, trying to get a certain short-haired mad queen out of power.’
Oh yeah, because if the teaser for the next episode is giving anything away it’s that the time has now come to march south to Kings Landing to give that power hungry queen her just deserts.
Game of Thrones continues Sunday at 9pm on HBO in the US and will be simulcast on Sky Atlantic here in the UK. Seasons one to eight are available to stream on NOW TV.
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