The Game of Thrones finale had a scene cut which answers one important question

People were wondering about this.

You know what’s coming next. Then again, who the hell hasn’t seen the Game of Thrones season finale yet? Who are these people?!?!

And now his scheming has ended.

As soon as Bran Stark reiterated the words “Chaos is a ladder,” we all knew that Littlefinger’s time was up but we still kept watching because if you had to back one man to talk his way out of an impossible situations, it’s Petyr Baelish.

After years of perfecting his own advice that “a man with no motive is a man no one suspects. Always keep your foes confused. If they don’t know who you are or what you want, they can’t know what you plan to do next,” his time finally came to an end.

This being said, Littlefinger’s legacy lives on because his lessons have become invaluable to Sansa.

All things considered, the storyline involving Arya, Sansa and Littlefinger did feel a little bit clunky and rushed but we all had a feeling that Lord Baelish’s schemes were coming to an end when the Three-Eyed Raven arrived home.

Bran’s return to Winterfell wasn’t exactly a happy reunion because his mind is focused on a far more important issue, The Great War.

Sharing stories with Sansa and Arya isn’t at the top of Bran’s priorities, but it appears that he did help the Stark sisters in their efforts to unravel Littlefinger’s plot to drive them apart.

Prior to the scene where Sansa summons her little sister to the Great Hall in Winterfell, she visited Bran to get his feelings on Lord Baelish. Ultimately, this scene was deleted from the final edit.

In an interview with Variety,  Isaac Hempstead-Wright says: “We actually did a scene that clearly got cut, a short scene with Sansa where she knocks on Bran’s door and says, ‘I need your help,’ or something along those lines. So basically, as far as I know, the story was that it suddenly occurred to Sansa that she had a huge CCTV department at her discretion (The Three-Eyed Raven’s memory) and it might be a good idea to check with him first before she guts her own sister. So she goes to Bran, and Bran tells her everything she needs to know, and she’s like, ‘Oh, shit.”

Truth be told, we can understand why this scene was cut. If we already knew that Sansa had settled on her decision, the surprise element would have been removed from her decision to sentence Littlefinger to death.

After all, who didn’t revel in that moment when the Machiavellian schemer finally knew that his time was up?

What’s interesting though is that in a separate interview, this time with IGN, Hempstead Wright says that his character “didn’t know what was going on” until Sansa sought his advice.

Essentially, the actor believes that Bran was willing to stay out of the conflict between the two Stark girls until Sansa asked him about the situation.

“It was a battle between Sansa and Arya really, and it wasn’t any of Bran’s business until Sansa thought ‘why don’t I fact check this with the best fact checker in the universe’ and Bran was like ‘Littlefinger did this and this and this. Because Bran has a real idea of destinies, I think he was waiting for his sister to come to him to give her the knowledge. I don’t think he would have let that happen and he wouldn’t have sat there while Arya got killed by Sansa, because Bran would have known that wasn’t the way things had to go. He would have known ‘I need to be here to reveal what the truth is.,” he said.

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”

Ned Stark would be proud.