Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms Episode 6: ‘The Morrow’ Ends Season 1, Sends Dunk and Egg to Dorne and Raises a Knighthood Question

Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms Episode 6 — the season finale titled "The Morrow" — brought the six-episode first season to a quiet, somber close, wrapping the tourney at Ashford while leaving multiple threads in play: Baelor’s unexpected death, Maekar’s conscience and offers, Dunk’s decision to take Egg on the road, a plan to head to Dorne, and a fresh question about whether Dunk was ever truly knighted.

Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms Episode 6 and the season finale’s key beats

"The Morrow, " directed by Sarah Adina Smith and written by Ira Parker and Ti Mikkel, is the shortest installment of the series, running under 30 minutes. The episode follows the aftermath of the trial of seven: wounded characters patch their injuries and mourn Baelor Targaryen, heir to the Iron Throne, after he unexpectedly collapses from a fatal mace wound dealt by his brother Maekar. Dunk (Peter Claffey) is physically battered after the down-and-dirty fight against Aerion Targaryen’s (Finn Bennett) team, and despite victory he is consumed by guilt over Baelor’s death.

Dunk, the trial of seven and the knighthood question

The finale places a spotlight on what counts as a true knight in Westeros. Across the season Dunk has acted as protector and vow-keeper, but a late flashback scene has him asking his mentor Ser Arlan of Pennytree (Danny Webb) why he was never knighted. Arlan appears vacant in response, briefly seeming dead before returning to finish his story yet not answering Dunk’s question. The sequence allows a narrow possibility that knighting could have occurred thereafter, but it heavily implies Arlan never bestowed the honor. Earlier in the run, Ashford’s steward Plummer had already doubted Dunk’s claim of knighthood — noting Dunk’s story that only a robin stood witness and the later flashback in which Arlan spat on the ground when a younger Dunk asked about becoming a knight.

Maekar’s guilt, Baelor’s death and the Summerhall offer

Sam Spruell’s Prince Maekar emerges as a man wracked by self-delusion. After Baelor’s death, Maekar insists the Gods know it was an accident; Spruell believes Maekar is telling himself what he needs to hear and using divine absolution to dodge culpability. Maekar, a widowed single father who has long lived in the shadow of his older brother Baelor (Bertie Carvel), offers Dunk a home at Summerhall so Dunk could train Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) as his squire and complete formal training under a master-at-arms. Dunk cites royal exhaustion and initially rejects Maekar’s offer; he later asks to take Egg on the road, but Maekar refuses to let his royal blood live like a peasant.

Departure, Ser Arlan’s penny tradition and the Dorne thread

After Baelor’s funeral, Maekar asks Dunk to serve under him and take Egg as his squire, but Dunk says he’s done with princes. Visited by Ser Arlan’s ghost, Dunk reconsiders and decides to remove Egg from the malevolent influence of his Targaryen family. Against Maekar’s wishes, Dunk and Egg ride away together as knight and squire; Dunk nails a penny to a tree in Ser Arlan’s tradition, and Arlan’s ghost rides with them before setting off on his own path. On the road they discuss heading to Dorne, described in the episode as the southern, desert-covered region of Westeros. In the final scene Maekar searches for Egg as his wagons take off, a moment that hints at a possible Targaryen crossover next season.

Title change, season 2 plan and what remains unclear

Co-creator and showrunner Ira Parker explains that Season 2 will adapt George R. R. Martin’s second Dunk and Egg novella, "The Mystery Knight. " Early in development Martin rejected an original working title, objecting to calling the show "Dunk & Egg" because it sounded like a sitcom; Parker considered the simpler title but was talked down by an assistant, and the series remained "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. " Parker describes a lighter touch to the show’s tone — wanting Westeros to feel like a place to hang out, even amid terrible events, and allowing moments of levity amid grief. The context also notes that Sam Spruell answered whether Maekar will return for season two, but the provided context does not make his response clear. Another fragment in the material — an incomplete line about Aegon being "his last chance to have an heir that’s worth anythin'" — is unclear in the provided context.

What comes next is partly mapped: Season 2 will head to material in "The Mystery Knight" and the characters depart for Dorne, but how much of Dorne is covered and which Targaryens will return are matters left open or unclear in the provided context.