This Game of Thrones Theory Suggests Something Major About the Next Episode

Note: This post does contain spoilers for Game of Thrones. Consider yourself warned. 

Of course, I love watching Game of Thrones every week to see what is actually happening in Westeros, but reading the endless theories from superfans in between episodes is almost as much fun.

Last night, on the second episode of the final season, we watched everyone at Winterfell preparing for the looming battle with the Night King and the Army of the Dead. Jaime knighted Brienne, Arya had sex with Gendry, and Jon broke some fairly devastating news to Dany about his true parentage. But it was the preview for next week that got one Redditor theorizing about events to come.

The Thrones crew never gives away much in the trailers, but there is one line in particular that led to this new theory. Daenerys says to Jon, "The dead are already here." The most simple reading of the line is that it's in reference to the Night King's army of white walkers and wights, who are actually dead. But there's another way to look at it.

"That line happens between Dany and Jon, and felt super significant—but we already see the army of the dead, felt it was too obvious to be their reaction to them. Then it clicked: The crypt is full of dead people," IgnorantSportsFan wrote on Reddit. "All episode they keep repeating and emphasizing how safe it was in the crypt, but it's GOT and we cannot have nice things. So is it possible we have old Starks rising from the crypts? Or is that too far fetched? PLUS we saw in multiple previews Arya fighting in the crypts with her new weapon...."

Well, that is interesting indeed. There were a lot of references to the crypts in episode two—it's meant to be the place where those not fighting the battle will be hidden and safe. But what if it's not such a safe space after all? Could this be the moment that Catelyn Stark reemerges as Lady Stoneheart? Guess we'll find out next week.