Billy

Billy
Biographical information
Died	Killed by Dagmer
World of Westeros
Season(s)	2
Appeared in	"A Man Without Honor"
Died in	"A Man Without Honor"
Portrayed by	Unknown

Billy is a background character in the second season. He is played by an unidentified extra and only appears in "A Man Without Honor."

Biography

Season 2

When a shepherd reports being unable to tend to his flock with his three sons fighting in the south to Bran Stark as he holds court, Bran assigns him two orphan boys from the Winterstown named Billy and Jack. Winterfell is later seized by Theon Greyjoy but Bran and Rickon escape along with Osha, Hodor, Summer, and Shaggydog. They pass close by to the shepherd's farm. Theon tracks them there and brutally questions the shepherd who denies having seen them but Dagmer finds some walnut shells, which confirms their suspicions that they were there. Theon later returns to Winterfell with the charred corpses of two boys, claiming them to be the Stark princes and prompting Maester Luwin to wail in horror.

A few days later, however, Luwin spots Osha sneaking into the catacombs. Having accompanied Theon and his fellow ironborn occupiers up to the point when they reached the shepherd's farm, Luwin quickly deduces that the corpses, which are still kept on display, must in fact be Jack and Billy. When he meets with Osha later on in the catacombs, he urges her not to tell Bran and Rickon and she readily agrees, but Bran overhears them anyway.

Season 3

Following the Sack of Winterfell, Theon is held prisoner at the Dreadfort and brutally tortured by a group of men led by Ramsay Snow, who initially presents himself to his prisoner as an ironborn emissary sent by his sister. As Ramsay fumbles around with keys at a locked gate under the pretense of helping Theon escape, Theon confesses to his "savior" of having Dagmer kill two orphans and passing them off as Bran and Rickon.

Season 4

Theon, who is mockingly renamed "Reek" by his captor, is forced to confess this yet again to Ramsay's father Roose Bolton upon his return to the Dreadfort after murdering Robb Stark and being named Lord Paramount of the North.

Season 5

When Sansa Stark returns to Winterfell to be wed to Ramsay at the behest of Petyr Baelish, Ramsay initially forces Theon to keep up the charade and apologize to Sansa for murdering her brothers. Eventually, however, an irate Sansa forces Theon to finally confess to her as well that the corpses he presented at Winterfell were not in fact Bran and Rickon; they were "two farm boys."

Appearance

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Quotes

Bran Stark: "Wait, I know that farm. I sent those two Winterfell orphans there."

Rickon Stark: "Jack and Billy! They'll give us some food."

Bran Stark: "We can't risk it. If Theon tracks us here, he'll torture them until he finds out where we are."

Rickon Stark: "Billy climbs a tree better than anyone."

— A Man Without Honor

Osha: "Who was that out there...hung from the gates?"

Luwin: "Must have been the farmer's boys."

Osha: "He killed them and burned them....and passed them off as the little lords?"

Luwin: "Shh, shh, shh. They mustn't know. Bran would blame himself."

Osha: "They'll never hear it from me. The little lads have suffered enough."

— Osha and Luwin discuss the fate of Jack and Billy.

Theon Greyjoy: "I paid the iron price for Winterfell. I murdered those boys."

Ramsay Snow: "The Stark boys?"

Theon Greyjoy: "Never found them. Just some poor orphans living with a farmer. I let Dagmer slit their throats and I let him burn the bodies... so I could keep Winterfell... and make my father proud."

— Theon Greyjoy confesses his crime to Ramsay Snow.

Ramsay Snow: "Reek, did you murder the Stark boys?"

Theon Greyjoy: "No, my lord, just two farm boys."

Ramsay Snow: "And crisped them so no one would know."

Theon Greyjoy: "Yes, my lord."

— Theon reveals the truth to Ramsay's father, Roose Bolton.

Sansa Stark: "Tell me why Bran and Rickon should be gone while you still breath the air! Tell me to my face, Theon! TELL ME THAT THEY WEREN'T YOUR BROTHERS!"

Theon Greyjoy: "They weren't Bran and Rickon! [Pause] I couldn't find them. It was two farm boys. I killed them and burned them so no one would know."

— Theon confesses to Sansa Stark.

In the books

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Theon's hunt leads him nowhere, but a freed prisoner from Winterfell named Reek (who in actuality is Ramsay Snow in disguise) leads him to a mill where he remembers there being two boys. They are not orphans but the miller's sons. Both boys are killed with their mother. Later the boys' bodies are treated as in the TV series to cover the Stark boys' escape. It is unknown where the miller was at that time, and how he reacted when he found his wife dead and his sons missing.

References

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