Chris Ryan

Yeah.

I still have the jacket.

I bet.

Maybe I'll wear it for the finale.

Yeah.

I mean, obviously, there are some homeopathic remedies.

He obviously looks at it as a personality quirk and not as something to be solved.

Save it for the pit.

So Dunk goes out to seek Sir Manfred Dundarian, but he's been napping and he also has gout, so they don't connect.

He watches another night Sir Stefan beat the shit out of his squire cousin.

Sir Stef tries to get Dunk to spar with him, but Dunk takes a rain check

Dunk sets up camp outside of the tournament grounds, does some laundry, makes another unsuccessful run at Sir Manfred, and then finds himself at a puppet show where he becomes smitten with the main performer.

Dunk then bumps into the aforementioned cousin who got his ass beat, Raymond Fossaway, right?

Oh, yeah.

And he accompanies him to dinner in Lionel Baratheon's tent.

This...

This is just rock and stuff in here.

Lionel and Dunk become something like friends, though, when it comes to Dunk's tournament process.

But when it comes to Dunk's tournament prospects, Lionel gives him the opposite of Billy Bob Thornton's Friday Night Lights halftime speech, which I did appreciate his candor, though.

Absolutely.