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Sunday’s episode was loaded with suspense. After ending on Daenerys’s fire-centric return as leader of the Dothraki last week, ‘Game Of Thrones’ returned this week with ice, thanks to Bran Stark and what he learns about the White Walkers. Read through for the best moments below.

Bran learns how the White Walkers were created. In another time-travelling scene, Bran goes back to the Cave of the Three-Eyed Raven to find the Children of the Forest, the nymph-like characters who were supposedly the first inhabitants of Westeros. They’ve captured a man and pinned him against the tree. They stab him with a dagger through the heart and his eyes start turning blue as he transforms into a White Walker. Back in reality, Bran asks one of the Children why they made the Walkers. “We needed to defend ourselves,” she responds. “From whom?” Bran asks. She answers, “From you. From men.”

Jorah reveals his greyscale to Daenerys. Daenerys acknowledges that though she banished Ser Jorah Mormont twice, he also saved her life. Now, she can neither take him back nor send him away. Jorah promises to leave, but not before revealing his greyscale and declaring his true feelings for her: “I’ll always love you,” he tells her. When he dismisses himself, she reminds him that he swore to obey her commands as his queen. She demands he find a cure for greyscale and return to help her conquer the Seven Kingdoms. The White Walkers are after Bran. While getting ready to leave the Cave of the Three-Eyed Raven, Meera realizes the air is getting cold and runs outside to find the Night King and his Army of the dead approaching. Meanwhile, Bran and the Raven are stuck time-travelling to a scene with young Ned and young Hodor. The Children of the Forest assist Meera in fighting off the Walkers by throwing fire to kill them, but the Night King and his three accompanying front men and only they are immune to it. Meera is surprisingly able to kill a White Walker with her spear. Unfortunately, in an attempt to escape, they lose some major allies: the Three-Eyed Raven, Bran’s dire wolf, Summer and a child of the forest, who was helping them.

The reason behind Hodor’s condition is finally revealed. At the end of the episode, Bran wargs into Hodor to help himself and Meera escape out the back door of the Cave, trapping the wights and White Walkers inside. Meera instructs Hodor to keep the dead inside, yelling “Hold the door!” at him. Meanwhile, in his vision, Bran accidentally wargs into young Hodor. Wylis collapses and starts to convulse while also screaming repeatedly “Hold the door!” In real life, Hodor is attacked by the wights he is trying to hold back. Back in the vision, Wylis keeps shouting “Hold the door,” which gets slurred into, simply, “Hodor.”

Jorah reveals his greyscale to Daenerys. Daenerys acknowledges that though she banished Ser Jorah Mormont twice, he also saved her life. Now, she can neither take him back or send him away. Jorah promises to leave, but not before revealing his greyscale and declaring his true feelings for her: “I’ll always love you,” he tells her. When he dismisses himself, she reminds him that he swore to obey her commands as his queen. She demands he find a cure for greyscale and return to help her conquer the Seven Kingdoms.