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Why didn't Jaime take Ned captive?


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Ok, at the end of the episode, Jaime confronts Ned with a squad of Lannister solders demanding to know what happened to his brother. When Ned tells him Cat took him on his orders, Jaime orders his men to kill Ned's guards but take Ned alive. Ned refuses to be taken quietly, so Jaime fights him in a duel until one of Jaime's guards stabs Ned through the leg from behind taking him out of commission. Jaime then leaves him there. Why didn't he take Ned as hostage?

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Probably because Jaime knew that he could not have kept Eddard as prisoner in KL. Robert ruled in the city, and he would have ordered him to be released immediately.

Jaime is not precisely a deep-thinker, and he probably acted more impulsively than following any plan. He was just trying to chastise Eddard and put some fear into him before leaving the city to lead the Lannister armies.

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Well Jaime was planning to take Ned prisoner he tells his men "Take him alive, kill his men" I think Jaime didn't take Ned with him because the Lannister soldier stabbed Ned in the back of the leg and Jaime probably thought he couldn't keep Ned alive with that wound and probably thought he was gonna die so he just booked it. Right afterwards Jaime rode straight for Casterly Rock to his father, he was probably going there to try and put as many leagues between him and Robert as he knew Robert would be furious if Ned died and he had something to do with it.

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