WEISS: It's just Jon Snow's tragic flaw
that he's unable to chop somebody's head off
for the greater good of keeping his cover.
Whenever he's ordered to kill someone he just can't do it.
He was supposed to execute Ygritte last season, couldn't do it.
In this season, he's supposed to execute this old man.
MARTIN: Jon's been torn all along, but this pushes it to the edge.
This is the moment balanced on the sword blade.
You have to go one way or the other.
You have to make up your mind. How far do you go.
He can't. I mean, that's just not who Jon Snow is.
He's not capable of murdering an unarmed, innocent man.
I don't think Jon will ever lose his sense of honor.
I don't think he'll ever try to not be like his father or like his brother.
WEISS: Like his father, Jon is somebody who's operating with a moral code
that both defines him
and makes him somebody that we love and that we root for,
and severely hampers him when he's dealing with people who don't share that code.
Jon's refusal to do it or inability to do it,
has reinforced Orell's argument
that this kid is not one of us. He's still a crow.
He's never gonna be one of us.
And even Tormund, who likes Jon, is forced to admit
that this is the case at this point
and orders him killed.