I'm just guessing because they're back in the Riverlands where all that shit happens and those people are, Pod getting kidnapped like in the book, resurrection precedent, etc.
Just after the rider there's a shot of Sam, and immediately after that a very quick shot of what looks like Yara kissing an Essos girl. Definitely going with the Yara and Theon heading towards Dany theory now.
I was thinking the same thing as soon as Sansa said I want the two of you to go alone.
I don't think he's done scheming, and I definitely don't think he went north just to apologize to Sansa, but his scheming in the show feels so much less effectual than his scheming in the books. This isn't "boo hoo it's different from the books," but it sucks that they've kinda declawed his character. It's nothing new or anything, but this episode brought it to the fore again.
And we got the combined effect of seeing him die + getting to watch the moment when as a kid, his brain got scrambled.
Hodor's name/purpose in life is "Hold the Door", which slurred/abbreviated comes out to Hodor. Through time manipulation, Bran visits the past and wargs into Willis (Hodor) when he was still normal and shows him a vision of his death, in which he has to Hold the Door to the exit of the cave of the Three Eyed Raven against a swarm of undead, so that Bran can escape. Essentially Bran not only causes Hodor's death, but he also causes his youthful self to go into shock with visions of his own death, with Meera's voice ringing in his head screaming at him to "Hold the Door". The shock of the vision was so powerful it caused him to have a seizure and start repeating the words "Hold the Door" over and over, until he slurred it into Hodor, the only word he can now say, and his name.
This episode 5 has him going in and out of his own (when the Night King marks him).
