 At dinner , Lord Tywin ( Charles Dance ) tells his son Tyrion ( Peter Dinklage ) that Tyrion and his barbarian allies will fight in the vanguard of the army . Tyrion suspects his father is trying to get him killed . Tyrion returns to his camp and finds the prostitute Shae ( Sibel Kekilli ) whom Bronn ( Jerome Flynn ) found for him at Tyrion 's request . As the three of them swap stories , Tyrion reveals that , when he was 16 , he married a woman named Tysha whom Jaime and he had rescued . When his father Tywin learned of this , he made Jaime confess that Tysha was actually a hired prostitute . Tywin then made Tyrion watch as Lannister guardsmen all had sex with her , each paying her one silver coin provided by Lord Tywin . 
