 Most of the episode was shot on set at the Irish studios of The Paint Hall . The exteriors of the entrance of Vaes Dothrak were filmed in the Sandy Brae area , and for the confrontation between Eddard and Cersei taking place in the Red Keep 's gardens ( identified as a <unk> in the novels ) the production used the cloister of the St Dominic Monastery in Rabat , in Malta . 
