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Even the 'Game of Thrones' director doesn't know what was going on in this gruesome scene

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WARNING: Spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones" season six.

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Fans were left cheering when Cersei exacted revenge on the pious (and "shame" bell loving) Septa Unella during the season six finale. After successfully killing the High Sparrow and hundreds of others, Cersei visited Septa Unella in a dungeon and water boarded her with some red wine.

Then Cersei invited Ser Gregor Clegane to enter the room in all his undead glory, and left them together.

Though the audience could hear Septa Unella's anguished screams, we were left with no real information about the torture regiment Cersei had planned. Not that it would be pleasant to know, obviously, but the curiosity factor is strong among the fandom. Especially after Lena Headey (Cersei) told Entertainment Weekly that the sequence was supposed to be even more horrifying.

"The septa scene was supposed to be much worse," Headey explained to EW. "The scene was meant to be worse, but they couldn’t do it. This is like the tame version. It's pretty bad still though. I'd take being exploded in the sept over that any day."

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When Tech Insider spoke with the episode's director, Miguel Sapochnik, we asked what was originally planned for the scene. But even he couldn't go into detail about Septa Unella's torment.

"I think the point was to leave it to our imagination as to what exactly a hideously deformed zombie giant is going to do alone with a hateful sociopathic fanatic," Sapochnik says in an email. "Scrabble, anyone?"

Part of why fans (and Tech Insider) assumed there would be a scene of specific violence has to do with Ser Gregor's brutal history. We know from the books that he murdered Rhaegar Targaryen's wife Elia Martell's young children in front of her, and then raped her next to their corpses before killing her, too. Plus, he's fond of crushing his enemies heads — case in point Oberyn Martell's shocking death in season four.

In lieu of knowing specifics we're going to try not to let our imaginations run wild. After all, "Game of Thrones" is violent enough on-screen. Some brutality is probably better left unsaid. 

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