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Sansa Stark has a hugely satisfying scene in this week’s ‘Game of Thrones’ episode

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Warning: Huge spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones" season six.

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"Game of Thrones" season six episode five wasn’t all gloom and doom. There was one moment that was extremely cathartic for fans to watch.

In episode five, "The Door," fans watched as Sansa dressed down Littlefinger for giving her away to the Boltons and allowing her to marry the sadistic Ramsay Bolton.

Petyr Baelish aka Littlefinger journeyed up to Mole Town, the town south of Castle Black, with the knights of the Vale to come to Sansa’s aid. Along with Brienne, Sansa went to go see him, but the reunion wasn’t a happy one. She reprimanded him for leaving her with the Boltons and encouraging her to marry Ramsay.

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"Did you know about Ramsay?" Sansa asks Littlefinger immediately. "If you didn’t know you’re an idiot, if you did know you’re my enemy."

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Littlefinger tries to apologize to Sansa, to tell her he didn’t know and he "underestimated a stranger," but she’s having none of it. She proceeds to tell him how Ramsay abused her and that she can still feel what he did to her as she stands before him.

"Would you like to hear about our wedding night?" Sansa asks. "He never hurt my face — he needed my face, the face of Ned Stark’s daughter. But the rest of me, he did what he liked with the rest of me, as long as I could still give him an heir."

The scene was brutal, but necessary for fans who had hated that Sansa was given to Ramsay in the show, something that did not happen in the books.

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If only she had known then what she knows now. HBO

One of the biggest shocks from season five of "Game of Thrones" was Sansa’s storyline. Sansa had suffered so much loss on the show already — from her father Ned Stark being executed by Joffrey, her brutal mistreatment at the hands of the Lannisters, and the loss of nearly her entire family — that most fans were hoping she’d be safe with Petyr Baelish in the Vale.

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But that all changed when Littlefinger sent her off to marry Ramsay. "You’ve been a bystander to tragedy since the day they executed your father," he tells Sansa in season five. "There’s no justice in the world, not unless we make it. You loved your family, avenge them."

Sansa headed off to Winterfell with this promise of vengeance in her heart. Fans were terrified for her though, mainly because in the book, a young girl named Jeyne Poole is married to Ramsay, who believes she’s Arya Stark. She suffers severely as his wife and is brutally tortured and raped.

While at first, fans held out hope that this wouldn’t happen to Sansa, it didn’t take long before Sansa was raped by her new husband and tortured, just like Jeyne Poole in the books.

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It was a huge blow. Entire Reddit discussions were dedicated to analyzing Littlefinger's motives: did he care about Sansa at all or was she was a mere pawn in his game? Some speculated that he simply didn’t know how monstrous Ramsay was, though it’s worth noting here that Littlefinger’s entire game is to know everyone and their weaknesses. It seems doubtful he had no idea what Ramsay was capable of doing.

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But why would Littlefinger give away Sansa, a young girl who he seemed to have a creepy romantic interest in and whose mother he loved, to a sadist like Ramsay? Despite his attachment to her, Petyr Baelish gave away Sansa to a psychopath who had tortured Theon Greyjoy and had a penchant for skinning men, women, and children.

Nothing made sense.

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And now in season six, fans finally got to hear Sansa say exactly what they were wondering last season. It was almost as though she was talking directly to David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, the "Game of Thrones" showrunners, and their decision to put her in harm’s way.

"You said you would protect me," Sansa says to Littlefinger. "I don’t believe you anymore, I don’t need you anymore. You can’t protect me."

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While season five was all about breaking down Sansa’s character, season six is about building her back up so she can reclaim the North along with Jon Snow.

"I mean this season is a really, really big one for Sansa, it’s probably her best season yet," Sophie Turner, the actress who plays Sansa, told Entertainment Weekly. "It’s her really coming into her own. She, this season, really commands the respect that she deserves and she grabs hold of it and she runs with it and it’s really good."

Here’s hoping Littlefinger isn’t the only man in her life Sansa will be able to confront this season.

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