In a recent interview, Game of Thrones writer Bryan Cogman said that the show was making a real effort this season to focus on fewer plot lines in every episode. So instead of cutting back and forth to every character in each corner of Westeros and Essos, we get to spend a healthier amount of time in each location. That’s why last week’s episode didn’t have any Starks (or Snows) in it, just Davos/Stannis, Theon/Yara/Ramsay, Dany, and Tyrion’s trial.

So we can probably expect to spend this Sunday with just the characters pictured here in these new promotional photos from HBO. Yes, that means Tyrion’s fate may have to wait until episode eight. While Brienne, Pod, Sansa, and Sam surely have intriguing plots of their own, it’s this image of Dany that is the most tantalizing based on costume designer Michele Clapton’s description. I asked her about it back in February, when the midriff-baring dress was first revealed in a Season 4 trailer. Clapton said:

Yes, finally Daenerys has settled somewhere rather than the nomadic existence she has had so far—we can track Dany’s personal development visually in her costume story, from frightened child bride through to the warrior queen we have seen to date. She has been influenced by each part of her journey and adapted ideas into her style, but it has really always had to be practical. Now, we see her wardrobe widen, costumes for court and for the bedroom and for hanging out with Missandei, she is exploring new shapes, but you always get the sense that everything is calculated to send a message. The dress you mention is used in a very cruel way . . . it says more than words.

A cruel dress? We can’t wait!