Brienne has been hanging around outside Winterfell ever since Sansa got there earlier in the season, doing, well, nothing really. Just waiting for a sign, one the wont come because Sansa is inside being raped and mentally tortured. Brienne has proved so far to be to protecting Stark girls what Phil Tippett is to supervising dinosaurs. She has a chance to change that here though, as we see her and Pod looking rather surprised to see someone. Will this be Sansa after making a break for freedom, or could it be Stannis, whom Brienne has vowed to kill, or even the character book-readers are hoping shell run into, even though the chances are looking increasingly slim?