In the Season 2 premiere, Rhaenyra’s husband, Daemon (Matt Smith), hires rat catchers in the castle ... also more of an ordeal in the book, with Blood and Cheese holding Alicent and maids ...

Like in the book, he found two lowborn men to assassinate ... and the other is a rat catcher (Cheese) who works in the Red Keep, giving him knowledge of the castle’s pathways.

(Blood’s counterpart in the books is a former member who lost his post for killing a prostitute.) Cheese (Mark Stobbart) is a Red Keep rat catcher who enjoys snacking on dairy products as much ...

Then he recruits a rat catcher, nicknamed Cheese ... next in line to the Iron Throne,” the book reads. Cheese then whispers to Maelor, “You hear that, little boy? Your momma wants you dead.” ...

In the episode, a guard named Blood and a rat catcher named Cheese are tasked by Daemon with ... dowager of Jaehaerys's death. But, in the book, Alicent is directly involved in the harrowing ...

Blood and Cheese’s actual names are no longer remembered, but the Westeros history books note that Blood was ... gets his nickname from being a rat catcher in King’s Landing.