Why is Davos Seaworth willing to give his life to protect Jon Snow's dead body?

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US chat show host Conan O'Brien was lucky enough to get his hands on a brand new season six clip during an interview with Thrones star Liam Cunningham, and it helped put into context a key scene from the new series trailer.

Specifically, the moment where Ser Davos delivers that shivering line, "I’ve never been much of a fighter. Apologies for what you’re about to see.”

In the clip (watch below from 1:49 in), it becomes clear that Davos is preparing to defend Jon Snow's body from the Night's Watch outside.

Snow's direwolf is there too, sounding decidedly unimpressed by all that door hammering.

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Why is Davos preparing to wield Jon's Valyrian sword and protect a cold dead man? Could it be, as we've suggested before, that he's trying to bring Jon's body back to Melisandre so that she can make him very un-dead?

It's still all conjecture, but if Cunningham's teasing Conan interview is anything to go by, his role in this whole "great game" is going to be very important indeed.

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Game of Thrones season six returns on 24th April on HBO and Sky Atlantic.

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