For the past two years Natalie Dormer has been performing double fantasy-franchise duty as both tough filmmaker Cressida in The Hunger Games and Queen Margaery Tyrell in Game of Thrones. Dormer has become enormously popular on the HBO show for perfectly inhabiting her simpering, smirking Westerosi power player. But there was some question of late as to whether her character was still in the game at all. Thrown into prison last season, and the subject of some troubling rumors swirling around next year, Margaery lovers had reason to fear that they’d never see her triumphant again. But in a new interview Dormer reveals that we shouldn’t count Margaery out just yet.

“Margaery is a savvy chick and she’s trying to find an angle—she’s trying to find a way to get out of that cell so it’s pretty amusing and ingenious the route she decides to take,” Dormer told Women’s Health. That’s right, it looks like Olenna Tyrell’s granddaughter still has a few tricks tucked up her well-embroidered sleeves. And if you want to know what exciting developments that means for Season 6, then you’ll have to get past Ser Pounce first.

Well you didn’t think Margaery would languish in prison all season, did you? And, sorry to disappoint, but Margaery won’t be following in Cersei’s footsteps out of jail. Cersei opted for the Walk of Shame/atonement and, if the show follows the books, she will choose to be exonerated via trial by combat with Gregor Clegane a.k.a. The Mountain as her champion. In the books, very little is known about Margaery’s way out of jail. As far as readers know, she’s been released from her cell but put under house arrest because the evidence against her is so flimsy. Margaery, in the books, has chosen a Trial by Faith to clear her name.

But plot leaks and set images indicate that Margaery’s escape plan is a little more complex. Somewhat corroborating a book plot, House Tyrell soldiers have been seen marching into the King’s Landing led by Jaime Lannister himself. Jaime, the Tyrell men, and King Tommen storm the Sept of Baelor in order to free Margaery (and, O.K., maybe Loras too) by force. Jaime’s role here is understandable. He’s had his other two children die from poisoning right in front of him. The least he can do for his last living child is bust Tommen’s wife out of jail.

But according to set reports, in a big scene involving Dormer, Jonathan Pryce’s High Sparrow, and a massive crowd, Margaery emerges from her cell penitent and, according to some leaks, entirely broken. She is now a convert to the religion of the High Sparrow and the boy king is incapable of snapping her out of it. According to still more reports, Lady Olenna gets involved in Margaery’s trial, and when all is said and done and the Tyrell’s are off the hook, the entire family hightails it back to Highgarden.

Or do they? Both Dormer’s interview and some other rumors indicate that it would be foolish to count the Tyrells out of Game of Thrones just yet. We can be pretty sure now that any religious conversion on the part of Margaery is all an act to save her own royal behind. Tommen, despondent over losing his queen, reportedly hands himself over to the Sparrows. That might just be where Margaery and her family wants him. After the indignity of prison, it wouldn’t be surprising that they would be done playing nice with the Lannisters and Baratheons. There’s even a theory that Loras himself could kill Queen Cersei once and for all.

Yes, there are some vague rumors that this could be Lena Headey’s last season. The intrigues at King’s Landing will have to wrap up soon so Season 6 can focus on the big battle between the White Walkers and Dany’s dragons that will presumably close out the story up North. Knowing how the show has under-utilized Loras so far, it seems unlikely he would be given the monumental task of taking down Cersei. (Though it was long ago prophesied that she would be murdered by a Valonqar or “little brother” and some think Loras fits that bill.) But with all the confrontations the show has set up between Margaery and Cersei, wouldn’t it make more sense for the younger Queen to deal the death blow? We’re deep into vague rumors and rampant speculation territory here, but if we know anything on Game of Thrones it’s that revenge is a dish best served bloody.