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I have thousands of greybeards.
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If your greybeards can fight,
the Queen will have them.
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They will fight hard,
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like northerners.
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Our victory depends on
the efforts of the small folk.
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The King has promised us some relief.
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Did he say when?
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I've decided to send Joffrey to ward
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with my cousin, Lady Jeyne Arryn.
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Aegon and Viserys will accompany him.
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I need you to be the mother
to them that I cannot.
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Guard them as a dragon guards her eggs.
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Do you accept me as
your Queen and ruler?
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Or do you cling even now
to what you think you lost?
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You've come here after
quarreling with your wife.
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I mean, does it please you
that her legitimacy is contested
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as you stand here with
a castle and a dragon?
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Ser Willem Blackwood
of House Blackwood, Your Grace.
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Once you and your dragon
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bring the Queen's justice
to the Brackens,
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our armies will be yours.
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Cole is already preparing his attack.
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The two of you have been plotting
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without my authority.
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They don't care what I think.
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Do you think simply wearing the crown
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imbues you with wisdom?
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Cole marches on Rook's Rest.
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- Send me.
- No.
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You must send me, Your Grace.
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This was your secret plot, Cole?
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For the King himself to lay ambush
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and mayhaps die in the attempt.
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No!
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Thank the gods!
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Dracarys!
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No!
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Where is His Grace?
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- Only one.
- That's enough, stand back.
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Behold!
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The traitor dragon Meleys!
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Slain at Rook's Rest
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by your king!
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To Aegon!
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- It can't be...
- They killed a dragon!
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Mark my words, this is a black omen.
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Rhaenyra will answer this.
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'Tis an abomination.
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Don't they realize we won the battle?
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Strange victory...
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if it was one.
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Behold!
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The traitor dragon Meleys!
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I thought the dragons was gods.
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Slain at Rook's Rest by your king!
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It's just meat.
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Is he alive?
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His Grace...
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remains with us, for the moment.
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Is my son going to die?
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I'm afraid I cannot say.
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Now, if you'll excuse me, Your Grace,
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these next hours are most critical.
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Of course.
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Easy as you can.
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Someone will have to rule in his stead.
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- What happened?
- We took the castle.
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At the cost of some 900 men.
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So I've heard.
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I left a meager garrison
behind to protect it
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and the king's dragon.
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Sunfyre was long in the dying.
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The king, Ser Criston, what befell him?
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His Grace fought valiantly.
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And Aemond?
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What was his part in this?
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I could not say.
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Our largest dragon has been killed.
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Criston Cole marches about
the Crownlands unchallenged.
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Duskendale and Rook's Rest are gone.
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We still have no ground army
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but the one we hope
that Daemon will raise.
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He who has left us...
after some marital spat.
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Do you take issue with me, Ser Alfred?
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My loyalty to you is proven, my queen.
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Your loyalty, perhaps,
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but your willingness to give me
deference in a time of war.
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I could never doubt your capability,
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or your quickness of mind.
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It is merely that the gentler sex,
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heretofore, has not been much privy
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to the strategies of battle,
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or their execution.
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There has been peace in our lifetime.
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You've seen no more battles than I have.
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Send to Maidenpool
and to Crackclaw Point.
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Let them man their garrisons
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and give them stores or weapons
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if they find them wanting.
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If Cole pursues his campaign,
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- our allies must be ready.
- We must answer Rook's Rest,
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- and Duskendale.
- They are lost already.
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But Vhagar is depleted after such
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a hard-fought battle.
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If Aegon is dead...
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We will soon know it.
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'Twould be a victory in name only.
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They will soon prop up
another in his stead.
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The time is ripe.
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If we can strike King's Landing
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before their dragon is recovered...
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Then I myself must do it.
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My queen, you are the crown.
It is out of the question.
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What would you have me do?
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Jace?
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Where are you going?
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To Harrenhal. To treat with Daemon.
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Rhaenys is fallen.
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He must affirm his loyalty to my mother
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and report his standing.
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And you think you will tame him...
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when the queen herself could not?
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My mother gladly sends you away
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to scout, to fight,
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whilst I'm here being forced
to play the coddled princeling.
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- It's humiliating, Baela.
- She only protects you.
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You are the succession.
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Then I must be seen to
act for her claim and mine.
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I can sit still no longer.
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I must act.
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The Freys.
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They control the crossing at the Twins.
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Cregan Stark's graybeards
are marching south.
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If his men had a direct
route into the Riverlands,
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we would not have to wait
for Daemon to act.
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I will treat with The
Freys to secure it.
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She will not like it.
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Then don't tell her. Not until I'm away.
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The hour is late and
my dragon is hungry.
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You have no choice but to submit.
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Our terms are simple, Lord Bracken.
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Renounce the false king
Aegon as a usurper
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and bend the knee to me
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or your house burns.
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I would sooner be the
Lord of Bones and Cinders
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than bend my knee before
some heathen Blackwood cunt...
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and his hired dragon.
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The Brackens were a people hatched out
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of the deepest of the
Seven Hells, Your Grace.
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It would be a kindness to oblige them
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and send them back whence they came.
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Did your brother's head
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keep on its way back to you, Willem?
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I heard the maggots got to it.
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That is quite the impression,
Lord Bracken.
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But alas, not an answer.
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We choose fire.
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I did not think they would
be so eager to die.
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They made their choice.
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- You should've indulged them.
- I need them alive.
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I came here to raise
swords, not corpses.
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But now you see what my house
has known for generations.
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They are pigheaded, intransigent...
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They would rather burn than succumb.
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Exactly the kind of men I need.
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It may yet be possible, I think,
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for both of us to achieve our ends.
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We have fought them for an age and more.
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Then perhaps you could try
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less fighting and more...
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persuading.
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They are unyielding in battle.
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But every man has a weakness.
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You take my meaning, then.
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There are things the crown itself
must not be seen to do.
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Show them your worst.
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I am your servant, Your Grace.
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Over the centuries, many and more armies
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have broken themselves
against my bloody gate.
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Are you listening?
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My lady.
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The Eyrie itself is impregnable.
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Unless, of course, we're
descended upon from the sky.
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You promised the Queen
Rhaenyra 15,000 swords...
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In return for protection. A dragon.
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Then she has exceeded your terms.
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She sent two.
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Both still wet from the egg.
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I have hunting hounds
that are more fearsome.
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They are dragons nonetheless.
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I do not recall you specifying
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the size of the beast in your request.
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Will you goad me, child?
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When your bread and shelter
now depend on my pleasure?
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The dragons will grow...
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- in time.
- I don't have time.
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I mislike feeling powerless.
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So do I.
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This will be your chamber.
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I'll expect you at supper this evening?
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My sympathies for the death
of your grandmother.
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The way they spoke
at my small council today.
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Do they hold you responsible
for Rhaenys and her dragon?
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I would rather they had.
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They speak around me, not to me.
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They would make me queen,
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but they wish to keep me here, confined.
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They betray their own smallness.
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In truth, I cannot fault them.
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I am now the sovereign.
I cannot do as I please.
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And war has ever been for men to make.
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You are your father's chosen successor.
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He did not prepare me to fight.
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If I had been a son,
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a sword thrust into my hand
the moment I could walk.
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Instead, I was given my father's cup...
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taught the name of every lord and castle
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between Storm's End and the Twins,
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but not the difference
between hilt and foible.
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And they know it.
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And Daemon as well...
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Shall your evening meal be
served here, Your Grace?
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Not now.
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Will you send to him?
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For too long, I have looked
to him for strength.
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If I must be supplicant
to my own husband,
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what does that make me?
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I do not know my part, Mysaria.
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The path I walk has never been trod.
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Criston Cole made a mistake.
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Parading a dragon's head through
the streets like a prize of war,
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but the people see an ill omen.
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Yes, as do I.
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They are afraid, bread is scarce,
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the king has fallen,
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they whisper to each other
that when Viserys lived,
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there was peace.
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But will whispers tear down stone...
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or break shields?
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Do not underestimate your subjects.
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They are a thousand-thousand
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living in the shadow of the Red Keep
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and forgotten for too long.
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And you think they will turn to me.
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To the discontented, rumors are feed.
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Your Grace.
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What you cannot do,
let others do for you.
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There is more than one
way to fight a war.
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The thought of her lying in a field,
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broken amongst her enemies.
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Did your grandmother ever tell you
of the night she claimed Meleys?
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She snuck into the Dragonpit.
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She knew that place
better than any Elder.
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They say she could see in the dark.
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My father was furious.
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His own mother's dragon,
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the fastest beast ever known,
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and she'd have none of him.
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But bent her neck to Rhaenys.
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She was fierce...
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in love and in anger.
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She did not always care for me, but...
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for what she gave me
in the end, I'm grateful.
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00:24:25,106 --> 00:24:27,642
I wished I had known her
when she was young.
266
00:24:33,864 --> 00:24:37,104
You are very like her in some ways.
267
00:24:40,705 --> 00:24:45,454
And with her gone... I must
rely on you, I think.
268
00:24:45,459 --> 00:24:47,128
Your Grace?
269
00:24:48,295 --> 00:24:50,315
Would you give this to your grandsire?
270
00:25:02,476 --> 00:25:04,554
I do not wish to stand alone.
271
00:25:08,774 --> 00:25:10,301
Daemon.
272
00:25:15,156 --> 00:25:16,745
Daemon.
273
00:25:17,450 --> 00:25:19,677
You were always the strong one.
274
00:25:22,079 --> 00:25:24,607
The finest swordsman...
275
00:25:27,501 --> 00:25:29,971
the fearless dragonrider.
276
00:25:32,048 --> 00:25:35,259
Your brother had great
love in his heart...
277
00:25:40,014 --> 00:25:42,066
... but he lacked your constitution.
278
00:25:43,351 --> 00:25:45,853
Viserys was unsuited for the crown...
279
00:25:49,006 --> 00:25:53,027
but you... Daemon, you
were made to wear it.
280
00:26:13,381 --> 00:26:15,884
If only you'd been born first.
281
00:26:17,635 --> 00:26:19,671
My favorite son.
282
00:26:26,435 --> 00:26:28,947
Is the duck not to your
liking, Your Grace?
283
00:26:34,860 --> 00:26:37,872
There's also goose, if you'd prefer it.
284
00:26:39,907 --> 00:26:41,862
I like the goose, myself.
285
00:26:50,084 --> 00:26:51,747
Uh, I'm not hungry.
286
00:26:51,752 --> 00:26:53,916
I was saying, given the rather dire news
287
00:26:53,921 --> 00:26:55,456
from Rook's Rest...
288
00:26:56,757 --> 00:26:58,402
it appears the winds have shifted
289
00:26:58,407 --> 00:27:00,898
and each side has suffered great loss,
290
00:27:00,903 --> 00:27:03,998
and will be unsure of what is to follow.
291
00:27:05,474 --> 00:27:07,685
A good time, then,
for a show of strength.
292
00:27:08,436 --> 00:27:09,840
I believe Willem Blackwood
293
00:27:09,845 --> 00:27:11,739
is bringing House Bracken to heel.
294
00:27:13,482 --> 00:27:16,494
We must ready the castle
to receive a great host.
295
00:27:18,988 --> 00:27:20,901
You seem sure of this.
296
00:27:20,906 --> 00:27:23,412
All men may be led, Ser Simon.
297
00:27:23,417 --> 00:27:24,928
Even Rivermen.
298
00:27:26,454 --> 00:27:30,007
'Tis a matter of showing them
whom it behooves them to follow.
299
00:27:31,667 --> 00:27:33,678
How does the work here progress?
300
00:27:34,311 --> 00:27:38,202
Oh, um... we're drawing
water for the kitchens
301
00:27:38,207 --> 00:27:40,588
- and lighting the forges.
- Very well.
302
00:27:40,593 --> 00:27:43,007
That is merely the beginning, of course.
303
00:27:43,012 --> 00:27:44,800
The roof alone has needed tending
304
00:27:44,805 --> 00:27:45,901
since the reign of Aenys.
305
00:27:45,906 --> 00:27:47,136
And the storerooms.
306
00:27:47,141 --> 00:27:48,209
And...
307
00:27:49,226 --> 00:27:51,646
and the Wailing Tower.
308
00:27:52,313 --> 00:27:54,769
The bats have made the
corridors almost impassable
309
00:27:54,774 --> 00:27:56,617
with the quantity of their...
310
00:27:57,902 --> 00:27:59,120
Their shit.
311
00:28:01,497 --> 00:28:03,753
I venture there are smiths and armorers
312
00:28:03,758 --> 00:28:06,113
to be found near Nutton and Riverbend.
313
00:28:06,118 --> 00:28:08,157
Well, send for them,
and levy the farmers
314
00:28:08,162 --> 00:28:09,706
from Antlers to High Heart.
315
00:28:10,539 --> 00:28:13,209
Task their huntsmen
to bring us meat and wood.
316
00:28:14,418 --> 00:28:17,041
Um, there is, of course,
the matter of payment.
317
00:28:18,881 --> 00:28:22,944
After the, the tragedy
that befell his father...
318
00:28:24,019 --> 00:28:28,065
Larys transferred his family's
wealth to King's Landing.
319
00:28:29,517 --> 00:28:32,056
Is there any gold left in your coffers?
320
00:28:32,061 --> 00:28:36,524
Enough to keep this small establishment
you see fed and warm.
321
00:28:37,525 --> 00:28:38,801
Relatively.
322
00:28:41,612 --> 00:28:44,986
I... I rather thought, Your Grace, as
323
00:28:44,991 --> 00:28:47,606
emissary to the Queen
324
00:28:48,711 --> 00:28:52,326
that p-perhaps she could
provide the necessary coin
325
00:28:52,331 --> 00:28:54,859
- if you could only write to her.
- No.
326
00:28:55,876 --> 00:28:57,678
Harrenhal is my command.
327
00:28:58,462 --> 00:29:00,690
I shall guarantee the payment myself.
328
00:29:02,216 --> 00:29:03,884
Up, up.
329
00:29:06,887 --> 00:29:08,689
Very well, Your Grace.
330
00:29:09,390 --> 00:29:11,622
You should address me as "my king".
331
00:29:12,727 --> 00:29:14,203
But you're the prince.
332
00:29:15,062 --> 00:29:17,126
What would you call the
husband of the queen?
333
00:29:17,131 --> 00:29:18,995
- Well, the king...
- There it is, then.
334
00:29:18,999 --> 00:29:20,201
... consort.
335
00:29:21,610 --> 00:29:24,138
That last bit seems unnecessary,
don't you think?
336
00:29:30,044 --> 00:29:32,408
The armor was Valyrian steel,
337
00:29:32,413 --> 00:29:36,417
but His Grace suffered grievous
burns over much of his body.
338
00:29:37,543 --> 00:29:39,457
He has many broken bones.
339
00:29:39,462 --> 00:29:42,793
I fear there are more injuries within,
340
00:29:42,798 --> 00:29:44,600
injuries we cannot see.
341
00:29:46,427 --> 00:29:48,633
We are grateful for your works,
342
00:29:48,638 --> 00:29:49,680
Grand Maester.
343
00:29:50,848 --> 00:29:53,067
- Has he woken?
- No.
344
00:29:54,935 --> 00:29:58,960
I must admit, I'm not
sure he will ever wake.
345
00:29:59,565 --> 00:30:02,938
I have plied my crafts
to their fullest extents.
346
00:30:02,943 --> 00:30:06,947
Our king's fate lies with the gods now.
347
00:30:17,667 --> 00:30:19,469
A king cannot rule in his sleep.
348
00:30:20,795 --> 00:30:22,963
The realm will have noticed his absence.
349
00:30:23,673 --> 00:30:25,883
Let them hear of his great
deeds at Rook's Rest.
350
00:30:27,385 --> 00:30:30,132
But now we must name
a regent to take his place
351
00:30:30,137 --> 00:30:31,706
until he recovers...
352
00:30:34,183 --> 00:30:35,393
or does not.
353
00:30:37,061 --> 00:30:39,433
A wise strategy, Your Grace.
354
00:30:39,438 --> 00:30:41,243
A regency will assure the people
355
00:30:41,248 --> 00:30:43,067
of the stability of the crown.
356
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,148
Did you have a candidate
in mind, Your Grace?
357
00:30:50,091 --> 00:30:51,879
I myself served in this
role for my husband.
358
00:30:51,884 --> 00:30:53,322
I am well-prepared to do it again.
359
00:30:53,327 --> 00:30:54,924
You played your part admirably
360
00:30:54,929 --> 00:30:56,550
in a time of peace, Your Grace,
361
00:30:56,555 --> 00:30:59,036
but circumstances have changed.
362
00:30:59,041 --> 00:31:00,788
And here I had forgotten.
363
00:31:00,793 --> 00:31:03,040
The king does not lack for heirs.
364
00:31:03,045 --> 00:31:07,878
The obvious choice is his immediate
successor, Prince Aemond.
365
00:31:07,883 --> 00:31:09,338
Agreed.
366
00:31:09,343 --> 00:31:10,812
Aemond is young.
367
00:31:12,388 --> 00:31:14,916
And his lack of restraint
has already cost us dearly.
368
00:31:24,567 --> 00:31:28,666
It is experience that offers
the surest path to security.
369
00:31:28,671 --> 00:31:31,794
Queen Alicent ably shouldered
the duties of the realm
370
00:31:31,799 --> 00:31:33,462
when her husband's health failed him.
371
00:31:33,467 --> 00:31:34,939
Experience is valuable, yes,
372
00:31:34,944 --> 00:31:36,324
but the dowager queen is a woman.
373
00:31:36,329 --> 00:31:39,410
I am no stranger to rule
or to sitting at this council.
374
00:31:39,415 --> 00:31:40,928
Aemond is a fearsome dragonrider.
375
00:31:40,933 --> 00:31:42,431
His skill is best employed in the field,
376
00:31:42,435 --> 00:31:45,182
but my experience is
needed here, at this table.
377
00:31:45,187 --> 00:31:47,643
No offense was meant, Your Grace, but...
378
00:31:47,648 --> 00:31:50,919
- at a time when we must show strength.
- Lord Larys?
379
00:31:52,887 --> 00:31:55,222
I agree, Your Grace. It
must be Prince Aemond.
380
00:31:57,491 --> 00:31:59,822
What would it say if, in response
to Rhaenyra's crowning,
381
00:31:59,827 --> 00:32:01,879
we raised up a woman of our own?
382
00:32:04,732 --> 00:32:06,108
But, um...
383
00:32:07,918 --> 00:32:09,832
but the Hand speaks
for the king's voice.
384
00:32:09,837 --> 00:32:11,481
Ser Criston, what say you?
385
00:32:18,788 --> 00:32:20,798
Aemond is the next in line.
386
00:32:23,267 --> 00:32:24,485
It must be him.
387
00:32:29,256 --> 00:32:31,058
It's agreed then.
388
00:32:52,580 --> 00:32:54,591
What is our standing in the Riverlands?
389
00:32:56,634 --> 00:32:59,256
Uh, the banners of House Tully
390
00:32:59,261 --> 00:33:01,550
are in disarray, Your Grace.
391
00:33:01,555 --> 00:33:02,843
Prince Daemon has little hope
392
00:33:02,848 --> 00:33:05,346
of fielding an army
of any size, for now.
393
00:33:06,861 --> 00:33:09,101
We would do well to send
word to young Oscar Tully.
394
00:33:09,105 --> 00:33:11,019
It's only a matter of time
395
00:33:11,023 --> 00:33:13,354
before he inherits
his grandsire's mantle.
396
00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:15,398
Tell me, Lord Strong,
397
00:33:15,403 --> 00:33:17,066
how I can trust the counsel of a man
398
00:33:17,071 --> 00:33:18,609
who leaves the jewel of the Riverlands
399
00:33:18,614 --> 00:33:20,875
to be plucked by our enemy?
400
00:33:24,745 --> 00:33:26,200
Your brother's host can meet Daemon.
401
00:33:26,205 --> 00:33:27,576
He should quicken its pace
402
00:33:27,581 --> 00:33:28,702
and check the Rivermen
403
00:33:28,707 --> 00:33:30,287
while their banners are in disarray.
404
00:33:30,292 --> 00:33:32,706
I shall send Lord Jason encouragement.
405
00:33:32,711 --> 00:33:35,418
- What else?
- We might turn our attention
406
00:33:35,423 --> 00:33:37,920
to the smallfolk here in King's Landing.
407
00:33:37,925 --> 00:33:40,423
They have grown weary
of the Sea Snake's blockade.
408
00:33:40,428 --> 00:33:42,291
So have we all.
409
00:33:42,296 --> 00:33:43,884
Many are fleeing the city,
410
00:33:43,889 --> 00:33:46,901
spreading word of their fear and unrest.
411
00:33:47,518 --> 00:33:50,558
Mm, then let the gates be closed.
412
00:33:52,773 --> 00:33:55,271
No one is to leave or enter,
save with our consent.
413
00:33:55,276 --> 00:33:57,954
Merchants, so forth.
414
00:34:02,408 --> 00:34:03,914
Go to your tasks.
415
00:34:05,019 --> 00:34:07,516
We shall meet again at first light.
416
00:34:07,521 --> 00:34:11,059
Oh, and someone cut down
the fucking ratcatchers.
417
00:34:18,466 --> 00:34:20,518
The city's safe no longer.
418
00:34:22,553 --> 00:34:24,409
There is no food.
419
00:34:25,014 --> 00:34:26,927
Our neighbors are stealing
from each other.
420
00:34:26,932 --> 00:34:28,304
We must get out.
421
00:34:28,309 --> 00:34:30,139
And where would you have us go?
422
00:34:30,144 --> 00:34:32,238
North, maybe? South?
423
00:34:33,147 --> 00:34:35,469
For all we know, every road
leads into the dragons' teeth.
424
00:34:35,474 --> 00:34:37,568
Like the one they carted
through the streets?
425
00:34:38,402 --> 00:34:41,906
You think Rhaenyra will let such
an affront go unchallenged?
426
00:34:45,493 --> 00:34:48,282
We should make for Tumbleton.
427
00:34:48,287 --> 00:34:50,326
My brother will have room.
428
00:34:50,331 --> 00:34:51,866
You would have me turn beggar?
429
00:34:58,114 --> 00:34:59,916
Are we not beggars already?
430
00:35:01,217 --> 00:35:02,880
Have you been paid for those machines
431
00:35:02,885 --> 00:35:03,940
you were forced to build?
432
00:35:03,945 --> 00:35:05,508
The king has promised payment.
433
00:35:05,513 --> 00:35:08,090
The king has lied!
434
00:35:20,027 --> 00:35:21,562
By all means...
435
00:35:22,696 --> 00:35:25,775
stay and wait for his
empty promises, husband.
436
00:35:28,202 --> 00:35:30,738
With them, you can feed
the mouths of ghosts.
437
00:36:10,411 --> 00:36:12,013
Presumed you'd be here.
438
00:36:12,830 --> 00:36:16,120
Seeing faithfully to the
Prince Regent's commands.
439
00:36:16,125 --> 00:36:18,147
Aemond is the next in line.
440
00:36:18,152 --> 00:36:21,150
- It is the order of things.
- You know what he is...
441
00:36:21,155 --> 00:36:22,999
what he has somehow become.
442
00:36:26,193 --> 00:36:27,565
Has your loyalty faded?
443
00:36:27,570 --> 00:36:29,525
Or does it flourish only at night
444
00:36:29,530 --> 00:36:31,366
and flee the sunrise like a moth?
445
00:36:36,020 --> 00:36:37,558
What I saw at Rook's Rest...
446
00:36:37,563 --> 00:36:40,575
What? What did you see?
447
00:36:44,745 --> 00:36:46,547
Their armor melted.
448
00:36:48,557 --> 00:36:50,785
There were men walking.
They were on fire.
449
00:36:54,505 --> 00:36:56,557
We have given the war to the dragons.
450
00:36:58,501 --> 00:37:00,127
A dragonrider should lead us.
451
00:37:04,507 --> 00:37:06,837
And what of justice, of temperance?
452
00:37:06,842 --> 00:37:09,387
Or is strength now to be our only god?
453
00:37:15,309 --> 00:37:16,811
So you cast me aside.
454
00:37:18,479 --> 00:37:19,981
Have I not spared you?
455
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,928
What we must do now is... terrible.
456
00:37:27,888 --> 00:37:29,532
Will you preside over it?
457
00:37:30,658 --> 00:37:33,745
- Is this who you are, Alicent?
- I did not ask to be spared.
458
00:37:37,706 --> 00:37:39,734
And I did not give you
leave to speak my name.
459
00:37:52,847 --> 00:37:54,081
Halt!
460
00:38:00,187 --> 00:38:01,397
Stay back!
461
00:38:03,090 --> 00:38:04,659
We've got to get out!
462
00:38:05,493 --> 00:38:06,994
Somebody get him!
463
00:38:07,945 --> 00:38:10,067
Stay back! No!
464
00:38:10,072 --> 00:38:12,528
Holdfast, holdfast!
465
00:38:12,533 --> 00:38:15,044
Stay back! Hold!
466
00:38:19,540 --> 00:38:20,708
Back!
467
00:38:21,651 --> 00:38:24,612
Disperse, disperse!
468
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,335
By order of Aemond Targaryen,
469
00:38:28,340 --> 00:38:31,172
Prince Regent and
Protector of the Realm...
470
00:38:31,177 --> 00:38:33,574
- Aemond?
- Does he mean the king?
471
00:38:33,579 --> 00:38:36,051
- I don't know.
- You cannot keep us here!
472
00:38:36,056 --> 00:38:39,013
- You are ordered to return to your homes!
- We want meat!
473
00:38:39,018 --> 00:38:40,598
- Meat!
- Meat!
474
00:38:50,780 --> 00:38:52,239
Stay back!
475
00:39:00,147 --> 00:39:03,159
Our Lord Grover Tully has
not declared for Rhaenyra.
476
00:39:04,668 --> 00:39:06,791
It means death to bare steel
against your liege,
477
00:39:06,796 --> 00:39:08,390
as I'm sure my prince is aware.
478
00:39:10,491 --> 00:39:12,302
And against your queen?
479
00:39:14,912 --> 00:39:15,913
Hm?
480
00:39:19,850 --> 00:39:23,600
Jason Lannister is
marshaling to the west.
481
00:39:24,605 --> 00:39:26,690
We need to check him
before he reaches Riverrun.
482
00:39:27,608 --> 00:39:29,605
That requires passage.
483
00:39:29,610 --> 00:39:32,066
And if Stark's army is too slow?
484
00:39:32,071 --> 00:39:33,818
The wind's rising.
485
00:39:33,823 --> 00:39:35,486
Winter is nigh upon us.
486
00:39:35,491 --> 00:39:37,254
Our hesitance does not lie
487
00:39:37,259 --> 00:39:39,281
in Rhaenyra as Queen,
488
00:39:39,286 --> 00:39:42,306
nor in the ruminations
of Lord Tully, the oaf.
489
00:39:43,441 --> 00:39:45,455
Our fear lies in Vhagar.
490
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:49,500
You fear a dragon leagues away
491
00:39:49,505 --> 00:39:52,169
when mine own sits outside your walls?
492
00:39:56,370 --> 00:39:59,407
- Do you offer us your protection?
- I do.
493
00:40:06,397 --> 00:40:08,199
And the protection of my uncle.
494
00:40:09,650 --> 00:40:13,816
And Daemon, I'm sure,
has consented to this?
495
00:40:13,821 --> 00:40:15,943
He will do as his queen commands.
496
00:40:15,948 --> 00:40:17,862
That does lend us some comfort.
497
00:40:17,867 --> 00:40:19,321
Though it occurs to me that dragons
498
00:40:19,326 --> 00:40:21,863
- cannot be in two places at once.
- Or three.
499
00:40:25,483 --> 00:40:26,718
What do you want?
500
00:40:29,712 --> 00:40:33,169
Larys Strong has been
relieved of his castle.
501
00:40:33,674 --> 00:40:36,961
Does the queen intend
to raise up a new lord?
502
00:40:41,123 --> 00:40:42,583
You want Harrenhal.
503
00:41:01,577 --> 00:41:05,640
For that... my mother will want
more than your crossing.
504
00:41:08,192 --> 00:41:10,194
What does Her Grace desire?
505
00:41:12,822 --> 00:41:14,832
Bent knees.
506
00:42:08,978 --> 00:42:09,987
Up.
507
00:42:10,955 --> 00:42:12,701
You were born to wield a sword,
508
00:42:12,706 --> 00:42:15,251
but not so much an axe, perhaps.
509
00:42:16,861 --> 00:42:18,582
There are others who would sit idle
510
00:42:18,587 --> 00:42:20,635
and wait for their claims
to be brought to them.
511
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:21,640
That is not my way.
512
00:42:21,645 --> 00:42:24,071
Does splitting firewood justify
what's followed you here?
513
00:42:24,076 --> 00:42:26,115
Let it not be said that Daemon Targaryen
514
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,451
failed to dirty his hands in this war.
515
00:42:28,456 --> 00:42:30,032
Oh, let me see them.
516
00:42:31,659 --> 00:42:33,330
- Sit.
- Ah.
517
00:42:33,335 --> 00:42:34,428
Sit!
518
00:42:38,299 --> 00:42:41,756
I hear strange things from Bracken land,
519
00:42:41,761 --> 00:42:44,805
from Stone Hedge and Lambswold and Mory.
520
00:42:45,806 --> 00:42:47,828
There's news, then?
521
00:42:47,833 --> 00:42:49,043
News?
522
00:42:50,211 --> 00:42:51,212
No.
523
00:42:53,381 --> 00:42:55,470
What I hear, I hear in the wind.
524
00:42:56,275 --> 00:42:59,020
Cries of anguish.
525
00:43:01,238 --> 00:43:03,419
Children being taken from their mothers,
526
00:43:03,424 --> 00:43:06,481
men coming home to find
their doors unlatched...
527
00:43:07,286 --> 00:43:08,792
their wives carried away.
528
00:43:11,665 --> 00:43:13,676
War is a terrible thing.
529
00:43:14,418 --> 00:43:15,999
This is not war.
530
00:43:17,004 --> 00:43:19,668
These are crimes against the innocent,
531
00:43:19,673 --> 00:43:21,962
that any upright man would repudiate.
532
00:43:21,967 --> 00:43:24,507
Surely you haven't mistaken
me for an upright man.
533
00:43:26,514 --> 00:43:29,579
The Brackens had their
chance to do as I required.
534
00:43:30,184 --> 00:43:32,306
They will perhaps think
better of their decision
535
00:43:32,311 --> 00:43:34,823
if their children's lives
are staked on it.
536
00:43:36,657 --> 00:43:38,735
Is that the kind of army
you would raise?
537
00:43:40,236 --> 00:43:41,800
Men who hate you...
538
00:43:42,905 --> 00:43:44,693
who serve you under duress?
539
00:43:44,698 --> 00:43:47,822
Well, once they agree to serve
me, I'll treat them fairly.
540
00:43:47,827 --> 00:43:49,173
Set an example for the rest
541
00:43:49,178 --> 00:43:51,200
of the Riverlands to follow.
542
00:43:51,205 --> 00:43:53,702
And once again, in the name of power,
543
00:43:53,707 --> 00:43:56,244
it's the weak and the women
who must endure.
544
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:01,516
That fool, Aegon, is unlike to survive.
545
00:44:04,301 --> 00:44:06,595
The realm will suffer
if Aemond One-Eye rules.
546
00:44:08,139 --> 00:44:09,723
You should pray you never meet him.
547
00:44:10,307 --> 00:44:12,680
He will cut you down
soon as wish you good-day.
548
00:44:12,685 --> 00:44:14,223
I'd heard the same thing about you.
549
00:44:14,228 --> 00:44:15,392
But I'll cross you no further.
550
00:44:15,396 --> 00:44:16,951
I'm sure your tactics are, after all,
551
00:44:16,956 --> 00:44:18,527
approved by the queen.
552
00:44:24,238 --> 00:44:26,249
She cannot succeed, Alys.
553
00:44:27,116 --> 00:44:29,363
Even if I willed it to be so.
554
00:44:29,368 --> 00:44:31,549
The people who support her
will not be led by her.
555
00:44:31,554 --> 00:44:33,576
They look to a man for strength.
556
00:44:33,581 --> 00:44:34,744
Who's better suited to it?
557
00:44:34,749 --> 00:44:37,204
The Hightowers with their scheming?
558
00:44:37,209 --> 00:44:39,220
Or Viserys's first true heir?
559
00:44:40,588 --> 00:44:43,043
When I take King's Landing...
560
00:44:43,048 --> 00:44:44,587
Rhaenyra is welcome to join me there
561
00:44:44,592 --> 00:44:47,089
and take her place by my side.
562
00:44:47,094 --> 00:44:50,740
King and queen... ruling together.
563
00:44:51,766 --> 00:44:54,430
- And if you lose?
- Then I'll be dead,
564
00:44:54,435 --> 00:44:56,807
and none of this will be my problem.
565
00:44:56,812 --> 00:45:00,102
It's a pity, don't you think, that
you never knew your mother?
566
00:45:03,652 --> 00:45:05,821
A message, Your Grace.
567
00:45:07,390 --> 00:45:08,391
Uh...
568
00:45:10,951 --> 00:45:13,783
uh, fresh news from Stone Hedge.
569
00:45:13,788 --> 00:45:16,077
The Blackwoods have
overwhelmed the Brackens,
570
00:45:16,082 --> 00:45:19,360
and, uh, Lord Amos has
pledged his banner to you.
571
00:45:19,735 --> 00:45:21,546
House Bracken is yours.
572
00:45:23,464 --> 00:45:26,133
Call Ser Willem here so that
I might congratulate him.
573
00:45:26,550 --> 00:45:29,078
The Blackwoods will be
feted in these halls.
574
00:45:40,548 --> 00:45:42,150
I sought you at High Tide.
575
00:45:43,259 --> 00:45:45,353
I was surprised when
they said you were here.
576
00:45:46,721 --> 00:45:48,423
My castle is a tomb.
577
00:45:49,957 --> 00:45:52,026
Empty. Haunted.
578
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,080
I am sad to have missed
its highest days.
579
00:45:57,081 --> 00:45:58,452
I imagine your Hall of Nine
580
00:45:58,457 --> 00:46:00,830
filled with lords and kings,
581
00:46:00,835 --> 00:46:03,921
all eager to treat with the
legendary Lord of the Tides.
582
00:46:05,740 --> 00:46:06,836
The wealth you brought back
583
00:46:06,841 --> 00:46:08,212
from Yi Ti and Asshai,
584
00:46:08,217 --> 00:46:11,312
inspiring awe and envy.
585
00:46:13,931 --> 00:46:15,933
I wonder if any of them
knew it was all for her.
586
00:46:25,067 --> 00:46:27,398
Queen Rhaenyra wishes to name you Hand.
587
00:46:30,681 --> 00:46:33,918
Even the death of my wife
does not content her.
588
00:46:36,854 --> 00:46:38,906
Has she not asked enough of my house?
589
00:46:39,607 --> 00:46:41,872
It is a sign of her great esteem.
590
00:46:43,377 --> 00:46:45,516
Or does she think the position
will compensate me
591
00:46:45,521 --> 00:46:46,614
for my loss?
592
00:46:47,923 --> 00:46:50,254
Pledge your peace
to King's Landing, then.
593
00:46:50,259 --> 00:46:52,353
They will accept it most gleefully.
594
00:46:55,022 --> 00:46:57,608
Rather I would sail into
the West and be lost.
595
00:46:58,876 --> 00:47:00,915
You have done so before,
596
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,473
at great cost to yourself
and those who loved you.
597
00:47:06,317 --> 00:47:08,590
Rhaenys was not only your wife...
598
00:47:09,695 --> 00:47:11,960
not a thing to be taken from you.
599
00:47:12,865 --> 00:47:14,893
She was a Targaryen princess.
600
00:47:16,243 --> 00:47:17,573
The Queen Who Never Was.
601
00:47:17,578 --> 00:47:20,284
And she flew to Rook's
Rest of her own will.
602
00:47:20,289 --> 00:47:22,745
- In defense of her kin.
- And she died.
603
00:47:22,750 --> 00:47:25,456
She died as she would
have wished to die...
604
00:47:25,461 --> 00:47:27,985
with honor, in dragonfire.
605
00:47:29,090 --> 00:47:30,424
The way my mother chose...
606
00:47:32,660 --> 00:47:35,196
and the way I myself
wish to meet my end.
607
00:47:42,728 --> 00:47:45,935
I grieve my grandmother who loved me
608
00:47:45,940 --> 00:47:48,038
but I carry her on with me.
609
00:47:49,443 --> 00:47:53,539
I will see Rhaenyra ascend the
Iron Throne, as Rhaenys wished.
610
00:47:54,223 --> 00:47:56,225
As Rhaenys herself should have.
611
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,389
You yourself may do as you see fit.
612
00:48:05,234 --> 00:48:06,856
Granddaughter.
613
00:48:14,368 --> 00:48:16,613
I would make you my heir.
614
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:20,542
I am blood and fire.
615
00:48:21,584 --> 00:48:23,787
Driftmark must pass to salt and sea.
616
00:48:43,397 --> 00:48:44,465
Your Grace.
617
00:48:48,335 --> 00:48:49,670
You were correct...
618
00:48:51,138 --> 00:48:53,724
in saying our best hope of
an army is with Daemon.
619
00:48:56,594 --> 00:49:01,616
And I have, perhaps, erred in
waiting for him to prove himself.
620
00:49:04,059 --> 00:49:05,661
I wish you to go to Harrenhal.
621
00:49:07,755 --> 00:49:09,832
Are you removing me from your council?
622
00:49:11,676 --> 00:49:13,135
Ser Alfred...
623
00:49:14,395 --> 00:49:17,693
I-I-I will not deny you have
tried my patience of late,
624
00:49:17,698 --> 00:49:19,987
or that I would prefer a council
625
00:49:19,992 --> 00:49:21,530
more inclined to champion their queen,
626
00:49:21,535 --> 00:49:23,204
but...
627
00:49:24,188 --> 00:49:27,461
you and your house
served my father well,
628
00:49:27,466 --> 00:49:30,511
and I know you will never
accept the Hightower claim.
629
00:49:32,279 --> 00:49:34,865
Not while I live, Your Grace.
630
00:49:37,702 --> 00:49:41,617
We cannot challenge King's
Landing without the Riverlands
631
00:49:41,622 --> 00:49:44,892
but I will not send a message by
raven for Daemon to disregard.
632
00:49:47,628 --> 00:49:52,466
I ask you to... reason with him.
633
00:49:53,901 --> 00:49:57,989
Find out his state of mind
and his intentions.
634
00:50:00,308 --> 00:50:01,605
Intentions?
635
00:50:02,910 --> 00:50:05,914
Whether he means to raise
a host for me or for himself.
636
00:50:09,417 --> 00:50:10,788
He would not dare.
637
00:50:10,793 --> 00:50:13,304
Have you known Daemon to lack in daring?
638
00:50:14,989 --> 00:50:16,777
Go now with haste.
639
00:50:16,782 --> 00:50:19,010
I'll send good men
to see to your safety.
640
00:50:27,001 --> 00:50:29,270
Have you any message for him?
641
00:50:33,591 --> 00:50:36,444
Tell him I would much like to
finish our last conversation.
642
00:50:39,247 --> 00:50:40,314
Your Grace.
643
00:51:16,784 --> 00:51:18,002
Your Grace.
644
00:51:22,198 --> 00:51:26,010
What is it, Ser Simon? Is
the pudding now served?
645
00:51:27,078 --> 00:51:29,492
The Riverlords have come, Your Grace.
646
00:51:29,497 --> 00:51:32,016
- They wish an audience.
- Now?
647
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,419
- What godless hour is it?
- The wolf.
648
00:51:36,170 --> 00:51:38,005
They are demanding to speak presently.
649
00:52:08,836 --> 00:52:11,868
I see I must begin here
with a lesson in etiquette.
650
00:52:12,373 --> 00:52:13,677
Or failing that, in proper fear
651
00:52:13,682 --> 00:52:15,226
of your Targaryen master.
652
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:21,203
Is there some reason you feel
free to wake a king in his bed?
653
00:52:22,508 --> 00:52:25,047
Or shall I now begin your education?
654
00:52:25,052 --> 00:52:26,674
House Bracken
655
00:52:26,679 --> 00:52:29,686
have been brought to heel at
the hands of Willem Blackwood.
656
00:52:30,391 --> 00:52:33,122
- That news is stale.
- Yes.
657
00:52:33,727 --> 00:52:35,683
There have been, um, complications.
658
00:52:35,688 --> 00:52:38,227
The sacred septs on Bracken lands
659
00:52:38,232 --> 00:52:41,564
- were looted and burned.
- As were the fields and farms.
660
00:52:41,569 --> 00:52:43,190
The livestock was stolen
661
00:52:43,195 --> 00:52:44,734
and our peasants put to the sword.
662
00:52:44,739 --> 00:52:47,161
They pursued the women and the children.
663
00:52:47,166 --> 00:52:48,804
There were works of barbarity.
664
00:52:48,809 --> 00:52:52,067
Punishing Bracken for his own
treasons is one thing, aye.
665
00:52:52,872 --> 00:52:55,578
- But these other acts.
- The Brackens were given their chance.
666
00:52:55,583 --> 00:52:58,080
- They would not see reason.
- The Blackwoods have exploited
667
00:52:58,085 --> 00:53:00,082
the war for the crown
to visit atrocities
668
00:53:00,087 --> 00:53:02,386
- upon their old rivals.
- I have seen my fair share of their quarrels,
669
00:53:02,390 --> 00:53:04,045
and I tell you, there
is no honor in a fight
670
00:53:04,049 --> 00:53:06,088
- such as this.
- Honor? What of common decency?
671
00:53:06,093 --> 00:53:08,382
These beasts proudly carried
672
00:53:08,387 --> 00:53:10,217
the banner of House Targaryen.
673
00:53:10,222 --> 00:53:12,299
Red dragon on black.
674
00:53:18,689 --> 00:53:21,742
A terrible war is being
fought in these lands.
675
00:53:25,346 --> 00:53:27,148
Have you looked after our girls?
676
00:53:34,855 --> 00:53:37,094
We should've expected
nothing more from a man
677
00:53:37,099 --> 00:53:39,080
who ordered the slaughter of a child
678
00:53:39,085 --> 00:53:40,544
in his mother's arms.
679
00:53:42,797 --> 00:53:46,087
That is a lie. And I will have the man
who told it brought before me.
680
00:53:46,092 --> 00:53:50,121
Well, your man is half
the kingdom, my prince.
681
00:53:53,482 --> 00:53:55,284
Know this, interloper:
682
00:53:56,393 --> 00:53:58,966
the Riverlands are an ancient place,
683
00:53:58,971 --> 00:54:02,545
watched closely by the eyes
of old gods and new.
684
00:54:03,150 --> 00:54:05,106
And dragon or no,
685
00:54:05,111 --> 00:54:07,922
we shall not raise our
banners for a tyrant.
686
00:55:16,348 --> 00:55:17,568
Move along, lass.
687
00:55:17,573 --> 00:55:20,423
I have an errand...
for the lady Mysaria.
688
00:55:21,437 --> 00:55:23,459
I thought she was dead.
689
00:55:23,464 --> 00:55:25,475
Would she die without
collecting her due?
690
00:55:27,343 --> 00:55:28,978
I must see an old friend.
691
00:55:30,872 --> 00:55:32,874
Most people want out these days.
692
00:56:18,227 --> 00:56:19,323
Elinda.
693
00:57:11,072 --> 00:57:12,874
Was it worth the price?
694
00:58:04,225 --> 00:58:05,793
Mummy.
695
00:58:23,077 --> 00:58:24,453
Prince Jacaerys, Your Grace.
696
00:58:49,270 --> 00:58:50,346
Visenya.
697
00:58:51,647 --> 00:58:56,711
Vhagar's first rider, and the
first wielder of Dark Sister.
698
00:58:58,863 --> 00:59:01,235
I hope you do not mean
to use her as an example.
699
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:02,903
Why shouldn't I?
700
00:59:02,908 --> 00:59:04,919
W... It was a long time ago.
701
00:59:15,279 --> 00:59:17,131
What is the mood at the Twins?
702
00:59:19,116 --> 00:59:20,969
Did his lordship quibble?
703
00:59:23,771 --> 00:59:27,058
He wishes for the Freys
to be granted Harrenhal.
704
00:59:29,059 --> 00:59:30,912
At war's end. Assuming.
705
00:59:34,064 --> 00:59:35,811
I'm proud of you, Jace.
706
00:59:35,816 --> 00:59:37,869
You have done our cause a great service.
707
00:59:40,571 --> 00:59:42,824
Then, why do you look angry?
708
00:59:51,707 --> 00:59:54,705
You chafed at being
prevented from action.
709
00:59:54,710 --> 00:59:57,500
Imagine my lot. I'm
a dragonrider as well,
710
00:59:57,505 --> 01:00:00,341
with a war being fought
over my ascension.
711
01:00:01,509 --> 01:00:03,511
And yet, I must wait here...
712
01:00:04,412 --> 01:00:06,784
always prudent...
713
01:00:06,789 --> 01:00:08,344
sending others to fight
714
01:00:08,349 --> 01:00:10,443
and be felled in my name.
715
01:00:11,085 --> 01:00:13,154
Even you have managed to do your part.
716
01:00:14,021 --> 01:00:16,185
You are the queen...
717
01:00:16,190 --> 01:00:17,520
the tie that binds us.
718
01:00:17,525 --> 01:00:19,189
- No harm can come to you.
- And you are my son,
719
01:00:19,193 --> 01:00:21,037
and I did not give you leave to go.
720
01:00:23,364 --> 01:00:25,433
You do not give me
leave to go to anything.
721
01:00:26,209 --> 01:00:27,838
But who else is there? Rhaenys is dead,
722
01:00:27,843 --> 01:00:29,573
and Baela cannot bear the burden alone.
723
01:00:29,578 --> 01:00:32,201
And when Aemond comes hunting for you?
724
01:00:32,206 --> 01:00:34,578
Your dragon is young.
725
01:00:34,583 --> 01:00:36,627
Will you fly before Vhagar as Luke did?
726
01:00:43,592 --> 01:00:45,128
Perhaps Daemon could...
727
01:00:48,831 --> 01:00:50,495
Daemon is not here.
728
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:53,894
And Aemond now rules in King's Landing.
729
01:00:55,338 --> 01:00:56,683
Is Aegon dead?
730
01:00:56,688 --> 01:00:59,562
Dead or alive, we have
no answer for Vhagar.
731
01:00:59,567 --> 01:01:02,578
Aemond will not wait long to press
his advantage. And then what?
732
01:01:05,281 --> 01:01:07,069
I have done all I can from here,
733
01:01:07,074 --> 01:01:09,772
sent my messages, invoked my alliances.
734
01:01:09,777 --> 01:01:12,446
But if all else fails,
it is I who must fight.
735
01:01:14,165 --> 01:01:17,204
Vhagar is big, but Syrax is quicker.
736
01:01:17,209 --> 01:01:18,369
So was Meleys.
737
01:01:18,374 --> 01:01:21,624
Meleys fought two dragons
and one of them is slain.
738
01:01:23,299 --> 01:01:24,712
Shall I fight for my birthright?
739
01:01:24,717 --> 01:01:27,244
Or shall I wait here until
we are all destroyed?
740
01:01:33,184 --> 01:01:34,402
I need dragons.
741
01:01:38,506 --> 01:01:41,467
We have no dearth of dragons.
742
01:01:42,343 --> 01:01:44,941
We have two large enough
to stand against Vhagar.
743
01:01:45,446 --> 01:01:47,919
They are called Vermithor and Silverwing
744
01:01:48,724 --> 01:01:50,279
and they sleep just beneath our feet.
745
01:01:50,284 --> 01:01:51,573
Yes, and if only they had riders,
746
01:01:51,577 --> 01:01:53,121
none could stand against me.
747
01:01:54,330 --> 01:01:57,341
I would go forth in strength
and not from necessity.
748
01:01:58,959 --> 01:02:00,331
There is Rhaena.
749
01:02:00,336 --> 01:02:03,180
Who nearly lost her
life in her last attempt.
750
01:02:04,782 --> 01:02:06,384
I would not risk it again.
751
01:02:12,707 --> 01:02:15,510
There are those of our
line who never ruled.
752
01:02:16,685 --> 01:02:19,542
Those who married into
other noble houses,
753
01:02:20,147 --> 01:02:23,020
their children born with other names.
754
01:02:23,025 --> 01:02:26,649
A generation ago, or more.
Their blood would be thin.
755
01:02:26,654 --> 01:02:27,943
And yet...
756
01:02:29,448 --> 01:02:33,656
A dragon will only accept a
dragonlord to ride it.
757
01:02:33,661 --> 01:02:37,660
- Or so say the histories.
- Valyrian histories.
758
01:02:37,665 --> 01:02:39,620
Written to gild us in glory.
759
01:02:42,445 --> 01:02:45,072
Are you suggesting we put
a Mallister on a dragon?
760
01:02:45,656 --> 01:02:48,476
- A Tarly?
- It's better than death and defeat.
761
01:02:55,182 --> 01:02:58,681
There are records here,
surely, of our line
762
01:02:58,686 --> 01:03:00,975
and of those who fell out of it.
763
01:03:08,304 --> 01:03:09,967
There could be scores of them.
764
01:03:17,605 --> 01:03:19,240
It's a mad thought.
765
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:50,840
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766
01:04:52,510 --> 01:04:54,476
It has never been attempted before.
767
01:04:56,435 --> 01:04:58,005
To claim a dragon,
768
01:04:58,010 --> 01:05:00,590
you must also be prepared to die.
769
01:05:01,550 --> 01:05:03,220
Perhaps the gods will favor us.
770
01:05:05,010 --> 01:05:06,876
If Daemon prevails in the Riverlands,
771
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:08,880
I no longer have the numbers
to challenge him.
772
01:05:08,885 --> 01:05:11,210
My uncle is a challenge I welcome,
773
01:05:11,215 --> 01:05:12,420
if he dares face me.
774
01:05:12,425 --> 01:05:14,425
You have the arrogance of youth.
775
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:17,195
Have the indignities of your childhood
776
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:18,760
not yet sufficiently been avenged?
777
01:05:19,570 --> 01:05:22,365
You must see in me a ruler
and the symbols of authority.
778
01:05:22,370 --> 01:05:24,235
The shield and the sword.
779
01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:25,736
We will still never match
780
01:05:25,740 --> 01:05:27,235
the strength of the Green armies.
781
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:28,670
We need Daemon.
782
01:05:29,350 --> 01:05:32,020
I must now proceed as if I stand alone.
783
01:05:33,210 --> 01:05:35,535
It is my fault that you have
forgotten to fear me.
784
01:05:55,010 --> 01:05:57,305
This episode is very much
785
01:05:57,310 --> 01:05:59,475
everybody vying for power,
786
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:03,265
but also, it's very much about
that happening through grief.
787
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:09,345
Much of episode five revolves
around how Rhaenys's death
788
01:06:09,350 --> 01:06:12,115
is resonating across all
of the different characters,
789
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:15,530
and no one as much as it lands
with her husband, Corlys.
790
01:06:17,030 --> 01:06:19,485
This poor guy, over the course
of these two seasons,
791
01:06:19,490 --> 01:06:21,765
has slowly had every human connection
792
01:06:21,770 --> 01:06:23,830
stripped away from him, one by one.
793
01:06:24,170 --> 01:06:25,735
He's sitting in the Hall of Nine,
794
01:06:25,740 --> 01:06:27,205
but it means nothing to him anymore
795
01:06:27,210 --> 01:06:28,335
because she's gone.
796
01:06:28,340 --> 01:06:30,125
And all of this stuff, who cares?
797
01:06:30,130 --> 01:06:32,175
Steve is an incredible actor.
798
01:06:32,180 --> 01:06:36,860
He has such deep soul
to all of his performances.
799
01:06:37,390 --> 01:06:40,385
I had no clue that he was
gonna have this tear,
800
01:06:40,390 --> 01:06:42,515
like this silent tear,
roll down his face.
801
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:45,190
It was incredibly moving to see it.
802
01:06:47,820 --> 01:06:49,900
Our largest dragon has been killed.
803
01:06:50,590 --> 01:06:53,455
Duskendale and Rook's Rest are gone.
804
01:06:53,460 --> 01:06:54,585
I think everybody's reeling.
805
01:06:54,590 --> 01:06:56,195
I mean, Rhaenyra,
not the least of which.
806
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:58,635
And you hear a lot of this backbiting
807
01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:00,235
and bickering going on at the table
808
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:02,745
because everybody is under
a tremendous amount of stress.
809
01:07:02,750 --> 01:07:04,080
They don't know how to react.
810
01:07:04,670 --> 01:07:06,535
But Rhaenyra finds herself at sea.
811
01:07:06,540 --> 01:07:10,090
I mean, that was her last
great female advisor.
812
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:13,415
And that's also when Rhaenyra sees
813
01:07:13,420 --> 01:07:15,255
this huge power vacuum
814
01:07:15,260 --> 01:07:16,960
and knows she's got to do something.
815
01:07:17,630 --> 01:07:19,430
Queen Rhaenyra wishes to name you Hand.
816
01:07:19,890 --> 01:07:22,940
Even the death of my wife
does not content her.
817
01:07:23,270 --> 01:07:25,286
She's playing the role
of the great politician here.
818
01:07:25,290 --> 01:07:27,395
The next best thing, next
to having Daemon back,
819
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:29,685
is one of the most respected
men in Westeros,
820
01:07:29,690 --> 01:07:30,900
and that's the Sea Snake.
821
01:07:31,190 --> 01:07:33,935
And she doesn't exploit
Rhaenys's death to do it.
822
01:07:33,940 --> 01:07:36,065
She knows that the man is there,
looking for purpose,
823
01:07:36,070 --> 01:07:37,576
probably looking for a bit of vengeance,
824
01:07:37,580 --> 01:07:39,406
and she probably takes
advantage of that in the moment
825
01:07:39,410 --> 01:07:40,910
to try to get him back on side.
826
01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:44,785
The path I walk has never been trod.
827
01:07:44,790 --> 01:07:48,750
What you cannot do,
let others do for you.
828
01:07:49,300 --> 01:07:51,920
There is more than one way
to fight a war.
829
01:07:52,560 --> 01:07:55,565
I think Mysaria's power
increases in Rhaenys's absence
830
01:07:55,570 --> 01:07:57,125
because I think Rhaenyra is desperate
831
01:07:57,130 --> 01:07:59,970
and looking for that sympathetic
female voice in her life.
832
01:08:00,570 --> 01:08:02,365
Mysaria's offering
another way, which is,
833
01:08:02,370 --> 01:08:04,305
"I understand the will of the people,
834
01:08:04,310 --> 01:08:06,295
and we can manipulate that
835
01:08:06,300 --> 01:08:07,755
and play that to your advantage".
836
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:09,765
An element of what we're watching
837
01:08:09,770 --> 01:08:10,935
is propaganda war.
838
01:08:10,940 --> 01:08:12,735
How to win the hearts of the people.
839
01:08:12,740 --> 01:08:15,445
And that's all learning that
she receives from Mysaria.
840
01:08:15,450 --> 01:08:17,905
I don't think this is
something that Rhaenyra
841
01:08:17,910 --> 01:08:19,115
had thought of or considered
842
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:20,950
until Mysaria brought it to the fore.
843
01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:23,145
And it's a bit of a modern concept,
844
01:08:23,150 --> 01:08:25,815
this idea of the, quote-unquote,
"power of the people".
845
01:08:25,820 --> 01:08:28,325
I have an errand for the Lady Mysaria.
846
01:08:28,330 --> 01:08:30,655
In real history, smart
and sometimes cunning
847
01:08:30,660 --> 01:08:34,615
and ruthless medieval sovereigns
did use people and their will
848
01:08:34,620 --> 01:08:35,665
to their advantage.
849
01:08:35,670 --> 01:08:36,930
Behold!
850
01:08:37,430 --> 01:08:40,180
The traitor dragon, Meleys!
851
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:42,845
It is. Look, they've killed a dragon.
852
01:08:42,850 --> 01:08:45,425
Mark my words, this is a black omen.
853
01:08:45,430 --> 01:08:47,535
I think this is very...
this is very Cole.
854
01:08:47,540 --> 01:08:49,405
His expectations are so high.
855
01:08:49,410 --> 01:08:52,245
His expectations are for people
to honor him
856
01:08:52,250 --> 01:08:54,145
and put him up on a pedestal.
857
01:08:54,150 --> 01:08:55,685
If you look like you've won
858
01:08:55,690 --> 01:08:57,485
and you carry yourselves
like you've won,
859
01:08:57,490 --> 01:08:59,645
and the public don't know
what's really happened,
860
01:08:59,650 --> 01:09:01,326
then that's what everyone's
going to believe.
861
01:09:01,330 --> 01:09:03,325
But what happens is so different.
862
01:09:03,330 --> 01:09:05,120
Don't they realize we won the battle?
863
01:09:05,660 --> 01:09:08,065
Strange victory, if it was one.
864
01:09:08,070 --> 01:09:09,865
The calculation that he doesn't make
865
01:09:09,870 --> 01:09:11,775
is how it will land on the small folk.
866
01:09:11,780 --> 01:09:13,595
I mean, Meleys is a beloved dragon
867
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:15,805
that probably flew over
that city hundreds of times
868
01:09:15,810 --> 01:09:17,395
and is seen as one of these symbols
869
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:18,915
of the unshakableness,
870
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:21,345
of the invincibility of the Targaryens.
871
01:09:21,350 --> 01:09:22,775
I thought the dragons was gods.
872
01:09:22,780 --> 01:09:24,306
You know, as soon as people can see
873
01:09:24,310 --> 01:09:26,775
you can kill dragons, well,
then anybody can do it.
874
01:09:26,780 --> 01:09:29,305
And that... does that mean
that these people that have...
875
01:09:29,310 --> 01:09:31,005
we've always thought of as being gods
876
01:09:31,010 --> 01:09:33,000
because of their ability to ride dragons
877
01:09:33,460 --> 01:09:35,820
is actually all a bit of a mirage?
878
01:09:36,860 --> 01:09:39,355
This is, at best, a terrible omen
879
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:41,870
and at worst, a harbinger
of the things to come.
880
01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:48,995
The King. Ser Criston, what befell him?
881
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:50,580
His Grace fought valiantly.
882
01:09:51,250 --> 01:09:53,995
And Aemond? What was his part in this?
883
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:55,210
I could not say.
884
01:09:55,590 --> 01:09:59,045
The dramatic tension that
looms over the episode is,
885
01:09:59,050 --> 01:10:00,585
what is the state of Aegon?
886
01:10:00,590 --> 01:10:04,220
And did he survive the end
of episode four?
887
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:07,030
And will he survive through
the end of this episode?
888
01:10:07,035 --> 01:10:08,830
And I think that's
what's kind of looming
889
01:10:08,835 --> 01:10:10,755
over all these characters,
that big question,
890
01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:13,515
to show the cost of
letting your sovereign
891
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:15,435
get on his dragon and ride into battle.
892
01:10:15,440 --> 01:10:17,535
Someone will have to rule in his stead.
893
01:10:17,540 --> 01:10:19,236
I mean, it's everything he ever wanted.
894
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:21,555
With great power comes
great responsibility,
895
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:23,235
and he's got to be seen as someone
896
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:24,615
who knows how to wield it.
897
01:10:24,620 --> 01:10:26,905
I agree, Your Grace.
It must be Prince Aemond.
898
01:10:26,910 --> 01:10:28,795
I mean, this is a massive power shift,
899
01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:30,395
all of a sudden, at the Green Council.
900
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:33,465
It was dramatized by the meeting
where Aemond takes power
901
01:10:33,470 --> 01:10:34,745
in this very kind of banal way,
902
01:10:34,750 --> 01:10:36,846
where he just stands up
from the foot of the table,
903
01:10:36,850 --> 01:10:38,796
takes his ball, and moves
over to the King's seat,
904
01:10:38,800 --> 01:10:39,895
and puts it down, and sits,
905
01:10:39,900 --> 01:10:41,445
and then starts doling out orders
906
01:10:41,450 --> 01:10:43,205
while everybody, including Alicent,
907
01:10:43,210 --> 01:10:44,255
especially Alicent,
908
01:10:44,260 --> 01:10:46,235
are reeling from the decision.
909
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:47,815
And you feel the shift in that way
910
01:10:47,820 --> 01:10:50,295
and how different the Red Keep
is going to be
911
01:10:50,300 --> 01:10:52,610
with Aemond in charge versus
the way it was with Aegon.
912
01:10:52,990 --> 01:10:55,285
Someone cut down
the fucking ratcatchers.
913
01:10:56,495 --> 01:10:58,446
Our terms are simple, Lord Bracken.
914
01:10:58,450 --> 01:11:01,110
Renounce the false King
Aegon as a usurper.
915
01:11:01,990 --> 01:11:03,330
Bend the knee to me,
916
01:11:04,775 --> 01:11:06,075
or your house burns.
917
01:11:06,775 --> 01:11:09,440
Daemon approaches life
always trying to hammer
918
01:11:09,445 --> 01:11:11,410
that square peg into the round hole,
919
01:11:11,415 --> 01:11:15,035
and he's just trying to force
his will upon this place.
920
01:11:15,845 --> 01:11:19,180
I love the image of him
in his full dragon battle armor,
921
01:11:19,185 --> 01:11:20,225
sitting on the rock,
922
01:11:20,230 --> 01:11:23,020
and not understanding
what's happened, and saying...
923
01:11:23,025 --> 01:11:25,740
I did not think they would be
so eager to die.
924
01:11:25,745 --> 01:11:28,790
And the Riverlands is just
this unwrangleable place to him.
925
01:11:28,795 --> 01:11:30,260
He's brought his values
926
01:11:30,265 --> 01:11:33,090
and sort of Targaryen dragon lord values
927
01:11:33,095 --> 01:11:34,500
into a place that is rich
928
01:11:34,505 --> 01:11:36,330
with the old gods and these old ways.
929
01:11:36,335 --> 01:11:38,760
These people just don't respect
the dragon lords
930
01:11:38,765 --> 01:11:40,890
the way Daemon is hoping or used to.
931
01:11:40,895 --> 01:11:43,600
I see I must begin here
with a lesson in etiquette.
932
01:11:43,605 --> 01:11:47,370
On the page, I thought, "Yeah,
this is the right territory.
933
01:11:47,375 --> 01:11:49,601
This is where we should be.
This is where his head's at".
934
01:11:49,605 --> 01:11:51,940
It's how mental his kind of state is.
935
01:11:51,945 --> 01:11:54,860
Is Daemon trying to usurp Rhaenyra?
936
01:11:54,865 --> 01:11:57,950
It's, like, unfair that he
wasn't given the crown,
937
01:11:57,955 --> 01:12:00,290
that he isn't listened to,
938
01:12:00,295 --> 01:12:02,330
that he doesn't have that power.
939
01:12:02,335 --> 01:12:04,220
We just don't know what he's going to do
940
01:12:04,225 --> 01:12:06,500
or, ultimately, how he's going to turn.
941
01:12:06,505 --> 01:12:09,260
And while I don't think that
anybody could ever be asked
942
01:12:09,265 --> 01:12:11,670
to believe that he would
turn against Rhaenyra
943
01:12:11,675 --> 01:12:13,130
and, like, go to war against her,
944
01:12:13,135 --> 01:12:15,670
I think we could all believe that
maybe Daemon would just go
945
01:12:15,675 --> 01:12:17,300
and claim the throne for himself
946
01:12:17,305 --> 01:12:18,640
and then see what happens.
947
01:12:18,645 --> 01:12:20,680
What would you call the husband
of the Queen?
948
01:12:20,685 --> 01:12:22,770
- Well, the King...
- There it is, then.
949
01:12:22,775 --> 01:12:23,815
... consort.
950
01:12:25,355 --> 01:12:27,695
That last bit seems unnecessary,
don't you think?