1 00:00:00,959 --> 00:00:02,002 I need more dragonriders. 2 00:00:02,003 --> 00:00:04,461 You understand, to claim a dragon, 3 00:00:04,462 --> 00:00:07,090 you must also be prepared to die. 4 00:00:16,641 --> 00:00:17,934 It was a reckless thought 5 00:00:18,101 --> 00:00:19,518 that an ancient Valyrian beast 6 00:00:19,519 --> 00:00:21,187 would suffer a Darklyn to ride it. 7 00:00:21,312 --> 00:00:23,523 Surely it was not the only possibility. 8 00:00:23,690 --> 00:00:25,150 I'll see my brother. 9 00:00:25,151 --> 00:00:26,693 What do you remember? 10 00:00:28,654 --> 00:00:30,613 I remember nothing. 11 00:00:32,615 --> 00:00:34,815 The small folk of King's Landing are listening. 12 00:00:34,993 --> 00:00:36,494 They are hungry. 13 00:00:36,703 --> 00:00:38,204 Our gift is sent. 14 00:00:42,709 --> 00:00:44,044 Give it to me! 15 00:00:45,295 --> 00:00:47,047 Your Graces, we must leave. 16 00:00:47,048 --> 00:00:48,380 Let's go. 17 00:00:48,381 --> 00:00:50,050 There's the queen of fishes! 18 00:00:50,175 --> 00:00:52,344 Long live Queen Rhaenyra! 19 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,056 If you have any counsel for dealing with the river lords, 20 00:00:56,057 --> 00:00:57,181 I'd be glad of it. 21 00:00:57,182 --> 00:00:59,351 But Grover Tully is their Lord Paramount. 22 00:00:59,684 --> 00:01:02,520 Without him, they will never raise their banners as one. 23 00:01:03,229 --> 00:01:04,689 This is Ser Oscar Tully, 24 00:01:04,690 --> 00:01:05,878 grandson to Grover Tully. 25 00:01:05,879 --> 00:01:07,067 He is heir to Riverrun 26 00:01:07,233 --> 00:01:09,235 and the future Lord Paramount of the Riverlands. 27 00:01:09,402 --> 00:01:12,655 Houses Bracken and Blackwood have long detested one another. 28 00:01:14,532 --> 00:01:16,576 We have fought them for an age and more. 29 00:01:16,868 --> 00:01:18,328 There are things the crown itself 30 00:01:18,329 --> 00:01:20,205 must not be seen to do. 31 00:01:20,580 --> 00:01:21,872 Show them your worst. 32 00:01:21,873 --> 00:01:23,667 I am your servant, Your Grace. 33 00:01:24,876 --> 00:01:26,544 There were works of barbarity. 34 00:01:26,878 --> 00:01:30,840 Dragon or no, we shall not raise our banners for a tyrant. 35 00:01:30,841 --> 00:01:33,426 Your Grace, Lord Grover is dead. 36 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,720 Young Oscar Tully is now 37 00:01:35,929 --> 00:01:37,222 Lord Paramount of the Riverlands. 38 00:01:37,389 --> 00:01:39,149 When I take King's Landing, 39 00:01:39,265 --> 00:01:40,892 Rhaenyra is welcome to join me there 40 00:01:40,893 --> 00:01:42,852 and take her place by my side. 41 00:01:45,188 --> 00:01:47,607 There is a large dragon in the Vale. 42 00:01:47,774 --> 00:01:49,567 Large, but alas wild. 43 00:01:49,693 --> 00:01:51,903 You saved his life, brother. 44 00:01:52,195 --> 00:01:53,915 Do you never think about what could be ours? 45 00:02:00,745 --> 00:02:02,625 Your Grace, the dragon Seasmoke 46 00:02:02,747 --> 00:02:04,457 has been sighted flying over Spicetown. 47 00:02:04,582 --> 00:02:06,584 From what we have heard, he has a rider. 48 00:04:46,411 --> 00:04:52,542 You stand before the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms... 49 00:04:52,543 --> 00:04:55,754 with a dragon of House Targaryen! 50 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,215 I had no design upon it! 51 00:04:59,216 --> 00:05:01,259 What do you want?! 52 00:05:02,052 --> 00:05:05,263 To learn the ways of dragonriders. 53 00:05:06,598 --> 00:05:08,767 And to serve my queen! 54 00:05:10,393 --> 00:05:12,479 Your Grace! 55 00:05:39,756 --> 00:05:41,965 You kneel quickly... 56 00:05:41,966 --> 00:05:44,594 for a man so suddenly elevated. 57 00:05:45,136 --> 00:05:49,140 This dragon came to me, not I to him. 58 00:05:51,142 --> 00:05:55,355 I have sweated blood in service of House Velaryon. 59 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,816 I may appear lowborn... 60 00:05:57,941 --> 00:06:00,985 but I know much and more of service! 61 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,489 And if the gods call me to greater things, 62 00:06:04,614 --> 00:06:06,324 who am I to refuse them? 63 00:06:16,001 --> 00:06:17,168 Stand. 64 00:06:25,468 --> 00:06:26,969 What is your parentage? 65 00:06:26,970 --> 00:06:29,347 My mother was a shipwright. 66 00:06:30,473 --> 00:06:32,183 My father is... 67 00:06:33,351 --> 00:06:34,686 no one of consequence. 68 00:06:35,311 --> 00:06:38,313 Your ancestors, any of House Targaryen? 69 00:06:38,314 --> 00:06:41,985 We're not the sort of family to keep annals, Your Grace. 70 00:06:43,987 --> 00:06:45,697 What is your name? 71 00:06:45,905 --> 00:06:48,324 Addam... of Hull. 72 00:06:56,833 --> 00:06:59,210 You have done something... 73 00:07:00,503 --> 00:07:02,505 I feared impossible... 74 00:07:04,174 --> 00:07:06,176 Addam of Hull. 75 00:07:10,722 --> 00:07:12,724 I am glad of it. 76 00:07:16,853 --> 00:07:19,064 Do you think you can get him to Dragonstone? 77 00:07:22,067 --> 00:07:23,860 I can try. 78 00:07:29,699 --> 00:07:31,575 All my life... 79 00:07:31,576 --> 00:07:36,081 I have endeavored to serve both my house and the realm. 80 00:07:37,749 --> 00:07:39,459 And somehow none of it matters. 81 00:07:41,711 --> 00:07:43,588 We are cast aside. 82 00:07:45,590 --> 00:07:47,092 Or hated. 83 00:07:50,053 --> 00:07:52,639 You'll have a scar... 84 00:07:52,764 --> 00:07:55,934 but... it will be easily hidden. 85 00:08:01,314 --> 00:08:03,149 Nothing is clean here. 86 00:08:12,909 --> 00:08:15,286 I wish to go out, Ser Rickard. 87 00:08:15,662 --> 00:08:17,247 Out? 88 00:08:17,747 --> 00:08:19,165 To the Kingswood, I think. 89 00:08:19,290 --> 00:08:20,667 Then I'll have the stewards prepare 90 00:08:20,792 --> 00:08:22,794 - a retinue. - No retinue. 91 00:08:23,795 --> 00:08:25,672 - Then your handmaidens... - No handmaidens. 92 00:08:25,797 --> 00:08:28,466 Just you. 93 00:08:37,809 --> 00:08:41,771 What are they for? The block or the crow cage? 94 00:08:41,772 --> 00:08:44,149 The Wall. 95 00:08:44,274 --> 00:08:46,317 The prince regent is merciful. 96 00:08:46,318 --> 00:08:47,360 Hm. 97 00:08:49,112 --> 00:08:52,031 Well, they started a riot. 98 00:08:52,032 --> 00:08:54,951 Justice is served, I suppose. 99 00:09:02,167 --> 00:09:05,670 I have received word of a matter of great importance. 100 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:09,841 Rumor of a sighting of the dragon Seasmoke... 101 00:09:10,842 --> 00:09:12,552 with a rider. 102 00:09:13,678 --> 00:09:15,637 A fine piece of intelligence, 103 00:09:15,638 --> 00:09:19,392 and now you seek favor by delivering it to Prince Aemond. 104 00:09:19,517 --> 00:09:23,646 Actually, I thought I might seek your advice, Lord Larys. 105 00:09:23,647 --> 00:09:25,690 Whispers being your province. 106 00:09:26,149 --> 00:09:29,861 Kneel before the Prince Regent Aemond Targaryen! 107 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,489 Oh, but this is your whisper, 108 00:09:32,490 --> 00:09:35,032 Lord Jasper, not mine. 109 00:09:35,033 --> 00:09:37,911 But if you consider it valuable... 110 00:09:38,036 --> 00:09:40,080 perhaps you could deliver it 111 00:09:40,205 --> 00:09:42,498 and find favor with Aemond yourself. 112 00:09:42,499 --> 00:09:45,043 You will forsake your white cloaks for black. 113 00:09:45,044 --> 00:09:47,879 serve out your days at The Wall. 114 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:49,881 Who is this rider? 115 00:09:50,006 --> 00:09:52,883 That is less clear, 116 00:09:52,884 --> 00:09:55,220 but it must surely be the Lady Rhaena. 117 00:09:55,345 --> 00:09:57,055 She has wanted for a dragon all her life. 118 00:09:57,180 --> 00:09:58,723 Indeed, but she tried already 119 00:09:58,848 --> 00:09:59,933 when she was four and ten. 120 00:10:00,058 --> 00:10:02,268 The beast Seasmoke very nearly devoured her. 121 00:10:02,394 --> 00:10:03,603 Who else? 122 00:10:04,938 --> 00:10:07,774 Yes, it is a shallow pool. 123 00:10:07,899 --> 00:10:09,693 Where did you hear it? 124 00:10:09,694 --> 00:10:11,069 My squire. 125 00:10:12,737 --> 00:10:15,072 He heard it from a stablehand, 126 00:10:15,073 --> 00:10:18,702 who heard it from his father, a fisherman, 127 00:10:18,703 --> 00:10:21,246 whose shipmate claims he saw it. 128 00:10:22,414 --> 00:10:23,415 Oh. 129 00:10:26,626 --> 00:10:29,087 You are, of course, welcome to bring this news 130 00:10:29,088 --> 00:10:31,881 to the prince regent, but, um... 131 00:10:32,549 --> 00:10:36,428 perhaps this is one of those whispers best left to the wind. 132 00:11:16,634 --> 00:11:18,469 The queen is unharmed. 133 00:11:18,470 --> 00:11:21,306 What of the rider? Do we know who he is? 134 00:11:21,307 --> 00:11:23,141 He appears to be a shipwright 135 00:11:23,266 --> 00:11:24,934 in your employ, Lord Hand. 136 00:11:24,935 --> 00:11:26,602 A commoner? 137 00:11:26,603 --> 00:11:29,189 With respect to your workers, Lord Corlys, 138 00:11:29,314 --> 00:11:33,276 the lowborn cannot go around seizing dragons. 139 00:11:33,277 --> 00:11:35,320 Has the thief been secured? 140 00:11:35,445 --> 00:11:38,823 Her Grace has commanded that he remain here as a guest. 141 00:11:38,824 --> 00:11:40,741 She wishes him to be instructed 142 00:11:40,742 --> 00:11:42,659 in the art of dragonriding, 143 00:11:42,660 --> 00:11:45,830 and that I should teach him some High Valyrian. 144 00:11:45,955 --> 00:11:47,957 We know nothing about this man, 145 00:11:47,958 --> 00:11:50,084 save that he is lowborn. 146 00:11:50,085 --> 00:11:52,212 What say you, Lord Hand? 147 00:11:53,630 --> 00:11:55,507 We will await the queen's accounting... 148 00:11:56,383 --> 00:11:59,469 before passing judgment. 149 00:12:01,805 --> 00:12:03,348 Where is the queen? 150 00:12:05,183 --> 00:12:07,686 Her Grace sends word she will not be attending. 151 00:12:12,023 --> 00:12:14,734 So he serves you and not himself. 152 00:12:15,026 --> 00:12:17,654 - That is lucky. - Lucky? 153 00:12:17,655 --> 00:12:19,572 Or somehow ordained? 154 00:12:19,573 --> 00:12:21,490 Seasmoke chose him. 155 00:12:21,491 --> 00:12:24,869 He surely has Targaryen blood in him somewhere. 156 00:12:24,994 --> 00:12:26,099 The dragon must sense it. 157 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:27,205 There will be others. 158 00:12:27,330 --> 00:12:28,330 We will find riders 159 00:12:28,373 --> 00:12:29,541 for Vermithor and Silverwing. 160 00:12:29,666 --> 00:12:31,084 You trust this man? 161 00:12:31,876 --> 00:12:33,169 What choice do I have? 162 00:12:33,170 --> 00:12:34,503 He has a dragon. 163 00:12:34,504 --> 00:12:36,171 Without him, I have only Syrax 164 00:12:36,172 --> 00:12:38,550 who may give Aemond a second thought. 165 00:12:39,092 --> 00:12:41,177 The question is where to look. 166 00:12:41,553 --> 00:12:45,557 Targaryen blood was perhaps too thin in Ser Steffon Darklyn. 167 00:12:45,558 --> 00:12:48,018 If I can find others with a more direct line 168 00:12:48,019 --> 00:12:51,062 of breeding. 169 00:12:51,187 --> 00:12:53,273 Forgive me, Your Grace... 170 00:12:55,358 --> 00:12:59,863 but you are better served looking under the sheets and in the woodpiles. 171 00:13:03,616 --> 00:13:05,534 I once worked in a pleasure house 172 00:13:05,535 --> 00:13:09,748 where generations of Targaryen princelings had their revels. 173 00:13:09,873 --> 00:13:13,376 There are four score of their bastard progeny at least, 174 00:13:13,377 --> 00:13:15,086 that are known to me. 175 00:13:15,211 --> 00:13:17,212 There are sure to be more. 176 00:13:17,213 --> 00:13:19,256 Perhaps some here, on Dragonstone, 177 00:13:19,257 --> 00:13:23,136 the misbegotten offspring of your house. 178 00:13:32,812 --> 00:13:34,271 You speak of the lowborn. 179 00:13:34,272 --> 00:13:35,731 They are as like to serve you 180 00:13:35,732 --> 00:13:39,486 as highborn lords or ladies, perhaps more. 181 00:13:41,654 --> 00:13:44,824 But in the highborn houses there is... 182 00:13:44,949 --> 00:13:47,619 an ancient fealty. 183 00:13:48,620 --> 00:13:49,788 There is honor. 184 00:13:50,455 --> 00:13:53,749 Your royal half-brothers, Aegon and Aemond, 185 00:13:53,750 --> 00:13:59,839 whose blood is pure, who wage war against you for your throne, 186 00:13:59,964 --> 00:14:01,591 are they bound by honor? 187 00:14:07,013 --> 00:14:10,432 A common shipwright vows to serve you 188 00:14:10,433 --> 00:14:13,853 while your brothers seek to destroy you. 189 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:19,651 The order of things has changed, Your Grace. 190 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,487 Why not embrace it? 191 00:14:31,955 --> 00:14:35,041 For 20 years, the lords of this realm levied... 192 00:14:35,166 --> 00:14:38,837 insults at my sons behind my back. 193 00:14:46,344 --> 00:14:47,679 Well then. 194 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,475 Let us raise an army of bastards. 195 00:15:13,038 --> 00:15:15,707 - My lord. - "My lord"? 196 00:15:16,207 --> 00:15:18,543 How you have come up in the world. 197 00:15:20,712 --> 00:15:22,881 I wish to ask for leave to relinquish my part 198 00:15:22,882 --> 00:15:24,840 as a shipwright in your service. 199 00:15:24,841 --> 00:15:27,886 There are good men and strong who can take my place... 200 00:15:32,891 --> 00:15:35,060 Your leave is granted. 201 00:15:47,072 --> 00:15:48,573 Well done. 202 00:16:16,893 --> 00:16:19,396 Lord Tully has answered your summons and brought 203 00:16:19,397 --> 00:16:21,981 the Riverlords, my king. 204 00:16:27,070 --> 00:16:30,072 My condolences on the passing of your grandsire 205 00:16:30,073 --> 00:16:33,118 but the crown congratulates you on your ascension to the head of your house 206 00:16:33,243 --> 00:16:34,953 and Lord Paramount in the Riverlands. 207 00:16:34,954 --> 00:16:36,287 Truly glorious. Well done. 208 00:16:37,247 --> 00:16:41,751 - I did nothing. - Nevertheless, you are here, which is the important thing. 209 00:16:41,752 --> 00:16:43,941 You were quick enough to dismiss me before. 210 00:16:43,942 --> 00:16:46,131 You were of no significance to me then. 211 00:16:46,132 --> 00:16:47,590 Now... 212 00:16:50,135 --> 00:16:52,762 I shall have my great host. 213 00:16:53,513 --> 00:16:55,806 You have a decision to make. 214 00:16:55,807 --> 00:16:58,143 I presume it is clear to you which is the right one. 215 00:16:58,977 --> 00:17:00,770 You'll forgive me, Your Grace. 216 00:17:00,771 --> 00:17:02,855 I am green in this sort of matter, 217 00:17:02,856 --> 00:17:06,818 as you so kindly point out, but... 218 00:17:07,777 --> 00:17:11,281 it does seem to me that you've made rather a mess here, 219 00:17:11,282 --> 00:17:15,285 countenancing barbarities in the queen's name. 220 00:17:15,286 --> 00:17:17,537 Whose side are you on? 221 00:17:21,833 --> 00:17:25,003 The Riverlands are held together by oaths. 222 00:17:26,546 --> 00:17:30,508 House Tully swore an oath to King Viserys. 223 00:17:32,135 --> 00:17:33,386 We recognize the authority 224 00:17:33,511 --> 00:17:36,014 of the named heir, Queen Rhaenyra 225 00:17:36,473 --> 00:17:40,352 and your own... as her king consort. 226 00:17:41,686 --> 00:17:42,854 Good. 227 00:17:43,980 --> 00:17:45,397 Then we shall go to face your vassals 228 00:17:45,398 --> 00:17:46,816 and you will call your banners to war. 229 00:17:46,817 --> 00:17:49,486 That might be difficult, my king. 230 00:17:54,366 --> 00:17:55,700 Well... 231 00:17:56,910 --> 00:17:58,494 I was told they would come to heel 232 00:17:58,495 --> 00:18:00,997 when House Tully declared its allegiance. 233 00:18:00,998 --> 00:18:02,998 That may be the case, 234 00:18:02,999 --> 00:18:06,002 though it is yet to be seen that they will heed my authority 235 00:18:06,003 --> 00:18:08,046 as young as it is. 236 00:18:09,547 --> 00:18:11,716 And there is another problem. 237 00:18:13,551 --> 00:18:15,344 They all hate you. 238 00:18:17,952 --> 00:18:20,558 I don't need their love. 239 00:18:20,684 --> 00:18:22,852 I need their swords. 240 00:18:25,271 --> 00:18:29,234 Your Grace, my lord. The Riverlords await. 241 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,861 I fear we cannot delay them any longer. 242 00:18:38,410 --> 00:18:40,745 Come along, Lord Oscar. 243 00:19:03,101 --> 00:19:05,770 In the deepest darkness comes the dawn. 244 00:19:06,396 --> 00:19:07,772 A new lord, 245 00:19:07,897 --> 00:19:09,607 a new beginning. 246 00:19:10,567 --> 00:19:13,153 Let us put all the old unpleasantness behind us. 247 00:19:19,284 --> 00:19:21,286 Be welcome, my lords... 248 00:19:22,162 --> 00:19:25,415 and you have my thanks for answering my summons. 249 00:19:25,416 --> 00:19:27,959 I know I'm not the man my grandsire was, 250 00:19:28,084 --> 00:19:32,922 but I hope to begin well, and go on from there. 251 00:19:32,923 --> 00:19:36,176 Well said. One thing is clear... 252 00:19:36,801 --> 00:19:40,096 the Rivermen honor the old ways and abide by tradition. 253 00:19:40,097 --> 00:19:41,806 Here, then, is tradition. 254 00:19:41,807 --> 00:19:43,516 Grover Tully is dead. 255 00:19:43,641 --> 00:19:45,477 Lord Oscar raised up in his place. 256 00:19:45,602 --> 00:19:47,187 You have been summoned here 257 00:19:47,312 --> 00:19:48,937 to swear anew your fealty to him, 258 00:19:48,938 --> 00:19:53,109 and as his bannermen, answer his call. 259 00:19:53,110 --> 00:19:55,152 And what would that call be? 260 00:19:55,153 --> 00:19:57,364 In his wisdom, he has pledged his house, 261 00:19:57,489 --> 00:19:59,281 and yours, to me. 262 00:20:01,117 --> 00:20:04,496 Lord Oscar, for generations we have been guided 263 00:20:04,497 --> 00:20:06,623 by the judgment of your forebears. 264 00:20:06,956 --> 00:20:10,460 Why should we now follow a boy, younger than my own sons, 265 00:20:10,461 --> 00:20:11,794 when you will align with one 266 00:20:11,795 --> 00:20:14,172 who will desecrate the innocent to reach his aims? 267 00:20:15,674 --> 00:20:18,926 I did only what was necessary, my lord. 268 00:20:18,927 --> 00:20:22,180 And I now deliver to you the traitor 269 00:20:22,181 --> 00:20:24,306 Amos Bracken and his son. 270 00:20:24,307 --> 00:20:27,811 No more traitor to his land than you, Willem Blackwood. 271 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,855 I take to heart your words, Lord Piper, 272 00:20:30,980 --> 00:20:34,192 and I agree, I-I-I am young. 273 00:20:37,028 --> 00:20:40,240 And I have no love for Daemon Targaryen. 274 00:20:40,365 --> 00:20:43,702 He has dishonored himself and the crown with his... 275 00:20:44,577 --> 00:20:47,329 comportment here. 276 00:20:47,330 --> 00:20:51,250 Nevertheless, having so little experience to guide me, 277 00:20:51,251 --> 00:20:55,171 my best course is to defer to the oath my grandsire swore 278 00:20:55,172 --> 00:20:59,217 to King Viserys when he named Rhaenyra his heir. 279 00:21:02,387 --> 00:21:05,848 I see no reason to cast aside loyalty 280 00:21:05,849 --> 00:21:09,519 no matter how loathsome I may find her representative the prince. 281 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:10,937 King. 282 00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:13,898 Mind your tongue, boy. 283 00:21:25,702 --> 00:21:28,204 Will you have our army or not? 284 00:21:38,715 --> 00:21:41,133 I am, in the end, a Riverman 285 00:21:41,134 --> 00:21:43,552 and the word of my house stands, 286 00:21:43,553 --> 00:21:46,389 even if certain people are unworthy of it. 287 00:21:54,272 --> 00:21:56,775 Your Lord Oscar is bold. 288 00:21:57,942 --> 00:22:00,445 But he is perhaps not wrong. 289 00:22:01,237 --> 00:22:04,074 I may have been a touch enthusiastic 290 00:22:04,075 --> 00:22:06,909 in pursuing my aims. 291 00:22:06,910 --> 00:22:10,412 But don't allow my failings to... 292 00:22:10,413 --> 00:22:13,415 keep you from supporting an upright man. 293 00:22:13,416 --> 00:22:16,336 Lord Oscar, we honor the old ways, 294 00:22:16,461 --> 00:22:18,797 as Prince Daemon says 295 00:22:18,922 --> 00:22:22,300 - and the old ways call for justice to be done. - Yes! 296 00:22:22,425 --> 00:22:24,468 Justice has been done. 297 00:22:24,469 --> 00:22:29,140 They who bent the knee to the usurper have been brought to heel. 298 00:22:29,808 --> 00:22:34,354 And now, we unite before our liege lord... 299 00:22:36,272 --> 00:22:38,483 and our king consort. 300 00:22:52,372 --> 00:22:56,334 I accept you as my vassal, Willem Blackwood... 301 00:23:03,466 --> 00:23:04,718 but... 302 00:23:06,052 --> 00:23:09,472 I am Lord Paramount of all River Houses. 303 00:23:11,182 --> 00:23:12,851 And there is only one answer for the crimes 304 00:23:12,976 --> 00:23:14,853 you visited upon your neighbors. 305 00:23:18,565 --> 00:23:22,360 I did only what His Grace the king required of me. 306 00:23:22,361 --> 00:23:26,156 It is true that he made clear his base desires, 307 00:23:26,157 --> 00:23:29,826 but you did not have to pursue such savagery. 308 00:23:30,827 --> 00:23:34,706 You did it... because you wanted to. 309 00:23:34,914 --> 00:23:37,375 Our young lord speaks truly. 310 00:23:39,002 --> 00:23:41,546 Seize him. 311 00:23:42,380 --> 00:23:46,008 Don't fuckin' do this. 312 00:23:46,009 --> 00:23:49,220 Your Grace, command them. I've only served you. 313 00:23:53,892 --> 00:23:55,852 - Command them. - If His Grace wishes 314 00:23:55,853 --> 00:23:58,229 to show contrition for his acts 315 00:23:58,355 --> 00:24:02,067 and to prove himself deserving of our banners 316 00:24:02,859 --> 00:24:05,528 he must now rectify his grievous error. 317 00:24:05,529 --> 00:24:08,073 Denounce your crimes... 318 00:24:09,366 --> 00:24:12,077 and dispense justice. 319 00:24:13,453 --> 00:24:14,537 Oh, dear. 320 00:24:27,717 --> 00:24:29,719 No, no, no! 321 00:24:30,095 --> 00:24:33,264 I did as you asked, Your Grace, I have been faithful. 322 00:25:52,677 --> 00:25:54,888 What is this? 323 00:25:56,639 --> 00:25:59,017 I never wanted it. 324 00:26:01,519 --> 00:26:03,855 I was right not to. 325 00:26:07,525 --> 00:26:10,236 All that pain it caused. 326 00:26:13,823 --> 00:26:17,202 It crushes whoever wears it. 327 00:26:20,997 --> 00:26:23,708 You always wanted it, Daemon. 328 00:26:29,047 --> 00:26:31,591 Do you want it still? 329 00:26:40,892 --> 00:26:44,062 Steady. Slowly. 330 00:26:47,065 --> 00:26:48,274 I can't. 331 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,236 You can. You must try, Your Grace. 332 00:26:59,704 --> 00:27:01,871 I can't, I can't! 333 00:27:06,459 --> 00:27:08,586 I'm sorry, Your Grace. I'm sorry, Your Grace. 334 00:27:08,712 --> 00:27:12,132 Oh, God. Oh, God. 335 00:27:12,257 --> 00:27:13,382 A moment! 336 00:27:13,383 --> 00:27:16,261 A moment, please! 337 00:27:19,764 --> 00:27:23,476 You really oughtn't to be doing that alone, Grand Maester. 338 00:27:31,276 --> 00:27:32,568 Allow me. 339 00:27:35,238 --> 00:27:36,781 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 340 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,117 Forgive me, Your Grace. 341 00:27:50,462 --> 00:27:52,922 - Be careful. - Wait, wait. 342 00:28:03,683 --> 00:28:06,102 Your progress is impressive. 343 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,608 But I'm afraid you must work harder. 344 00:28:12,984 --> 00:28:14,986 Your strength will return. 345 00:28:15,111 --> 00:28:17,050 There are... adjustments 346 00:28:17,051 --> 00:28:18,990 to the gait and so forth 347 00:28:19,115 --> 00:28:21,826 that you will learn now that you are... 348 00:28:22,869 --> 00:28:24,037 as you are. 349 00:28:37,217 --> 00:28:39,469 You should be more cautious. 350 00:28:39,844 --> 00:28:42,137 I, I should, Lord Larys. 351 00:28:42,138 --> 00:28:44,724 He-He needs rest. He should be abed. 352 00:28:44,849 --> 00:28:47,142 I push him on your instruction. 353 00:28:47,143 --> 00:28:49,521 I'll have the sentry give you more warning. 354 00:28:52,023 --> 00:28:53,692 Let him try again in a few hours. 355 00:28:53,693 --> 00:28:55,360 He is spent. 356 00:28:58,363 --> 00:29:01,157 It will be long before he may rest again. 357 00:29:13,545 --> 00:29:14,713 Alyn. 358 00:29:17,841 --> 00:29:19,384 My lord. 359 00:29:22,387 --> 00:29:25,098 I have tasks that need your personal attention. 360 00:29:25,515 --> 00:29:28,226 The queen requires ships at her service in King's Landing. 361 00:29:28,351 --> 00:29:31,062 Charter fishing vessels. Pay whatever they demand 362 00:29:31,063 --> 00:29:34,357 but ensure their captains are dependable. 363 00:29:36,526 --> 00:29:38,945 - Put trusted swords aboard. - Yes, m'lord. 364 00:29:39,070 --> 00:29:40,572 Have them wait just outside the harbor. 365 00:29:40,697 --> 00:29:43,742 And there will be a message to carry to one she will name. 366 00:29:50,582 --> 00:29:54,919 The queen has found a new rider for one of her dragons. 367 00:29:55,420 --> 00:29:57,922 I've heard tell of it. 368 00:29:58,048 --> 00:29:59,424 The rider is your brother. 369 00:30:03,928 --> 00:30:06,431 She now makes the call for others. 370 00:30:06,931 --> 00:30:09,829 Our people are of Old Valyria, 371 00:30:09,830 --> 00:30:12,729 but... we are no dragonlords. 372 00:30:14,272 --> 00:30:19,444 I confess, I knew little of your mother's heritage. 373 00:30:21,821 --> 00:30:23,448 If it is... 374 00:30:24,449 --> 00:30:26,618 something in the blood. 375 00:30:31,331 --> 00:30:33,916 My brother was ever restless, 376 00:30:33,917 --> 00:30:36,670 yearning for some sign of his worth. 377 00:30:38,004 --> 00:30:41,007 I am of salt and sea. 378 00:30:41,132 --> 00:30:43,468 I yearn for nothing else. 379 00:32:44,589 --> 00:32:46,966 I will retire now, Ser Rickard. 380 00:32:54,265 --> 00:32:57,769 When does Your Grace mean to return to the city? 381 00:32:59,479 --> 00:33:01,731 I'm not yet certain I do. 382 00:33:03,274 --> 00:33:04,567 Good night. 383 00:33:12,826 --> 00:33:16,079 The lowborn claiming dragons, 384 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,872 was it her idea? 385 00:33:17,873 --> 00:33:19,666 Lady Mysaria? 386 00:33:19,791 --> 00:33:22,919 You were enthusiastic enough when Ser Steffon made his claim. 387 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,255 He was the Lord Commander of your Queensguard. 388 00:33:25,256 --> 00:33:27,799 Heir to the Dun Fort. These people are... 389 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,009 Courageous. 390 00:33:29,801 --> 00:33:31,469 Mongrels. 391 00:33:36,975 --> 00:33:38,351 Jace. 392 00:33:41,146 --> 00:33:43,105 Think what is at stake. 393 00:33:43,106 --> 00:33:46,317 I know well what is at stake. 394 00:33:47,986 --> 00:33:50,717 House Targaryen is the blood of the dragon. 395 00:33:50,718 --> 00:33:53,450 If any may lay claim to it, what are we then? 396 00:33:53,867 --> 00:33:56,828 The rightful rulers of the Seven Kingdoms. 397 00:33:57,162 --> 00:34:00,832 And what if one of your baseborn, silver-haired dragonriders 398 00:34:00,957 --> 00:34:03,668 decides he wants to rule the Seven Kingdoms? 399 00:34:03,793 --> 00:34:07,213 Did the Conqueror's dream foretell that? 400 00:34:07,339 --> 00:34:10,008 What else would you have me do? 401 00:34:11,718 --> 00:34:13,553 Prosecute a war, which we will lose, 402 00:34:13,678 --> 00:34:15,992 in which thousands will die. 403 00:34:15,993 --> 00:34:18,307 Or fly against Vhagar myself? 404 00:34:18,308 --> 00:34:21,895 Or perhaps you will fly against her on Vermax. 405 00:34:24,481 --> 00:34:29,194 Jace, with these riders, we can end a needless war. 406 00:34:30,195 --> 00:34:32,697 I may take my rightful place on my father's throne. 407 00:34:32,822 --> 00:34:34,866 And when you die? 408 00:34:38,703 --> 00:34:41,081 You are my heir. 409 00:34:54,844 --> 00:34:57,555 Did you think I would have dark hair? 410 00:35:05,522 --> 00:35:07,774 When you took Harwin Strong into your bed, 411 00:35:07,899 --> 00:35:09,275 did you think I might favor him, 412 00:35:09,401 --> 00:35:10,944 or did it not cross your mind? 413 00:35:13,530 --> 00:35:16,741 - Jacaerys... - I'm no fool, Mother! 414 00:35:17,242 --> 00:35:19,577 The proof is here for all to see. 415 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,374 Yet I may argue my legitimacy to succeed you 416 00:35:24,375 --> 00:35:26,626 because I have a dragon. 417 00:35:29,713 --> 00:35:32,090 And now you say you will strip that from me too. 418 00:35:48,273 --> 00:35:50,942 I mislike all of this. 419 00:35:52,944 --> 00:35:54,904 Then don't pursue it. 420 00:36:02,912 --> 00:36:06,666 But I cannot gainsay that which the gods 421 00:36:06,791 --> 00:36:08,585 have laid before me. 422 00:36:33,693 --> 00:36:37,113 Do whatever you must to see that it finds her. 423 00:37:03,306 --> 00:37:05,016 From the queen. 424 00:37:51,771 --> 00:37:53,440 You won't believe this. 425 00:37:55,358 --> 00:37:57,192 Word is, Rhaenyra's recruiting 426 00:37:57,193 --> 00:37:59,069 smallfolk to go to Dragonstone. 427 00:37:59,070 --> 00:38:02,032 - Oh, fuck that. - Oh, they wouldn't take you anyway. 428 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,704 They're looking... for Targaryen bastards. 429 00:38:08,580 --> 00:38:11,186 Boats leave tonight. Hour of the bat. 430 00:38:11,187 --> 00:38:13,793 Seven hells, Ulf. This is it! 431 00:38:13,918 --> 00:38:15,753 Yeah, a likely story. 432 00:38:15,754 --> 00:38:17,881 - You've been taken in, lads. - No, no, no, no, no. 433 00:38:17,882 --> 00:38:20,717 The queen's own handmaid is here, spreadin' the word. 434 00:38:20,718 --> 00:38:22,194 Well, that's a shame 'cause I'd have been 435 00:38:22,218 --> 00:38:25,054 first in line if it wasn't for my injury. 436 00:38:25,055 --> 00:38:27,241 - 'Cause my leg hasn't been the same since... - Are you touched? 437 00:38:27,265 --> 00:38:29,224 He's saying you can claim a dragon. 438 00:38:29,225 --> 00:38:31,770 The barkeep from the Seven Maesters is goin'. 439 00:38:31,895 --> 00:38:33,313 And two of the girls from Mother's. 440 00:38:33,438 --> 00:38:36,399 - A chance to stick it to Aemond. - And claim a dragon. 441 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,567 - Dragon! - Yeah, no. I know. 442 00:38:38,568 --> 00:38:41,905 - What? - I know. I just... I can't... 443 00:38:41,906 --> 00:38:44,407 I can't be sure it's all true. 444 00:38:47,786 --> 00:38:51,080 You can't mean that you've been drinkin' 445 00:38:51,081 --> 00:38:53,583 at the expense of all these, these good people 446 00:38:53,584 --> 00:38:55,669 - for a fiction? No, Ulf. - No, no. Shh. 447 00:38:55,794 --> 00:38:57,419 All spark and no tinder? 448 00:38:57,420 --> 00:38:59,231 - They won't be happy. - They'll be very unhappy. 449 00:38:59,255 --> 00:39:01,298 - Never live it down. - Never live it down. 450 00:39:01,299 --> 00:39:03,802 - Come on, Ulf, the time has come! - Come on! 451 00:39:03,803 --> 00:39:05,260 Can I see a little glimmer? 452 00:39:05,261 --> 00:39:07,806 - Where is it? - There's the Ulf I know. 453 00:39:07,931 --> 00:39:09,973 Yes! Yes, there he is! 454 00:39:09,974 --> 00:39:13,687 - Yes, yes! - Wine! Wine for Ulf the Dragonlord! 455 00:39:13,812 --> 00:39:16,793 Ulf the Dragonlord! 456 00:39:16,794 --> 00:39:19,776 Ulf the Dragonlord! Ulf the Dragonlord! 457 00:39:30,995 --> 00:39:33,540 I don't want you to go. 458 00:39:33,665 --> 00:39:35,457 I have to, Kat. 459 00:39:35,458 --> 00:39:37,564 We'll go to my brother in Tumbleton. 460 00:39:37,565 --> 00:39:39,671 They'll have food. You'll find work. 461 00:39:39,796 --> 00:39:41,548 I can't ignore this. 462 00:39:45,969 --> 00:39:47,846 I never knew my father. 463 00:39:50,223 --> 00:39:52,225 That much is true. 464 00:39:56,521 --> 00:39:58,690 But I did know my mother. 465 00:40:11,202 --> 00:40:13,704 I hid it from you. 466 00:40:13,705 --> 00:40:15,999 And I'm sorry for that. 467 00:40:19,711 --> 00:40:21,421 She worked... 468 00:40:22,714 --> 00:40:24,049 in a pleasure house. 469 00:40:25,383 --> 00:40:28,261 She was granted more freedom than most 470 00:40:28,386 --> 00:40:30,889 because of who she was. 471 00:40:33,224 --> 00:40:36,436 And because rich men paid more to fuck a woman with silver hair. 472 00:40:40,899 --> 00:40:43,026 She used to tell me... 473 00:40:44,069 --> 00:40:47,405 I was no different to her brother's boys 474 00:40:49,574 --> 00:40:52,744 Viserys... and Daemon. 475 00:40:58,416 --> 00:41:00,418 But I was ashamed of her. 476 00:41:03,254 --> 00:41:06,466 I tried to make my way with my own hands. 477 00:41:10,762 --> 00:41:13,431 I could not protect you. 478 00:41:14,057 --> 00:41:17,143 I could not keep our girl alive. 479 00:41:24,734 --> 00:41:26,111 And now... 480 00:41:27,779 --> 00:41:30,865 we would never want again. 481 00:41:30,866 --> 00:41:33,952 If I claimed a dragon... 482 00:41:35,078 --> 00:41:37,247 they'd make you a lady. 483 00:41:42,752 --> 00:41:45,463 I do not care to be a lady, Hugh. 484 00:41:48,174 --> 00:41:50,969 And neither do I want to be a widow. 485 00:41:58,476 --> 00:42:01,021 I have to do somethin'. 486 00:46:01,052 --> 00:46:05,432 I used to think I knew what it was to claim a dragon, but... 487 00:46:09,894 --> 00:46:12,564 I understand now that what I thought I knew is... 488 00:46:13,231 --> 00:46:15,233 ash in the wind. 489 00:46:27,620 --> 00:46:29,914 Perhaps it is blood. 490 00:46:29,915 --> 00:46:32,249 Or worth. 491 00:46:32,250 --> 00:46:34,711 Or perhaps it's something else. 492 00:46:39,049 --> 00:46:45,138 Each of you... has left behind a life to answer this call. 493 00:46:46,264 --> 00:46:51,269 A life to which... you might never return. 494 00:46:53,104 --> 00:46:56,274 If you survive, you will be transformed. 495 00:46:57,317 --> 00:47:01,404 No man or woman can face a dragon and be otherwise. 496 00:47:06,785 --> 00:47:10,413 Some of you may welcome the prospect of change, 497 00:47:10,414 --> 00:47:14,167 even death, given the alternatives: 498 00:47:14,501 --> 00:47:18,922 privation... starvation, war. 499 00:47:19,923 --> 00:47:22,279 This is our purpose, 500 00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,636 to end those hardships. 501 00:47:26,513 --> 00:47:27,847 For you... 502 00:47:29,307 --> 00:47:32,686 for your kin, for all the realm. 503 00:47:33,687 --> 00:47:38,024 With these two dragons added to our number, 504 00:47:38,149 --> 00:47:40,819 the enemy will have no choice but to give way. 505 00:47:42,195 --> 00:47:44,948 And peace will be restored... 506 00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,432 suffering will be ended, 507 00:47:50,433 --> 00:47:53,665 and without bloodshed... 508 00:47:54,833 --> 00:47:56,835 gods willing. 509 00:48:11,725 --> 00:48:13,893 The dragon 510 00:48:14,019 --> 00:48:16,021 named Vermithor... 511 00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:21,026 is the largest in the world after Vhagar, 512 00:48:21,027 --> 00:48:24,821 and... perhaps, the most fierce. 513 00:48:29,034 --> 00:48:31,161 He's called the Bronze Fury. 514 00:48:37,334 --> 00:48:39,044 We'll go to him now. 515 00:48:41,171 --> 00:48:42,547 And... 516 00:48:45,925 --> 00:48:47,677 may the gods bless you. 517 00:51:49,776 --> 00:51:52,070 Who among you would be first? 518 00:52:21,766 --> 00:52:24,184 I have nothing more to tell you. 519 00:52:24,185 --> 00:52:26,604 It must be the dragon who speaks. 520 00:54:00,865 --> 00:54:03,535 - Your Grace, we must away! - No. 521 00:54:39,237 --> 00:54:41,239 Help me! Help... 522 00:54:41,948 --> 00:54:43,116 Help me! 523 00:55:30,622 --> 00:55:31,956 Oh, f... 524 00:56:10,829 --> 00:56:12,789 - No! - Shh, shh, shh! 525 00:57:13,246 --> 00:57:16,061 Here! Here I am! 526 00:57:28,740 --> 00:57:30,387 I'm ready. 527 00:57:45,757 --> 00:57:48,592 Come on! 528 01:01:34,986 --> 01:01:39,282 "Lord Ormund Hightower makes slow progress. 529 01:01:39,283 --> 01:01:41,785 "There is great concern that his host 530 01:01:41,786 --> 01:01:42,951 "is threatened on two fronts 531 01:01:42,952 --> 01:01:46,498 by armies allied with House Beesbury." 532 01:01:48,958 --> 01:01:51,211 However, in happier tidings, 533 01:01:51,336 --> 01:01:52,962 Prince Daeron's dragon, Tessarion, 534 01:01:52,963 --> 01:01:54,630 has at last taken to wing. 535 01:01:54,631 --> 01:01:57,175 Your brother expects to join the fight soon. 536 01:01:57,300 --> 01:01:59,511 Dragon! 537 01:01:59,803 --> 01:02:01,221 And when he does, 538 01:02:01,346 --> 01:02:04,181 the Hightower host will be unstoppable. 539 01:02:04,182 --> 01:02:07,018 Dragon! Inside! Now! 540 01:02:21,366 --> 01:02:23,493 Take positions! 541 01:03:02,199 --> 01:03:03,908 Open the gates! 542 01:05:58,208 --> 01:05:59,709 The dragons dance, 543 01:06:01,252 --> 01:06:03,546 and men are like dust under their feet. 544 01:06:05,215 --> 01:06:07,217 We march now toward our annihilation. 545 01:06:10,804 --> 01:06:13,890 I have entrusted you with a power only few have known. 546 01:06:15,225 --> 01:06:17,811 We must strike while we have the advantage. 547 01:06:18,478 --> 01:06:20,229 The Prince Regent is angry. 548 01:06:20,230 --> 01:06:21,731 There is no telling what he will do. 549 01:06:21,981 --> 01:06:23,942 You wish to rule the Seven Kingdoms, 550 01:06:23,943 --> 01:06:25,902 but you reign ruin and death. 551 01:06:26,778 --> 01:06:28,863 While you have mustered an army, 552 01:06:28,864 --> 01:06:30,073 Rhaenyra has faltered. 553 01:06:30,740 --> 01:06:32,784 Pretenders raise new riders against us. 554 01:06:32,909 --> 01:06:34,828 I need you to fly with Dreamfyre to battle. 555 01:06:35,745 --> 01:06:38,456 We will answer outrage with outrage. 556 01:06:39,916 --> 01:06:42,002 For every one of us who falls, 557 01:06:43,253 --> 01:06:44,921 a hundred of them. 558 01:06:45,171 --> 01:06:47,841 There will be no mercy! 559 01:07:04,149 --> 01:07:06,151 In this episode, Rhaenyra throws off 560 01:07:06,276 --> 01:07:08,381 all dissenting opinions around her, 561 01:07:08,382 --> 01:07:10,488 and then takes her court of commoners 562 01:07:10,489 --> 01:07:12,157 all out onto the platform. 563 01:07:12,657 --> 01:07:14,451 Who among you would be first? 564 01:07:21,958 --> 01:07:23,811 I always talked about that coastline scene 565 01:07:23,835 --> 01:07:24,961 as a Western showdown, 566 01:07:25,211 --> 01:07:28,048 a scene out of Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West... 567 01:07:30,008 --> 01:07:31,967 ...with the dragon being the Colt on their hip, 568 01:07:31,968 --> 01:07:33,845 and the way they carefully approach each other 569 01:07:33,970 --> 01:07:35,347 and size each other up. 570 01:07:35,513 --> 01:07:36,848 What do you want? 571 01:07:37,015 --> 01:07:39,204 Until this point, she's thinking about people 572 01:07:39,205 --> 01:07:41,394 that are after their own rise and personal gain. 573 01:07:41,519 --> 01:07:43,289 And I think she wants to get a sense of whether 574 01:07:43,313 --> 01:07:46,358 she has to kill this man or kill his dragon. 575 01:07:46,483 --> 01:07:47,901 To serve my Queen. 576 01:07:48,026 --> 01:07:50,862 To meet somebody that actually does this miraculous thing 577 01:07:50,863 --> 01:07:52,697 and then immediately bends the knee to her, 578 01:07:52,698 --> 01:07:54,532 in a way, that is a bit of a shock. 579 01:07:55,033 --> 01:07:57,035 Do you think you can get him to Dragonstone? 580 01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:59,828 The moment Addam claims Seasmoke, 581 01:07:59,829 --> 01:08:02,207 suddenly Rhaenyra understands that she was right, 582 01:08:02,208 --> 01:08:05,834 that people with some Targaryen blood 583 01:08:05,835 --> 01:08:08,046 somewhere in their lineage can claim dragons. 584 01:08:09,172 --> 01:08:11,549 - These people are... - Courageous. 585 01:08:12,550 --> 01:08:13,385 Mongrels. 586 01:08:13,551 --> 01:08:15,029 Yeah, it's a big, big moment. 587 01:08:15,053 --> 01:08:17,097 You know, obviously, last time that Jace 588 01:08:17,222 --> 01:08:18,848 probably would've said anything was in season one, 589 01:08:18,849 --> 01:08:21,726 when little Jace said, "Am I a bastard?" 590 01:08:21,851 --> 01:08:23,728 House Targaryen is the blood of the dragon. 591 01:08:23,895 --> 01:08:25,855 If any may lay claim to it, what are we then? 592 01:08:25,856 --> 01:08:27,295 Jace very simply looks at it as like, 593 01:08:27,399 --> 01:08:30,193 "You're going to just take any gutter rat from King's Landing 594 01:08:30,194 --> 01:08:31,527 and try to put them on dragons? 595 01:08:31,528 --> 01:08:33,238 It makes me a common aristocrat 596 01:08:33,363 --> 01:08:35,240 with black hair and a checkered past." 597 01:08:42,872 --> 01:08:43,873 My Lord. 598 01:08:44,082 --> 01:08:45,249 My Lord? 599 01:08:45,250 --> 01:08:46,918 How you have come up in the world. 600 01:08:47,085 --> 01:08:48,545 Being initially shocked, 601 01:08:48,546 --> 01:08:50,088 Corlys is then very proud. 602 01:08:50,255 --> 01:08:51,547 It's because that's my son. 603 01:08:51,548 --> 01:08:53,550 Off his own back, he's made something of himself. 604 01:08:53,551 --> 01:08:55,301 And I think that's very important for Corlys 605 01:08:55,427 --> 01:08:57,262 because that's how he sees himself. 606 01:08:59,431 --> 01:09:00,432 Well done. 607 01:09:01,099 --> 01:09:05,228 Yes, two words, but they mean just more than "well done." 608 01:09:05,229 --> 01:09:07,272 They're... They mean, "I see you." 609 01:09:09,816 --> 01:09:11,484 Daemon goes out into the godswood, 610 01:09:11,609 --> 01:09:12,729 expecting a certain outcome, 611 01:09:12,777 --> 01:09:15,613 and then the fun of that scene is seeing all the cards 612 01:09:15,739 --> 01:09:16,781 as they're turned over. 613 01:09:17,115 --> 01:09:20,243 Why should we now follow a boy when you will align with one 614 01:09:20,244 --> 01:09:22,619 who will desecrate the innocent to reach his aims? 615 01:09:22,620 --> 01:09:24,914 Not only are you going to have to show your belly to them 616 01:09:24,915 --> 01:09:26,082 in order to get your way... 617 01:09:26,458 --> 01:09:29,127 I may have been a touch enthusiastic 618 01:09:29,128 --> 01:09:30,420 in pursuing my aims. 619 01:09:30,628 --> 01:09:31,628 Seize him. 620 01:09:31,755 --> 01:09:34,007 Your Grace, command them. I've only served you. 621 01:09:34,257 --> 01:09:36,057 ...but now you're going to go one step further 622 01:09:36,092 --> 01:09:38,345 and actually take the head of this guy 623 01:09:38,470 --> 01:09:41,306 that pledged his life in service to you. 624 01:09:41,307 --> 01:09:42,307 No, no, no! 625 01:09:42,474 --> 01:09:44,285 Daemon isn't the most honorable guy in the world, 626 01:09:44,309 --> 01:09:47,020 but I think he does have that kind of mafia honor to him. 627 01:09:47,145 --> 01:09:48,980 He's made this sort of life-and-death pact 628 01:09:49,105 --> 01:09:51,273 with Willem Blackwood and said, "You do my way, 629 01:09:51,274 --> 01:09:53,193 and I'll see that the sky's the limit for you." 630 01:09:53,318 --> 01:09:54,819 He's so used to being in control, 631 01:09:54,944 --> 01:09:56,584 and it all just slips through his fingers. 632 01:09:58,156 --> 01:10:00,992 And you see how he just comes apart at the end of it. 633 01:10:04,996 --> 01:10:06,643 I had a long conversation with Paddy, 634 01:10:06,644 --> 01:10:08,635 and he said, "I'll play the part, 635 01:10:08,636 --> 01:10:10,627 but I want to play the final scene, 636 01:10:10,628 --> 01:10:11,794 when he offers the crown up, 637 01:10:11,795 --> 01:10:13,838 I want to do it in the decrepit makeup." 638 01:10:14,631 --> 01:10:17,175 It was Paddy's idea, which is just a clever idea. 639 01:10:17,300 --> 01:10:20,178 And then he turns around, and Daemon, for the first time, 640 01:10:20,179 --> 01:10:24,015 sees the full kind of degradation of his face. 641 01:10:24,016 --> 01:10:25,474 And he presents him the crown. 642 01:10:25,475 --> 01:10:27,894 He's like, "God, is that what I wanted? Do I need it?" 643 01:10:28,019 --> 01:10:29,646 There's a lot going on in that scene. 644 01:10:29,979 --> 01:10:31,523 Do you want it still? 645 01:10:33,483 --> 01:10:34,817 One of the things I love about 646 01:10:34,818 --> 01:10:38,405 House of the Dragon is that it's a generational narrative. 647 01:10:38,530 --> 01:10:40,699 We have a lot of young characters 648 01:10:40,824 --> 01:10:44,244 that are all coming of age, one of whom is Rhaena. 649 01:10:44,369 --> 01:10:46,537 Lady Jeyne's been promised a dragon. 650 01:10:46,538 --> 01:10:49,332 She receives two, but it's like, asterisk, they're babies. 651 01:10:49,333 --> 01:10:51,042 They can't protect her. 652 01:10:52,210 --> 01:10:53,837 So, when she embarks on her journey, 653 01:10:53,838 --> 01:10:55,337 she's desperate to find, like, 654 01:10:55,338 --> 01:10:56,816 more than just a dragon, it's purpose. 655 01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:59,384 She doesn't stop, and she's not going to stop. 656 01:11:01,886 --> 01:11:05,223 In episode seven, Alicent has lost any power, 657 01:11:05,348 --> 01:11:06,891 any legitimacy that she held. 658 01:11:07,017 --> 01:11:11,604 She does notice a cut similar in placement to Rhaenyra's, 659 01:11:11,730 --> 01:11:14,566 and I think it sort of brings into focus 660 01:11:14,691 --> 01:11:16,609 the absurdity of it all. 661 01:11:17,235 --> 01:11:19,070 I wish to go out, Ser Rickard. 662 01:11:19,195 --> 01:11:23,032 Her need to escape King's Landing 663 01:11:23,033 --> 01:11:25,451 is to sort of zoom out from it all a bit 664 01:11:25,452 --> 01:11:27,349 and get some clarity on the situation. 665 01:11:27,350 --> 01:11:29,247 Alicent's disillusioned. 666 01:11:29,372 --> 01:11:31,249 She doesn't know that she has a place in the Red Keep, 667 01:11:31,250 --> 01:11:33,084 or if she did, whether she wants it. 668 01:11:33,418 --> 01:11:35,521 And I think at the beginning of it, we're sort of wondering, 669 01:11:35,545 --> 01:11:37,713 "Is Alicent out here to end it all?" 670 01:11:37,714 --> 01:11:42,052 This moment of peace that could potentially be 671 01:11:42,053 --> 01:11:43,428 the last time for her. 672 01:11:43,595 --> 01:11:46,097 We see her go through a bit of an awakening. 673 01:11:46,264 --> 01:11:47,264 When her eyes open, 674 01:11:47,432 --> 01:11:49,476 snap back into reality with a sense of purpose. 675 01:11:49,601 --> 01:11:52,103 I mean, what that purpose is remains to be seen. 676 01:11:59,444 --> 01:12:01,821 The dragonkeepers very much reject Rhaenyra's idea, 677 01:12:01,946 --> 01:12:03,114 so Rhaenyra is left alone. 678 01:12:03,239 --> 01:12:05,075 This was actually Emma's pitch for Rhaenyra to go 679 01:12:05,076 --> 01:12:06,909 and, like, walk amongst the seeds, 680 01:12:06,910 --> 01:12:09,078 as though a pastor amongst her flock 681 01:12:09,079 --> 01:12:11,330 in the terms of a religious cult. 682 01:12:11,331 --> 01:12:13,583 Suffering will be ended. 683 01:12:13,750 --> 01:12:15,835 And without bloodshed. 684 01:12:21,299 --> 01:12:23,425 When you realize that Rhaenyra is just basically 685 01:12:23,426 --> 01:12:26,304 throwing stuff against the wall and seeing whether it sticks 686 01:12:26,429 --> 01:12:28,306 and seeing if somebody can emerge from this, 687 01:12:28,473 --> 01:12:29,808 it goes very bad, very quickly. 688 01:12:29,974 --> 01:12:32,519 In many ways, I think there's a way of looking at that scene 689 01:12:32,644 --> 01:12:34,437 as ritual sacrifice. 690 01:12:38,817 --> 01:12:40,252 The whole sequence where I'm running 691 01:12:40,276 --> 01:12:41,945 through the cavern in front of Vermithor, 692 01:12:41,946 --> 01:12:44,030 it took a whole day of rehearsing, 693 01:12:44,155 --> 01:12:45,657 running it through with the Steadicam. 694 01:12:47,659 --> 01:12:49,494 They call Vermithor the Bronze Fury, 695 01:12:49,619 --> 01:12:51,705 and I think that's really fitting for Hugh. 696 01:12:51,830 --> 01:12:53,498 He's quite angry inside. 697 01:12:53,623 --> 01:12:57,002 Come on! 698 01:12:57,210 --> 01:12:58,210 It's a mystery. 699 01:12:58,378 --> 01:13:00,296 No one really knows how the Targaryens 700 01:13:00,297 --> 01:13:02,298 are talking to the dragons. 701 01:13:03,883 --> 01:13:06,363 We wanted to not just see the same thing again and again, 702 01:13:06,469 --> 01:13:09,029 which is a guy claiming a dragon and getting it to bend the neck. 703 01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:16,479 Every fiber of Ulf's body wants out. 704 01:13:17,731 --> 01:13:20,191 Close my eyes, pray for a quick death, 705 01:13:20,859 --> 01:13:21,901 which doesn't come. 706 01:13:22,027 --> 01:13:23,227 I think it's that supplication 707 01:13:23,319 --> 01:13:25,697 and the way that he showed deference to Silverwing 708 01:13:25,698 --> 01:13:27,574 that probably makes her choose him. 709 01:13:27,699 --> 01:13:30,284 But we didn't want to get too much into the whys and hows. 710 01:13:30,285 --> 01:13:32,871 We don't really understand why a dragon chooses its rider. 711 01:13:33,038 --> 01:13:36,666 I've said I'm a Targaryen. Turns out, I'm a Targaryen. 712 01:13:37,709 --> 01:13:39,252 Dragon! 713 01:13:40,712 --> 01:13:43,173 I don't think the news of Seasmoke really reached Aemond, 714 01:13:43,174 --> 01:13:44,548 and you can tell that by the way 715 01:13:44,549 --> 01:13:46,675 Larys and Ironrod exchanged glances 716 01:13:46,676 --> 01:13:48,553 when they hear the dragon flying over the city 717 01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:50,800 because I think they both assumed that it's Seasmoke. 718 01:13:50,930 --> 01:13:53,892 Rhaenyra's raised new riders in the dragonseeds. 719 01:13:54,059 --> 01:13:56,019 Aemond retaliates without even thinking, 720 01:13:56,020 --> 01:13:57,103 and he goes to meet them. 721 01:13:57,228 --> 01:13:58,396 Open the gates! 722 01:13:58,563 --> 01:14:00,440 He was supposed to be the special one. 723 01:14:00,565 --> 01:14:02,376 The fact that somebody else is out there that did this 724 01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:03,443 just breaks his brain. 725 01:14:03,568 --> 01:14:05,168 So, his immediate response is, of course, 726 01:14:05,195 --> 01:14:07,506 he rides and gets on his dragon with the intent of going out 727 01:14:07,530 --> 01:14:08,739 and killing Silverwing. 728 01:14:08,740 --> 01:14:10,742 And he gets more than he bargained for. 729 01:14:13,703 --> 01:14:16,081 And for the first time since season one, 730 01:14:16,247 --> 01:14:17,749 we see fear in his eye. 731 01:14:19,793 --> 01:14:22,628 And literally, the Dragon Queen coming out of the Dragonmont. 732 01:14:22,629 --> 01:14:25,465 Not only Silverwing, but Vermithor and also Syrax. 733 01:14:25,590 --> 01:14:27,717 And whatever questions she was faced with, 734 01:14:27,718 --> 01:14:28,759 she was right in the end 735 01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:31,262 and was able to assemble this army of dragons.