1 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:03,560 - Only one. - That's enough. 2 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:04,880 - Stand back. - Only one! 3 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:12,880 Behold! 4 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,400 The traitor dragon Meleys! 5 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:21,680 Slain at Rook's Rest by your king! 6 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:25,360 To Aegon! 7 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,840 It can't be. 8 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:35,800 They killed a dragon! 9 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,520 Mark my words, this is a black omen. 10 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,640 Rhaenyra will answer this. 11 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:01,960 'Tis an abomination. 12 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,920 Don't they realize we won the battle? 13 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,560 Strange victory 14 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:10,240 if it was one. 15 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:29,400 Behold! 16 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,040 The traitor dragon Meleys! 17 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:34,680 I thought the dragons was gods. 18 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,960 Slain at Rook's Rest by your king! 19 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,280 It's just meat. 20 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,880 - Is he alive? - His Grace 21 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,440 remains with us, for the moment. 22 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:03,320 Is my son going to die? 23 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:04,960 I'm afraid I cannot say. 24 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:06,736 Now, if you'll excuse me, Your Grace 25 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:08,440 these next hours are most critical. 26 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:09,760 Of course. 27 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:23,520 Easy as you can. 28 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:45,080 Someone will have to rule in his stead. 29 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,400 - What happened? - We took the castle. 30 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:12,720 At the cost of some 900 men. 31 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:16,160 So I've heard. 32 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,440 I left a meager garrison behind to protect it 33 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:21,720 and the king's dragon. 34 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,720 Sunfyre was long in the dying. 35 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,760 The king, Ser Criston, what befell him? 36 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,120 His Grace fought valiantly. 37 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:41,000 And Aemond? 38 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:49,040 What was his part in this? 39 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:54,720 I could not say. 40 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,960 Our largest dragon has been killed. 41 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,280 Criston Cole marches about the Crownlands unchallenged. 42 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,840 Duskendale and Rook's Rest are gone. 43 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:12,520 We still have no ground army 44 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,720 but the one we hope that Daemon will raise. 45 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:19,600 He who has left us, after some marital spat. 46 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:23,440 Do you take issue with me, Ser Alfred? 47 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,120 My loyalty to you is proven, my queen. 48 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:29,760 Your loyalty, perhaps 49 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,160 but your willingness to give me deference in a time of war? 50 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:38,280 I could never doubt your capability, or your quickness of mind. 51 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:44,040 It is merely that the gentler sex, heretofore, has not been much privy 52 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,240 to the strategies of battle, or their execution. 53 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:51,880 There has been peace in our lifetime. 54 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,160 You've seen no more battles than I have. 55 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,040 Send to Maidenpool and to Crackclaw Point. 56 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:18,560 Let them man their garrisons and give them stores or weapons 57 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:19,800 if they find them wanting. 58 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,600 If Cole pursues his campaign, our allies must be ready. 59 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:25,280 We must answer Rook's Rest 60 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:27,960 - and Duskendale. - They are lost already. 61 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,520 But Vhagar is depleted after such a hard-fought battle. 62 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:33,040 If Aegon is dead... 63 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:34,120 We will soon know it. 64 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:35,840 'Twould be a victory in name only. 65 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:37,536 They will soon prop up another in his stead. 66 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:39,200 The time is ripe. 67 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,920 If we can strike King's Landing before their dragon is recovered... 68 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,600 Then I myself must do it. 69 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:46,840 My queen, you are the crown. It is out of the question. 70 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:48,760 What would you have me do? 71 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:10,600 Jace? 72 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:14,680 Where are you going? 73 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:17,520 To Harrenhal. 74 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:19,560 To treat with Daemon. 75 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:21,560 Rhaenys is fallen. 76 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:23,400 He must affirm his loyalty to my mother 77 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:24,840 and report his standing. 78 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:29,560 And you think you will tame him 79 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:31,840 when the queen herself could not? 80 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:36,640 My mother gladly sends you away to scout, to fight 81 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,560 whilst I'm here being forced to play the coddled princeling. 82 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:41,000 It's humiliating, Baela. 83 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:42,840 She only protects you. 84 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:45,040 You are the succession. 85 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,720 Then I must be seen to act for her claim and mine. 86 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:54,320 I can sit still no longer. 87 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:58,440 I must act. 88 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:07,400 The Freys. 89 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,400 They control the crossing at the Twins. 90 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,120 Cregan Stark's graybeards are marching south. 91 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,360 If his men had a direct route into the Riverlands 92 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,600 we would not have to wait for Daemon to act. 93 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:22,400 I will treat with the Freys to secure it. 94 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:24,440 She will not like it. 95 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:26,480 Then don't tell her. 96 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:28,400 Not until I'm away. 97 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,720 The hour is late and my dragon is hungry. 98 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,440 You have no choice but to submit. 99 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:49,720 Our terms are simple, Lord Bracken. 100 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,560 Renounce the false king Aegon as a usurper 101 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:54,680 and bend the knee to me 102 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:57,560 or your house burns. 103 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,760 I would sooner be the Lord of Bones and Cinders 104 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:04,320 than bend my knee before some heathen Blackwood cunt 105 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:06,480 and his hired dragon. 106 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,080 The Brackens were a people hatched out 107 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,280 of the deepest of the Seven Hells, Your Grace. 108 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,040 It would be a kindness to oblige them 109 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:13,640 and send them back whence they came. 110 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,120 Did your brother's head keep on its way back to you, Willem? 111 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:19,440 I heard the maggots got to it. 112 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,240 That is quite the impression, Lord Bracken. 113 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,120 But alas, not an answer. 114 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:35,960 We choose fire. 115 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,720 I did not think they would be so eager to die. 116 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:51,800 They made their choice. 117 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:54,800 - You should've indulged them. - I need them alive. 118 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:57,640 I came here to raise swords, not corpses. 119 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,400 But now you see what my house has known for generations. 120 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,920 They are pigheaded, intransigent... 121 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:06,040 They would rather burn than succumb. 122 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:11,600 Exactly the kind of men I need. 123 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:17,120 It may yet be possible, I think, for both of us to achieve our ends. 124 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,240 We have fought them for an age and more. 125 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,160 Then perhaps you could try less fighting and more... 126 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:28,160 persuading. 127 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:31,440 They are unyielding in battle. 128 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,320 But every man has a weakness. 129 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,080 You take my meaning, then. 130 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:50,640 There are things the crown itself must not been seen to do. 131 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:53,840 Show them your worst. 132 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:55,880 I am your servant, Your Grace. 133 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:20,120 Over the centuries, many and more armies 134 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,920 have broken themselves against my Bloody Gate. 135 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:28,360 Are you listening? 136 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:31,080 My lady. 137 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,680 The Eyrie itself is impregnable. 138 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,400 Unless, of course, we're descended upon from the sky. 139 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,320 You promised the Queen Rhaenyra 15,000 swords... 140 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,160 In return for protection. A dragon. 141 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,840 Then she has exceeded your terms. 142 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:50,600 She sent two. 143 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,320 Both still wet from the egg. 144 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,520 I have hunting hounds that are more fearsome. 145 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,560 They are dragons, nonetheless. 146 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:01,960 I do not recall you specifying 147 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:03,520 the size of the beast in your request. 148 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:04,960 Will you goad me, child? 149 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,520 When your bread and shelter now depend on my pleasure? 150 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:11,600 The dragons will grow... 151 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:14,840 - in time. - I don't have time. 152 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:18,800 I mislike feeling powerless. 153 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:21,680 So do I. 154 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:29,800 This will be your chamber. 155 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:31,920 I'll expect you at supper this evening? 156 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,360 My sympathies for the death of your grandmother. 157 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,480 The way they spoke at my small council today. 158 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,840 Do they hold you responsible for Rhaenys and her dragon? 159 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:54,280 I would rather they had. 160 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,200 They speak around me, not to me. 161 00:17:58,320 --> 00:17:59,360 They would make me queen 162 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:01,520 but they wish to keep me here, confined. 163 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,840 They betray their own smallness. 164 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:05,880 In truth, I cannot fault them. 165 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,280 I am now the sovereign. I cannot do as I please. 166 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,440 And war has ever been for men to make. 167 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,280 You are your father's chosen successor. 168 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:17,720 He did not prepare me to fight. 169 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:19,600 If I had been a son 170 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:23,040 a sword thrust into my hand the moment I could walk. 171 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:26,040 Instead, I was given my father's cup 172 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,120 taught the name of every lord and castle 173 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:30,800 between Storm's End and the Twins 174 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,800 but not the difference between hilt and foible. 175 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:35,760 And they know it. 176 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:38,600 And Daemon as well... 177 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:40,920 Shall your evening meal be served here, Your Grace? 178 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,240 Not now. 179 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:49,840 Will you send to him? 180 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:53,480 For too long, I have looked to him for strength. 181 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:56,040 If I must be supplicant to my own husband 182 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:57,480 what does that make me? 183 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,600 I do not know my part, Mysaria. 184 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,880 The path I walk has never been trod. 185 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,240 Criston Cole made a mistake. 186 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,560 Parading a dragon's head through the streets like a prize of war 187 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,600 but the people see an ill omen. 188 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:23,080 Yes, as do I. 189 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:24,680 They are afraid. 190 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,760 Bread is scarce, the king has fallen 191 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:30,200 they whisper to each other that when Viserys lived 192 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:31,280 there was peace. 193 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:34,600 But will whispers tear down stone 194 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:36,400 or break shields? 195 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,400 Do not underestimate your subjects. 196 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:43,160 They are a thousand-thousand living in the shadow of the Red Keep 197 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,360 and forgotten for too long. 198 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:47,920 And you think they will turn to me. 199 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:52,200 To the discontented, rumors are feed. 200 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,240 Your Grace. 201 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:04,840 What you cannot do, let others do for you. 202 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,960 There is more than one way to fight a war. 203 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:35,160 The thought of her lying in a field, broken amongst her enemies. 204 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,280 Did your grandmother ever tell you of the night she claimed Meleys? 205 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:52,520 She snuck into the Dragonpit. 206 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,360 She knew that place better than any Elder. 207 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:57,960 They say she could see in the dark. 208 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:01,440 My father was furious. 209 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,080 His own mother's dragon, the fastest beast ever known 210 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:06,400 and she'd have none of him. 211 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:08,800 But bent her neck to Rhaenys. 212 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:11,400 She was fierce 213 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:14,840 in love and in anger. 214 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,280 She did not always care for me, but... 215 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,000 for what she gave me in the end 216 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:26,960 I'm grateful. 217 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:34,800 I wished I had known her when she was young. 218 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,360 You are very like her in some ways. 219 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:48,920 And with her gone 220 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,040 I must rely on you, I think. 221 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:53,520 Your Grace? 222 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:56,560 Would you give this to your grandsire? 223 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,120 I do not wish to stand alone. 224 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:15,800 Daemon. 225 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:21,880 Daemon. 226 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,880 You were always the strong one. 227 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,200 The finest swordsman. 228 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,720 The fearless dragonrider. 229 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,920 Your brother had great love in his heart 230 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,400 but he lacked your constitution. 231 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,000 Viserys was unsuited for the crown 232 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,240 but you... 233 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,000 Daemon, you were made to wear it. 234 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,720 If only you'd been born first. 235 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:22,440 My favorite son. 236 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,360 Is the duck not to your liking, Your Grace? 237 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:39,880 There's also goose if you'd prefer it. 238 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,520 I like the goose, myself. 239 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,000 I'm not hungry. 240 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,480 I was saying, given the rather dire news from Rook's Rest 241 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:02,000 it appears the winds have shifted and each side has suffered great loss 242 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,600 and will be unsure of what is to follow. 243 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,480 A good time, then, for a show of strength. 244 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,360 I believe Willem Blackwood is bringing House Bracken to heel. 245 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,800 We must ready the castle to receive a great host. 246 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:20,880 You seem sure of this. 247 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:23,160 All men may be led, Ser Simon. 248 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:25,200 Even Rivermen. 249 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,680 'Tis a matter of showing them whom it behooves them to follow. 250 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,200 How does the work here progress? 251 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:37,736 We're drawing water for the kitchens 252 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,080 - and lighting the forges. - Very well. 253 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:41,760 That is merely the beginning, of course. 254 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,120 The roof alone has needed tending since the reign of Aenys. 255 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,120 And the storerooms. And... 256 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,120 and the Wailing Tower. 257 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:53,680 The bats have made the corridors almost impassable 258 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,560 with the quantity of their... 259 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,000 Their shit. 260 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:02,200 I venture there are smiths and armorers 261 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,520 to be found near Nutton and Riverbend. 262 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,320 Well, send for them and levy the farmers 263 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,000 from Antlers to High Heart. 264 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,400 Task their huntsmen to bring us meat and wood. 265 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:14,920 There is, of course, the matter of payment. 266 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,760 After the tragedy that befell his father 267 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,400 Larys transferred his family's wealth to King's Landing. 268 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,120 Is there any gold left in your coffers? 269 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,640 Enough to keep this small establishment you see 270 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,000 fed and warm. 271 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:35,800 Relatively. 272 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,240 I... I rather thought, Your Grace 273 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,480 as emissary to the Queen 274 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,960 that perhaps she could provide the necessary coin 275 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,120 - if you could only write to her. - No. 276 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:53,840 Harrenhal is my command. 277 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,680 I shall guarantee the payment myself. 278 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,280 Up, up. 279 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,360 Very well, Your Grace. 280 00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:07,360 You should address me as "my king." 281 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:09,840 But you're the prince. 282 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,480 What would you call the husband of the queen? 283 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,400 - Well, the king... - There it is, then. 284 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:15,800 Consort. 285 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,240 That last bit seems unnecessary, don't you think? 286 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,360 The armor was Valyrian steel 287 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,280 but His Grace suffered grievous burns over much of his body. 288 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,120 He has many broken bones. 289 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,720 I fear there are more injuries within. 290 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,320 Injuries we cannot see. 291 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,840 We are grateful for your works, Grand Maester. 292 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,440 - Has he woken? - No. 293 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,000 I must admit 294 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,000 I'm not sure he will ever wake. 295 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,640 I have plied my crafts to their fullest extents. 296 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,400 Our king's fate lies with the gods now. 297 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:12,640 A king cannot rule in his sleep. 298 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,360 The realm will have noticed his absence. 299 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,560 Let them hear of his great deeds at Rook's Rest. 300 00:27:20,120 --> 00:27:22,280 But now we must name a regent to take his place 301 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,080 until he recovers... 302 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:27,960 or does not. 303 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:31,000 A wise strategy, Your Grace. 304 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,880 A regency will assure the people of the stability of the crown. 305 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,840 Did you have a candidate in mind, Your Grace? 306 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,480 I myself served in this role for my husband. 307 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:45,000 I am well-prepared to do it again. 308 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,920 You played your part admirably in a time of peace, Your Grace 309 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,000 but circumstances have changed. 310 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:51,920 And here I had forgotten. 311 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,000 The king does not lack for heirs. 312 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,640 The obvious choice is his immediate successor, Prince Aemond. 313 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:00,200 Agreed. 314 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:01,720 Aemond is young. 315 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,680 And his lack of restraint has already cost us dearly. 316 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,800 It is experience that offers the surest path to security. 317 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,800 Queen Alicent ably shouldered the duties of the realm 318 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,360 when her husband's health failed him. 319 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,040 Experience is valuable, yes, but the dowager queen is a woman. 320 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,600 I am no stranger to rule or to sitting at this council. 321 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:30,560 Aemond is a fearsome dragonrider. 322 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:31,976 His skill is best employed in the field 323 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,520 but my experience is needed here, at this table. 324 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,560 No offense was meant, Your Grace, but... 325 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,160 at a time when we must show strength. 326 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:40,480 Lord Larys? 327 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,200 I agree, Your Grace. It must be Prince Aemond. 328 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,640 What would it say if, in response to Rhaenyra's crowning 329 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,520 we raised up a woman of our own? 330 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:54,440 But... 331 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,240 but the Hand speaks for the king's voice. 332 00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:59,840 Ser Criston, what say you? 333 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:08,800 Aemond is the next in line. 334 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,440 It must be him. 335 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:18,200 It's agreed then. 336 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,600 What is our standing in the Riverlands? 337 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,160 The banners of House Tully are in disarray, Your Grace. 338 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:49,000 Prince Daemon has little hope 339 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,200 of fielding an army of any size, for now. 340 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,360 We would do well to send word to young Oscar Tully. 341 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,920 It's only a matter of time before he inherits his grandsire's mantle. 342 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,720 Tell me, Lord Strong, how I can trust the counsel of a man 343 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,280 who leaves the jewel of the Riverlands 344 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,000 to be plucked by our enemy? 345 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:11,456 Your brother's host can meet Daemon. 346 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,600 He should quicken its pace and check the Rivermen 347 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,200 while their banners are in disarray. 348 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,560 I shall send Lord Jason encouragement. 349 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,320 - What else? - We might turn our attention 350 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,600 to the smallfolk here in King's Landing. 351 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,000 They have grown weary of the Sea Snake's blockade. 352 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:26,840 So have we all. 353 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:28,320 Many are fleeing the city 354 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,480 spreading word of their fear and unrest. 355 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,680 Then let the gates be closed. 356 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,440 No one is to leave or enter, save with our consent. 357 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,960 Merchants, so forth. 358 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:47,400 Go to your tasks. 359 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:50,600 We shall meet again at first light. 360 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,440 Oh, and someone cut down the fucking ratcatchers. 361 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,240 The city's safe no longer. 362 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:06,760 There is no food. 363 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,560 Our neighbors are stealing from each other. 364 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:10,920 We must get out. 365 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,440 And where would you have us go? 366 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,880 North, maybe? South? 367 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,001 For all we know, every road leads into the dragons' teeth. 368 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:19,880 Like the one they carted through the streets? 369 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,920 You think Rhaenyra will let such an affront go unchallenged? 370 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,640 We should make for Tumbleton. 371 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:31,760 My brother will have room. 372 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:33,680 You would have me turn beggar? 373 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,280 Are we not beggars already? 374 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,120 Have you been paid for those machines you were forced to build? 375 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:46,760 The king has promised payment. 376 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,080 The king has lied! 377 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:01,800 By all means 378 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,080 stay and wait for his empty promises, husband. 379 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,640 With them, you can feed the mouths of ghosts. 380 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,440 Presumed you'd be here. 381 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,640 Seeing faithfully to the Prince Regent's commands. 382 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,120 Aemond is the next in line. 383 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:57,560 It is the order of things. 384 00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:58,720 You know what he is... 385 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:00,880 what he has somehow become. 386 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,160 Has your loyalty faded? Or does it flourish only at night 387 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,120 and flee the sunrise like a moth? 388 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,160 What I saw at Rook's Rest... 389 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,920 What? What did you see? 390 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,520 Their armor melted. 391 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,760 There were men walking. They were on fire. 392 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,200 We have given the war to the dragons. 393 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:36,720 A dragonrider should lead us. 394 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,080 And what of justice, of temperance? 395 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,480 Or is strength now to be our only god? 396 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:52,600 So you cast me aside. 397 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,840 Have I not spared you? 398 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,320 What we must do now is terrible. 399 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,720 Will you preside over it? 400 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,440 - Is this who you are, Alicent? - I did not ask to be spared. 401 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,600 And I did not give you leave to speak my name. 402 00:34:27,240 --> 00:34:28,480 Halt! 403 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:35,600 Stay back! 404 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:38,440 We've got to get out! 405 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:40,760 Somebody get him! 406 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:42,680 Stay back! 407 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:43,760 No! 408 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,680 - Hold fast! - Hold fast! 409 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:47,880 - Stay back! - Let us go! 410 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,200 Hold! 411 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:54,400 Back! 412 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:55,840 Disperse! 413 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:57,640 Disperse! 414 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,120 By order of Aemond Targaryen 415 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,920 Prince Regent and Protector of the Realm... 416 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,160 - Aemond? - Does he mean the king? 417 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,400 - I don't know. - You cannot keep us here! 418 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,160 You are ordered to return to your homes! 419 00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:11,440 We want meat! 420 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,880 - Meat! - Meat! 421 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:24,200 Stay back! 422 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,440 Our Lord Grover Tully has not declared for Rhaenyra. 423 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,120 It means death to bare steel against your liege 424 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,840 as I'm sure my prince is aware. 425 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,280 And against your queen? 426 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,240 Jason Lannister is marshaling to the west. 427 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,320 We need to check him before he reaches Riverrun. 428 00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,480 That requires passage. 429 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,920 And if Stark's army is too slow? 430 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:03,480 The wind's rising. 431 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,560 Winter is nigh upon us. 432 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,960 Our hesitance does not lie in Rhaenyra as queen 433 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,200 nor in the ruminations of Lord Tully, the oaf. 434 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,360 Our fear lies in Vhagar. 435 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,040 You fear a dragon leagues away 436 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,400 when mine own sits outside your walls? 437 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,840 - Do you offer us your protection? - I do. 438 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,000 And the protection of my uncle. 439 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,400 And Daemon, I'm sure, has consented to this? 440 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,120 He will do as his queen commands. 441 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,160 That does lend us some comfort. 442 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,240 Though it occurs to me that dragons cannot be in two places at once. 443 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:50,600 Or three. 444 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:54,960 What do you want? 445 00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:00,960 Larys Strong has been relieved of his castle. 446 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,760 Does the queen intend to raise up a new lord? 447 00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:09,960 You want Harrenhal. 448 00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:32,120 For that, my mother will want more than your crossing. 449 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,320 What does Her Grace desire? 450 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:40,760 Bent knees. 451 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,000 Up. 452 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:38,640 You were born to wield a sword, but not so much an axe, perhaps. 453 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,040 There are others who would sit idle 454 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,000 and wait for their claims to be brought to them. 455 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,696 - That is not my way. - Does splitting firewood 456 00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:47,320 justify what's followed you here? 457 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,040 Let it not be said that Daemon Targaryen 458 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,800 failed to dirty his hands in this war. 459 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,160 Let me see them. 460 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,000 Sit. 461 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:57,640 Sit! 462 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,200 I hear strange things from Bracken land 463 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,120 from Stone Hedge and Lambswold and Mory. 464 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,480 There's news, then? 465 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:11,280 News? 466 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:13,680 No. 467 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,400 What I hear, I hear in the wind. 468 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:20,760 Cries of anguish. 469 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,000 Children being taken from their mothers. 470 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,240 Men coming home to find their doors unlatched 471 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,280 their wives carried away. 472 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:34,560 War is a terrible thing. 473 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:36,880 This is not war. 474 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,080 These are crimes against the innocent 475 00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:42,600 that any upright man would repudiate. 476 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,480 Surely you haven't mistaken me for an upright man. 477 00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:49,920 The Brackens had their chance to do as I required. 478 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,760 They will perhaps think better of their decision 479 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,200 if their children's lives are staked on it. 480 00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,160 Is that the kind of army you would raise? 481 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:01,880 Men who hate you 482 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,600 who serve you under duress? 483 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,040 Well, once they agree to serve me, I'll treat them fairly. 484 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,520 Set an example for the rest of the Riverlands to follow. 485 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,200 And once again, in the name of power 486 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,800 it's the weak and the women who must endure. 487 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,920 That fool, Aegon, is unlike to survive. 488 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,880 The realm will suffer if Aemond One-Eye rules. 489 00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:28,640 You should pray you never meet him. 490 00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,400 He will cut you down soon as wish you good-day. 491 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,080 I'd heard the same thing about you. But I'll cross you no further. 492 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,960 I'm sure your tactics are, after all, approved by the queen. 493 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,280 She cannot succeed, Alys. 494 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,200 Even if I willed it to be so. 495 00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,480 The people who support her will not be led by her. 496 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,280 They look to a man for strength. 497 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,520 Who's better suited to it? The Hightowers with their scheming? 498 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:56,880 Or Viserys's first true heir? 499 00:40:58,200 --> 00:40:59,960 When I take King's Landing 500 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:04,160 Rhaenyra is welcome to join me there and take her place by my side. 501 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:08,040 King and queen, ruling together. 502 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,320 - And if you lose? - Then I'll be dead 503 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,280 and none of this will be my problem. 504 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,840 It's a pity, don't you think, that you never knew your mother? 505 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,640 A message, Your Grace. 506 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,040 Fresh news from Stone Hedge. 507 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,280 The Blackwoods have overwhelmed the Brackens 508 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,480 and Lord Amos has pledged his banner to you. 509 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:37,600 House Bracken is yours. 510 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,160 Call Ser Willem here so that I might congratulate him. 511 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,720 The Blackwoods will be feted in these halls. 512 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:57,280 I sought you at High Tide. 513 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,320 I was surprised when they said you were here. 514 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:03,240 My castle is a tomb. 515 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,000 Empty. Haunted. 516 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,280 I am sad to have missed its highest days. 517 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:15,000 I imagine your Hall of Nine filled with lords and kings 518 00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:18,080 all eager to treat with the legendary Lord of the Tides. 519 00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,400 The wealth you brought back from Yi Ti and Asshai 520 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,040 inspiring awe and envy. 521 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,880 I wonder if any of them knew it was all for her. 522 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,560 Queen Rhaenyra wishes to name you Hand. 523 00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,920 Even the death of my wife does not content her. 524 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:51,800 Has she not asked enough of my house? 525 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,560 It is a sign of her great esteem. 526 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,080 Or does she think the position will compensate me for my loss? 527 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,160 Pledge your peace to King's Landing, then. 528 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,600 They will accept it most gleefully. 529 00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,760 Rather I would sail into the West and be lost. 530 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:12,480 You have done so before 531 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,360 at great cost to yourself and those who loved you. 532 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,360 Rhaenys was not only your wife 533 00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:23,480 not a thing to be taken from you. 534 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,280 She was a Targaryen princess. 535 00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:28,800 The Queen Who Never Was. 536 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,280 And she flew to Rook's Rest of her own will. 537 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,600 - In defense of her kin. - And she died. 538 00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,880 She died as she would have wished to die 539 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,040 with honor, in dragonfire. 540 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,440 The way my mother chose 541 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,760 and the way I, myself wish to meet my end. 542 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,720 I grieve my grandmother who loved me 543 00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:57,920 but I carry her on with me. 544 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:03,280 I will see Rhaenyra ascend the Iron Throne, as Rhaenys wished. 545 00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:05,760 As Rhaenys herself should have. 546 00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,640 You yourself may do as you see fit. 547 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:15,880 Granddaughter. 548 00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,720 I would make you my heir. 549 00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:29,400 I am blood and fire. 550 00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:32,560 Driftmark must pass to salt and sea. 551 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:52,360 Your Grace. 552 00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:57,080 You were correct 553 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,000 in saying our best hope of an army is with Daemon. 554 00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:08,640 And I have, perhaps, erred in waiting for him to prove himself. 555 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,560 I wish you to go to Harrenhal. 556 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,640 Are you removing me from your council? 557 00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:19,640 Ser Alfred 558 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,760 I... I will not deny you have tried my patience of late 559 00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,680 or that I would prefer a council more inclined to champion their queen 560 00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:29,000 but... 561 00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,800 you and your house served my father well 562 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,440 and I know you will never accept the Hightower claim. 563 00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:40,480 Not while I live, Your Grace. 564 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,880 We cannot challenge King's Landing without the Riverlands 565 00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:50,280 but I will not send a message by raven for Daemon to disregard. 566 00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:57,600 I ask you to reason with him. 567 00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:02,880 Find out his state of mind and his intentions. 568 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,280 Intentions? 569 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,160 Whether he means to raise a host for me or for himself. 570 00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:14,920 He would not dare. 571 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,160 Have you known Daemon to lack in daring? 572 00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:20,320 Go now with haste. 573 00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:22,680 I'll send good men to see to your safety. 574 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,880 Have you any message for him? 575 00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,800 Tell him I would much like to finish our last conversation. 576 00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:43,520 Your Grace. 577 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:19,560 Your Grace. 578 00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:27,240 What is it, Ser Simon? Is the pudding now served? 579 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,240 The Riverlords have come, Your Grace. 580 00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,880 - They wish an audience. - Now? 581 00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:36,200 - What godless hour is it? - The wolf. 582 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,840 They are demanding to speak presently. 583 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,960 I see I must begin here with a lesson in etiquette. 584 00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,360 Or failing that, in proper fear of your Targaryen master. 585 00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:20,160 Is there some reason you feel free to wake a king in his bed? 586 00:48:21,240 --> 00:48:23,320 Or shall I now begin your education? 587 00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,480 House Bracken have been brought to heel 588 00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,320 at the hands of Willem Blackwood. 589 00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,680 - That news is stale. - Yes. 590 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,880 There have been complications. 591 00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:38,040 The sacred septs on Bracken lands were looted and burned. 592 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:39,280 As were the fields and farms. 593 00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,560 The livestock was stolen and our peasants put to the sword. 594 00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,920 They pursued the women and the children. 595 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:46,520 There were works of barbarity. 596 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,720 Punishing Bracken for his own treasons is one thing, aye. 597 00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:51,400 But these other acts. 598 00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,000 The Brackens were given their chance. 599 00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,416 - They would not see reason. - The Blackwoods have exploited 600 00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,320 the war for the crown to visit atrocities 601 00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:58,776 - upon their old rivals. - I have seen my fair share 602 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,136 of their quarrels, and I tell you, there is no honor in a fight 603 00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,016 - such as this. - Honor? What of common decency? 604 00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:06,920 These beasts proudly carried the banner of House Targaryen. 605 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,160 Red dragon on black. 606 00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,040 A terrible war is being fought in these lands. 607 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:23,320 Have you looked after our girls? 608 00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,800 We should've expected nothing more from a man 609 00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:36,280 who ordered the slaughter of a child in his mother's arms. 610 00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:39,040 That is a lie. 611 00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:41,240 And I will have the man who told it brought before me. 612 00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:45,400 Well, your man is half the kingdom, my prince. 613 00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,600 Know this, interloper. 614 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,880 The Riverlands are an ancient place 615 00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,160 watched closely by the eyes of old gods and new. 616 00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,200 And dragon or no 617 00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,440 we shall not raise our banners for a tyrant. 618 00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:09,040 Move along, lass. 619 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,960 I have an errand for the lady Mysaria. 620 00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,160 I thought she was dead. 621 00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:16,720 Would she die without collecting her due? 622 00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:20,160 I must see an old friend. 623 00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,000 Most people want out these days. 624 00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:08,320 Elinda. 625 00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,960 Was it worth the price? 626 00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:50,360 Mommy. 627 00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:08,600 Prince Jacaerys, Your Grace. 628 00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:33,360 Visenya. 629 00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:39,280 Vhagar's first rider, and the first wielder of Dark Sister. 630 00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:43,520 I hope you do not mean to use her as an example. 631 00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:44,880 Why shouldn't I? 632 00:54:45,240 --> 00:54:47,520 Well, it was a long time ago. 633 00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:58,960 What is the mood at the Twins? 634 00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:02,560 Did his lordship quibble? 635 00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,560 He wishes for the Freys to be granted Harrenhal. 636 00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,160 At war's end. Assuming. 637 00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:16,680 I'm proud of you, Jace. 638 00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:18,680 You have done our cause a great service. 639 00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,840 Then, why do you look angry? 640 00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,640 You chafed at being prevented from action. 641 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:37,080 Imagine my lot. I'm a dragonrider as well 642 00:55:37,720 --> 00:55:40,040 with a war being fought over my ascension. 643 00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:43,400 And yet, I must wait here 644 00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:45,680 always prudent 645 00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:49,960 sending others to fight and be felled in my name. 646 00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:52,520 Even you have managed to do your part. 647 00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:54,880 You are the queen 648 00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:56,840 the tie that binds us. 649 00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,336 - No harm can come to you. - And you are my son 650 00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,120 and I did not give you leave to go. 651 00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,520 You do not give me leave to go to anything. 652 00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:06,696 But who else is there? Rhaenys is dead 653 00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:08,400 and Baela cannot bear the burden alone. 654 00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,520 And when Aemond comes hunting for you? 655 00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:12,480 Your dragon is young. 656 00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,160 Will you fly before Vhagar as Luke did? 657 00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:23,280 Perhaps Daemon could... 658 00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:28,320 Daemon is not here. 659 00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,800 And Aemond now rules in King's Landing. 660 00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:34,320 Is Aegon dead? 661 00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:36,760 Dead or alive, we have no answer for Vhagar. 662 00:56:37,240 --> 00:56:38,976 Aemond will not wait long to press his advantage. 663 00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:40,240 And then what? 664 00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:44,320 I have done all I can from here 665 00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,520 sent my messages, invoked my alliances. 666 00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:49,600 But if all else fails, it is I who must fight. 667 00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:54,000 Vhagar is big, but Syrax is quicker. 668 00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:55,240 So was Meleys. 669 00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,200 Meleys fought two dragons and one of them is slain. 670 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:01,280 Shall I fight for my birthright? 671 00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:03,480 Or shall I wait here until we are all destroyed? 672 00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:10,760 I need dragons. 673 00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,240 We have no dearth of dragons. 674 00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:20,640 We have two large enough to stand against Vhagar. 675 00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:23,560 They are called Vermithor and Silverwing 676 00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:25,816 and they sleep just beneath our feet. 677 00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,480 Yes, and if only they had riders, none could stand against me. 678 00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:32,400 I would go forth in strength and not from necessity. 679 00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:35,400 There is Rhaena. 680 00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:38,080 Who nearly lost her life in her last attempt. 681 00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:41,120 I would not risk it again. 682 00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:50,120 There are those of our line who never ruled. 683 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,960 Those who married into other noble houses 684 00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:56,960 their children born with other names. 685 00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:59,080 A generation ago, or more. 686 00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:00,760 Their blood would be thin. 687 00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:02,040 And yet... 688 00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:06,920 A dragon will only accept a dragonlord to ride it. 689 00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,880 - Or so say the histories. - Valyrian histories. 690 00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:13,040 Written to gild us in glory. 691 00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:17,960 Are you suggesting we put a Mallister on a dragon? 692 00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:21,640 - A Tarly? - It's better than death and defeat. 693 00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:30,920 There are records here, surely, of our line 694 00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:33,040 and of those who fell out of it. 695 00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:42,200 There could be scores of them. 696 00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:50,880 It's a mad thought.