1 00:01:46,638 --> 00:01:48,807 the wall Blackhaven 2 00:01:48,890 --> 00:01:51,977 are unscalable vassalstone. 3 00:01:53,353 --> 00:01:59,276 And the castle is surrounded by a deep, dry moat. 4 00:01:59,359 --> 00:02:03,697 It is well fortified against any future Dornish incursions. 5 00:02:05,073 --> 00:02:08,952 And though my seat may be lesser in size, 6 00:02:09,036 --> 00:02:12,456 it is situated most pleasingly. 7 00:02:37,147 --> 00:02:41,526 The view across the Marches is inspiring, 8 00:02:41,610 --> 00:02:45,572 so said Queen Alysanne herself when she honored my father and I... 9 00:02:45,655 --> 00:02:47,866 And tell me, Lord Dondarrion, 10 00:02:47,949 --> 00:02:50,535 did you think my great-grandmother as beautiful as they say? 11 00:02:51,953 --> 00:02:56,750 This was half a century ago, Princess. 12 00:02:57,292 --> 00:02:58,752 Yes, it was. 13 00:03:01,004 --> 00:03:03,256 That was unseemly, Princess. 14 00:03:03,340 --> 00:03:06,134 The man is older than my father. 15 00:03:06,218 --> 00:03:08,553 It's unseemly for him to put himself forward 16 00:03:08,637 --> 00:03:10,639 as a contender for my hand. 17 00:03:12,349 --> 00:03:13,350 Next! 18 00:03:24,486 --> 00:03:26,446 And now a child. 19 00:03:26,780 --> 00:03:30,075 The Blackwoods are an ancient house with a formidable army. 20 00:03:31,159 --> 00:03:34,579 In the Riverlands, they once ruled as kings. 21 00:03:35,497 --> 00:03:37,916 The blood of the First Men still flows in their veins. 22 00:03:41,002 --> 00:03:42,003 Go on. 23 00:03:44,089 --> 00:03:46,049 My Princess... 24 00:03:46,133 --> 00:03:48,009 ours is a bond that has long endured, 25 00:03:48,093 --> 00:03:50,720 since Lucas Blackwood, the grandsire of my grandsire, 26 00:03:50,804 --> 00:03:52,639 aided the Dragon in his war of conquest... 27 00:03:52,722 --> 00:03:56,560 Aye, the Blackwoods truly turned the tide on that one. 28 00:03:59,229 --> 00:04:01,022 Coursed with the blood of the First Men, 29 00:04:01,106 --> 00:04:04,192 our history is deeply rooted in this land, 30 00:04:04,276 --> 00:04:06,486 which your house has made its home. 31 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,989 If chosen as your match, Princess... 32 00:04:09,489 --> 00:04:11,283 your days shall be easy 33 00:04:11,366 --> 00:04:14,202 and nights safe under my protection. 34 00:04:14,786 --> 00:04:18,290 "Protection"? The Princess has a dragon, you dumb cunt. 35 00:04:20,250 --> 00:04:21,751 Bracken! 36 00:04:21,835 --> 00:04:23,462 I could learn to like that one. 37 00:04:24,504 --> 00:04:25,420 Eh... 38 00:04:25,422 --> 00:04:26,840 Let us have the next 39 00:04:26,923 --> 00:04:28,550 so we may go to supper. 40 00:04:30,469 --> 00:04:32,345 Craven. 41 00:04:34,639 --> 00:04:35,765 We're leaving. 42 00:04:38,268 --> 00:04:40,103 Sheathe that steel, you twats! 43 00:04:40,896 --> 00:04:43,690 Send word to the harbor and have Captain Oswin ready the ship. 44 00:04:43,773 --> 00:04:45,460 Princess, we're due in Bitterbridge in three days' time. 45 00:04:45,484 --> 00:04:47,444 I would happily row myself back to King's Landing 46 00:04:47,527 --> 00:04:49,571 if it brought an end to this ridiculous pageant. 47 00:04:55,035 --> 00:04:56,661 Don't look, Princess. 48 00:05:18,099 --> 00:05:21,102 We should make landfall inside the hour, Princess. 49 00:05:24,189 --> 00:05:25,857 How do you think he will take it? 50 00:05:25,941 --> 00:05:28,109 Do you speak of how you rejected every suitor 51 00:05:28,193 --> 00:05:30,338 His Grace put before you, or how you abruptly ended the tour 52 00:05:30,362 --> 00:05:31,613 with two months remaining? 53 00:05:47,963 --> 00:05:49,881 Take cover! 54 00:05:54,469 --> 00:05:55,470 Princess! 55 00:05:56,638 --> 00:05:59,224 You all right? Are you? 56 00:05:59,307 --> 00:06:01,309 - Fetch the maester! - I'm fine. 57 00:06:53,278 --> 00:06:54,821 It's Daemon. 58 00:07:59,135 --> 00:08:00,575 Add it to the chair. 59 00:08:17,112 --> 00:08:18,113 You wear a crown. 60 00:08:19,781 --> 00:08:21,616 Do you also call yourself "King"? 61 00:08:22,534 --> 00:08:24,244 Once we smashed the Triarchy, 62 00:08:24,327 --> 00:08:27,205 they named me "King of the Narrow Sea." 63 00:08:31,626 --> 00:08:35,296 But I know that there is only one true king, Your Grace. 64 00:08:43,763 --> 00:08:47,851 My crown and the Stepstones... are yours. 65 00:08:51,980 --> 00:08:53,898 Where is Lord Corlys? 66 00:08:53,982 --> 00:08:56,067 He sailed home to Driftmark. 67 00:08:56,151 --> 00:08:59,362 - Who holds the Stepstones? - The tides... 68 00:08:59,446 --> 00:09:04,909 the crabs, and 2,000 dead Triarchy corsairs, 69 00:09:04,993 --> 00:09:08,288 staked to the sand to warn those who might follow. 70 00:09:45,533 --> 00:09:46,743 Rise. 71 00:10:10,225 --> 00:10:12,519 The realm owes you a great debt, brother. 72 00:10:16,689 --> 00:10:17,690 Come. 73 00:10:22,570 --> 00:10:25,240 This is our chance... 74 00:10:25,323 --> 00:10:28,660 Daemon, he would venture off, abroad, 75 00:10:28,743 --> 00:10:31,538 winning tournaments... 76 00:10:32,622 --> 00:10:34,082 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 77 00:10:34,165 --> 00:10:36,251 I will not revisit this debate. 78 00:10:36,334 --> 00:10:38,503 You were always mother's favorite. 79 00:10:38,586 --> 00:10:40,755 No, it's no great mystery. 80 00:10:40,839 --> 00:10:42,048 You were. 81 00:10:43,466 --> 00:10:47,887 Our mother, she had no regard for custom or tradition, rules. 82 00:10:48,346 --> 00:10:51,850 And I, sadly, was no great warrior. 83 00:10:51,933 --> 00:10:54,435 Congratulations on your victory. 84 00:10:59,941 --> 00:11:01,234 Thank you, Princess. 85 00:11:06,739 --> 00:11:09,325 Perhaps Prince Daemon would care for a tour of the gallery? 86 00:11:09,409 --> 00:11:11,160 He hasn't yet seen the new tapestries 87 00:11:11,244 --> 00:11:13,246 - gifted to you by Norvos and Qohor. - Oh. 88 00:11:14,289 --> 00:11:16,708 Would you like to see the tapestries? 89 00:11:21,588 --> 00:11:24,132 He has no interest in such things. 90 00:11:25,466 --> 00:11:26,718 I'd like to see them. 91 00:11:28,011 --> 00:11:30,889 Then you should not deprive yourself. 92 00:11:32,765 --> 00:11:34,100 I shall enjoy them alone. 93 00:11:38,104 --> 00:11:39,772 More wine. 94 00:11:43,401 --> 00:11:46,112 As I said, you were the favorite. 95 00:11:46,195 --> 00:11:48,948 No, you were. You were. I insist. 96 00:12:04,881 --> 00:12:07,258 I surmise the tour did not go well. 97 00:12:07,342 --> 00:12:09,344 I endured it for as long as I could. 98 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,181 To have every young knight and lord in the Seven Kingdoms 99 00:12:13,264 --> 00:12:15,308 fawning over you... 100 00:12:15,391 --> 00:12:16,392 What misery. 101 00:12:20,355 --> 00:12:24,108 It is rare for girls in this realm to get a choice between two suitors, 102 00:12:24,192 --> 00:12:26,194 no less two score of them. 103 00:12:27,028 --> 00:12:29,447 Those men and boys don't fawn over me. 104 00:12:30,323 --> 00:12:31,324 They only want my name 105 00:12:31,407 --> 00:12:33,117 and my Valyrian blood for their offspring. 106 00:12:36,037 --> 00:12:37,997 I think it's rather romantic. 107 00:12:39,749 --> 00:12:42,919 How romantic it must be to get imprisoned in a castle 108 00:12:43,002 --> 00:12:45,004 and made to squeeze out heirs. 109 00:12:50,343 --> 00:12:51,344 Sorry. 110 00:13:00,853 --> 00:13:02,188 How angry is he? 111 00:13:06,401 --> 00:13:09,362 The King went through great effort to arrange your tour. 112 00:13:09,862 --> 00:13:11,864 He is... frustrated. 113 00:13:12,657 --> 00:13:14,659 But I am glad you are home. 114 00:13:19,330 --> 00:13:22,333 I find I have few friends lately. 115 00:13:23,626 --> 00:13:26,629 I like to believe I'm still the Lady Alicent, but... 116 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,760 all anyone sees when they look at me now is "The Queen." 117 00:13:34,929 --> 00:13:36,931 I've missed you, too. 118 00:14:11,966 --> 00:14:12,967 So... 119 00:14:14,719 --> 00:14:15,762 what do you want? 120 00:14:17,013 --> 00:14:19,265 Only the comforts of home. 121 00:14:26,189 --> 00:14:29,609 I had not thought you particularly comfortable in this home. 122 00:14:33,154 --> 00:14:36,783 Though I do suppose you seem changed by your adventures. 123 00:14:38,951 --> 00:14:40,161 More mature, perhaps. 124 00:14:42,246 --> 00:14:45,041 You've matured yourself these last four years, Princess. 125 00:14:47,502 --> 00:14:49,545 You'll get used to the attention. 126 00:14:49,629 --> 00:14:51,255 The attention I can endure. 127 00:14:51,339 --> 00:14:52,924 It's the rest I could do without. 128 00:14:53,007 --> 00:14:55,009 My father seems content to sell me off 129 00:14:55,093 --> 00:14:57,053 to whichever lord has the biggest castle. 130 00:14:58,638 --> 00:15:01,057 There are worse things to be sold for. 131 00:15:32,088 --> 00:15:33,297 Oh. 132 00:16:19,093 --> 00:16:20,636 Such a lonely prospect. 133 00:16:23,472 --> 00:16:25,784 The Stepstones were meant to be won for the realm, 134 00:16:25,808 --> 00:16:28,060 but over the past few days, it seems we have traded 135 00:16:28,144 --> 00:16:30,479 a crabfeeder for a seasnake. 136 00:16:30,563 --> 00:16:32,857 This is clearly a rebuke for passing over 137 00:16:32,940 --> 00:16:35,151 Lady Laena for Queen Alicent. 138 00:16:35,234 --> 00:16:38,112 Years have passed since the business with his daughter. 139 00:16:38,196 --> 00:16:40,239 Certainly, he cannot still be wroth? 140 00:16:40,323 --> 00:16:44,368 The Sea Snake is an over-proud man, to be sure, Your Grace. 141 00:16:44,452 --> 00:16:45,995 That pride has been injured. 142 00:16:46,537 --> 00:16:49,332 Perhaps we can salve the wound? 143 00:16:49,415 --> 00:16:52,543 I fear Lord Corlys's pride is the least of our worries. 144 00:16:52,627 --> 00:16:55,296 I don't wish to cause you further distress, Your Grace, 145 00:16:55,379 --> 00:16:58,132 but my brother has sent disturbing word from Oldtown. 146 00:16:58,883 --> 00:17:02,011 Lord Corlys is said to have engaged in negotiations 147 00:17:02,094 --> 00:17:03,763 with the Sealord of Braavos. 148 00:17:03,846 --> 00:17:07,725 He plans to wed his daughter Laena to the Sealord's son. 149 00:17:09,769 --> 00:17:12,939 If House Velaryon entered into an alliance 150 00:17:13,022 --> 00:17:14,857 with the Free Cities 151 00:17:16,025 --> 00:17:17,109 then... 152 00:17:18,069 --> 00:17:21,572 we would have to seek our own marriage pact. 153 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,083 - Good night, Ser Criston. - Sleep well, Princess. 154 00:18:46,907 --> 00:18:48,576 Ugh... 155 00:19:28,282 --> 00:19:29,282 Whoa! 156 00:20:34,181 --> 00:20:35,808 Where are we going? 157 00:21:01,208 --> 00:21:03,002 Fuck off, boy. 158 00:21:04,962 --> 00:21:06,297 He called me boy. 159 00:21:26,275 --> 00:21:28,694 Do you wish to know your death, child? 160 00:21:46,670 --> 00:21:47,671 Let me take that. 161 00:22:02,686 --> 00:22:05,105 Leave us, all of you. 162 00:22:24,124 --> 00:22:26,544 You have a far kinder touch than they do. 163 00:22:26,961 --> 00:22:27,962 Thank you, husband. 164 00:22:31,382 --> 00:22:36,762 And now we come to the matter of the great Iron Chair... 165 00:22:37,888 --> 00:22:40,849 and whose bum it might bear. 166 00:22:40,933 --> 00:22:42,851 Our good King... 167 00:22:42,935 --> 00:22:45,312 names his daughter, 168 00:22:45,396 --> 00:22:47,606 a girl, his heir. 169 00:22:52,570 --> 00:22:55,573 But then to him, a babe is born. 170 00:22:55,656 --> 00:22:57,283 Oh! 171 00:23:04,123 --> 00:23:05,708 A son! 172 00:23:07,835 --> 00:23:10,754 To which heir might the chair bear? 173 00:23:11,130 --> 00:23:12,381 Who will it be? 174 00:23:12,464 --> 00:23:14,758 The brother? The daughter? 175 00:23:14,842 --> 00:23:17,219 Or the little princeling of three? 176 00:23:28,897 --> 00:23:33,068 Rhaenyra... the Realm's Delight... 177 00:23:33,152 --> 00:23:36,071 a girl so young and so slight... 178 00:23:37,239 --> 00:23:40,200 loved by all of her people, 179 00:23:40,284 --> 00:23:44,079 but would she make a powerful queen, 180 00:23:44,163 --> 00:23:46,874 - or would she be feeble? - Feeble! 181 00:23:46,957 --> 00:23:50,544 Though Aegon, the babe Prince, might long for a claim, 182 00:23:50,628 --> 00:23:53,797 he has two things Rhaenyra cannot: 183 00:23:53,881 --> 00:23:55,924 a conqueror's name... 184 00:23:56,634 --> 00:23:58,052 and a cock. 185 00:24:01,263 --> 00:24:04,099 Lies, slander! Boo! 186 00:24:04,183 --> 00:24:05,809 Jest if you will, 187 00:24:05,893 --> 00:24:07,811 but many of the smallfolk are like to believe 188 00:24:07,895 --> 00:24:10,773 that, as a male, Aegon should be the heir. 189 00:24:10,856 --> 00:24:11,856 Mmm. 190 00:24:12,608 --> 00:24:14,360 Their wants are of no consequence. 191 00:24:17,363 --> 00:24:20,824 They're of great consequence if you expect to rule them one day. 192 00:24:22,451 --> 00:24:26,080 For one night, I wish to be free of the burdens of my inheritance. 193 00:24:32,753 --> 00:24:33,855 Four coppers, street rat. 194 00:24:33,879 --> 00:24:35,798 In King's Landing, we pay for our pleasures. 195 00:24:37,424 --> 00:24:38,801 - Hey! - Stop! Boy! 196 00:24:38,884 --> 00:24:40,324 Wait, I'll find him. 197 00:25:19,258 --> 00:25:21,885 And who might you be running from, now? 198 00:25:21,969 --> 00:25:23,095 Ser Harwin. 199 00:25:23,762 --> 00:25:25,055 Princess. 200 00:25:29,935 --> 00:25:31,103 Don't. 201 00:25:32,062 --> 00:25:33,397 You take care, boy. 202 00:25:33,731 --> 00:25:36,150 Next time, you might not be so lucky. 203 00:25:40,404 --> 00:25:42,030 Enjoyed that, did you? 204 00:25:43,866 --> 00:25:45,868 Who knows when I'll next taste freedom? 205 00:25:59,631 --> 00:26:00,632 Come. 206 00:26:06,305 --> 00:26:07,514 Pardon me, Your Grace. 207 00:26:08,390 --> 00:26:10,392 The King has requested your presence. 208 00:26:16,190 --> 00:26:17,357 The hour is quite late. 209 00:26:17,858 --> 00:26:19,109 Yes, Your Grace. 210 00:28:25,193 --> 00:28:26,403 What is this place? 211 00:28:28,030 --> 00:28:29,924 It's where people come to take what they want. 212 00:28:52,888 --> 00:28:55,515 Fucking is a pleasure, you see. 213 00:28:56,892 --> 00:28:59,311 For the woman as it is the man. 214 00:29:13,283 --> 00:29:16,286 A marriage is a duty... Yes. 215 00:29:20,624 --> 00:29:23,627 But that doesn't stop us from doing what we want. 216 00:29:27,464 --> 00:29:28,966 From fucking who we want. 217 00:30:50,547 --> 00:30:51,548 Daemon? 218 00:31:30,879 --> 00:31:31,880 Princess? 219 00:31:40,597 --> 00:31:42,015 Princess, are you, are you hurt? 220 00:31:45,644 --> 00:31:48,730 - I should alert the Lord Commander. - No. 221 00:31:54,069 --> 00:31:55,070 My helmet. 222 00:32:04,371 --> 00:32:05,371 You finished? 223 00:32:08,917 --> 00:32:10,293 Thank you. 224 00:32:10,377 --> 00:32:11,419 Oh. 225 00:32:41,575 --> 00:32:42,659 Stop. 226 00:36:43,191 --> 00:36:44,692 Apologies for the late hour, my Lord. 227 00:36:44,776 --> 00:36:45,777 What is it? 228 00:36:45,860 --> 00:36:48,279 A messenger brings word from the White Worm. 229 00:37:14,097 --> 00:37:15,497 Am I your prisoner? 230 00:37:16,558 --> 00:37:18,017 As I was once yours? 231 00:37:23,606 --> 00:37:25,984 I'm your protector, lucky for you. 232 00:37:34,451 --> 00:37:35,827 This will cut the fog. 233 00:37:38,580 --> 00:37:41,207 I don't need protection from a common whore. 234 00:37:41,291 --> 00:37:42,876 I am not so common. 235 00:37:44,711 --> 00:37:47,088 A not-so-common whore then. 236 00:37:47,172 --> 00:37:49,716 I've left that life behind. 237 00:37:49,799 --> 00:37:54,220 I learned that skin-trade could only take me so far in this life. 238 00:37:54,929 --> 00:37:57,140 You never were one to stay idle. 239 00:37:58,057 --> 00:38:01,394 Hard lessons are not welcomed but suffered. 240 00:38:17,452 --> 00:38:20,079 You can pay for the room on your way out. 241 00:38:45,939 --> 00:38:47,190 Come. 242 00:38:56,783 --> 00:38:57,951 What is it? 243 00:38:59,577 --> 00:39:02,288 I apologize for the early hour, Your Grace. 244 00:39:03,081 --> 00:39:04,499 I have, uh... 245 00:39:05,750 --> 00:39:07,043 discomforting news. 246 00:39:07,126 --> 00:39:10,380 I thought it best shared discreetly before the council convenes. 247 00:39:10,463 --> 00:39:12,423 The Sea Snake. 248 00:39:15,468 --> 00:39:18,471 I'm afraid it concerns the Princess, my King. 249 00:39:20,223 --> 00:39:21,391 Has she been harmed? 250 00:39:26,896 --> 00:39:28,273 It is no easy thing 251 00:39:28,356 --> 00:39:31,359 to tell a father of his daughter's exploits. 252 00:39:32,527 --> 00:39:34,571 I had considered saying nothing, but... 253 00:39:34,654 --> 00:39:36,364 What has she done? 254 00:39:39,742 --> 00:39:42,370 The Princess was spied last evening... 255 00:39:43,705 --> 00:39:45,665 beyond the walls of the Keep... 256 00:39:48,001 --> 00:39:49,419 in a pleasure house. 257 00:39:50,128 --> 00:39:51,337 What of it? 258 00:39:52,005 --> 00:39:55,008 She was carrying on with her uncle. 259 00:39:56,551 --> 00:40:01,180 They were engaged in behaviors unbecoming of a maiden... 260 00:40:02,807 --> 00:40:04,517 of a Princess. 261 00:40:07,645 --> 00:40:09,272 What behaviors? 262 00:40:15,403 --> 00:40:17,405 Well, must I say it, Your Grace? 263 00:40:17,488 --> 00:40:20,491 You enter my bedchamber, accusing my daughter of something. 264 00:40:20,867 --> 00:40:23,286 Now speak it... plainly. 265 00:40:27,206 --> 00:40:29,417 Daemon and Rhaenyra were seen together... 266 00:40:31,544 --> 00:40:33,630 in the bowels of a pleasure den. 267 00:40:44,932 --> 00:40:46,142 Coupling. 268 00:40:54,275 --> 00:40:55,902 This is a lie. 269 00:40:56,903 --> 00:40:58,529 You have been lied to. 270 00:40:59,489 --> 00:41:01,491 I only wish that were true, Your Grace. 271 00:41:03,743 --> 00:41:05,745 Who is responsible for this gossip? 272 00:41:06,913 --> 00:41:09,374 Have this rumormonger brought before me at once. 273 00:41:09,457 --> 00:41:11,459 And I will take their eyes. 274 00:41:11,542 --> 00:41:15,129 As your Hand, I must maintain trusted sources of information. 275 00:41:15,213 --> 00:41:17,924 And this one, as yet, has never led me astray. 276 00:41:18,675 --> 00:41:22,011 And several of the servants have now admitted to seeing her, 277 00:41:22,095 --> 00:41:24,097 the Princess... 278 00:41:24,180 --> 00:41:26,432 creeping through the gates from King's Landing, 279 00:41:26,516 --> 00:41:28,351 disguised as a page 280 00:41:28,434 --> 00:41:30,436 during the hour of the owl. 281 00:41:32,021 --> 00:41:34,190 Are you so sick with ambition 282 00:41:34,273 --> 00:41:36,025 that you would have my daughter stalked? 283 00:41:36,776 --> 00:41:38,403 Spied upon? 284 00:41:38,986 --> 00:41:42,115 Awaiting your best chance to destroy her reputation? 285 00:41:43,032 --> 00:41:45,868 I have no such intent, Your Grace. 286 00:41:45,952 --> 00:41:47,954 You think yourself a cunning man. 287 00:41:49,038 --> 00:41:50,498 Your designs are obvious. 288 00:41:52,208 --> 00:41:54,544 Do you wish to have your blood on the Iron Throne so badly 289 00:41:54,627 --> 00:41:57,004 that you are willing to destroy mine own? 290 00:41:59,465 --> 00:42:00,675 Just get out. 291 00:42:04,721 --> 00:42:07,348 Leave me... at once. 292 00:42:12,645 --> 00:42:14,063 Your Grace. 293 00:42:54,437 --> 00:42:56,522 I'm dressed, Annora. Come. 294 00:43:06,657 --> 00:43:07,825 Princess. 295 00:43:13,623 --> 00:43:14,749 Come. 296 00:43:24,467 --> 00:43:27,136 Princess, I have a message from the Queen. 297 00:43:51,744 --> 00:43:53,454 What happened last night? 298 00:43:55,206 --> 00:43:56,749 What do you mean? 299 00:43:56,833 --> 00:43:59,961 My father has made some worrying allegations about you. 300 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,048 Were you with your uncle? 301 00:44:06,801 --> 00:44:08,636 Oh, I... 302 00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:10,429 I haven't seen him in years. 303 00:44:10,513 --> 00:44:12,032 He took me into the city for some fun. 304 00:44:12,056 --> 00:44:14,308 Tell me the whole of it, Rhaenyra. 305 00:44:14,392 --> 00:44:16,394 Your father accused me of something. 306 00:44:17,436 --> 00:44:19,438 That I drank wine? 307 00:44:19,522 --> 00:44:21,899 Left the castle after dark? 308 00:44:21,983 --> 00:44:23,985 That you fucked Daemon in a pleasure house. 309 00:44:32,702 --> 00:44:36,956 This is a vile accusation. 310 00:44:37,039 --> 00:44:38,082 Is it? 311 00:44:38,165 --> 00:44:41,085 You Targaryens do have queer customs. 312 00:44:41,168 --> 00:44:44,338 - And Daemon certainly knows no limit. - Alicent... 313 00:44:44,422 --> 00:44:47,008 Your Grace, sister, you must know I would, 314 00:44:47,091 --> 00:44:48,426 I would never. 315 00:44:48,509 --> 00:44:49,969 You cannot believe such gossip. 316 00:44:50,052 --> 00:44:51,262 My father is no gossip. 317 00:44:51,345 --> 00:44:52,573 Well, certainly he's been misled. 318 00:44:52,597 --> 00:44:53,949 He could not have witnessed such a thing. 319 00:44:53,973 --> 00:44:55,641 - Why not? - Because it did not happen. 320 00:44:55,725 --> 00:44:57,727 - He was told that you... - Told? 321 00:45:00,187 --> 00:45:02,189 Who made these claims to your father? 322 00:45:06,068 --> 00:45:08,070 I am the Princess. 323 00:45:08,779 --> 00:45:11,782 To question my virtue is an act of treason. 324 00:45:14,118 --> 00:45:16,871 - I do not know specifically... - Your father did not tell you? 325 00:45:17,538 --> 00:45:19,040 He reported it to the King. 326 00:45:22,335 --> 00:45:23,544 I overheard. 327 00:45:27,548 --> 00:45:29,967 So you are accusing me of slanders... 328 00:45:30,968 --> 00:45:32,595 you overheard? 329 00:45:33,387 --> 00:45:35,556 I only want to help you, Rhaenyra. 330 00:45:44,357 --> 00:45:46,025 We drank in a tavern. 331 00:45:47,610 --> 00:45:50,237 Several... taverns. 332 00:45:51,322 --> 00:45:53,199 It was getting late... 333 00:45:53,866 --> 00:45:55,493 and I asked to go home. 334 00:45:56,494 --> 00:45:58,496 But Daemon wished to continue. 335 00:46:01,207 --> 00:46:03,668 As he was my escort, I had no real choice. 336 00:46:03,751 --> 00:46:05,044 "Continue"... 337 00:46:07,755 --> 00:46:08,965 in a brothel? 338 00:46:10,049 --> 00:46:12,051 He took me to a show. Uh... 339 00:46:13,844 --> 00:46:16,847 I was only a spectator. I didn't do anything. 340 00:46:22,395 --> 00:46:25,356 And then Daemon sank into his cups and... 341 00:46:26,899 --> 00:46:30,528 abandoned me for some whore. 342 00:46:35,032 --> 00:46:37,034 I should've known better. 343 00:46:43,124 --> 00:46:44,583 So you did not? 344 00:46:47,586 --> 00:46:50,214 Must I truly refute that? 345 00:46:54,093 --> 00:46:56,679 Daemon never touched me. 346 00:46:58,472 --> 00:47:02,518 I swear this to you upon the memory of my mother. 347 00:47:05,855 --> 00:47:07,940 It was foolish of you to place yourself in a position 348 00:47:08,024 --> 00:47:10,276 where your virtue could even come into question. 349 00:47:14,238 --> 00:47:16,198 The King has strived to find you a good match. 350 00:47:16,282 --> 00:47:17,700 And so have I. 351 00:47:18,576 --> 00:47:20,786 If that lord were to think that you had been... 352 00:47:22,580 --> 00:47:23,789 sullied... 353 00:47:25,458 --> 00:47:27,877 - it would ruin everything. - I know... 354 00:47:28,669 --> 00:47:29,754 Your Grace. 355 00:47:31,672 --> 00:47:32,840 I regret it. 356 00:47:48,147 --> 00:47:50,608 The King demands an audience, my Prince. 357 00:47:50,691 --> 00:47:53,360 Take your fucking hands off me. 358 00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:42,368 My daughter. 359 00:48:49,875 --> 00:48:51,293 Won't you even deny it? 360 00:48:52,545 --> 00:48:56,423 I need to understand the charge before I can attempt to discredit it. 361 00:48:57,716 --> 00:48:59,051 You defiled her. 362 00:49:07,977 --> 00:49:09,395 Still, you say nothing. 363 00:49:09,478 --> 00:49:11,689 Oh, what does it matter, brother? 364 00:49:11,772 --> 00:49:13,023 When we were Rhaenyra's age, 365 00:49:13,107 --> 00:49:14,984 we fucked our way through most of the brothels 366 00:49:15,067 --> 00:49:16,569 on the Street of Silk. 367 00:49:16,652 --> 00:49:18,571 We were young men. 368 00:49:18,654 --> 00:49:20,573 She is just a girl. 369 00:49:20,656 --> 00:49:22,867 - Your niece! - Rhaenyra's a woman-grown. 370 00:49:22,950 --> 00:49:25,369 Better her first experience be with me than some whore. 371 00:49:25,452 --> 00:49:26,453 You fucking... 372 00:49:28,164 --> 00:49:29,498 You have ruined her! 373 00:49:30,541 --> 00:49:32,459 What lord will wed her now? In this condition? 374 00:49:32,543 --> 00:49:35,296 Who gives a fuck what some lord thinks? 375 00:49:35,379 --> 00:49:39,466 You are the dragon. Your word is truth and law. 376 00:49:39,550 --> 00:49:42,052 I have spent a lifetime defending you. 377 00:49:42,636 --> 00:49:45,097 But your heart is even blacker than I thought. 378 00:49:45,181 --> 00:49:47,057 I should disinherit her 379 00:49:47,141 --> 00:49:49,768 as I already did you and be done with it. 380 00:49:50,853 --> 00:49:52,271 Wed her to me. 381 00:49:53,814 --> 00:49:57,026 When I offered up my crown, you said I could have anything. 382 00:49:57,109 --> 00:49:59,403 I want Rhaenyra. I'll take her as she is, 383 00:49:59,486 --> 00:50:01,447 and wed her in the tradition of our house. 384 00:50:02,573 --> 00:50:03,824 You are already wed. 385 00:50:03,908 --> 00:50:06,577 That didn't stop Aegon the Conqueror from taking a second wife. 386 00:50:07,328 --> 00:50:08,954 You are no conqueror. 387 00:50:09,038 --> 00:50:12,583 You are a plague... sent to destroy me. 388 00:50:12,666 --> 00:50:15,502 Give me Rhaenyra to take to wife 389 00:50:15,586 --> 00:50:17,504 and we will return the House of the Dragon 390 00:50:17,588 --> 00:50:19,340 to its proper glory. 391 00:50:19,423 --> 00:50:20,674 Of course. 392 00:50:20,758 --> 00:50:23,177 It's not my daughter you lust for, is it? 393 00:50:24,261 --> 00:50:25,512 It's my throne. 394 00:50:28,140 --> 00:50:30,643 Go back to the Vale, Daemon, 395 00:50:30,726 --> 00:50:32,728 to your lawful wife. 396 00:50:33,646 --> 00:50:38,609 Strive to restore whatever scrap of honor remains in you. 397 00:50:38,692 --> 00:50:41,612 Or don't. Matters not to me. 398 00:50:42,154 --> 00:50:44,573 As long as you are gone from my sight for good. 399 00:50:52,039 --> 00:50:54,041 As you wish, brother. 400 00:51:24,196 --> 00:51:25,948 Have you spoken to her? 401 00:51:28,534 --> 00:51:29,618 No. 402 00:51:34,873 --> 00:51:37,501 It is not in Rhaenyra's nature to be deceitful. 403 00:51:38,752 --> 00:51:40,754 I cannot say the same for your brother. 404 00:51:41,672 --> 00:51:43,090 You believe he lied? 405 00:51:44,258 --> 00:51:46,468 How often does he speak the pure truth? 406 00:51:47,803 --> 00:51:50,806 How does confessing to such things serve him? 407 00:51:53,684 --> 00:51:55,561 By reducing you. 408 00:52:01,692 --> 00:52:05,112 Whatever transpired, Rhaenyra is not innocent. 409 00:52:06,113 --> 00:52:08,532 Only because Daemon tried to corrupt her. 410 00:52:08,615 --> 00:52:11,869 Daemon and Rhaenyra share the blood of the dragon. 411 00:52:11,952 --> 00:52:13,746 They are restless and chaotic. 412 00:52:13,829 --> 00:52:16,665 She swore to me that she remains a maiden. 413 00:52:18,292 --> 00:52:19,918 And I believe her. 414 00:53:24,108 --> 00:53:27,778 That dagger once belonged to Aegon the Conqueror. 415 00:53:29,321 --> 00:53:31,323 It was Aenar's before that. 416 00:53:32,157 --> 00:53:33,784 And before that... 417 00:53:34,618 --> 00:53:36,620 Well, it is difficult to know. 418 00:53:42,292 --> 00:53:46,255 Before Aegon's death, the last of the Valyrian pyromancers 419 00:53:46,338 --> 00:53:47,756 hid his song in the steel. 420 00:53:55,556 --> 00:53:57,641 "From my blood... 421 00:53:58,308 --> 00:54:01,562 come the Prince That Was Promised... 422 00:54:03,647 --> 00:54:07,276 and his will be the Song of Ice and Fire." 423 00:54:11,613 --> 00:54:15,117 The responsibility I have handed to you, 424 00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:17,411 the burden of this knowledge... 425 00:54:18,579 --> 00:54:22,082 it is larger than the throne, the king. 426 00:54:22,166 --> 00:54:23,709 It is larger than you 427 00:54:23,792 --> 00:54:25,919 and your desires. 428 00:54:30,507 --> 00:54:32,968 Jaehaerys would've disinherited you. 429 00:54:33,051 --> 00:54:34,261 For a lie? 430 00:54:35,637 --> 00:54:38,307 You've yet to ask me for the truth of what happened. 431 00:54:38,390 --> 00:54:40,893 The truth does not matter, Rhaenyra. 432 00:54:40,976 --> 00:54:42,853 Only perception. 433 00:54:42,936 --> 00:54:44,688 You have exposed yourself. 434 00:54:44,771 --> 00:54:46,815 Now we must both suffer the consequences. 435 00:54:47,357 --> 00:54:50,319 Were I born a man, I could bed whomever I wanted. 436 00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:52,988 I could father a dozen bastards, 437 00:54:53,071 --> 00:54:55,782 and no one in your court would blink an eye. 438 00:54:55,866 --> 00:54:59,119 You are right... but you were born a woman. 439 00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,998 So you'll strip me of my titles and name Aegon in my stead. 440 00:55:03,081 --> 00:55:04,166 I would. 441 00:55:05,125 --> 00:55:07,377 But it is mine to hold the realm together, 442 00:55:07,461 --> 00:55:09,296 not sow it with further division. 443 00:55:11,131 --> 00:55:13,759 Your courtship is at an end. 444 00:55:13,842 --> 00:55:16,053 You will wed Ser Laenor Velaryon, 445 00:55:16,136 --> 00:55:18,472 and you will do so without protest. 446 00:55:19,598 --> 00:55:21,558 The son of the Sea Snake. 447 00:55:21,642 --> 00:55:24,144 So I can be a remedy for your political headaches. 448 00:55:24,228 --> 00:55:26,522 You are my political headache! 449 00:55:31,318 --> 00:55:33,570 Your wedding to Ser Laenor Velaryon 450 00:55:33,654 --> 00:55:36,198 will unite the two most powerful houses in the realm. 451 00:55:36,281 --> 00:55:40,577 With the combined strength of our shared dragons and naval fleets, 452 00:55:40,661 --> 00:55:43,330 no one would dare to stand against us. 453 00:55:43,413 --> 00:55:44,748 The House of the Dragon 454 00:55:44,831 --> 00:55:47,292 will stand as one for a further generation. 455 00:55:47,376 --> 00:55:51,213 And what will you do about the vulture who perches upon your throne? 456 00:55:51,713 --> 00:55:53,090 What vulture? 457 00:55:53,674 --> 00:55:54,967 Your Hand. 458 00:55:56,593 --> 00:56:00,764 Otto Hightower has served two kings loyally and faithfully. 459 00:56:01,932 --> 00:56:03,934 He wants Aegon to be named heir. 460 00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:07,187 And he will stop at nothing to see it done. 461 00:56:07,271 --> 00:56:10,274 Including spying on me to bring about my ruin. 462 00:56:11,692 --> 00:56:14,278 You speak of The Conqueror's vision 463 00:56:14,361 --> 00:56:17,614 and the need for strength and unity across the realm. 464 00:56:17,698 --> 00:56:19,324 But how can that be accomplished 465 00:56:19,408 --> 00:56:21,952 with your most trusted adviser so self-interested? 466 00:56:22,035 --> 00:56:24,496 Every lord and lady that calls for an audience with me, 467 00:56:24,580 --> 00:56:26,415 every man on my small council, 468 00:56:26,498 --> 00:56:29,459 and all councils past, has been self-interested. 469 00:56:29,543 --> 00:56:32,004 - It is unavoidable. - I disagree. 470 00:56:32,087 --> 00:56:36,091 I will do my duty as heir and wed Ser Laenor. 471 00:56:38,594 --> 00:56:41,346 But you must first do yours as king. 472 00:56:52,774 --> 00:56:53,859 Your Grace. 473 00:56:56,570 --> 00:56:57,779 Five days. 474 00:57:01,116 --> 00:57:03,076 I'm sorry, Your Grace? 475 00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:04,760 Though it was some time ago. 476 00:57:05,621 --> 00:57:08,498 The details... they fade in memory. 477 00:57:09,625 --> 00:57:13,003 My father was a hale and healthy warrior and dragonrider 478 00:57:13,086 --> 00:57:15,088 at the peak of his abilities. 479 00:57:15,797 --> 00:57:17,507 Jaehaerys named a great royal hunt 480 00:57:17,591 --> 00:57:19,843 to celebrate him being named the Hand of the King. 481 00:57:21,970 --> 00:57:25,098 Five days later my father lay dead. 482 00:57:27,392 --> 00:57:28,852 Tourneys last longer. 483 00:57:30,604 --> 00:57:32,898 Baelon the Brave, 484 00:57:32,981 --> 00:57:35,067 rider of Vhagar, 485 00:57:35,150 --> 00:57:37,152 heir to the Iron Throne... 486 00:57:38,570 --> 00:57:40,572 dead of a burst belly. 487 00:57:42,407 --> 00:57:43,909 The gods have a dark wit. 488 00:57:45,077 --> 00:57:46,703 It was a grim day. 489 00:57:48,288 --> 00:57:50,916 - I recall it all too well. - Yeah... 490 00:57:51,917 --> 00:57:53,251 It was a good day for you. 491 00:57:55,253 --> 00:57:57,881 Jaehaerys named you Hand in Baelon's stead. 492 00:58:01,218 --> 00:58:04,221 That's hardly how I viewed it, Your Grace. 493 00:58:05,055 --> 00:58:06,682 It was a duty. 494 00:58:09,434 --> 00:58:13,230 You served my grandsire nobly in his final days. 495 00:58:14,606 --> 00:58:16,858 You are the man that taught me how to be King. 496 00:58:18,819 --> 00:58:20,821 You honor me, Your Grace. 497 00:58:22,989 --> 00:58:24,616 Just five days... 498 00:58:26,410 --> 00:58:29,621 you went from being another man in Jaehaerys's court, 499 00:58:29,705 --> 00:58:31,748 to the second most powerful man in the realm. 500 00:58:33,041 --> 00:58:34,251 I wonder... 501 00:58:35,669 --> 00:58:38,463 how long did it take you to choose yourself over your King? 502 00:58:41,508 --> 00:58:42,926 Your Grace? 503 00:58:43,927 --> 00:58:46,555 I will never recover from Aemma's death. 504 00:58:47,472 --> 00:58:48,682 But Alicent... 505 00:58:49,683 --> 00:58:51,727 she took me through the worst of my grief. 506 00:58:54,187 --> 00:58:56,189 She was a calculated distraction. 507 00:58:58,066 --> 00:59:01,403 I only now realize how well-calculated it was. 508 00:59:01,486 --> 00:59:03,739 That is an absurdity. 509 00:59:04,322 --> 00:59:05,907 The Queen loves you... 510 00:59:07,534 --> 00:59:09,536 as I know you love her. 511 00:59:09,619 --> 00:59:12,998 Your interests no longer align with those of the realm. 512 00:59:13,081 --> 00:59:15,459 Your judgment has been compromised. 513 00:59:15,542 --> 00:59:18,044 A loyal Hand must tell his king 514 00:59:18,128 --> 00:59:21,256 a discomforting truth from time to time, Your Grace. 515 00:59:21,339 --> 00:59:22,507 If he doesn't... 516 00:59:24,342 --> 00:59:26,344 he's failed as a servant. 517 00:59:27,387 --> 00:59:29,765 You were a faithful servant, Otto. 518 00:59:39,357 --> 00:59:40,776 The Crown and the realm 519 00:59:41,359 --> 00:59:44,362 both owe you a debt that can never be repaid. 520 00:59:45,530 --> 00:59:48,116 But I can no longer trust your judgment. 521 01:00:12,557 --> 01:00:13,683 Come. 522 01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:21,483 I hope you can forgive the late hour, Princess. 523 01:00:26,363 --> 01:00:29,366 I took great care in its preparation. 524 01:00:32,035 --> 01:00:34,913 If not brewed properly, it can either prove ineffective 525 01:00:34,996 --> 01:00:39,084 - or else bear unpleasant... - Brewed properly? 526 01:00:40,919 --> 01:00:42,546 I'm sorry, what is that? 527 01:00:43,255 --> 01:00:45,257 A tea, Princess. 528 01:00:45,882 --> 01:00:47,300 From the King. 529 01:00:48,593 --> 01:00:53,807 It will rid you of any unwanted consequences.