1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,580 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com - 2 00:03:09,961 --> 00:03:12,751 - Only one. - That's enough, stand back. 3 00:03:19,596 --> 00:03:20,876 Behold! 4 00:03:21,681 --> 00:03:24,929 The traitor dragon Meleys! 5 00:03:24,934 --> 00:03:28,975 Slain at Rook's Rest 6 00:03:28,980 --> 00:03:30,549 by your king! 7 00:03:32,734 --> 00:03:34,356 To Aegon! 8 00:03:42,878 --> 00:03:44,913 - It can't be... - They killed a dragon! 9 00:03:46,373 --> 00:03:48,967 Mark my words, this is a black omen. 10 00:04:07,018 --> 00:04:09,037 Rhaenyra will answer this. 11 00:04:10,522 --> 00:04:12,023 'Tis an abomination. 12 00:04:13,274 --> 00:04:15,327 Don't they realize we won the battle? 13 00:04:16,528 --> 00:04:18,530 Strange victory... 14 00:04:19,447 --> 00:04:21,069 if it was one. 15 00:04:38,383 --> 00:04:40,552 Behold! 16 00:04:41,928 --> 00:04:44,718 The traitor dragon Meleys! 17 00:04:44,723 --> 00:04:46,511 I thought the dragons was gods. 18 00:04:46,516 --> 00:04:49,889 Slain at Rook's Rest by your king! 19 00:04:58,036 --> 00:04:59,504 It's just meat. 20 00:07:19,544 --> 00:07:20,749 Is he alive? 21 00:07:20,754 --> 00:07:22,917 His Grace... 22 00:07:22,922 --> 00:07:25,717 remains with us, for the moment. 23 00:08:22,607 --> 00:08:23,937 Is my son going to die? 24 00:08:23,942 --> 00:08:25,502 I'm afraid I cannot say. 25 00:08:25,977 --> 00:08:27,482 Now, if you'll excuse me, Your Grace, 26 00:08:27,487 --> 00:08:29,275 these next hours are most critical. 27 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:30,369 Of course. 28 00:08:43,628 --> 00:08:45,148 Easy as you can. 29 00:09:04,991 --> 00:09:07,528 Someone will have to rule in his stead. 30 00:09:31,509 --> 00:09:34,132 - What happened? - We took the castle. 31 00:09:34,137 --> 00:09:36,198 At the cost of some 900 men. 32 00:09:38,333 --> 00:09:39,560 So I've heard. 33 00:09:41,853 --> 00:09:44,517 I left a meager garrison behind to protect it 34 00:09:44,522 --> 00:09:46,078 and the king's dragon. 35 00:09:46,783 --> 00:09:48,822 Sunfyre was long in the dying. 36 00:09:49,527 --> 00:09:52,030 The king, Ser Criston, what befell him? 37 00:09:55,700 --> 00:09:57,723 His Grace fought valiantly. 38 00:10:04,376 --> 00:10:05,705 And Aemond? 39 00:10:12,759 --> 00:10:14,261 What was his part in this? 40 00:10:18,598 --> 00:10:20,100 I could not say. 41 00:10:24,396 --> 00:10:26,615 Our largest dragon has been killed. 42 00:10:28,149 --> 00:10:32,004 Criston Cole marches about the Crownlands unchallenged. 43 00:10:32,946 --> 00:10:35,907 Duskendale and Rook's Rest are gone. 44 00:10:37,183 --> 00:10:38,680 We still have no ground army 45 00:10:38,685 --> 00:10:40,983 but the one we hope that Daemon will raise. 46 00:10:41,788 --> 00:10:46,079 He who has left us... after some marital spat. 47 00:10:47,919 --> 00:10:50,088 Do you take issue with me, Ser Alfred? 48 00:10:52,757 --> 00:10:54,963 My loyalty to you is proven, my queen. 49 00:10:54,968 --> 00:10:56,557 Your loyalty, perhaps, 50 00:10:57,262 --> 00:11:00,093 but your willingness to give me deference in a time of war. 51 00:11:00,098 --> 00:11:03,504 I could never doubt your capability, 52 00:11:03,509 --> 00:11:05,537 or your quickness of mind. 53 00:11:07,272 --> 00:11:09,269 It is merely that the gentler sex, 54 00:11:09,274 --> 00:11:11,604 heretofore, has not been much privy 55 00:11:11,609 --> 00:11:13,682 to the strategies of battle, 56 00:11:14,487 --> 00:11:16,064 or their execution. 57 00:11:18,016 --> 00:11:19,821 There has been peace in our lifetime. 58 00:11:19,826 --> 00:11:22,087 You've seen no more battles than I have. 59 00:11:42,182 --> 00:11:44,763 Send to Maidenpool and to Crackclaw Point. 60 00:11:44,768 --> 00:11:45,972 Let them man their garrisons 61 00:11:45,977 --> 00:11:47,474 and give them stores or weapons 62 00:11:47,479 --> 00:11:48,813 if they find them wanting. 63 00:11:50,148 --> 00:11:51,770 If Cole pursues his campaign, 64 00:11:51,775 --> 00:11:54,548 - our allies must be ready. - We must answer Rook's Rest, 65 00:11:55,053 --> 00:11:57,318 - and Duskendale. - They are lost already. 66 00:11:57,322 --> 00:11:59,778 But Vhagar is depleted after such 67 00:11:59,783 --> 00:12:00,987 a hard-fought battle. 68 00:12:00,992 --> 00:12:02,323 If Aegon is dead... 69 00:12:02,327 --> 00:12:03,624 We will soon know it. 70 00:12:03,628 --> 00:12:05,600 'Twould be a victory in name only. 71 00:12:05,605 --> 00:12:07,361 They will soon prop up another in his stead. 72 00:12:07,366 --> 00:12:08,895 The time is ripe. 73 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:10,455 If we can strike King's Landing 74 00:12:10,460 --> 00:12:11,873 before their dragon is recovered... 75 00:12:11,878 --> 00:12:13,625 Then I myself must do it. 76 00:12:13,630 --> 00:12:16,970 My queen, you are the crown. It is out of the question. 77 00:12:16,975 --> 00:12:18,873 What would you have me do? 78 00:12:40,281 --> 00:12:41,800 Jace? 79 00:12:44,577 --> 00:12:46,037 Where are you going? 80 00:12:47,622 --> 00:12:51,126 To Harrenhal. To treat with Daemon. 81 00:12:51,793 --> 00:12:53,206 Rhaenys is fallen. 82 00:12:53,211 --> 00:12:55,083 He must affirm his loyalty to my mother 83 00:12:55,088 --> 00:12:56,665 and report his standing. 84 00:12:59,684 --> 00:13:01,257 And you think you will tame him... 85 00:13:02,262 --> 00:13:03,883 when the queen herself could not? 86 00:13:03,888 --> 00:13:05,961 My mother gladly sends you away 87 00:13:06,766 --> 00:13:08,763 to scout, to fight, 88 00:13:08,768 --> 00:13:12,033 whilst I'm here being forced to play the coddled princeling. 89 00:13:12,038 --> 00:13:15,304 - It's humiliating, Baela. - She only protects you. 90 00:13:16,109 --> 00:13:17,731 You are the succession. 91 00:13:17,736 --> 00:13:21,273 Then I must be seen to act for her claim and mine. 92 00:13:25,493 --> 00:13:27,529 I can sit still no longer. 93 00:13:30,157 --> 00:13:31,658 I must act. 94 00:13:39,791 --> 00:13:41,125 The Freys. 95 00:13:43,178 --> 00:13:45,017 They control the crossing at the Twins. 96 00:13:45,722 --> 00:13:48,470 Cregan Stark's graybeards are marching south. 97 00:13:48,475 --> 00:13:51,931 If his men had a direct route into the Riverlands, 98 00:13:51,936 --> 00:13:54,643 we would not have to wait for Daemon to act. 99 00:13:54,648 --> 00:13:57,312 I will treat with The Freys to secure it. 100 00:13:57,317 --> 00:13:58,885 She will not like it. 101 00:13:59,453 --> 00:14:02,681 Then don't tell her. Not until I'm away. 102 00:14:16,695 --> 00:14:19,959 The hour is late and my dragon is hungry. 103 00:14:19,964 --> 00:14:23,296 You have no choice but to submit. 104 00:14:23,301 --> 00:14:25,131 Our terms are simple, Lord Bracken. 105 00:14:25,136 --> 00:14:28,802 Renounce the false king Aegon as a usurper 106 00:14:28,807 --> 00:14:30,409 and bend the knee to me 107 00:14:31,559 --> 00:14:33,473 or your house burns. 108 00:14:33,478 --> 00:14:36,601 I would sooner be the Lord of Bones and Cinders 109 00:14:36,606 --> 00:14:40,814 than bend my knee before some heathen Blackwood cunt... 110 00:14:40,819 --> 00:14:42,607 and his hired dragon. 111 00:14:42,612 --> 00:14:44,150 The Brackens were a people hatched out 112 00:14:44,155 --> 00:14:46,778 of the deepest of the Seven Hells, Your Grace. 113 00:14:46,783 --> 00:14:48,354 It would be a kindness to oblige them 114 00:14:48,359 --> 00:14:50,156 and send them back whence they came. 115 00:14:50,161 --> 00:14:51,491 Did your brother's head 116 00:14:51,496 --> 00:14:53,557 keep on its way back to you, Willem? 117 00:14:54,332 --> 00:14:56,204 I heard the maggots got to it. 118 00:14:56,209 --> 00:14:58,804 That is quite the impression, Lord Bracken. 119 00:15:00,071 --> 00:15:02,073 But alas, not an answer. 120 00:15:11,717 --> 00:15:13,051 We choose fire. 121 00:15:24,195 --> 00:15:27,207 I did not think they would be so eager to die. 122 00:15:28,366 --> 00:15:29,801 They made their choice. 123 00:15:30,577 --> 00:15:33,575 - You should've indulged them. - I need them alive. 124 00:15:33,580 --> 00:15:35,999 I came here to raise swords, not corpses. 125 00:15:37,208 --> 00:15:40,206 But now you see what my house has known for generations. 126 00:15:40,211 --> 00:15:42,408 They are pigheaded, intransigent... 127 00:15:42,413 --> 00:15:44,658 They would rather burn than succumb. 128 00:15:48,553 --> 00:15:50,555 Exactly the kind of men I need. 129 00:15:52,766 --> 00:15:54,320 It may yet be possible, I think, 130 00:15:54,325 --> 00:15:56,264 for both of us to achieve our ends. 131 00:15:56,269 --> 00:15:58,317 We have fought them for an age and more. 132 00:15:59,022 --> 00:16:00,560 Then perhaps you could try 133 00:16:00,565 --> 00:16:02,576 less fighting and more... 134 00:16:06,246 --> 00:16:07,539 persuading. 135 00:16:09,140 --> 00:16:11,226 They are unyielding in battle. 136 00:16:18,650 --> 00:16:20,694 But every man has a weakness. 137 00:16:21,570 --> 00:16:23,122 You take my meaning, then. 138 00:16:27,692 --> 00:16:31,213 There are things the crown itself must not be seen to do. 139 00:16:32,831 --> 00:16:34,619 Show them your worst. 140 00:16:34,624 --> 00:16:36,830 I am your servant, Your Grace. 141 00:16:58,189 --> 00:17:01,913 Over the centuries, many and more armies 142 00:17:01,918 --> 00:17:04,963 have broken themselves against my bloody gate. 143 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:10,736 Are you listening? 144 00:17:12,037 --> 00:17:13,667 My lady. 145 00:17:13,672 --> 00:17:16,141 The Eyrie itself is impregnable. 146 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,209 Unless, of course, we're descended upon from the sky. 147 00:17:22,214 --> 00:17:25,120 You promised the Queen Rhaenyra 15,000 swords... 148 00:17:25,125 --> 00:17:27,869 In return for protection. A dragon. 149 00:17:29,888 --> 00:17:32,427 Then she has exceeded your terms. 150 00:17:32,432 --> 00:17:34,387 She sent two. 151 00:17:34,392 --> 00:17:36,890 Both still wet from the egg. 152 00:17:38,563 --> 00:17:41,061 I have hunting hounds that are more fearsome. 153 00:17:41,066 --> 00:17:43,001 They are dragons nonetheless. 154 00:17:44,044 --> 00:17:45,457 I do not recall you specifying 155 00:17:45,462 --> 00:17:47,067 the size of the beast in your request. 156 00:17:47,072 --> 00:17:48,507 Will you goad me, child? 157 00:17:49,616 --> 00:17:52,410 When your bread and shelter now depend on my pleasure? 158 00:17:54,162 --> 00:17:55,697 The dragons will grow... 159 00:17:57,249 --> 00:17:58,751 - in time. - I don't have time. 160 00:18:01,086 --> 00:18:03,096 I mislike feeling powerless. 161 00:18:04,756 --> 00:18:05,974 So do I. 162 00:18:12,806 --> 00:18:14,803 This will be your chamber. 163 00:18:14,808 --> 00:18:16,768 I'll expect you at supper this evening? 164 00:18:19,938 --> 00:18:23,942 My sympathies for the death of your grandmother. 165 00:18:32,058 --> 00:18:35,140 The way they spoke at my small council today. 166 00:18:35,145 --> 00:18:38,477 Do they hold you responsible for Rhaenys and her dragon? 167 00:18:38,482 --> 00:18:39,992 I would rather they had. 168 00:18:40,834 --> 00:18:43,382 They speak around me, not to me. 169 00:18:43,987 --> 00:18:45,392 They would make me queen, 170 00:18:45,397 --> 00:18:47,627 but they wish to keep me here, confined. 171 00:18:47,632 --> 00:18:50,672 They betray their own smallness. 172 00:18:50,677 --> 00:18:52,132 In truth, I cannot fault them. 173 00:18:52,137 --> 00:18:55,181 I am now the sovereign. I cannot do as I please. 174 00:18:56,308 --> 00:18:59,139 And war has ever been for men to make. 175 00:18:59,144 --> 00:19:02,475 You are your father's chosen successor. 176 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,811 He did not prepare me to fight. 177 00:19:04,816 --> 00:19:06,980 If I had been a son, 178 00:19:06,985 --> 00:19:10,205 a sword thrust into my hand the moment I could walk. 179 00:19:11,072 --> 00:19:13,158 Instead, I was given my father's cup... 180 00:19:13,867 --> 00:19:16,464 taught the name of every lord and castle 181 00:19:16,469 --> 00:19:18,216 between Storm's End and the Twins, 182 00:19:18,221 --> 00:19:21,099 but not the difference between hilt and foible. 183 00:19:21,917 --> 00:19:23,443 And they know it. 184 00:19:25,253 --> 00:19:26,278 And Daemon as well... 185 00:19:26,283 --> 00:19:28,727 Shall your evening meal be served here, Your Grace? 186 00:19:28,732 --> 00:19:30,158 Not now. 187 00:19:36,348 --> 00:19:37,933 Will you send to him? 188 00:19:39,392 --> 00:19:42,224 For too long, I have looked to him for strength. 189 00:19:42,229 --> 00:19:44,492 If I must be supplicant to my own husband, 190 00:19:44,497 --> 00:19:46,066 what does that make me? 191 00:19:49,736 --> 00:19:52,439 I do not know my part, Mysaria. 192 00:19:55,784 --> 00:19:57,811 The path I walk has never been trod. 193 00:19:59,746 --> 00:20:02,608 Criston Cole made a mistake. 194 00:20:04,918 --> 00:20:09,084 Parading a dragon's head through the streets like a prize of war, 195 00:20:09,089 --> 00:20:11,169 but the people see an ill omen. 196 00:20:11,174 --> 00:20:12,754 Yes, as do I. 197 00:20:12,759 --> 00:20:15,924 They are afraid, bread is scarce, 198 00:20:15,929 --> 00:20:17,551 the king has fallen, 199 00:20:17,556 --> 00:20:20,053 they whisper to each other that when Viserys lived, 200 00:20:20,058 --> 00:20:22,347 there was peace. 201 00:20:22,352 --> 00:20:25,058 But will whispers tear down stone... 202 00:20:25,063 --> 00:20:26,685 or break shields? 203 00:20:26,690 --> 00:20:30,063 Do not underestimate your subjects. 204 00:20:30,068 --> 00:20:31,856 They are a thousand-thousand 205 00:20:31,861 --> 00:20:33,625 living in the shadow of the Red Keep 206 00:20:33,630 --> 00:20:36,136 and forgotten for too long. 207 00:20:36,741 --> 00:20:39,072 And you think they will turn to me. 208 00:20:39,077 --> 00:20:43,131 To the discontented, rumors are feed. 209 00:20:47,903 --> 00:20:49,429 Your Grace. 210 00:20:52,090 --> 00:20:56,161 What you cannot do, let others do for you. 211 00:20:57,679 --> 00:21:00,927 There is more than one way to fight a war. 212 00:21:23,163 --> 00:21:25,785 The thought of her lying in a field, 213 00:21:25,790 --> 00:21:28,076 broken amongst her enemies. 214 00:21:39,054 --> 00:21:42,558 Did your grandmother ever tell you of the night she claimed Meleys? 215 00:21:44,059 --> 00:21:46,102 She snuck into the Dragonpit. 216 00:21:46,811 --> 00:21:49,272 She knew that place better than any Elder. 217 00:21:49,814 --> 00:21:51,816 They say she could see in the dark. 218 00:21:53,485 --> 00:21:55,315 My father was furious. 219 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,359 His own mother's dragon, 220 00:21:57,364 --> 00:21:58,944 the fastest beast ever known, 221 00:21:58,949 --> 00:22:00,863 and she'd have none of him. 222 00:22:00,867 --> 00:22:02,961 But bent her neck to Rhaenys. 223 00:22:04,204 --> 00:22:05,906 She was fierce... 224 00:22:07,540 --> 00:22:09,342 in love and in anger. 225 00:22:12,254 --> 00:22:15,782 She did not always care for me, but... 226 00:22:17,676 --> 00:22:21,680 for what she gave me in the end, I'm grateful. 227 00:22:27,686 --> 00:22:30,222 I wished I had known her when she was young. 228 00:22:36,444 --> 00:22:39,684 You are very like her in some ways. 229 00:22:43,285 --> 00:22:48,034 And with her gone... I must rely on you, I think. 230 00:22:48,039 --> 00:22:49,708 Your Grace? 231 00:22:50,875 --> 00:22:52,895 Would you give this to your grandsire? 232 00:23:05,056 --> 00:23:07,134 I do not wish to stand alone. 233 00:23:11,354 --> 00:23:12,881 Daemon. 234 00:23:17,736 --> 00:23:19,325 Daemon. 235 00:23:20,030 --> 00:23:22,257 You were always the strong one. 236 00:23:24,659 --> 00:23:27,187 The finest swordsman... 237 00:23:30,081 --> 00:23:32,551 the fearless dragonrider. 238 00:23:34,628 --> 00:23:37,839 Your brother had great love in his heart... 239 00:23:42,594 --> 00:23:44,646 but he lacked your constitution. 240 00:23:45,931 --> 00:23:48,433 Viserys was unsuited for the crown... 241 00:23:51,586 --> 00:23:55,607 but you... Daemon, you were made to wear it. 242 00:24:15,961 --> 00:24:18,464 If only you'd been born first. 243 00:24:20,215 --> 00:24:22,251 My favorite son. 244 00:24:29,015 --> 00:24:31,527 Is the duck not to your liking, Your Grace? 245 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,452 There's also goose, if you'd prefer it. 246 00:24:42,487 --> 00:24:44,442 I like the goose, myself. 247 00:24:52,664 --> 00:24:54,327 Uh, I'm not hungry. 248 00:24:54,332 --> 00:24:56,496 I was saying, given the rather dire news 249 00:24:56,501 --> 00:24:58,036 from Rook's Rest... 250 00:24:59,337 --> 00:25:00,982 it appears the winds have shifted 251 00:25:00,987 --> 00:25:03,478 and each side has suffered great loss, 252 00:25:03,483 --> 00:25:06,578 and will be unsure of what is to follow. 253 00:25:08,054 --> 00:25:10,265 A good time, then, for a show of strength. 254 00:25:11,016 --> 00:25:12,420 I believe Willem Blackwood 255 00:25:12,425 --> 00:25:14,319 is bringing House Bracken to heel. 256 00:25:16,062 --> 00:25:19,074 We must ready the castle to receive a great host. 257 00:25:21,568 --> 00:25:23,481 You seem sure of this. 258 00:25:23,486 --> 00:25:25,992 All men may be led, Ser Simon. 259 00:25:25,997 --> 00:25:27,508 Even Rivermen. 260 00:25:29,034 --> 00:25:32,587 'Tis a matter of showing them whom it behooves them to follow. 261 00:25:34,247 --> 00:25:36,258 How does the work here progress? 262 00:25:36,891 --> 00:25:40,782 Oh, um... we're drawing water for the kitchens 263 00:25:40,787 --> 00:25:43,168 - and lighting the forges. - Very well. 264 00:25:43,173 --> 00:25:45,587 That is merely the beginning, of course. 265 00:25:45,592 --> 00:25:47,380 The roof alone has needed tending 266 00:25:47,385 --> 00:25:48,481 since the reign of Aenys. 267 00:25:48,486 --> 00:25:49,716 And the storerooms. 268 00:25:49,721 --> 00:25:50,789 And... 269 00:25:51,806 --> 00:25:54,226 and the Wailing Tower. 270 00:25:54,893 --> 00:25:57,349 The bats have made the corridors almost impassable 271 00:25:57,354 --> 00:25:59,197 with the quantity of their... 272 00:26:00,482 --> 00:26:01,700 Their shit. 273 00:26:04,077 --> 00:26:06,333 I venture there are smiths and armorers 274 00:26:06,338 --> 00:26:08,693 to be found near Nutton and Riverbend. 275 00:26:08,698 --> 00:26:10,737 Well, send for them, and levy the farmers 276 00:26:10,742 --> 00:26:12,286 from Antlers to High Heart. 277 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,789 Task their huntsmen to bring us meat and wood. 278 00:26:16,998 --> 00:26:19,621 Um, there is, of course, the matter of payment. 279 00:26:21,461 --> 00:26:25,524 After the, the tragedy that befell his father... 280 00:26:26,599 --> 00:26:30,645 Larys transferred his family's wealth to King's Landing. 281 00:26:32,097 --> 00:26:34,636 Is there any gold left in your coffers? 282 00:26:34,641 --> 00:26:39,104 Enough to keep this small establishment you see fed and warm. 283 00:26:40,105 --> 00:26:41,381 Relatively. 284 00:26:44,192 --> 00:26:47,566 I... I rather thought, Your Grace, as 285 00:26:47,571 --> 00:26:50,186 emissary to the Queen 286 00:26:51,291 --> 00:26:54,906 that p-perhaps she could provide the necessary coin 287 00:26:54,911 --> 00:26:57,439 - if you could only write to her. - No. 288 00:26:58,456 --> 00:27:00,258 Harrenhal is my command. 289 00:27:01,042 --> 00:27:03,270 I shall guarantee the payment myself. 290 00:27:04,796 --> 00:27:06,464 Up, up. 291 00:27:09,467 --> 00:27:11,269 Very well, Your Grace. 292 00:27:11,970 --> 00:27:14,202 You should address me as "my king". 293 00:27:15,307 --> 00:27:16,783 But you're the prince. 294 00:27:17,642 --> 00:27:19,706 What would you call the husband of the queen? 295 00:27:19,711 --> 00:27:21,575 - Well, the king... - There it is, then. 296 00:27:21,579 --> 00:27:22,781 consort. 297 00:27:24,190 --> 00:27:26,718 That last bit seems unnecessary, don't you think? 298 00:27:32,624 --> 00:27:34,988 The armor was Valyrian steel, 299 00:27:34,993 --> 00:27:38,997 but His Grace suffered grievous burns over much of his body. 300 00:27:40,123 --> 00:27:42,037 He has many broken bones. 301 00:27:42,042 --> 00:27:45,373 I fear there are more injuries within, 302 00:27:45,378 --> 00:27:47,180 injuries we cannot see. 303 00:27:49,007 --> 00:27:51,213 We are grateful for your works, 304 00:27:51,218 --> 00:27:52,260 Grand Maester. 305 00:27:53,428 --> 00:27:55,647 - Has he woken? - No. 306 00:27:57,515 --> 00:28:01,540 I must admit, I'm not sure he will ever wake. 307 00:28:02,145 --> 00:28:05,518 I have plied my crafts to their fullest extents. 308 00:28:05,523 --> 00:28:09,527 Our king's fate lies with the gods now. 309 00:28:20,247 --> 00:28:22,049 A king cannot rule in his sleep. 310 00:28:23,375 --> 00:28:25,543 The realm will have noticed his absence. 311 00:28:26,253 --> 00:28:28,463 Let them hear of his great deeds at Rook's Rest. 312 00:28:29,965 --> 00:28:32,712 But now we must name a regent to take his place 313 00:28:32,717 --> 00:28:34,286 until he recovers... 314 00:28:36,763 --> 00:28:37,973 or does not. 315 00:28:39,641 --> 00:28:42,013 A wise strategy, Your Grace. 316 00:28:42,018 --> 00:28:43,823 A regency will assure the people 317 00:28:43,828 --> 00:28:45,647 of the stability of the crown. 318 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:51,728 Did you have a candidate in mind, Your Grace? 319 00:28:52,671 --> 00:28:54,459 I myself served in this role for my husband. 320 00:28:54,464 --> 00:28:55,902 I am well-prepared to do it again. 321 00:28:55,907 --> 00:28:57,504 You played your part admirably 322 00:28:57,509 --> 00:28:59,130 in a time of peace, Your Grace, 323 00:28:59,135 --> 00:29:01,616 but circumstances have changed. 324 00:29:01,621 --> 00:29:03,368 And here I had forgotten. 325 00:29:03,373 --> 00:29:05,620 The king does not lack for heirs. 326 00:29:05,625 --> 00:29:10,458 The obvious choice is his immediate successor, Prince Aemond. 327 00:29:10,463 --> 00:29:11,918 Agreed. 328 00:29:11,923 --> 00:29:13,392 Aemond is young. 329 00:29:14,968 --> 00:29:17,496 And his lack of restraint has already cost us dearly. 330 00:29:27,147 --> 00:29:31,246 It is experience that offers the surest path to security. 331 00:29:31,251 --> 00:29:34,374 Queen Alicent ably shouldered the duties of the realm 332 00:29:34,379 --> 00:29:36,042 when her husband's health failed him. 333 00:29:36,047 --> 00:29:37,519 Experience is valuable, yes, 334 00:29:37,524 --> 00:29:38,904 but the dowager queen is a woman. 335 00:29:38,909 --> 00:29:41,990 I am no stranger to rule or to sitting at this council. 336 00:29:41,995 --> 00:29:43,508 Aemond is a fearsome dragonrider. 337 00:29:43,513 --> 00:29:45,011 His skill is best employed in the field, 338 00:29:45,015 --> 00:29:47,762 but my experience is needed here, at this table. 339 00:29:47,767 --> 00:29:50,223 No offense was meant, Your Grace, but... 340 00:29:50,228 --> 00:29:53,499 - at a time when we must show strength. - Lord Larys? 341 00:29:55,467 --> 00:29:57,802 I agree, Your Grace. It must be Prince Aemond. 342 00:30:00,071 --> 00:30:02,402 What would it say if, in response to Rhaenyra's crowning, 343 00:30:02,407 --> 00:30:04,459 we raised up a woman of our own? 344 00:30:07,312 --> 00:30:08,688 But, um... 345 00:30:10,498 --> 00:30:12,412 but the Hand speaks for the king's voice. 346 00:30:12,417 --> 00:30:14,061 Ser Criston, what say you? 347 00:30:21,368 --> 00:30:23,378 Aemond is the next in line. 348 00:30:25,847 --> 00:30:27,065 It must be him. 349 00:30:31,836 --> 00:30:33,638 It's agreed then. 350 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,171 What is our standing in the Riverlands? 351 00:30:59,214 --> 00:31:01,836 Uh, the banners of House Tully 352 00:31:01,841 --> 00:31:04,130 are in disarray, Your Grace. 353 00:31:04,135 --> 00:31:05,423 Prince Daemon has little hope 354 00:31:05,428 --> 00:31:07,926 of fielding an army of any size, for now. 355 00:31:09,441 --> 00:31:11,681 We would do well to send word to young Oscar Tully. 356 00:31:11,685 --> 00:31:13,599 It's only a matter of time 357 00:31:13,603 --> 00:31:15,934 before he inherits his grandsire's mantle. 358 00:31:15,939 --> 00:31:17,978 Tell me, Lord Strong, 359 00:31:17,983 --> 00:31:19,646 how I can trust the counsel of a man 360 00:31:19,651 --> 00:31:21,189 who leaves the jewel of the Riverlands 361 00:31:21,194 --> 00:31:23,455 to be plucked by our enemy? 362 00:31:27,325 --> 00:31:28,780 Your brother's host can meet Daemon. 363 00:31:28,785 --> 00:31:30,156 He should quicken its pace 364 00:31:30,161 --> 00:31:31,282 and check the Rivermen 365 00:31:31,287 --> 00:31:32,867 while their banners are in disarray. 366 00:31:32,872 --> 00:31:35,286 I shall send Lord Jason encouragement. 367 00:31:35,291 --> 00:31:37,998 - What else? - We might turn our attention 368 00:31:38,003 --> 00:31:40,500 to the smallfolk here in King's Landing. 369 00:31:40,505 --> 00:31:43,003 They have grown weary of the Sea Snake's blockade. 370 00:31:43,008 --> 00:31:44,871 So have we all. 371 00:31:44,876 --> 00:31:46,464 Many are fleeing the city, 372 00:31:46,469 --> 00:31:49,481 spreading word of their fear and unrest. 373 00:31:50,098 --> 00:31:53,138 Mm, then let the gates be closed. 374 00:31:55,353 --> 00:31:57,851 No one is to leave or enter, save with our consent. 375 00:31:57,856 --> 00:32:00,534 Merchants, so forth. 376 00:32:04,988 --> 00:32:06,494 Go to your tasks. 377 00:32:07,599 --> 00:32:10,096 We shall meet again at first light. 378 00:32:10,101 --> 00:32:13,639 Oh, and someone cut down the fucking ratcatchers. 379 00:32:21,046 --> 00:32:23,098 The city's safe no longer. 380 00:32:25,133 --> 00:32:26,989 There is no food. 381 00:32:27,594 --> 00:32:29,507 Our neighbors are stealing from each other. 382 00:32:29,512 --> 00:32:30,884 We must get out. 383 00:32:30,889 --> 00:32:32,719 And where would you have us go? 384 00:32:32,724 --> 00:32:34,818 North, maybe? South? 385 00:32:35,727 --> 00:32:38,049 For all we know, every road leads into the dragons' teeth. 386 00:32:38,054 --> 00:32:40,148 Like the one they carted through the streets? 387 00:32:40,982 --> 00:32:44,486 You think Rhaenyra will let such an affront go unchallenged? 388 00:32:48,073 --> 00:32:50,862 We should make for Tumbleton. 389 00:32:50,867 --> 00:32:52,906 My brother will have room. 390 00:32:52,911 --> 00:32:54,446 You would have me turn beggar? 391 00:33:00,694 --> 00:33:02,496 Are we not beggars already? 392 00:33:03,797 --> 00:33:05,460 Have you been paid for those machines 393 00:33:05,465 --> 00:33:06,520 you were forced to build? 394 00:33:06,525 --> 00:33:08,088 The king has promised payment. 395 00:33:08,093 --> 00:33:10,670 The king has lied! 396 00:33:22,607 --> 00:33:24,142 By all means... 397 00:33:25,276 --> 00:33:28,355 stay and wait for his empty promises, husband. 398 00:33:30,782 --> 00:33:33,318 With them, you can feed the mouths of ghosts. 399 00:34:12,991 --> 00:34:14,593 Presumed you'd be here. 400 00:34:15,410 --> 00:34:18,700 Seeing faithfully to the Prince Regent's commands. 401 00:34:18,705 --> 00:34:20,727 Aemond is the next in line. 402 00:34:20,732 --> 00:34:23,730 - It is the order of things. - You know what he is... 403 00:34:23,735 --> 00:34:25,579 what he has somehow become. 404 00:34:28,773 --> 00:34:30,145 Has your loyalty faded? 405 00:34:30,150 --> 00:34:32,105 Or does it flourish only at night 406 00:34:32,110 --> 00:34:33,946 and flee the sunrise like a moth? 407 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,138 What I saw at Rook's Rest... 408 00:34:40,143 --> 00:34:43,155 What? What did you see? 409 00:34:47,325 --> 00:34:49,127 Their armor melted. 410 00:34:51,137 --> 00:34:53,365 There were men walking. They were on fire. 411 00:34:57,085 --> 00:34:59,137 We have given the war to the dragons. 412 00:35:01,081 --> 00:35:02,707 A dragonrider should lead us. 413 00:35:07,087 --> 00:35:09,417 And what of justice, of temperance? 414 00:35:09,422 --> 00:35:11,967 Or is strength now to be our only god? 415 00:35:17,889 --> 00:35:19,391 So you cast me aside. 416 00:35:21,059 --> 00:35:22,561 Have I not spared you? 417 00:35:24,980 --> 00:35:28,508 What we must do now is... terrible. 418 00:35:30,468 --> 00:35:32,112 Will you preside over it? 419 00:35:33,238 --> 00:35:36,325 - Is this who you are, Alicent? - I did not ask to be spared. 420 00:35:40,286 --> 00:35:42,314 And I did not give you leave to speak my name. 421 00:35:55,427 --> 00:35:56,661 Halt! 422 00:36:02,767 --> 00:36:03,977 Stay back! 423 00:36:05,670 --> 00:36:07,239 We've got to get out! 424 00:36:08,073 --> 00:36:09,574 Somebody get him! 425 00:36:10,525 --> 00:36:12,647 Stay back! No! 426 00:36:12,652 --> 00:36:15,108 Holdfast, holdfast! 427 00:36:15,113 --> 00:36:17,624 Stay back! Hold! 428 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:23,288 Back! 429 00:36:24,231 --> 00:36:27,192 Disperse, disperse! 430 00:36:28,460 --> 00:36:30,915 By order of Aemond Targaryen, 431 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,752 Prince Regent and Protector of the Realm... 432 00:36:33,757 --> 00:36:36,154 - Aemond? - Does he mean the king? 433 00:36:36,159 --> 00:36:38,631 - I don't know. - You cannot keep us here! 434 00:36:38,636 --> 00:36:41,593 - You are ordered to return to your homes! - We want meat! 435 00:36:41,598 --> 00:36:43,178 - Meat! - Meat! 436 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:54,819 Stay back! 437 00:37:02,727 --> 00:37:05,739 Our Lord Grover Tully has not declared for Rhaenyra. 438 00:37:07,248 --> 00:37:09,371 It means death to bare steel against your liege, 439 00:37:09,376 --> 00:37:10,970 as I'm sure my prince is aware. 440 00:37:13,071 --> 00:37:14,882 And against your queen? 441 00:37:17,492 --> 00:37:18,493 Hm? 442 00:37:22,430 --> 00:37:26,180 Jason Lannister is marshaling to the west. 443 00:37:27,185 --> 00:37:29,270 We need to check him before he reaches Riverrun. 444 00:37:30,188 --> 00:37:32,185 That requires passage. 445 00:37:32,190 --> 00:37:34,646 And if Stark's army is too slow? 446 00:37:34,651 --> 00:37:36,398 The wind's rising. 447 00:37:36,403 --> 00:37:38,066 Winter is nigh upon us. 448 00:37:38,071 --> 00:37:39,834 Our hesitance does not lie 449 00:37:39,839 --> 00:37:41,861 in Rhaenyra as Queen, 450 00:37:41,866 --> 00:37:44,886 nor in the ruminations of Lord Tully, the oaf. 451 00:37:46,021 --> 00:37:48,035 Our fear lies in Vhagar. 452 00:37:48,740 --> 00:37:52,080 You fear a dragon leagues away 453 00:37:52,085 --> 00:37:54,749 when mine own sits outside your walls? 454 00:37:58,950 --> 00:38:01,987 - Do you offer us your protection? - I do. 455 00:38:08,977 --> 00:38:10,779 And the protection of my uncle. 456 00:38:12,230 --> 00:38:16,396 And Daemon, I'm sure, has consented to this? 457 00:38:16,401 --> 00:38:18,523 He will do as his queen commands. 458 00:38:18,528 --> 00:38:20,442 That does lend us some comfort. 459 00:38:20,447 --> 00:38:21,901 Though it occurs to me that dragons 460 00:38:21,906 --> 00:38:24,443 - cannot be in two places at once. - Or three. 461 00:38:28,063 --> 00:38:29,298 What do you want? 462 00:38:32,292 --> 00:38:35,749 Larys Strong has been relieved of his castle. 463 00:38:36,254 --> 00:38:39,541 Does the queen intend to raise up a new lord? 464 00:38:43,703 --> 00:38:45,163 You want Harrenhal. 465 00:39:04,157 --> 00:39:08,220 For that... my mother will want more than your crossing. 466 00:39:10,772 --> 00:39:12,774 What does Her Grace desire? 467 00:39:15,402 --> 00:39:17,412 Bent knees. 468 00:40:11,558 --> 00:40:12,567 Up. 469 00:40:13,535 --> 00:40:15,281 You were born to wield a sword, 470 00:40:15,286 --> 00:40:17,831 but not so much an axe, perhaps. 471 00:40:19,441 --> 00:40:21,162 There are others who would sit idle 472 00:40:21,167 --> 00:40:23,215 and wait for their claims to be brought to them. 473 00:40:23,220 --> 00:40:24,220 That is not my way. 474 00:40:24,225 --> 00:40:26,651 Does splitting firewood justify what's followed you here? 475 00:40:26,656 --> 00:40:28,695 Let it not be said that Daemon Targaryen 476 00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:31,031 failed to dirty his hands in this war. 477 00:40:31,036 --> 00:40:32,612 Oh, let me see them. 478 00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:35,910 - Sit. - Ah. 479 00:40:35,915 --> 00:40:37,008 Sit! 480 00:40:40,879 --> 00:40:44,336 I hear strange things from Bracken land, 481 00:40:44,341 --> 00:40:47,385 from Stone Hedge and Lambswold and Mory. 482 00:40:48,386 --> 00:40:50,408 There's news, then? 483 00:40:50,413 --> 00:40:51,623 News? 484 00:40:52,791 --> 00:40:53,792 No. 485 00:40:55,961 --> 00:40:58,050 What I hear, I hear in the wind. 486 00:40:58,855 --> 00:41:01,600 Cries of anguish. 487 00:41:03,818 --> 00:41:05,999 Children being taken from their mothers, 488 00:41:06,004 --> 00:41:09,061 men coming home to find their doors unlatched... 489 00:41:09,866 --> 00:41:11,372 their wives carried away. 490 00:41:14,245 --> 00:41:16,256 War is a terrible thing. 491 00:41:16,998 --> 00:41:18,579 This is not war. 492 00:41:19,584 --> 00:41:22,248 These are crimes against the innocent, 493 00:41:22,253 --> 00:41:24,542 that any upright man would repudiate. 494 00:41:24,547 --> 00:41:27,087 Surely you haven't mistaken me for an upright man. 495 00:41:29,094 --> 00:41:32,159 The Brackens had their chance to do as I required. 496 00:41:32,764 --> 00:41:34,886 They will perhaps think better of their decision 497 00:41:34,891 --> 00:41:37,403 if their children's lives are staked on it. 498 00:41:39,237 --> 00:41:41,315 Is that the kind of army you would raise? 499 00:41:42,816 --> 00:41:44,380 Men who hate you... 500 00:41:45,485 --> 00:41:47,273 who serve you under duress? 501 00:41:47,278 --> 00:41:50,402 Well, once they agree to serve me, I'll treat them fairly. 502 00:41:50,407 --> 00:41:51,753 Set an example for the rest 503 00:41:51,758 --> 00:41:53,780 of the Riverlands to follow. 504 00:41:53,785 --> 00:41:56,282 And once again, in the name of power, 505 00:41:56,287 --> 00:41:58,824 it's the weak and the women who must endure. 506 00:42:01,860 --> 00:42:04,096 That fool, Aegon, is unlike to survive. 507 00:42:06,881 --> 00:42:09,175 The realm will suffer if Aemond One-Eye rules. 508 00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,303 You should pray you never meet him. 509 00:42:12,887 --> 00:42:15,260 He will cut you down soon as wish you good-day. 510 00:42:15,265 --> 00:42:16,803 I'd heard the same thing about you. 511 00:42:16,808 --> 00:42:17,972 But I'll cross you no further. 512 00:42:17,976 --> 00:42:19,531 I'm sure your tactics are, after all, 513 00:42:19,536 --> 00:42:21,107 approved by the queen. 514 00:42:26,818 --> 00:42:28,829 She cannot succeed, Alys. 515 00:42:29,696 --> 00:42:31,943 Even if I willed it to be so. 516 00:42:31,948 --> 00:42:34,129 The people who support her will not be led by her. 517 00:42:34,134 --> 00:42:36,156 They look to a man for strength. 518 00:42:36,161 --> 00:42:37,324 Who's better suited to it? 519 00:42:37,329 --> 00:42:39,784 The Hightowers with their scheming? 520 00:42:39,789 --> 00:42:41,800 Or Viserys's first true heir? 521 00:42:43,168 --> 00:42:45,623 When I take King's Landing... 522 00:42:45,628 --> 00:42:47,167 Rhaenyra is welcome to join me there 523 00:42:47,172 --> 00:42:49,669 and take her place by my side. 524 00:42:49,674 --> 00:42:53,320 King and queen... ruling together. 525 00:42:54,346 --> 00:42:57,010 - And if you lose? - Then I'll be dead, 526 00:42:57,015 --> 00:42:59,387 and none of this will be my problem. 527 00:42:59,392 --> 00:43:02,682 It's a pity, don't you think, that you never knew your mother? 528 00:43:06,232 --> 00:43:08,401 A message, Your Grace. 529 00:43:09,970 --> 00:43:10,971 Uh... 530 00:43:13,531 --> 00:43:16,363 uh, fresh news from Stone Hedge. 531 00:43:16,368 --> 00:43:18,657 The Blackwoods have overwhelmed the Brackens, 532 00:43:18,662 --> 00:43:21,940 and, uh, Lord Amos has pledged his banner to you. 533 00:43:22,315 --> 00:43:24,126 House Bracken is yours. 534 00:43:26,044 --> 00:43:28,713 Call Ser Willem here so that I might congratulate him. 535 00:43:29,130 --> 00:43:31,658 The Blackwoods will be feted in these halls. 536 00:43:43,128 --> 00:43:44,730 I sought you at High Tide. 537 00:43:45,839 --> 00:43:47,933 I was surprised when they said you were here. 538 00:43:49,301 --> 00:43:51,003 My castle is a tomb. 539 00:43:52,537 --> 00:43:54,606 Empty. Haunted. 540 00:43:55,740 --> 00:43:58,660 I am sad to have missed its highest days. 541 00:43:59,661 --> 00:44:01,032 I imagine your Hall of Nine 542 00:44:01,037 --> 00:44:03,410 filled with lords and kings, 543 00:44:03,415 --> 00:44:06,501 all eager to treat with the legendary Lord of the Tides. 544 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:09,416 The wealth you brought back 545 00:44:09,421 --> 00:44:10,792 from Yi Ti and Asshai, 546 00:44:10,797 --> 00:44:13,892 inspiring awe and envy. 547 00:44:16,511 --> 00:44:18,513 I wonder if any of them knew it was all for her. 548 00:44:27,647 --> 00:44:29,978 Queen Rhaenyra wishes to name you Hand. 549 00:44:33,261 --> 00:44:36,498 Even the death of my wife does not content her. 550 00:44:39,434 --> 00:44:41,486 Has she not asked enough of my house? 551 00:44:42,187 --> 00:44:44,452 It is a sign of her great esteem. 552 00:44:45,957 --> 00:44:48,096 Or does she think the position will compensate me 553 00:44:48,101 --> 00:44:49,194 for my loss? 554 00:44:50,503 --> 00:44:52,834 Pledge your peace to King's Landing, then. 555 00:44:52,839 --> 00:44:54,933 They will accept it most gleefully. 556 00:44:57,602 --> 00:45:00,188 Rather I would sail into the West and be lost. 557 00:45:01,456 --> 00:45:03,495 You have done so before, 558 00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:06,053 at great cost to yourself and those who loved you. 559 00:45:08,897 --> 00:45:11,170 Rhaenys was not only your wife... 560 00:45:12,275 --> 00:45:14,540 not a thing to be taken from you. 561 00:45:15,445 --> 00:45:17,473 She was a Targaryen princess. 562 00:45:18,823 --> 00:45:20,153 The Queen Who Never Was. 563 00:45:20,158 --> 00:45:22,864 And she flew to Rook's Rest of her own will. 564 00:45:22,869 --> 00:45:25,325 - In defense of her kin. - And she died. 565 00:45:25,330 --> 00:45:28,036 She died as she would have wished to die... 566 00:45:28,041 --> 00:45:30,565 with honor, in dragonfire. 567 00:45:31,670 --> 00:45:33,004 The way my mother chose... 568 00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:37,776 and the way I myself wish to meet my end. 569 00:45:45,308 --> 00:45:48,515 I grieve my grandmother who loved me 570 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,618 but I carry her on with me. 571 00:45:52,023 --> 00:45:56,119 I will see Rhaenyra ascend the Iron Throne, as Rhaenys wished. 572 00:45:56,803 --> 00:45:58,805 As Rhaenys herself should have. 573 00:46:01,700 --> 00:46:03,969 You yourself may do as you see fit. 574 00:46:07,814 --> 00:46:09,436 Granddaughter. 575 00:46:16,948 --> 00:46:19,193 I would make you my heir. 576 00:46:21,620 --> 00:46:23,122 I am blood and fire. 577 00:46:24,164 --> 00:46:26,367 Driftmark must pass to salt and sea. 578 00:46:45,977 --> 00:46:47,045 Your Grace. 579 00:46:50,915 --> 00:46:52,250 You were correct... 580 00:46:53,718 --> 00:46:56,304 in saying our best hope of an army is with Daemon. 581 00:46:59,174 --> 00:47:04,196 And I have, perhaps, erred in waiting for him to prove himself. 582 00:47:06,639 --> 00:47:08,241 I wish you to go to Harrenhal. 583 00:47:10,335 --> 00:47:12,412 Are you removing me from your council? 584 00:47:14,256 --> 00:47:15,715 Ser Alfred... 585 00:47:16,975 --> 00:47:20,273 I-I-I will not deny you have tried my patience of late, 586 00:47:20,278 --> 00:47:22,567 or that I would prefer a council 587 00:47:22,572 --> 00:47:24,110 more inclined to champion their queen, 588 00:47:24,115 --> 00:47:25,784 but... 589 00:47:26,768 --> 00:47:30,041 you and your house served my father well, 590 00:47:30,046 --> 00:47:33,091 and I know you will never accept the Hightower claim. 591 00:47:34,859 --> 00:47:37,445 Not while I live, Your Grace. 592 00:47:40,282 --> 00:47:44,197 We cannot challenge King's Landing without the Riverlands 593 00:47:44,202 --> 00:47:47,472 but I will not send a message by raven for Daemon to disregard. 594 00:47:50,208 --> 00:47:55,046 I ask you to... reason with him. 595 00:47:56,481 --> 00:48:00,569 Find out his state of mind and his intentions. 596 00:48:02,888 --> 00:48:04,185 Intentions? 597 00:48:05,490 --> 00:48:08,494 Whether he means to raise a host for me or for himself. 598 00:48:11,997 --> 00:48:13,368 He would not dare. 599 00:48:13,373 --> 00:48:15,884 Have you known Daemon to lack in daring? 600 00:48:17,569 --> 00:48:19,357 Go now with haste. 601 00:48:19,362 --> 00:48:21,590 I'll send good men to see to your safety. 602 00:48:29,581 --> 00:48:31,850 Have you any message for him? 603 00:48:36,171 --> 00:48:39,024 Tell him I would much like to finish our last conversation. 604 00:48:41,827 --> 00:48:42,894 Your Grace. 605 00:49:19,364 --> 00:49:20,582 Your Grace. 606 00:49:24,778 --> 00:49:28,590 What is it, Ser Simon? Is the pudding now served? 607 00:49:29,658 --> 00:49:32,072 The Riverlords have come, Your Grace. 608 00:49:32,077 --> 00:49:34,596 - They wish an audience. - Now? 609 00:49:35,580 --> 00:49:37,999 - What godless hour is it? - The wolf. 610 00:49:38,750 --> 00:49:40,585 They are demanding to speak presently. 611 00:50:11,416 --> 00:50:14,448 I see I must begin here with a lesson in etiquette. 612 00:50:14,953 --> 00:50:16,257 Or failing that, in proper fear 613 00:50:16,262 --> 00:50:17,806 of your Targaryen master. 614 00:50:19,900 --> 00:50:23,783 Is there some reason you feel free to wake a king in his bed? 615 00:50:25,088 --> 00:50:27,627 Or shall I now begin your education? 616 00:50:27,632 --> 00:50:29,254 House Bracken 617 00:50:29,259 --> 00:50:32,266 have been brought to heel at the hands of Willem Blackwood. 618 00:50:32,971 --> 00:50:35,702 - That news is stale. - Yes. 619 00:50:36,307 --> 00:50:38,263 There have been, um, complications. 620 00:50:38,268 --> 00:50:40,807 The sacred septs on Bracken lands 621 00:50:40,812 --> 00:50:44,144 - were looted and burned. - As were the fields and farms. 622 00:50:44,149 --> 00:50:45,770 The livestock was stolen 623 00:50:45,775 --> 00:50:47,314 and our peasants put to the sword. 624 00:50:47,319 --> 00:50:49,741 They pursued the women and the children. 625 00:50:49,746 --> 00:50:51,384 There were works of barbarity. 626 00:50:51,389 --> 00:50:54,647 Punishing Bracken for his own treasons is one thing, aye. 627 00:50:55,452 --> 00:50:58,158 - But these other acts. - The Brackens were given their chance. 628 00:50:58,163 --> 00:51:00,660 - They would not see reason. - The Blackwoods have exploited 629 00:51:00,665 --> 00:51:02,662 the war for the crown to visit atrocities 630 00:51:02,667 --> 00:51:04,966 - upon their old rivals. - I have seen my fair share of their quarrels, 631 00:51:04,970 --> 00:51:06,625 and I tell you, there is no honor in a fight 632 00:51:06,629 --> 00:51:08,668 - such as this. - Honor? What of common decency? 633 00:51:08,673 --> 00:51:10,962 These beasts proudly carried 634 00:51:10,967 --> 00:51:12,797 the banner of House Targaryen. 635 00:51:12,802 --> 00:51:14,879 Red dragon on black. 636 00:51:21,269 --> 00:51:24,322 A terrible war is being fought in these lands. 637 00:51:27,926 --> 00:51:29,728 Have you looked after our girls? 638 00:51:37,435 --> 00:51:39,674 We should've expected nothing more from a man 639 00:51:39,679 --> 00:51:41,660 who ordered the slaughter of a child 640 00:51:41,665 --> 00:51:43,124 in his mother's arms. 641 00:51:45,377 --> 00:51:48,667 That is a lie. And I will have the man who told it brought before me. 642 00:51:48,672 --> 00:51:52,701 Well, your man is half the kingdom, my prince. 643 00:51:56,062 --> 00:51:57,864 Know this, interloper: 644 00:51:58,973 --> 00:52:01,546 the Riverlands are an ancient place, 645 00:52:01,551 --> 00:52:05,125 watched closely by the eyes of old gods and new. 646 00:52:05,730 --> 00:52:07,686 And dragon or no, 647 00:52:07,691 --> 00:52:10,502 we shall not raise our banners for a tyrant. 648 00:53:18,928 --> 00:53:20,148 Move along, lass. 649 00:53:20,153 --> 00:53:23,003 I have an errand... for the lady Mysaria. 650 00:53:24,017 --> 00:53:26,039 I thought she was dead. 651 00:53:26,044 --> 00:53:28,055 Would she die without collecting her due? 652 00:53:29,923 --> 00:53:31,558 I must see an old friend. 653 00:53:33,452 --> 00:53:35,454 Most people want out these days. 654 00:54:20,807 --> 00:54:21,903 Elinda. 655 00:55:13,652 --> 00:55:15,454 Was it worth the price? 656 00:56:06,805 --> 00:56:08,373 Mummy. 657 00:56:25,657 --> 00:56:27,033 Prince Jacaerys, Your Grace. 658 00:56:51,850 --> 00:56:52,926 Visenya. 659 00:56:54,227 --> 00:56:59,291 Vhagar's first rider, and the first wielder of Dark Sister. 660 00:57:01,443 --> 00:57:03,815 I hope you do not mean to use her as an example. 661 00:57:03,820 --> 00:57:05,483 Why shouldn't I? 662 00:57:05,488 --> 00:57:07,499 W... It was a long time ago. 663 00:57:17,859 --> 00:57:19,711 What is the mood at the Twins? 664 00:57:21,696 --> 00:57:23,549 Did his lordship quibble? 665 00:57:26,351 --> 00:57:29,638 He wishes for the Freys to be granted Harrenhal. 666 00:57:31,639 --> 00:57:33,492 At war's end. Assuming. 667 00:57:36,644 --> 00:57:38,391 I'm proud of you, Jace. 668 00:57:38,396 --> 00:57:40,449 You have done our cause a great service. 669 00:57:43,151 --> 00:57:45,404 Then, why do you look angry? 670 00:57:54,287 --> 00:57:57,285 You chafed at being prevented from action. 671 00:57:57,290 --> 00:58:00,080 Imagine my lot. I'm a dragonrider as well, 672 00:58:00,085 --> 00:58:02,921 with a war being fought over my ascension. 673 00:58:04,089 --> 00:58:06,091 And yet, I must wait here... 674 00:58:06,992 --> 00:58:09,364 always prudent... 675 00:58:09,369 --> 00:58:10,924 sending others to fight 676 00:58:10,929 --> 00:58:13,023 and be felled in my name. 677 00:58:13,665 --> 00:58:15,734 Even you have managed to do your part. 678 00:58:16,601 --> 00:58:18,765 You are the queen... 679 00:58:18,770 --> 00:58:20,100 the tie that binds us. 680 00:58:20,105 --> 00:58:21,769 - No harm can come to you. - And you are my son, 681 00:58:21,773 --> 00:58:23,617 and I did not give you leave to go. 682 00:58:25,944 --> 00:58:28,013 You do not give me leave to go to anything. 683 00:58:28,789 --> 00:58:30,418 But who else is there? Rhaenys is dead, 684 00:58:30,423 --> 00:58:32,153 and Baela cannot bear the burden alone. 685 00:58:32,158 --> 00:58:34,781 And when Aemond comes hunting for you? 686 00:58:34,786 --> 00:58:37,158 Your dragon is young. 687 00:58:37,163 --> 00:58:39,207 Will you fly before Vhagar as Luke did? 688 00:58:46,172 --> 00:58:47,708 Perhaps Daemon could... 689 00:58:51,411 --> 00:58:53,075 Daemon is not here. 690 00:58:54,180 --> 00:58:56,474 And Aemond now rules in King's Landing. 691 00:58:57,918 --> 00:58:59,263 Is Aegon dead? 692 00:58:59,268 --> 00:59:02,142 Dead or alive, we have no answer for Vhagar. 693 00:59:02,147 --> 00:59:05,158 Aemond will not wait long to press his advantage. And then what? 694 00:59:07,861 --> 00:59:09,649 I have done all I can from here, 695 00:59:09,654 --> 00:59:12,352 sent my messages, invoked my alliances. 696 00:59:12,357 --> 00:59:15,026 But if all else fails, it is I who must fight. 697 00:59:16,745 --> 00:59:19,784 Vhagar is big, but Syrax is quicker. 698 00:59:19,789 --> 00:59:20,949 So was Meleys. 699 00:59:20,954 --> 00:59:24,204 Meleys fought two dragons and one of them is slain. 700 00:59:25,879 --> 00:59:27,292 Shall I fight for my birthright? 701 00:59:27,297 --> 00:59:29,824 Or shall I wait here until we are all destroyed? 702 00:59:35,764 --> 00:59:36,982 I need dragons. 703 00:59:41,086 --> 00:59:44,047 We have no dearth of dragons. 704 00:59:44,923 --> 00:59:47,521 We have two large enough to stand against Vhagar. 705 00:59:48,026 --> 00:59:50,499 They are called Vermithor and Silverwing 706 00:59:51,304 --> 00:59:52,859 and they sleep just beneath our feet. 707 00:59:52,864 --> 00:59:54,153 Yes, and if only they had riders, 708 00:59:54,157 --> 00:59:55,701 none could stand against me. 709 00:59:56,910 --> 00:59:59,921 I would go forth in strength and not from necessity. 710 01:00:01,539 --> 01:00:02,911 There is Rhaena. 711 01:00:02,916 --> 01:00:05,760 Who nearly lost her life in her last attempt. 712 01:00:07,362 --> 01:00:08,964 I would not risk it again. 713 01:00:15,287 --> 01:00:18,090 There are those of our line who never ruled. 714 01:00:19,265 --> 01:00:22,122 Those who married into other noble houses, 715 01:00:22,727 --> 01:00:25,600 their children born with other names. 716 01:00:25,605 --> 01:00:29,229 A generation ago, or more. Their blood would be thin. 717 01:00:29,234 --> 01:00:30,523 And yet... 718 01:00:32,028 --> 01:00:36,236 A dragon will only accept a dragonlord to ride it. 719 01:00:36,241 --> 01:00:40,240 - Or so say the histories. - Valyrian histories. 720 01:00:40,245 --> 01:00:42,200 Written to gild us in glory. 721 01:00:45,025 --> 01:00:47,652 Are you suggesting we put a Mallister on a dragon? 722 01:00:48,236 --> 01:00:51,056 - A Tarly? - It's better than death and defeat. 723 01:00:57,762 --> 01:01:01,261 There are records here, surely, of our line 724 01:01:01,266 --> 01:01:03,555 and of those who fell out of it. 725 01:01:10,884 --> 01:01:12,547 There could be scores of them. 726 01:01:20,185 --> 01:01:21,820 It's a mad thought. 727 01:02:48,420 --> 01:02:53,420 - Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com -