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<b>[EPIC THEME PLAYING]</b>

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<b>[ddd]</b>

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<b>[ddd]</b>

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<b>BERIC DONDARRION:</b> ...the wall Blackhaven

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are unscalable vassalstone.

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And the castle is surrounded
by a deep, dry moat.

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It is well fortified against
any future Dornish incursions.

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<b>[CHUCKLES]</b>

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And though my seat may be lesser in size,

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it is situated most pleasingly.

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<b><font color="

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<b>[GROANS]</b>

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<b>[POURING WINE]</b>

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<b>[LIGHT MUSIC PLAYING]</b>

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<b>[THUNDER RUMBLING]</b>

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The view across the Marches is inspiring,

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so said Queen Alysanne herself

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when she honored my father and I--

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And tell me, Lord Dondarrion,

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did you think my great-grandmother
as beautiful as they say?

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This was half a century ago, Princess.

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Yes, it was.

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<b>[CROWD LAUGHING]</b>

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That was unseemly, Princess.

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The man is older than my father.

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It's unseemly for him
to put himself forward

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as a contender for my hand.

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Next!

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<b>[THUNDER RUMBLING, WIND GUSTING]</b>

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And now a child.

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<b>BOREMUND BARATHEON:</b> The Blackwoods are
an ancient house

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with a formidable army.

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In the Riverlands,
they once ruled as kings.

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The blood of the First Men
still flows in their veins.

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Go on.

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My Princess...

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ours is a bond that has long endured,

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since Lucas Blackwood,
the grandsire of my grandsire,

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aided the Dragon in his war of conquest--

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Aye, the Blackwoods
truly turned the tide on that one.

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<b>[CROWD LAUGHING]</b>

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Coursed with the blood of the First Men,

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our history is deeply rooted in this land,

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which your house has made its home.

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If chosen as your match, Princess...

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your days shall be easy

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and nights safe under my protection.

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"Protection"?
The Princess has a dragon, you dumb cunt.

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<b>[CROWD LAUGHING]</b>

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Bracken!

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I could learn to like that one.

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Ugh, let us have the next

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so we may go to supper.

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- Craven.
- <b>CROWD:</b> Ooh!

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We're leaving.

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- Sheathe that steel, you twats!
- <b>[GRUNTING]</b>

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Send word to the harbor and
have Captain Oswin ready the ship.

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Princess, we're due in Bitterbridge
in three days' time.

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I would happily row myself back
to King's Landing

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if it brought an end
to this ridiculous pageant.

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- <b>[BRACKEN GRUNTS]</b>
- <b>[CROWD GASPS]</b>

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Don't look, Princess.

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<b>[ddd]</b>

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We should make landfall
inside the hour, Princess.

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How do you think he will take it?

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Do you speak of how you rejected every suitor

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His Grace put before you,
or how you abruptly ended the tour

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with two months remaining?

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<b>[DRAGON SHRIEKING]</b>

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<b>[RUMBLING]</b>

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<b>[SHOUTS]</b>
Take cover!

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<b>[SHRIEKS]</b>

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<b>[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]</b>

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Princess!

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You all right?
Are you?

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- Fetch the maester!
- I'm fine.

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<b><font color="

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<b>[ddd]</b>

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<b>[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]</b>

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<b>[INDISTINCT CHATTER]</b>

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<b>[WHISPERS]</b>
<b>WOMAN:</b> It's Daemon.

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<b>[ddd]</b>

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<b>[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]</b>

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<b>[DOOR OPENS]</b>

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<b><font color="

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<b>[SWORDS UNSHEATHING]</b>

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- Add it to the chair.
- <b>[CLATTERS]</b>

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<b>[CROWD MURMURING]</b>

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You wear a crown.

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Do you also call yourself "King"?

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Once we smashed the Triarchy,

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they named me
"King of the Narrow Sea."

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<b>[CROWD MURMURING]</b>

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But I know that there
is only one true king, Your Grace.

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<b><font color="

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My crown and the Stepstones...
are yours.

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Well, where is Lord Corlys?

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He sailed home to Driftmark.

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- Who holds the Stepstones?
- <b>DAEMON:</b> The tides...

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the crabs, and 2,000 dead Triarchy corsairs,

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staked to the sand to warn
those who might follow.

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<b>[ddd]</b>

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Rise.

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<b>[ddd]</b>

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<b>[CROWD APPLAUDS]</b>

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<b><font color="

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The realm owes you a great debt, brother.

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Come.

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This is our chance...

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Daemon, he would venture off, abroad,

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winning tournaments...

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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I will not revisit this debate.

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You were always mother's favorite.

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No, it's no great mystery.

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You were.

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Our mother, she had no regard

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for custom or tradition, rules.

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And I, sadly,
was no great warrior.

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Congratulations on your victory.

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Thank you, Princess.

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Perhaps Prince Daemon
would care for a tour of the gallery?

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He hasn't yet seen the new tapestries

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- gifted to you by Norvos and Qohor.
- Oh, oh.

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Would you like to see the tapestries?
<b>[LAUGHS]</b>

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<b>[SNORTS, LAUGHS]</b>

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He has no interest in such things.

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I'd like to see them.

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Oh, well, then you should
not deprive yourself.

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I shall enjoy them alone.

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<b>KING VISERYS:</b> More wine.

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As I said, you were the favorite.

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No, you were.
You were. I insist.

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<b>[KING VISERYS LAUGHS]</b>

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- <b>[INDISTINCT CHATTER]</b>
- <b>[LAUGHTER CONTINUES]</b>

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I surmise the tour did not go well.

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I endured it for as long as I could.

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To have every young knight and lord

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in the Seven Kingdoms fawning over you...

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What misery.

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It is rare for girls in this realm to get
a choice between two suitors,

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no less two score of them.

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Those men and boys don't fawn over me.

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They only want my name and
my Valyrian blood for their offspring.

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I think it's rather romantic.

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How romantic it must be
to get imprisoned in a castle

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and made to squeeze out heirs.

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<b>[SORROWFUL MUSIC PLAYING]</b>

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<b>[SOFTLY]</b>
Sorry.

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How angry is he?

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The King went through
great effort to arrange your tour.

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He is... frustrated.

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But I am glad you are home.

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<b>[ddd]</b>

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I find I have...
few friends lately.

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I like to believe I'm still
the Lady Alicent, but...

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all anyone sees when they
look at me now is "The Queen."

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I've missed you, too.

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<b>[ddd]</b>

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<b>[RHAENYRA SPEAKING HIGH VALYRIAN]</b>

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So...

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what do you want?

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Only the comforts of home.

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I had not thought you
particularly comfortable in this home.

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Though I do suppose you seem changed
by your adventures.

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More mature, perhaps.

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You've matured yourself
these last four years, Princess.

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You'll get used to the attention.

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The attention I can endure.

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It's the rest I could do without.

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My father seems content to sell me off

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to whichever lord
has the biggest castle.

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There are worse things to be sold for.

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<b>[SPEAKING HIGH VALYRIAN]</b>

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<b>[DAEMON LAUGHS]</b>

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Oh...
<b><font color="

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Such a lonely prospect.

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<b>[BELL TOLLING]</b>

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<b>TYLAND LANNISTER:</b> The Stepstones were
meant to be won for the realm,

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but over the past few days,
it seems we have traded

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a crabfeeder for a seasnake.

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This is clearly a rebuke for passing over
Lady Laena for Queen Alicent.

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Years have passed since the business
with his daughter.

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Certainly, he cannot still be wroth?

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The Sea Snake is an over-proud man,
to be sure, Your Grace.

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That pride has been injured.

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Perhaps we can salve the wound?

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I fear Lord Corlys's pride
is the least of our worries.

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I don't wish to cause you further distress,

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Your Grace, but my brother
has sent disturbing word from Oldtown.

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Lord Corlys is said to have
engaged in negotiations

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with the Sealord of Braavos.

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He plans to wed his daughter Laena
to the Sealord's son.

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If House Velaryon entered into an alliance

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with the Free Cities...

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then...

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we would have to seek our own marriage pact.

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<b>[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]</b>

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<b>[BABY WAILING]</b>

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<b>[WAILING CONTINUES]</b>

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- Good night, Ser Criston.
- Sleep well, Princess.

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<b>[EXHALES]</b>

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<b>[SNIFFS]</b>

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<b>[UNEASY MUSIC PLAYING]</b>

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Whoa!

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<b><font color="

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<b>[BREATHING HEAVILY]</b>

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<b>[ddd]</b>

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<b>RHAENYRA:</b> Where are we going?

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<b>[PEOPLE SCREAMING]</b>

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<b>[LAUGHS]</b>

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<b>[ddd]</b>

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<b>[MOANING]</b>

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- <b>DRUNKARD:</b> Fuck off, boy.
- <b><font color="

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He called me boy.

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<b>[LAUGHTER]</b>

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<b>[ddd]</b>

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<b>[COUGHS]</b>

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Do you wish to know your death, child?

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<b>[KING VISERYS BREATHING HEAVILY]</b>

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Let me take that.

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Leave us, all of you.

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You have a far kinder touch than they do.

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Thank you, husband.

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<b>PLAYER:</b> <i>And now we come to the
matter of the great Iron Chair...</i>

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and whose bum it might bear.

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Our good King...

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names his daughter,

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a girl, his heir.

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<b>[CROWD JEERING, BOOING]</b>

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But then to him, a babe is born.

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<b>[GRUNTING]</b>

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<b>[GROANING]</b>

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- A son!
- <b>[GASPS]</b>

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- <b>[CROWD CHEERING]</b>
- To which heir might the chair bear?

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Who will it be?

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The brother?
The daughter?

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Or the little princeling of three?

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<b>[LAUGHTER]</b>

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<b>[CRYING]</b>

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Rhaenyra...
the Realm's Delight,

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a girl so young and so slight...

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loved by all of her people,

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but would she make a powerful queen,

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- or would she be feeble?
- <b>CROWD:</b> Feeble!

246
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<b>PLAYER:</b> Though Aegon, the babe Prince,

247
00:23:48,053 --> 00:23:49,971
might long for a claim,

248
00:23:50,055 --> 00:23:53,058
he has two things Rhaenyra cannot:

249
00:23:53,141 --> 00:23:54,309
a conqueror's name...

250
00:23:55,894 --> 00:23:57,187
and a cock.

251
00:23:58,105 --> 00:23:59,815
<b>[CROWD CHEERING]</b>

252
00:24:00,315 --> 00:24:02,317
Lies, slander!

253
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,402
Boo!

254
00:24:03,485 --> 00:24:05,195
Jest if you will,

255
00:24:05,278 --> 00:24:07,197
but many of the smallfolk
are like to believe

256
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,325
that, as a male,
Aegon should be the heir.

257
00:24:10,408 --> 00:24:13,662
Mmm.
Their wants are of no consequence.

258
00:24:13,745 --> 00:24:16,623
- <b>[DAEMON LAUGHS]</b>
- <b>[CROWD CHEERING, WHISTLING]</b>

259
00:24:16,706 --> 00:24:17,916
They're of great consequence

260
00:24:17,999 --> 00:24:20,168
if you expect to rule them one day.

261
00:24:21,795 --> 00:24:23,171
For one night, I wish to be free

262
00:24:23,255 --> 00:24:24,535
of the burdens of my inheritance.

263
00:24:26,967 --> 00:24:30,011
<b>[FLAME WHOOSHES]</b>

264
00:24:31,930 --> 00:24:33,098
Four coppers, street rat.

265
00:24:33,181 --> 00:24:34,901
In King's Landing,
we pay for our pleasures.

266
00:24:36,768 --> 00:24:37,394
- <b>DAEMON:</b> Hey!
- Stop! Boy!

267
00:24:37,477 --> 00:24:39,354
<b>DAEMON:</b> Wait, I'll find him.

268
00:25:03,336 --> 00:25:05,338
<b>[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]</b>

269
00:25:05,422 --> 00:25:06,506
<b>[BREATHING HEAVILY]</b>

270
00:25:17,976 --> 00:25:21,188
- <b><font color="
- And who might you be running from, now?

271
00:25:21,271 --> 00:25:22,939
Ser Harwin.

272
00:25:23,023 --> 00:25:26,026
Princess.

273
00:25:27,027 --> 00:25:29,487
- <b>[GRUMBLES]</b>
- Don't.

274
00:25:31,323 --> 00:25:33,033
You take care, boy.

275
00:25:33,116 --> 00:25:34,618
Next time, you might not be so lucky.

276
00:25:39,789 --> 00:25:42,834
Enjoyed that, did you?

277
00:25:43,210 --> 00:25:46,713
- Who knows when I'll next taste freedom?
- <b>[DAEMON LAUGHING]</b>

278
00:25:49,674 --> 00:25:51,259
<b>[KNOCKS ON DOOR]</b>

279
00:25:59,017 --> 00:26:00,894
- Come.
- <b>[DOOR OPENS]</b>

280
00:26:05,649 --> 00:26:07,609
Pardon me, Your Grace.

281
00:26:07,692 --> 00:26:09,611
The King has requested your presence.

282
00:26:15,492 --> 00:26:16,993
The hour is quite late.

283
00:26:17,077 --> 00:26:18,703
Yes, Your Grace.

284
00:26:26,878 --> 00:26:28,797
<b>[DRUMS PLAYING]</b>

285
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,715
<b>[PEOPLE LAUGHING]</b>

286
00:26:40,642 --> 00:26:42,477
<b>[INDISTINCT CHATTER]</b>

287
00:26:44,854 --> 00:26:45,897
<b>[WOMAN SHRIEKS]</b>

288
00:26:50,277 --> 00:26:51,861
<b>[LAUGHTER]</b>

289
00:27:05,041 --> 00:27:06,710
<b>[KING VISERYS BREATHING HEAVILY]</b>

290
00:27:20,432 --> 00:27:22,392
<b><font color="

291
00:27:22,475 --> 00:27:23,560
<b>[INDISTINCT CHATTER]</b>

292
00:27:35,363 --> 00:27:39,242
<b>[HEAVY BREATHING, MOANING]</b>

293
00:27:51,004 --> 00:27:55,258
<b>[WOMAN MOANING]</b>

294
00:28:16,529 --> 00:28:17,572
<b>[ddd]</b>

295
00:28:24,454 --> 00:28:27,499
<b>RHAENYRA:</b> What is this place?

296
00:28:27,582 --> 00:28:30,085
<b>DAEMON:</b> It's where people come
to take what they want.

297
00:28:34,756 --> 00:28:37,801
<b>[MOANING CONTINUES]</b>

298
00:28:43,348 --> 00:28:46,393
<b><font color="

299
00:28:52,315 --> 00:28:54,692
Fucking is a pleasure, you see.

300
00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:58,696
For the woman as it is the man.

301
00:28:59,155 --> 00:29:01,825
<b>[ddd]</b>

302
00:29:08,915 --> 00:29:11,543
<b>[KING VISERYS BREATHING HEAVILY]</b>

303
00:29:12,544 --> 00:29:14,671
<i>A marriage is a duty...
Yes.</i>

304
00:29:19,884 --> 00:29:22,846
<i>But that doesn't stop us
from doing what we want.</i>

305
00:29:26,808 --> 00:29:28,685
<i>From fucking who we want.</i>

306
00:29:30,645 --> 00:29:31,688
<b>[ddd]</b>

307
00:29:49,706 --> 00:29:50,790
<b>[BREATHING HEAVILY]</b>

308
00:30:15,482 --> 00:30:17,567
<b><font color="

309
00:30:30,872 --> 00:30:33,750
<b>[ddd]</b>

310
00:30:49,891 --> 00:30:50,934
Daemon?

311
00:30:52,936 --> 00:30:54,854
<b>[ddd]</b>

312
00:30:54,938 --> 00:30:56,773
<b>[INDISTINCT CHATTER]</b>

313
00:31:17,877 --> 00:31:19,963
<b>[DOG BARKS, HOWLS]</b>

314
00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:26,135
<b>[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]</b>

315
00:31:29,389 --> 00:31:31,474
Princess?

316
00:31:39,941 --> 00:31:41,818
Princess, are you, are you hurt?

317
00:31:44,028 --> 00:31:47,991
- I-I should alert the Lord Commander.
- No.

318
00:31:52,704 --> 00:31:56,165
- My helmet.
- <b>[RHAENYRA CHUCKLING]</b>

319
00:32:00,211 --> 00:32:03,256
<b><font color="

320
00:32:03,756 --> 00:32:04,966
You finished?

321
00:32:07,385 --> 00:32:09,637
Thank you.

322
00:32:34,495 --> 00:32:35,622
<b>[CLATTERS]</b>

323
00:32:40,793 --> 00:32:41,836
Stop.

324
00:33:23,961 --> 00:33:27,006
<b>[CLATTERS]</b>

325
00:33:34,097 --> 00:33:37,141
<b>[CLATTERS]</b>

326
00:33:48,528 --> 00:33:51,364
<b>[LIGHT MUSIC PLAYING]</b>

327
00:34:50,006 --> 00:34:51,048
<b>[ddd]</b>

328
00:35:08,524 --> 00:35:09,776
<b>[GIGGLES]</b>

329
00:35:47,522 --> 00:35:50,316
<b>[ddd]</b>

330
00:35:58,658 --> 00:36:01,494
<b>[BREATHING HEAVILY]</b>

331
00:36:31,858 --> 00:36:33,943
<b><font color="

332
00:36:42,785 --> 00:36:44,225
Apologies for the late hour, my Lord.

333
00:36:44,287 --> 00:36:47,081
- What is it?
- A messenger brings word from the White Worm.

334
00:36:48,708 --> 00:36:51,544
<b>[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]</b>

335
00:36:59,510 --> 00:37:01,345
<b>[BIRDS CAWING]</b>

336
00:37:02,930 --> 00:37:04,974
<b>[ddd]</b>

337
00:37:06,309 --> 00:37:07,894
<b>[CLANKING]</b>

338
00:37:13,441 --> 00:37:15,902
<b>DAEMON:</b> Am I your prisoner?

339
00:37:15,985 --> 00:37:18,112
- As I was once yours?
- <b><font color="

340
00:37:18,195 --> 00:37:20,823
- <b>[BELL TOLLING]</b>
- <b>[BIRDS CAWING]</b>

341
00:37:22,033 --> 00:37:25,953
I'm your protector,
lucky for you.

342
00:37:32,919 --> 00:37:34,253
This will cut the fog.

343
00:37:38,007 --> 00:37:39,693
I don't need protection from a common whore.

344
00:37:39,717 --> 00:37:41,344
I am not so common.

345
00:37:43,930 --> 00:37:46,474
A not-so-common whore then.

346
00:37:46,557 --> 00:37:48,976
I've left that life behind.

347
00:37:49,060 --> 00:37:50,937
I learned that skin-trade

348
00:37:51,020 --> 00:37:53,189
could only take me so far in this life.

349
00:37:54,231 --> 00:37:57,193
You never were one to stay idle.

350
00:37:57,276 --> 00:38:00,655
Hard lessons are not welcomed but suffered.

351
00:38:12,291 --> 00:38:13,876
<b><font color="

352
00:38:14,835 --> 00:38:16,712
Mysar--

353
00:38:16,796 --> 00:38:19,257
<b>MYSARIA:</b> You can pay for the room
on your way out.

354
00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:26,764
<b>[ddd]</b>

355
00:38:36,649 --> 00:38:39,485
<b>[INHALES, EXHALES]</b>

356
00:38:42,822 --> 00:38:44,448
<b>[KNOCKS AT DOOR]</b>

357
00:38:45,282 --> 00:38:46,409
Come.

358
00:38:56,002 --> 00:38:58,838
What is it?

359
00:38:58,921 --> 00:39:01,590
I apologize for the early hour, Your Grace.

360
00:39:02,466 --> 00:39:03,801
I have, um...

361
00:39:05,011 --> 00:39:06,220
discomforting news.

362
00:39:06,304 --> 00:39:07,930
I thought it best shared discreetly

363
00:39:08,014 --> 00:39:08,723
before the council convenes.

364
00:39:08,806 --> 00:39:11,684
<b><font color="
The Sea Snake.

365
00:39:14,854 --> 00:39:17,815
I'm afraid it concerns the Princess, my King.

366
00:39:19,483 --> 00:39:21,110
Has she been harmed?

367
00:39:26,198 --> 00:39:27,575
It is no easy thing

368
00:39:27,658 --> 00:39:30,619
to tell a father of his daughter's exploits.

369
00:39:31,912 --> 00:39:33,789
I had considered saying nothing, but--

370
00:39:33,873 --> 00:39:35,666
What has she done?

371
00:39:39,170 --> 00:39:41,630
The Princess was spied last evening...

372
00:39:42,423 --> 00:39:45,551
beyond the walls of the Keep...

373
00:39:47,261 --> 00:39:48,721
in a pleasure house.

374
00:39:49,513 --> 00:39:51,140
What of it?

375
00:39:51,223 --> 00:39:53,392
She was carrying on with her uncle.

376
00:39:55,978 --> 00:39:56,997
They were engaged in behaviors

377
00:39:57,021 --> 00:40:00,441
unbecoming of a maiden...

378
00:40:02,109 --> 00:40:03,861
of a Princess.

379
00:40:06,864 --> 00:40:08,491
What behaviors?

380
00:40:14,747 --> 00:40:16,749
Well, must I say it, Your Grace?

381
00:40:16,832 --> 00:40:17,500
<b>VISERYS:</b> You enter my bedchamber,

382
00:40:17,583 --> 00:40:20,044
accusing my daughter of something.

383
00:40:20,127 --> 00:40:22,546
Now speak it... plainly.

384
00:40:26,425 --> 00:40:29,178
Daemon and Rhaenyra were seen together...

385
00:40:30,888 --> 00:40:32,932
in the bowels of a pleasure den.

386
00:40:38,145 --> 00:40:39,355
<b>[SIGHS]</b>

387
00:40:44,276 --> 00:40:45,361
Coupling.

388
00:40:49,740 --> 00:40:51,784
<b>[CHUCKLES]</b>

389
00:40:53,702 --> 00:40:55,246
This is a lie.

390
00:40:56,163 --> 00:40:58,791
You have been lied to.

391
00:40:58,874 --> 00:41:01,043
I only wish that were true, Your Grace.

392
00:41:03,129 --> 00:41:06,173
Who is responsible for this gossip?

393
00:41:06,257 --> 00:41:08,759
Have this rumormonger
brought before me at once.

394
00:41:08,843 --> 00:41:10,678
And I will take their eyes.

395
00:41:10,761 --> 00:41:14,348
As your Hand, I must maintain trusted
sources of information.

396
00:41:14,431 --> 00:41:17,893
And this one, as yet,
has never led me astray.

397
00:41:17,977 --> 00:41:21,355
And several of the servants
have now admitted to seeing her,

398
00:41:21,438 --> 00:41:23,357
the Princess...

399
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,818
creeping through the gates
from King's Landing,

400
00:41:25,901 --> 00:41:27,695
disguised as a page

401
00:41:27,778 --> 00:41:29,947
during the hour of the owl.

402
00:41:31,282 --> 00:41:33,450
Are you so sick with ambition

403
00:41:33,534 --> 00:41:35,953
that you would have my daughter stalked?

404
00:41:36,036 --> 00:41:38,289
Spied upon?

405
00:41:38,372 --> 00:41:42,168
Awaiting your best chance
to destroy her reputation?

406
00:41:42,251 --> 00:41:44,253
I have no such intent, Your Grace.

407
00:41:44,336 --> 00:41:47,256
You think yourself a cunning man.

408
00:41:48,299 --> 00:41:49,800
Your designs are obvious.

409
00:41:51,635 --> 00:41:53,916
Do you wish to have your blood
on the Iron Throne so badly

410
00:41:53,971 --> 00:41:55,571
that you are willing to destroy mine own?

411
00:41:57,892 --> 00:41:59,977
Just get out.

412
00:42:03,189 --> 00:42:06,567
Leave me... at once.

413
00:42:09,820 --> 00:42:11,739
<b>[ddd]</b>

414
00:42:11,822 --> 00:42:14,867
Your Grace.

415
00:42:21,165 --> 00:42:24,210
<b>[EXCLAIMS]</b>

416
00:42:47,024 --> 00:42:49,818
<b>[ddd]</b>

417
00:42:52,071 --> 00:42:53,697
<b>[KNOCKS ON DOOR]</b>

418
00:42:53,781 --> 00:42:56,158
I'm dressed, Annora.
Come.

419
00:43:05,876 --> 00:43:07,169
Princess.

420
00:43:12,883 --> 00:43:14,051
Come.

421
00:43:23,727 --> 00:43:25,562
Princess, I-I have a message from the Queen.

422
00:43:51,088 --> 00:43:52,715
<b>QUEEN ALICENT:</b> What happened last night?

423
00:43:54,508 --> 00:43:56,510
What do you mean?

424
00:43:56,594 --> 00:43:59,388
My father has made some
worrying allegations about you.

425
00:44:01,307 --> 00:44:03,726
Were you with your uncle?

426
00:44:06,061 --> 00:44:08,022
Oh, I...
<b>[CHUCKLES]</b>

427
00:44:08,105 --> 00:44:09,690
I haven't seen him in years.

428
00:44:09,773 --> 00:44:10,482
He took me into the city for some fun.

429
00:44:10,566 --> 00:44:13,569
Tell me the whole of it, Rhaenyra.

430
00:44:13,652 --> 00:44:15,571
Your father accused me of something.

431
00:44:16,780 --> 00:44:18,782
That I drank wine?

432
00:44:18,866 --> 00:44:21,368
Left the castle after dark?

433
00:44:21,452 --> 00:44:23,412
That you fucked Daemon in a pleasure house.

434
00:44:32,129 --> 00:44:36,300
This is a vile accusation.

435
00:44:36,383 --> 00:44:37,217
Is it?

436
00:44:37,301 --> 00:44:40,471
You Targaryens do have queer customs.

437
00:44:40,554 --> 00:44:43,557
- And Daemon certainly knows no limit.
- Alicent...

438
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,268
Your Grace, sister,
you must know I would,

439
00:44:46,352 --> 00:44:47,770
I would never.

440
00:44:47,853 --> 00:44:49,229
You cannot believe such gossip.

441
00:44:49,313 --> 00:44:50,564
My father is no gossip.

442
00:44:50,647 --> 00:44:51,875
Well, certainly he's been misled.

443
00:44:51,899 --> 00:44:53,293
He could not have witnessed such a thing.

444
00:44:53,317 --> 00:44:55,027
- Why not?
- Because it did not happen.

445
00:44:55,110 --> 00:44:56,987
- He was told that you--
- Told?

446
00:44:58,655 --> 00:45:00,657
Who made these claims to your father?

447
00:45:03,744 --> 00:45:05,204
<b><font color="

448
00:45:05,287 --> 00:45:08,040
I am the Princess.
To...

449
00:45:08,123 --> 00:45:11,043
To question my virtue is an act of treason.

450
00:45:13,379 --> 00:45:16,799
- I do not know specifically--
- What, your father did not tell you?

451
00:45:16,882 --> 00:45:18,759
He reported it to the King.

452
00:45:21,678 --> 00:45:22,763
I overheard.

453
00:45:26,850 --> 00:45:29,520
So you are accusing me of slanders...

454
00:45:30,187 --> 00:45:32,606
you overheard?

455
00:45:32,690 --> 00:45:34,817
I only want to help you, Rhaenyra.

456
00:45:41,865 --> 00:45:45,327
<b>[SIGHS]</b> Okay, we...
we drank in a tavern.

457
00:45:46,995 --> 00:45:48,622
Several... taverns.

458
00:45:50,624 --> 00:45:52,209
It was getting late...

459
00:45:52,292 --> 00:45:54,670
and I asked to go home.

460
00:45:55,754 --> 00:45:57,673
But Daemon wished to continue.

461
00:46:00,592 --> 00:46:02,195
As he was my escort,
I had no real choice.

462
00:46:02,219 --> 00:46:04,346
"Continue"...

463
00:46:06,223 --> 00:46:08,976
in a brothel?

464
00:46:09,059 --> 00:46:11,353
He took me to a show.
I...

465
00:46:13,147 --> 00:46:16,108
I was only a spectator.
I didn't do anything.

466
00:46:17,317 --> 00:46:19,361
<b>[ddd]</b>

467
00:46:20,821 --> 00:46:23,740
And then Daemon
sank into his cups and, uh...

468
00:46:26,285 --> 00:46:29,705
abandoned me for some whore.

469
00:46:33,459 --> 00:46:36,336
I should've known better.

470
00:46:42,426 --> 00:46:43,844
So you did not?

471
00:46:46,930 --> 00:46:49,558
Must I truly refute that?

472
00:46:53,270 --> 00:46:55,939
Daemon never touched me.

473
00:46:57,608 --> 00:46:59,526
Okay, I swear this to you

474
00:46:59,610 --> 00:47:01,737
upon the memory of my mother.

475
00:47:05,199 --> 00:47:07,284
It was foolish of you to place
yourself in a position

476
00:47:07,367 --> 00:47:09,247
where your virtue could
even come into question.

477
00:47:13,624 --> 00:47:15,501
The King has strived
to find you a good match.

478
00:47:15,584 --> 00:47:17,711
And so have I.

479
00:47:17,794 --> 00:47:20,005
If that lord were to think
that you had been...

480
00:47:21,965 --> 00:47:23,008
sullied...

481
00:47:24,676 --> 00:47:27,221
- it would ruin everything.
- I know...

482
00:47:28,096 --> 00:47:31,016
Your Grace.

483
00:47:31,099 --> 00:47:32,184
I regret it.

484
00:47:32,267 --> 00:47:34,561
- <b>[BELL TOLLING]</b>
- <b>[FOOTSTEPS THUDDING]</b>

485
00:47:42,236 --> 00:47:45,030
<b>[ddd]</b>

486
00:47:46,823 --> 00:47:49,952
<b>[GRUNTS]</b>
The King demands an audience, my Prince.

487
00:47:50,035 --> 00:47:51,745
Take your fucking hands off me.

488
00:47:55,249 --> 00:47:58,043
<b>[ddd]</b>

489
00:47:59,086 --> 00:48:00,921
<b>[DAEMON GRUMBLING]</b>

490
00:48:10,722 --> 00:48:11,765
<b>[GRUNTS]</b>

491
00:48:19,189 --> 00:48:20,774
<b>[GROANING]</b>

492
00:48:24,653 --> 00:48:26,238
<b>[DOOR OPENS]</b>

493
00:48:27,030 --> 00:48:28,657
<b>[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]</b>

494
00:48:40,460 --> 00:48:41,670
My daughter.

495
00:48:41,753 --> 00:48:43,171
<b>[GROANS]</b>

496
00:48:49,177 --> 00:48:51,680
- Won't you even deny it?
- <b><font color="

497
00:48:51,763 --> 00:48:52,639
<b>DAEMON:</b> I need to understand the charge

498
00:48:52,723 --> 00:48:54,891
before I can attempt to discredit it.

499
00:48:57,060 --> 00:48:58,437
You defiled her.

500
00:48:59,187 --> 00:49:00,230
<b>[DAEMON GROANS]</b>

501
00:49:07,112 --> 00:49:07,946
<b>KING VISERYS:</b> Still, you say nothing.

502
00:49:08,030 --> 00:49:11,033
<b>DAEMON:</b> Oh, what does it matter, brother?

503
00:49:11,116 --> 00:49:12,367
When we were Rhaenyra's age,

504
00:49:12,451 --> 00:49:13,469
we fucked our way through
most of the brothels

505
00:49:13,493 --> 00:49:15,871
on the Street of Silk.

506
00:49:15,954 --> 00:49:17,914
We were young men.

507
00:49:17,998 --> 00:49:19,833
She is just a girl.

508
00:49:19,916 --> 00:49:22,127
- Your niece!
- Rhaenyra's a woman-grown.

509
00:49:22,210 --> 00:49:24,671
Better her first experience
be with me than some whore.

510
00:49:24,755 --> 00:49:26,548
You fucking--

511
00:49:26,632 --> 00:49:28,842
You have ruined her!

512
00:49:28,925 --> 00:49:31,928
What lord will wed her now?
In this condition?

513
00:49:32,012 --> 00:49:34,681
Who gives a fuck what some lord thinks?

514
00:49:34,765 --> 00:49:38,685
You are the dragon.
Your word is truth and law.

515
00:49:38,769 --> 00:49:41,772
I have spent a lifetime defending you.

516
00:49:41,855 --> 00:49:43,583
But your heart is even
blacker than I thought.

517
00:49:43,607 --> 00:49:46,401
I should disinherit her

518
00:49:46,485 --> 00:49:48,945
as I already did you and be done with it.

519
00:49:50,072 --> 00:49:51,657
Wed her to me.

520
00:49:52,949 --> 00:49:56,370
When I offered up my crown,
you said I could have anything.

521
00:49:56,453 --> 00:49:57,930
I want Rhaenyra.
I'll take her as she is,

522
00:49:57,954 --> 00:50:00,707
and wed her in the tradition of our house.

523
00:50:00,791 --> 00:50:02,250
<b>[CHUCKLES]</b>
You are already wed.

524
00:50:02,334 --> 00:50:05,003
That didn't stop Aegon the Conqueror
from taking a second wife.

525
00:50:06,588 --> 00:50:08,256
You are no conqueror.

526
00:50:08,340 --> 00:50:11,718
You are a plague...
sent to destroy me.

527
00:50:11,802 --> 00:50:14,888
Give me Rhaenyra to take to wife

528
00:50:14,971 --> 00:50:18,558
and we'll return the House of the Dragon
to its proper glory.

529
00:50:18,642 --> 00:50:19,893
<b><font color="

530
00:50:19,976 --> 00:50:22,729
It's not my daughter you lust for, is it?

531
00:50:23,563 --> 00:50:26,566
It's my throne.

532
00:50:27,484 --> 00:50:29,986
Go back to the Vale, Daemon,

533
00:50:30,070 --> 00:50:32,948
to your lawful wife.

534
00:50:33,031 --> 00:50:37,911
Strive to restore whatever
scrap of honor remains in you.

535
00:50:37,994 --> 00:50:41,498
Or don't.
Matters not to me.

536
00:50:41,581 --> 00:50:44,000
As long as you are gone from my sight for good.

537
00:50:44,084 --> 00:50:45,127
<b>[ddd]</b>

538
00:50:47,921 --> 00:50:51,383
- <b>[SHEATHES KNIFE]</b>
- <b>[EXHALES]</b>

539
00:50:51,466 --> 00:50:53,301
As you wish, brother.

540
00:50:56,346 --> 00:50:59,391
<b><font color="

541
00:51:07,524 --> 00:51:09,568
<b>[BIRDS CAWING]</b>

542
00:51:22,622 --> 00:51:25,250
Have you spoken to her?

543
00:51:27,878 --> 00:51:30,922
No.

544
00:51:34,092 --> 00:51:36,845
It is not in Rhaenyra's nature to be deceitful.

545
00:51:38,013 --> 00:51:39,533
I cannot say the same for your brother.

546
00:51:40,974 --> 00:51:42,350
You believe he lied?

547
00:51:43,602 --> 00:51:45,812
How often does he speak the pure truth?

548
00:51:46,897 --> 00:51:49,983
How does confessing
to such things serve him?

549
00:51:53,028 --> 00:51:56,072
By reducing you.

550
00:51:58,158 --> 00:51:59,785
<b>[KING VISERYS SIGHS]</b>

551
00:52:00,911 --> 00:52:05,332
Whatever transpired,
Rhaenyra is not innocent.

552
00:52:05,415 --> 00:52:07,959
Only because Daemon tried to corrupt her.

553
00:52:08,043 --> 00:52:11,213
Daemon and Rhaenyra
share the blood of the dragon.

554
00:52:11,296 --> 00:52:13,006
They are restless and chaotic.

555
00:52:13,089 --> 00:52:15,050
She swore to me that
she remains a maiden.

556
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,095
And I believe her.

557
00:52:20,055 --> 00:52:21,097
<b>[ddd]</b>

558
00:52:47,874 --> 00:52:50,919
<b>[SIGHS]</b>

559
00:53:23,451 --> 00:53:24,911
<b>KING VISERYS:</b> That dagger

560
00:53:24,995 --> 00:53:26,435
once belonged to Aegon the Conqueror.

561
00:53:28,707 --> 00:53:30,584
It was Aenar's before that.

562
00:53:31,543 --> 00:53:33,753
And before that...

563
00:53:33,837 --> 00:53:35,964
well, it is difficult to know.

564
00:53:41,553 --> 00:53:45,640
Before Aegon's death,
the last of the Valyrian pyromancers

565
00:53:45,724 --> 00:53:47,142
hid his song in the steel.

566
00:53:54,024 --> 00:53:57,569
<b>RHAENYRA:</b> "From my blood...

567
00:53:57,652 --> 00:54:00,947
"come the Prince That Was Promised...

568
00:54:03,033 --> 00:54:06,536
and his will be the Song of Ice and Fire."

569
00:54:11,041 --> 00:54:14,461
The responsibility I have handed to you,

570
00:54:14,544 --> 00:54:16,713
the burden of this knowledge...

571
00:54:18,006 --> 00:54:21,468
it is larger than the throne, the king.

572
00:54:21,551 --> 00:54:23,011
It is larger than you

573
00:54:23,094 --> 00:54:25,138
and your desires.

574
00:54:29,893 --> 00:54:32,354
Jaehaerys would've disinherited you.

575
00:54:32,437 --> 00:54:33,521
For a lie?

576
00:54:35,023 --> 00:54:37,651
You've yet to ask me
for the truth of what happened.

577
00:54:37,734 --> 00:54:40,278
The truth does not matter, Rhaenyra.

578
00:54:40,362 --> 00:54:42,155
Only perception.

579
00:54:42,238 --> 00:54:43,156
You have exposed yourself.

580
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:46,576
Now we must both suffer the consequences.

581
00:54:46,660 --> 00:54:50,580
Were I born a man,
I could bed whomever I wanted.

582
00:54:50,664 --> 00:54:52,207
I could father a dozen bastards,

583
00:54:52,290 --> 00:54:54,209
and no one in your court would blink an eye.

584
00:54:54,292 --> 00:54:58,505
You are right...
but you were born a woman.

585
00:54:58,588 --> 00:55:02,175
So you'll strip me of my titles
and name Aegon in my stead.

586
00:55:02,258 --> 00:55:04,344
I would.

587
00:55:04,427 --> 00:55:06,805
But it is mine to hold the realm together,

588
00:55:06,888 --> 00:55:08,598
not sow it with further division.

589
00:55:10,475 --> 00:55:13,019
Your courtship is at an end.

590
00:55:13,103 --> 00:55:15,355
You will wed Ser Laenor Velaryon,

591
00:55:15,438 --> 00:55:17,816
and you will do so without protest.

592
00:55:18,525 --> 00:55:20,902
The son of the Sea Snake.

593
00:55:20,986 --> 00:55:23,488
So I can be a remedy
for your political headaches.

594
00:55:23,571 --> 00:55:26,282
You are my political headache!

595
00:55:30,662 --> 00:55:32,914
Your wedding to Ser Laenor Velaryon

596
00:55:32,998 --> 00:55:35,709
will unite the two most
powerful houses in the realm.

597
00:55:35,792 --> 00:55:40,005
With the combined strength of our
shared dragons and naval fleets,

598
00:55:40,088 --> 00:55:41,715
no one would dare to stand against us.

599
00:55:41,798 --> 00:55:43,174
The House of the Dragon

600
00:55:43,258 --> 00:55:46,636
will stand as one for a further generation.

601
00:55:46,720 --> 00:55:48,155
And what will you do about the vulture

602
00:55:48,179 --> 00:55:50,890
who perches upon your throne?

603
00:55:50,974 --> 00:55:52,308
What vulture?

604
00:55:52,976 --> 00:55:55,812
Your Hand.

605
00:55:55,895 --> 00:56:00,108
Otto Hightower has served two kings
loyally and faithfully.

606
00:56:01,192 --> 00:56:03,862
He wants Aegon to be named heir.

607
00:56:03,945 --> 00:56:06,448
And he will stop at nothing to see it done.

608
00:56:06,531 --> 00:56:09,534
Including spying on me
to bring about my ruin.

609
00:56:10,452 --> 00:56:13,538
You speak of The Conqueror's vision

610
00:56:13,621 --> 00:56:16,082
and the need for strength
and unity across the realm.

611
00:56:16,166 --> 00:56:18,585
But how can that be accomplished

612
00:56:18,668 --> 00:56:20,438
with your most trusted adviser
so self-interested?

613
00:56:20,462 --> 00:56:22,922
Every lord and lady that calls
for an audience with me,

614
00:56:23,006 --> 00:56:25,717
every man on my small council,

615
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,845
and all councils past,
has been self-interested.

616
00:56:28,928 --> 00:56:31,306
- It is unavoidable.
- I disagree.

617
00:56:31,389 --> 00:56:33,892
I will do my duty as heir

618
00:56:33,975 --> 00:56:35,560
and wed Ser Laenor.

619
00:56:37,979 --> 00:56:40,648
But you must first do yours as king.

620
00:56:51,076 --> 00:56:53,203
- <b>[DOOR CLOSES]</b>
- Your Grace.

621
00:56:55,830 --> 00:56:57,123
Five days.

622
00:57:00,460 --> 00:57:02,295
I'm sorry, Your Grace?

623
00:57:02,378 --> 00:57:04,881
<b>KING VISERYS:</b> Though it was some time ago.

624
00:57:04,964 --> 00:57:08,802
The details...
they fade in memory.

625
00:57:08,885 --> 00:57:12,305
My father was a hale and
healthy warrior and dragonrider

626
00:57:12,388 --> 00:57:14,140
at the peak of his abilities.

627
00:57:14,224 --> 00:57:16,810
Jaehaerys named a great royal hunt

628
00:57:16,893 --> 00:57:19,187
to celebrate him being
named the Hand of the King.

629
00:57:20,396 --> 00:57:24,901
Five days later my...
my father lay dead.

630
00:57:26,736 --> 00:57:28,238
Tourneys last longer.

631
00:57:29,072 --> 00:57:32,200
Baelon the Brave,

632
00:57:32,283 --> 00:57:34,369
rider of Vhagar,

633
00:57:34,452 --> 00:57:36,329
heir to the Iron Throne...

634
00:57:36,996 --> 00:57:39,833
dead of a burst belly.

635
00:57:41,876 --> 00:57:44,337
The gods have a dark wit.

636
00:57:44,420 --> 00:57:45,463
It was a grim day.

637
00:57:47,590 --> 00:57:50,260
- I recall it all too well.
- Yeah...

638
00:57:51,136 --> 00:57:53,263
It was a good day for you.

639
00:57:54,514 --> 00:57:57,225
Jaehaerys named you Hand in Baelon's stead.

640
00:58:00,436 --> 00:58:03,398
That's hardly how I viewed it, Your Grace.

641
00:58:04,399 --> 00:58:05,984
It was a duty.

642
00:58:08,695 --> 00:58:12,448
You served my grandsire
nobly in his final days.

643
00:58:13,908 --> 00:58:16,244
You are the man that
taught me how to be King.

644
00:58:18,163 --> 00:58:22,208
- Oh, you honor me, Your Grace.
- <b>[KING VISERYS SIGHS]</b>

645
00:58:22,292 --> 00:58:23,877
Just five days...

646
00:58:25,587 --> 00:58:28,965
you went from being another man
in Jaehaerys's court,

647
00:58:29,048 --> 00:58:31,092
to the second most powerful man in the realm.

648
00:58:32,385 --> 00:58:33,428
I wonder...

649
00:58:34,971 --> 00:58:37,765
how long did it take you
to choose yourself over your King?

650
00:58:39,976 --> 00:58:42,020
Your Grace?

651
00:58:43,313 --> 00:58:45,815
I will never recover from Aemma's death.

652
00:58:46,316 --> 00:58:48,943
But Alicent...

653
00:58:49,027 --> 00:58:51,029
she took me through the worst of my grief.

654
00:58:53,489 --> 00:58:56,117
She was a calculated distraction.

655
00:58:57,243 --> 00:59:00,538
I only now realize how well-calculated it was.

656
00:59:00,622 --> 00:59:03,583
That is an absurdity.

657
00:59:03,666 --> 00:59:05,501
The Queen loves you...

658
00:59:06,961 --> 00:59:08,796
as I know you love her.

659
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:11,466
Your interests no longer align
with those of the realm.

660
00:59:11,549 --> 00:59:14,802
Your judgment has been compromised.

661
00:59:14,886 --> 00:59:17,430
A loyal Hand must tell his king

662
00:59:17,513 --> 00:59:20,600
a discomforting truth
from time to time, Your Grace.

663
00:59:20,683 --> 00:59:22,310
If he doesn't...

664
00:59:23,686 --> 00:59:25,605
he's failed as a servant.

665
00:59:26,689 --> 00:59:29,108
You were a faithful servant, Otto.

666
00:59:38,785 --> 00:59:40,495
The crown and the realm

667
00:59:40,578 --> 00:59:43,539
both owe you a debt
that can never be repaid.

668
00:59:44,832 --> 00:59:47,377
But I can no longer trust your judgment.

669
00:59:47,460 --> 00:59:50,129
<b>[SORROWFUL MUSIC PLAYING]</b>

670
01:00:08,731 --> 01:00:10,316
<b>[KNOCKS ON DOOR]</b>

671
01:00:10,984 --> 01:00:12,944
Come.

672
01:00:17,740 --> 01:00:20,702
I hope you can forgive the late hour, Princess.

673
01:00:25,581 --> 01:00:28,543
I took great care in its preparation.

674
01:00:31,421 --> 01:00:34,215
If not brewed properly,
it can either prove ineffective

675
01:00:34,299 --> 01:00:36,175
or else bear

676
01:00:36,259 --> 01:00:38,428
- unpleasant--
- Brewed properly?

677
01:00:40,096 --> 01:00:41,764
I'm sorry, what is that?

678
01:00:42,598 --> 01:00:43,641
A tea, Princess.

679
01:00:45,268 --> 01:00:47,812
From the King.

680
01:00:47,895 --> 01:00:53,067
It will rid you of any unwanted consequences.

681
01:00:53,151 --> 01:00:55,403
<b>[ddd]</b>

682
01:00:59,115 --> 01:01:00,742
<b>[DOOR OPENS]</b>

683
01:01:04,454 --> 01:01:06,039
<b>[DOOR CLOSES]</b>

684
01:01:14,005 --> 01:01:16,799
<b>[ddd]</b>

685
01:01:36,402 --> 01:01:37,987
<b>[VOCALIZING]</b>

686
01:02:02,053 --> 01:02:04,097
<b>[ddd]</b>