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RHAENYRA TARGARYEN: I
need more dragonriders.

You understand,
to claim a dragon,

you must also be
prepared to die.

(SEASMOKE SCREECHES)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS)

It was a reckless thought

that an ancient Valyrian beast

would suffer a
Darklyn to ride it.

MYSARIA: Surely it was
not the only possibility.

AEMOND TARGARYEN:
I'll see my brother.

What do you remember?

(AEGON WHIMPERS)

I remember nothing.

(COMMOTION, YELLING)

MYSARIA: The small folk of
King's Landing are listening.

They are hungry.

Our gift is sent.

(COMMOTION, YELLING)

HUGH HAMMER: Give it to me!

RICKARD THORNE: Your
Graces, we must leave.

- Let's go.
- (BOOING)

- There's the queen of fishes!
- (GASPS)

TOWNSPERSON: Long
live Queen Rhaenyra!

If you have any counsel for
dealing with the river lords,

I'd be glad of it.

But Grover Tully is
their Lord Paramount.

Without him, they will never
raise their banners as one.

SIMON STRONG: This
is Ser Oscar Tully,

grandson to Grover Tully.

He is heir to Riverrun

and the future Lord
Paramount of the Riverlands.

Houses Bracken and Blackwood
have long detested one another.

(CARAXES SCREECHES)

We have fought them
for an age and more.

There are things
the crown itself

must not be seen to do.

Show them your worst.

I am your servant, Your Grace.

SPEAKER: There were
works of barbarity.

Dragon or no, we shall not
raise our banners for a tyrant.

Your Grace, Lord Grover is dead.

Young Oscar Tully is now

Lord Paramount of
the Riverlands.

DAEMON TARGARYEN: When
I take King's Landing,

Rhaenyra is welcome
to join me there

and take her place by my side.

There is a large
dragon in the Vale.

Large, but alas wild.

ADDAM OF HULL: You
saved his life, brother.

Do you never think about
what could be ours?

(SEASMOKE SCREECHES)

(SEASMOKE ROARS)

LORENT MARBRAND: Your
Grace, the dragon Seasmoke

has been sighted
flying over Spicetown.

From what we have
heard, he has a rider.

♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS)

(SYRAX GROWLS)

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(epic theme playing)

♪

(theme fades out)

(Syrax roars)

(Seasmoke roars)

(dragons grumbling, calling)

(shouts) You stand before the
Queen of the Seven Kingdoms...

with a dragon of
House Targaryen!

(shouts) I had no
design upon it!

What do you want?!

Addam of Hull: To learn
the ways of dragonriders.

And to serve my queen!

Your Grace!

(dragons grumbling)

(dragons howling)

(Seasmoke roars)

You kneel quickly...

for a man so suddenly elevated.

This dragon came to
me, not I to him.

(Seasmoke howls)

I have sweated blood in
service of House Velaryon.

I may appear lowborn...

but I know much and
more of service!

And if the gods call
me to greater things,

who am I to refuse them?

Stand.

What is your parentage?

My mother was a shipwright.

My father is...

no one of consequence.

Your ancestors, any
of House Targaryen?

We're not the sort of family
to keep annals, Your Grace.

What is your name?

Addam... of Hull.

(Seasmoke grumbling)

You have done something...

I feared impossible...

Addam of Hull.

I am glad of it.

(light music playing)

Do you think you can
get him to Dragonstone?

I can try.

(music fades out)

Alicent Hightower:
All my life...

I have endeavored to serve
both my house and the realm.

And somehow none of it matters.

We are cast aside.

Or hated.

You'll have a scar...

but... (inhales) it
will be easily hidden.

(nearby scritching)

Nothing is clean here.

(rat squeaking)

(distant chatter)

I wish to go out, Ser Rickard.

Rickard Thorne: Out?

To the Kingswood, I think.

Then I'll have the
stewards prepare

- a retinue.
- No retinue.

- Then your handmaidens...
- No handmaidens.

- (birds chirping)
- Just you.

(indistinct chatter)

Jasper "Ironrod" Wylde: What are
they for? The block or the crow cage?

Larys Strong: The Wall.

The prince regent is merciful.

Hm.

Well, they started a riot.

Justice is served, I suppose.

(horse neighs)

I have received word of a
matter of great importance.

Rumor of a sighting of
the dragon Seasmoke...

with a rider.

A fine piece of intelligence,

and now you seek favor by
delivering it to Prince Aemond.

Actually, I thought I might
seek your advice, Lord Larys.

Whispers being your province.

Guard: Kneel before the Prince
Regent Aemond Targaryen!

Oh, but this is your whisper,

Lord Jasper, not mine.

But if you consider
it valuable...

perhaps you could deliver it

and find favor with
Aemond yourself.

Aemond Targaryen: You will forsake
your white cloaks for black.

Serve out your days at The Wall.

Larys: Who is this rider?

Ironrod: That is less clear,

but it must surely
be the Lady Rhaena.

She has wanted for a
dragon all her life.

Indeed, but she tried already

when she was four and ten.

The beast Seasmoke very
nearly devoured her.

Who else?

Yes, it is a shallow pool.

Where did you hear it?

My squire.

He heard it from a stablehand,

who heard it from his
father, a fisherman,

whose shipmate claims he saw it.

Oh.

You are, of course,
welcome to bring this news

to the prince regent, but, um...

perhaps this is one of those
whispers best left to the wind.

(prisoners struggling)

(Ironrod clears throat)

- (tense music playing)
- (horse neighs)

(dragons calling)

♪

(music fades out)

The queen is unharmed.

Corlys Velaryon: What of the
rider? Do we know who he is?

He appears to be a shipwright

in your employ, Lord Hand.

Bartimos Celtigar: A commoner?

With respect to your
workers, Lord Corlys,

the lowborn cannot go
around seizing dragons.

Has the thief been secured?

Her Grace has commanded that
he remain here as a guest.

She wishes him to be instructed

in the art of dragonriding,

and that I should teach
him some High Valyrian.

Bartimos: We know
nothing about this man,

save that he is lowborn.

What say you, Lord Hand?

We will await the
queen's accounting...

- before passing judgment.
- (Bartimos sighs)

Where is the queen?

Her Grace sends word she
will not be attending.

Mysaria: So he serves
you and not himself.

- That is lucky.
- Lucky?

Or somehow ordained?

Seasmoke chose him.

He surely has Targaryen
blood in him somewhere.

The dragon must sense it.

There will be others.

We will find riders

for Vermithor and Silverwing.

You trust this man?

What choice do I have?

He has a dragon.

Without him, I have only Syrax

who may give Aemond
a second thought.

The question is where to look.

Targaryen blood was perhaps too
thin in Ser Steffon Darklyn.

If I can find others
with a more direct line

- of breeding.
- (Mysaria chuckles)

Forgive me, Your Grace...

but you are better served looking
under the sheets and in the woodpiles.

I once worked in
a pleasure house

where generations of Targaryen
princelings had their revels.

There are four score of their
bastard progeny at least,

that are known to me.

There are sure to be more.

Perhaps some here,
on Dragonstone,

the misbegotten
offspring of your house.

You speak of the lowborn.

They are as like to serve you

as highborn lords or
ladies, perhaps more.

But in the highborn
houses there is...

(inhales) an ancient fealty.

There is honor.

Your royal half-brothers,
Aegon and Aemond,

whose blood is pure, who wage
war against you for your throne,

are they bound by honor?

A common shipwright
vows to serve you

while your brothers
seek to destroy you.

The order of things has
changed, Your Grace.

Why not embrace it?

For 20 years, the lords
of this realm levied...

insults at my sons
behind my back.

Well then.

Let us raise an
army of bastards.

- My lord.
- Corlys: "My lord"?

How you have come
up in the world.

I wish to ask for leave
to relinquish my part

as a shipwright in your service.

There are good men and strong
who can take my place...

Your leave is granted.

Well done.

(intense music playing)

(horses neigh)

♪

(knocks on door)

Simon Strong: Lord Tully has
answered your summons and brought

the Riverlords, my king.

Daemon Targaryen: My condolences
on the passing of your grandsire

but the crown congratulates you on your
ascension to the head of your house

and Lord Paramount
in the Riverlands.

Truly glorious. Well done.

- I did nothing.
- Nevertheless, you are here, which is the important thing.

You were quick enough
to dismiss me before.

You were of no
significance to me then.

Now...

I shall have my great host.

You have a decision to make.

I presume it is clear to
you which is the right one.

Oscar Tully: You'll
forgive me, Your Grace.

I am green in this
sort of matter,

as you so kindly point
out, but... (inhales)

it does seem to me that you've
made rather a mess here,

countenancing barbarities
in the queen's name.

Whose side are you on?

(deep breath)

The Riverlands are
held together by oaths.

House Tully swore an
oath to King Viserys.

We recognize the authority

of the named heir,
Queen Rhaenyra

and your own... as
her king consort.

Good.

Then we shall go to
face your vassals

and you will call
your banners to war.

That might be
difficult, my king.

Well...

I was told they
would come to heel

when House Tully
declared its allegiance.

That may be the case,

though it is yet to be seen
that they will heed my authority

as young as it is.

And there is another problem.

They all hate you.

(quiet, tense music playing)

I don't need their love.

I need their swords.

(door opens)

Your Grace, my lord.
The Riverlords await.

I fear we cannot
delay them any longer.

Daemon: Come
along, Lord Oscar.

(music intensifies)

In the deepest darkness
comes the dawn.

A new lord,

a new beginning.

Let us put all the old
unpleasantness behind us.

Be welcome, my lords...

and you have my thanks
for answering my summons.

I know I'm not the
man my grandsire was,

but I hope to begin well,
and go on from there.

Daemon: Well said.
One thing is clear...

the Rivermen honor the old
ways and abide by tradition.

Here, then, is tradition.

Grover Tully is dead.

Lord Oscar raised
up in his place.

You have been summoned here

to swear anew your
fealty to him,

and as his bannermen,
answer his call.

And what would that call be?

In his wisdom, he has
pledged his house,

and yours, to me.

(Riverlords murmuring)

Lord Piper: Lord Oscar, for
generations we have been guided

by the judgment
of your forebears.

Why should we now follow a
boy, younger than my own sons,

when you will align with one

who will desecrate the
innocent to reach his aims?

(Riverlords murmuring)

I did only what was
necessary, my lord.

And I now deliver
to you the traitor

Amos Bracken and his son.

No more traitor to his land
than you, Willem Blackwood.

I take to heart your
words, Lord Piper,

and I agree, I-I-I am young.

(sighs)

And I have no love
for Daemon Targaryen.

He has dishonored himself
and the crown with his...

comportment here.

Nevertheless, having so
little experience to guide me,

my best course is to defer to
the oath my grandsire swore

to King Viserys when he
named Rhaenyra his heir.

I see no reason to
cast aside loyalty

no matter how loathsome I may find
her representative the prince.

King.

Mind your tongue, boy.

(Riverlords murmuring)

Will you have our army or not?

I am, in the end, a Riverman

and the word of my house stands,

even if certain people
are unworthy of it.

(wind blowing)

(sighs)

Your Lord Oscar is bold.

But he is perhaps not wrong.

I may have been a
touch enthusiastic

in pursuing my aims.

But don't allow
my failings to...

keep you from supporting
an upright man.

Lady Mallister: Lord Oscar,
we honor the old ways,

as Prince Daemon says

- and the old ways call for justice to be done.
- riverlord: Yes!

Justice has been done.

They who bent the knee to the
usurper have been brought to heel.

And now, we unite
before our liege lord...

and our king consort.

I accept you as my vassal,
Willem Blackwood...

but...

I am Lord Paramount
of all River Houses.

And there is only one
answer for the crimes

you visited upon your neighbors.

I did only what His Grace
the king required of me.

Oscar: It is true that he
made clear his base desires,

but you did not have to
pursue such savagery.

You did it... because
you wanted to.

Our young lord speaks truly.

- Seize him.
- (Riverlords murmuring)

Willem Blackwood:
Don't fuckin' do this.

Your Grace, command them.
I've only served you.

- Command them.
- Oscar: If His Grace wishes

to show contrition for his acts

and to prove himself
deserving of our banners

he must now rectify
his grievous error.

Denounce your crimes...

and dispense justice.

Oh, dear.

♪

(muffled, echoing) No, no, no!

I did as you asked, Your
Grace, I have been faithful.

♪

(music stops)

(wind blowing)

(unsettling music playing)

(goat bleating)

(person breathing heavily)

(music fades out)

(crown clinks)

(Viserys breathing heavily)

What is this?

I never wanted it.

I was right not to.

All that pain it caused.

It crushes whoever wears it.

You always wanted it, Daemon.

Do you want it still?

(high-pitched ringing)

- (Aegon grunting) - Grand
Maester Orwyle: Steady. Slowly.

Aegon Targaryen: I can't.

Orwyle: You can. You
must try, Your Grace.

(Aegon groans)

- (cane snaps, clatters)
- (Aegon wincing, yelling)

I can't, I can't!

(groaning)

I'm sorry, Your Grace.
I'm sorry, Your Grace.

- (cries) Oh, God. Oh, God.
- (knocking at door)

- (Aegon yells)
- A moment!

- (aggressive knocking)
- A moment, please!

(door opens)

You really oughtn't to be doing
that alone, Grand Maester.

(groaning)

Allow me.

(Aegon panicking)

Aegon: No, no, no,
no, no, no, no.

Forgive me, Your Grace.

(grunting, yelling)

- Orwyle: Be careful.
- Wait, wait.

(yelling)

(Aegon breathing heavily)

Your progress is impressive.

But I'm afraid you
must work harder.

Your strength will return.

There are... adjustments

to the gait and so forth

that you will learn
now that you are...

as you are.

(grunting)

You should be more cautious.

I, I should, Lord Larys.

He-He needs rest.
He should be abed.

I push him on your instruction.

I'll have the sentry
give you more warning.

Let him try again
in a few hours.

He is spent.

(softly) It will be long
before he may rest again.

(Aegon groans)

(indistinct chatter)

Corlys: Alyn.

Alyn of Hull: My lord.

Corlys: I have tasks that
need your personal attention.

The queen requires ships at
her service in King's Landing.

Charter fishing vessels.
Pay whatever they demand

but ensure their
captains are dependable.

- Put trusted swords aboard.
- Yes, m'lord.

Have them wait just
outside the harbor.

And there will be a message
to carry to one she will name.

The queen has found a new
rider for one of her dragons.

I've heard tell of it.

The rider is your brother.

She now makes the
call for others.

Our people are of Old Valyria,

but... we are no dragonlords.

I confess, I knew little
of your mother's heritage.

If it is...

something in the blood.

My brother was ever restless,

yearning for some
sign of his worth.

I am of salt and sea.

I yearn for nothing else.

(wind blowing)

(tense, solemn music playing)

♪

(tense, mischievous
music playing)

(wind blowing)

(panting)

♪

(music fades out)

(ambient nature sounds)

(horse grunting)

I will retire now, Ser Rickard.

When does Your Grace mean
to return to the city?

I'm not yet certain I do.

Good night.

Jacaerys Velaryon: The
lowborn claiming dragons,

was it her idea?

Lady Mysaria?

You were enthusiastic enough
when Ser Steffon made his claim.

He was the Lord Commander
of your Queensguard.

Heir to the Dun Fort.
These people are...

Courageous.

Mongrels.

(Rhaenyra sighs)

Jace.

Think what is at stake.

I know well what is at stake.

House Targaryen is the
blood of the dragon.

If any may lay claim to
it, what are we then?

The rightful rulers
of the Seven Kingdoms.

And what if one of your baseborn,
silver-haired dragonriders

decides he wants to
rule the Seven Kingdoms?

Did the Conqueror's
dream foretell that?

What else would you have me do?

Prosecute a war,
which we will lose,

in which thousands will die.

Or fly against Vhagar myself?

Or perhaps you will fly
against her on Vermax.

Jace, with these riders,
we can end a needless war.

I may take my rightful
place on my father's throne.

Jacaerys: And when you die?

(chuckles) You are my heir.

(inhales)

Did you think I
would have dark hair?

When you took Harwin
Strong into your bed,

did you think I might favor him,

or did it not cross your mind?

- Jacaerys...
- I'm no fool, Mother!

The proof is here
for all to see.

Yet I may argue my
legitimacy to succeed you

because I have a dragon.

And now you say you will
strip that from me too.

I mislike all of
this. (sniffles)

Then don't pursue it.

(light music playing)

But I cannot gainsay
that which the gods

have laid before me.

(light, tense music playing)

(tense music playing)

Do whatever you must to
see that it finds her.

♪

(indistinct chatter)

From the queen.

♪

(singers vocalizing)

♪

♪

Mujja: You won't believe this.

(indistinct chatter)

Word is, Rhaenyra's recruiting

smallfolk to go to
(whispers) Dragonstone.

- Oh, fuck that.
- Oh, they wouldn't take you anyway.

(laughter)

They're looking... for
Targaryen bastards.

Boats leave tonight.
Hour of the bat.

Seven hells, Ulf.
This is it! (laughs)

Yeah, a likely story.

- You've been taken in, lads.
- Mujja: No, no, no, no, no.

The queen's own handmaid is
here, spreadin' the word.

Ulf: Well, that's a shame
'cause I'd have been

first in line if it
wasn't for my injury.

- 'Cause my leg hasn't been the same since...
- Are you touched?

He's saying you
can claim a dragon.

The barkeep from the
Seven Maesters is goin'.

And two of the
girls from Mother's.

- (hushed) A chance to stick it to Aemond.
- And claim a dragon.

- (hushed) Dragon!
- Yeah, no. I know.

- Mujja: What?
- I know. I just... I can't...

I can't be sure it's all true.

You can't mean that
you've been drinkin'

at the expense of all
these, these good people

- for a fiction? No, Ulf.
- No, no. Shh.

All spark and no tinder?

- Mujja: They won't be happy.
- Cley: They'll be very unhappy.

- Never live it down.
- Never live it down.

- Come on, Ulf, the time has come!
- Mujja: Come on!

Cley: Can I see
a little glimmer?

- Mujja: Where is it?
- There's the Ulf I know.

Mujja: Yes! Yes, there he is!

- Yes, yes!
- Wine! Wine for Ulf the Dragonlord!

- Ulf the Dragonlord!
- (all cheering)

Ulf the Dragonlord!
Ulf the Dragonlord!

(all chanting "Ulf")

(Cley laughs)

(fire crackling)

Kat: I don't want you to go.

I have to, Kat.

We'll go to my
brother in Tumbleton.

They'll have food.
You'll find work.

I can't ignore this.

(dog barking outside)

I never knew my father.

That much is true.

But I did know my mother.

(outside chatter)

I hid it from you.

And I'm sorry for that.

(sighs)

She worked...

in a pleasure house.

She was granted more
freedom than most

because of who she was.

And because rich men paid more
to fuck a woman with silver hair.

She used to tell me...

I was no different
to her brother's boys

Viserys... and Daemon.

(Hugh inhales)

But I was ashamed of her.

I tried to make my
way with my own hands.

(solemn music playing)

I could not protect you.

I could not keep our girl alive.

And now...

we would never want again.

If I claimed a dragon...

they'd make you a lady.

♪

I do not care to
be a lady, Hugh.

And neither do I
want to be a widow.

♪

I have to do somethin'.

(tense music playing)

♪

- (music fades out)
- (ambient nature sounds)

(light music playing)

(wind blowing)

♪

♪

♪

(music intensifies)

(music fades out)

(dragonkeeper speaking
High Valyrian)

(speaking High Valyrian)

(nearby dragon growls)

(deep breath)

I used to think I knew what it
was to claim a dragon, but...

I understand now that what
I thought I knew is...

ash in the wind.

Perhaps it is blood.

Or worth.

Or perhaps it's something else.

Each of you... has left behind
a life to answer this call.

A life to which... you
might never return.

If you survive, you
will be transformed.

No man or woman can face
a dragon and be otherwise.

Some of you may welcome
the prospect of change,

even death, given
the alternatives:

privation... starvation, war.

This is our purpose,

to end those hardships.

For you...

for your kin, for all the realm.

With these two dragons
added to our number,

the enemy will have no
choice but to give way.

And peace will be restored...

suffering will be ended,

and without bloodshed...

gods willing.

(nearby dragon growls)

- (tense music playing)
- (deep breath)

The dragon

named Vermithor...

is the largest in the
world after Vhagar,

and... perhaps,
the most fierce.

He's called the Bronze Fury.

♪

We'll go to him now.

And...

may the gods bless you.

♪

(music fades out)

(Rhaenyra speaking
High Valyrian)

(heavy footstep)

(rumbling)

(heavy footsteps)

(Vermithor roars)

(Rhaenyra speaking
High Valyrian)

(screeches)

(Vermithor grumbling)

(Vermithor calms)

(grumbling)

(Vermithor growling)

Who among you would be first?

(all murmuring)

(Vermithor grumbles)

(grumbling)

I have nothing more to tell you.

It must be the
dragon who speaks.

(all murmuring)

(Vermithor grumbling)

(all panicking)

(deep, low growling)

(Vermithor calms)

(panting)

(roars)

(all screaming)

- Your Grace, we must away!
- No.

(screaming)

(grunts)

(screaming)

(grunts)

(screaming)

(roars)

dragonseed: Help me! Help...

Help me!

(tense, solemn music playing)

♪

(Vermithor screeches)

(coughing)

- (Vermithor roars)
- (panting)

Oh, f...

(tense music playing)

- (indistinct yelling)
- (Vermithor screeches)

(panting)

(smallfolk screaming)

- (Hugh panting)
- (smallfolk yelling)

(Vermithor screeches, roars)

(screams)

(grunts)

(smallfolk screaming)

- No!
- Shh, shh, shh!

(both panting)

(smallfolk screaming)

(roars)

(screaming)

(roars)

(panting)

(smallfolk screaming)

(heavy footsteps)

(Vermithor grumbles)

(screeches)

(roaring)

(grunts)

(grumbling)

(groans)

(smallfolk panicking)

Here! Here I am!

(roaring)

I'm ready.

(roaring)

(yells) Come on!

(heavy breathing)

(Vermithor grumbling)

(Vermithor calms)

♪

(music intensifies)

♪

(music fades out)

(Ulf panting, grunts)

(grunting)

(coughing)

(groans, panting)

(coughs)

(panting)

(dragon growls)

(heavy breathing)

(dragon grumbling)

- (roars)
- (heavy footsteps)

(grumbles)

(Ulf grunting)

(grumbling)

(Silverwing calms)

(panting)

(grunting)

(grumbles)

(exhales)

(laughing)

"Lord Ormund Hightower
makes slow progress.

"There is great
concern that his host

"is threatened on two fronts

by armies allied
with House Beesbury."

(outside chatter)

However, in happier tidings,

Prince Daeron's
dragon, Tessarion,

has at last taken to wing.

Your brother expects
to join the fight soon.

Guard (shouts): Dragon!

Ironrod: And when he does,

the Hightower host
will be unstoppable.

Guard (shouts):
Dragon! Inside! Now!

(indistinct shouting outside)

(tense music playing)

(bells ringing)

guard (shouts):
Take positions!

(guards shouting)

♪

(Silverwing calling)

(yelling)

(yelling, laughing)

♪

- (Aemond grunts)
- (horse neighs)

Open the gates!

(chattering, shouting)

(music fades out)

(intense music playing)

(roars)

♪

(roars)

(speaking High Valyrian)

(roars)

(roars)

♪

(roars)

(dragons roaring)

(music fades out)

(tense music playing)

(singers vocalizing)

♪

CRISTON COLE: The dragons dance,

and men are like dust
under their feet.

(DRAGON SCREECHES)

We march now toward
our annihilation.

(DRAGON SCREECHES)

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

RHAENYRA TARGARYEN: I have entrusted
you with a power only few have known.

We must strike while
we have the advantage.

The Prince Regent is angry.

There is no telling
what he will do.

ALICENT HIGHTOWER: You wish
to rule the Seven Kingdoms,

but you reign ruin and death.

SPEAKER: While you
have mustered an army,

Rhaenyra has faltered.

Pretenders raise new
riders against us.

I need you to fly with
Dreamfyre to battle.

We will answer
outrage with outrage.

DAEMON TARGARYEN: For
every one of us who falls,

a hundred of them.

There will be no mercy!

(SOLDIERS YELL)

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

(DRAGON GROWLS)

RYAN CONDAL: In this
episode, Rhaenyra throws off

all dissenting
opinions around her,

and then takes her
court of commoners

all out onto the platform.

Who among you would be first?

(SYRAX VOCALIZES)

RYAN: I always talked
about that coastline scene

as a Western showdown,

a scene out of Sergio Leone,
Once Upon a Time in the West...

(SYRAX VOCALIZES)

with the dragon being
the Colt on their hip,

and the way they carefully
approach each other

and size each other up.

What do you want?

RYAN: Until this point,
she's thinking about people

that are after their own
rise and personal gain.

And I think she wants to
get a sense of whether

she has to kill this
man or kill his dragon.

To serve my Queen.

To meet somebody that actually
does this miraculous thing

and then immediately
bends the knee to her,

in a way, that is
a bit of a shock.

Do you think you can
get him to Dragonstone?

EMMA D'ARCY: The moment
Addam claims Seasmoke,

suddenly Rhaenyra understands
that she was right,

that people with
some Targaryen blood

somewhere in their
lineage can claim dragons.

- These people are...
- Courageous.

Mongrels.

HARRY COLLETT: Yeah,
it's a big, big moment.

You know, obviously,
last time that Jace

probably would've said
anything was in season one,

when little Jace said,
"Am I a bastard?"

House Targaryen is the
blood of the dragon.

If any may lay claim to
it, what are we then?

Jace very simply
looks at it as like,

"You're going to just take any
gutter rat from King's Landing

and try to put them on dragons?

It makes me a common aristocrat

with black hair and
a checkered past."

My Lord.

CORLYS VELARYON: My Lord?

How you have come
up in the world.

STEVE TOUSSAINT: Being
initially shocked,

Corlys is then very proud.

It's because that's my son.

Off his own back, he's
made something of himself.

And I think that's very
important for Corlys

because that's how
he sees himself.

Well done.

Yes, two words, but they mean
just more than "well done."

They're... They
mean, "I see you."

RYAN: Daemon goes out
into the godswood,

expecting a certain outcome,

and then the fun of that
scene is seeing all the cards

as they're turned over.

Why should we now follow a boy
when you will align with one

who will desecrate the
innocent to reach his aims?

RYAN: Not only are you going to
have to show your belly to them

in order to get your way...

I may have been a
touch enthusiastic

in pursuing my aims.

Seize him.

Your Grace, command them.
I've only served you.

But now you're going
to go one step further

and actually take
the head of this guy

that pledged his life
in service to you.

No, no, no!

Daemon isn't the most
honorable guy in the world,

but I think he does have that
kind of mafia honor to him.

He's made this sort
of life-and-death pact

with Willem Blackwood
and said, "You do my way,

and I'll see that the
sky's the limit for you."

He's so used to
being in control,

and it all just slips
through his fingers.

And you see how he just
comes apart at the end of it.

I had a long
conversation with Paddy,

and he said, "I'll
play the part,

but I want to play
the final scene,

when he offers the crown up,

I want to do it in
the decrepit makeup."

It was Paddy's idea, which
is just a clever idea.

And then he turns around, and
Daemon, for the first time,

sees the full kind of
degradation of his face.

And he presents him the crown.

He's like, "God, is that
what I wanted? Do I need it?"

There's a lot going
on in that scene.

Do you want it still?

LONI PERISTERE: One of
the things I love about

House of the Dragon is that
it's a generational narrative.

We have a lot of
young characters

that are all coming of
age, one of whom is Rhaena.

PHOEBE CAMPBELL: Lady Jeyne's
been promised a dragon.

She receives two, but it's
like, asterisk, they're babies.

They can't protect her.

So, when she embarks
on her journey,

she's desperate to find, like,

more than just a
dragon, it's purpose.

She doesn't stop, and
she's not going to stop.

OLIVIA COOKE: In episode seven,
Alicent has lost any power,

any legitimacy that she held.

She does notice a cut similar
in placement to Rhaenyra's,

and I think it sort
of brings into focus

the absurdity of it all.

I wish to go out, Ser Rickard.

Her need to escape
King's Landing

is to sort of zoom
out from it all a bit

and get some clarity
on the situation.

RYAN: Alicent's disillusioned.

She doesn't know that she
has a place in the Red Keep,

or if she did,
whether she wants it.

And I think at the beginning
of it, we're sort of wondering,

"Is Alicent out
here to end it all?"

This moment of peace
that could potentially be

the last time for her.

RYAN: We see her go through
a bit of an awakening.

When her eyes open,

snap back into reality
with a sense of purpose.

I mean, what that purpose
is remains to be seen.

(SPEAKING HIGH VALYRIAN)

RYAN: The dragonkeepers very
much reject Rhaenyra's idea,

so Rhaenyra is left alone.

This was actually Emma's
pitch for Rhaenyra to go

and, like, walk
amongst the seeds,

as though a pastor
amongst her flock

in the terms of
a religious cult.

RHAENYRA: Suffering
will be ended.

And without bloodshed.

RYAN: When you realize that
Rhaenyra is just basically

throwing stuff against the wall
and seeing whether it sticks

and seeing if somebody
can emerge from this,

it goes very bad, very quickly.

In many ways, I think there's
a way of looking at that scene

as ritual sacrifice.

(SCREAMING)

KIERAN BEW: The whole
sequence where I'm running

through the cavern in
front of Vermithor,

it took a whole
day of rehearsing,

running it through
with the Steadicam.

(VERMITHOR ROARS)

They call Vermithor
the Bronze Fury,

and I think that's
really fitting for Hugh.

He's quite angry inside.

Come on!

KIERAN: It's a mystery.

No one really knows
how the Targaryens

are talking to the dragons.

RYAN: We wanted to not just see
the same thing again and again,

which is a guy claiming a dragon
and getting it to bend the neck.

(SILVERWING ROARS)

Every fiber of Ulf's
body wants out.

Close my eyes, pray
for a quick death,

which doesn't come.

I think it's that supplication

and the way that he showed
deference to Silverwing

that probably makes
her choose him.

But we didn't want to get too
much into the whys and hows.

We don't really understand why
a dragon chooses its rider.

I've said I'm a Targaryen.
Turns out, I'm a Targaryen.

SOLDIER: Dragon!

RYAN: I don't think the news of
Seasmoke really reached Aemond,

and you can tell that by the way

Larys and Ironrod
exchanged glances

when they hear the dragon
flying over the city

because I think they both
assumed that it's Seasmoke.

EWAN MITCHELL: Rhaenyra's raised
new riders in the dragonseeds.

Aemond retaliates
without even thinking,

and he goes to meet them.

Open the gates!

RYAN: He was supposed
to be the special one.

The fact that somebody else
is out there that did this

just breaks his brain.

So, his immediate
response is, of course,

he rides and gets on his dragon
with the intent of going out

and killing Silverwing.

And he gets more than
he bargained for.

(VHAGAR ROARS)

(SPEAKING HIGH VALYRIAN)

RYAN: And for the first
time since season one,

we see fear in his eye.

And literally, the Dragon Queen
coming out of the Dragonmont.

Not only Silverwing, but
Vermithor and also Syrax.

And whatever questions
she was faced with,

she was right in the end

and was able to assemble
this army of dragons.

(DRAGON ROARS)