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I need more dragonriders.

You understand,
to claim a dragon,

you must also
be prepared to die.

♪

It was a reckless thought

that an ancient Valyrian beast

would suffer a Darklyn
to ride it.

Surely it was not
the only possibility.

I'll see my brother.

What do you remember?

I remember nothing.

The small folk
of King's Landing are listening.

They are hungry.

Our gift is sent.

Give it to me!

Your Graces, we must leave.

Let's go.

There's the queen of fishes!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You saved his life, brother.

Do you never think about
what could be ours?

Your Grace, the dragon Seasmoke

has been sighted flying
over Spicetown.

From what we have heard,
he has a rider.

You stand before the Queen
of the Seven Kingdoms

with a dragon of House Targaryen!

I had no design upon it!

What do you want?

To learn the ways of dragonriders.

And to serve my queen!

Your Grace.

You kneel quickly

for a man so suddenly elevated.

This dragon came to me

not I to him.

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.

You have done something

I feared impossible...

Addam of Hull.

I am glad of it.

Do you think you can
get him to Dragonstone?

I can try.

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 it will be easily hidden.

Nothing is clean here.

I wish to go out, Ser Rickard.

Out?

To the Kingswood, I think.

Then I'll have the stewards
prepare a retinue.

No retinue.

- Then your handmaidens...
- No handmaidens.

Just you.

What are they for?
The block or the crow cage?

The Wall.

The prince regent is merciful.

Well, they started a riot.

Justice is served, I suppose.

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.

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.

You will forsake
your white cloaks for black.

Serve out your days at The Wall.

Who is this rider?

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.

You are, of course,
welcome to bring this news

to the prince regent, but...

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

The queen is unharmed.

What of the rider?
Do we know who he is?

He appears to be a shipwright
in your employ, Lord Hand.

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.

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.

Where is the queen?

Her Grace sends word
she will not be attending.

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.

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...

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.
- "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.

Lord Tully has answered your summons

and brought the Riverlords, my king.

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.

You'll forgive me, Your Grace.

I am green in this sort of matter,
as you so kindly point out, but...

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?

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.

I don't need their love.

I need their swords.

Your Grace, my lord.

The Riverlords await.

I fear we cannot
delay them any longer.

Come along, Lord Oscar.

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.

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.

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?

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 am young.

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.

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.

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.

Lord Oscar, we honor the old ways

as Prince Daemon says

and the old ways call

- for justice to be done.
- 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.

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.

Don't fuckin' do this.

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

- Command them.
- 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.

No... no!

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

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?

Steady. Slowly.

I can't.

You can. You must try, Your Grace.

I can't! I can't!

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

Oh, God. Oh, God.

A moment!

A moment, please!

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

Allow me.

No...

Forgive me, Your Grace.

- Be careful.
- Wait, wait.

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.

You should be more cautious.

I should, Lord Larys.

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.

It will be long
before he may rest again.

Alyn.

My lord.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And when you die?

You are my heir.

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.

Then don't pursue it.

But I cannot gainsay that which
the gods have laid before me.

Do whatever you must
to see that it finds her.

From the queen.

You won't believe this.

Word is, Rhaenyra's recruiting
smallfolk to go to Dragonstone.

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

They're looking
for Targaryen bastards.

Boats leave tonight. Hour of the bat.

Seven hells, Ulf. This is it!

Yeah, a likely story.

- You've been taken in, lads.
- No...

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

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.

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

- Dragon!
- Yeah, no. I know.

- 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 good people

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

All spark and no tinder?

- They won't be happy.
- They'll be very unhappy.

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

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

Can I see a little glimmer?

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

Yes! Yes, there he is!

- There he is! Wine!
- Yes, yes!

Wine for Ulf the Dragonlord!

Ulf the Dragonlord!

Ulf the Dragonlord!

- Ulf the Dragonlord!
- Ulf the Dragonlord!

- Ulf!
- Ulf!

- Ulf!
- Ulf!

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.

I never knew my father.

That much is true.

But I did know my mother.

I hid it from you.

And I'm sorry for that.

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.

But I was ashamed of her.

I tried to make my way
with my own hands.

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'.

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.

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.

Who among you would be first?

I have nothing more to tell you.

It must be the dragon who speaks.

- Your Grace, we must away!
- No.

Help me! Help...

Help me!

No!

Here! Here I am!

I'm ready.

Come on!

"Lord Ormund Hightower
makes slow progress.

There is great concern that his host

is threatened on two fronts by armies
allied with House Beesbury."

However, in happier tidings,
Prince Daeron's dragon, Tessarion

has at last taken to wing.

Your brother expects to
join the fight soon.

Dragon!

And when he does

- the Hightower host
- Dragon!

will be unstoppable.

Inside! Now!

All hands to the scorpion!

Arm the scorpion!

Take positions!

Open the gates!

The dragons dance,

and men are like dust
under their feet.

We march now
toward our annihilation.

♪

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.

You wish
to rule the Seven Kingdoms,

but you reign ruin and death.

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.

For every one of us who falls,

a hundred of them.

There will be no mercy!

♪

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?

I always talked
about that coastline scene

as a Western showdown,

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

...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?

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?

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.

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.

My Lord?

How you have come up
in the world.

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."

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Suffering will be ended.

And without bloodshed.

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.

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.

They call Vermithor
the Bronze Fury,

and I think that's
really fitting for Hugh.

He's quite angry inside.

Come on!

It's a mystery.

No one really knows
how the Targaryens

are talking to the dragons.

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.

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.

Dragon!

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.

Rhaenyra's raised
new riders in the dragonseeds.

Aemond retaliates
without even thinking,

and he goes to meet them.

Open the gates!

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.

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.