[The defenders of Winterfell lay out their battleplans]
Jon SnowThey're coming. We have dragonglass, and we have Valyrian steel...but there are too many of them, far too many. Our enemy doesn't tire, doesn't stop, doesn't feel. We can't beat them in a straight fight.
Jon Snow
The Night King made them all, they follow his command. If he falls...getting to him may be our best chance.
If that's true, he'll never expose himself.
Yes, he will. He'll come for me. He's tried many times before, with many three-eyed ravens.
An endless night. He wants to erase this world, and I am its memory.
That's what death is, isn't it? Forgetting, being forgotten. If we forget where we've been and what we've done, we're not men anymore, just animals. [to Bran] Your memories don't come from books. Your stories aren't just stories. If I wanted to erase the world of Men, I'd start with you.
His mark is on me. [Bran shows the claw marks the Night King left on his arm] He always knows where I am.
Jon Snow
We'll put you in the crypt where it's safest.
No. We need to lure him into the open before his army destroys us all. I'll wait for him in the godswood.
You want us to use you as bait?!
We're not leaving you alone out there!
He won't be. I'll stay with him, with the Ironborn. [to Bran] I took this castle from you once. Let me defend you now.
We'll hold off the rest of them, for as long as we can.
When the time comes, Ser Davos and I will be on the walls to give you the signal to light the trench.
Ser Davos is perfectly capable of waving a torch on his own. You'll be in the crypt.
Your Grace, I have fought before, I can do it again, alongside the men and women risking their lives-!
There are thousands of them and only one of you. You can't fight as well as them, but you can think better than any of them. You're here because of your mind; if we survive, I'll need it.
The dragons should give us an edge in the field-
Jon Snow
If they're in the field, they're not protecting Bran. We need to be near him; not too near or the Night King won't come, but close enough to pursue him when he does.
Dragon fire will stop him?
I don't know. No one's ever tried.
Jon Snow
No. [stumbles] Well, only a little. I didn't know Ser Jorah well, but I know this: if he could've chosen a way to die, it would've been protecting you.
He loved me. And I couldn't love him back. Not the way he wanted. Not the way I love you. Is that all right? [they start to kiss, but Jon suddenly stops and steps away] I wish you'd never told me. If I didn't know, I'd be happy right now. I try to forget. Tonight I did for a while, and then I saw them all gathered around you. I saw the way they looked at you. I know that look. So many people have looked at me that way, but never here. Never on this side of the sea.
Jon Snow
I told you, I don't want it.
It doesn't matter what you want! You didn't want to be King in the North! What happens when they demand that you press your claim, and take what is mine?
Jon Snow
[crouches in front of her] I'll refuse. You are my Queen, I don't know what else I can say.
You can say nothing. To anyone, ever. Never tell them who you are. Swear your brother and Samwell Tarly to secrecy, and tell no one else. Or it will take a life of its own, and you won't be able to control it, or what it does to people! No matter how many times you bend the knee, no matter what you swear! [takes his hand] I want it to be the way it was between us.
Jon Snow
[squeezes her hand] I have to tell Sansa and Arya.
Sansa will want to see me gone and you on the Iron Throne.
Jon Snow
She won't.
She's not the girl you grew up with. Not after what she's seen, not after what they've done to her.
Jon Snow
I owe them the truth.
Even if the truth destroys us?
Jon Snow
It won't.
It will. I've never begged for anything... but I'm begging you. [tearfully] Don't do this. Please.
Jon Snow
You are my Queen. Nothing will change that. And they are my family. We can live together.
[coldly] We can. I've just told you how.
[on the Unsullied] Half are gone.
Jon Snow
The Northmen as well.
And the Golden Company has arrived in King's Landing, courtesy of the Greyjoy Fleet. The balance has become... distressingly even.
When the people find out what we have done for them, how we saved them-
Cersei will make sure they don't believe it. We will hit her hard. We will rip her out, root and stem.
The objective here is to remove Cersei, without destroying King's Landing.
Thankfully, she's losing allies by the day. Yara Greyjoy has retaken the Iron Islands in her Queen's name. The new Prince of Dorne pledges his support.
No matter how many Lords turn against her, as long as she sits on the Iron Throne, she can call herself Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. We need the capital.
I watched the people of King's Landing rebel against their King when they were hungry, and that was before winter began. Give them the opportunity, and they will cast Cersei aside.
Jon Snow
We'll surround the city. If the Iron Fleet tries to ferry in more food, the dragons will destroy them. If the Lannisters and the Golden Company attack, we'll defeat them in the field.
Once the people see that Cersei is our only enemy, her reign is over.
The men we have left are exhausted. Many of them are wounded. They'll fight better if they have time to rest and recuperate.
I can't say for certain, not without talking to the officers.
I came north to fight alongside you, at great cost to my armies and myself. Now that the time has come to reciprocate, you want to postpone.
It's not just our people, it's yours! You want to throw them into a war they're not ready to fight?
The longer I leave my enemies alone, the stronger they become.
Jon Snow
[firmly] The Northern forces will honor their promises, and their allegiance to the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. What you command, we will obey.
So. If all are in agreement... Jon and Ser Davos will ride down the Kingsroad with the Northern troops and the bulk of the remaining Dothraki and Unsullied. A smaller group of us will ride to White Harbor, and sail from there to Dragonstone, with our Queen and her dragons accompanying us from above. Ser Jaime has chosen to remain here, as a quest of the Lady of Winterfell.
[locking eyes with Sansa] We have won the Great War. Now, we will win the last war. In all Seven Kingdoms, men will live without fear and cruelty... under their rightful Queen.
Jon Snow
Just crossed the Trident. They'll be at the gates of King's Landing in two days. [pause] How is she?
She hasn't seen anyone since we returned. Hasn't left her chambers, hasn't accepted any food.
Jon Snow
She shouldn't be alone.
You're worried for her. I admire your empathy.
Jon Snow
Aren't you worried for her?
I'm worried for all of us. They say "every time a Targaryen is born, the Gods flip a coin, and the world holds its' breath."
Jon Snow
We're not much for riddles, where I'm from.
We both know what she's about to do.
Jon Snow
That's her decision to make. She is our Queen.
Men decide where power resides, whether or not they know it.
Jon Snow
What do you want?
All I've ever wanted. The right ruler on the Iron Throne. I still don't know how her coin has landed... but, I'm quite certain about yours.
Jon Snow
I don't want it. I never have.
I have known more Kings and Queens than any man living. I've heard what they say to crowds, and seen what they do in shadows. I have furthered their designs, however horrible. But what I tell you now, is true: you will rule wisely and well, while she-
Jon Snow
She... is my Queen.
[Daenerys inspects the Iron Throne as Jon enters the throne room behind her]
When I was a girl, my brother told me it was made from a thousand swords from Aegon's fallen enemies. What do a thousand swords look like in the mind of a little girl who can't count to twenty? I imagined a mountain of swords too high to climb. So many fallen enemies you could only see the soles of Aegon's feet.
Jon Snow
I saw them executing Lannister prisoners in the street. They said they were acting on your orders.
Jon Snow
Necessary?! Have you been down there?! Have you seen?! Children, little children burned!
I tried to make peace with Cersei. She used their innocence as a weapon against me. She thought it would cripple me.
Jon Snow
And Tyrion?
He conspired behind my back with my enemies. How have you treated people who did the same to you, even when it broke your heart?
Jon Snow
[close to tears] Forgive him.
Jon Snow
You can. You can forgive all of them, make them see they made a mistake. Make them understand. Please, Dany.
We can't hide behind small mercies. The world we need won't be built by men loyal to the world we have.
Jon Snow
The world we need is a world of mercy, it has to be!
And it will be! It's not easy to see something that's never been before...a good world.
Jon Snow
How do you know? How do you know it will be good?
Because I know what is good. And so do you.
Jon Snow
I don't!
You do! You do, you've always known.
Jon Snow
What about everyone else? All the other people who think they know what's good?
They don't get to choose. Be with me. Build the new world with me! This is our reason! It has been from the beginning, since you were a little boy with a bastard's name and I was a little girl who couldn't count to twenty. We do it together. We break the wheel...together.
Jon Snow
You are my Queen. Now and always.
[They kiss, then Jon stabs Daenerys]
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