The Stark boy appears to be less green than we'd hoped.
HSHarys Swift
I'm told his wolf killed a dozen men and as many horses!
AMAddam Marband
Is it true about Stannis and Renly?
Kevan LannisterBoth Baratheon brothers have taken up against us. Jaime captured, his armies scattered... it's a catastrophe. Perhaps we should sue for peace.
[knocks his glass to the floor, shattering it] There's your peace. Joffrey saw to that when he decided to remove Ned Stark's head. You'll have an easier time drinking out of that cup than you will bringing Robb Stark to the table now. He's winning, in case you hadn't noticed.
Kevan Lannister
I'm told we still have his sisters...
HSHarys Swift
The first order of business is ransoming Ser Jaime!
AMAddam Marband
No truces, we can't afford to look weak. We should march on them at once!
Kevan Lannister
First, we must return to Casterly Rock and raise more-
THEY HAVE MY SON! Get out, all of you. [addressing Tyrion] Not you. You were right about Eddard Stark; if he were alive, we could've used him to broker a peace with Winterfell and Riverrun... which would have given us more time to deal with Robert's brothers, but now? Madness, madness and stupidity! I always thought you were a stunted fool. Perhaps I was wrong.
Half wrong. I'm new to strategy, but unless we want to be surrounded by three armies, it appears we can't stay here.
No one will stay here. Ser Gregor will head out with five hundred riders and set the Riverlands on fire from Gods' Eye to the Red Fork. The rest of us will regroup at Harrenhal. And you will go to King's Landing.
Rule. You will serve as Hand of the King in my stead; you'll bring that boy-king to heel, and his mother too, if needs be. And if you get so much as a whiff of treason from any of the rest, Baelish, Varys, Pycelle...
Heads, spikes, walls. Why not my uncle? Why not anyone?! Why me?
You're my son. Oh, one more thing. You will not take that whore to court.
Uncle Kevan! In light of your position as Commander of the Lannister armies, it would please the King if you would serve as his Master of War. No man living better deserves the title.
Kevan Lannister
That is kind of you to say. I would like to hear it from the King, himself.
The King is very busy at this moment.
Kevan Lannister
He should be here, learning what it means to rule.
He is learning. On this occasion, in his capacity as ruler, he's asked me to speak on his behalf.
Kevan Lannister
I return to the Capital to pay my respects to my brother, and to you, and to serve the King. I did not return to the Capitol to serve as your puppet, to watch you stack the Small Council with sycophants! Sending your own brother away so he won't...
My brother has left the Capitol to lead a sensitive diplomatic mission.
Kevan Lannister
What mission?
That is not your concern as Master of War.
Kevan Lannister
I do not recognize your authority to dictate what is and is not my concern. You are the Queen Mother. Nothing more.
You would abandon your King in his time of need?
Kevan Lannister
If he wants to send for me, I will be waiting for him. At Casterly Rock.
The Small Council meeting is postponed, on the King's orders.
I would have thought we were perfectly clear the first time. You're not welcome.
You once spoke of your respect for our father, because he understood the necessity of working with one's rivals.
My dear, you have been stripped of your dignity and authority, publicly shamed, and confined to the Red Keep. What's left to work with?
Cersei is the mother of the King. She has the King's ear and his trust. And, the King has been speaking regularly with the High Sparrow about Queen Margaery, and Ser Loras.
The High Sparrow seized power, knowing full well we'd bicker among ourselves, instead of seizing it back. Here we are. Well done to us. Now, the future of the Seven Kingdoms rests in his dirty peasant hands. In a few days, he'll have a trial for me but, before that, Queen Margaery will make her walk of atonement. Yes. Margaery will repent her sins before the good people of the city.
Ohhh, no. That cannot happen. That will not happen.
You've got the second largest army in Westeros. You will bring them into the city, stop Queen Margaery's humiliation before it starts, and take her back into Crown custody.
Kevan Lannister
The King has ordered me to take no action against the High Sparrow, or the Faith Militant- out of fear for the Queen's safety.
You will take no action at all. When the Tyrell armies come, you will stand down. Were you expressly forbidden from standing down?
Kevan Lannister
No. But, if the King should call...
The whole thing will be over before anyone can call upon you to do anything. When the High Sparrow's back in custody or dead, preferably, and Margaery's back at Tommen's side, do you think the King will be angry at the outcome?
You hate these fanatics as much as we do. You hate what they've done to your son. Do you want Lancel back? Or have you given him up for good?
Kevan Lannister
Of course I want him back.
Then, stand aside. And let the people that took him from you be destroyed.
Kevan Lannister
If it doesn't go as planned the Sparrows have many friends in this city. We'll have civil war. Many will die.
Many will die, no matter what we do. Better them than us.
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