Thank you for coming. The other lords of the Reach look to you for guidance now more than ever; they might not have come if you hadn't.
Randyll TarlyIf my queen summons me, I answer the call. And I've heard what she does to those who defy her.
You ride for Horn Hill today?
Randyll Tarly
I have an army to mobilize. Won't be long before the fighting starts.
And which side will you be fighting for? You were the only man to defeat Robert Baratheon in battle. Not even Rhaegar Targaryen could...
Randyll Tarly
It is a long ride back to the Reach, Ser Jaime. How may I serve?
I want you to be my ranking general in the wars to come. I want you to swear allegiance to Cersei, and I want you to help me destroy her enemies. All her enemies.
Randyll Tarly
Including Olenna Tyrell? I'm a Tarly. That name means something. We're not oathbreakers, we're not schemers. We don't stab our rivals in the back or cut their throats at weddings. I swore an oath to House Tyrell.
You swore an oath to the Crown as well, Lord Tarly.
Randyll Tarly
I've known Olenna since I was a child.
She was a great woman once. Now, she's broken. She wants revenge so badly, she brought the Dothraki to our shores. The Dothraki. In Westeros, for the first time in history. I know you don't like my sister, but you have to make a choice. Do you fight with us, or with the foreign savages and eunuchs? When the war is won, the Queen will need a new Warden of the South. I can think of no better man than Randyll Tarly.
DTDickon Tarly
Ser Jaime.
DTDickon Tarly
Dickon. [Bronn snickers]
I hear you fought bravely at Highgarden. Your first battle? [Dickon nods] And?
DTDickon Tarly
It was glorious.
Come on. Your father's not here.
DTDickon Tarly
All my life, we've been pledged to House Tyrell. I knew some of those men. I hunted with them.
They didn't deserve to die. But Lady Olenna chose to betray her Queen and support the Targaryen girl, so here we are.
DTDickon Tarly
I didn't expect it to smell like that.
Men shit themselves when they die. Didn't they teach you that at fancy-lad school? Well, I learnt it when I was five.
[Bronn stops and frowns in concentration]
[They all hear the sound of approaching cavalry in the distance]
Spears and shields! Spears and shields!
Spears and shields! Spears and shields!
Randyll Tarly
Form up! Come on, lads! Guard those wagons! Form a line!
[A horde of screaming Dothraki warriors rides over the hill and charges towards them]
Randyll Tarly
Spears out!
Get back to King's Landing.
I'm not abandoning my army!
You're the commander, not a damn infantryman! Those fuckers are about to swamp us!
[At that moment, they hear a roar and look up in shock as Drogon comes flying towards them with Daenerys on his back]
[to Lannister and Tarly soldiers] I know what Cersei has told you: that I have come to destroy your cities, burn down your homes, murder you and orphan your children. That's Cersei Lannister, not me. I'm not here to murder, and all I want to destroy is the wheel that has rolled over everyone both rich and poor, to the benefit of no-one but the Cersei Lannisters of the world. I offer you a choice - bend the knee and join me. Together we will leave the world a better place than we found it. Or refuse...and die.
[Some kneel in submission. Drogon roars, and more men follow, leaving only a handful of others still standing.]
[Randyll approaches Daenerys]
Randyll Tarly
I already have a queen.
My sister. She wasn't your queen until recently though, was she? When she murdered your rightful queen and destroyed House Tyrell for all time. So it appears your allegiances are somewhat flexible.
Randyll Tarly
There are no easy choices in war. Say what you will about your sister, she was born in Westeros. She's lived here all her life. You, on the other hand...you murdered your own father, then chose to support a foreign invader, one with no ties to this land. With an army of savages at her back.
You will not trade your honor for your life. I respect that.
Perhaps he could take the black, Your Grace. Whatever else he is, he is a true soldier; he'll be invaluable at the Wall.
Randyll Tarly
You cannot send me to the Wall. You are not my queen.
DTDickon Tarly
You will have to kill me too.
Randyll Tarly
Step back and shut your mouth!
Randyll Tarly
A stupid boy.
DTDickon Tarly
I'm Dickon Tarly, son of Randyll Tarly.
You are the future of your house! This war has already wiped one great house from the world. Don't let it happen again, bend the knee!
DTDickon Tarly
I will not.
Your Grace. Nothing scrubs bold notions from a man's head like a few weeks in a dark cell.
I meant what I said. I'm not here to put them in chains. If that becomes an option, many will take it. I gave them a choice, they made it.
Your Grace, you start beheading entire families...
I'm not beheading anyone.
[Tyrion follows her gaze to Drogon]
Lord Randyll Tarly. Dickon Tarly. I, Daenerys Targaryen, first of my name, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons, sentence you to die. Dracarys.
[Drogon incinerates them, leaving behind nothing but two small piles of smoldering armor and flesh. All the remaining prisoners kneel.]
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