[Jaime has returned to King's Landing and confronts Cersei]
How many men did we lose?
We haven't done a full accounting.
It's not only armies that win wars. We have the Tyrell gold, we have the Iron Bank behind us; we can buy mercenaries. Not the same as our men, but they'll fight if they're well-paid, which they will be.
I just saw the Dothraki fight. They'll beat any mercenary army. They'll beat any army I've ever seen. Killing our men wasn't war for them, it was sport! Her dragon burnt a thousand wagons! Qyburn's scorpion fired bolts bigger than you, they couldn't stop it and she has three of them! This isn't a war we can win.
So what do we do? Sue for peace? I sit on her father's throne, the father you betrayed and murdered! And in her mind, she's winning! What sort of offer do you think she'd make? Maybe we can count on Tyrion to intercede on our behalf? By way of apology for murdering our father and son...
He didn't.
You saw the crossbow, you saw his body.
I'm not talking about Father. Tyrion didn't kill Joffrey, he had nothing to do with it.
After all this time, it still amazes me that you...
It was Olenna. She confessed before she died.
And was this before or after she drank the poison you so kindly provided for her?!
After.
And you believed her?
If you were Olenna, would you rather have seen your granddaughter married to Joffrey or Tommen? Which one would Margaery have been better able to control? Which one would have made Olenna the true ruler of the Seven Kingdoms? She was telling the truth. [Cersei's smug expression twists into one of fury as she realises Jaime is right]
I shouldn't have listened to you. She should have died screaming.
She's dead, like her son, like her grandchildren, her whole House. And if we don't find a way out of this war, we'll follow them.
So we fight and die or we submit and die; I know my choice. A soldier should know his.
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