RRos
Why don't you join us, My Lord?
I'm saving myself for another.
RRos
What she doesn't know won't hurt her.
A stupid saying. What we don't know is usually what gets us killed.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
I know the truth Jon Arryn died for.
Do you, Lord Stark? Is that why you call me here, to pose me riddles?
[gesturing to the bruise on Cersei's cheek] Has he done this before?
Jaime would have killed him. My brother is worth a thousand of your friend.
Your brother? Or your lover?
The Targaryens wed brothers and sisters for three hundred years to keep bloodlines pure. Jaime and I are more than brother and sister. We shared a womb, came into this world together. We belong together.
My son saw you with him.
Do you love your children?
With all my heart.
No more than I love mine.
And they're all Jaime's.
Thank the gods. In the rare event Robert leaves his whores long enough to stumble drunken into my bed, I finish him off in other ways. In the morning, he doesn't remember.
You've always hated him!
Hated him? I worshipped him! Every girl in the Seven Kingdoms dreamed of him, but he was mine by oath. And when I finally saw him on our wedding day in the Sept of Baelor, lean and fierce and black-bearded, it was the happiest moment of my life. And that night, he crawled on top of me, stinking of wine, and did what he did, what little he could do, and whispered in my ear, "Lyanna". Your sister was a corpse. I was a living girl, and he loved her more than me!
When the king returns from his hunt, I will tell him the truth. You must be gone by then, you and your children. I won't have their blood on my hands. Go as far away as you can with as many men as you can, because wherever you go, Robert's wrath will follow you.
And what of my wrath, Lord Stark? You should have taken the realm for yourself. Jaime told me about the day King's Landing fell. He was sitting on the Iron Throne, and you made him give it up. All you needed to do was climb the steps yourself. Such a sad mistake.
I've made many mistakes in my life, but that wasn't one of them.
Oh, but it was. When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
Lord Stark, a moment... Alone, if you will? [Eddard dismisses his guards] He [Robert] named you Protector of the Realm?
He did.
She won't care. Give me an hour, and I can put a hundred swords at your command.
And what should I do with a hundred swords?
Strike! Tonight, while the castle sleeps! We must get Joffrey away from his mother and into our custody; Protector of the Realm or no, he who holds the king holds the kingdom. Every moment you delay gives Cersei another moment to prepare; by the time Robert dies, it will be too late for the both of us!
And what about Stannis?
[incredulous] Saving the Seven Kingdoms from Cersei and delivering them to Stannis?! You have odd notions about protecting the realm!
Stannis is your older brother-
This isn't about the bloody line of succession! That didn't matter when you rebelled against the Mad King, it shouldn't matter now! What's best for the Kingdoms? What's best for the people we rule? We all know what Stannis is; he inspires no love or loyalty. He's not a king... I am.
Stannis is a commander. He's led men into war twice, he destroyed the Greyjoy fleet.
Yes, he's a good soldier, everyone knows that; so was Robert! Tell me something, do you still believe good soldiers make good kings?
I will not dishonour Robert's last hours by shedding blood in his halls and dragging frightened children from their beds.
I command the council to make all necessary arrangements for my coronation. I wish to be crowned within the fortnight. Today I shall accept oaths of fealty from my loyal councilors.
Ser Barristan, I believe no man here could ever question your honour.
[Ser Barristan takes the scroll from Ned]
King Robert's seal. Unbroken. [breaks the seal and unrolls the scroll] "Lord Eddard Stark is herein named Protector of the Realm, to rule as Regent until the heir come of age".
May I see that letter, Ser Barristan? "Protector of the Realm." [to Ned] Is this meant to be your shield, Lord Stark? A piece of paper? [rips the scroll to shreds]
Those were the King's words.
We have a new King now. Lord Eddard, when we last spoke you offered me some counsel. Allow me to return the courtesy. Bend the knee, my Lord. Bend the knee and swear loyalty to my son and we shall allow you to live out your days in the gray waste you call home.
Your son has no claim to the throne.
Liar!
You condemn yourself with your own mouth, Lord Stark. Ser Barristan, seize this traitor.
Ser Barristan is a good man, a loyal man. Do him no harm.
You think he stands alone?
[Gregor Clegane slowly approaches Ned while drawing his sword]
Kill him! Kill all of them, I command it!!
[to Janos] Commander! Take the Queen and her children into custody. Escort them back to the royal apartments and keep them there, under guard.
Men of the Watch!
[The Gold Cloaks all draw their swords]
I want no bloodshed. Tell your men to lay down their swords. No one needs to die.
[beat] Now!
[The Stark men are suddenly slaughtered by the Gold Cloaks. Before Ned can retaliate, Littlefinger approaches him from behind and holds a knife to his throat]
I did warn you not to trust me.
SMSer Meryn Trant
Arya Stark, come with us. Your father wants to see you.
[Arya starts to walk toward Trant, but Syrio stops her]
SFSyrio Forel
And why is it that Lord Eddard is sending Lannister men in place of his own, I wonder?
MTMeryn Trant
Mind your place, dancing master. This is no concern of yours.
My father wouldn't send you. And I don't have to go with you if I don't want.
MTMeryn Trant
Take her.
SFSyrio Forel
Are you men or snakes that you would threaten a child?
LGLannister guard
Get out of my way, little man.
SFSyrio Forel
I am Syrio Forel...
LGLannister guard
Foreign bastard.
[Syrio whacks the Lannister guard on the head with his wooden sword, knocking him out.]
SFSyrio Forel
And you will be speaking to me with more respect.
MTMeryn Trant
Kill the Braavosi! Bring the girl.
SFSyrio Forel
Arya child, we are done with dancing for today. Run to your father.
[Syrio proceeds to effortlessly disable all four Lannister soldiers]
MTMeryn Trant
Bloody oafs!
[[Ser Meryn draws his sword.]
SFSyrio Forel
Begone, Arya.
Come with me, Syrio. Run.
SFSyrio Forel
The First Sword of Braavos does not run.
[Meryn Trant and Syrio fight briefly, then Trant snaps Syrio's sword in half.]
SFSyrio Forel
What do we say to the god of death?
Not today.
[in a cell] Lord Stark, you must be thirsty.
Varys?
I promise you, it isn't poisoned. Why is it no one ever trusts the eunuch? [pulls the stopper out with his teeth, takes a sip and offers it to Eddard, who finally takes it and drinks deeply] Not so much, my Lord, I would save the rest, if I were you. Hide it. Men have been known to die of thirst in these cells.
What of my daughters?
The younger one seems to have escaped the castle. Even my little birds cannot find her.
And Sansa?
Still engaged to Joffrey. Cersei will keep her close. The rest of your household though, all dead, it grieves me to say. I do so hate the sight of blood.
You watched my men being slaughtered, and did nothing.
And would again, my Lord. I was unarmed, unarmored, and surrounded by Lannister swords. When you look at me, do you see a hero? What madness led you to tell the Queen you had learnt the truth about Joffrey's birth?
The madness of mercy. That she might save her children.
Ahh, the children. It's always the innocents who suffer. It wasn't the wine that killed Robert, nor the boar. Oh the wine slowed him down, and the boar ripped him open, yes, but it was your mercy that killed the King. I trust you know you're a dead man, Lord Eddard.
The Queen can't kill me. Cat holds her brother.
The wrong brother, sadly, and lost to her. Your wife has let the Imp slip through her fingers.
If that's true, then slit my throat and be done with it.
Not today, my Lord.
Tell me something, Varys Who do you truly serve?
The Realm, my Lord. Someone must.
Treason? Sansa wrote this?
It is your sister's hand, but the Queen's words. You are summoned to King's Landing to swear fealty to the new king.
Joffrey puts my father in chains, now he wants his ass kissed?
This is a royal command, My Lord. If you should refuse to obey...
I won't refuse. His Grace summons me to King's Landing, I'll go to King's Landing. But not alone. Call the banners.
All of them, My Lord?
They've all sworn to defend my father, have they not?
They have.
Now we see what their words are worth.
Yeah.
[Maester Luwin goes away]
Are you afraid?
[showing his hand trembling for fear] I must be.
Good.
Why is that good?
It means you're not stupid.
SShagga
How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?
In my own bed at the age of 80, with a bellyful of wine and a girl's mouth around my cock!
KDKhal Drogo
Moon of my life, Mago says you have taken his spoils, a daughter of a lamb man who was his to mount. Tell me the truth of this.
Mago speaks the truth, my sun and stars. I have claimed many daughters this day so they cannot be mounted.
KDKhal Drogo
This is the way of war. These women are slaves now to do with as we please.
It pleases me to keep them safe. If your riders would mount them, let them take them for wives.
QQotho
Does the horse mate with the lamb?
The dragon feeds on horse and lamb alike.
MMago
You are a foreigner. You do not command me.
I am Khaleesi. I do command you.
KDKhal Drogo
See how fierce she grows? That is my son inside her, the stallion that will mount the world, filling her with his fire. I will hear no more. Mago, find somewhere else to stick your cock. [Mago spits at Drogo's feet]
MMago
A Khal who takes orders from a foreign whore is no khal at all!
[Drogo's other bloodriders raise their swords at Mago]
KDKhal Drogo
Stop!
[The bloodriders back away as Drogo stands up and drops his sword to the ground as he walks slowly towards Mago]
KDKhal Drogo
I will not have your body burned. I will not give you that honour.
[Mago raises his sword, but Drogo simply presses his chest against the edge, leaving a small wound on his chest]
KDKhal Drogo
The beetles will feed on your eyes. The worms will crawl through your lungs! The rain will fall on your rotting skin, until nothing is left of you but bones!
MMago
First you have to kill me!
KDKhal Drogo
I already have!
[Drogo ducks under the swing, slices open Mago's throat with the reverse edge of his own weapon, and then shoves his hand in the wound, tearing Mago's tongue out from its base]
Cersei is no fool. She knows a tame wolf is more use to her than a dead one.
You want me to serve the woman who murdered my king, who butchered my men, who crippled my son?
I want you to serve the realm! Tell the Queen you will confess your vile treason, tell your son to lay down his sword and proclaim Joffrey as the true heir! Cersei knows you as a man of honour. If you give her the peace she needs, and promise to carry her secret to your grave, I believe she will allow you to take the black and live out your days on the Wall, with your brother and your bastard son.
You think my life is some precious thing to me? That I would trade my honour for a few more years of...of what? You grew up with actors, you learned their craft and you learnt it well. But I grew up with soldiers. I learned how to die a long time ago.
Pity. Such a pity. What of your daughter's life, my lord? Is that a precious thing to you?
[on his new wife] You see that? Fifteen, she is. A little flower, and the honey's all mine.
I'm sure she will give you many sons.
Hah! Your father didn't come to the wedding.
He is quite ill, my Lord.
He didn't come to the last one, either. Or the one before that. Your family's always pissed on me.
My Lord, I...
Don't deny it, you know it's true. The fine Lord Tully would never marry any of his children to mine.
I'm sure there are reasons...
I didn't need reasons. I needed to get rid of sons and daughters. You see how they pile up? Why are you here?
To ask you to open your gates, my Lord. So that my son and his bannermen may cross the Trident and be on their way.
Why should I let him?
If you could climb your own battlements, you would see that he has twenty thousand men outside your walls.
They'll be twenty thousand corpses, when Tywin Lannister gets here. Don't try and frighten me, Lady Stark. Your husband's in a cell beneath the Red Keep, and your son's got no fur to keep his balls warm!
You swore an oath to my father.
Oh, yes, I said some words, but then I swore oaths to the Crown too, if I remember right. Joffrey's' King now, which makes your boy and his corpses-to-be nothing but rebels, it seems to me. If I had the sense the gods gave to a fish, I'd hand you both over to the Lannisters.
Why don't you?
Stark, Tully, Lannister, Baratheon...give me one good reason why I should waste a single thought on any of you.
Lady Stark, I'd offer you my sword, but, I seem to have lost it.
It is not your sword I want. Give me my daughters back, give me my husband.
I've lost them too, I'm afraid.
Kill him, Robb; send his head back to his father. He cut down ten of our men.
He's more use to us alive than dead.
Take him away and put him in irons.
We could end this war right now boy, save thousands of lives. I fight for the Lannisters, you fight for the Starks. Swords, knives, teeth, nails; choose your weapon, and we can end this.
If we did it your way, Kingslayer, you'd win. We're not doing it your way.
JUJon Umber
Come on, pretty man!
I sent 2,000 men to their graves today.
The bards will sing songs of their sacrifice.
Aye, but the dead won't hear them. One victory does not make us conquerers. Did we free my father? Did we free my sisters from the Queen? Did we free the North from those who'd have us on our knees? This war is far from over.
Tell me, did you ever wonder why the men of the Night's Watch take no wives and father no children?
No.
So they will not love. Love is the death of duty. lf the day should ever come when your lord father was forced to choose, between honour on the one hand and those he loves on the other, what would he do?
He...He would do whatever was right. No matter what.
Then Lord Stark is one man in 10,000. Most of us are not so strong. What is honour, compared to a woman's love? And what is duty, against the feel of a newborn son in your arms? Or a brother's smile?
Sam told you?
We're all human. Oh, we all do our duty when there's no cost to it. Honour comes easy then. Yet, sooner or later in every man's life, there comes a day when it is not easy. A day when he must choose.
And this is my day? ls that what you're saying?
Oh, it hurts, boy. Oh, yes. I know.
You do not know. No one knows. I may be a bastard, but he is my father and Robb is my brother!
The gods were cruel when they saw fit to test my vow. They waited until I was old. What could I do when the ravens brought the news from the South? The ruin of my house. The death of my family. I was helpless, blind, frail, but when I heard they had killed my brother's son, and his poor son, and the children. Even the little children!
Who are you?
My father was Maekar, first of his name. My brother Aegon reigned after him, when I had refused the throne, and his son was Aerys whom they called "The Mad King."
You're Aemon Targaryen!
I am a Maester of the Citadel, bound in service to Castle Black and the Night's Watch. I will not tell you to stay or go. You must make that choice yourself and live with it the rest of your days, as I have.
I am Eddard Stark, Lord of Winterfell and Hand of the King. I come before you to confess my treason, in the sight of Gods and men. I betrayed the faith of my King, and the trust of my friend, Robert. I swore to defend and protect his children, but before his blood was cold I plotted to murder his son, and seize the throne for myself. Let the High Septon and Baelor the Blessed bear witness to what I say...Joffrey Baratheon is the one true heir to the Iron Throne. By the grace of all the Gods, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm.
As we sin...so do we suffer. This man has confessed his crimes in sight of Gods and men. The Gods are just! But beloved Baelor taught us they can also be merciful. What is to be done with this traitor, Your Grace?
My mother wishes me to let Lord Eddard join the Night's Watch. Stripped of all titles and powers, he would serve the Realm in permanent exile. And my Lady Sansa... has begged mercy for her father. But they have the soft hearts of women. So long as I am your King, treason shall never go unpunished! Ser Ilyn! Bring me his head!
[Afer Daenerys learns Mirri Maz Duur tricked her into partaking in a blood magic ritual that cost her unborn son his life and brought Drogo back as a catatonic shell]
You knew what I was buying, and you knew the price!
MMMirri Maz Duur
It was wrong of them to burn my temple. It angered the Great Shepherd...
This is not God's work. My child was innocent!
MMMirri Maz Duur
Innocent? He would have been the stallion who mounts the world. Now he will burn no cities, now his Khalasar will trample no nations into dust.
I spoke for you. I saved you!
MMMirri Maz Duur
Saved me? Three of those riders had already raped me before you "saved" me, girl. I saw my God's house burn. There where I had healed men and women, beyond counting. In the streets, I saw piles of heads. The head of a baker, who bakes my bread. A head of a little boy that I cured of fever just three moons past. So, tell me again exactly what it was that you saved?
Your life!
MMMirri Maz Duur
Why don't you take a look at your Khal? Then you will see exactly what life is worth, when all the rest has gone.
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