A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Alicent: None of this is a game.

Otto: And yet, you treat it as one. A charming contest, the prize a pouch of silver. We have relied on one another these many years and now, it is the good of the family we both desire. Whatever our differences, our hearts remain as one.

Alicent: Our hearts were never one, I see that now. Rather, I have been a piece you moved about the board.

Otto: If that is true, then I made you Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Would you have desired it otherwise?

Alicent: How could I have known? I wanted whatever you impressed upon me to want, and now the debt comes due. A debt you were happy enough to pay.

Otto: A sacrifice. A sacrifice made for the stability of the realm. No King has ever lived who has not had to forfeit the lives of a few to protect the many! Though I understand your squeamishness...

Alicent: Reluctance to murder is not a weakness! I have Aegon. We will proceed now as I see fit. We will send terms to Rhaenyra on Dragonstone. True terms that she may accept without shame.

Otto: If she lives, her allies will mass behind her banners, looking for her return.

Alicent: Then she must not return. My husband would have desired this mercy be shown to his daughter.

Otto: Your husband? Or you, his daughter's childhood companion?

Alicent: Criston Cole will be named Lord Commander of the Kingsguard. My son will be anointed tomorrow at dawn. The whole of King's Landing must witness his ascent. He will assume authority, there will be no more dithering. My son will take the crown of his namesake, the Conqueror, and carry Blackfyre, his sword. Let the people remember the ancient strength of House Targaryen.

Otto: You look so much like your mother in certain lights.