A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Rhaenyra: We watched the tourney together, you and I, the day my brother was born. We knew, even then, that men trained up for battle are eager to fight, to seek blood and glory. But you are ... I know you do not have that desire within you. Rhaenys has counseled me. She said she saw in you a wish to avert the worst of what may now come.

Alicent: So, you've come to surrender then?

Rhaenyra: I have come to see if we may uncover some path towards peace. My dragons are restless. They smell battle. But if you and I may come to terms...

Alicent: There are no terms now. You have no army, your allies turn from you when they hear of your depravity, your hands are bloodied in a crime I could never have imagined you...

Rhaenyra: The trespass was not mine. Think what you will. I am a mother, too, and you have yet to answer for the murder of my son.

Alicent: I repudiate that act with all my heart.

Rhaenyra: Of course, you do. And the usurping of my rightful inheritance? Have you now stooped so low that you will countenance the suffering and death of thousands in order that your feckless son...

Alicent: Your father changed his mind.

Rhaenyra: Oh, so you say. And so your father has proclaimed to the realm. I saw the king that night. Mere hours before I left him, he had affirmed my right to the throne. A right he upheld steadfastly every day of his life after my mother died. And yet, you will maintain that his mind was changed in an instant?

Alicent: I will.

Rhaenyra: You lie.

Alicent: No, Rhaenyra.

Rhaenyra: My father loved me, Alicent, and I believe he loved you, too. Did you betray him at the very last? When was your plan first laid? Was your ambition so keen...

Alicent: He changed his mind, Rhaenyra! He changed his mind. I swear this to you on the memory of my mother. I have been, at times, unkind, but never untrue. I pronounced before all gathered in that room that you would make a fine queen. Do you think me capable of such naked deceit?