Your Grace.
 
Grandfather.
 
(And... what's the line?)
"The King shits and the Hand wipes."
You wanted to speak to me!?
Yes...
I'd like a report on the meetings of my small council.
You're welcome to attend the meetings of your small council, Your Grace.
Any or all of them.
I've been very busy.
Many important matters required a King's attention.
Of course.
You've been holding the council meetings
in the Tower of the Hand
instead of the small council chamber...
I have, yes.
May I ask why?
The Tower of the Hand is where I work,
the walk from there to here would take time.
Time I could otherwise spend productively.
So if I wanted to attend the council meetings, I would now have to
climb all the stairs on the Tower of the Hand?
*Tywin climbs the stairs*
*Joffrey nervously leans back*
(Tywin now towers over the King)
We could arrange to have you carried.
Tell me about the Targaryen girl
in the East.
The whore is pregnant!
You're speaking of murdering a child.
I'd warned you this would happen back in the North.
I'd warned you, but you didn't care to hear well.
Hear it now!
I want them dead. Mother and child, both!
And that fool Viserys as well.
Is that plain enough for you?
(Fire cannot kill a dragon.)
And her dragons?
Where did you hear about this?
Is it true?
Apparently so.
Don't you think we ought to do something about it?
When I was Hand of the King on your father's predecessor,
the skulls of all the Targaryen dragons
were kept in this room.
And the skull of the last of them
was right here.
It was the size of an apple.
And the biggest
was the size of a carriage.
Yes.
And the creature to whom it belonged died
300 years ago.
Curiosities on the far side of the world
are no threat to us--
But how do we know these dragons
are just curiosities
and not the beasts
that brought the world to heel.
Because we have been told as much
by the many experts who served the realm
by counseling the King on matters about which he knows nothing.
But I haven't been counseled.
You are being counseled at this very moment.
You'll dishonor yourself forever if you do this.
Honor?
I've got seven kingdoms to rule!
One king, seven kingdoms!
Do you think honor keeps them in line?
Do you think it's honor that's keeping the peace?
It's fear!
Fear and blood!
Then we're not better than the Mad King!
Careful, Ned! Careful now!
You want to assassinate the girl
because the spider had a rumor?
No rumor, my Lord,
the princess is with child.
Based on whose information?
Ser Jorah Mormont.
He's serving as advisor to the Targaryens.
Mormont!
You bring us the whispers of a traitor
half a world away and called it fact?
If my brother was given an army of Dothraki,
could you conquer the Seven Kingdoms?
The Dothraki have never crossed the Narrow Sea.
They fear any water their horses can't drink.
But if they did?
King Robert is
fool enough
to meet them
in an open battle.
But the men advising him are different.
And you know these men?
I've fought beside with them once.
Long ago...
Now, Ned Stark wants my head.
He drove me from my land.
You sold slaves.
Aye.
Why?
I'd no money
and an expensive wife.
And where is she now?
In another place
with another man.
Jorah the Andal.
Are you here to see our Queen?
Hm, she's in a good mood.
Jorah Mormont's a slaver, not a traitor!
Small difference, I know, to an honorable man.
He broke the law. Betrayed his family,
fled our land.
We commit murder on a word of this man?
You don't approve?
It's not a question of approval, it's a question of trust.
Do you neither approve nor trust?
Why would I? The man is a sell-sword.
Didn't you fight for the Golden Company
before pledging your sword to my brother?
I did.
I trust you.
Daario Naharis killed his captains
and dumped their heads at your feet
when he grew tired of their commands.
How could you ever have faith in a man like that?
I could never have faith in a man like Daario.
That's why I sent him and the Second Sons to retake Yunkai.
You have?
I have.
Without you there to rule, Khaleesi,
I feared the masters would simply bind their time,
wait for the invaders to leave and re-assert control.
That is why I've ordered Daario to
execute every master in Yunkai.
The masters tear babies from their mothers' arms.
They mutilate little boys by the thousands.
They train little girls in the art of pleasuring old men.
They treat men like beasts.
As you said yourself.
Herding the masters into pens
and slaughtering them by the thousands
is also treating men like beasts.
The slaves you freed,
brutality is all they've ever known.
If you want them to know something else,
you'll have to show it to them.
And repay the slavers with what? Kindness?
A fine?
A stern warning?
It's tempting to see your enemies as evil,
all of them, but there's good and evil on both sides
in every war ever fought.
Let the priests argue over good and evil.
Slavery is real.
I can end it.
I will end it and I will end those behind it.
I sold men into slavery, Khaleesi.
And now,
you are helping me show them to freedom.
I wouldn't be here to help you if Ned Stark
had done to me what you want to do to the masters of Yunkai.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
