She blows right past him and through the doors without a word. Instead of returning the way she came, Rhaenyra walks right up to the entrance to her bedroom where Ser Cole is very surprised to see her. This kid has a very precious secret he can sell to someone. A little boy sitting in the hallway (they let kids in this place?) watches Rhaenyra run up some stairs and follows. “Daemon?” she calls, just in case any of the dozens of extras in the room didn’t recognize the two of them. Rhaenyra is left to put her clothes back on and follow. He hits the walls with his hands and leaves. But as she tries more aggressively to kiss him, he starts backing away. Rhaenyra puts her hands on Daemon she’s kissing him back as he starts to take off her clothes. Daemon explains that there’s pleasure for women as well as men - and they, oh no, they are kissing, Daemon and Rhaenyra, right there in the room with about 50 people as witnesses. Especially if what they want is lots of nudity on an HBO budget. Daemon says it’s where people go to take what they want. For her part, Rhaenyra doesn’t act shocked or embarrassed she’s curious and watchful. They walk past groups of pasty people either touching each other or looking drugged out on the floor as moans echo on the walls and past the gauzy curtains obscuring some of the action. Any pretense that they won’t be recognized has been completely abandoned. They exit with Viserys and his gloved hand on his brother’s back, the pinkie and ring fingers of the glove hanging loosely in case anyone hasn’t figured out that those digits are gone.īack at the catacombs, Daemon removes Rhaenyra’s head coverings and his own hood so that their silver locks are on full display. But of course, given Daemon’s success on the battlefield and the sentiment of his message to his brother, it only makes sense that Viserys instead welcomes Daemon home with a hand on the shoulder and a one-armed bro hug. Viserys approaches Daemon as if he’s angry and takes the crown. But where’s Corlys? Daemon says that he went back home and that even though there’s nobody protecting the Stepstones, the 2,000 dead bodies left behind are warning enough. Viserys looks around wondering if he’s being punk’d. He kneels, calling Viserys “Your grace” and offers his crown and the Stepstones. It’s narrow, see? Daemon says he understands there’s only one true king. Daemon explains that when they won the war for the Stepstones he was dubbed King of the Narrow Sea. Viserys notices that Daemon is wearing a crown that looks like it’s made of bone or crabs, or maybe both. “Add it to the chair,” he says, and drops it on the floor. Swords are drawn as Daemon approaches the king Daemon walks right up to the pointy end of one sword, unperturbed. Daemon, still armored, is carrying his own weapons, along with the Crab Keeper’s hammer, the one used to nail people to posts. The gathering is to welcome back Daemon Targaryen, Crab Feeder slayer. Rhaenyra, wearing an ornate robe over her red dress, tries to sneak in with the crowd but is noticed immediately by King Viserys. In the Iron Throne room, the king’s knights and lots of others are assembling. Regardless, this is still more civilized than “The Bachelorette.” Maybe he’s not the worst suitor choice after all. Just as they’re leaving, the boy rips open his tormentor’s gut with his sword. Rhaenyra, annoyed, wants Cole to get them a ship she’s cutting her courtship tour two months short, which the king won’t like. Fight! Rhaenyra and Cole take this cue to cut the proposals short and make their exit. The princess laughs along and dismisses the boy, who upon being taunted one more time draws his sword. Some Adam DeVine-looking guy in the audience taunts the kid, calling him a very bad word and telling the boy that the princess already has protection: a dragon. But he’s super earnest, promising to protect Rhaenyra. Next is a boy of maybe 10 years old from House Blackwood. The man is older than her father, a king who is losing fingers and falling apart with every passing week. Rhaenyra, wearing a bright red dress, asks the man about her great-grandmother and makes a joke about how old he is. An audience watches as Rhaenyra sits on a platform with Ser Criston Cole standing next to her. The older man in robes is talking so much that he needs a drink of water to continue. She’s on a marriage tour, and it’s not going well. It turns out there’s a line of potential suitors each making his case for the hand of the princess. The episode opens on some extreme close-ups of Rhaenyra, including her touching the Valyrian Steel necklace Daemon gave her and her eyes trying to stay alert as someone drones on in the background.
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