We finally get to see Rhaenyra and Alicent’s showdown with the dagger.
It opens with a funeral for Laena.

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We see Laenor, Rhaenyra, and her children, and Viserys and Alicent, and their children, gathered to mourn at what appears to be Driftmark.

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Laena finally got to go home. 😢
We hear Corlys saying, “What is this brief mortal life, if not the pursuit of legacy?”
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Then we hear Otto say, “We play an ugly game.”
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We see Rhaenys dropping a ring onto a table.
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It’s hard to tell, but it looks like a ring she was wearing on her index finger earlier in the season.
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Presumably, it has some significance and relates to her feelings about her daughter’s death in some way.Â
We then see Rhaenys’ face, and she understandably looks deeply unhappy.
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We get a shot of our big baby girl Vhagar.
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Then we see Alicent on a ship with Larys lurking in the background — no doubt going to/from Driftmark. We hear someone (Larys?) say, “If you are to be a strong queen, your subjects must fear you.”
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There’s a shot of a very serious-looking Rhaenyra.
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We see fire coming from what looks like Vhagar’s throat as we hear Rhaenyra saying, “Fire is such strange power. Everything that House Targaryen possesses is owed to it.”
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Daemon, Rhaenyra, and Corlys huddle around a blood-spattered Luke.
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Who has hurt the poor baby!
There’s a close-up of a dragon’s eye.
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Then we see Daemon and Laena’s twins watching as someone moves near Vhagar in the darkness outside.
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They wake what appears to be Jace, and tell him, “Someone stole Vhagar”.
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There’s a shot of Vhagar’s huge foot.
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And a blonde (one of the Targaryens?) putting somoone in a chokehold in the Hall of Nine at High Tide.
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HMMM
Laenor looks very angry and fights someone with brown hair.
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Someone wearing a hood (Daemon? He loves hoods!) looks at the docks.
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We hear an upset Alicent say, “There is a debt to be paid.”
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What looks like Corlys and Rhaenys rush into a crowded Hall of Nine — we can see Baela and Rhaena in the center of the room.
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Someone hits Jace.
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HOW DARE THEY.
Then Jace falls to the ground next to someone — probably Luke.
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A bloodied Rhaena and Baela stand together looking scared.
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Whoever is hurting these babies needs to be fed to a dragon.Â
In another sequence, we can see Daemon skulking somewhere.
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Rhaenyra says, “This is the highest of treasons,” as she stands protectively in front of a bloodied Jace, with Corlys in the background.
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Someone is going to PAY.
Cut to: this fucking guy is back.
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And THIS FUCKING GUY is still around. Larys exchanges a glance with Alicent as Otto watches.
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We see Vhagar flying in the night, presumably with whoever has stolen her on her back.
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Alicent grabs Viserys’ dagger.
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THE dagger. She spins and, as we know from later in this trailer and in the original show trailer, she charges towards Rhaenyra and her sons with it.
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We see Otto, in darkness, confronting what appears to be one of his grandsons — it looks like Aegon, but it is possibly Aemond.
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We get another shot of a very serious-looking Rhaenyra.
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And another shot of the blonde attacking this brunette guy in the Hall of NIne.
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Is that Laenor’s lover Qarl Correy getting attacked?
Then we hear Otto say, “I promise you, in time, you and I together will prevail”, accompanied by a close-up of the Hand pin Otto is wearing again.
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Then there’s this shot of Alicent.
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We see Rhaenyra’s hand bleeding — possibly from being cut by Alicent wielding Viserys’ dagger.
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Finally, an emotional Rhaenyra holds back Alicent with the dagger and says, “Now they see you as you are.”
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It’s all happening!
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