Mostly the same, but a few major changes. First off, after Jon and Sansa’s first scene at Winterfell, we have an additional scene in King’s Landing. We’re in the streets of Flea Bottom, Lannister men are patrolling, and two younger soldiers converse on the destruction of the Sept of Baelor and whether or not Cersei did it. We’re seeing this from the perspective of a few surviving members of the Faith Militant hiding behind the dilapidated houses of Flea Bottom and from the rooftops. These aren’t disgraced nobles; these are small folk with seemingly nothing to lose. The men on the rooftop are getting something ready, looking absolutely fucking terrified as they do.
Younger soldier: “The small folk hate her, you know. More so than they ever hated Tywin, or even the Imp. And the faith hated her even more. It makes sense…”
*older soldier glares at him, and he bows his head in a mixture of respect and fear*
Older soldier: “Say she blew up the Sept. Not much to show for it, eh? Most of the great houses have abandoned her, and you’re right, the small folk despise her. And she doesn’t even have a damned child to show for it. Her time will come and go, sooner than you realize.”
The members of the Faith Militant on the rooftop reveal their secret weapon; they pour barrels and barrels of boiling water onto the Lannister men, and as some of the men scream in pain, they are ambushed and stabbed to death by the Faith Militant on the ground. The plan, however, goes awry, as some of the Lannister men are not as badly burned, and overpower and disarm the Faith. Before they kill all of the Faith Militant, their commander shouts to them “No. The Queen will want to have words with them.”
We cut to a small shack in Fleabottom, with a mother and her sleeping daughter. The door suddenly bursts open, and Lannister soldiers pour into the shack. The mother and daughter are shocked into consciousness, and they are grabbed by the soldiers and forced outside. Outside the two are shocked at the sight of dead bodies hanging from every building in sight, each one of their heads covered with a bag marked with the seven pointed star. As the mother looks in horror, she then screams as she and her daughter are separated. The Kingsguard drags her down to the dungeons, and she passes Septa Unella’s cell, just barely seeing her shaking, barely breathing body. We see Qyburn, the Mountain, and Cersei’s handmaiden eyeing her. The woman is thrown into a cell and chained to the floor.
She hears a voice in the shadows, “An improvement, wouldn’t you say?” Queen Cersei Lannister emerges from the shadows, smiling at the woman. “Much less crowded than the streets of Flea Bottom, isn’t it?” The woman mutters, “Y-your grace, the Kingsguard they took my daughter, they...” “The Master of Whisperers needs eyes all over Westeros. Your daughter will be most useful. Of course, she’ll put up a fight, won’t she. Very spirited, your little girl. Even our Kingsguard had trouble taking her." She pauses for a second. "Of course she is her father’s daughter.” The woman is confused. “Bring him in.” Cersei says. The door opens, and the guards bring in one of the members of the Faith Militant. The woman looks in shock and horror, recognizing the man as her former lover. “I’ll say this. As long as your daughter cooperates, her mother will live.” The woman tries to hug the Faith Militant person, the guards pry her away as she starts to scream.
Cersei looks at the man. “Oh course, you did attack sworn members of the Queensguard. The men you murdered, they were some of the last remaining Lannisters. Bastards of course, but Lannisters nevertheless. And of course, there must be consequences. Qyburn gags the Faith Militant member. “You’ll be getting quite comfortable with Lord Qyburn. He has a special talent for turning insolent and stupid men into good servants of the Crown.” *camera points to the Mountain. “Mind you, the process will be extremely painful. But by the end of it, you will emerge stronger than ever before. And every thought you have, every semblance of rebellion or retribution, will disappear. Every memory you have of that little girl of yours, every ounce of joy, every smidgen of happiness you have, will cease to exist. You’ll be nothing. You’ll be no one. And you will serve your Queen.” The woman starts screaming. “Oh for fuck’s sake, gag her already.” Cersei’s handmaiden gags the woman.
Cersei turns to the woman. “Listen to your lover. Qyburn needs you alive, or else that daughter of yours won’t be so easy to pacify. So you will live. But you won't sleep very well. The screams of your lover, you'll be getting quite used to them. You’ll hear his pleas for mercy, you’ll hear him beg the gods to kill him already. And you will know that if you or your daughter even think of doing anything resembling treason, the same thing will happen to both of you.” Cersei walks away as the woman is crying and the man is dragged to Qyburn’s lab.
Then we get the scene with her and Jaime. It’s mostly the same, except Cersei also reassures Jaime about the Riverlands, saying the situation is being handled. She also says that she has already ordered an invasion of Highgarden. Jaime points out that if Dany decides to use her dragons, there’s not much they can do. Cersei says, “We do have one advantage. We have the people. Jamie ponders, “The people, what are you talking about?” Cersei says cryptically, “From what I’ve heard, the dragon queen sees herself more as a revolutionary than a monarch. A queen for the people.” Jaime says “What are you saying?” Cersei smiles and says cryptically, “The dragon queen says she loves the smallfolk. Let’s test that, shall we?” We’re cutting out the scene with Euron.
We also get the scene of the Hound and the Brotherhood in the Riverlands, except they find themselves in the middle of a skirmish between a few Lannister soldiers and the smallfolk. The soldiers start cutting down the smallfolk, but the Hound intervenes and kills all of the soldiers. One of them, with a seven pointed star carved into his head, asks the Brotherhood to come with them so their leader, Septa Joanna, can thank them personally. The Hound isn’t too enthusiastic, but the rest of the Brotherhood agree. They meet in a small inn, and are introduced to Septa Joanna, a middle aged, hard looking woman. She buys them drinks, and Hot Pie is there, serving them. After she gives her thanks and blessings to the Brotherhood, the Hound grows impatient. “The fuck are we doing here?” Septa Joanna explains that after the death of the Freys and the rise of Queen Cersei, she organized the faith militant in the Riverlands against the sparse Lannister forces. “So you want to bring the Tullys back into power?”
“No. Lord Edmure, if you can even call him that, surrendered the Riverlands to the Lannisters. We’ve been fighting for months, and he’s done nothing to support us. And he’s still married to that Frey girl.”
“Then who rules?” Thoros asked. The camera pauses, and he starts laughing. “Don’t bloody tell me. You want the Riverlands for yourself.” Joanna smiles. “When I became a septa, I took a vow renouncing all lands and titles. Not that I ever had any to begin with; my mother and I work the fields like most in the hinterlands. Just look at the High Sparrow. A lying cunt to be sure, hiding behind the Seven Pointed Star and disgraced lords to justify his cruelty, but he never wore a crown or held a title. Because that’s not where his power lied. It lied with the Faith, and the smallfolk who followed it. So no, I don’t want the Riverlands. The people will choose a leader for themselves. But the smallfolk here, we’re finished with lords and ladies.” As that sinks in, the Hound sees someone sitting at another table. We see that it’s Arya Stark. He stares at her, relieved and shocked that she’s alive. Arya doesn’t see him.
Dany arrives at Dragonstone just like in the show, except she gives a command for the Dothraki and Unsullied to ready their forces; they invade King’s Landing in a fortnight. Tyrion smiles.
We get a scene of Tyrion facing the dragons, and petting Viserion, and Viserion nudges him affectionately. They’ve developed quite a bond, but Tyrion leaves Viserion when he goes back to eating burned sheep.
We get a scene with a group of small folk praying in the morning; they’re trying to hold onto hope, when they hear funding on their doors telling them to evacuate. The small folk are then herded onto the streets; it’s a huge crowd, all of King’s landing to be exact. There’s fighting, but the Kingsguard is cruel, and herds all of the small folk in King’s Landing into the walls of the Red Keep. There are men and women screaming, begging for answers, children crying, separated from their mothers. When all of the smallfolk have been herded into the Red Keep, the entirety of the Kingsguard and entire battalions of the Lannister armies are blocking the entrances; nothing is coming in, nothing out. As the people are scared, the camera zooms out, and we see that the Red Keep is lined with thousands of spilled caches of wildfire, more than we’ve ever seen before. The episode ends.
Hope y'all like this, Im thinking of rewriting the entire season. Maybe some of y'all can help me with the dialogue. Let me know what you think.
Submitted December 18, 2020 at 12:46AM by drewj3james https://ift.tt/3msWMDh
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