House of the Dragon (TV Series)

Smallfolk (2024)

Matt Smith: Prince Daemon Targaryen

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• Prince Daemon Targaryen : She never even wanted it. The crown. She spared it no thought.

  Alys Rivers : Well, that's perhaps why your brother gave the crown to her. Perhaps those who strive for it are the least suited to wear it.

  Prince Daemon Targaryen : Don't lecture me!

  [pause] 

  Alys Rivers : Viserys never wanted it himself, if you recall. It came to him, and he did his best. It's not a prize to be won, but a burden to bear.

• Alys Rivers : You weren't going to bid me farewell?

  Prince Daemon Targaryen : There's something wrong with me. Someone poisoned me. The food, the wine. Or else it's this swamp air, or...

  Alys Rivers : The ghost of Harren the Black moaning his curses from Kingspyre Tower.

  Prince Daemon Targaryen : Drivel! All of it! The ghosts, the curses, the blasted weirwood bed! I'm done with it!

  Alys Rivers : Ah, yes. It is your way, is it not? When something does not please you, you run. Dragonstone, the Stepstones, Pentos, Harrenhal.

  Prince Daemon Targaryen : I awake and I do not know where I've been.

  Alys Rivers : There are older things in this world than you or I, or living memory. You are not the player, but a piece on the board. As am I, for that matter.

  Prince Daemon Targaryen : I am not like you.

  Alys Rivers : In some ways, no. You struggle to see there's an anger that blinds you.