- While Alicent enlists Cole and Aemond to track down Aegon, Otto gathers the great houses of Westeros to affirm their allegiance.
- After attributing the king's last words-The song of Ice and Fire to be applicable to his son Aegon II, the queen Alicent plots a heavy political drama in Kings Landing to crown her first-born son. Amidst all the obstacles, the hand, the queen and their allies successfully names Aegon II to be the next king.
- After Viserys' death, Ser Otto and the Small Council plot to crown Prince Aegon. Ser Criston kills Lord Beesbury, who opposed the scheme. Kingsguard Lord Commander Harrold Westerling resigns in protest. Otto keeps Viserys's death a secret to fortify the council's position, then coerces the noble houses to switch their allegiance to Aegon. Those resisting are imprisoned or hanged. Otto and Alicent discuss on whether to kill or exile Rhaenyra and separately rush to find and influence the missing Prince Aegon: Otto sends Kingsguard brothers Ser Erryk and Ser Arryk Cargyll, while Alicent tasks Criston and Prince Aemond. The Cargylls find Aegon first, but Criston and Aemond forcibly take him. Lord Larys tells Alicent that spies, including lady-in-waiting, Talya, are within the Red Keep. Alicent approves eliminating the head spy. Alicent persuades a resistant Aegon to claim his birthright. King's Landing citizens are herded into the Dragonpit to witness Aegon's coronation. Princess Rhaenys, refusing to support Aegon's claim, is held captive. Erryk frees her and she enters the Dragonpit caverns. Astride her dragon Meleys, she violently breaches the grand hall underneath the oblivious civilians, causing mayhem and deaths; Meleys roars at the onlooking royals before Rhaenys flees King's Landing on dragonback.
- After Viserys' death, Ser Otto gets most of the Small Council to plot to crown Prince Aegon on Alicent's claim the king revoked Rhaenyra's right. After Ser Criston kills Lord Beesbury for opposed the scheme, Kingsguard Lord Commander Harrold Westerling resigns in protest. Before making thee royal death public, hand Otto coerces the noble houses to switch their allegiance to Aegon or be imprisoned or hanged. Alicent resents Otto's plan to kill Rhaenyra, preferring or exile. Otto sends Kingsguard brothers Ser Erryk and Ser Arryk Cargyll to find and influence the missing Prince Aegon, while Alicent tasks Criston and Prince Aemond. The Cargylls find depraved Aegon first, in a brothel fight pit, but Criston and Aemond forcibly take him. Lord Larys tells Alicent about spies all over the Red Keeps, including lady-in-waiting Talya. Alicent approves killing the head spy and persuades reluctant Aegon to claim his birthright. King's Landing citizens are herded into the Dragonpit to witness his coronation. Princess Rhaenys, locked up for refusing to support Aegon's claim, is freed by Erryk and enters the Dragonpit caverns riding her dragon Meleys to violently breach the grand hall, causing mayhem, deaths and threatening the royals, but flees King's Landing.—KGF Vissers
- Queen Alicent tells her father, Ser Otto Hightower, the Hand of the King, that King Viserys' dying wish (which she misinterpreted) was that their son, Prince Aegon, succeed him rather than his daughter and chosen heir, Princess Rhaenyra. Otto delays publicly announcing the king's death and convenes a Small Council meeting. Alicent, Ser Harrold Westerling, and Lord Lyman Beesbury are stunned that Otto and other council members have secretly plotted to crown Aegon as king. When Beesbury protests usurping Rhaenyra, Ser Criston Cole kills him. Alicent refuses to allow Rhaenyra's murder to secure the throne. Harrold resigns as the Kingsguard's Lord Commander after defying Otto's command to assassinate Rhaenyra and her family. Criston later replaces Harrold. Meanwhile, Talya, Queen Alicent's lady-in-waiting, lights a candelabra in a window to secretly signal the king's death to Mysaria.
Otto and Alicent separately race to find and influence Aegon, who has fled the Red Keep. Otto sends Kingsguard brothers Ser Erryk and Ser Arryk Cargyll to search the city, while Criston and Prince Aemond assist Alicent, though Aemond wants to rule. In Flea Bottom, the Cargyll twins check a fighting arena Aegon frequents, where children, including Aegon's own bastard offspring, are forced into mortal combat as entertainment. An intermediary approaches the Cargylls, saying that Mysaria has Aegon and offers for Otto to meet with her. Mysaria, revealing she knows Viserys is dead, barters with Otto to end the child fighting pits in exchange for Aegon's location. The Cargylls find Aegon, but Criston and Aemond seize him by defeating Arryk, while Erryk withdraws to retrieve the Crown of Jaehaerys. With Aegon in her control, Alicent mandates that Rhaenyra and Daemon will be spared and exiled if they bend the knee.
Otto coerces nobles into swearing fealty to Aegon; those resisting are imprisoned or hanged to warn anyone wishing to support Rhaenyra. Lord Larys Strong informs Alicent about the spy network within the Red Keep that includes Talya, and that Otto uses it for personal gain. Alicent allows Larys to eliminate the network's leader and shortly after, Mysaria's house is burned. Princess Rhaenys Targaryen refuses to support Aegon as king and remains a captive. Ser Erryk, aligning with Rhaenys, frees her.
At Aegon's coronation in the Dragonpit, Otto announces Viserys' death and Aegon is crowned king by Cole before the city's cheering citizens. Rhaenys, separated from Erryk in the throng, enters the Dragonpit's lower caverns. Riding her dragon Meleys, Rhaenys breaches the hall from below, causing mayhem and casualties. The cowering royal usurpers expect to be burned alive, but Rhaenys spares them and flees on dragonback to Dragonstone.
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