"The Greens are coming for you, Rhaenyra, and for your children."
After continuing the long-standing Game of Thrones tradition of featuring elderly bad-ass women who you don't want to mess with, Eve Best's Rhaenys Targaryen has flown to the true heir to the Iron Throne, Emma D'Arcy's Rhaenyra Targaryen, to side with her in the upcoming war. Afterward, we're treated to a minute-look montage of the Blacks preparing to lay waste to the Red Keep as Matt Smith's Daemon sings to the third-largest dragon in all of Westeros.
Last week's episode, The Green Council, focused primarily on the Greens as Olivia Cooke's Alicent Hightower and Rhys Ifans's Otto Hightower, make moves to replace Paddy Considine's Viserys I Targaryen following his death in Episode 8. A "misunderstanding" of her late husband's dying wish gives the queen consort confidence to seat their son, Tom Glynn-Carney's Aegon II Targaryen, on the Iron Throne. Now, the lines have been drawn with Rhaenys and Meleys sending a resounding message after the rider-dragon tandem crashed the coronation party in brutal fashion.
For the finale of House of the Dragon, Rhaenyra and Daemon, as well as the rest of the Blacks, will all return after learning of the travesty that just occurred in King's Landing over the past week.