Drogon unleashes his dragonfire, burning Randyll and Dickon alive and reducing them both to flame and ash in seconds, killing them instantly. She resumes her sentencing for them both, as they hold hands. Tyrion proposes to Daenerys about having them committed to the cells for a time instead, but Daenerys, being ruthless but pragmatic, does not wish to grant the reputation of putting traitors in chains, or many would take advantage. Dickon refuses to relent on his decision. Randyll silently nods in agreement to Dickon, indicating his tactic approval to his heir to bend the knee so Dickon may be spared. Tyrion reminds Dickon that he is the future of House Tarly and insists that he submit, reminding him what happened to House Tyrell. Randyll, horrified, tries to silence his son. Randyll replies Daenerys cannot send him to the Wall as she is not his Queen.ĭickon and Randyll prepare to be executed.ĭaenerys signals for three Dothraki men to apprehend him, but Dickon suddenly speaks up insisting he will have to be killed too. Daenerys accepts Randyll's answer, and prepares to carry out a sentence, but Tyrion intervenes with the possibility of sending Randyll, a skilled warrior, to the Wall instead of death. He tells Tyrion that Cersei is at least a true Westerosi, and that Tyrion is a kinslayer, having killed his father, as well as supporting a foreigner, bringing savages to their continent. He observes Randyll's allegiances are "flexible" to which Randyll answers there are no easy choices in war. Tyrion recalls he didn't pledge to Cersei until recently, and that she murdered the rightful Queen, destroying House Tyrell for good. Daenerys summons Randyll forward, where he insists he already has a Queen.
However, Randyll Tarly, his son Dickon, and a handful of men refuse. Only a few kneel at first Drogon, apparently insulted by their refusal to accept his mother's command, bellows at them and most quickly yield. Tyrion looks at her apprehensively upon hearing this. She offers them a choice - bend the knee and join her in her quest to make the world a better place than ever before, or refuse and die. She assures she is not here to murder, but to destroy the wheel of power that rolls over the rich and poor alike, to no one's benefit but people like Cersei Lannister. Daenerys appeals to them, bringing up the rumors spread about her by Queen Cersei, and warnings of brutality that the Dragon Queen would bring - burning down homes, and murdering families. The prisoners of war are being herded by the Dothraki to Daenerys, with Drogon (apparently none the worse from taking a scorpion bolt to the shoulder) perched behind her menacingly and majestically. Meanwhile on the Goldroad, Tyrion Lannister grimly assesses the carnage of the battle, seeing the ashes of wagons, horses and Lannister soldiers. Tyrion and Dany pitch to the lords of the Reach. Bronn thinks it would be safer for him to jump back into the river than deal with Cersei's wrath. Bronn assures that he won't be around for such an assault, as Jaime laments his duty to report what happened to Cersei. Jaime, shellshocked, remarks on the destructive power Drogon alone unleashed, and realizes they are in great peril if Daenerys deploys all three in future battles.
Bronn tells Jaime the only reason he rescued him is that nobody gets to kill Jaime until Bronn gets the reward he's due from the Lannisters. In the aftermath of the Battle of the Goldroad, Ser Bronn pulls Jaime Lannister from the depths of Blackwater Rush, and onto the shore, after Jaime's failed attempt to slay Daenerys Targaryen and end the war.