Game of Thrones (TV Series)

Kissed by Fire (2013)

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: Jaime Lannister

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• [at Harrenhal, Brienne is washing herself in a bath tub. Jaime and a servant enter] 

  Jaime Lannister : Not so hard. You'll scrub the skin off.

  Brienne of Tarth : [sullenly]  What are you doing here?

  Jaime Lannister : I need a bath. Help me out of these rags.

  [the servant helps Jaime take off his clothes] 

  Jaime Lannister : Now get out.

  [the servant leaves. Jaime finishes taking off his clothes and approaches the same tub where Brienne is] 

  Brienne of Tarth : There's another tub!

  Jaime Lannister : This one suits me fine.

  [Jaime enters the tub. Brienne does not look at him] 

  Jaime Lannister : Don't worry. I'm not interested.

  [Jaime sighs in relief] 

  Jaime Lannister : If I faint, pull me out. I don't intend to be the first Lannister to die in a bath tub.

  Brienne of Tarth : Why should I care how you die?

  Jaime Lannister : You swore a solemn vow, remember? You are supposed to get me to King's Landing in one piece. Not going so well, is it? No wonder Renly died with you guarding him.

  [Brienne jumps on her feet furiously, looking at Jaime offended. Jaime looks at her naked body, then lowers his head] 

  Jaime Lannister : That was unworthy. Forgive me. You protected me better than most...

  Brienne of Tarth : [quietly]  Don't you mock me.

  Jaime Lannister : I'm apologizing. I'm sick of fighting. Let's call a truce.

  Brienne of Tarth : You need trust to have a truce.

  Jaime Lannister : I trust you.

  [Brienne sits back, looking at Jaime loathingly] 

  Jaime Lannister : There it is. There's the look. I've seen it for seventeen years on face after face. You all despise me. Kingslayer. Oathbreaker. A man without honor. You've heard of wildfire?

  Brienne of Tarth : Of course.

  [Jaime tells Brienne what has happened in that fateful day he killed Aerys. Brienne listens intently] 

  Jaime Lannister : The Mad King was obsessed with it. He loved to watch people burn, the way their skin blackened and blistered and melted off their bones. He burned lords he didn't like. He burned Hands who disobeyed him. He burned anyone who was against him. Before long, half the country was against him. Aerys saw traitors everywhere. So he had his pyromancer place caches of wildfire all over the city. Beneath the Sept of Baelor and the slums of Flea Bottom. Under houses, stables, taverns. Even beneath the Red Keep itself. Finally, the day of reckoning came. Robert Baratheon marched on the capital after his victory at the Trident. But my father arrived first with the whole Lannister army at his back, promising to defend the city against the rebels. I knew my father better than that. He's never been one to pick the losing side. I told the Mad King as much. I urged him to surrender peacefully. But the king didn't listen to me. He didn't listen to Varys who tried to warn him. But he did listen to Grand Maester Pycelle, that grey sunken cunt. "You can trust the Lannisters," he said "The Lannisters have always been true friends of the crown". So we opened the gates and my father sacked the city. Once again, I came to the king, begging him to surrender. He told me to bring him my father's head. Then he turned to his pyromancer. "Burn them all," he said "Burn them in their homes. Burn them in their beds". Tell me, if your precious Renly commanded you to kill your own father and stand by while thousands of men, women, and children burned alive, would you have done it? Would you have kept your oath then?

  [Brienne does not answer. Jaime continues his story] 

  Jaime Lannister : First, I killed the pyromancer. And then, when the king turned to flee, I drove my sword into his back. "Burn them all," he kept saying "Burn them all". I don't think he expected to die. He... he meant to... burn with the rest of us and rise again, reborn as a dragon to turn his enemies to ash. I slit his throat to make sure that didn't happen. That's where Ned Stark found me.

  Brienne of Tarth : If this is true... why didn't you tell anyone? Why didn't you tell Lord Stark?

  Jaime Lannister : [bitterly]  Stark? You think the *honorable* Ned Stark wanted to hear my side? He judged me guilty the moment he set eyes on me. By what right does the wolf judge the lion?

  [Jaime starts to stand] 

  Jaime Lannister : [furiously]  By what right?

  [Jaime, too weak to stand on his feet, stumbles and falls into the water. Brienne manages to catch him before he drowns] 

  Brienne of Tarth : [shouts]  Guards! The Kingslayer!

  Jaime Lannister : [whispers painfully]  Jaime... my name is Jaime.

• [Qyburn offers Jaime an opiate prior to treating his gangrenous stump] 

  Jaime Lannister : No milk of the poppy.

  Qyburn : There will be pain.

  Jaime Lannister : I'll scream.

  Qyburn : A great deal of pain.

  Jaime Lannister : I'll scream loudly.

• [Jaime and Brienne are brought before Roose Bolton] 

  Jaime Lannister : Lord Bolton... is there word from the capital?

  Roose Bolton : You haven't heard? Stannis Baratheon laid siege to King's Landing, sailed into Blackwater Bay, stormed the gates with thousands of men. And your sister...

  [Roose pauses intentionally, wearing a sad expression. He toys with Jaime. Jaime looks at him anxiously, fearing to hear bad news about Cersei] 

  Roose Bolton : How can I put this?

  [Roose pauses again, to increase Jaime's anxiety] 

  Roose Bolton : Your sister...

  [Roose willfully pauses for the third time, to extend Jaime's emotional agony. Jaime can hardly bear it anymore] 

  Roose Bolton : ...is alive and well. Your father's forces prevailed.

  [overwhelmed with relief and delirium, Jaime slumps on his knees]