Game of Thrones (TV Series)

The Laws of Gods and Men (2014)

Peter Dinklage: Tyrion Lannister

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• [last lines] 

  Tyrion Lannister : Father, I wish to confess. I wish to confess!

  Tywin Lannister : You wish to confess?

  Tyrion Lannister : [to the crowd]  I saved you. I saved this city. All your worthless lives. I should have let Stannis kill you all.

  [crowd becomes outraged] 

  Tywin Lannister : Tyrion, do you wish to confess?

  Tyrion Lannister : Yes, father. I'm guilty. Guilty. Is that what you want to hear?

  Tywin Lannister : You admit you poisoned the king?

  Tyrion Lannister : No. Of that, I'm innocent. I'm guilty of a far more monstrous crime. I'm guilty of being a dwarf.

  Tywin Lannister : You are not on trial for being a dwarf.

  Tyrion Lannister : Oh, yes I am. I've been on trial for that my entire life.

  Tywin Lannister : Have you nothing to say in your defense?

  Tyrion Lannister : Nothing but this: I did not do it.

  [to Cersei] 

  Tyrion Lannister : I did not kill Joffrey, but I wish that I had! Watching your vicious bastard die gave me more relief than a thousand lying whores!

  [to the crowd] 

  Tyrion Lannister : I wish I was the monster you think I am! I wish I had enough poison for the whole pack of you! I would gladly give my life to watch you all swallow it!

  [crowd outbursts again] 

  Tywin Lannister : Ser Meryn! Ser Meryn, escort the prisoner back to his cell!

  Tyrion Lannister : I will not give my life for Joffery's murder and I know I'll get no justice here, so I will let the gods decide my fate. I demand a trial by combat.

  [the crowd is shocked] 

• Tyrion Lannister : Not going well, is it?

  Jaime Lannister : You're going to be found guilty.

  Tyrion Lannister : Oh! You think so?

  Jaime Lannister : When you are, you need to enter a formal plea for mercy and asked to be sent to the Wall. Father's agreed to it. He'll spare your life and allow you to join the Night's Watch.

  Tyrion Lannister : Ned Stark was promised the same thing, and we both know how that turned out.

  Jaime Lannister : My father isn't Joffrey. He'll keep his word.

  Tyrion Lannister : How do you know?

  Jaime Lannister : Do you trust me?

  [Tyrion nods mildly] 

  Jaime Lannister : Keep your mouth shut, no more outbursts. This will all be over soon.

• Tywin Lannister : State your name.

  Shae : Shae.

  Tywin Lannister : Do you swear by all the Gods that your testimony will be true and honest?

  Shae : I swear it.

  Tywin Lannister : Do you know this man?

  Shae : Yes. Tyrion Lannister.

  Tywin Lannister : How do you know him?

  Shae : I was handmaiden to his wife Lady Sansa.

  Tywin Lannister : This man stands accused of murdering King Joffrey. What do you know of this?

  Shae : I know that he's guilty.

  [crowd gasps] 

  Shae : He and Sansa planned it together.

  [crowd murmurs] 

  Tywin Lannister : Silence! Continue.

  Shae : She wanted revenge for her father, her mother, her brother. She blamed their deaths on the King. Tyrion was happy to help. He hated Joffrey. He hated the Queen. He hated you, my Lord.

  [crowd exclaims] 

  Shae : He stole poison from the Grand Maester' s chamber to put in Joffrey's wine.

  Oberyn Martell : How could you possibly know all this? Why would he reveal such plans to his wife's maid?

  Shae : I wasn't just her maid. I was his whore.

  [crowd murmurs] 

  Mace Tyrell : I beg your pardon? You were his...?

  Shae : His whore.

  Tywin Lannister : How did you come to be in his service?

  Tywin Lannister : Silence! Silence!

  [laughing stops] 

  Oberyn Martell : He stole me. I was with another man. A knight in your Lordship's army. But when Tyrion arrived at the camp, he sent one of his cutthroats into our tent. He broke the knights arm and brought me to Lord Tyrion. "You belong to me now," he said. "I want you to fuck me like it's my last night in this world."

  [crowd roars with laughter] 

  Oberyn Martell : And did you?

  Shae : Did I what?

  Oberyn Martell : Fuck him like it was his last night in this world?

  Shae : I did everything he wanted. Whatever he told me to do to him. Whatever he felt like doing to me. I kissed him where he wanted. I licked him where he wanted. I let him... . put himself where he wanted. I was his property. I would wait in his chambers for hours so he could use me when he was bored. He ordered me to call him "my lion," so I did. I took his face in my hands and said "I am yours and you are mine."

  [crowd murmurs] 

  Tyrion Lannister : [painful tone]  Shae...

  Tyrion Lannister : [shakes his head]  Please don't.

  Shae : I am a whore. Remember?

  Shae : [addressing the court again]  That was before he met Sansa. After that, all he wanted was her. But she wouldn't let him into her bed. So he promised to kill King Joffrey for her.

  [crowd clamors]