Game of Thrones (TV Series)

Breaker of Chains (2014)

Charles Dance: Tywin Lannister

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• Oberyn Martell : I'm sorry about your grandson.

  Tywin Lannister : Are you?

  Oberyn Martell : I don't believe that a child is responsible for the sins of his father... or his grandfather. An awful way to die.

  Tywin Lannister : Which way is that?

  Oberyn Martell : Are you interrogating me, Lord Tywin?

  Tywin Lannister : Some believe the king choked.

  Oberyn Martell : Some believe the sky is blue because we live inside the eye of a blue-eyed giant. The king was poisoned.

  Tywin Lannister : I hear you studied poisons at the Citadel.

  Oberyn Martell : I did. This is why I know.

  Tywin Lannister : Your hatred for my family is rather well-known. You arrive at the capital, an expert in poisoning. Some days later, my grandson dies of poisoning.

  Oberyn Martell : Rather suspicious. Why haven't you thrown me in a dungeon?

  Tywin Lannister : You spoke with Tyrion in this very brothel on the day that you arrived. What did you discuss?

  Oberyn Martell : You think we conspired together?

  Tywin Lannister : What did you discuss?

  Oberyn Martell : The death of my sister.

  Tywin Lannister : For which you blame me.

  Oberyn Martell : She was raped and murdered by the Mountain. The Mountain follows your orders. Of course I blame you.

  Tywin Lannister : Here I stand, unarmed, unguarded... should I be concerned?

  Oberyn Martell : You are unarmed and unguarded because you know me better than that. I am a man of reason. If I cut your throat today, I will be drawn and quartered tomorrow.

  Tywin Lannister : Men at war commit all kinds of crimes without their superiors' knowledge.

  Oberyn Martell : So you deny involvement in Elia's murder?

  [pause] 

  Tywin Lannister : Categorically.

• Oberyn Martell : I never realized you had such respect for Dorne, Lord Tywin.

  Tywin Lannister : We are not the Seven Kingdoms until Dorne returns to the fold. The King is dead. The Greyjoys are in open rebellion. A wildling army marches on the Wall. And in the east, the Targaryan girl has three dragons. Before long, she will turn her eyes to Westeros. Only the Dornish managed to resist Aegon Targaryan and his dragons.

  Oberyn Martell : You're saying you need us? That must be hard for you to admit.

  Tywin Lannister : We need each other.