Game of Thrones (TV Series)

A Golden Crown (2011)

Mark Addy: Robert Baratheon

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• Cersei Lannister : I took you for a King!

  Robert Baratheon : Hold your tongue!

  Cersei Lannister : [contemptuously]  He attacked one of my brothers and abducted the other. I should wear the armor, and you the gown.

  [Robert slaps Cersei, leaving a red mark] 

  Cersei Lannister : I shall wear this like a badge of honor.

  Robert Baratheon : Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again!

• [Robert, Renly, Ser Barristan Selmy and Lancel are on hunting trip. Robert and Renly are armed with boar spears. Lancel carries a wineskin] 

  Lancel Lannister : More wine, your Grace?

  [Robert takes the wineskin and drinks deeply. Then he hands it back to Lancel] 

  Robert Baratheon : What was I saying?

  Renly Baratheon : Simpler time.

  Robert Baratheon : It was! It was. You're too young to remember. Wasn't it simpler, Selmy?

  Renly Baratheon : It was, Your Grace.

  Robert Baratheon : The enemy was right in the open, vicious as you like, all but sending you a bloody invitation. Nothing like today.

  Renly Baratheon : It sounds exhilarating.

  Robert Baratheon : Exhilarating, yes. Not as exhilarating as those balls and masquerades you like to throw.

  [Robert chuckles] 

  Robert Baratheon : You ever fuck a Riverlands girl?

  Renly Baratheon : Once. I think.

  Robert Baratheon : You think? I think you'd remember. Back in our day, you weren't a real man until you'd fucked one girl from each of the Seven Kingdoms and the Riverlands. We used to call it "making the eight".

  Renly Baratheon : [dryly]  Those were some lucky girls.

  Robert Baratheon : You ever make the eight, Barristan?

  Barristan Selmy : I don't believe so, Your Grace.

  Robert Baratheon : [chuckles]  Those were the days.

  [Renly stops and glares at his elder brother] 

  Renly Baratheon : [angrily]  Which days, exactly? The ones where half of Westeros fought the other half and millions died? Or before that, when the Mad King slaughtered women and babies because the voices in his head told him they deserved it? Or way before that, when dragons burned whole cities to the ground?

  Robert Baratheon : [threateningly]  Easy, boy. You might be my brother, but you're speaking to the King.

  Renly Baratheon : [disgustedly]  I suppose it was all rather heroic... if you were drunk enough and had some poor Riverlands whore to shove your prick inside and "make the eight".

  [Renly storms away] 

  Lancel Lannister : More wine, Your Grace?

  [again, Robert takes the wineskin and drinks deeply. Barristan Selmy looks at him concerned. Robert hands the wineskin back to Lancel and continues walking. Lancel and Selmy follow him] 

• [Robert visits Ned, who is lying in bed] 

  Robert Baratheon : We'll talk later, when I return from the hunt.

  [Robert tosses the Hand of the King's badge to Ned] 

  Eddard 'Ned' Stark : The hunt?

  Robert Baratheon : Killing things clears my head. You'll have to sit on the throne while I'm away.

  [Robert chuckles] 

  Robert Baratheon : You'll hate it more than I do.

  [Robert gets up and opens the door] 

  Eddard 'Ned' Stark : The Targaryen girl...

  Robert Baratheon : [irritated]  Seven Hells, don't start with her again! The girl will die and I'll hear no more of it. Put on the badge. And if you ever take it off again, I swear to the mother I'll pin the damned thing on Jaime Lannister!

• Robert Baratheon : [to Ned]  I never loved my brothers. A sad thing for a man to admit, but it's true. You were the brother I chose.