Game of Thrones (TV Series)

The Laws of Gods and Men (2014)

Charles Dance: Tywin 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] 

• Jaime Lannister : You condemned your own son to death.

  Tywin Lannister : I condemned no one. The trial is not over.

  Jaime Lannister : This isn't a trial, it's a farce. Cersei has manipulated everything and you know it.

  Tywin Lannister : I know nothing of the sort.

  Jaime Lannister : You always hated Tyrion.

  Tywin Lannister : He killed his king!

  Jaime Lannister : As did I! Do you know the last order the 'Mad King' gave me? It was to bring him your head. I saved your life so you could murder my brother?

  Tywin Lannister : It won't be murder it will be justice.

  Jaime Lannister : Justice?

  Tywin Lannister : I am performing my sworn duty as Hand of the King. If Tyrion is found guilty, he will be punished accordingly.

  Jaime Lannister : He will be executed.

  Tywin Lannister : No! He'll be punished accordingly!

  Jaime Lannister : Once you said family is what lives on. All that lives on. You told me about a dynasty that would last 1,000 years. What happens to your dynasty when Tyrion dies? I'm a Kingsguard, forbidden by oath to carry on the family line.

  Tywin Lannister : I'm well aware of your oath.

  Jaime Lannister : What happens to your name? Who carries the lion banner into future battles? Your nephews? Lancel Lannister? Others whose names I don't even remember?

  Tywin Lannister : What happens to my dynasty if I spare the life of my grandson's killer?

  Jaime Lannister : It survives, through me. I'll leave the Kingsguard, I'll take my place as your son and heir, if you let Tyrion live.

  Tywin Lannister : [immediately responds]  Done!

  [Jaime looks shocked as if he had made a grave mistake] 

  Tywin Lannister : When the testimony's concluded and the guilty verdict rendered, Tyrion will be given the chance to speak. He'll plead for mercy. I'll allow him to join the Night's Watch. In three days time he'll depart for Castle Black and live out his days at the wall. You'll remove your white cloak immediately. You'll leave King's Landing to pursue your rightful place at Casterly Rock. You'll marry a suitable woman and father children name Lannister and you'll never turn your back on your family again.

  Jaime Lannister : You have my word.

  Tywin Lannister : And you have mine.

  [Jaime turns and leaves the room] 

• 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]