#3465 House of the Dragon S03E05 Part Two: Out With The Gold, In With The New

**Ben Mandelker** (0:34)
Well, hello, and welcome to Watch What Crappens. This is part two of a two-part recap. If you're like, hey, wait a minute, I didn't hear part one. Guys, it's because we put out a lot of recaps. Go back and listen to part one, okay? It's before this one.
Bye, enjoy the show.

**Ronnie Karam** (0:52)
So then, the horses suddenly like, ah, because they stepped on like...

**Ben Mandelker** (0:58)
I can watch the humans get decapitated, get their legs blown off, be, you know, murder each other, whatever. But when they hurt the dragons or the animals in any way, I get so upset. And this was the same thing. The horses are like squealing and falling over.
I don't like it.

**Ronnie Karam** (1:16)
Cause they were stepped on spikes. They put the spikes, crow's feet. So Criston has to like kill them.

**Ben Mandelker** (1:21)
Even back then, they're fighting against crow's feet. Like they're the worst thing in the world, you know? We age.

**Ronnie Karam** (1:28)
So back at King's Landing, Allicent's hanging around. I think she's sitting, she got like a warm, warm water bottle on her stomach. She's like, my fucking daughter, I had to take her on.
And then she's like staring. She has her, she takes off her pendant. It's a religious pendant. It's a beautiful pendant. And she's staring at it and she's hatching a plan. And then we see Sir Luther and Damon and they're walking around. And Damon's like, by the way, your hand was heavier. Like, why did you go so crazy over that graffiti? And there's like, well, I was better schooled in those manners. Was I not? Don't you remember? You are my teacher, sir.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:06)
I learned it by watching you.

**Ronnie Karam** (2:08)
But anyway, I can't stop.

**Ben Mandelker** (2:09)
I got a terrible point by Sir Luther, you know? It's like Mark Furman going back to the police and being like, guys, it's a little harsh. That was a little harsh there.
So he's like, well, the queen wanted it stopped. He's like, well, the queen is upset. Then she needs to be excused her impulses. He's like, oh really? So now you want me to argue with the queen? Give me a break. You trained me to beat the shit out of people. I beat the shit out of people. What do you want from me? Then guess what? Sir Luther is mad because no one's getting paid.
If you don't pay us in money, we're going to pay ourselves in beating up poor people.

**Ronnie Karam** (2:47)
But Damon's like, don't worry, I'm going to give an amazing speech and it's going to be great.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:52)
But then suddenly there's like, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, look over here, look, look, look.

**Ronnie Karam** (2:57)
They go over and there are two Gold Cloaks that have been disemboweled, and their intestines are just draped all over them.
I mean, it's one thing to kill them, but I mean, this is a bit much, I think. Like, just, it's too much.

**Ben Mandelker** (3:13)
It's also just like gross for the town. I mean, I would assume that these are kind of hired local murderers, right? Or at least people letting you get away with it. But like, now your pub smells like poop and so many horrible things, you know? You guys should, if you're going to let people get killed in your town, you should make sure it's like, I don't know, poisoning, something easier. It's not so smelly.

**Ronnie Karam** (3:37)
And again, I still don't understand how these Gold Cloaks were trained or are just getting murdered over and over again. So yeah, it's not great. Meanwhile, there's a child who's watching this. And then she just goes and runs and she goes to this guy.
This guy who we saw, he was the guy who wanted when Ray Ray came to town on her dragon, he wanted to kill the dragon.
Or actually, I think it was like Allicent told him to stand down, whatever. He was definitely very grumbly and unhappy about Ray Ray coming in. And so he turned away. But it turns out he's leading this little uprising. And so this child comes and the guy's like, okay, send the raven to Ormond that we're doing the thing.

**Ben Mandelker** (4:28)
Yeah, so then guess what? Ormond gets his letter, his very long fortune cookie letter.
The people who write the letters in this town all have such consistently good handwriting. Like I can barely write a sentence anymore in handwriting. It looks terrible. It's all blocky and horrible. Looks like I'm writing like with my left hand. They're so good in this town and they write so tinily, so tinily.