The penultimate episode of Season 1 is called the Green Council, because that's who's seized power in the wake of the King's death.

But it's the woman excluded from their secret gatherings ahead of it all, who takes charge.

Allison is in by far the most scenes of any character of this episode, one that combines a number of exceptional one-on-one character interactions with tension and surprises.

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Allison's presence in the intro sequence is notable as well as we get a clean shot of her four children and three grandchildren. That's right, four children and three grandchildren.

One of her sons, Dairon, is an old town with his dragon Tissarion. All three of her grandkids come from the marriage of Aegon to Helena.

We see the twins, Jihari, and Jihara in this episode.

One would guess these twins are destined for marriage, as after today's coronation, they'd be next in line.

But we learned during the episode what many have suspected for a while, Aegon has bastard children out there in King's Landing, and perhaps elsewhere.

So Allison may have a few more grandkids she doesn't know about. She also has spies in her own household, which she does now know about, though apparently there are so many, she doesn't know all their names.

Allison learns this through the tried and true method of trading feet for secrets.

One of those named, as a spy, is Allison's maid Talia. It bears mention that Lord Larys may have tortured the information out of her, or at least threatened to, as well as the information that her employer is the white worm.

Later, we see one of Larys's agents committing another round of arson, like he did at Heron Hall, apparently this time one of the white worms establishments, probably the same place we see her meet with Otto.

A young boy is the first character we see this episode, and we see him leaving Viserys's bedroom, where he goes straight to Talia to tell her that the king is dead.

Talia wakes the queen to inform her, who grieves briefly before telling Talia to keep quiet. In fact, all the castle servants are rounded up and put in cells, which is why Larys had access to them.

But first, Talia places a candelabra with seven candles in the window, clearly a pre-arranged signal to the white worm.

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