Emilia Clarke

Clarke appears in episode two of season one, The Kingsroad as Daenerys Targaryen alongside Iain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont, Harry Lloyd as Viserys Targaryen and Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo. Ser Jorah reveals that he is in exile for the crime of selling slaves in Westeros, and counsels Daenerys that her role as khaleesi, or queen of the Dothraki horde, will become easier. At the advice of serving girl Doreah, played by Roxanne McKee, she begins to assert herself sexually with Khal Drogo.

Clarke appears as Daenerys Targaryen in A Golden Crown, the sixth episode of season one, with Harry Lloyd as her brother Viserys, Jason Momoa as the horselord Khal Drogo, and Iain Glen as her counseler, the Westerosi knight Ser Jorah Mormont. In Vaes Dothrak, Daenerys places one of her dragon eggs into the brazier to see if it will be affected by fire. Despite the heat, she is unaffected when she holds the stone egg, although a serving girl is burned when she touches it. She is summoned by the wise women of the Dothraki dosh khaleen and is made to eat a stallion’s heart to prove her strength as mother to the heir of the khal. Viserys attempts to steal Daenerys’s most valuable wedding gift in order to raise an army of mercenaries, but is stopped by Ser Jorah. Viserys then threatens Daenerys and her unborn child and breaks Dothraki law by drawing a blade within Vaes Dothrak. He is punished by Khal Drogo with an agonizing death.

Clarke appears as Daenerys Targaryen in The Pointy End, the eighth episode of the first season, alongside Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo and Iain Glen as the Westerosi knight Ser Jorah Mormont. After vowing to conquer the Iron Throne of Westeros, Khal Drogo leads the Dothraki horde west through Essos towards the Narrow Sea crossing. The khalasar raid villages to take slaves to sell to finance the war. Despite the advice of Ser Jorah, Daenerys orders them to stop raping the women they have captured, and takes the women into her service to protect them, angering the Dothraki warriors. Khal Drogo fights a duel to the death with a warrior who insults Daenerys and although he is victorious, he suffers a deep wound. Daenerys insists that a female healer from the captured village be allowed to treat the injury, although Khal Drogo’s Dothraki bloodriders protest that she is a witch.

Clarke’s character Daenerys Targaryen appears in Baelor, the ninth episode of season one, alongside Jason Momoa as her husband, Khal Dothraki horselord Drogo, and Iain Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont, the Westerosi knight. Daenerys grows concerned that a wound Khal Drogo sustained fighting for her honour is growing infected. When Khal Drogo falls from his horse, a sign of weakness among the Dothraki, she insists that he be treated by a healer woman captured from a village by the Dothraki. Ser Jorah warns her to leave, as if Khal Drogo dies the new leader of the Dothraki will kill her unborn son as his heir. The healer promises to save Drogo but says she must take a life in return. She leads his stallion into his tent and begins to sacrifice it, angering the Dothraki and forcing Ser Jorah to kill a warrior who threatens Daenerys. Daenerys begins to go into labour, but none of the Dothraki midwives will help her as they believe she is cursed.

Clarke’s character Daenerys Targaryen appears in The Night Lands, the second episode of season two, with Iain Glen as her counseler, the Westerosi knight Ser Jorah Mormont. Daenerys and her khalasar are trapped in the Red Waste of the continent of Essos with dwindling water when the horse of one of Daenerys’s Dothraki bloodriders returns riderless. Ser Jorah deduces that he has been killed by a rival horde as he sought to find refuge for their group.

Clarke’s character Daenerys Targaryen appears in The Ghost of Harrenhal, the fifth episode of the second season. In the city of Qarth on the continent of Essos, Daenerys has taught her dragons to breathe fire on her command. Daenerys’s counseler Ser Jorah Mormont, played by Iain Glen, is warned by a masked woman named Quaithe, played by Laura Pradelska, that she needs protection from people who desire her dragons. Xaro Xhoan Daxos, the nobleman hosting Daenerys and her party, says he will fund her invasion of Westeros if she agrees to marry him. Ser Jorah warns her against accepting aid and says she can conquer Westeros with a single ship.

Clarke appears as Daenerys Targaryen in A Man Without Honor, the seventh episode of the second season, with Iaian Glen as her advisor Ser Jorah Mormont, Nonso Anozie as the merchant Xaro Xhoan Daxos and Ian Hanmore as the warlock Pyat Pree. Daenerys orders Ser Jorah to find her missing dragons, and Ser Jorah questions the masked woman Qauithe, Laura Pradelska, who says Daenerys is already with the person who has taken them. Xaro Xhoan Daxos and Pyat Pree betray and murder the councilmembers of Qarth and proclaim Xaro king of the city. Pyat Pree tells Daenerys to find her dragons in his stronghold, the Tower of the Undying.

Clarke appears as Daenerys Targaryen in the first episode of the third season, Valar Dohaeris. Daenerys’s dragons continue to grow and are able to sear and eat fish that they catch on a sea journey, but they are not yet developed enough to assault the continent of Westeros. Daenerys’s party arrives at Astapor in Slaver’s Bay on the continent of Essos to assess the city’s Unsullied warrior eunuchs. She is told that there are eight thousand of them for sale and that she has a day to decide whether she can purchase them. While considering her decision, she survives an apparent assassination attempt by the Warlocks of the city of Qarth.

Clarke appears as Daenerys Targaryen in the fourth episode of season three, And Now His Watch is Ended. In the city of Astapor on the continent of Essos, Daenerys completes her transaction to buy an army of Unsullied warrior eunuchs in exchange for a dragon. She then kills their former slaveowner and orders the army to overthrow the city in a violent slave revolt.