BENIOFF: Dany comes from a place where she was
mercilessly abused by her brother
and sold into marriage.
And basically was treated as property even if she wasn't technically a slave.
And is intent on releasing all these men, women, and children from their bonds.
And she's feeling more and more powerful
as she is becoming not just the Mother of Dragons
but the Breaker of Chains.
You know, Daenerys Stormborn, Breaker of Chains,
is part of her honorific that she really likes.
This journey that she's on
has become much more than just simply getting to the Iron Throne.
She has taken on board a moral obligation that she doesn't feel that she can abandon.
She's in Slaver's Bay, and Yunkai is the next stop on.
So there are more slaves, there are more people
that she feels that she needs to free.
Dany realizes that she could probably take Yunkai with her army.
She also realizes that taking Yunkai with her army
is gonna cost her a significant proportion of her army
before she even gets started.
But she feels that she can't walk away from this city
because, as she tells Jorah earlier,
"if there are 200,000 slaves in this city,
"then there are 200,000 reasons to take this city."
And here comes this young, brash, arrogant, but, like, strangely attractive man,
and he says he has a plan to take the city that won't risk half her forces.
It's about using intelligence and strategy
to come up with another way to take Yunkai.
Even though they feel like they can win this battle against Yunkai
with conventional warfare,
she doesn't want to lose half of her Unsullied fighting Yunkai.
WEISS: It's a big gamble on Dany's part.
She doesn't know if once Jorah and Daario and Grey Worm open those gates
and her army does storm into the city,
what kind of a fight the city is gonna put up.
The truth is, as much as she wants to free the slaves,
her overall end goal is to go back to Westeros
and she needs her Unsullied to accomplish that.
And, you know, a siege could last for months
and could lead to thousands of her men dying.
So when Daario says, "I have a way to do it
"where we can just go in and sneak in there and open the gates,
"and the city will fall as soon as the gates are open."
That's immensely appealing to her.
Sure it's a gamble, and sure it means trusting Daario.
But she relies on her instincts and she always has.