‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Episode 4 Recap: Whose Head Is That?

Let’s do some heavy lifting. Because Episode 4 of House of the Dragon Season 3 is absolutely jacked. While Rhaenyra frets over Ormund Hightower’s possible motive in taking Tumbleton, and the cagey, preening, occasionally nude lord of Team Green grooms Alicent’s youngest boy to be a key piece of his big takeover — all real, no gimmicks; it’s Benjamin Evan Ainsworth revealed as the actual Daeron Targaryen — we’ve also got a surly Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) meeting Alys Rivers and pledging guerilla actions, Larys Strong and Aegon II becoming “Tangletongue & Mangleface” (we’re absolutely loving their death-filled, shit-smeared road trip), and Daemon’s visit to the Vale paying off in more ways than one. We’ll get to all of it. But let’s start there, as the brilliant Matt Smith transforms