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Pretty much everything in this episode except Larys sneaking Aegon out of King's Landing was invented for the TV series:
- Aemond never burns down Sharp Point in the book.
- Otto, not Tyland, negotiated with the Triarchy in the book. The scenes with Lohar never happen in the book, with either Tyland or Otto.
- Rhaena never claims Sheepstealer in the book.
- Corlys never renames his ship Sea Snake to The Queen Who Never Was in the book.
- Alfred never tries to convince Daemon to coup Rhaenyra in the book. Alys never leads Daemon to a weirwood tree in the book. Daemon never has a vision of Daenerys or white walkers or Helaena in the book. Since Daemon isn't considering couping Rhaenyra in the book, she never has to go check up on him.
- Aemond never threatens Helaena to try to get her to come to battle with him in the book. Aemond didn't try to kill Aegon in the book, so there's never any conversation about that either.
- Since Criston never slept with Alicent in the book, Gwayne never confronts Criston about it.
- Otto is not a prisoner outside King's Landing in the book.
- Rhaenyra never has any moral qualms or hesitation in unleashing dragons or burning armies or settlements in the book. In the book, she is all BURN, BURN, BURN!
- Alicent never secretly meets with Rhaenyra or betrays the Greens in the book.
By this time in the book, we've had bloody battle after bloody battle instead of this absurd (in the TV show, these bases have no security, apparently) repeated sneaking into each other's bases to try to make peace.
