This post contains a frank discussion of Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 6, “Blood of my Blood.” If you won’t wish to be spoiled, leave now.

As it often likes to do, Game of Thrones capped this week’s episode with a big dragon-heavy moment for Daenerys Targaryen. It’s a scene similar to ones we’ve seen from here before; she’s mustering some troops while projecting from her diaphragm in a foreign language. (Usually, it’s Valyrian.) But there’s a big difference in this scene and it may lay the groundwork for Daenerys being the antagonist of the final two seasons of Game of Thrones.

Before, when we’ve seen Daenerys address a huge crowd, she’s done so with a very sympathetic message. Sure, as Daario points out, she’s a conqueror. But she’s done so in the name of freedom. She’s been freeing the enslaved of Astapor, Yunkai, and Meereen while toppling their rulers. But in this week’s episode, it’s all about what Daenerys wants. She doesn’t even promise her new blood riders a better life, she just promises to work them harder than any khalasar has ever been worked.

Even Daario, her #1 piece of arm candy, looks concerned.

Here, Daenerys calls back to the promise Khal Drogo made her back in Season 1. But even in that scene, the motivation for Daenerys is more sympathetic. She’s concerned with protecting her unborn son from the wrath of Robert Baratheon. When Khal Drogo makes his speech, he promises the Westeros to their child, Rhaego. “I will give him the iron chair that his mother’s father sat upon,” Drogo says. “I will give him the Seven Kingdoms.” Somehow wrapping a baby into the speech makes the threat of a bloody coup more endearing.

Daenerys’s speech is nearly identical to Drogo’s. They both talk about “riding wooden horses across the black salt sea,” “killing men in iron suits” and “tearing down stone houses.” And while Daenerys leaves out the part where Drogo promises to rape the women of Westeros and enslave their children, you better believe her new blood riders will do exactly that. Dany may have a dragon, but there’s no way she can control that many Dothraki from doing what they do. She’s about to unleash a raping, murderous horde on Westeros and while they might kill some unsympathetic Boltons and Freys, there’s nothing stopping the khalasar from having its way with the likes of Sansa, Jon, Brienne, and Davos.

But this Dothraki callback wasn’t the only dangerous Dany clue in the episode. During Bran’s rapid-fire flashback, he had a vision of the Mad King Aerys.

In the books (and to a lesser degree in the show) Dany constantly fears she’ll become like her father. But doesn’t that vision look awfully familiar?

The “Mad Queen Daenerys” is a long-standing theory among book readers, but for the first time the show laying the khaleesi’s bloodthirsty qualities on thick without the protective shield of altruism. She will take what is hers, she promises Daario and, like many Targaryens before her, she’ll do it with fire and blood. All she needs are 1,000 ships. Hmmmm, good thing the Greyjoys are working on just that thing.