Just totally playing devil's advocate just for fun - but the money could be to put her mind at ease, so she would feel more comfortable drinking the tea and that everything would be okay. (But I feel that if that was the case, they would have done a little more to reinforce it - like hearing a body drop).will25u said:
Why give her a bag of coin if it was to kill her?
Hush money, and get her to leave Kings Landing.
But yeah, most definitely just Plan T. And Brian - yeah, that was weird, but I agree with you that it was probably just comforting her daughter and sorry that she got cheated on again or just that she has to be married to this schmuck.
I did think Alicent was starting to give off being Cersei vibes with the "sweetling" talk etc. My wife turned to me and said "she gone" when Alicent did that.