1 00:00:00,187 --> 00:00:02,022 Previously on The Borgias... 2 00:00:02,089 --> 00:00:03,990 Giovanni Sforza. 3 00:00:04,058 --> 00:00:06,793 And my cousin, Catherina Sforza. 4 00:00:06,861 --> 00:00:08,825 You would have a taste of vengeance. 5 00:00:08,893 --> 00:00:10,697 Giovanni Sforza- he proved ungallant? 6 00:00:10,765 --> 00:00:12,450 He betrayed our father, the pope. 7 00:00:12,551 --> 00:00:13,796 If he misused you, 8 00:00:13,863 --> 00:00:15,332 he shall pay a different kind of price. 9 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,934 You think the blood of the Borgia pope could cure us? 10 00:00:18,001 --> 00:00:20,034 We could bathe in it together, Majesty. 11 00:00:20,102 --> 00:00:21,908 Catherina Sforza rides with the French. 12 00:00:21,976 --> 00:00:23,212 She has the arms she needed 13 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:25,214 and has retired to her castle at Forli. 14 00:00:25,315 --> 00:00:26,515 And we forgive her? 15 00:00:26,584 --> 00:00:28,455 Priorities can change, Cardinal Borgia. 16 00:00:28,522 --> 00:00:31,728 The French have laid waste to the papal states. 17 00:00:31,795 --> 00:00:35,031 Our proposal is that the armies combine- 18 00:00:35,099 --> 00:00:37,132 to rid us of this French plague. 19 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,335 You think we can defeat the French? 20 00:00:39,403 --> 00:00:40,801 We can strike them at night. 21 00:00:40,869 --> 00:00:42,937 They move like smoke in the darkness. 22 00:00:44,239 --> 00:00:45,872 [men screaming] 23 00:00:45,940 --> 00:00:47,841 Do you have anything to confess about this past night? 24 00:00:47,908 --> 00:00:51,311 My night was as satisfactory as I'm sure was yours. 25 00:00:52,413 --> 00:00:54,580 I would beg your permission to investigate 26 00:00:54,648 --> 00:00:56,785 the office of public works even further. 27 00:00:56,853 --> 00:00:58,521 Found more irregularities? 28 00:00:58,588 --> 00:01:01,057 There are so many in this Vatican of yours. 29 00:01:01,125 --> 00:01:03,360 You are? Nicolo Machiavelli. 30 00:01:03,427 --> 00:01:05,295 Ambassador to the House of Medici. 31 00:01:05,363 --> 00:01:07,532 The Medici family are bankers to the world. 32 00:01:07,633 --> 00:01:08,966 To the Vatican itself. 33 00:01:09,034 --> 00:01:11,736 Father Savonarola calls it usury. 34 00:01:11,803 --> 00:01:15,640 This pope is a lecherous abomination! 35 00:01:15,708 --> 00:01:18,411 Florence, you will pay for your greed- 36 00:01:18,479 --> 00:01:21,983 when he drags you to perdition! 37 00:01:22,051 --> 00:01:24,519 Savonarola prophesied the end of days- 38 00:01:24,621 --> 00:01:26,256 not the murder of the pope. 39 00:01:26,324 --> 00:01:29,359 If I had his approval, would I have yours? 40 00:01:36,921 --> 00:01:40,921 ♪ The Borgias 2x05 ♪ The Choice Original Air Date on May 6, 2012 41 00:01:40,946 --> 00:01:44,946 == sync, corrected by elderman == 42 00:01:44,947 --> 00:03:01,010 [♪] 43 00:03:02,198 --> 00:03:03,691 [choir singing] 44 00:03:03,692 --> 00:03:10,649 Libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum de poenis inferni, 45 00:03:11,185 --> 00:03:13,320 et de profundo lacu. 46 00:03:20,690 --> 00:03:23,358 Libera eas de ore leonis... 47 00:03:23,954 --> 00:03:28,423 [prayer continues throughout] 48 00:03:28,491 --> 00:03:34,496 [clanging of coins throughout] 49 00:03:44,308 --> 00:03:47,210 It is ingenious, when you think of it. 50 00:03:47,311 --> 00:03:49,646 St. Peter's? The Church. 51 00:03:49,714 --> 00:03:53,684 Like an enormous bank machine. 52 00:03:53,752 --> 00:03:57,955 The faithful pay to maintain it in its magnificent splendor. 53 00:03:58,056 --> 00:04:01,593 This theatre of redemption. 54 00:04:01,661 --> 00:04:03,094 The greater the display, 55 00:04:03,162 --> 00:04:06,231 the more they gather from all corners of Christendom. 56 00:04:06,299 --> 00:04:08,734 The more they pay. 57 00:04:08,802 --> 00:04:13,005 Can the College of Cardinals be made to see the light? 58 00:04:13,073 --> 00:04:15,141 They each have their secrets. 59 00:04:15,208 --> 00:04:16,876 If we can find them. 60 00:04:18,879 --> 00:04:21,280 The French munitions were destroyed 61 00:04:21,348 --> 00:04:23,482 by some brave Roman souls. 62 00:04:23,550 --> 00:04:25,918 Were you one of them? 63 00:04:25,986 --> 00:04:30,122 I dress in red satin, Father, not in armour. 64 00:04:30,223 --> 00:04:34,326 So you are a cardinal still, hmm? 65 00:04:34,428 --> 00:04:38,297 Though sometimes in disguise. 66 00:04:38,365 --> 00:04:41,701 Dare we say it, like us. 67 00:04:42,603 --> 00:04:44,637 So, now we got rid of one enemy, 68 00:04:44,705 --> 00:04:46,772 it's now time to deal with another. 69 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:48,374 Friar Savonarola? 70 00:04:48,442 --> 00:04:50,876 Your cousin, Catherina Sforza! 71 00:04:50,944 --> 00:04:52,645 Oh, so it continues. 72 00:04:52,712 --> 00:04:55,247 She has retired to her castle in Forli 73 00:04:55,348 --> 00:04:57,449 with an abundance of French cannon. 74 00:04:57,517 --> 00:05:00,052 Well, then I can defend her no longer, Your Holiness. 75 00:05:00,153 --> 00:05:03,489 We would have her come to Rome 76 00:05:03,557 --> 00:05:05,959 and kneel at our feet 77 00:05:06,027 --> 00:05:10,831 and have those beauteous lips kiss the papal ring. 78 00:05:10,898 --> 00:05:12,532 Let me be the messenger, Father. 79 00:05:12,633 --> 00:05:13,700 You? 80 00:05:13,768 --> 00:05:15,769 You care so little for your hide? 81 00:05:15,836 --> 00:05:18,504 I care more for my father's well-being. 82 00:05:18,605 --> 00:05:19,939 Oh. 83 00:05:20,006 --> 00:05:22,174 So while we make the acquaintance of Florence, 84 00:05:22,242 --> 00:05:25,810 Cardinal Borgia will journey to Forli. 85 00:05:25,878 --> 00:05:31,081 And you tell that lady that if she does not obey us, 86 00:05:31,149 --> 00:05:33,650 we will reduce her fortress to dust 87 00:05:33,718 --> 00:05:36,887 and drag her in chains through the streets of Rome. 88 00:05:36,988 --> 00:05:39,356 The choice is hers! 89 00:05:39,457 --> 00:05:40,891 To Florence - 90 00:05:40,959 --> 00:05:43,060 and its heretic, Savonarola! 91 00:05:50,366 --> 00:05:53,535 [sound of urination] 92 00:05:55,939 --> 00:05:58,808 Do you know anyone in Forli? 93 00:06:03,381 --> 00:06:05,182 I know everyone in Forli, Your Eminence. 94 00:06:05,283 --> 00:06:07,451 How? 95 00:06:07,519 --> 00:06:09,620 I was born there. 96 00:06:11,189 --> 00:06:12,824 [chuckles] 97 00:06:12,891 --> 00:06:16,360 I can't imagine you being born, Micheletto. 98 00:06:16,428 --> 00:06:18,796 Or dying, for that matter. 99 00:06:18,864 --> 00:06:21,599 But you must show us your ancestral home. 100 00:06:28,507 --> 00:06:32,444 [bell tolling] 101 00:06:33,479 --> 00:06:35,746 I preach against Rome, 102 00:06:35,847 --> 00:06:37,582 [booing] 103 00:06:37,649 --> 00:06:42,653 I preach against the sale of indulgences! 104 00:06:42,754 --> 00:06:44,755 [booing] 105 00:06:44,822 --> 00:06:49,693 I preach against the display and pomp 106 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,629 of the lords of the Church! 107 00:06:52,697 --> 00:06:57,467 Of their gold and jewellery! 108 00:06:57,534 --> 00:07:02,572 And who pays, who pays for such decadence? 109 00:07:02,673 --> 00:07:04,007 You! 110 00:07:04,074 --> 00:07:06,075 [booing] The faithful. 111 00:07:06,143 --> 00:07:09,545 Where does your charity end up? 112 00:07:09,613 --> 00:07:12,182 In the Medici bank, in Florence... 113 00:07:12,283 --> 00:07:14,518 [booing] 114 00:07:14,586 --> 00:07:23,094 ...where it multiplies like maggots through usury. 115 00:07:23,195 --> 00:07:24,796 So the root of- 116 00:07:24,863 --> 00:07:26,464 You should leave, Holy Father. 117 00:07:26,565 --> 00:07:29,201 No, we would hear more. 118 00:07:29,302 --> 00:07:30,936 The friar is eloquent. 119 00:07:31,037 --> 00:07:32,939 And dangerous. 120 00:07:33,006 --> 00:07:34,240 If we are discovered, 121 00:07:34,308 --> 00:07:36,642 they will tear you limb from limb. 122 00:07:36,709 --> 00:07:39,311 Know your enemy, Cardinal. 123 00:07:39,379 --> 00:07:42,548 Know him better than your friend. 124 00:07:42,615 --> 00:07:46,085 ...with the sword of righteousness! 125 00:07:48,621 --> 00:07:51,490 Did Adam need gold coin? 126 00:07:51,558 --> 00:07:54,459 Did Eve need diamond and pearl? 127 00:07:54,527 --> 00:07:57,195 We must drive the Medici bank from Florence 128 00:07:57,263 --> 00:08:00,231 or burn it to the ground. 129 00:08:00,299 --> 00:08:02,266 Pray with me. 130 00:08:02,334 --> 00:08:06,670 Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. 131 00:08:06,737 --> 00:08:08,938 Benedicta tu in mulieribus, 132 00:08:09,006 --> 00:08:13,642 et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. 133 00:08:13,710 --> 00:08:16,145 Fuck the bloody Pope in Rome, 134 00:08:16,246 --> 00:08:18,214 my bambino has come home. 135 00:08:18,315 --> 00:08:19,782 Mama no. 136 00:08:19,850 --> 00:08:21,417 The Pope of Rome can wipe his ass. 137 00:08:21,485 --> 00:08:23,786 I've got my baby back at last. 138 00:08:23,854 --> 00:08:26,222 She can go on like this for hours, Your Eminence. 139 00:08:26,290 --> 00:08:28,892 Eminence? 140 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:30,394 [whispers] Is he eminent? 141 00:08:30,462 --> 00:08:33,030 In my own small world. 142 00:08:33,097 --> 00:08:35,066 He is your dottore, is he not? 143 00:08:35,167 --> 00:08:36,233 His dottore? 144 00:08:36,334 --> 00:08:37,501 If you are my son's dottore, 145 00:08:37,569 --> 00:08:40,872 I must surely bring out my best wine. 146 00:08:40,973 --> 00:08:42,874 You have a name, dottore? 147 00:08:42,975 --> 00:08:46,044 Cesare. 148 00:08:46,145 --> 00:08:48,780 And you have read many books? 149 00:08:48,848 --> 00:08:50,048 Books? 150 00:08:50,149 --> 00:08:51,683 What kind of dottore are you? 151 00:08:51,751 --> 00:08:54,853 My son studies medicine, he has to read the books. 152 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,756 His dottore helps him read the books. 153 00:08:58,824 --> 00:09:00,225 Ah. 154 00:09:00,292 --> 00:09:03,061 But it takes so long, this student business. 155 00:09:03,128 --> 00:09:05,629 Indeed. It takes forever. 156 00:09:05,697 --> 00:09:09,299 He has to learn to wield the scalpel. 157 00:09:09,367 --> 00:09:10,767 The knife. 158 00:09:10,835 --> 00:09:12,335 To cut up the cadaver? 159 00:09:12,403 --> 00:09:14,405 To find out where the spleen resides. 160 00:09:14,472 --> 00:09:16,807 The liver. The heart. 161 00:09:16,875 --> 00:09:18,342 He is a good student? 162 00:09:18,444 --> 00:09:20,078 The best. 163 00:09:20,146 --> 00:09:22,147 And he has but one ambition. 164 00:09:22,215 --> 00:09:23,849 Ambition? 165 00:09:25,285 --> 00:09:27,987 To look after his mama when she's old. 166 00:09:28,088 --> 00:09:29,789 He told you that? 167 00:09:29,890 --> 00:09:31,257 He tells me daily. 168 00:09:31,325 --> 00:09:33,360 When he wields the scalpel. 169 00:09:33,461 --> 00:09:35,963 What does he say? 170 00:09:36,031 --> 00:09:37,364 For Mama! 171 00:09:37,432 --> 00:09:39,700 No! This one's for Mama! 172 00:09:39,768 --> 00:09:42,637 The next one's for Mama. It's always for Mama. 173 00:09:42,738 --> 00:09:45,273 Ah, my boy. 174 00:09:45,374 --> 00:09:49,178 My sweet, dear blessed boy. 175 00:09:50,780 --> 00:09:53,982 Look at those hands, dottore. 176 00:09:54,050 --> 00:09:56,351 The hands of a healer, no? 177 00:09:56,419 --> 00:09:58,186 A maestro. 178 00:09:58,254 --> 00:10:01,689 My dottore maestro. 179 00:10:01,757 --> 00:10:02,958 Augustino! 180 00:10:03,025 --> 00:10:04,625 He's back, Augustino. 181 00:10:04,726 --> 00:10:08,696 Our Micheletto has returned. 182 00:10:08,764 --> 00:10:10,898 Augustino's getting married. 183 00:10:10,965 --> 00:10:13,066 You remember Violetta, from the baker's shop? 184 00:10:13,134 --> 00:10:14,801 Yes. With the... 185 00:10:14,902 --> 00:10:16,136 Lazy eye. 186 00:10:16,204 --> 00:10:17,738 Augustino's not looking at the lazy eye. 187 00:10:17,805 --> 00:10:19,806 No. Her hips, more like it. 188 00:10:19,874 --> 00:10:21,007 Big hips, yes? 189 00:10:21,075 --> 00:10:22,576 Big childbearing hips. 190 00:10:22,643 --> 00:10:24,544 And on that happy note, fair lady, 191 00:10:24,612 --> 00:10:26,246 I must leave you. 192 00:10:26,314 --> 00:10:28,082 You won't stay the night? 193 00:10:28,149 --> 00:10:31,085 I have business in Forli. 194 00:10:31,153 --> 00:10:34,088 Dottore business. 195 00:10:34,189 --> 00:10:37,725 Yes, as have you. 196 00:10:40,196 --> 00:10:41,996 Mama... 197 00:10:47,637 --> 00:10:49,805 We must go heal the sick... yes? 198 00:10:49,873 --> 00:10:52,275 But before you leave, you come back? 199 00:10:52,343 --> 00:10:55,011 For your Mama's bean stew? 200 00:10:55,079 --> 00:10:56,279 He would not miss it, Mama. 201 00:10:56,380 --> 00:10:58,647 Not for the world. 202 00:11:08,457 --> 00:11:11,759 So, dottore, shall we heal the sick? 203 00:11:11,827 --> 00:11:13,661 You must forgive my mother her fantasies, Your Eminence. 204 00:11:13,728 --> 00:11:17,198 [chuckling] Has she many more of them? 205 00:11:17,266 --> 00:11:20,167 She believes her husband died reaping corn in a field. 206 00:11:20,235 --> 00:11:22,302 Your father? And he didn't? 207 00:11:22,370 --> 00:11:25,972 No, I killed him. 208 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,575 Was there a reason? Many. 209 00:11:32,412 --> 00:11:35,047 Friar. 210 00:11:35,148 --> 00:11:38,383 Are you the cleric in red? 211 00:11:38,451 --> 00:11:40,552 I find the robes of your order 212 00:11:40,620 --> 00:11:44,656 suit me better at this pitiful juncture. 213 00:11:44,757 --> 00:11:47,492 Have you taken our vows? 214 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:49,860 I can no longer serve the Pope of Rome. 215 00:11:49,928 --> 00:11:54,932 Ah, yes, I heard of your plans for his deposition. 216 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,770 Your plans failed miserably. 217 00:11:58,838 --> 00:12:00,405 Indeed. 218 00:12:00,506 --> 00:12:02,574 I must confess to failure. 219 00:12:02,641 --> 00:12:04,743 Oh, so have you come here to make 220 00:12:04,811 --> 00:12:07,046 a confession of your failure? 221 00:12:07,147 --> 00:12:08,314 No. 222 00:12:08,382 --> 00:12:09,883 I am here to propose 223 00:12:09,950 --> 00:12:13,320 a solution to the sickness in our Holy Mother Church. 224 00:12:13,421 --> 00:12:16,857 A solution? 225 00:12:16,958 --> 00:12:20,193 We must remove him. 226 00:12:20,261 --> 00:12:21,395 From the chair of St. Peter's? 227 00:12:21,462 --> 00:12:23,363 From the chair of St. Peter's. 228 00:12:23,431 --> 00:12:25,132 But you tried that already. 229 00:12:25,199 --> 00:12:26,966 From the chair of St. Peter's... 230 00:12:27,034 --> 00:12:29,035 ...and from this world. 231 00:12:31,238 --> 00:12:34,407 I shared a vision with you once. 232 00:12:34,475 --> 00:12:37,777 Of the bloated figure of the Borgia pope, 233 00:12:37,845 --> 00:12:43,050 lying blackened with sickness on the floor of St. Peter's. 234 00:12:43,151 --> 00:12:45,786 No one dared approach it. 235 00:12:45,854 --> 00:12:50,492 Are you saying you're the one to bring this to pass? 236 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,228 Only if I have your blessing, Friar. 237 00:12:53,296 --> 00:12:55,297 And the blessing of your order. 238 00:12:55,364 --> 00:12:57,498 You have the blessing of the Lord. 239 00:12:57,566 --> 00:13:00,501 For he shall bring it to pass. 240 00:13:00,569 --> 00:13:03,404 And if my vision was a true one, 241 00:13:03,472 --> 00:13:05,606 you will have my blessing. 242 00:13:05,674 --> 00:13:10,611 And the blessing of the Lord Himself. 243 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:13,614 Be the sword of the apocalypse, 244 00:13:13,681 --> 00:13:16,616 the sword of righteousness. 245 00:13:16,684 --> 00:13:22,356 Ride out like death, on a pale horse. 246 00:13:35,237 --> 00:13:40,507 [church bells ringing] 247 00:14:02,365 --> 00:14:03,532 Your Holiness. 248 00:14:03,633 --> 00:14:05,501 Signore Machiavelli. 249 00:14:05,569 --> 00:14:07,770 Had we been graced with news of your arrival, 250 00:14:07,838 --> 00:14:09,872 we could have done justice to your presence. 251 00:14:09,940 --> 00:14:13,577 We cannot always travel in public splendor. 252 00:14:13,644 --> 00:14:18,114 A pope must learn the problems of his subjects. 253 00:14:18,182 --> 00:14:21,750 And your humble subject, Piero de Medici awaits. 254 00:14:21,851 --> 00:14:23,619 Oh, good. 255 00:14:41,670 --> 00:14:44,171 Cannon. French cannon. 256 00:14:44,239 --> 00:14:46,007 Too many of them. 257 00:14:46,108 --> 00:14:48,743 [guards calling out] 258 00:14:48,844 --> 00:14:50,077 Would we be safer 259 00:14:50,145 --> 00:14:52,246 in your mother's humble abode, Micheletto? 260 00:14:52,314 --> 00:14:55,550 You will always be safe, whenever I am near, Eminence. 261 00:14:55,651 --> 00:14:58,554 This Sforza family are not to be trusted. 262 00:15:01,592 --> 00:15:04,093 Stay close and keep the horses saddled. 263 00:15:06,531 --> 00:15:10,268 My son, Benito, longs for a soldier's career. 264 00:15:10,336 --> 00:15:13,004 Hm. It has much to recommend it. 265 00:15:13,072 --> 00:15:14,873 You bear arms yourself, Signore Borgia? 266 00:15:14,941 --> 00:15:17,910 No, my love, he wears a cardinal's skirt. 267 00:15:17,978 --> 00:15:19,311 But your dress is that of- 268 00:15:19,379 --> 00:15:21,481 I am a civilian today. An ambassador. 269 00:15:21,549 --> 00:15:24,217 He comes bearing a message from his father, 270 00:15:24,284 --> 00:15:25,685 the Pope of Rome. 271 00:15:25,752 --> 00:15:28,188 Have I guessed correctly, Cardinal? 272 00:15:28,255 --> 00:15:30,223 You think so little of your charms? 273 00:15:30,291 --> 00:15:32,826 You've come to sample them, perhaps? 274 00:15:32,894 --> 00:15:34,161 Perhaps. 275 00:15:34,229 --> 00:15:37,231 While bearing a message from the Pope of Rome. 276 00:15:37,299 --> 00:15:39,500 The pope does send his best regards. 277 00:15:39,568 --> 00:15:41,769 And would request your beauteous presence 278 00:15:41,836 --> 00:15:43,537 at the chair of St. Peter's. 279 00:15:43,605 --> 00:15:46,373 He would sample my charms also? 280 00:15:46,441 --> 00:15:48,442 Perhaps. 281 00:15:48,510 --> 00:15:51,779 He would feel your lips on his papal ring. 282 00:15:55,517 --> 00:15:57,851 He would have me kneel to him? 283 00:15:57,919 --> 00:15:59,620 Bow? 284 00:15:59,688 --> 00:16:02,356 The whole world must bow to the Holy Father. 285 00:16:02,424 --> 00:16:05,225 Whom does your mother bow to, my son? 286 00:16:05,293 --> 00:16:06,960 Nobody. 287 00:16:07,028 --> 00:16:08,595 You heard him, Cardinal? 288 00:16:08,663 --> 00:16:10,597 His mother bows to nobody. 289 00:16:10,665 --> 00:16:13,767 And if nobody were to sit at her table? 290 00:16:13,835 --> 00:16:15,268 She would not bow. 291 00:16:15,336 --> 00:16:18,771 But there are other forms of obeisance. 292 00:16:20,207 --> 00:16:22,775 Are there, Mother? Indeed, my son. 293 00:16:22,843 --> 00:16:27,612 There is a form of surrender which implies no submission. 294 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,115 It gave birth to you. 295 00:16:30,183 --> 00:16:31,750 I confess I am lost, Mother. 296 00:16:31,817 --> 00:16:33,251 [giggles] 297 00:16:33,319 --> 00:16:36,654 Indeed, you are truly a soldier made of hard wood. 298 00:16:36,722 --> 00:16:41,526 But the cardinal must know I only kneel when it suits me. 299 00:16:41,627 --> 00:16:44,596 As must the Holy Father. 300 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:48,900 If you do not come willingly, my lady- 301 00:16:49,001 --> 00:16:51,903 Oh hush, Cardinal, hush. 302 00:16:51,970 --> 00:16:53,871 You are our guest this fine evening. 303 00:16:53,939 --> 00:16:56,240 I'd have no discord between us. 304 00:16:56,308 --> 00:16:58,343 You can relay the Holy Father's message 305 00:16:58,444 --> 00:17:00,444 in its fullness tomorrow. 306 00:17:08,620 --> 00:17:10,955 We live in a fortress now, 307 00:17:11,023 --> 00:17:16,894 barricaded against a sea of zealots in the streets outside. 308 00:17:16,995 --> 00:17:18,529 Zealots? 309 00:17:18,597 --> 00:17:23,400 Their fervour for the friar's visions increases daily. 310 00:17:23,468 --> 00:17:25,403 They would ban all art and ornament 311 00:17:25,470 --> 00:17:26,837 and they have set their sights 312 00:17:26,905 --> 00:17:28,606 on the coin of the realm itself. 313 00:17:28,673 --> 00:17:30,274 Money? 314 00:17:30,375 --> 00:17:31,942 Dear God. 315 00:17:32,010 --> 00:17:36,881 They see gold and silver coin as part of the fallen world. 316 00:17:36,948 --> 00:17:40,250 They would reduce all exchange to the state of barter 317 00:17:40,318 --> 00:17:42,686 only possible in the garden of Eden. 318 00:17:44,455 --> 00:17:47,825 And what of banking? 319 00:17:49,861 --> 00:17:52,996 [as Savonarola] Did Adam need gold coin? 320 00:17:53,064 --> 00:17:55,532 Did Eve need a bank? 321 00:17:55,599 --> 00:17:58,635 Did Cain charge interest to Abel? 322 00:17:58,736 --> 00:18:00,537 [chuckling] 323 00:18:02,106 --> 00:18:05,375 And what of the Church's deposits in your banks? 324 00:18:05,443 --> 00:18:07,378 They would scatter them like chaff. 325 00:18:07,479 --> 00:18:09,113 [clearing throat] 326 00:18:09,181 --> 00:18:13,451 And if they knew, Holy Father, of your personal accounts, 327 00:18:13,519 --> 00:18:15,653 they would burn the bank to the ground. 328 00:18:15,754 --> 00:18:16,855 Well, then, 329 00:18:16,922 --> 00:18:19,525 perhaps we had better have our wealth 330 00:18:19,593 --> 00:18:21,561 brought back to Rome. 331 00:18:21,662 --> 00:18:22,829 How? 332 00:18:22,896 --> 00:18:24,531 The friar has his spies everywhere. 333 00:18:24,598 --> 00:18:28,735 Perhaps the good friar could be bought. 334 00:18:28,803 --> 00:18:30,204 With money? 335 00:18:30,271 --> 00:18:31,538 No, bishopric. 336 00:18:31,606 --> 00:18:33,941 The generalship of the Dominican order. 337 00:18:34,009 --> 00:18:37,411 The Dominican order already does his bidding. 338 00:18:37,479 --> 00:18:42,016 And how can you buy one who would outlaw trade itself? 339 00:18:42,084 --> 00:18:45,753 You offer him something that money cannot buy. 340 00:18:47,055 --> 00:18:49,190 Heaven itself. 341 00:18:55,396 --> 00:18:57,764 Is it good? 342 00:18:59,767 --> 00:19:03,837 Benedictus, Benedicat per Jesum Christum Dominum Nostrum. 343 00:19:03,938 --> 00:19:14,012 [singing throughout] 344 00:19:28,461 --> 00:19:31,296 He has the voice of an angel. 345 00:19:31,363 --> 00:19:33,665 Not a soldier, then? 346 00:19:33,732 --> 00:19:35,166 No. 347 00:19:35,234 --> 00:19:38,402 No, never send this boy to war. 348 00:19:49,181 --> 00:19:52,116 So, you've come back, Micheletto. 349 00:19:52,184 --> 00:19:54,485 To haunt me. 350 00:19:57,556 --> 00:20:00,792 Must we always meet among old bones? 351 00:20:03,462 --> 00:20:07,065 You know why. 352 00:20:07,166 --> 00:20:10,302 Ghosts. 353 00:20:10,370 --> 00:20:12,037 Only the dead should walk here. 354 00:20:14,874 --> 00:20:17,977 And us. 355 00:20:21,148 --> 00:20:22,749 You remember. 356 00:20:24,185 --> 00:20:26,687 I've tried to forget. 357 00:20:26,788 --> 00:20:27,988 You should. 358 00:20:28,056 --> 00:20:29,957 You're to be married, are you not? 359 00:20:31,827 --> 00:20:33,628 And you? 360 00:20:36,198 --> 00:20:38,166 Did you not forget? 361 00:20:46,141 --> 00:20:48,709 I forget nothing. 362 00:21:13,470 --> 00:21:16,273 My father, Galeazzo Sforza. 363 00:21:16,374 --> 00:21:18,007 He lost one eye in battle. 364 00:21:18,075 --> 00:21:21,711 His nose then occluded his vision so he sliced it off. 365 00:21:21,779 --> 00:21:25,181 The Sforzas of Forli never surrender. 366 00:21:25,282 --> 00:21:26,883 And never kneel. 367 00:21:26,951 --> 00:21:30,052 Oh, we can kneel all right. But only willingly. 368 00:21:47,969 --> 00:21:51,472 Giorgio will now show you to your rooms. 369 00:22:09,057 --> 00:22:11,392 [door creaking] 370 00:22:41,290 --> 00:22:43,759 Indelicate, Cardinal- 371 00:22:43,826 --> 00:22:45,393 [gasps] 372 00:22:45,494 --> 00:22:48,397 To invade a lady's chamber. 373 00:22:48,465 --> 00:22:51,766 I was led here. By whom? 374 00:22:51,868 --> 00:22:53,201 Your manservant. 375 00:22:53,269 --> 00:22:56,771 By mistake. I must have him whipped. 376 00:23:00,175 --> 00:23:02,543 May I leave? 377 00:23:02,611 --> 00:23:05,413 I could scream in terror. Call my soldiery. 378 00:23:05,514 --> 00:23:07,115 I am still your guest here. 379 00:23:07,216 --> 00:23:09,317 In my room? 380 00:23:09,384 --> 00:23:12,286 An intruder, surely. 381 00:23:12,354 --> 00:23:14,021 So then... 382 00:23:14,089 --> 00:23:16,090 Scream. 383 00:23:19,494 --> 00:23:21,962 [quietly] Help. 384 00:23:22,030 --> 00:23:23,831 [chuckles] 385 00:23:38,714 --> 00:23:42,851 Is that blade truly necessary? 386 00:23:52,061 --> 00:23:53,495 [chuckles] 387 00:23:57,966 --> 00:24:00,068 [laughs] 388 00:24:11,113 --> 00:24:13,648 [grunts] 389 00:24:13,715 --> 00:24:16,350 You can stab me with it whenever you wanted. 390 00:24:16,451 --> 00:24:18,319 Is that a promise? 391 00:24:18,386 --> 00:24:19,987 Ah! 392 00:24:20,089 --> 00:24:21,522 A promise. 393 00:24:31,799 --> 00:24:36,769 I am a freak of nature, Cardinal. 394 00:24:36,837 --> 00:24:38,704 An aberration. 395 00:24:38,772 --> 00:24:41,708 A free woman in a man's world. 396 00:24:41,776 --> 00:24:44,311 I should deal with you harshly then. 397 00:24:44,378 --> 00:24:46,780 You should put me down. 398 00:24:49,517 --> 00:24:51,084 [grunting] 399 00:24:51,151 --> 00:24:53,086 [laughs] 400 00:24:53,187 --> 00:24:54,988 Ah! 401 00:24:55,089 --> 00:24:59,526 [moaning] 402 00:25:08,002 --> 00:25:19,079 [moaning] 403 00:25:34,393 --> 00:25:36,962 Your marriage will be a lie. 404 00:25:37,030 --> 00:25:40,366 Like your studies. 405 00:25:40,467 --> 00:25:42,001 But I have no books. 406 00:25:42,102 --> 00:25:44,004 You will have a wife. 407 00:25:46,508 --> 00:25:48,842 I'm a wheelwright, Micheletto. 408 00:25:48,944 --> 00:25:50,778 I live in Forli. 409 00:25:50,846 --> 00:25:54,015 I will marry in Forli, and I will die in Forli. 410 00:25:54,116 --> 00:25:55,383 Then come to Rome. 411 00:25:55,451 --> 00:25:58,085 I know what your life is in Rome. 412 00:25:59,954 --> 00:26:04,657 My life, what is my life, Augustino? 413 00:26:04,758 --> 00:26:09,461 It does not involve healing. 414 00:26:09,529 --> 00:26:11,697 It involves punishment. 415 00:26:11,764 --> 00:26:16,334 I punish this world for not being as I want. 416 00:26:16,401 --> 00:26:18,636 And you frighten me. Huh. 417 00:26:18,737 --> 00:26:21,939 Then you must not come to Rome. 418 00:26:28,814 --> 00:26:30,815 [snickers] 419 00:26:51,403 --> 00:26:54,840 Those cannon were fake. 420 00:26:54,908 --> 00:26:57,042 What cannon? 421 00:26:57,110 --> 00:27:01,547 I was wondering how you had whipped up numberless pieces. 422 00:27:01,615 --> 00:27:05,819 Then I heard a rumour. 423 00:27:18,232 --> 00:27:22,502 There was no metal in them. 424 00:27:22,603 --> 00:27:25,505 Plaster, not bronze. 425 00:27:27,208 --> 00:27:29,376 Ah. 426 00:27:32,813 --> 00:27:39,386 Which is the trouble with you Borgias. 427 00:27:39,454 --> 00:27:41,789 Nothing is what it seems. 428 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,696 We are commoners, my lady. 429 00:27:47,763 --> 00:27:50,499 But of a rare Spanish breed. 430 00:27:51,367 --> 00:27:58,340 [quiet moan] 431 00:28:02,778 --> 00:28:05,980 [shouting in the distance] 432 00:28:06,048 --> 00:28:09,450 So, how do we entice this friar to Rome? 433 00:28:09,518 --> 00:28:12,520 As you said, with the offer of a bishopric. 434 00:28:12,587 --> 00:28:15,889 A bishopric may not be carrot enough. 435 00:28:15,990 --> 00:28:19,159 Maybe a cardinal's hat? 436 00:28:19,227 --> 00:28:21,462 You would have him sit in Consistory? 437 00:28:21,530 --> 00:28:24,165 Bring his fire and brimstone to St. Peter's? 438 00:28:24,233 --> 00:28:26,401 We would have him come to Rome. 439 00:28:26,469 --> 00:28:28,904 Clap him in the dungeons of the Castell St. Angelo. 440 00:28:29,005 --> 00:28:30,339 Charge him with heresy. 441 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,907 Burn him at the stake? 442 00:28:31,975 --> 00:28:34,076 Do you intend the same thing for my cousin, 443 00:28:34,144 --> 00:28:35,711 Catherina Sforza? 444 00:28:35,779 --> 00:28:38,314 Dear God, is she a heretic too? 445 00:28:38,381 --> 00:28:40,549 [chuckles] 446 00:28:40,616 --> 00:28:44,019 She is a woman who bears a man's arms. 447 00:28:44,086 --> 00:28:49,157 We would befriend your cousin, Cardinal. 448 00:28:49,259 --> 00:28:51,360 We would hold her close- 449 00:28:51,461 --> 00:28:52,995 and dear. 450 00:28:54,263 --> 00:28:57,632 As you hold myself. 451 00:28:58,801 --> 00:29:00,368 Indeed. 452 00:29:02,571 --> 00:29:05,907 [men shouting in the distance] 453 00:29:12,415 --> 00:29:14,884 [horse whinnies] 454 00:29:14,951 --> 00:29:16,885 Make way there! 455 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,989 Make way for His Holiness! 456 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,995 Stand aside! 457 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:32,003 Make way for His Holiness, the Pope of Rome! 458 00:29:40,945 --> 00:29:42,479 Yah! 459 00:29:44,849 --> 00:29:46,716 Yah! 460 00:29:46,784 --> 00:29:48,751 Form up! 461 00:30:06,071 --> 00:30:09,006 A cardinal's stocking, Giulia. 462 00:30:09,074 --> 00:30:11,476 You are indeed observant. 463 00:30:13,913 --> 00:30:17,583 And what do I spy between those mounds of sleeping flesh? 464 00:30:17,684 --> 00:30:20,385 Why I believe it's- 465 00:30:20,486 --> 00:30:23,721 It's a cardinal. Another one. 466 00:30:23,789 --> 00:30:25,856 Fuck off. 467 00:30:28,193 --> 00:30:29,760 Oh, can I help you- ladies? 468 00:30:29,861 --> 00:30:32,162 We're in search of cardinals. 469 00:30:32,229 --> 00:30:34,564 Well, you've come to the right place then. 470 00:30:34,632 --> 00:30:37,968 We should have called this place the Sistine Chapel. 471 00:30:38,035 --> 00:30:43,206 But the Sistine Chapel is fragrant with incense. 472 00:30:43,274 --> 00:30:45,308 Its floors sparkle with cleanliness. 473 00:30:45,410 --> 00:30:48,545 Here, the cardinals lie in filth. 474 00:30:48,613 --> 00:30:52,482 As do we, madam. 475 00:30:52,549 --> 00:30:54,117 And you are? 476 00:30:55,787 --> 00:30:57,154 The committee for the betterment 477 00:30:57,222 --> 00:30:59,957 of the lives of the ladies of the Roman night. 478 00:31:01,293 --> 00:31:03,227 There is such a committee? 479 00:31:03,295 --> 00:31:05,129 There is now. 480 00:31:05,197 --> 00:31:07,298 And you have the blessing of? 481 00:31:07,365 --> 00:31:09,734 The pope of Rome. 482 00:31:09,801 --> 00:31:15,540 Oh, goodness. 483 00:31:15,608 --> 00:31:19,511 Well, you must come and meet our madam, then. 484 00:31:22,649 --> 00:31:26,952 Oh Madam, there are some ladies here to see you! 485 00:31:30,857 --> 00:31:32,024 La Bella. 486 00:31:32,092 --> 00:31:34,694 We so rarely have ladies within our walls. 487 00:31:34,761 --> 00:31:36,295 Hm... 488 00:31:36,363 --> 00:31:39,131 The girls who work here do not qualify as ladies, then? 489 00:31:39,198 --> 00:31:40,966 Good God, no. 490 00:31:41,033 --> 00:31:43,234 A lady has a future. 491 00:31:43,335 --> 00:31:45,570 And your girls have none? 492 00:31:46,838 --> 00:31:49,507 Unless they find a patron, my lady. 493 00:31:49,608 --> 00:31:52,943 As you yourself must know. 494 00:31:53,011 --> 00:31:56,447 I was a courtesan, my dear, never a streetwalker. 495 00:31:56,515 --> 00:31:58,249 My girls might walk the streets, 496 00:31:58,350 --> 00:32:00,051 but they ply their trade here. 497 00:32:00,152 --> 00:32:03,488 In the vilest conditions. 498 00:32:05,258 --> 00:32:07,159 And you would better their lot? 499 00:32:07,260 --> 00:32:08,694 And yours- 500 00:32:08,795 --> 00:32:10,997 if you play your cards right. 501 00:32:13,634 --> 00:32:16,169 You have a certain clientele. 502 00:32:16,237 --> 00:32:18,171 Of clerics. Cardinals. 503 00:32:18,272 --> 00:32:19,573 I am bound to discretion 504 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,841 with regard to my clientele, my ladies. 505 00:32:21,909 --> 00:32:25,911 We have a proposition for you, madam. 506 00:32:25,979 --> 00:32:29,281 That we pay for the refurbishment of your premises. 507 00:32:29,348 --> 00:32:32,450 We restore it to cleanliness, comfort, 508 00:32:32,551 --> 00:32:35,953 a condition of absolute health. 509 00:32:36,021 --> 00:32:37,455 In return for? 510 00:32:37,556 --> 00:32:39,891 Names, on occasion. 511 00:32:39,992 --> 00:32:41,226 Dates. 512 00:32:41,293 --> 00:32:43,261 The details of any cardinal 513 00:32:43,329 --> 00:32:45,797 who crosses the bounds of propriety. 514 00:32:59,180 --> 00:33:01,548 Huh. 515 00:33:09,691 --> 00:33:13,994 Brother Guiliano, you bring news from Florence? 516 00:33:14,062 --> 00:33:16,363 Friar Savanarola commanded us 517 00:33:16,431 --> 00:33:18,165 to be the sword of the apocalypse. 518 00:33:18,233 --> 00:33:21,736 Death himself, on his pale horse. 519 00:33:21,803 --> 00:33:23,170 But how? 520 00:33:23,238 --> 00:33:26,440 He is surrounded at all times by a ring of steel. 521 00:33:28,009 --> 00:33:30,011 There may yet be a way. 522 00:33:31,981 --> 00:33:33,581 As the friar has said, 523 00:33:33,649 --> 00:33:37,484 the pope is surrounded by a ring of steel. 524 00:33:37,552 --> 00:33:39,287 But if we can penetrate that ring, 525 00:33:39,354 --> 00:33:40,988 discover his weakness... 526 00:33:41,056 --> 00:33:42,457 What is his weakness? 527 00:33:42,524 --> 00:33:44,125 Fornication. 528 00:33:44,226 --> 00:33:46,628 Food. Wine. 529 00:33:46,695 --> 00:33:48,363 And I propose we use the weapon 530 00:33:48,430 --> 00:33:51,566 the Borgia family uses so effortlessly. 531 00:33:51,634 --> 00:33:54,369 Against me, among others. 532 00:33:56,338 --> 00:33:58,439 Cantarella. 533 00:34:05,881 --> 00:34:08,283 I'm afraid I can delay it no longer, my lady. 534 00:34:08,351 --> 00:34:10,252 Delay what? 535 00:34:10,319 --> 00:34:12,754 The reason for my presence here. 536 00:34:12,822 --> 00:34:14,389 Oh yes. 537 00:34:14,456 --> 00:34:16,458 There was a reason. 538 00:34:16,526 --> 00:34:19,127 Something to do with Rome. 539 00:34:19,228 --> 00:34:22,230 His Holiness the Pope- What a pity. 540 00:34:22,331 --> 00:34:24,165 Pity? 541 00:34:24,233 --> 00:34:28,403 To ruin this sweet dalliance with issues of politics. 542 00:34:29,838 --> 00:34:32,740 When we were getting on so well. 543 00:34:32,808 --> 00:34:34,909 Indeed. 544 00:34:34,977 --> 00:34:38,946 There is no cause for rancour between our families. 545 00:34:39,013 --> 00:34:40,581 Is there, my son? 546 00:34:41,750 --> 00:34:43,417 That would be such a pity. 547 00:34:43,518 --> 00:34:45,052 A pity indeed. 548 00:34:46,988 --> 00:34:52,059 But proceed, Cardinal, if you must. 549 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:53,627 His Holiness dictates 550 00:34:53,695 --> 00:34:55,596 that if you do not come to Rome willingly- 551 00:34:55,663 --> 00:34:57,497 Oh. 552 00:34:57,565 --> 00:35:00,668 Now you have quite put me off my duck. 553 00:35:00,735 --> 00:35:02,669 And I sense a threat behind those words. 554 00:35:02,737 --> 00:35:05,139 Perhaps a "choice" would be the better word. 555 00:35:05,207 --> 00:35:06,874 Oh dear. 556 00:35:06,941 --> 00:35:08,543 A choice. 557 00:35:08,610 --> 00:35:11,645 And I am so bad at choosing. 558 00:35:11,713 --> 00:35:16,317 He would have you travel to Rome willingly or in chains. 559 00:35:16,384 --> 00:35:19,586 And this duck did taste so good. 560 00:35:19,653 --> 00:35:20,854 Hmm... 561 00:35:20,921 --> 00:35:22,888 [sets down utensils] 562 00:35:23,957 --> 00:35:27,392 You must break fast with me tomorrow, Cardinal. 563 00:35:27,460 --> 00:35:30,228 I will give you my answer then. 564 00:35:30,329 --> 00:35:31,796 And now... 565 00:35:35,635 --> 00:35:38,604 let me show you to your rooms. 566 00:35:40,107 --> 00:35:41,940 [sighs] 567 00:35:43,009 --> 00:35:44,410 Tell me your answer. 568 00:35:44,478 --> 00:35:47,346 You shall have it in the morning. 569 00:35:47,414 --> 00:35:49,148 I think I know it already. 570 00:35:50,618 --> 00:35:52,786 What do you care if I come to Rome? 571 00:35:52,854 --> 00:35:54,988 The pope has made an edict- [laughs] 572 00:35:55,056 --> 00:35:56,723 Written on paper? 573 00:35:56,824 --> 00:35:58,591 Or plaster, like your cannon? 574 00:35:58,659 --> 00:36:00,326 So, your answer is no? 575 00:36:00,394 --> 00:36:01,995 You said I had a choice. 576 00:36:02,096 --> 00:36:04,063 To go willingly... 577 00:36:04,164 --> 00:36:06,532 or to go in chains. 578 00:36:06,599 --> 00:36:09,167 Who is going to chain me? 579 00:36:09,235 --> 00:36:11,502 You? 580 00:36:11,570 --> 00:36:13,237 Someday, perhaps. 581 00:36:13,305 --> 00:36:16,240 Your brother? 582 00:36:16,308 --> 00:36:18,610 I have heard of his bluster. 583 00:36:18,711 --> 00:36:22,881 Fake, again, like your cannon. 584 00:36:22,949 --> 00:36:25,084 Let us dispense then with these niceties, 585 00:36:25,151 --> 00:36:26,519 and let me leave. 586 00:36:26,587 --> 00:36:30,824 Oh, but that, Cardinal, I am not yet prepared for. 587 00:36:30,891 --> 00:36:33,260 You think I appreciate this game of yours? 588 00:36:33,327 --> 00:36:36,596 No. But I do. 589 00:36:36,664 --> 00:36:39,165 And you did admit, Cardinal... 590 00:36:40,501 --> 00:36:43,369 ...the game is mine. 591 00:36:43,436 --> 00:36:45,804 The bed is mine. 592 00:36:45,905 --> 00:36:47,705 The choice is mine. 593 00:36:47,773 --> 00:36:50,641 And... 594 00:36:50,742 --> 00:36:51,909 [grunts] 595 00:36:51,977 --> 00:36:53,544 Hmmm. 596 00:36:53,645 --> 00:36:57,648 ...for one more night at least, 597 00:36:57,749 --> 00:37:00,083 you may be mine. 598 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,622 [laughs] 599 00:37:06,725 --> 00:37:11,094 As a poison, cantarella is undetectable. 600 00:37:11,162 --> 00:37:13,563 If given a sufficient dosage, 601 00:37:13,664 --> 00:37:16,833 it will definitely be fatal. 602 00:37:16,901 --> 00:37:19,802 But the pope has tasters for his food, his wine. 603 00:37:19,870 --> 00:37:21,904 He does indeed. 604 00:37:22,006 --> 00:37:25,708 So one of us must seek employment as his taster. 605 00:37:25,775 --> 00:37:28,810 And be prepared to die for our cause. 606 00:37:30,646 --> 00:37:33,381 [monkey chattering] 607 00:37:35,551 --> 00:37:40,388 Is there one among us who is willing to die? 608 00:37:40,490 --> 00:37:42,457 To administer the poison? 609 00:37:42,525 --> 00:37:45,661 Taste the poison? 610 00:37:45,729 --> 00:37:49,466 Serve it to the Pope of Rome and share his fate? 611 00:37:50,634 --> 00:37:54,705 If one among you can find it in his heart 612 00:37:54,773 --> 00:37:58,742 to offer himself for this sacrifice, 613 00:37:58,843 --> 00:38:00,644 think carefully. 614 00:38:00,712 --> 00:38:04,081 Make your peace with God first. 615 00:38:04,148 --> 00:38:07,351 And only then come forward. 616 00:38:16,460 --> 00:38:19,630 I of all people know... 617 00:38:19,697 --> 00:38:23,100 It will be a terrible death. 618 00:38:24,569 --> 00:38:29,406 [indistinct chatter] 619 00:38:34,279 --> 00:38:40,952 [grunting, panting] 620 00:38:41,053 --> 00:38:42,553 Ahh! 621 00:38:56,135 --> 00:38:57,568 [grunts] 622 00:38:57,636 --> 00:39:01,039 You should throw away those cardinal robes, you know. 623 00:39:01,140 --> 00:39:02,306 I thought I had. 624 00:39:02,408 --> 00:39:03,741 You should wear armour. 625 00:39:03,809 --> 00:39:05,943 This body of yours deserves nothing less. 626 00:39:06,044 --> 00:39:07,611 Ahh! 627 00:39:07,712 --> 00:39:11,581 [laughs] 628 00:39:11,649 --> 00:39:15,752 [grunting, panting] 629 00:39:19,091 --> 00:39:20,959 Micheletto. 630 00:39:21,026 --> 00:39:23,161 We cannot meet again. 631 00:39:23,229 --> 00:39:24,296 Why? 632 00:39:24,363 --> 00:39:25,598 If I were found in your arms, 633 00:39:25,665 --> 00:39:27,232 I'd be disembowelled and burnt. 634 00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:29,335 It's a cruel world. 635 00:39:29,436 --> 00:39:31,137 Too cruel. 636 00:39:31,238 --> 00:39:34,140 [grunting] 637 00:39:34,208 --> 00:39:39,045 Now, I have killed many, 638 00:39:39,112 --> 00:39:41,513 with an embrace such as this. 639 00:39:41,614 --> 00:39:44,150 Did you love them too? 640 00:39:44,251 --> 00:39:46,485 This grave- 641 00:39:46,553 --> 00:39:49,154 this is my father's grave and I loved him. 642 00:39:49,222 --> 00:39:51,122 When I held his head, thus- 643 00:39:51,190 --> 00:39:56,127 [grunting] 644 00:39:56,195 --> 00:39:59,431 Now, you go and you be married. 645 00:39:59,499 --> 00:40:01,801 St. Paul says it is better to marry... 646 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,442 Than to burn. 647 00:40:17,153 --> 00:40:18,553 [spits] 648 00:40:27,296 --> 00:40:29,430 You came. 649 00:40:29,498 --> 00:40:31,433 When called. 650 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:34,169 Walk with me. 651 00:40:34,237 --> 00:40:36,705 We have a choice, it seems. 652 00:40:44,281 --> 00:40:50,521 [sound of digging] 653 00:40:56,661 --> 00:40:58,596 You seek one who would give his life 654 00:40:58,663 --> 00:41:01,532 to restore the church to its glory. 655 00:41:03,768 --> 00:41:06,103 Yes. 656 00:41:06,204 --> 00:41:08,639 And you don't offer yourself? 657 00:41:08,707 --> 00:41:14,279 This is too well known. 658 00:41:14,346 --> 00:41:16,448 So... 659 00:41:16,516 --> 00:41:21,920 You need one without fame, without acquaintance, 660 00:41:21,988 --> 00:41:24,457 a neophyte within the Vatican walls. 661 00:41:24,524 --> 00:41:26,559 Nobody can know of him. 662 00:41:26,660 --> 00:41:28,762 Nobody knows of me. 663 00:41:33,569 --> 00:41:37,005 You realize the implications of your words? 664 00:41:37,073 --> 00:41:38,573 Yes. 665 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,910 I would gladly die to rid the world of the Borgia pope. 666 00:41:41,977 --> 00:41:43,411 [thunder] 667 00:41:43,512 --> 00:41:45,113 By poison. 668 00:41:46,614 --> 00:41:49,216 Cantarella. 669 00:41:49,283 --> 00:41:53,553 It will be a grisly death. 670 00:41:55,556 --> 00:41:58,024 But Heaven will await my soul. 671 00:41:58,091 --> 00:42:01,194 [thunder] 672 00:42:01,261 --> 00:42:03,596 I would welcome it. 673 00:42:16,009 --> 00:42:19,045 [loud thunderclap] 674 00:42:22,450 --> 00:42:27,689 [choir singing throughout] 675 00:42:36,032 --> 00:42:38,767 [distant thunder] 676 00:42:38,835 --> 00:42:41,336 Corpus Domini Nostri Iesu Christi 677 00:42:41,404 --> 00:42:43,972 custodiat animam meam in vitam aeternam. 678 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:45,774 Amen. 679 00:42:52,282 --> 00:42:54,049 Cardinal. 680 00:42:56,919 --> 00:42:58,486 Your lady is- 681 00:42:58,554 --> 00:43:00,856 Lady Sforza is awake. 682 00:43:08,565 --> 00:43:10,400 My Lord Sforza. 683 00:43:10,467 --> 00:43:12,235 I arrived in the early hours. 684 00:43:12,336 --> 00:43:14,370 You must have. 685 00:43:14,438 --> 00:43:17,506 You have business with your cousin? 686 00:43:17,574 --> 00:43:20,510 On matters of state, always. 687 00:43:20,577 --> 00:43:22,411 So she requested your presence here? 688 00:43:22,479 --> 00:43:25,815 She told me it would be appreciated. 689 00:43:25,882 --> 00:43:27,316 Hmm... 690 00:43:27,384 --> 00:43:29,719 And can you tell me why? 691 00:43:29,786 --> 00:43:32,788 You brought your father's proposal with you. 692 00:43:32,889 --> 00:43:36,158 My father, the pope? 693 00:43:36,259 --> 00:43:39,062 I can only think of him as your father. 694 00:43:39,163 --> 00:43:40,864 And the father of that... 695 00:43:40,932 --> 00:43:42,599 slattern I was tricked into marrying. 696 00:43:42,667 --> 00:43:44,368 Be careful, Lord Sforza. 697 00:43:44,469 --> 00:43:45,803 Of what? 698 00:43:45,871 --> 00:43:48,272 I hold my sister's interests dear. 699 00:43:48,373 --> 00:43:49,574 [chuckles] 700 00:43:49,642 --> 00:43:53,044 Hmm... I am aware of that. 701 00:43:53,112 --> 00:43:56,014 You humiliated me before the whole of Rome. 702 00:43:58,283 --> 00:44:01,185 [thunder] 703 00:44:01,253 --> 00:44:06,456 [choir singing throughout] 704 00:44:19,770 --> 00:44:22,072 Corpus Domini Nostri Iesu Christi 705 00:44:22,139 --> 00:44:24,808 custodiat animam tuam in vitam aeternam. 706 00:44:24,876 --> 00:44:26,210 Amen. 707 00:44:27,112 --> 00:44:29,914 You shall have your answer, Cesare Borgia. 708 00:44:29,982 --> 00:44:32,617 It is why I am still here, my lady. 709 00:44:32,684 --> 00:44:35,887 My answer is simple. 710 00:44:35,955 --> 00:44:37,188 It is no. 711 00:44:44,529 --> 00:44:46,664 Let me be clear. 712 00:44:46,765 --> 00:44:48,732 You refuse to come to Rome? 713 00:44:48,799 --> 00:44:51,301 My cousin refuses to debase herself 714 00:44:51,369 --> 00:44:54,538 before that swine that wears the papal tiara. 715 00:44:54,605 --> 00:44:57,274 That question was for her, my lord. 716 00:44:57,375 --> 00:44:58,575 And you have her answer. 717 00:44:58,643 --> 00:45:01,878 Yes and you will have mine. 718 00:45:01,946 --> 00:45:04,648 Ahh! Ahh! 719 00:45:07,418 --> 00:45:11,387 [loud thunderclap] 720 00:45:11,489 --> 00:45:15,291 [creaking of beams] 721 00:45:15,359 --> 00:45:17,927 Run! 722 00:45:18,028 --> 00:45:24,032 [screaming] 723 00:45:24,133 --> 00:45:30,537 [grunting] 724 00:45:30,605 --> 00:45:32,539 I promised my sister your heart- 725 00:45:32,607 --> 00:45:33,940 on a dinner plate! 726 00:45:34,041 --> 00:45:42,282 [screaming] 727 00:45:42,349 --> 00:45:54,128 [grunting] 728 00:45:54,229 --> 00:46:01,535 [screaming] 729 00:46:01,537 --> 00:46:08,943 [screaming] 730 00:46:09,010 --> 00:46:17,117 [grunting] 731 00:46:17,184 --> 00:46:20,420 [beams creaking] 732 00:46:20,521 --> 00:46:22,088 Holy Father! 733 00:46:22,156 --> 00:46:25,292 Ahh! Ahh! 734 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,693 I can find no heart! 735 00:46:27,795 --> 00:46:30,329 [gasping] 736 00:46:30,397 --> 00:46:32,765 Stay there! Don't move! 737 00:46:34,401 --> 00:46:35,868 Go! Now go! Go! 738 00:46:35,969 --> 00:46:39,238 Run, run, run! 739 00:46:39,306 --> 00:46:41,040 [screams] 740 00:46:41,108 --> 00:46:43,409 Ah! Ah! 741 00:46:47,414 --> 00:46:49,148 [gasps] 742 00:46:49,216 --> 00:46:53,319 Murder! Murder! 743 00:46:53,420 --> 00:46:55,555 Murder! 744 00:46:55,622 --> 00:46:57,891 You! Come with me! 745 00:46:58,993 --> 00:47:01,060 No... 746 00:47:01,161 --> 00:47:02,895 No! 747 00:47:02,963 --> 00:47:05,331 Guards, stop him! 748 00:47:05,398 --> 00:47:06,765 Here! 749 00:47:07,734 --> 00:47:09,535 Oh! 750 00:47:14,774 --> 00:47:17,176 Ahh... 751 00:47:17,277 --> 00:47:18,811 Help! 752 00:47:18,912 --> 00:47:21,414 Somebody, help! 753 00:47:29,790 --> 00:47:31,724 [grunting] 754 00:47:34,995 --> 00:47:36,329 Oh please God. [whimpering] 755 00:47:36,396 --> 00:47:38,230 Oh, come. 756 00:47:38,298 --> 00:47:41,867 [grunting] 757 00:47:41,934 --> 00:47:43,235 Come on. 758 00:47:43,302 --> 00:47:44,969 Are you... 759 00:47:45,037 --> 00:47:47,405 Papa, I can't... Shh. 760 00:47:47,473 --> 00:47:48,906 ...feel my leg. 761 00:47:49,007 --> 00:47:51,275 [panting] Ohh... 762 00:47:51,376 --> 00:47:53,343 We'll get you some help. 763 00:47:53,411 --> 00:47:55,646 Borgia! 764 00:47:57,282 --> 00:47:59,350 No! 765 00:48:01,854 --> 00:48:03,054 Stop him! 766 00:48:03,122 --> 00:48:04,556 Micheletto! 767 00:48:05,858 --> 00:48:07,692 Seal the city! 768 00:48:08,728 --> 00:48:11,263 Yah! Yah! 769 00:48:11,331 --> 00:48:13,799 Archers ready! Release! 770 00:48:13,867 --> 00:48:15,634 Shoot them! 771 00:48:24,377 --> 00:48:26,111 [whimpering] Papa... 772 00:48:26,179 --> 00:48:29,815 What... 773 00:48:29,882 --> 00:48:31,650 Oh, no. Oh... 774 00:48:33,853 --> 00:48:35,720 Oh! 775 00:48:38,057 --> 00:48:41,493 Ego te absolve ab omnibus censuris, a peccatis, 776 00:48:41,561 --> 00:48:43,996 in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti. 777 00:48:44,097 --> 00:48:45,932 Amen. 778 00:48:48,135 --> 00:48:50,170 We should ride different ways. 779 00:48:50,238 --> 00:48:52,205 Wrap this in your saddlebag. 780 00:48:52,273 --> 00:48:54,208 I would give it to my sister. 781 00:48:54,309 --> 00:48:56,010 Whose blood? 782 00:48:56,111 --> 00:48:58,011 Giovanni Sforza's. 783 00:48:59,814 --> 00:49:01,448 Come! Yah! 784 00:49:05,119 --> 00:49:06,486 There are others alive in there! 785 00:49:06,587 --> 00:49:08,121 Let me, Holy Father. 786 00:49:08,189 --> 00:49:10,824 So, if anybody's willing... 787 00:49:10,892 --> 00:49:14,694 It is the judgment of God, Holy Father. 788 00:49:14,762 --> 00:49:17,230 And God will judge your actions now! 789 00:49:17,297 --> 00:49:20,400 So, please, if anyone is willing... 790 00:49:22,370 --> 00:49:23,671 Wait! 791 00:49:23,738 --> 00:49:25,941 [murmuring] 792 00:50:23,836 --> 00:50:28,339 Was it a sign from God, Cardinal? 793 00:50:28,407 --> 00:50:30,675 No, Your Holiness. 794 00:50:30,743 --> 00:50:34,078 It was a bolt of lightning. 795 00:50:36,515 --> 00:50:39,617 [sigh] 796 00:50:39,718 --> 00:50:42,486 It signalled His displeasure. 797 00:50:48,793 --> 00:50:53,162 We must atone for our... 798 00:50:57,201 --> 00:50:59,436 ...sins... 799 00:51:05,577 --> 00:51:08,880 ...with fasting and prayer. 800 00:51:12,219 --> 00:51:13,719 For how long? 801 00:51:15,355 --> 00:51:17,322 Until He... 802 00:51:17,390 --> 00:51:22,527 smiles on us again. 803 00:51:22,552 --> 00:51:26,552 == sync, corrected by elderman == 9999 00:00:0,500 --> 00:00:2,00 www.tvsubtitles.net