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They settled like crows around me,
praying for my death.
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Cardinal Orsini, Cardinal De Luca.
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I came as soon as I heard.
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My father lives. You failed.
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Where are these allies, Cesare?
Who are our friends?
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Without him, what becomes of us?
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- You should go. It's not safe here.
- I'm to be your husband.
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Yes, but you're not yet.
I will send for you.
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- What is this?
- This is your freedom.
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Don't forget who put it in your hands.
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Guards!
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- Did you do this?
- No.
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All this has done is move things along
a little faster than we had anticipated.
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- Now I require your assistance.
- And if I refuse?
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Your cousin Catherina
will not be denied this chance.
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He Will die.
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As will they all die.
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- All is well here?
- No. There is a plot to kill your family.
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- When?
- Tonight. Now.
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All the snakes in Rome have slid forth.
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Who is to protect this family,
if not you?
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- Ascanio betrayed us.
- Then we will have to find another way.
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- The cardinals?
- No, their families.
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- Orsini, Vitelli, Baglioni.
- They hate each other.
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They hate the Borgias more.
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Open your eyes. We're not safe.
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We are at war.
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Della Rovere's escape
was orchestrated by whom?
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Of that, I must plead ignorance.
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We are in a snake pit...
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...surrounded by venom
and smiling vipers...
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...and our son pleads ignorance?
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Maybe it was you.
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Let me.
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Maybe you helped him
to live to see another day.
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The day perhaps
when your beloved father...
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...breathes his last.
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If you believe that, Father,
then you have lost all faith in me.
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We have lost faith in everyone.
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Everything.
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Even the hand that guides us.
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Surely not in your own family?
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Our family.
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That"
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...bosom of trust and tranquility.
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No.
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We feel safe in the arms
of our family.
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But as for that nest of vipers
called the College of Cardinals...
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...we shall cleanse them, purge it.
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As we ourselves have been purged.
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So, brother, who called us here?
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This letter.
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Unsigned.
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It promised sport
against the Borgia family.
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And what if a Borgia wrote it?
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Too clever surely, even for them.
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Can you think of a better way
to draw out their enemies?
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Who's there?
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Vitelli.
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Paulo Orsini.
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And Roberto.
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When did you take to writing letters?
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We didn't.
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You were summoned too?
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Vitelli.
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Prospero Colonna.
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We were summoned here
by the Orsini?
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You were summoned by me.
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And you are?
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I'm the black heart
of a Borgia nightmare.
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I speak
with Catherina Sforza's voice.
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She invites you all to join her
in a Confederacy of hatred.
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A hatred of the Sforza?
We all sign up to that.
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And she would call you fool.
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She would remind you of the days
families ruled this papacy.
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Roman families:
Sforza, Colonna, Vitelli, Orsini.
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Bury your enmities.
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Bury them until the Borgia snake
is lanced.
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- And she has the power to do that?
- With your help.
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And then we can happily
hate each other again.
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She will drink to that.
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Think of Rome as a spider's web,
my son.
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Each family has its silken thread...
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...attached to an egg...
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...that is planted within these walls.
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Orsini, Baglioni, Vitelli, Colonna.
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And each one
of those diaphanous threads...
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...go back through their families...
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...to the tarantula of Forli:
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The great Arachne, Catherina Sforza.
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And every egg wears a cardinal's hat...
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...and a smile of obedience and piety.
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And plots to murder you...
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...your mother, your sister.
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And the plot
to murder your beloved brother...
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."succeeds.
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Unforgivable, surely.
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So if you are to gain our love again...
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...we would have you trace
those silken threads...
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...back to the families
outside these walls.
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And let us deal
with the cardinals within.
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And then I never saw her again.
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- We're being followed.
- Warn him off.
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Yes, my lord.
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You, be wise and go home now.
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I am never wise.
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Hey!
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Go.
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My Lord Vitelli.
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- My Lord Borgia.
- You're in quite the hurry.
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We were accosted.
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Rome is a lethal place
at times like these.
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Who bears you a grudge?
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I know not.
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My whole family was assaulted.
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And but for the actions
of my brave manservant...
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...my mother, sister and nephew
would lie like carrion in the streets.
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Yes, I heard as much.
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You also heard
who set the dogs upon them?
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- No, I don't trust rumour.
- Catherina Sforza, it is rumoured.
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It is also rumoured that she had help.
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From whom?
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Who covets the papal crown?
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The great Roman families:
Colonna, Orsini, Baglioni.
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Vitelli.
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A dangerous accusation, my lord.
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- And one that would need evidence.
-Indeed.
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Micheletto, call the night watch. There
was unpleasantness in the streets.
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And so I shall escort
the good Lord Vitelli safely home.
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Rodrigo.
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- No, no. It's no good.
- Come here.
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It's no good.
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My love, it happens to every man
once in a while.
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- Not to me.
- To every man.
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Why? Have you known so many?
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No. I'm sorry.
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Forgive me. Forgive me. Come here.
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We have never
been unmanned before.
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Maybe it's the poison.
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I mean, we want you.
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I desire you.
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You are tired.
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You have been through too much.
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I've been tired before.
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Never been undone before.
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Perhaps it's age.
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You are the most vigorous man
I have ever known.
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- Was, perhaps.
- You are. And this will pass.
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Believe me, it will pass.
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Brother.
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Yes!
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Cardinal Orsini.
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You could hear a pin drop, Micheletto.
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If I had a pin.
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- You have a pin, cardinal?
- No, my lord, I have no pin.
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But you have relatives here.
Could you introduce me to them?
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Lords Paulo and Roberto Orsini,
Lord Cesare Borgia.
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At your service.
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- May I join you?
- Be our guest.
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You were here for the game,
I would hazard.
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The pope falls ill, the game begins.
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Who will succeed him, an Orsini?
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A Colonna? A d'Este?
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Or would anyone dare bet
on another Spaniard?
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- But the pope lives.
-Indeed. The game is over.
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For now.
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So then why do you still linger
here in Rome?
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We like the ruins.
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Do you prefer them to your castle
in Bracciano?
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We like that too.
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But you must confer with your cousin,
the cardinal...
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-...which is difficult in Bracciano.
- His business is in Rome.
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Yes, he serves the pope
in consistory.
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Does that service include the
attempted assassination...
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...of his family?
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- Be careful, my lord.
- I am most careful.
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I gutted those incompetent dogs.
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Sent by Catherina Sforza? By you?
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Or by a great combination of both.
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But the pope survived,
thanks be to God.
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Take it down.
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So be careful with your calumnies
and your accusations.
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Rome is a city of rumour.
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And you had a brother
who was murdered.
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And rumour has it
that the culprit still lives.
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He has yet to be found.
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Well, perhaps he's here.
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Are you accusing me?
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Or me?
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Come, Father. Come.
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- Where are we going?
- That's the mystery. Come!
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Come!
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- Father!
- Hold on.
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Hold me, Father.
Promise you'll hold me.
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- No!
- Father!
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Juan!
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Cesare, Holy Father, your loving son.
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Our only son.
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Catherina Sforza seeks out allies.
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Come to talk to us about spiders.
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- In an alliance against us.
- With whom?
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All of them, the great Roman families.
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So it is time to act...
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...to snip those silken threads
from their source...
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...the great Arachne...
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...and to give her a lesson
in the elegance of revenge.
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- Can revenge be elegant?
- Oh, yes, and eloquent.
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We shall begin with words.
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An inquisition within these walls.
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They will all cry innocent.
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We will have one interrogate
the other.
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Interrogate.
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And of what do we accuse them?
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Of a hand in the conspiracy...
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...to murder our sacred person,
and of our family.
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The murder of your beloved son.
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You surpass yourself, Cesare.
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I have a lot to atone for.
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We shall start with he who is closest
to the tarantula of Forli:
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Cardinal Sforza.
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Holiness, I swear by the living God
that I am innocent in this matter.
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I have long forsaken all ties
with my family.
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I'm a nameless orphan
in the service of God...
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...my pope and the Borgia family.
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You would rather be a Borgia
than a Sforza?
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In everything but name, I already am.
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And you wish to prove to us
your innocence?
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Your Holiness, I must.
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Then find for us...
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...those responsible.
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Who else then lies under suspicion?
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Everyone.
Anybody who wears a red hat.
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Interrogate them all.
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- I'm hardly an inquisitor.
- Then become one.
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We will cleanse this Vatican of ours
of anyone who even thinks...
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...to question our fitness
for this most holy of offices.
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Is thought to be a crime now?
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Begin with De Luca.
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Threaten him with loss of office
and banishment...
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...and he'll sing madrigals.
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And if he doesn't?
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Take him to the Castel Sant'Angelo.
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Acquaint him with the instruments
of torture.
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You cannot torture a prince
of the church.
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I know that, you know that,
but imagination is a great persuader.
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He saw Savonarola burn.
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He'll soon begin to sing,
if he hasn't already, like a nightingale.
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And then?
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Then seize his estates,
strip his red hat.
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Banish him to some hermitage.
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And arrest all those
he has implicated...
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...then start the process again.
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We are in a new world, cardinal.
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You were married before.
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Indeed, my love.
The whole world knows that.
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And yet this child
is not your husband's.
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00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:53,770
True.
259
00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,446
The whole world knows that too.
260
00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:04,242
If we are to be married,
and happily, my love...
261
00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,563
...we must have no secrets.
262
00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,405
Then I have a confession
to make to you, Lucrezia Borgia.
263
00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:12,682
I'm listening.
264
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,605
I saved myself for marriage.
265
00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:20,646
Thank God. So you are all mine.
266
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,006
You misunderstand me.
I am that most un-ltalian thing.
267
00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,168
A virgin.
268
00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:30,805
Well, we can soon put that to rights.
269
00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,930
- I made a vow to Saint Agnes.
- The patron saint of purity.
270
00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,289
The first woman that I'd lie with
would be my wife.
271
00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:43,650
Well, lie with me. I will be your wife.
272
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,527
Yes, but you are not yet.
273
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,881
We must wait, then.
274
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,242
Yes, we must wait.
275
00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:01,968
And until that night...
276
00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:05,522
...all this beauty
will be just a promise.
277
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:12,931
Perhaps the poison is still within you.
Perhaps it strikes at the root of you.
278
00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:15,646
The doctor said the poison is gone.
279
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,447
Perhaps it's God's punishment,
your lack of vigour.
280
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,408
Or maybe his blessing.
281
00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:31,568
In the past, we have striven
to subdue our passions.
282
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,965
Maybe now we can succeed.
283
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,686
But how can we love
when the very air we breathe...
284
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,081
...is poisoned with venom and hatred...
285
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,762
...and trust no one but you?
286
00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:55,886
And we could not protect you
when the assassins struck.
287
00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:59,562
- You can't blame yourself for that.
- We are God's minister on earth.
288
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,085
He has abandoned us.
289
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:09,571
If we cannot keep you safe,
we would rather give up our calling.
290
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,809
Life without the papacy,
what a thought.
291
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,328
But how would you spend your days?
292
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,490
- Tending your vines?
- Yes.
293
00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,522
We would sit together
in the garden in the evening.
294
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,286
- Watch our grandchildren grow.
- A garden?
295
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,410
- We'd have a garden?
- Flowers.
296
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,128
A beehive.
297
00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,367
- Beehive.
- And a soft spring well.
298
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,966
Then we would find peace.
299
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,562
With all that we have, all the trappings
of office and power...
300
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,923
...we cannot protect you, our family.
301
00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:58,286
We would rather be a peasant
in a garden with a pitchfork...
302
00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:03,083
...if that would keep you safe.
303
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,328
Cardinal De Luca.
304
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,648
I would speak with you.
305
00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:20,160
- Out of our way!
- He heard every word, the Holy Father.
306
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,563
Every word, every plot,
every insinuation.
307
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,641
He must know what happens
on the illness of a pope.
308
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:27,966
He plotted so himself.
309
00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:29,929
This is not just any ordinary pope.
310
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,687
A pope whose son has been murdered,
family almost died at the same blade.
311
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,765
- He will take action.
- So tell me, what must I do?
312
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,168
First, you must confess.
313
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,881
- Well, I admit it then, I am guilty.
- Of what?
314
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,528
Of avarice for advancement for,
dare I say, the throne of St. Peter.
315
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,967
Well, that might not be enough.
316
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,608
Am I guilty of more?
317
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,528
Who murdered the son?
318
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,560
The world awaits news on that.
319
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,167
There was a plot led by
Catherina Sforza and Della Rovere...
320
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,721
...to rid the earth of the Borgia family.
321
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,850
The plotters are in the Vatican walls.
322
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,570
I am a cleric, cardinal.
323
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,131
I am adept at strategy.
324
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,489
Perhaps arranging votes on conclave,
on committee.
325
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:30,043
As to my expertise in murder,
I would plead incompetence.
326
00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:34,566
You are the cousin
to Catherina Sforza.
327
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,371
The finger of such an accusation
must surely fall on you.
328
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,242
Indeed it does, which may well explain
my sense of urgency in this matter.
329
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:48,363
When the Holy Father was ill,
he heard no words of mine.
330
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,448
And what are my options?
331
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,331
Confession.
332
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,006
To a crime I would never even dream
of committing?
333
00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,004
Then name those who would,
the plotters.
334
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:01,924
And who are they?
335
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,004
Orsini, Versucci, Colonna.
Pick who you will.
336
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,925
It doesn't matter.
They all wanted him dead.
337
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,082
- I could never.
- Yes, I know.
338
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,647
The very thought seems outrageous.
339
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:18,328
But we must learn
how outrage becomes normality.
340
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,161
Bowls for sale.
Bowls for sale or trade.
341
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,960
This Vatican of ours has changed.
342
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:37,930
Forever.
343
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,044
Follow me.
344
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:45,925
Follow you where?
345
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,762
Into the future.
346
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,769
Am I, a prince of the church,
to be put to the rack?
347
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:00,763
The very thought appals me.
348
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,685
But there are others less delicate
than l.
349
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,081
So perhaps these instruments
of torture may act...
350
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,163
...as an aid to contemplation.
351
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,521
Cardinal Sforza. Cardinal Sforza.
Cardinal Sforza, please.
352
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:17,960
Please, Cardinal Sforza.
353
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:21,602
Please, Cardinal Sforza.
Cardinal Sforza!
354
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,410
Sforza!
355
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:27,925
No!
356
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,961
Sforza!
357
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,683
May I enter?
358
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,721
Will modesty allow it?
359
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:47,730
Please.
360
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,202
Little Giovanni.
361
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,888
He's a virgin.
362
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,686
He will punish me cruelly.
363
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,571
He will make me wait.
364
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:11,046
I have had word from my uncle,
King Ferdinand of Naples.
365
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,043
Observe.
366
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,646
The sleep of the innocent.
367
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,367
You have come
to kiss him good night?
368
00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:23,249
Or to kiss me?
369
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,601
My uncle's letter mentioned him.
370
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,450
The Child.
371
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,210
- The child?
- Neither mine nor your husband's.
372
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,244
What of it?
373
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,689
My uncle has expressed his disquiet
at the thought of--
374
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:52,888
- The thought of?
- The thought of a child...
375
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,122
...without legitimacy
in the palace of Naples.
376
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,124
Well, you and your uncle
will have to agree to disagree, then.
377
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,049
Of course.
378
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,202
- You would never--
- Who negotiates your dowry?
379
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,964
My brother.
380
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,926
Well, then I must go to him
and insist that--
381
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,287
Perhaps I should broach the matter
with him.
382
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:18,251
You?
383
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:24,281
My brother's passions can be intense
where issues of family are concerned.
384
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,760
Why have you forsaken me?
385
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,447
Why have you forsaken me?
386
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,048
You are in the house of lies.
387
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,569
The devil's house.
388
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,401
Think of them as your friends.
389
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:34,121
The rack, the iron maiden.
390
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,568
They have a message for you.
391
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,765
- You have used them, I am sure.
- I have suffered on them.
392
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,167
Your inquisitor believes
that they elicit the truth.
393
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,084
They do not.
394
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,008
A man will say anything on the rack
to make it end.
395
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,968
- Then why am I here?
- To learn to lie.
396
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,242
To say whatever is needed...
397
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:03,771
...to avoid their embrace.
398
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:11,324
You are to negotiate my dowry, brother,
with his uncle.
399
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,289
The king of Naples, yes.
400
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:18,367
So must I trade one love for another?
401
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,404
- Leave us.
- My lord.
402
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,451
Do you mean me for him?
403
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,164
That too.
404
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,322
What do you mean?
405
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,043
I mean my son, Giovanni.
406
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,842
His presence in Naples
might be unwelcome.
407
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,528
I could have seen that coming.
408
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,930
The king of Naples feels
that one cannot carry...
409
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,208
...into one marriage baggage
from the last.
410
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:55,161
- Is your son baggage to you?
- No. He's the light of my life.
411
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,129
Well, you could insist.
412
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,090
I will, as must you.
413
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,851
But you must make the case for the son
of a stable boy in a royal household.
414
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,244
Listen.
415
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:14,368
You are Lucrezia Borgia.
You are the scandal of Italy.
416
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,568
You are also the envy of Italy,
and soon to be a princess of Aragon.
417
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,611
Whoever gets in the way
of your happiness will meet my wrath.
418
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,203
We are the unholy family.
419
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,163
Let him know that.
420
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:47,967
I fear he knows already.
421
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,206
He will love you, he will serve you...
422
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,727
...and if Naples dares
to take your son from you...
423
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,680
...I promise
it will never know peace again.
424
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,650
Can I get help, please?
425
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,367
- Help now!
- Yes, my lord.
426
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,130
Did you sleep?
427
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,488
But I dreamed, cardinal.
428
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,160
You dreamt without sleeping?
429
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,489
Now, that is miraculous.
430
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,286
Call it a waking dream.
431
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,291
Tell me.
432
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:54,328
I dreamed of a vast conspiracy
encircling our beloved Vatican.
433
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,131
It has its roots in the hills
of the Romagna...
434
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,602
...in the great families that would
claim St. Peter's as their own.
435
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,284
And its tendrils spread
like writhing serpents...
436
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,602
...through the streets of Rome...
437
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,367
...breaking inside the Vatican walls...
438
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,085
...where it becomes
a many-headed hydra...
439
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,125
...and each head
wears a cardinal's hat.
440
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,482
Why don't you tell me more.
441
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,971
- Lucrezia?
- Is that my brother?
442
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,600
- Yes.
- The brother who loves me?
443
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,765
- The same.
- Come in, then. See my wedding gown.
444
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,608
- God--
- Come closer, brother.
445
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:50,885
MY gown.
446
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:52,686
Do YOU approve?
447
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,764
The gold is divine.
448
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:12,204
- I should leave, sis.
- Why? Am I ugly, brother?
449
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,529
The man who makes that claim
will lose his tongue.
450
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,090
My foot.
451
00:34:20,240 --> 00:34:22,083
It is ungainly.
452
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,483
- Too large, perhaps?
- Your foot is beautiful.
453
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,684
You can't tell from there. Feel it.
454
00:34:41,240 --> 00:34:46,531
- Is this a game?
- It is a game of want and wanting.
455
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:54,524
The toes are splayed a little.
456
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:59,201
- God has made better feet, I'm sure.
- Not that I have found.
457
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,761
- You are a connoisseur of feet?
- Yes.
458
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,088
And I have found none better.
459
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:08,690
My calf.
460
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,484
Is it elegant?
461
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,642
Is it smooth?
462
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,007
What is this game, sis?
463
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,327
My betrothed will not bed me.
464
00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:29,361
He will not touch me. He is a virgin.
465
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,082
You have the means
to change that history, I'm sure.
466
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:35,405
Are you sure...
467
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:41,208
...that this body
has the necessary charms?
468
00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:48,085
I'm certain.
469
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:54,731
He has made a vow to St. Agnes,
the patron saint of purity...
470
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,730
...to remain chaste until married.
471
00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:59,929
Unwise.
472
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,161
I am a Borgia.
473
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,521
And I feel unloved.
474
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,046
Positively foolish.
475
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,606
You look but don't touch.
476
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,011
My lady.
477
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,406
My lady, your fitting.
478
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:35,007
That will be the dressmakers
to fit my wedding dress.
479
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,487
- You must leave us, brother.
- Yes.
480
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,284
For delicacy's sake.
481
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,483
Yeah, of course.
482
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,085
Come in.
483
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,201
There was a conspiracy,
Holy Father...
484
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:59,246
...devised by the mistress of Forli,
Catherina Sforza.
485
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:02,449
But it is a conspiracy so vast...
486
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,080
...that we have no doubt
that she had help.
487
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,248
From within these walls?
488
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:08,447
Indeed.
489
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:12,250
And have no doubt, Holy Father...
490
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,721
...that he that denies
such a conspiracy existed...
491
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:16,763
...was part of the conspiracy himself.
492
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,922
We had feared as much.
493
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,890
A vast many-headed hydra...
494
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,287
...spreading from the families
of Romagna...
495
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,326
...and each head
wears a cardinal's hat.
496
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,569
Nonsense!
497
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:39,810
Preposterous.
498
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,642
The end was plain:
499
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,168
The murder of you
and your entire family.
500
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:52,048
In the instance of your most sacred
person, it almost succeeded.
501
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,330
In the instance of your beloved son,
Juan Borgia...
502
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,290
...it succeeded only too well.
503
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,762
And the conspirators?
504
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,847
Are they amongst us here?
505
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,644
They are, Holy Father.
506
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,882
And most shamefully, I must count
myself amongst their number.
507
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,961
Your honesty is noted,
but you must name names, cardinal.
508
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:28,610
Cardinal Francesco
Todeschini Piccolomini.
509
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:33,840
Liar! Accuse yourself, De Luca,
and that perfidious Orsini!
510
00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:37,724
- Cardinal Giovanni Battista Orsini.
- Listen, Your Highness.
511
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:42,090
- These are false accusations coming--
- Cardinal Rocca Colonna.
512
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,203
Cardinal Julius Versucci!
513
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,165
I have been part of no conspiracy,
Your Holiness!
514
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,009
Those cardinals...
515
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:11,680
...those who have betrayed
our sacred trust...
516
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:15,722
...will be stripped
of their offices and titles...
517
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,484
...their properties confiscated...
518
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,961
...and returned
to our Holy Mother Church.
519
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,127
They will be forbidden entry
through the gates of Rome...
520
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:30,889
...and live under censure
for the rest of their days.
521
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,131
Is this why you would speak
with me?
522
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:41,804
I who was once you.
You who will become me.
523
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,566
Should I resign myself...
524
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,804
...to being a mistress discarded?
525
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,884
I should be hating you,
not providing a sympathetic ear.
526
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,202
Advise me, then.
527
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,324
Is there another?
528
00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,405
Not that I know.
529
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,767
Perhaps it is you, then.
530
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:07,329
Something has changed between us.
531
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,767
I felt it for some time.
532
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,008
Does he still love you?
533
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:15,884
I hope.
534
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,001
Perhaps you'll find, as I have...
535
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:25,489
...that love deepens, regardless of
whether you share the same bed.
536
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,805
You mean I may find
it is truly over between us?
537
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:33,806
Perhaps.
538
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,285
Then you must state your terms.
539
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,125
Negotiate your exit.
540
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,204
What would you have from him,
if not his passion?
541
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,206
A palace, like yours.
542
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,762
That's easy.
The cardinals are falling like flies.
543
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,127
And a cardinal's hat.
544
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,011
For you? Have you no shame?
545
00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:02,006
For my brother.
546
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,921
Do you think she'd be happy here?
547
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,443
La Farnese?
548
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,846
So she's to be banished
from your life then?
549
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,411
No.
550
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:21,445
But a little distance
might be beneficial...
551
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:23,845
...between us.
552
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,163
Have you told her that?
553
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:29,962
I did mention it.
554
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:32,925
And?
555
00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:37,484
She was upset...
556
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,201
...but the tears didn't last long.
I mean, I think she was...
557
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:48,089
...relieved, maybe,
to be released from us.
558
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,170
Everything has its end.
559
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,169
Whose palace was this?
560
00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:04,050
One of the cardinals
who betrayed me.
561
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,840
It'll take more than a palace
to keep her happy.
562
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:08,690
Have you spoken to her?
563
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:13,522
She told me that your vigour
had somewhat diminished.
564
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,048
I told her I couldn't imagine
such a thing.
565
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,168
As I said before...
566
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,401
...it's a blessing in disguise.
567
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,085
Why do you laugh?
568
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,202
Because my life without you...
569
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,806
...has turned out
to be another blessing in disguise.
570
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,284
We're both...
571
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,844
-...blessed then.
- Together we're cursed.
572
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,044
But apart...
573
00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:49,924
...at least I'm at peace.
574
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,760
My God, what a bed.
575
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,321
It would fit the whole consistory.
576
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:13,804
Perhaps it did.
577
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:16,921
What?
578
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:18,969
This is a rare pleasure.
579
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:22,207
Alone together.
580
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,725
We find ourselves
becoming a little agitated.
581
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:34,320
You should call the guard.
582
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:36,602
We lack the voice.
583
00:43:44,240 --> 00:43:46,049
Little goat.
584
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,561
It's been a long time
since you called me that.
585
00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:51,246
Well, every now and then I whisper.
586
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,524
But rarely.
587
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,328
No, no, no.
588
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,404
You lack the vigour, remember?
589
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,847
It would appear no longer.
590
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,848
So the cause was not the poison,
my love.
591
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,525
It would appear not.
592
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:30,484
You know...
593
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,681
...we feel safe with you.
594
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,487
As if we've come home.
595
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,920
These offices I relinquish willingly.
596
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:53,090
These estates I place in the care
of our Holy Mother Church.
597
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,323
This hat...
598
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:05,528
...I now return to the hands
that blessed me with it.
599
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:14,929
But I would ask one last blessing...
600
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,084
...before I leave
our beloved Vatican forever.
601
00:45:20,240 --> 00:45:21,890
Confession.
602
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,761
I would confess
to the pope's ear alone...
603
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,606
...and be absolved of my heinous sins
by the successor to St. Peter.
604
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:29,881
- Now?
- Yes.
605
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:31,684
This is most irregular.
606
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,810
The business of defrocking alone
will take hours.
607
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,128
I have been asked
to effect my retirement...
608
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,851
...with maximum
and unseemly haste.
609
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,045
I have complied.
610
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,522
If my request is granted,
I will be gone forever.
611
00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:48,200
You need never
set eyes on me again.
612
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,044
- Well--
- Please.
613
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:53,330
Please.
614
00:45:57,720 --> 00:45:59,210
We grant this blessing.
615
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:03,564
- No.
- With the utmost efficacy.
616
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,329
Cardinal Sforza...
617
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,209
...take our place.
618
00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:28,891
Bless me, Your Holiness...
619
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:30,804
...for I have sinned.
620
00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:33,768
And my sins are many.
621
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:36,601
But the greatest of them...
622
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,128
...is this murder.
623
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:41,520
Murder?
624
00:46:41,720 --> 00:46:46,442
I must protest against this outrage.
625
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,803
This hat is red
as a symbol of our willingness...
626
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,806
...to spill our blood in defence
of our Holy Mother Church.
627
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:55,280
Whose murder?
628
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,489
A murder yet to be committed!
629
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:11,168
For which the whole world
will grant me forgiveness.
630
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:22,087
And I return it willingly
since there is nothing of value...
631
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:27,368
...no residue of honour,
of goodness...
632
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,564
...of sanctity left to defend.
633
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,930
There will be rejoicing
in the heavens...
634
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:50,085
...as hell welcomes you
with open arms.
635
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:59,087
May it lie in the filth
which will be its deserved home.
636
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:05,122
I'll gladly die with you.
637
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:25,730
As you sink into the darkness,
call out his name...
638
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:27,160
...see if he replies.
639
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:34,446
Or if you must hear
the eternal silence.
640
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,084
Next!
641
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:38,770
Cardinal Colonna.
642
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,361
This is one endless confession.
643
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,483
Close the door.
644
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,245
God must want us to live.