1 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:10,370 Through Spain's courageous assistance, Rome is liberated. 2 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,770 If your holiness wishes the properties returned, 3 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:14,840 your holiness will have to take them. 4 00:00:14,910 --> 00:00:18,660 Order captain general Juan Borgia onto the field of battle. 5 00:00:18,730 --> 00:00:21,170 I will happily meet the challenge. 6 00:00:23,570 --> 00:00:25,620 But I do not want to be a priest. 7 00:00:25,620 --> 00:00:26,940 I do not have the soul for it. 8 00:00:36,370 --> 00:00:37,750 Whose bastard son is this? 9 00:00:37,850 --> 00:00:39,430 Yours. 10 00:00:39,510 --> 00:00:40,910 You whore! 11 00:00:40,980 --> 00:00:42,930 There is no room for you in the Borgia family, 12 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,530 nor in my heart. 13 00:00:47,390 --> 00:00:50,310 Do you have a mother, briconnet? 14 00:00:50,310 --> 00:00:52,170 Then you know why you die. 15 00:00:54,590 --> 00:00:58,050 My sweet wife did not survive the sea voyage. 16 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:03,210 As of now, I am a widower and you, a murderer. No. 17 00:01:03,290 --> 00:01:06,210 Bless me, father, for I have sinned. 18 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,300 My half brother, Pedro Luis, I had him murdered. 19 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,260 Who finds peace? 20 00:01:14,420 --> 00:01:17,640 If hell exists, we will both burn. 21 00:01:20,210 --> 00:01:21,600 The lucky man, 22 00:01:23,530 --> 00:01:25,380 or the faithful one? 23 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:16,880 Hey, hey. 24 00:03:24,410 --> 00:03:26,640 The laocoon, 25 00:03:26,710 --> 00:03:29,980 a relic from the magnificent days of ancient Rome. 26 00:03:30,660 --> 00:03:33,420 A cautionary tale, 27 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:38,170 the high priest laocoon tried to warn the trojans about the large wooden horse. 28 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:39,720 Fear the Greeks, 29 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:41,560 even bearing gifts. 30 00:03:42,710 --> 00:03:44,540 The goddess Athena, as revenge, 31 00:03:44,610 --> 00:03:47,110 sent a serpent, which Rose from the sea 32 00:03:47,180 --> 00:03:51,370 to destroy laocoon and his sons. 33 00:03:51,430 --> 00:03:55,140 The trojans believed that laocoon's death proved him wrong. 34 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,830 God may destroy a man, 35 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:04,130 but the man may still be right. 36 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:26,570 His highness, goffredo Borgia, 37 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:28,990 prince of squillace, 38 00:04:29,050 --> 00:04:33,110 and her highness, Princess sancia d'aragona. 39 00:04:38,350 --> 00:04:40,210 We welcome you, our son, 40 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:42,480 and our daughter by marriage, 41 00:04:42,550 --> 00:04:46,140 who god has blessed with a child. 42 00:04:53,460 --> 00:04:57,330 We long to hold those precious jewels close to our heart. 43 00:05:30,230 --> 00:05:33,880 We anoint oliviero carafa Dean of the sacred college. 44 00:05:33,950 --> 00:05:36,890 And renew rafaele riario-sansoni's tenure 45 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,680 as camerlengo of the holy Roman church. 46 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,670 Holiness, 47 00:05:50,740 --> 00:05:52,800 general de Cordova 48 00:05:52,870 --> 00:05:54,720 and the Duke of urbino. 49 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,500 As promised, we have captured the traitor virginio orsini. 50 00:06:05,570 --> 00:06:08,300 We deliver him here to your divine presence 51 00:06:08,370 --> 00:06:09,900 for sentencing. 52 00:06:10,770 --> 00:06:12,910 Bravo, great captain, 53 00:06:13,010 --> 00:06:14,130 bravo. 54 00:06:14,190 --> 00:06:16,640 What took so long? 55 00:06:16,710 --> 00:06:22,030 I beg you, wise father, to spare my brother from the pangs of death. 56 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:25,340 What other choice have we, but death? 57 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,010 - Exile. - Exiles return, 58 00:06:28,070 --> 00:06:30,040 usually with a foreign army behind them. 59 00:06:30,110 --> 00:06:32,480 Father, 60 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,210 may I choose virginio orsini's punishment? 61 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:36,760 How fitting. 62 00:06:38,150 --> 00:06:39,220 What will it be? 63 00:06:42,050 --> 00:06:45,760 I must ponder the answer carefully. 64 00:06:45,820 --> 00:06:49,930 In the interim, place the criminal in a dungeon at terra nuova. 65 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:53,030 So be it. 66 00:06:56,290 --> 00:06:58,490 And tomorrow, general de Cordova, 67 00:06:58,550 --> 00:07:01,150 we shall bestow upon you our highest honor 68 00:07:01,220 --> 00:07:02,620 the golden Rose. 69 00:07:17,260 --> 00:07:18,740 Oh! 70 00:07:18,810 --> 00:07:19,840 Oh! 71 00:07:26,830 --> 00:07:28,270 Lucrezia? 72 00:07:30,070 --> 00:07:32,220 Lucrezia, come and sit here. 73 00:07:39,090 --> 00:07:41,030 Thank you for the picnic, mama. 74 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:43,930 The air here by the river is so fresh. 75 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,150 Fresher than the air at the Vatican. 76 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,470 Please excuse us, soldier. 77 00:07:52,570 --> 00:07:56,030 As you know, pantisilea has come to work at my villa. 78 00:07:57,260 --> 00:07:59,500 That whore betrayed me. 79 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,580 In a worse way than you know. 80 00:08:01,650 --> 00:08:04,150 Since the first day she arrived from Spain, 81 00:08:04,220 --> 00:08:06,990 pantisilea has served giulia farnese. 82 00:08:07,060 --> 00:08:08,520 Every letter you have written, 83 00:08:08,590 --> 00:08:11,290 every conversation has been revealed. 84 00:08:12,150 --> 00:08:14,730 Giulia pretends to be your friend, 85 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,800 but she's your nemesis. 86 00:08:38,790 --> 00:08:40,240 Untie me. 87 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,710 I am not stupid. 88 00:08:48,780 --> 00:08:51,770 Oh, not as bright as cesare, but... 89 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,810 I ordered you to kill my brother and yet he lives. 90 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,880 Either you are incompetent, 91 00:09:02,950 --> 00:09:04,510 or treacherous. 92 00:09:04,580 --> 00:09:07,560 And I know that you are not incompetent. 93 00:09:10,890 --> 00:09:15,070 This evening, my mother holds a farewell dinner for cesare. 94 00:09:15,140 --> 00:09:17,310 See that when he leaves the villa, 95 00:09:17,380 --> 00:09:19,180 he goes to his grave. 96 00:09:20,060 --> 00:09:21,850 I promise. 97 00:09:21,910 --> 00:09:23,710 He will die tonight. 98 00:09:29,370 --> 00:09:31,970 I find that I think best when I am fucking. 99 00:09:35,490 --> 00:09:36,960 What? 100 00:09:37,030 --> 00:09:38,510 Sister. 101 00:09:38,580 --> 00:09:40,350 As prefect of Rome, 102 00:09:40,420 --> 00:09:42,000 prince of tricarico, 103 00:09:42,070 --> 00:09:44,190 I can say what I choose. 104 00:09:44,250 --> 00:09:46,790 Brother, you have the helmet but not the brain. 105 00:09:46,860 --> 00:09:49,060 The sword, but not the arm to wield it. 106 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,080 Boys, no rough stuff. 107 00:09:59,150 --> 00:10:00,350 Sancia, 108 00:10:01,750 --> 00:10:05,590 do you know what I love about our family? 109 00:10:05,660 --> 00:10:11,050 We can say or do anything to each other without fear of recrimination. 110 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:19,700 More than my life, 111 00:10:20,910 --> 00:10:22,610 I adore my mother. 112 00:10:29,330 --> 00:10:30,360 And... 113 00:10:37,270 --> 00:10:38,670 My brothers. 114 00:10:44,710 --> 00:10:47,030 Be seated, both of you! 115 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:53,870 Lucrezia. 116 00:10:55,690 --> 00:10:56,960 Lucrezia. 117 00:11:03,570 --> 00:11:04,750 Pantisilea. 118 00:11:06,620 --> 00:11:07,650 Oh. 119 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,030 Now that I have left the convent, 120 00:11:14,090 --> 00:11:16,010 would you prefer to serve me again? 121 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:18,930 Yes, lady. Fine. 122 00:11:20,530 --> 00:11:24,120 Then all we need is the permission of giulia farnese. 123 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,440 She threatened me. 124 00:11:28,510 --> 00:11:30,140 If I did not help her, she... 125 00:11:30,210 --> 00:11:33,490 And you neglected to tell me this because I could not protect you. 126 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:35,260 I was new to the city. 127 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:37,830 Insecure, 128 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:40,520 uncertain who to trust. 129 00:11:40,590 --> 00:11:42,940 You will return to the apostolic palace with me tonight. 130 00:11:43,010 --> 00:11:44,240 Lucrezia. 131 00:12:01,970 --> 00:12:04,370 I go in search of further pleasure. 132 00:12:07,060 --> 00:12:08,960 At our mother's tavern, 133 00:12:09,030 --> 00:12:12,720 there is a new whore who is delicious. 134 00:12:15,490 --> 00:12:17,250 I leave her to you. 135 00:12:19,860 --> 00:12:21,780 But be careful. 136 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:23,730 With all those bells jingling on your jacket, 137 00:12:23,790 --> 00:12:26,050 your enemies will know that you are coming. 138 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,370 Nini, follow me. 139 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,200 I must do something. 140 00:12:34,270 --> 00:12:37,510 You, take the rest of the bravi. 141 00:12:37,580 --> 00:12:39,240 Go back to your wife. 142 00:12:54,930 --> 00:12:56,130 Hey! 143 00:13:01,970 --> 00:13:04,750 Is Juan here? Why? 144 00:13:04,820 --> 00:13:07,590 Do you want to watch your brother and me make love? 145 00:13:10,780 --> 00:13:15,360 I have the documents deeding the duchies of benevento, terracina 146 00:13:15,430 --> 00:13:18,370 and pontecorvo to Juan. 147 00:13:18,430 --> 00:13:20,470 We could not secure him the crown of Naples, 148 00:13:20,540 --> 00:13:22,370 so acre by acre, 149 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,800 we will carve a kingdom out of the papal states. 150 00:13:24,870 --> 00:13:26,410 Even if he's not worthy? 151 00:13:28,060 --> 00:13:30,310 Cesare... cesare's fate is decided. 152 00:13:30,380 --> 00:13:32,380 By you. 153 00:13:32,450 --> 00:13:35,150 But perhaps the god you serve has other plans. 154 00:14:16,390 --> 00:14:20,630 To breathe is a simple act, until it is made impossible. 155 00:14:20,690 --> 00:14:22,860 No, lord Jesus, I do not want to die. 156 00:14:22,930 --> 00:14:26,970 Then tell me, who is the true Borgia man? You. You are. 157 00:14:59,030 --> 00:15:00,300 Cesare? 158 00:15:00,370 --> 00:15:02,370 I need to speak with you. 159 00:15:03,310 --> 00:15:05,840 I took an opiate to deepen my sleep. 160 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:10,380 Tomorrow then. 161 00:15:22,470 --> 00:15:26,180 So, tell me, couze... 162 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,860 What have you learned living in the Borgia household? 163 00:15:30,310 --> 00:15:32,270 To take what I want, 164 00:15:34,570 --> 00:15:36,440 regardless of the cost 165 00:15:37,150 --> 00:15:38,820 and who gets hurt. 166 00:16:00,430 --> 00:16:02,380 As the scriptures say, 167 00:16:03,580 --> 00:16:06,420 "the lord is a man of war." 168 00:16:09,450 --> 00:16:11,820 Happily, great captain, 169 00:16:11,890 --> 00:16:15,060 you have chosen to follow in the boots of Christ. 170 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,300 Odd that both cesare and Juan Borgia are missing the ceremony. 171 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:56,670 Why are you in my bed? 172 00:16:56,730 --> 00:16:58,500 Do you not remember? 173 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,010 I am celibate. 174 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,810 You will blacken this night from your memory, 175 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:10,310 as I have done. 176 00:17:13,330 --> 00:17:14,730 This time 177 00:17:16,140 --> 00:17:17,740 you can whip me. 178 00:17:30,130 --> 00:17:31,770 That is the prefect's horse. 179 00:17:33,150 --> 00:17:35,160 Someone has cut the stirrups. 180 00:17:38,910 --> 00:17:40,140 Rodrigo, 181 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:43,130 Juan's horse has returned. 182 00:17:49,970 --> 00:17:51,740 We must find the boy. 183 00:17:51,810 --> 00:17:54,410 Tell cesare, search, search, search. 184 00:17:54,410 --> 00:17:56,940 Soldiers will go to every home, every shop, every convent. 185 00:17:57,010 --> 00:17:59,350 If no one answers, tell them break down each door. 186 00:17:59,410 --> 00:18:01,450 Interrogate every living soul. 187 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,220 The masked man, de corella, bring him to me at once. 188 00:18:05,290 --> 00:18:06,590 He hasn't crept about all day. 189 00:18:06,650 --> 00:18:08,220 I need to speak with him! 190 00:18:08,290 --> 00:18:09,990 On a matter of life and death. 191 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:14,540 I ask again, 192 00:18:14,610 --> 00:18:17,150 did anyone witness anything? 193 00:18:18,170 --> 00:18:21,170 If my brother is found harmed, 194 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,240 and if the culprit has any ties to you Jews, 195 00:18:24,310 --> 00:18:27,660 this borgo will be leveled to the ground. 196 00:18:27,730 --> 00:18:30,230 And you will be driven into the sea, 197 00:18:30,290 --> 00:18:33,700 with no Moses to part the waters. 198 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,730 Your race will be extinguished forever. 199 00:19:01,930 --> 00:19:03,190 Francesc, 200 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:08,260 I was praying for Juan in the basilica, alone, 201 00:19:08,330 --> 00:19:11,170 when I heard these terrible moans of grief. 202 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,640 I searched every corner, but found no one. 203 00:19:17,270 --> 00:19:19,810 And the torches began to float, 204 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:23,780 circling me, as if dancing. 205 00:19:27,020 --> 00:19:30,100 Then I realized, that the voice 206 00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:33,510 which moaned so intensely, 207 00:19:34,510 --> 00:19:35,870 was my own. 208 00:19:42,380 --> 00:19:43,550 Come. 209 00:19:43,620 --> 00:19:45,390 You found my brother? 210 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:52,160 This is nini, 211 00:19:52,230 --> 00:19:54,660 the man who left with Juan last night. 212 00:19:54,730 --> 00:19:56,900 His senses have been beaten. 213 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,670 He is alive, but cannot hear or speak. 214 00:19:59,730 --> 00:20:03,190 Have him taken to the apostolic palace to be cared for. 215 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,220 What next, general? 216 00:20:06,290 --> 00:20:08,260 We are near the river's edge. 217 00:20:08,330 --> 00:20:10,790 Let us search every boat, every dock. 218 00:20:10,810 --> 00:20:13,010 I have lived along this river 219 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,900 since I moved to Rome from dalmatia 28 years ago. 220 00:20:16,950 --> 00:20:19,670 Fascinating, but I need to know... I collect wood 221 00:20:19,740 --> 00:20:23,660 from the forest and I sell it in the market. 222 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,630 But at night I must guard my livelihood from the thieves. 223 00:20:26,710 --> 00:20:28,700 So I sleep here... Signore schiavioni, 224 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,720 I need to know if you saw any unusual sights last evening. 225 00:20:31,780 --> 00:20:33,320 Unusual? 226 00:20:33,380 --> 00:20:35,000 No. You did not see a fight? 227 00:20:35,070 --> 00:20:36,970 No. Or a body? 228 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,070 Oh, yes, I did see that. 229 00:20:40,140 --> 00:20:43,580 At around two in the morning, a rider on a white horse 230 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,930 appeared on the other shore. 231 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,280 He looked to and fro to see if anyone was watching... 232 00:20:48,350 --> 00:20:51,350 But he did not see you? No, I learned well how to hide, 233 00:20:51,420 --> 00:20:53,420 escaping from the Turks. 234 00:20:53,490 --> 00:20:56,290 The rider, satisfied that no one was around, 235 00:20:56,490 --> 00:20:58,530 he signaled into the darkness. 236 00:20:58,590 --> 00:21:01,010 Now, the moon was barely a crescent, 237 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,360 but my eyes are sharp. 238 00:21:03,430 --> 00:21:07,750 Four men carried a body to just below San Girolamo's where garbage is dumped. 239 00:21:07,820 --> 00:21:09,750 They threw the body into the river. 240 00:21:09,820 --> 00:21:12,120 I laughed because it wouldn't sink. 241 00:21:12,190 --> 00:21:15,260 But they heaved a large stone on its chest and it was gone. 242 00:21:15,330 --> 00:21:18,660 Was the face of the man on the white horse hidden in any way? 243 00:21:18,730 --> 00:21:20,000 Masked or veiled? 244 00:21:20,060 --> 00:21:21,660 Oh, masked... 245 00:21:23,130 --> 00:21:25,470 In truth, I cannot say, sir, I... 246 00:21:27,170 --> 00:21:28,450 Saw no features on any of the men. 247 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,120 When I asked you if you had seen anything unusual, 248 00:21:31,190 --> 00:21:32,670 you said no. 249 00:21:32,740 --> 00:21:36,860 I didn't lie. I see 100 bodies tossed into the tiber every year. 250 00:21:36,930 --> 00:21:39,150 No one ever comes searching. 251 00:21:52,950 --> 00:21:54,080 Here. 252 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,000 Here he is. 253 00:22:29,030 --> 00:22:30,970 His throat has been severed. 254 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:35,990 He has been stabbed in seven, nine places. 255 00:22:36,060 --> 00:22:38,670 His gloves are tucked into his belt. 256 00:22:39,660 --> 00:22:42,180 There are ducats still in his purse. 257 00:22:42,250 --> 00:22:43,980 There was no robbery. 258 00:22:45,150 --> 00:22:46,730 This is revenge. 259 00:22:48,270 --> 00:22:50,700 Take him to the castel sant'Angelo. 260 00:22:52,470 --> 00:22:54,240 I'll tell my father. 261 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,490 He was my right eye. 262 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:33,510 Mama, 263 00:23:44,890 --> 00:23:46,390 Juan is dead. 264 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,370 You have located de corella? 265 00:24:08,430 --> 00:24:11,780 No, eminence, he has not been at any of his usual haunts. 266 00:24:11,850 --> 00:24:13,520 He is nowhere. Fuck. 267 00:24:15,310 --> 00:24:17,660 Go, go, go. 268 00:24:17,660 --> 00:24:19,780 Do not come back without him. 269 00:24:41,930 --> 00:24:43,380 Holiness? 270 00:24:43,450 --> 00:24:45,200 No! 271 00:25:19,550 --> 00:25:21,650 Rodrigo, open the door. 272 00:25:23,020 --> 00:25:26,230 The law of god rules my heart! 273 00:25:57,740 --> 00:26:01,180 Where is that girl, pantisilea? 274 00:26:02,190 --> 00:26:03,930 At times like this, you need someone... 275 00:26:04,020 --> 00:26:06,120 I do not need pantisilea, mama. 276 00:26:06,980 --> 00:26:08,780 I do not need anyone. 277 00:26:12,290 --> 00:26:14,360 Eternal rest, 278 00:26:14,420 --> 00:26:16,990 grant unto your faithful servant, 279 00:26:17,460 --> 00:26:19,260 Juan. 280 00:26:19,330 --> 00:26:22,950 And let perpetual light shine upon him. 281 00:26:24,830 --> 00:26:28,690 A just man shall be in everlasting remembrance. 282 00:26:29,990 --> 00:26:31,990 An evil report, 283 00:26:32,060 --> 00:26:33,860 he shall not fear. 284 00:26:35,930 --> 00:26:37,500 Almighty god, 285 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,050 Juan Borgia, 286 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:42,800 whom you have called out of this world, 287 00:26:43,940 --> 00:26:46,270 cause him to be joined 288 00:26:46,340 --> 00:26:48,670 to the fellowship of your saints. 289 00:26:49,740 --> 00:26:51,290 Amen. 290 00:27:29,750 --> 00:27:33,790 What does it say about a man whose own mother does not weep for him? 291 00:27:49,940 --> 00:27:53,190 Juan was either led into an ambush, or he knew his attackers, 292 00:27:53,260 --> 00:27:55,690 so his suspicions were not aroused. 293 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,690 He and the bravi must have been on foot, 294 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,960 as he had taken off his riding gloves. 295 00:28:00,030 --> 00:28:02,630 And both men were hit on the head directly from behind. 296 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:04,700 If he was on foot, 297 00:28:04,770 --> 00:28:06,930 why was the horse's stirrup cut? 298 00:28:07,370 --> 00:28:09,200 A good question. 299 00:28:09,270 --> 00:28:12,540 The facts are few and contradictory. 300 00:28:12,610 --> 00:28:15,610 We must begin an investigation to find the murderers. 301 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,280 And who will lead this investigation? 302 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:19,580 I will. 303 00:28:19,650 --> 00:28:21,330 Only his holiness or the vice chancellor 304 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,250 has the power to appoint a papal examiner. 305 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:28,060 His holiness is unwell. Since sforza is no longer vice chancellor, 306 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:32,260 the choice falls to me, as camerlengo. 307 00:28:32,330 --> 00:28:35,410 You realize that you are a suspect in the murder? 308 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,830 I also know that I am innocent, 309 00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:40,820 with a brother's desire for the truth. 310 00:28:40,890 --> 00:28:44,040 Still, the best way to avoid being investigated 311 00:28:44,110 --> 00:28:46,970 is to run the investigation. 312 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,060 So that no one questions your findings, 313 00:28:50,130 --> 00:28:56,370 you and I will conduct the interviews together. 314 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,660 Day one, the investigation in the murder of Juan Borgia. 315 00:29:01,490 --> 00:29:04,760 Ascanio cardinal sforza, 316 00:29:04,830 --> 00:29:07,350 you swear to speak only god's truth? 317 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,680 Yes, I do so swear. 318 00:29:09,750 --> 00:29:11,220 - Be seated, eminence. - Thank you. 319 00:29:13,690 --> 00:29:16,070 Do you understand why you are here? 320 00:29:16,140 --> 00:29:19,340 Because you think I had Juan Borgia executed. 321 00:29:19,410 --> 00:29:22,850 I only wish I had. Then you admit you felt ill will towards the prefect? 322 00:29:22,910 --> 00:29:25,360 As did we all, eminence. 323 00:29:25,430 --> 00:29:28,300 But as recently as five days ago, you threatened Juan. 324 00:29:28,370 --> 00:29:29,890 Not even remotely. 325 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,640 I have not been to the cancelleria vecchia since 326 00:29:39,250 --> 00:29:41,500 my father gave the palace to you. 327 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,080 I have tried to maintain its luster. 328 00:29:45,940 --> 00:29:49,970 You are acquainted with count Antonio della mirandola. 329 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:51,640 This is lord jaches, my secretary. 330 00:29:51,710 --> 00:29:54,890 You killed my daughter, my beautiful rosalina. 331 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,580 She was a suicide 332 00:29:57,380 --> 00:29:58,810 and far from beautiful. 333 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,200 You drove her to the ledge. 334 00:30:00,270 --> 00:30:01,630 You are wrong. 335 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:03,720 My understanding is that, 336 00:30:03,790 --> 00:30:06,110 you refused to marry her 337 00:30:06,170 --> 00:30:08,740 and you disowned her. 338 00:30:10,830 --> 00:30:13,260 I gave rosalina love. 339 00:30:13,330 --> 00:30:15,910 - They, hate. - Borgia bastard, 340 00:30:16,050 --> 00:30:17,250 I will kill you! 341 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,750 I was trying to make peace, 342 00:30:19,820 --> 00:30:21,070 but your brother is... 343 00:30:22,060 --> 00:30:24,490 Was, a provocateur. 344 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,530 Is Antonio della mirandola responsible? 345 00:30:27,590 --> 00:30:30,800 The good count is all bluster. 346 00:30:30,860 --> 00:30:33,070 And was in ostia the night on which Juan disappeared. 347 00:30:33,130 --> 00:30:36,570 While your secretary... prefers the extremities of men. 348 00:30:38,540 --> 00:30:41,910 The engagement to marry was one of convenience, not passion. 349 00:30:41,970 --> 00:30:43,810 You had reason to kill Juan, 350 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,490 in order to hurt his holiness, 351 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,200 because he dismissed you as vice chancellor. 352 00:30:48,250 --> 00:30:51,870 I travel well on the curving road of politics. 353 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:54,340 I take nothing personally. 354 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,970 How about your cousin, Giovanni? 355 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,620 Has he revenged himself on pope Alexander, 356 00:30:59,690 --> 00:31:01,860 for the divorce from lucrezia Borgia? 357 00:31:01,930 --> 00:31:05,700 You need spend only a single hour with my cousin to understand this, 358 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,630 Giovanni was born a bastard. 359 00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:15,310 His watered-down blood holds none of the sforza boldness. 360 00:31:15,370 --> 00:31:18,310 He is, as he swore before god, impotent. 361 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,480 Some poor bastards 362 00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:29,150 never get beyond their past. 363 00:31:29,220 --> 00:31:33,080 Miguel de corella was last seen the morning after Juan's murder, 364 00:31:33,140 --> 00:31:37,450 riding at a fierce gallop on the via flaminia out of Rome. 365 00:31:38,550 --> 00:31:40,120 Then I am adrift. 366 00:31:40,180 --> 00:31:41,250 Why? 367 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,120 What does de corella know? 368 00:31:44,190 --> 00:31:46,490 Where I was the night Juan died. 369 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,290 Babbo? 370 00:31:58,030 --> 00:31:59,530 I have brought food. 371 00:32:01,070 --> 00:32:04,210 For two days, you have not eaten. 372 00:32:04,270 --> 00:32:08,730 Avenge, oh, lord, the shedding of your servant's blood. 373 00:32:24,060 --> 00:32:26,640 You once told me that we could be friends. 374 00:32:29,870 --> 00:32:32,250 But you have not behaved as one. 375 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,890 Still, we share a common love 376 00:32:40,260 --> 00:32:42,750 for a man in much distress. 377 00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:48,130 And so, we must be bound together. 378 00:32:57,510 --> 00:32:59,890 Gianbattista cardinal orsini. 379 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:03,650 The other hand. 380 00:33:06,020 --> 00:33:08,400 You swear to speak only god's truth? 381 00:33:09,770 --> 00:33:12,210 Eminence, you must say so out loud. 382 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,880 Yes, I do so swear. 383 00:33:19,570 --> 00:33:22,450 Know this straight off, 384 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:27,170 Juan Borgia asked me for a bribe in exchange for my brother's life. 385 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:29,940 Did you agree to pay this bribe? 386 00:33:35,810 --> 00:33:37,420 These ducats are not enough. 387 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,000 Your brother must acknowledge my superiority. 388 00:33:40,070 --> 00:33:42,200 Virginio, say nothing. 389 00:33:44,010 --> 00:33:45,870 The prefect of Rome, 390 00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:49,590 with his limitless benevolence... And limitless appetites. 391 00:33:49,660 --> 00:33:52,770 With his forgiving heart... And his despicable soul. 392 00:33:52,830 --> 00:33:54,330 Brother, 393 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,800 his grace has decided to release you 394 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,860 if... I apologize? 395 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:03,780 Yes. 396 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,730 There are certain maxims in war. 397 00:34:05,790 --> 00:34:07,780 Are there not, prefect? 398 00:34:07,850 --> 00:34:11,470 To be a good warrior you must act as your enemy acts, 399 00:34:11,470 --> 00:34:14,100 even if he is a graceless, insolent coward. 400 00:34:16,220 --> 00:34:18,320 No, I will not do what you would do, Borgia. 401 00:34:19,060 --> 00:34:21,460 I will not beg for my life. 402 00:34:21,530 --> 00:34:24,350 And so, virginio, you win another battle. 403 00:34:24,410 --> 00:34:26,210 In triumph, 404 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,050 you will spend the rest of your days in this cage, bent in half. 405 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,500 You will die after many years, 406 00:34:32,570 --> 00:34:36,310 having forgotten how it feels to fully extend your legs. 407 00:34:36,380 --> 00:34:38,310 At least, unlike you, 408 00:34:41,460 --> 00:34:43,430 I will walk into heaven. 409 00:34:45,180 --> 00:34:47,690 Therefore, you had ample reason 410 00:34:47,750 --> 00:34:49,750 to want Juan Borgia dead. 411 00:34:51,420 --> 00:34:52,560 Yes, 412 00:34:53,790 --> 00:34:56,330 but you know me, rafaele. 413 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,160 I am a priest, not a soldier. 414 00:35:00,230 --> 00:35:04,120 My soul does not possess the art of killing. 415 00:35:04,190 --> 00:35:08,110 Easy enough to order the orsini bravi to do so. 416 00:35:08,170 --> 00:35:10,680 Juan's wrists were bound behind his back, 417 00:35:10,740 --> 00:35:12,640 his mouth gagged, 418 00:35:12,710 --> 00:35:16,380 as virginio's were when he was brought before his holiness. 419 00:35:16,450 --> 00:35:20,300 A coincidence? My family has lived in Rome, 420 00:35:20,370 --> 00:35:23,200 nearly 2,000 years. 421 00:35:23,270 --> 00:35:26,770 We have served kings, emperors, popes. 422 00:35:28,140 --> 00:35:30,260 I am the last of my tribe. 423 00:35:30,330 --> 00:35:33,050 When I die, the name orsini dies. 424 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,520 Yet we die nobly, 425 00:35:37,590 --> 00:35:39,820 not stained by the sin of revenge. 426 00:35:39,890 --> 00:35:42,260 Your words are meaningless. 427 00:35:42,330 --> 00:35:45,430 Then place me in a cage beside my brother. 428 00:35:45,490 --> 00:35:48,600 I am ready to stand before almighty god. 429 00:35:48,660 --> 00:35:49,810 Are you? 430 00:35:58,290 --> 00:35:59,840 I was not finished. 431 00:35:59,910 --> 00:36:02,410 What more would you have asked? 432 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:07,200 I served alongside your half-brother Pedro Luis, in the wars against the moors. 433 00:36:07,270 --> 00:36:09,000 I kept vigil by his coffin. 434 00:36:09,070 --> 00:36:11,200 He was one of the finest men I've ever known. 435 00:36:11,270 --> 00:36:14,540 Are you aware that Pedro Luis was murdered by Juan? 436 00:36:16,510 --> 00:36:19,480 I have recently learned so, yes, but why do you tell me this? 437 00:36:19,550 --> 00:36:23,380 To prove to you that I am interested solely in the truth. 438 00:36:23,450 --> 00:36:26,820 Did the two of you plot to execute the prefect of Rome? 439 00:36:26,820 --> 00:36:30,140 You Borgia have been too long gone from Spain. 440 00:36:30,210 --> 00:36:33,340 A true conquistador does not stab in the middle of the night. 441 00:36:33,410 --> 00:36:35,480 We kill on battlefields. 442 00:36:37,210 --> 00:36:39,550 You are not Spanish, guidobaldo. 443 00:36:39,620 --> 00:36:42,300 I cannot prove that I did not kill your brother. 444 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,470 Can you prove that you did not? 445 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,220 I say this, 446 00:36:49,290 --> 00:36:53,480 I am known throughout Italy as a man whose word is unassailable. 447 00:36:53,550 --> 00:36:56,830 I swear upon the lives of my children, I'm free of guilt. 448 00:36:56,900 --> 00:36:58,730 We are your allies. 449 00:37:00,090 --> 00:37:02,650 Look to our mutual enemy, 450 00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:05,560 France. 451 00:37:05,630 --> 00:37:09,160 No, I will not sit in judgment by you, cardinal Borgia, 452 00:37:09,230 --> 00:37:13,710 just as you would not sit before me, in the murder of my son, my beloved, Jean. 453 00:37:13,780 --> 00:37:18,490 Your refusal leads me to believe that you are involved in prefect of Rome's demise. 454 00:37:18,550 --> 00:37:20,400 If hearsay is gospel, 455 00:37:20,470 --> 00:37:23,370 I would believe that you stabbed the prefect out of jealousy. 456 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:24,540 Jealousy? 457 00:37:24,610 --> 00:37:26,810 Over the lady lucrezia. 458 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:31,030 Rumors span from the tip of sicily to the doors of notre dame, 459 00:37:31,100 --> 00:37:35,600 that both you and your brother have had incestuous relations with your sister. 460 00:37:35,670 --> 00:37:37,740 You dare speak such words? 461 00:37:37,810 --> 00:37:40,140 I do not subscribe to this gossip. 462 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,140 Neither does my king. 463 00:37:43,210 --> 00:37:44,900 But what does it say about your family 464 00:37:44,900 --> 00:37:47,680 that others are so easily convinced 465 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,620 the perversions are true? 466 00:37:49,690 --> 00:37:53,290 And Jesus Christ, his only begotten son, 467 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,460 who was conceived by the holy ghost, 468 00:37:56,530 --> 00:37:58,830 born of the virgin Mary, 469 00:37:58,890 --> 00:38:03,180 suffered under pontius pilate, was crucified, died and buried. 470 00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:04,970 He descended into hell. 471 00:38:05,030 --> 00:38:06,800 The third day, 472 00:38:06,870 --> 00:38:08,470 he Rose from the dead 473 00:38:08,540 --> 00:38:12,660 and sits at the right hand of god, the father. 474 00:38:13,740 --> 00:38:15,730 And from thence, 475 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,760 he shall come and judge 476 00:38:17,830 --> 00:38:20,650 the quick and the dead. 477 00:38:20,720 --> 00:38:23,230 The fact is this, fabrizio, 478 00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:24,820 Juan Borgia, 479 00:38:24,890 --> 00:38:27,990 transformed you into a cuckold 480 00:38:28,060 --> 00:38:31,440 and as a result, you murdered your wife, nannia. 481 00:38:31,510 --> 00:38:33,940 A moment of passion. 482 00:38:34,010 --> 00:38:37,130 I pay the fine, confessed my sins, 483 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:38,770 promising never to kill again. 484 00:38:38,830 --> 00:38:41,570 Promises made in the confessional are vapors 485 00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,540 which dissipate quickly. 486 00:38:45,910 --> 00:38:49,510 You Borgia think all families are the same as yours. 487 00:38:50,340 --> 00:38:53,830 But I truly regretted my crime 488 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:57,800 and I fear for my immortal soul. 489 00:38:57,870 --> 00:39:01,300 When everybody else joined France against your father, 490 00:39:01,310 --> 00:39:02,940 why was I absent? 491 00:39:03,010 --> 00:39:06,240 You colonna wanted Juan dead as a vendetta, 492 00:39:06,310 --> 00:39:08,280 for the murder of your nephew marcantonio. 493 00:39:08,350 --> 00:39:11,650 If we wanted anyone dead that person would be you, eminence, 494 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:14,300 because you had marcantonio dismembered. 495 00:39:14,990 --> 00:39:16,690 But we did nothing. 496 00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:19,720 He suffered justly. 497 00:39:19,790 --> 00:39:22,890 We know the vile act he committed upon your person. 498 00:39:38,990 --> 00:39:43,030 Some secrets should never be revealed. 499 00:39:43,100 --> 00:39:47,080 We still have no answers, no evidence, no viable suspects. 500 00:39:47,650 --> 00:39:49,040 I have one. 501 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,040 You. Me? 502 00:39:53,110 --> 00:39:55,110 I barely knew your brother. 503 00:39:55,180 --> 00:39:57,300 You yourself said, 504 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,800 better to be the investigator than to be investigated. 505 00:40:00,870 --> 00:40:03,370 You are cousin to giuliano della rovere, 506 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:04,800 and he hates the pope. 507 00:40:04,870 --> 00:40:08,560 Yes, perhaps giuliano arranged for the murder. 508 00:40:08,620 --> 00:40:11,490 But he's in France, far beyond our reach. 509 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,190 As if you would condemn him, 510 00:40:13,260 --> 00:40:15,210 were he here in Rome. 511 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,380 I love the church 512 00:40:17,450 --> 00:40:18,820 and like any lover, 513 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:23,050 will do what is necessary to keep her safe. 514 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,120 I switch loyalties not because I am facile, 515 00:40:26,190 --> 00:40:30,080 but because my greater loyalty is to god. 516 00:40:30,140 --> 00:40:33,700 If there is evidence that my cousin giuliano is guilty, 517 00:40:33,770 --> 00:40:37,670 if a single, reputable witness testifies, 518 00:40:37,740 --> 00:40:41,710 then I will shout his name from the bell tower behind Saint Peter's. 519 00:40:43,310 --> 00:40:44,510 Then who? 520 00:40:44,580 --> 00:40:46,440 Who committed this crime? 521 00:40:46,510 --> 00:40:49,160 Cain Rose up against Abel, his brother, 522 00:40:49,230 --> 00:40:50,730 and slew him. 523 00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:54,500 Romulus killed Remus, as well. 524 00:40:54,570 --> 00:40:57,420 That is how Rome was born. 525 00:40:57,490 --> 00:41:02,110 Perhaps, instead of accusing my family, or the orsini, or the colonna, 526 00:41:02,180 --> 00:41:04,040 you should look to your own, 527 00:41:04,110 --> 00:41:06,110 or at yourself. 528 00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:15,240 My wife, she is a wanton bitch. 529 00:41:15,310 --> 00:41:16,960 She was born illegitimate. 530 00:41:17,020 --> 00:41:18,860 Raised in a corrupt court. 531 00:41:18,930 --> 00:41:21,480 She was notorious before your marriage. 532 00:41:21,550 --> 00:41:26,000 I imagine that is why king ferrante was so eager to marry her off to a Borgia. 533 00:41:26,070 --> 00:41:28,820 Did you sleep with her, too? 534 00:41:28,890 --> 00:41:31,040 Is the baby she carries yours? 535 00:41:32,290 --> 00:41:33,190 No. 536 00:41:34,430 --> 00:41:36,630 The creature belongs to Juan. 537 00:41:38,180 --> 00:41:40,460 Did you have our brother murdered? No. 538 00:41:40,530 --> 00:41:42,870 The truth. Stop hurting me 539 00:41:42,940 --> 00:41:45,770 and I will swear to whatever you want me to say. 540 00:41:49,610 --> 00:41:51,810 You are colorless, goffredo, 541 00:41:53,300 --> 00:41:55,380 and therefore innocent. 542 00:42:01,300 --> 00:42:04,810 I am here on official business. 543 00:42:04,870 --> 00:42:09,390 When I told you that Juan had Pedro Luis assassinated, 544 00:42:09,460 --> 00:42:12,250 you said, "then he must die." 545 00:42:12,650 --> 00:42:14,880 I am a suspect? 546 00:42:14,950 --> 00:42:16,750 If you have done this, 547 00:42:16,820 --> 00:42:18,290 confess 548 00:42:18,350 --> 00:42:20,470 and I swear, upon all that is holy, 549 00:42:20,540 --> 00:42:22,770 I will never tell... Upon all that is holy? 550 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,810 Well, well, well. I need to know who. 551 00:42:26,430 --> 00:42:28,780 For myself. 552 00:42:28,850 --> 00:42:31,850 Though I believe Juan earned his death, 553 00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:33,320 I am no medea. 554 00:42:33,380 --> 00:42:34,820 I could not, 555 00:42:34,890 --> 00:42:37,790 I could never kill one of my children. 556 00:42:37,860 --> 00:42:39,920 If you do not know that, 557 00:42:39,990 --> 00:42:43,690 then you and I are strangers. 558 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,350 Oh, virgin mother, when you stand on the side of god, 559 00:42:47,420 --> 00:42:50,030 turn away his wrath from us. 560 00:42:54,260 --> 00:42:55,560 Enough of this. 561 00:42:56,790 --> 00:42:59,490 One life ends, the others march on. 562 00:43:37,580 --> 00:43:39,220 Who killed my son? 563 00:43:40,540 --> 00:43:41,690 God. 564 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:45,820 God is not so ruthless. 565 00:43:48,860 --> 00:43:51,190 He killed his own son. 566 00:43:51,260 --> 00:43:52,830 Why would he not kill yours? 567 00:44:18,290 --> 00:44:19,640 Pope Alexander, 568 00:44:20,290 --> 00:44:22,280 the sixth of that name. 569 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,790 Brothers, we have asked you here 570 00:44:31,850 --> 00:44:35,390 where we were first given the shoes of the fisherman, 571 00:44:35,460 --> 00:44:39,130 because our son is dead. 572 00:44:41,750 --> 00:44:44,310 No deeper tragedy could have befallen us, 573 00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,080 as we loved Juan 574 00:44:49,150 --> 00:44:51,860 more than any man in the realm of god. 575 00:44:52,010 --> 00:44:54,810 Grief beyond measure has entered our soul. 576 00:44:56,580 --> 00:44:59,210 Life has lost all interest. 577 00:45:01,350 --> 00:45:03,030 God punishes us, 578 00:45:03,870 --> 00:45:05,850 me, for my sins. 579 00:45:07,620 --> 00:45:11,540 Juan has done nothing to deserve so brutal a fate. 580 00:45:11,610 --> 00:45:16,930 I would give seven papal tiaras if I could bring my boy, like Lazarus, 581 00:45:17,830 --> 00:45:19,430 out of his tomb. 582 00:45:34,030 --> 00:45:36,480 We do not know 583 00:45:36,550 --> 00:45:38,920 by whom the murder was committed. 584 00:45:39,590 --> 00:45:41,050 Or the cause. 585 00:45:43,890 --> 00:45:47,060 But we absolve the families sforza, 586 00:45:48,510 --> 00:45:50,850 colonna, and orsini, whom we love. 587 00:45:54,770 --> 00:45:58,070 May god pardon whoever is guilty. 588 00:46:06,900 --> 00:46:10,930 We are resolved, without delay 589 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:15,520 to place the needs of holy mother church foremost in our thoughts and actions. 590 00:46:15,590 --> 00:46:19,140 No longer will we consider ourselves, 591 00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:24,260 for no earthly pleasure can offer us solace. 592 00:46:24,330 --> 00:46:29,320 We will institute the reforms which we pledged upon our ascension 593 00:46:29,390 --> 00:46:31,320 to the throne of Saint Peter. 594 00:46:42,330 --> 00:46:43,970 We swear thus, 595 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:46,800 upon the holy Lance. 596 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:18,120 My love. 597 00:47:19,290 --> 00:47:20,390 Depart. 598 00:47:33,420 --> 00:47:36,950 I will make this suite even more beautiful than before, 599 00:47:38,590 --> 00:47:40,870 rivaling the golden palace of nero. 600 00:47:41,340 --> 00:47:42,610 No, 601 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,280 you must leave. 602 00:47:44,340 --> 00:47:45,950 Leave? 603 00:47:46,010 --> 00:47:47,780 Leave this bedchamber, 604 00:47:47,850 --> 00:47:50,270 leave the palace, leave Rome. 605 00:47:52,100 --> 00:47:53,600 I am a priest, 606 00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:55,660 I live alone. 607 00:47:56,870 --> 00:47:59,130 Rodrigo... be gone from my sight. 608 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:08,120 And go where? 609 00:48:11,420 --> 00:48:13,110 Rodrigo, please. 610 00:48:23,580 --> 00:48:26,690 Perotto and I long to be married. 611 00:48:26,750 --> 00:48:30,210 As much as we hope to please you, lucrezia that is not possible. 612 00:48:30,270 --> 00:48:34,210 Tomorrow you will leave for Spain to become a nun, as you so devoutly wished. 613 00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,300 And you will care for your brother's orphaned children. 614 00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:37,560 I will not. 615 00:48:37,630 --> 00:48:39,430 I will marry perotto. 616 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:43,090 Daughters are notoriously disobedient, 617 00:48:43,590 --> 00:48:45,570 but you are a soldier. 618 00:48:48,410 --> 00:48:50,640 Yes, holy father, I will obey. 619 00:48:51,650 --> 00:48:53,310 Perotto, no. 620 00:48:55,350 --> 00:48:57,480 Pray for me, sweet lucrezia. 621 00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,260 I was almost happy. 622 00:49:05,330 --> 00:49:07,480 Lust is not happiness, child. 623 00:49:07,540 --> 00:49:09,880 Being faithful to god's truth is. 624 00:49:42,030 --> 00:49:44,330 Father, you must not mourn Juan. 625 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,970 How can I not? 626 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:53,170 Because buried underneath his death lies a deeper tragedy. 627 00:49:57,890 --> 00:50:00,460 Juan had Pedro Luis murdered. 628 00:50:03,430 --> 00:50:06,840 To speak such lies against the dead, against one's own brother. 629 00:50:06,900 --> 00:50:09,860 De Cordova will verify the fact. 630 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,430 I tell you this not to give you greater grief, 631 00:50:15,500 --> 00:50:17,710 but to alleviate your sadness. 632 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,590 Shall we postpone the meeting? 633 00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:26,160 No. 634 00:50:27,890 --> 00:50:30,860 We will bury the past in the rich soil of tomorrow. 635 00:50:35,500 --> 00:50:38,530 You will escort goffredo and his wife back to squillace. 636 00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:41,800 Then, after you crown federigo king of Naples, 637 00:50:41,870 --> 00:50:43,710 you will leave Italy. 638 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,510 You have not once visited valencia 639 00:50:48,580 --> 00:50:51,350 since you were named her archbishop. 640 00:50:51,420 --> 00:50:55,180 We command you to go to Spain and fulfill your pastoral duties. 641 00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,020 And what if, father, 642 00:51:00,090 --> 00:51:03,190 I said I no longer wished to be archbishop? 643 00:51:03,260 --> 00:51:06,380 Nor wear the red robe of a cardinal? 644 00:51:06,450 --> 00:51:09,530 We would, like a deaf man, stare blankly 645 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,130 as your mouth moves. 646 00:51:17,110 --> 00:51:21,740 Holiness, we have had many letters of condolence. 647 00:51:21,810 --> 00:51:26,420 This one from my cousin giuliano, who writes from avignon, 648 00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:30,050 that Juan's death grieves him as much as if it were his own son. 649 00:51:33,110 --> 00:51:36,290 Ask giuliano to come home to rejoin the consistory. 650 00:51:37,830 --> 00:51:39,300 All is forgiven. 651 00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,970 You dismiss your own blood, 652 00:51:42,970 --> 00:51:45,150 yet surround yourself with enemies? 653 00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,970 Though they have been our enemies, 654 00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,070 they have always spoken with honesty, 655 00:51:52,140 --> 00:51:53,660 unlike our sons. 656 00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,010 Be gone, cardinal Borgia, 657 00:51:58,250 --> 00:51:59,800 with godspeed. 658 00:52:13,150 --> 00:52:16,580 I do not want to leave Rome and live in the countryside with our mother. 659 00:52:16,650 --> 00:52:19,400 Silvia will be there to distract you from mother's meddling. 660 00:52:19,470 --> 00:52:20,600 Even so. 661 00:52:20,670 --> 00:52:24,110 Your stay at lake bolsena will be temporary, 662 00:52:24,170 --> 00:52:25,660 I promise you. 663 00:52:25,730 --> 00:52:28,540 How will you shift Rodrigo's mood? 664 00:52:28,610 --> 00:52:31,520 The time has come for me to make new allies. 665 00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,440 You have been my guardian angel. 666 00:52:36,500 --> 00:52:38,540 I must sprout wings of my own. 667 00:53:10,870 --> 00:53:15,570 Perhaps Alessandro killed Juan. Or gacet. 668 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:19,030 No, no, none of them own a white horse. 669 00:53:19,100 --> 00:53:20,800 There are many white horses in Rome. 670 00:53:20,860 --> 00:53:23,550 The colonna have at least five. The Germans, then. 671 00:53:23,620 --> 00:53:25,050 They hated Juan. 672 00:53:26,650 --> 00:53:28,320 What is this? 673 00:53:28,390 --> 00:53:30,620 Your brother's legacy to you. 674 00:54:06,180 --> 00:54:07,440 Lucrezia. 675 00:54:09,150 --> 00:54:10,310 Lucrezia. 676 00:54:12,580 --> 00:54:13,750 Come. 677 00:54:26,150 --> 00:54:28,030 I am sorry, once again, 678 00:54:28,100 --> 00:54:30,030 to disturb your slumber. 679 00:54:31,500 --> 00:54:33,800 But I needed to talk to someone, 680 00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:35,840 to you. 681 00:54:37,610 --> 00:54:39,640 What troubles my sweet brother? 682 00:54:39,710 --> 00:54:40,540 Sweet? 683 00:54:42,350 --> 00:54:43,300 No. 684 00:54:46,170 --> 00:54:48,170 On the night of Juan's death, 685 00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:49,640 I was drunk. 686 00:54:50,900 --> 00:54:53,710 My memory is blind, 687 00:54:53,770 --> 00:54:56,540 I do not know what sins I may have committed. 688 00:54:59,550 --> 00:55:01,210 Did I kill Juan? 689 00:55:05,170 --> 00:55:06,800 You did not kill him. 690 00:55:06,870 --> 00:55:08,940 How can you be so certain? 691 00:55:11,910 --> 00:55:13,690 Everyone in Rome suspects that I committed the crime. 692 00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:16,130 Everyone. Save you. 693 00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,120 Why do you not accuse me? 694 00:55:19,180 --> 00:55:20,520 Oh, cesare. 695 00:55:20,580 --> 00:55:23,840 If you know something, lucrezia, please, please, 696 00:55:26,170 --> 00:55:28,520 release my heart from torment. 697 00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:48,490 I saw Juan that night, 698 00:55:50,930 --> 00:55:53,270 after you almost slit his throat. 699 00:55:56,020 --> 00:55:57,870 He was very much alive. 700 00:55:59,270 --> 00:56:02,010 Not cocky or confident. 701 00:56:03,430 --> 00:56:04,760 Not even drunk. 702 00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:07,980 Possessed. 703 00:56:08,050 --> 00:56:11,450 I have once more stared death in the face. 704 00:56:16,820 --> 00:56:20,440 So close this time that she could kiss my lips. 705 00:56:23,110 --> 00:56:24,960 Lucrezia, 706 00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:28,950 my soul is weighed down by a millstone of sins. 707 00:56:31,450 --> 00:56:32,740 When I die, 708 00:56:34,490 --> 00:56:37,140 I will live forever in the fires of hell. 709 00:56:38,450 --> 00:56:40,730 What have you done, brother? 710 00:56:43,270 --> 00:56:44,600 When I was 12, 711 00:56:44,670 --> 00:56:47,700 father sent me to live in Spain with Pedro Luis. 712 00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:52,390 Our mother allowed this to happen. 713 00:56:54,030 --> 00:56:55,390 I was angry. 714 00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:58,580 I hated Spain. 715 00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,080 I hated Pedro Luis. 716 00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:05,520 His strength, 717 00:57:05,590 --> 00:57:08,120 the love others showered upon him. 718 00:57:11,460 --> 00:57:15,310 I knew that I would never advance in the world while he lived. 719 00:57:16,930 --> 00:57:18,550 And so he died, 720 00:57:19,470 --> 00:57:21,040 Pedro Luis. 721 00:57:22,190 --> 00:57:25,870 And Maria enriques did not perish in childbirth. 722 00:57:27,210 --> 00:57:29,780 While the ship was docked in Marseille, 723 00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:34,100 my man reached the captain, 724 00:57:34,170 --> 00:57:36,640 who strangled her for five ducats. 725 00:57:39,100 --> 00:57:43,010 Do not fear the devil, Juan, for you are he. No. 726 00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:47,300 No, I try to be a better man but I get lost in the maze of my life. 727 00:57:47,330 --> 00:57:49,030 I want to love, 728 00:57:49,100 --> 00:57:50,920 truly love, but, 729 00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:53,620 lucrezia, 730 00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:57,490 you are the only one... 731 00:57:57,560 --> 00:57:58,990 I will tell pope Alexander. 732 00:57:59,060 --> 00:58:01,240 You need not to. 733 00:58:01,310 --> 00:58:04,030 At dawn, I will prostrate myself before him. 734 00:58:04,100 --> 00:58:06,050 I will confess my crimes. 735 00:58:06,980 --> 00:58:08,700 Beg for forgiveness, 736 00:58:08,770 --> 00:58:10,740 pray for salvation. 737 00:58:14,260 --> 00:58:16,630 I did not want Juan to go to heaven. 738 00:58:21,770 --> 00:58:22,950 You? 739 00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,420 You stabbed him nine times. 740 00:58:50,460 --> 00:58:52,010 He would not die. 741 00:58:53,860 --> 00:58:55,350 So you cut his throat. 742 00:58:55,420 --> 00:58:59,300 Perotto is a soldier skilled in the ways of death. 743 00:59:08,810 --> 00:59:12,730 Perotto even sliced a stirrup of Juan's horse to confuse people. 744 00:59:16,100 --> 00:59:19,020 You are shocked that I am capable of murder? 745 00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:25,410 I tried to give myself to god, but he refused. 746 00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,880 And am I not following the example of my father and brothers? 747 00:59:28,950 --> 00:59:30,530 Am I not a Borgia? 748 00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:38,260 Do not hate me. 749 00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,210 I have a great many feelings towards you. 750 00:59:44,210 --> 00:59:46,180 Hate is not one of them. 751 00:59:52,170 --> 00:59:54,070 You have acted bravely. 752 00:59:55,410 --> 00:59:56,980 More bravely than I. 753 00:59:58,630 --> 01:00:02,810 In the garden of Eden, Eve showed more courage than Adam. 754 01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:07,000 When the serpent offered the forbidden fruit, 755 01:00:07,070 --> 01:00:10,510 she knew that there was something better than paradise. 756 01:00:16,010 --> 01:00:19,350 The whole world whispers that you and I are lovers. 757 01:00:22,430 --> 01:00:24,620 Should we prove them right? 758 01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:28,320 Make their lies true? 759 01:01:00,590 --> 01:01:02,360 Cesare. 760 01:01:03,130 --> 01:01:04,490 Cesare. 761 01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:06,810 Cesare. 762 01:01:11,750 --> 01:01:14,490 Deception, even from you? 763 01:01:16,010 --> 01:01:17,190 Cesare, no. 764 01:01:33,870 --> 01:01:35,760 A commission of reformation 765 01:01:35,820 --> 01:01:38,290 composed of cardinals da costa, 766 01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:40,460 carafa, pallavicini... 767 01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:47,590 San Giorgio and myself. 768 01:01:49,070 --> 01:01:50,620 Holiness, save me. 769 01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:56,950 He who touches our gown has holy sanctuary. 770 01:01:57,010 --> 01:01:58,080 Drop your sword. 771 01:01:58,150 --> 01:01:59,280 I obey. 772 01:02:00,330 --> 01:02:03,840 But he is a piece of lice. Ask him what he has done. 773 01:02:03,900 --> 01:02:06,140 Holiness, I have done nothing. 774 01:02:06,210 --> 01:02:07,570 You lie... no! 775 01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,760 To the holy father. No! 776 01:02:31,730 --> 01:02:34,800 A son exists to glorify the life of his father, 777 01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:40,090 as meaningless and worthless as that life might be. 778 01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:45,560 But if the boy is to become a man, 779 01:02:46,900 --> 01:02:50,180 he must glorify himself. 780 01:02:50,250 --> 01:02:53,320 And make a name even greater than his father's. 781 01:02:54,650 --> 01:02:56,590 A name 782 01:02:56,660 --> 01:02:59,160 that will shout throughout history. 783 01:03:07,150 --> 01:03:10,080 I am cesare Borgia. 784 01:03:40,070 --> 01:03:42,780 There are all sorts of rumors. 785 01:03:42,850 --> 01:03:45,400 Cesare murdered Juan, goffredo did. 786 01:03:45,470 --> 01:03:49,020 I heard Pedro caldes has cut Juan's throat out of vengeance, 787 01:03:49,090 --> 01:03:52,790 after seeing lucrezia and Juan in bed together. 788 01:03:52,860 --> 01:03:55,450 Or did lucrezia do the deed? 789 01:03:55,510 --> 01:03:57,520 Did she cut her brother's throat? 790 01:03:57,580 --> 01:04:01,670 And did Pedro, with some of his fellow soldiers, silent and loyal, 791 01:04:01,740 --> 01:04:03,470 carry the body across the river? 792 01:04:03,540 --> 01:04:05,310 We shall never know the whole truth. 793 01:04:05,410 --> 01:04:07,610 And perhaps that is best. 794 01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:10,730 And what of pantisilea, who is missing? 795 01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:13,900 Oh, I heard that she has gone across the great sea to tierra del fuego. 796 01:04:34,150 --> 01:04:36,450 She has been whipped to death. 797 01:04:45,460 --> 01:04:47,500 The ancients had many gods, 798 01:04:47,570 --> 01:04:49,550 all cruel. 799 01:04:49,550 --> 01:04:53,250 How wise of us to consolidate them into one supreme being. 800 01:04:55,020 --> 01:04:57,560 And how foolish we are to love god, 801 01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:00,680 to love so deeply, 802 01:05:00,750 --> 01:05:04,550 something as brief and fragile as life. 803 01:05:07,900 --> 01:05:09,500 This should be as it was, 804 01:05:10,540 --> 01:05:12,540 not as we wish it to be. 805 01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:33,610 Bury the statue where it will never be found.