The Purge

The Borgias 3×2

& Rufio: I am the black heart of a Borgia nightmare.

& Cardinal Sforza: Who else lies under suspicion?
    Rodrigo Borgia: Everyone. Anybody who wears a red hat. Interrogate them all.
    Cardinal Sforza: I am hardly an inquisitor.
    Rodrigo Borgia: Then become one. We will cleanse this Vatican of ours of anyone who even thinks to question our fitness for this most holy of offices.
    Cardinal Sforza: Is thought to be a crime now?

& Rodrigo Borgia: Begin with De Luca. Threaten him with loss of office and banishment and— he will sing madrigals.
    Cardinal Sforza: And if he doesn’t?
    Rodrigo Borgia: Take him to the Castel Sant Angelo. Acquaint him with the instruments of torture.
    Cardinal Sforza: You cannot torture a prince of the church.
    Rodrigo Borgia: I know that. You know that. But imagination is a great persuader. He saw Savonarola burn. He’ll soon begin to sing — if he hasn’t already — like a nightingale.
    Cardinal Sforza: And then?
    Rodrigo Borgia: Then— seize his estates, strip his red hat. Banish him to some hermitage. And arrest all those he has implicated. And start the process again. We are in a new world, Cardinal.

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& Cardinal Sforza: This Vatican of ours has changed... forever. Follow me.
    Cardinal De Luca: Follow you where?
    Cardinal Sforza: Into the future.

& Micheletto: You are in the house of lies.
    Cardinal De Luca: The devil’s house?
    Micheletto: Think of them as your friends.
    Cardinal De Luca: The rack? The iron maiden?
    Micheletto: They have a message for you.
    Cardinal De Luca: You have used them, I am sure.
    Micheletto: I have suffered on them. Your inquisitor believes that they elicit the truth. They do not. A man will say anything on the rack to make it end.
    Cardinal De Luca: Then why am I here?
    Micheletto: To learn to lie. To say whatever is needed. To avoid their embrace.

& Cesare: Is this a game?
    Lucrezia: It is a game of want and wanting.

& Vanozza: Perhaps you’ll find, as I have that... love deepens, regardless of whether you share the same bed.

& Vanozza: You must state your terms. Negotiate your exit. What would you have from him, if not his passion?

& Rodrigo Borgia: As you sink into the darkness— call out His name, see if He replies. Or if you must hear the eternal silence.

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