1 00:04:39,812 --> 00:04:41,053 What are they doing? 2 00:04:41,314 --> 00:04:43,226 They don't want to let us hear him. 3 00:04:44,483 --> 00:04:45,599 Why? 4 00:04:46,444 --> 00:04:50,063 Because they want to kill Pius XIII. 5 00:04:50,990 --> 00:04:52,231 I know Lenny. 6 00:04:53,951 --> 00:04:56,489 Pius XIII is a living saint. 7 00:04:57,830 --> 00:05:01,790 And in the Vatican, saints are an inconvenient presence. 8 00:06:02,895 --> 00:06:05,103 Except for the doctor and the nun 9 00:06:05,439 --> 00:06:09,103 no one should know he woke up until I say so. 10 00:06:48,107 --> 00:06:49,314 You called me. 11 00:06:53,029 --> 00:06:54,236 I came back. 12 00:06:56,782 --> 00:06:58,068 Now tell me why. 13 00:08:39,510 --> 00:08:41,046 How long did I sleep? 14 00:08:42,805 --> 00:08:44,341 Twelve months. 15 00:08:44,807 --> 00:08:46,969 Then I certainly deserve 16 00:08:47,184 --> 00:08:49,050 a Cherry Coke Zero. 17 00:08:52,231 --> 00:08:54,644 You do know it's a miracle that you woke up? 18 00:08:55,401 --> 00:08:56,642 Please... 19 00:08:57,570 --> 00:08:59,687 Let's not start that again. 20 00:09:14,670 --> 00:09:16,411 What is your name, Sister? 21 00:09:18,215 --> 00:09:19,296 Pamela. 22 00:09:21,343 --> 00:09:23,801 A name right out of a TV series. 23 00:09:27,725 --> 00:09:29,011 And was it you 24 00:09:29,935 --> 00:09:31,892 who watched over me all this time? 25 00:09:33,230 --> 00:09:35,893 Yes. Every night. 26 00:09:37,860 --> 00:09:39,146 And what did you do all night? 27 00:09:41,197 --> 00:09:42,688 I would look at you... 28 00:09:44,241 --> 00:09:45,357 and pray. 29 00:09:47,203 --> 00:09:50,037 And when I fell asleep I would dream I was praying 30 00:09:51,415 --> 00:09:52,415 for you. 31 00:09:54,752 --> 00:09:56,209 And what did you ask for 32 00:09:57,213 --> 00:09:58,499 in your prayers? 33 00:10:00,007 --> 00:10:01,498 That you would wake up. 34 00:10:03,511 --> 00:10:05,173 Maybe it was you, then. 35 00:10:07,431 --> 00:10:10,674 God listens to those who are close by. 36 00:10:14,313 --> 00:10:16,145 Thank you, Sister Pamela 37 00:10:17,233 --> 00:10:18,440 for watching over me. 38 00:10:20,110 --> 00:10:23,820 It was a gift from Heaven, Holy Father. 39 00:10:24,323 --> 00:10:25,655 Oh, right... 40 00:10:27,034 --> 00:10:28,115 it's true. 41 00:10:29,203 --> 00:10:30,535 I'm the Pope. 42 00:10:48,639 --> 00:10:52,508 You'll have to fill me in on what's been happening these past few months. 43 00:11:12,663 --> 00:11:14,950 Ewa, dear, we have a guest. 44 00:11:34,852 --> 00:11:36,718 I gave the servants a few days off. 45 00:11:37,396 --> 00:11:38,978 That way, no one will see you. 46 00:11:41,191 --> 00:11:42,773 Luckily we're the same size. 47 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,484 I can't wait to wear my papal vestments again. 48 00:11:54,163 --> 00:11:56,075 Doctor, what is wrong with your wife? 49 00:11:59,418 --> 00:12:01,159 Health-wise, nothing. 50 00:12:02,588 --> 00:12:03,920 She is suffering, that's all. 51 00:12:05,049 --> 00:12:06,290 We all suffer. 52 00:12:07,217 --> 00:12:08,333 She more than most. 53 00:12:09,136 --> 00:12:12,095 She cannot bring herself to accept the inscrutable will of God. 54 00:12:16,143 --> 00:12:17,884 She looks like the Madonna. 55 00:12:18,646 --> 00:12:20,353 One of the reasons I fell in love with her. 56 00:12:21,357 --> 00:12:23,519 We were both devout Catholics and... 57 00:12:25,235 --> 00:12:28,319 before she was a happy Madonna, now she's a grieving one. 58 00:12:30,824 --> 00:12:32,031 Do you have children? 59 00:12:35,788 --> 00:12:37,654 I'd like to show you around my home. 60 00:12:38,332 --> 00:12:40,995 This is one of the most beautiful houses in all of Venice. 61 00:12:41,210 --> 00:12:43,873 Everyone said don't buy it, it's cursed, they said. 62 00:12:44,088 --> 00:12:47,081 But I don't believe in superstitions that are antithetical to God. 63 00:12:47,633 --> 00:12:50,216 Even if everything pushes us to believe they're true. 64 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:53,295 That didn't stop you, though. 65 00:12:54,306 --> 00:12:55,672 From desiring the house? 66 00:12:55,849 --> 00:12:56,885 No. 67 00:12:58,852 --> 00:13:00,718 From desiring your son. 68 00:13:02,481 --> 00:13:04,814 Even though the tests showed 69 00:13:06,110 --> 00:13:07,442 he was ill. 70 00:13:09,154 --> 00:13:10,986 However, you and your wife 71 00:13:12,241 --> 00:13:16,201 do not go against God, you go toward life. 72 00:13:17,204 --> 00:13:20,163 And your wife refused to terminate the pregnancy. 73 00:13:31,093 --> 00:13:32,459 You know everything. 74 00:13:34,763 --> 00:13:35,924 What are you? 75 00:13:37,516 --> 00:13:39,428 A guru? A saint? 76 00:13:42,479 --> 00:13:44,095 Neither of the two. 77 00:13:47,484 --> 00:13:50,352 I'm simply an intuitive man. 78 00:13:52,406 --> 00:13:53,772 Many of us are. 79 00:13:58,454 --> 00:14:00,286 There are so many things I'd like to ask you. 80 00:14:02,458 --> 00:14:03,699 You'd be disappointed. 81 00:14:06,670 --> 00:14:08,502 I don't have any answers. 82 00:14:58,222 --> 00:14:59,838 I quit when I got pregnant. 83 00:15:01,683 --> 00:15:02,924 Good for you. 84 00:15:04,686 --> 00:15:06,302 Now you can start up again. 85 00:15:18,617 --> 00:15:20,199 It's nice to smoke. 86 00:15:22,538 --> 00:15:24,200 No, it's not nice. 87 00:15:32,464 --> 00:15:33,705 It's right. 88 00:15:46,645 --> 00:15:49,934 You're in perfect health. Everything is perfect. 89 00:15:50,691 --> 00:15:51,977 And inexplicable. 90 00:15:52,359 --> 00:15:53,645 An absolute... 91 00:15:55,279 --> 00:15:57,737 scientific exception. 92 00:15:58,866 --> 00:15:59,982 Nonsense. 93 00:16:00,868 --> 00:16:03,485 Absolute scientific exceptions do not exist. 94 00:16:07,457 --> 00:16:10,325 Thank you for the hospitality 95 00:16:11,044 --> 00:16:14,128 and for agreeing to hide me here. 96 00:16:17,467 --> 00:16:19,467 You're welcome to stay as long as you like. 97 00:16:23,223 --> 00:16:24,714 Sooner or later 98 00:16:25,934 --> 00:16:27,300 I have to go home 99 00:16:28,979 --> 00:16:30,186 to the Vatican. 100 00:16:31,940 --> 00:16:33,101 What are you waiting for? 101 00:16:34,735 --> 00:16:35,816 First... 102 00:16:39,031 --> 00:16:40,897 I want to understand. 103 00:16:42,910 --> 00:16:46,028 The world has not forgotten you. The world loves you. 104 00:16:48,332 --> 00:16:49,823 That's not the point. 105 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:53,201 What is it, then? 106 00:16:58,759 --> 00:17:01,672 In what way does the world love me 107 00:17:03,639 --> 00:17:04,925 from now on? 108 00:17:07,726 --> 00:17:08,933 Now that you 109 00:17:11,438 --> 00:17:14,431 when you face questions from the press 110 00:17:15,150 --> 00:17:17,267 won't be able to explain 111 00:17:18,278 --> 00:17:19,985 scientifically 112 00:17:21,365 --> 00:17:23,152 how I woke up from a coma. 113 00:17:31,166 --> 00:17:34,204 Do you know my greatest desire right now? 114 00:17:35,712 --> 00:17:37,499 No. What? 115 00:17:39,508 --> 00:17:40,624 To go for a walk. 116 00:17:41,677 --> 00:17:43,885 With the proper precautions, we can give it a try. 117 00:17:44,304 --> 00:17:46,136 Venice is quite deserted in January 118 00:17:46,390 --> 00:17:49,303 the tourists aren't around and the locals have been gone for years. 119 00:18:19,256 --> 00:18:20,713 Are you alright, doctor? 120 00:18:23,051 --> 00:18:24,417 Your Holiness... 121 00:18:25,846 --> 00:18:27,382 you rose from the dead. 122 00:18:44,197 --> 00:18:45,984 I didn't ask for this. 123 00:18:48,785 --> 00:18:51,072 I did not ask for this. 124 00:19:02,591 --> 00:19:04,173 My husband has no courage. 125 00:19:05,677 --> 00:19:07,509 He hasn't asked you what I begged him to ask 126 00:19:07,596 --> 00:19:09,713 so I want to ask you myself. 127 00:19:11,183 --> 00:19:14,176 You, on the other hand, are courageous, that's clear. 128 00:19:15,312 --> 00:19:16,974 I have nothing left to lose. 129 00:19:17,189 --> 00:19:20,648 Have you never asked yourself why your husband has no courage? 130 00:19:22,110 --> 00:19:23,110 No. 131 00:19:24,654 --> 00:19:27,021 Because, unlike you, he has something to lose. 132 00:19:29,910 --> 00:19:30,910 You. 133 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:33,736 He is afraid of losing you. 134 00:19:35,624 --> 00:19:37,411 I will always be at his side. 135 00:19:37,918 --> 00:19:40,205 No, that's not how it works. 136 00:19:42,047 --> 00:19:44,460 When one thing changes, everything changes. 137 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:49,385 Do you have any evening dresses? You'd look magnificent in an evening dress. 138 00:19:49,554 --> 00:19:51,511 That bathrobe, on the other hand... 139 00:19:53,183 --> 00:19:54,469 it doesn't suit you. 140 00:19:56,061 --> 00:19:57,893 I have beautiful dresses 141 00:19:58,730 --> 00:20:01,848 but I haven't worn them in 11 years, not since my son was born. 142 00:20:04,111 --> 00:20:05,443 Why did you ask? 143 00:20:06,321 --> 00:20:08,688 Because if things were to change 144 00:20:10,325 --> 00:20:12,942 if you were to start wearing those dresses again 145 00:20:13,703 --> 00:20:16,366 and your husband was not by your side 146 00:20:17,958 --> 00:20:19,574 he may kill himself. 147 00:20:22,003 --> 00:20:25,963 No man can allow himself the luxury of losing a woman like you. 148 00:20:27,342 --> 00:20:28,833 That's how things change. 149 00:20:30,470 --> 00:20:32,177 And that's why he's afraid. 150 00:20:37,227 --> 00:20:38,388 No. 151 00:20:39,813 --> 00:20:41,520 - It's not the way it is. - Yes, it is. 152 00:20:43,191 --> 00:20:44,352 I know it is. 153 00:20:51,575 --> 00:20:55,364 While you were in a coma, a woman named Ester spoke on TV. 154 00:20:55,620 --> 00:20:57,577 - She said... - I know what she said. 155 00:20:59,207 --> 00:21:00,994 And I know what you want to ask. 156 00:21:02,335 --> 00:21:05,419 I didn't do anything for Ester and I won't do anything for you 157 00:21:05,505 --> 00:21:07,838 because I am unable to help you. 158 00:21:10,427 --> 00:21:12,669 You are right, things change. 159 00:21:14,139 --> 00:21:18,099 And if my son were to get better, I wouldn't have a reason to live in a bathrobe 160 00:21:18,185 --> 00:21:21,098 and my husband wouldn't have any more reason to fear losing me. 161 00:21:21,271 --> 00:21:25,015 We would be exactly what we wanted to be in the beginning, a happy family. 162 00:21:25,108 --> 00:21:27,100 Then never cease praying. 163 00:21:27,402 --> 00:21:30,566 - You are... - You see me as a shortcut. 164 00:21:31,823 --> 00:21:33,359 As an impossible dream. 165 00:21:33,450 --> 00:21:34,782 You are a saint! 166 00:21:35,452 --> 00:21:38,536 And you performed a miracle, Ester got pregnant. 167 00:21:38,788 --> 00:21:41,531 Then on TV, a priest, he wanted to remain anonymous 168 00:21:41,625 --> 00:21:42,911 said that in the Vatican 169 00:21:43,043 --> 00:21:45,581 you performed a miracle when you were a boy, too. 170 00:21:45,670 --> 00:21:49,459 You cured your friend's mother who was terminally ill just like my son 171 00:21:49,633 --> 00:21:52,626 then you rose from the dead, that's what my husband told me 172 00:21:52,719 --> 00:21:56,633 and he's a scientist and one of the most famous cardiologists in the world. 173 00:21:56,806 --> 00:22:01,301 You weren't supposed to wake up or rather, you couldn't wake up, and yet you did. 174 00:22:01,394 --> 00:22:03,010 I am not a saint. 175 00:22:03,104 --> 00:22:05,812 I did not rise from the dead 176 00:22:05,941 --> 00:22:08,183 and I do not perform miracles, ma'am. 177 00:22:08,652 --> 00:22:11,065 - I am just the Pope. - No. 178 00:22:11,696 --> 00:22:13,983 No, you're not, not anymore. 179 00:22:24,042 --> 00:22:26,534 - My husband was cowardly about that. - What are you saying? 180 00:22:27,003 --> 00:22:29,336 Nine months after you fell into a coma 181 00:22:29,547 --> 00:22:33,507 they elected Tommaso Viglietti, Francis II, he didn't last long. 182 00:22:33,969 --> 00:22:37,428 Then they elected John Brannox, John Paul III. 183 00:22:38,306 --> 00:22:40,093 Try to cure my son. 184 00:22:40,850 --> 00:22:42,386 You are no longer the Pope. 185 00:22:43,103 --> 00:22:46,096 You're beyond that. You're a saint. 186 00:22:46,731 --> 00:22:49,565 If you rose from the dead, you're Christ. 187 00:22:50,610 --> 00:22:53,444 If you have returned, you're the Messiah. 188 00:22:54,239 --> 00:22:56,652 I beg you, try to cure my son. 189 00:23:01,454 --> 00:23:02,490 No. 190 00:23:03,248 --> 00:23:05,114 Try to cure my son! 191 00:23:05,750 --> 00:23:06,957 He is suffering. 192 00:23:07,335 --> 00:23:09,952 He has been bedridden since the day he was born. 193 00:23:10,213 --> 00:23:13,206 He knows nothing and no one, not even us, his parents. 194 00:23:13,341 --> 00:23:16,459 I am no longer alive, my husband is no longer alive 195 00:23:16,594 --> 00:23:19,507 we are dead in a dead house, in a dead city. 196 00:23:19,723 --> 00:23:22,966 I believe in God and I know I need to be able to read the signs. 197 00:23:23,059 --> 00:23:25,267 You came here, that's a sign! 198 00:23:25,395 --> 00:23:28,058 But you know all this far better than I do. 199 00:23:40,368 --> 00:23:43,782 You believe in God but you're not very versed in theology. 200 00:23:45,373 --> 00:23:46,489 You're delirious. 201 00:23:48,710 --> 00:23:51,794 I am not Christ, nor am I the Messiah. 202 00:23:53,006 --> 00:23:55,293 It's more likely that I am Antichrist. 203 00:23:57,635 --> 00:24:01,424 In truth, I have only woken up from a coma 204 00:24:02,182 --> 00:24:05,016 and medical science doesn't know how to explain it yet 205 00:24:05,226 --> 00:24:06,512 that's all. 206 00:24:09,939 --> 00:24:12,431 You wanna save your son? Then continue to pray. 207 00:24:12,525 --> 00:24:14,437 I have run out of prayers. 208 00:24:14,944 --> 00:24:16,981 I don't believe in God anymore. 209 00:24:18,281 --> 00:24:19,567 God can fuck off! 210 00:24:20,742 --> 00:24:22,324 I only believe in you. 211 00:24:22,911 --> 00:24:26,575 And you have a moral obligation to save my son! 212 00:24:38,635 --> 00:24:39,842 Let's go. 213 00:24:40,970 --> 00:24:42,051 Why? 214 00:24:42,430 --> 00:24:44,387 Because they've killed Pius XIII 215 00:24:45,058 --> 00:24:47,220 so there's no more reason for us to stay. 216 00:24:47,310 --> 00:24:50,018 - How can you be so sure? - Ester said so. 217 00:24:51,314 --> 00:24:52,475 It's true. 218 00:24:53,858 --> 00:24:57,022 They killed him... I know. 219 00:24:58,446 --> 00:24:59,687 I feel it. 220 00:25:00,073 --> 00:25:01,814 - Let's go. - Go where? 221 00:25:02,826 --> 00:25:04,658 To purify ourselves. 222 00:25:07,372 --> 00:25:09,910 Whoever believes in me should follow me. 223 00:26:15,857 --> 00:26:17,689 I was hoping I'd find you here. 224 00:26:19,110 --> 00:26:20,271 You scared me. 225 00:26:21,321 --> 00:26:23,404 I didn't know where you were. Put this on. 226 00:26:23,823 --> 00:26:25,109 I needed another walk. 227 00:26:25,617 --> 00:26:27,779 Will you ever be able to forgive my wife? 228 00:26:32,749 --> 00:26:35,492 She's the one who'll need to forgive me. 229 00:26:35,710 --> 00:26:37,576 Oh, no. Of course, no, she forgives you. 230 00:26:37,670 --> 00:26:40,583 Please accept my apologies on her behalf. 231 00:26:42,217 --> 00:26:43,253 She is... 232 00:26:44,928 --> 00:26:46,169 She is worn out. 233 00:26:47,722 --> 00:26:49,338 Wasting away like a candle. 234 00:26:51,851 --> 00:26:53,058 And I'm afraid. 235 00:26:54,604 --> 00:26:58,723 At times, I worry that she's on the verge of insanity and... 236 00:27:00,109 --> 00:27:01,350 I'm terrified. 237 00:27:03,613 --> 00:27:06,731 For centuries past, only bad things happened in our palazzo. 238 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,112 Murders and suicides and... 239 00:27:10,286 --> 00:27:12,494 At night, every night when I can't sleep, 240 00:27:13,790 --> 00:27:15,326 I'm thinking to myself... 241 00:27:16,376 --> 00:27:20,336 it's going to happen again, history is going to repeat itself. 242 00:27:20,630 --> 00:27:21,630 No. 243 00:27:24,842 --> 00:27:26,674 It's not going to happen this time. 244 00:27:35,603 --> 00:27:37,060 Venice is beautiful 245 00:27:37,605 --> 00:27:39,016 but Rome is my home. 246 00:27:39,899 --> 00:27:41,640 Even though I am no longer the Pope 247 00:27:45,071 --> 00:27:48,189 I hope there's still a bed for me there, somewhere. 248 00:27:50,743 --> 00:27:52,109 You want to go back to Rome? 249 00:27:52,745 --> 00:27:54,236 - Shall I call someone? - No. 250 00:27:57,500 --> 00:27:58,741 Not yet. 251 00:28:03,006 --> 00:28:04,213 Let's go. 252 00:28:06,342 --> 00:28:07,503 Go where? 253 00:28:08,303 --> 00:28:09,760 I want to meet your son. 254 00:28:52,472 --> 00:28:55,761 He has Type-1 congenital myotonic dystrophy. 255 00:28:56,309 --> 00:28:58,972 A progressive, irreversible loss of muscle tone. 256 00:29:00,938 --> 00:29:04,147 Impaired development, endocrine alterations 257 00:29:05,151 --> 00:29:06,687 congenital heart defect... 258 00:29:08,821 --> 00:29:10,187 cognitive deficit. 259 00:29:11,324 --> 00:29:13,987 Even the most minor cardiac arrhythmia could prove fatal. 260 00:29:16,079 --> 00:29:17,799 I would like to stroke his cheek. 261 00:29:18,539 --> 00:29:20,747 Of course, he'd like that. 262 00:29:21,793 --> 00:29:23,625 Although he won't be able to express it. 263 00:29:25,922 --> 00:29:27,129 I will know. 264 00:29:27,924 --> 00:29:29,460 I will know regardless. 265 00:30:13,052 --> 00:30:14,759 What is he saying to him? 266 00:30:16,848 --> 00:30:18,009 I don't know. 267 00:31:33,925 --> 00:31:36,793 Never, never before have we seen anything like this. 268 00:31:37,220 --> 00:31:38,836 A vile, treacherous attack 269 00:31:39,055 --> 00:31:41,547 against the very heart of the Catholic Church. 270 00:31:42,016 --> 00:31:44,008 What we know so far is that the basilica was empty 271 00:31:44,101 --> 00:31:46,184 when the dynamite attack occurred late last night. 272 00:31:46,479 --> 00:31:49,597 There are no victims, however, numerous works of art have been damaged 273 00:31:49,690 --> 00:31:51,147 including Michelangelo's Pietà 274 00:31:51,651 --> 00:31:53,813 which reportedly has suffered serious damage. 275 00:31:54,195 --> 00:31:56,562 There are unconfirmed reports that two young men 276 00:31:57,114 --> 00:32:00,198 an Egyptian and a Syrian seen earlier hanging around the Vatican 277 00:32:00,701 --> 00:32:03,614 were taken into custody immediately following the explosion. 278 00:32:04,372 --> 00:32:08,582 Neither Pope John Paul III nor new Secretary of State, Cardinal Mario Assente 279 00:32:08,835 --> 00:32:10,667 has released any sort of statement. 280 00:32:11,295 --> 00:32:14,003 This inexplicable silence on the part of the Holy See 281 00:32:14,298 --> 00:32:16,164 is already cause for heavy criticism. 282 00:32:23,182 --> 00:32:24,218 Come in. 283 00:32:29,897 --> 00:32:30,933 What is it? 284 00:32:34,819 --> 00:32:36,481 I would like to apologise. 285 00:32:40,533 --> 00:32:43,367 You two are going out tonight. 286 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:47,038 Excuse me? 287 00:32:47,039 --> 00:32:51,204 Tonight, you and your husband are gonna get dressed up and you're going out. 288 00:32:51,878 --> 00:32:53,210 Take the evening off. 289 00:32:56,382 --> 00:32:58,214 It doesn't matter where you go, but tonight... 290 00:33:00,636 --> 00:33:01,636 you're going out. 291 00:33:03,431 --> 00:33:04,547 Why? 292 00:33:04,891 --> 00:33:06,177 Because you need it. 293 00:33:13,524 --> 00:33:15,390 I'll watch over your son for you. 294 00:33:23,242 --> 00:33:24,323 OK. 295 00:33:44,055 --> 00:33:45,387 What is your son's name? 296 00:33:47,725 --> 00:33:48,725 Arek. 297 00:33:52,229 --> 00:33:53,310 Good. 298 00:33:55,358 --> 00:33:56,894 I'll stay with Arek. 299 00:34:00,237 --> 00:34:03,947 What did you say to him yesterday when you whispered in his ear? 300 00:34:06,994 --> 00:34:08,610 I described Heaven to him. 301 00:34:11,749 --> 00:34:13,411 Down to the tiniest detail. 302 00:34:17,630 --> 00:34:19,587 You know what Heaven is like? 303 00:34:27,223 --> 00:34:28,339 Yes, I do. 304 00:36:04,737 --> 00:36:06,353 I'd forgotten that in January 305 00:36:06,447 --> 00:36:08,985 not a single restaurant is open here in Venice. 306 00:36:09,950 --> 00:36:13,534 we're out. 307 00:36:13,746 --> 00:36:15,738 I can't remember the last time that happened. 308 00:36:16,332 --> 00:36:19,370 When we first met, we used to go out every night. 309 00:36:20,544 --> 00:36:23,161 I wanted to show you Venice before we got married. 310 00:36:23,380 --> 00:36:26,043 Yeah, that was a special time. 311 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,460 Do you remember the first time we met? 312 00:36:31,430 --> 00:36:33,137 Of course I remember. 313 00:36:33,766 --> 00:36:36,133 You were wearing a tux then, too. 314 00:36:37,186 --> 00:36:39,223 And you were very charming. 315 00:36:40,689 --> 00:36:42,146 I remember I said: 316 00:36:42,316 --> 00:36:45,184 "My name is Helmer Lindegard, I'm a doctor" 317 00:36:46,112 --> 00:36:48,946 and you came back with an extraordinary retort. 318 00:36:50,157 --> 00:36:52,695 You put on a mysterious smile and you said: 319 00:36:53,285 --> 00:36:55,948 "Know that I will need a lot of care." 320 00:36:57,790 --> 00:36:58,951 Game over. 321 00:36:59,333 --> 00:37:00,949 There was no turning back. 322 00:37:02,044 --> 00:37:04,457 I was head over heels in love from that point on. 323 00:37:06,465 --> 00:37:09,708 I used to be good at coming up with witty retorts. 324 00:37:11,887 --> 00:37:14,630 When you are young, you believe blindly in your own vanity. 325 00:37:17,726 --> 00:37:19,592 That same night, in St. Mark's Square 326 00:37:21,063 --> 00:37:23,180 I snuck a peek at you as you walked. 327 00:37:24,775 --> 00:37:27,643 I'll never see another woman walk like that as long as I live. 328 00:37:28,529 --> 00:37:29,940 And I said to myself: 329 00:37:30,322 --> 00:37:33,030 "When she stops walking, I'll ask her to marry me." 330 00:37:34,243 --> 00:37:36,405 You'd never seen a model walk before. 331 00:37:38,414 --> 00:37:42,454 "Yes, I want to marry you too, Doctor." 332 00:37:43,752 --> 00:37:45,084 Just like that. 333 00:37:46,922 --> 00:37:48,504 How crazy was I? 334 00:37:51,552 --> 00:37:52,759 Shall we go home? 335 00:37:53,637 --> 00:37:55,128 I'm worried about Arek. 336 00:37:57,725 --> 00:37:58,841 Yes, let's go home. 337 00:38:32,384 --> 00:38:33,545 Now, Lord... 338 00:38:35,387 --> 00:38:36,753 you and I must talk. 339 00:38:38,974 --> 00:38:41,057 You and I must talk about Arek. 340 00:38:44,230 --> 00:38:46,142 Make him a man, Lord. 341 00:38:48,984 --> 00:38:50,941 Make him a man, Lord. 342 00:38:53,030 --> 00:38:54,566 I will intercede... 343 00:38:56,575 --> 00:38:58,362 but you must act. 344 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:02,412 Make him a man. 345 00:39:05,042 --> 00:39:06,499 Make him a man. 346 00:39:09,755 --> 00:39:11,417 Make him a man, Lord. 347 00:39:30,150 --> 00:39:31,311 Wait here. 348 00:39:34,530 --> 00:39:35,566 And look. 349 00:40:46,643 --> 00:40:49,226 I do not perform miracles. 350 00:40:51,523 --> 00:40:54,516 I simply find myself at the centre of coincidences. 351 00:41:41,865 --> 00:41:44,073 Time for your bath, Arek. 352 00:41:47,579 --> 00:41:48,911 Thank you for trying. 353 00:41:53,752 --> 00:41:55,664 I imagine you would like to go back to Rome now. 354 00:41:55,712 --> 00:41:56,712 No. 355 00:41:58,215 --> 00:41:59,581 It's still not time. 356 00:44:29,575 --> 00:44:30,691 Sit down, Sofia. 357 00:44:36,790 --> 00:44:38,827 What is happening is bigger than I am. 358 00:44:39,585 --> 00:44:41,542 - I need some advice. - I know. 359 00:44:41,712 --> 00:44:42,998 Will you help me? 360 00:44:43,213 --> 00:44:45,580 I am retired now, I am out of the game. 361 00:44:46,091 --> 00:44:47,832 - Can't we pretend? - Pretend what? 362 00:44:48,051 --> 00:44:50,418 That you are still the Secretary of State. 363 00:44:50,596 --> 00:44:52,383 Just for ten minutes, please. 364 00:44:52,973 --> 00:44:56,216 You are the most intelligent man the Church has ever known. 365 00:44:56,977 --> 00:44:59,139 I make a brilliant gardener as well. 366 00:44:59,730 --> 00:45:02,438 Girolamo and I tried grafting 367 00:45:02,649 --> 00:45:06,233 a nun's orchid with a rose of Bethlehem and it worked. 368 00:45:06,862 --> 00:45:10,947 Don Mimmo was sceptical but he had to eat his words. 369 00:45:11,158 --> 00:45:12,194 Right, Don Mimmo? 370 00:45:13,327 --> 00:45:16,035 So, Sofia, what seems to be the problem? 371 00:45:17,414 --> 00:45:19,497 Since the attack, the Pope has given up. 372 00:45:20,667 --> 00:45:21,953 He is poorly advised. 373 00:45:22,085 --> 00:45:25,374 The problem is that it has become impossible to advise him. 374 00:45:25,589 --> 00:45:29,708 He has holed himself up in his apartment and refuses to speak with anyone. 375 00:45:30,344 --> 00:45:32,802 He has fallen into a deep depression. 376 00:45:33,555 --> 00:45:36,389 All he does is weep over the death of his dog. 377 00:45:36,975 --> 00:45:41,845 He said it himself, he is a piece of fragile porcelain. 378 00:45:42,230 --> 00:45:43,596 What can I do? 379 00:45:44,066 --> 00:45:48,686 You can weaken the strong. I have been doing that my whole life. 380 00:45:49,404 --> 00:45:51,566 But there is one thing you cannot do. 381 00:45:52,199 --> 00:45:53,235 What's that? 382 00:45:54,034 --> 00:45:55,946 Give strength to the fragile. 383 00:45:57,954 --> 00:45:59,115 And so? 384 00:45:59,331 --> 00:46:02,574 And so, there is only one thing left to do. 385 00:46:02,751 --> 00:46:05,494 Ride John Paul III's weakness. 386 00:46:06,421 --> 00:46:07,582 What do you mean? 387 00:47:25,751 --> 00:47:30,212 Facing you is a man who is worthless, a man without merits. 388 00:47:31,214 --> 00:47:33,957 I am indolent, I am pompous 389 00:47:34,509 --> 00:47:36,296 I am irresponsible 390 00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:38,177 I am conceited 391 00:47:39,347 --> 00:47:40,713 I am a disappointment 392 00:47:42,601 --> 00:47:45,810 I am an undistinguished thespian 393 00:47:47,230 --> 00:47:48,721 I am a weak man 394 00:47:50,484 --> 00:47:52,100 and I am a drug addict. 395 00:47:52,277 --> 00:47:54,314 - Holy Father... - Please, let me finish. 396 00:47:59,493 --> 00:48:01,029 You and I must talk now. 397 00:48:02,579 --> 00:48:05,117 Yes, Lord, you and I must talk about Arek. 398 00:48:06,166 --> 00:48:07,498 Life is life. 399 00:48:08,710 --> 00:48:12,374 I know I'm going where you'd rather I didn't, I know, but I'm asking you. 400 00:48:14,090 --> 00:48:15,376 Make him a man. 401 00:48:17,552 --> 00:48:18,884 Make him a man. 402 00:48:20,222 --> 00:48:23,181 I will intercede, but you must act. 403 00:48:24,267 --> 00:48:25,599 Make him a man. 404 00:48:27,312 --> 00:48:29,395 I told you, make him a man. 405 00:48:30,899 --> 00:48:32,140 Make him a man. 406 00:48:37,697 --> 00:48:38,938 Make him a man. 407 00:48:39,658 --> 00:48:41,695 Have you read "The Middle Way"? 408 00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,322 The summation of my thinking. 409 00:48:45,664 --> 00:48:46,745 Did you like it? 410 00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:48,156 Like it? 411 00:48:49,334 --> 00:48:50,334 Who didn't? 412 00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,913 It is what is guiding us all in these difficult times. 413 00:48:56,758 --> 00:48:58,090 It is a masterpiece. 414 00:49:00,887 --> 00:49:03,095 True. It is a masterpiece. 415 00:49:07,978 --> 00:49:09,719 But I did not write it. 416 00:49:16,653 --> 00:49:18,440 What are you saying, Holy Father? 417 00:49:18,655 --> 00:49:20,988 My brother Adam wrote it 418 00:49:21,908 --> 00:49:25,072 and he died before he could publish it, so I did 419 00:49:25,579 --> 00:49:27,491 and claimed it as my own. 420 00:49:28,540 --> 00:49:31,624 I'm an imposter, Gutierrez. 421 00:49:33,628 --> 00:49:35,039 Make him a man. 422 00:49:35,964 --> 00:49:37,671 Make him a man. 423 00:49:39,551 --> 00:49:41,383 Make him a man, now. 424 00:49:43,263 --> 00:49:45,095 Make him a man, now, Lord. 425 00:49:45,223 --> 00:49:46,509 Make him a man. 426 00:49:46,933 --> 00:49:48,299 Make him a man. 427 00:49:48,894 --> 00:49:50,351 Make him a man, Lord. 428 00:49:51,104 --> 00:49:54,063 I will not wait another second. Make him a man. 429 00:49:55,066 --> 00:49:57,729 Make him a man now, Lord! Make him a man. 430 00:49:58,111 --> 00:50:00,228 Make him a man, Lord! Make him a man! 431 00:50:00,697 --> 00:50:03,189 Make him a man. Make him a man, Lord, now! 432 00:50:03,617 --> 00:50:05,074 Make him a man! 433 00:50:05,368 --> 00:50:07,906 Make him a man, Lord! Make him a man! 434 00:50:08,121 --> 00:50:09,237 Make him a man! 435 00:50:09,623 --> 00:50:12,661 Make him a man, Lord! Make him a man! 436 00:50:12,834 --> 00:50:15,668 Make him a man, Lord! Make him a man! 437 00:50:15,712 --> 00:50:16,712 Now! 438 00:50:54,709 --> 00:50:56,416 Have you finished, Holy Father? 439 00:50:58,004 --> 00:50:59,916 - Is that not enough? - No. 440 00:51:00,423 --> 00:51:02,506 It's not enough to not be forgiven. 441 00:51:04,219 --> 00:51:06,336 God saves us, always. 442 00:51:08,264 --> 00:51:11,098 God does not deny anyone the grace of salvation. 443 00:51:13,228 --> 00:51:15,060 It is the most beautiful thing there is. 444 00:51:17,107 --> 00:51:19,019 We love vanity and sin 445 00:51:19,901 --> 00:51:22,143 we love deprivation and wickedness. 446 00:51:23,446 --> 00:51:25,904 So we believe that God has abandoned us 447 00:51:26,950 --> 00:51:29,283 that God does not like us. 448 00:51:31,287 --> 00:51:33,654 But God does not manage our lives. 449 00:51:35,500 --> 00:51:37,833 He does not correct our weaknesses. 450 00:51:40,088 --> 00:51:41,875 God does not stop our hand 451 00:51:42,716 --> 00:51:44,082 when it plunges into sin. 452 00:51:46,386 --> 00:51:47,386 No. 453 00:51:49,556 --> 00:51:52,264 All He does is save us. 454 00:51:55,979 --> 00:51:58,096 In the end, God saves us. 455 00:52:01,067 --> 00:52:03,309 And He saves us with a kiss. 456 00:52:05,447 --> 00:52:07,234 Just like with Moses. 457 00:53:36,162 --> 00:53:37,369 Holy Father... 458 00:53:40,542 --> 00:53:41,874 What is Heaven like? 459 00:53:47,215 --> 00:53:48,626 Exactly like here. 460 00:53:50,510 --> 00:53:53,628 The same life as here on Earth for each of us. 461 00:53:56,891 --> 00:53:58,098 Except... 462 00:53:58,810 --> 00:54:00,096 it's not the same. 463 00:54:02,105 --> 00:54:03,186 Why? 464 00:54:05,608 --> 00:54:06,940 Because in Heaven 465 00:54:08,278 --> 00:54:09,644 we glimpse God. 466 00:54:14,659 --> 00:54:16,025 And Arek? 467 00:54:18,746 --> 00:54:20,738 Will he go to Heaven? 468 00:54:22,417 --> 00:54:23,533 Yeah. 469 00:54:26,212 --> 00:54:27,669 This is his place. 470 00:54:32,969 --> 00:54:34,505 And now the time has come. 471 00:54:38,641 --> 00:54:39,677 For what? 472 00:54:41,269 --> 00:54:42,635 To return to Rome. 473 00:54:44,439 --> 00:54:48,854 You will call the Holy See and speak with Gutierrez. 474 00:54:51,070 --> 00:54:53,187 And when you have finished speaking with Gutierrez 475 00:54:53,573 --> 00:54:56,373 you will get your wife and the two of you will meet me in the ballroom. 476 00:54:57,785 --> 00:54:58,785 Why? 477 00:54:58,953 --> 00:55:01,787 Because I would like to say goodbye, but first... 478 00:55:07,962 --> 00:55:09,169 But first... 479 00:55:10,381 --> 00:55:12,338 I would like to show you a miracle. 480 00:55:29,067 --> 00:55:30,433 Holy Father... 481 00:55:32,570 --> 00:55:34,152 I have to tell you something. 482 00:55:37,784 --> 00:55:38,991 Now... 483 00:55:41,579 --> 00:55:42,911 let's hold hands 484 00:55:45,375 --> 00:55:46,707 and close our eyes.