1 00:00:42,065 --> 00:00:45,604 How long do you think he intends to just sit there? 2 00:00:46,778 --> 00:00:48,815 Until we are convinced it was him. 3 00:00:48,947 --> 00:00:52,691 Have you noticed he makes no claim of responsibility for the attack? 4 00:00:53,117 --> 00:00:56,155 That's unprecedented on their part. 5 00:00:56,371 --> 00:00:58,328 OK, he convinced me. 6 00:00:59,999 --> 00:01:01,160 It was him. 7 00:01:01,292 --> 00:01:03,784 When you don't have proof, you don't have proof. 8 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,880 Why did you set Essence on Sofia Dubois? 9 00:01:08,049 --> 00:01:11,793 Essence is a ghostly figure, he knows how to point the way. 10 00:01:12,345 --> 00:01:13,345 Nice move. 11 00:01:13,554 --> 00:01:16,843 You wanted the terrible triad to crash and burn 12 00:01:17,308 --> 00:01:18,765 but I did instead. 13 00:01:19,519 --> 00:01:21,806 Fortunately, I landed on flowers. 14 00:01:21,938 --> 00:01:24,976 A temporary and calculated setback. 15 00:01:26,442 --> 00:01:29,810 The terrible triad will be crashed even more 16 00:01:29,988 --> 00:01:31,980 and you'll be right back in there. 17 00:01:32,907 --> 00:01:35,650 It's time to take stock, Your Eminence. 18 00:01:36,619 --> 00:01:41,831 You will have to direct your questions elsewhere, I am a floriculturist now. 19 00:01:41,958 --> 00:01:45,326 And I am, at least officially, property-less 20 00:01:45,503 --> 00:01:50,089 yet I manage a large part of the world out of my hotel room. 21 00:01:50,675 --> 00:01:52,962 I'm sure you do the same from your glasshouse here. 22 00:01:53,052 --> 00:01:57,638 I don't manage a thing, Bauer. I merely offer advice now and then. 23 00:01:58,099 --> 00:02:00,466 Much heeded advice, it would seem. 24 00:02:00,810 --> 00:02:03,974 Your Sofia leaked some photos of the young Brannox 25 00:02:04,022 --> 00:02:05,934 to an English newspaper. 26 00:02:07,066 --> 00:02:09,979 Did you know he was a pathetic punk 27 00:02:10,069 --> 00:02:12,857 who hung around other losers just like himself? 28 00:02:12,947 --> 00:02:14,279 What a scoop. 29 00:02:15,450 --> 00:02:18,534 - Let's see where it leads. - A brilliant move. 30 00:02:18,911 --> 00:02:23,326 The world needs to feel some tenderness toward our current pontiff. 31 00:02:23,416 --> 00:02:26,454 No, the world needs to forget about the other one. 32 00:02:26,544 --> 00:02:30,128 Which is why we have to help John Paul III. 33 00:02:30,339 --> 00:02:33,298 He's weak, unresponsive. 34 00:02:35,094 --> 00:02:37,507 What are you worried about, exactly? 35 00:02:38,973 --> 00:02:41,010 Exactly what am I...? 36 00:02:45,021 --> 00:02:46,228 You don't know? 37 00:02:49,275 --> 00:02:51,062 You don't know. 38 00:02:51,652 --> 00:02:52,652 Wow. 39 00:02:53,654 --> 00:02:57,944 OK... The way he acted in that interview 40 00:02:59,410 --> 00:03:02,027 he was in withdrawal, Voiello. 41 00:03:02,872 --> 00:03:04,408 He's a drug addict. 42 00:03:06,626 --> 00:03:10,711 I am unacquainted with addictive behaviour 43 00:03:11,130 --> 00:03:12,416 except regarding Napoli. 44 00:03:12,507 --> 00:03:16,251 Spalletta has known for years, that's how he's been blackmailing him. 45 00:03:16,344 --> 00:03:21,385 You are slipping, Voiello. You are seriously uninformed. 46 00:03:21,557 --> 00:03:26,473 Brannox is a lazy, self-centred coward. 47 00:03:26,729 --> 00:03:28,641 He let things fall apart 48 00:03:28,856 --> 00:03:33,976 and now the evil triad has the run of the roost, in business and in perversion 49 00:03:34,112 --> 00:03:37,105 always and exclusively illegal. 50 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,732 Sooner or later, some reporter 51 00:03:39,826 --> 00:03:43,945 will get a whiff of the stench and it will all blow sky high. 52 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,699 We've reached the point of no return, my friend. 53 00:03:47,917 --> 00:03:52,207 We can't keep piling problems on other problems. 54 00:03:53,172 --> 00:03:54,208 We can't. 55 00:03:55,758 --> 00:03:59,001 But I will need your approval first. 56 00:04:02,473 --> 00:04:04,556 I need to think about it. 57 00:04:13,359 --> 00:04:14,895 Think fast, please. 58 00:04:15,486 --> 00:04:18,729 We need the Vatican strong again right now. 59 00:04:19,073 --> 00:04:22,657 Probability calculation and history are both against you. 60 00:04:22,827 --> 00:04:25,911 There will be another attack, you can count on that 61 00:04:26,122 --> 00:04:30,537 and there will be a proliferation of sex scandals, dozens more 62 00:04:30,751 --> 00:04:33,289 given the fact that truth for some people 63 00:04:33,713 --> 00:04:36,626 is an ineradicable vice. 64 00:04:39,260 --> 00:04:40,717 I need to go now. 65 00:04:41,929 --> 00:04:45,593 But first, let me tell you two more things that will surprise you. 66 00:04:46,267 --> 00:04:49,635 Don't you think you have surprised me enough for one day? 67 00:04:49,729 --> 00:04:50,729 No. 68 00:04:51,647 --> 00:04:52,933 Number one 69 00:04:53,608 --> 00:04:55,224 Francis II... 70 00:04:55,902 --> 00:04:58,986 That wasn't us, we got there too late. 71 00:04:59,697 --> 00:05:02,986 Falsehood is my own ineradicable vice 72 00:05:03,075 --> 00:05:09,117 therefore, I would beg you not to inform me of any covert operations. 73 00:05:09,248 --> 00:05:11,740 Oh, you'll be interested in this one, alright. 74 00:05:14,503 --> 00:05:15,994 It was Lenny Belardo. 75 00:05:18,090 --> 00:05:19,456 What are you saying? 76 00:05:20,134 --> 00:05:22,592 Lenny Belardo, in a coma 77 00:05:22,929 --> 00:05:25,296 inexplicably moves his finger 78 00:05:25,514 --> 00:05:29,224 and two seconds later, Francis II is dead. 79 00:05:30,561 --> 00:05:33,178 We ran a cross-check on the times. 80 00:05:35,483 --> 00:05:37,850 It was a miracle, Voiello. 81 00:05:38,903 --> 00:05:42,613 And the second surprise? Another miracle, I suppose. 82 00:05:43,741 --> 00:05:44,948 Exactly. 83 00:05:47,078 --> 00:05:49,115 Lenny Belardo has woken up... 84 00:05:54,293 --> 00:05:55,704 and is coming back. 85 00:06:02,009 --> 00:06:03,170 Ciao, Voiello. 86 00:08:24,235 --> 00:08:27,945 We prepared a few surprises for you. 87 00:08:36,414 --> 00:08:38,371 Cherry Coke Zero, Your Holiness. 88 00:08:42,878 --> 00:08:44,460 Your favourite drink. 89 00:08:48,342 --> 00:08:51,756 He used to hide, now he shows his face. 90 00:08:55,975 --> 00:08:57,807 Just like you, Your Holiness. 91 00:09:28,716 --> 00:09:32,426 I'm not gonna tell you who we are and neither will your attorney. 92 00:09:32,887 --> 00:09:35,379 I will ask you this only once. 93 00:09:36,182 --> 00:09:38,139 Then I'm gonna count to seven. 94 00:09:38,601 --> 00:09:42,094 By the time I reach seven, I expect an answer. 95 00:09:42,229 --> 00:09:44,721 Now, I'm not a huge fan of suspense 96 00:09:44,815 --> 00:09:49,150 so I will kindly ask you to let me have an answer by the time I reach four 97 00:09:49,445 --> 00:09:51,232 at the very most five. 98 00:09:51,363 --> 00:09:55,983 Not gonna tell you what happens if I have to count up to seven, for two reasons. 99 00:09:56,202 --> 00:09:59,786 even a prisoner has the right to surprise. 100 00:09:59,997 --> 00:10:03,866 I seldom make threats. 101 00:10:04,543 --> 00:10:07,502 Threats are a vulgar tool 102 00:10:07,588 --> 00:10:11,207 in the hands of organised crime and we're not criminals. 103 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:12,711 That's our perception, at least 104 00:10:12,801 --> 00:10:17,216 and perception, my dear Faisal, is everything. 105 00:10:18,432 --> 00:10:22,267 All the rest is the prerogative of that monotony 106 00:10:22,478 --> 00:10:26,097 simpletons insist on calling reality. 107 00:10:26,774 --> 00:10:28,015 At any rate 108 00:10:29,777 --> 00:10:33,236 my question is disconcertingly simple: 109 00:10:34,782 --> 00:10:37,365 was it... 110 00:10:39,161 --> 00:10:40,197 you? 111 00:10:42,831 --> 00:10:44,038 One. 112 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:47,246 Two. 113 00:10:48,087 --> 00:10:49,294 Three. 114 00:10:50,297 --> 00:10:51,538 Four. 115 00:10:59,348 --> 00:11:01,214 As far as I'm concerned 116 00:11:02,810 --> 00:11:04,221 that's an answer. 117 00:11:05,854 --> 00:11:06,935 Is he here? 118 00:11:09,984 --> 00:11:11,441 - Who? - The Pope. 119 00:11:12,861 --> 00:11:14,477 John Paul III, I mean. 120 00:11:15,573 --> 00:11:16,609 No, he left. 121 00:11:16,782 --> 00:11:20,116 - Where did he go? - To another Vatican property. 122 00:11:20,578 --> 00:11:23,070 Eminence, please, might you be a little more precise? 123 00:11:23,289 --> 00:11:26,077 The Vatican owns more than 100,000 properties. 124 00:11:26,917 --> 00:11:29,876 To a chalet. In the Dolomites. 125 00:11:32,089 --> 00:11:33,330 Have you seen him? 126 00:11:33,924 --> 00:11:35,836 - Who? - Pius XIII. 127 00:11:38,178 --> 00:11:40,716 - Not yet. - What do you think? 128 00:11:43,517 --> 00:11:45,224 I was expecting this. 129 00:11:48,022 --> 00:11:49,354 Catch me if you can. 130 00:12:01,368 --> 00:12:03,951 I am aware that you had a rather 131 00:12:04,163 --> 00:12:07,702 privileged relationship with Pius XIII. 132 00:12:09,043 --> 00:12:11,501 I advise you not to renew it. 133 00:12:12,588 --> 00:12:16,502 For the moment, Pius XIII must be kept in isolation 134 00:12:16,717 --> 00:12:19,755 and it is not necessary 135 00:12:19,970 --> 00:12:23,759 that he have any contact with the cardinals. 136 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:27,016 That is all, Gutierrez. 137 00:12:33,692 --> 00:12:35,149 How is your toy boy? 138 00:12:39,156 --> 00:12:40,647 His name is Freddie 139 00:12:42,242 --> 00:12:43,778 and I think he's fine. 140 00:12:47,665 --> 00:12:49,156 Did he leave you? 141 00:12:52,461 --> 00:12:54,669 I deduce that he has. 142 00:12:56,131 --> 00:12:59,124 Have you read my most recent circular? 143 00:13:00,260 --> 00:13:03,594 Severe measures will be taken against anyone engaging 144 00:13:03,681 --> 00:13:08,847 in questionable or unseemly relations. 145 00:13:09,228 --> 00:13:11,094 I read it and complied. 146 00:13:12,439 --> 00:13:13,475 Did you? 147 00:13:39,967 --> 00:13:41,458 You have a visitor. 148 00:13:42,678 --> 00:13:46,171 Death does not announce his arrival, so who is it? 149 00:13:46,974 --> 00:13:48,556 It's a form of life. 150 00:13:49,852 --> 00:13:52,185 - Sofia Dubois. - No. 151 00:13:53,981 --> 00:13:57,065 - I suggest "yes". - Why, Danny? 152 00:13:57,151 --> 00:14:00,770 Because this is your chance to return to what you have always been. 153 00:14:02,239 --> 00:14:04,151 - A failure? - No. 154 00:14:05,909 --> 00:14:07,616 A seductive man. 155 00:14:18,756 --> 00:14:20,088 How's Voiello? 156 00:14:21,049 --> 00:14:25,168 Suffering. Voiello's only concern is for the good of the Church. 157 00:14:25,471 --> 00:14:29,761 Good for the Church may not coincide with what is good for me. 158 00:14:31,018 --> 00:14:34,261 Please, Holy Father, Voiello is good. 159 00:14:35,147 --> 00:14:37,981 It's the others who are bad, you have to believe me... 160 00:14:38,817 --> 00:14:42,060 seeing as how my husband is one of the bad ones. 161 00:14:49,036 --> 00:14:52,905 I'm going to do something incredibly intimate, Holy Father. 162 00:15:02,925 --> 00:15:04,257 Close your eyes. 163 00:15:16,814 --> 00:15:18,055 What are you doing? 164 00:15:19,441 --> 00:15:22,900 Trying to make you feel like you're back at your castle. 165 00:15:25,113 --> 00:15:28,026 The thing that I miss about my castle 166 00:15:28,575 --> 00:15:30,737 is the sense of imprisonment 167 00:15:31,161 --> 00:15:33,278 what others call freedom. 168 00:15:35,666 --> 00:15:38,283 Are you trying to make me look handsome? 169 00:15:39,670 --> 00:15:41,912 Make-up is not about looking better 170 00:15:42,756 --> 00:15:44,713 it's about starting anew. 171 00:15:46,218 --> 00:15:48,585 I can no longer see a beginning. 172 00:15:50,097 --> 00:15:53,761 I utterly embarrassed myself on worldwide telly. 173 00:15:56,144 --> 00:15:59,057 Which is why I had to abandon everything. 174 00:16:15,539 --> 00:16:16,539 Look at this. 175 00:16:32,097 --> 00:16:33,633 My goodness. 176 00:16:34,766 --> 00:16:36,928 Where did they get these photos? 177 00:16:38,478 --> 00:16:39,764 Oh, a mystery. 178 00:16:41,106 --> 00:16:45,225 One of the castle's servants must have found it worthwhile to sell them. 179 00:16:45,652 --> 00:16:47,735 But that's not the big news. 180 00:16:48,322 --> 00:16:52,316 What, is the big news is The Sex Pistols have reunited 181 00:16:52,451 --> 00:16:54,613 and have a plan to do me in? 182 00:16:55,370 --> 00:16:58,659 No, the big news is that people like them. 183 00:16:58,957 --> 00:17:02,621 These photographs have revealed the Holy Father's tender side. 184 00:17:02,878 --> 00:17:07,248 And his ridiculous side simply glossed over? 185 00:17:07,633 --> 00:17:10,842 Yes, because we all feel ridiculous. 186 00:17:11,136 --> 00:17:13,093 We have all been embarrassed. 187 00:17:13,305 --> 00:17:17,595 Embarrassment leads not to abandonment, though, but to unity. 188 00:17:18,685 --> 00:17:20,221 The tangible result? 189 00:17:20,437 --> 00:17:23,601 Travel agencies are experiencing a marked increase in the number 190 00:17:23,815 --> 00:17:28,105 of pilgrims requesting to come to Rome for the Angelus on Sunday. 191 00:17:28,236 --> 00:17:31,980 Your enthusiasm for life's rather contagious 192 00:17:32,115 --> 00:17:36,109 but I've no intention of returning to Rome for the Angelus. 193 00:17:38,163 --> 00:17:40,530 - Why not? - Because in point of fact 194 00:17:40,624 --> 00:17:42,365 I'm no longer the Pope. 195 00:17:44,670 --> 00:17:48,209 I think that's something you ought to discuss directly with Pius XIII. 196 00:17:48,298 --> 00:17:49,298 Sofia. 197 00:17:52,260 --> 00:17:53,967 Do you know how to ski? 198 00:18:00,310 --> 00:18:01,517 What's all this? 199 00:18:02,437 --> 00:18:06,056 All the mail that children sent to you while you were in a coma. 200 00:18:08,902 --> 00:18:12,111 The letters from adults, we keep in another warehouse. 201 00:18:13,740 --> 00:18:15,151 Have you read any of them? 202 00:18:15,951 --> 00:18:17,613 I read all of them. 203 00:18:21,331 --> 00:18:22,742 Would you read me one 204 00:18:23,458 --> 00:18:25,290 that particularly struck you? 205 00:18:46,523 --> 00:18:48,139 This is from Nadja 206 00:18:49,609 --> 00:18:52,568 12 years old, from Auckland. 207 00:18:56,033 --> 00:18:57,274 "Hi, Lenny. 208 00:18:58,702 --> 00:19:01,069 Ever since you fell asleep 209 00:19:02,164 --> 00:19:05,157 my eight-year-old brother Mike 210 00:19:06,293 --> 00:19:08,376 can't get to sleep without you. 211 00:19:12,591 --> 00:19:13,877 He's afraid. 212 00:19:16,053 --> 00:19:18,170 Please, wake up, Pope. 213 00:19:20,348 --> 00:19:24,092 Mike needs to rest so he can go to school in the morning." 214 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:33,567 Forgive me. 215 00:19:36,073 --> 00:19:38,861 I can't tolerate the thought of children suffering. 216 00:19:42,079 --> 00:19:43,695 I need to see Voiello. 217 00:21:10,167 --> 00:21:12,284 One day, when we were young 218 00:21:12,377 --> 00:21:15,415 my twin brother Adam and I were skiing. 219 00:21:15,630 --> 00:21:17,622 Adam had a bad fall 220 00:21:18,341 --> 00:21:21,209 and careened headlong into a tree. 221 00:21:24,723 --> 00:21:29,218 His head was bleeding profusely but all I would have had to have done 222 00:21:29,769 --> 00:21:33,854 was get him off the mountain and he would have lived, but I could not. 223 00:21:36,026 --> 00:21:38,769 - Are you hurt? - I was scared. 224 00:21:44,910 --> 00:21:46,367 And I still am. 225 00:21:55,086 --> 00:21:56,202 How are you? 226 00:21:56,755 --> 00:21:57,996 Much better. 227 00:22:00,050 --> 00:22:02,713 And me, how am I? 228 00:22:07,682 --> 00:22:09,093 Much better. 229 00:22:14,940 --> 00:22:18,399 I was too strung out on heroin so I just sat there 230 00:22:18,860 --> 00:22:20,897 and watched him bleed to death. 231 00:22:21,321 --> 00:22:24,610 I was destroying a family, my one, by doing nothing. 232 00:22:25,784 --> 00:22:28,401 'Tis by doing nothing that we destroy 233 00:22:28,536 --> 00:22:32,200 those precious jewel boxes that are our families. 234 00:22:33,375 --> 00:22:37,244 After Adam's death, our parents abandoned me. 235 00:22:37,754 --> 00:22:42,294 I respected them for that, and hated them for the rest of my life. 236 00:22:43,635 --> 00:22:46,753 It is burdensome to feel 237 00:22:46,972 --> 00:22:49,715 profoundly alone for a lifetime. 238 00:22:51,393 --> 00:22:54,431 It has been, in fact, a dead life. 239 00:22:56,606 --> 00:22:58,814 And God was not enough 240 00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:03,270 nor was God's wisdom, nor God's grace, nor God's presence. 241 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,607 I have not been consoled. 242 00:23:12,247 --> 00:23:16,116 - Compassion... I understand, yes. - No. 243 00:23:16,334 --> 00:23:19,793 - You feel compassion. - No, that's not the right word. 244 00:23:27,804 --> 00:23:30,842 In my first address to the cardinals 245 00:23:30,974 --> 00:23:33,057 I said that the problem is love 246 00:23:33,143 --> 00:23:36,978 the world suffers from distortions of love. 247 00:23:37,856 --> 00:23:40,974 But I never imagined until today 248 00:23:42,068 --> 00:23:43,980 that I would be in the world. 249 00:23:45,363 --> 00:23:48,822 Sick loves cannot be treated, which is why I need 250 00:23:48,908 --> 00:23:52,492 to feel your breath on my face once again. 251 00:23:54,039 --> 00:23:57,032 Right here, at the corner of my mouth. 252 00:23:58,668 --> 00:24:01,661 After which, I will be compelled 253 00:24:01,838 --> 00:24:05,206 to keep my distance from you, forever. 254 00:24:08,011 --> 00:24:09,968 In a moment, you will feel it. 255 00:24:16,227 --> 00:24:17,434 What am I? 256 00:24:18,063 --> 00:24:19,850 An emeritus Pope. 257 00:24:21,733 --> 00:24:23,770 Like an honorary president. 258 00:24:25,570 --> 00:24:29,689 - In general, they don't count. - That makes two of us, Your Holiness. 259 00:24:29,783 --> 00:24:31,900 You will always count, Voiello. 260 00:24:32,410 --> 00:24:35,778 Popes will come and go, but you will remain. 261 00:24:37,165 --> 00:24:39,122 You're not gonna ask me anything? 262 00:24:39,793 --> 00:24:42,911 How I woke up? Why I woke up? 263 00:24:43,380 --> 00:24:48,091 No, because even you don't know the answer and I am a pragmatic man. 264 00:24:48,676 --> 00:24:52,636 In order to come see you, I left Girolamo home alone 265 00:24:52,847 --> 00:24:54,759 a rather dangerous situation 266 00:24:54,891 --> 00:25:00,478 so, if I am here, it's not for a chitchat or to reminisce about the good old days. 267 00:25:00,980 --> 00:25:05,099 - Why did you come? - For the same reason you asked me here. 268 00:25:05,777 --> 00:25:09,316 For love of the Church and to be operational again. 269 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,529 - We have to lend the Church a hand. - Exactly. 270 00:25:13,827 --> 00:25:14,863 Good. 271 00:25:15,620 --> 00:25:16,781 Assente? 272 00:25:17,122 --> 00:25:18,579 Nomen omen... 273 00:25:19,207 --> 00:25:22,621 Assente in English means absent. 274 00:25:23,586 --> 00:25:26,579 Let's leave him where he is for the moment. 275 00:25:27,132 --> 00:25:30,500 We can work best behind the scenes, you and I. 276 00:25:30,718 --> 00:25:33,381 You wrote that dreadful book on this very topic 277 00:25:34,431 --> 00:25:38,550 - "The Man Behind the Scenes." - 300,000 copies sold. 278 00:25:38,977 --> 00:25:41,185 Eleven re-printings, Your Holiness. 279 00:25:41,646 --> 00:25:43,933 To label it dreadful 280 00:25:44,107 --> 00:25:46,770 seems rather ungenerous of you. 281 00:25:47,444 --> 00:25:48,776 Let's proceed. 282 00:25:50,530 --> 00:25:52,237 The real problems... 283 00:25:52,699 --> 00:25:54,031 - is... - Terrorism? 284 00:25:54,659 --> 00:25:55,659 Exactly. 285 00:25:56,536 --> 00:25:58,994 First Lourdes, then St. Peter's. 286 00:26:00,039 --> 00:26:04,124 They're targeting the most vital centres of Catholicism. 287 00:26:04,919 --> 00:26:06,251 What do you intend to do? 288 00:26:07,964 --> 00:26:10,047 I intend to spark a revolution. 289 00:26:10,258 --> 00:26:12,545 An old obsession of yours. 290 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,720 They dared violate the Basilica of St. Peter. 291 00:26:17,223 --> 00:26:19,886 Doesn't that seem sufficient cause to you? 292 00:26:21,186 --> 00:26:22,927 How shall I make my return? 293 00:26:23,897 --> 00:26:28,232 You should begin with a discreet appearance in the Vatican gardens. 294 00:26:28,443 --> 00:26:32,562 A visit to the sisters of the convent of Santa Teresa, perhaps. 295 00:26:33,239 --> 00:26:35,731 Someone is bound to see you. 296 00:26:36,659 --> 00:26:39,572 Rumours will start flying. 297 00:26:39,704 --> 00:26:44,119 I will steal a photo of you, blurry, from a distance 298 00:26:44,626 --> 00:26:47,835 which I will then leak to the media. 299 00:26:48,463 --> 00:26:51,581 Everyone will get all stirred up. 300 00:26:52,175 --> 00:26:56,636 Sofia Dubois will call a press conference and deny everything. 301 00:26:57,180 --> 00:26:59,968 But will they believe her? 302 00:27:00,391 --> 00:27:02,098 Not on your life. 303 00:27:02,519 --> 00:27:07,264 Next, someone will try to interview Lindegard. 304 00:27:07,398 --> 00:27:11,813 He will be elusive, enigmatic and the world will be plagued with doubts. 305 00:27:12,403 --> 00:27:14,986 Did he wake up? Did he die? 306 00:27:15,615 --> 00:27:17,948 Or did he rise from the dead? 307 00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,954 You are very persuasive, Voiello. 308 00:27:31,631 --> 00:27:34,795 And now, get back to your friend Girolamo. 309 00:27:35,009 --> 00:27:36,716 Right away, Your Holiness. 310 00:27:49,148 --> 00:27:51,515 One last thing, Your Holiness. 311 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:56,855 When you were in coma, did you find out anything about Napoli? 312 00:27:57,740 --> 00:28:01,324 Will we win the Serie A? The Champions League, perhaps? 313 00:28:01,995 --> 00:28:03,236 The Europa League? 314 00:28:05,081 --> 00:28:07,494 Yes, I did. I know everything. 315 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,393 Do you remember Adam's millipede? 316 00:28:36,571 --> 00:28:37,607 Mm-hm. 317 00:28:38,489 --> 00:28:42,608 He thought it was God, but he was wrong: it was Satan. 318 00:28:43,494 --> 00:28:45,531 Even Adam made mistakes. 319 00:28:47,248 --> 00:28:49,615 I think it is time, Danny 320 00:28:50,168 --> 00:28:52,410 that we return to Rome. 321 00:28:53,338 --> 00:28:55,625 So, what is it this time? 322 00:28:56,049 --> 00:28:57,961 You would like to say Mass? 323 00:28:58,384 --> 00:29:00,046 You want a female Pope? 324 00:29:01,888 --> 00:29:05,882 Cardinal Voiello granted our institute official authorisation 325 00:29:06,017 --> 00:29:07,474 to welcome orphans. 326 00:29:07,852 --> 00:29:10,435 You revoked that authorisation. 327 00:29:11,481 --> 00:29:13,643 Which is well within my jurisdiction. 328 00:29:14,692 --> 00:29:16,354 But why did you do it? 329 00:29:17,403 --> 00:29:20,646 The convent of Saint Teresa has long had 330 00:29:20,740 --> 00:29:22,902 a much more important mission: 331 00:29:23,409 --> 00:29:27,028 to serve and assist the Pope and the cardinals of the Curia. 332 00:29:27,246 --> 00:29:29,033 A euphemism for washing and ironing 333 00:29:29,123 --> 00:29:30,864 your underwear and socks for free. 334 00:29:31,542 --> 00:29:35,752 We're perfectly capable of taking care of the Pope, the cardinals 335 00:29:36,130 --> 00:29:39,089 and orphans, all at the same time. 336 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:40,300 No. 337 00:29:40,301 --> 00:29:44,716 We will move ahead regardless, with or without your authorisation. 338 00:29:47,558 --> 00:29:49,390 I highly doubt it. 339 00:29:49,769 --> 00:29:51,055 I'm unshakeable. 340 00:29:51,813 --> 00:29:54,180 And contrary to my predecessor 341 00:29:54,399 --> 00:29:57,437 I'm not fond of diplomacy or negotiating. 342 00:29:59,070 --> 00:30:00,106 The question is closed. 343 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,449 Any step you take to counter my revocation 344 00:30:05,660 --> 00:30:08,403 will be severely punished. 345 00:30:08,746 --> 00:30:11,113 You really don't care about orphans. 346 00:30:12,959 --> 00:30:13,995 Do you? 347 00:30:15,962 --> 00:30:17,919 Someone else can care about them. 348 00:30:18,548 --> 00:30:20,210 I have no intention 349 00:30:20,299 --> 00:30:25,169 of seeing a herd of screaming children grazing in the Vatican gardens. 350 00:30:26,180 --> 00:30:30,220 I detest both children and orphans. 351 00:32:04,779 --> 00:32:07,442 First, they took Faisal 352 00:32:09,450 --> 00:32:13,239 and now they're going to take my baby away, too. 353 00:32:15,748 --> 00:32:17,114 How did it go? 354 00:32:18,334 --> 00:32:19,620 Splendidly. 355 00:32:22,964 --> 00:32:27,379 I detest both children and orphans. 356 00:33:28,779 --> 00:33:30,987 My condolences, Eminence. 357 00:33:31,115 --> 00:33:33,607 I heard a friend of yours passed away. 358 00:33:34,285 --> 00:33:36,652 My only friend. Thank you. 359 00:33:37,038 --> 00:33:39,621 My mentor, Cardinal Newman 360 00:33:39,749 --> 00:33:44,961 wrote that the specific duty of the Christian is to oppose the world. 361 00:33:46,088 --> 00:33:48,546 However, I cannot do it alone 362 00:33:48,674 --> 00:33:52,668 but with you at my side, I can try. 363 00:33:55,681 --> 00:33:57,297 On two conditions. 364 00:33:58,768 --> 00:34:01,556 with your permission 365 00:34:01,812 --> 00:34:04,429 I will eliminate Guicciardini 366 00:34:04,649 --> 00:34:07,357 Spalletta and Thomas Altbruck. 367 00:34:08,319 --> 00:34:12,233 And no government will take anything from the Church. 368 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:15,111 You will risk nothing. 369 00:34:15,409 --> 00:34:19,278 Your private life will remain private. 370 00:34:20,414 --> 00:34:21,780 You are the Pope 371 00:34:22,291 --> 00:34:25,034 and no one blackmails the Pope. 372 00:34:25,711 --> 00:34:30,046 No one touches the Pope, no one questions the Pope. 373 00:34:31,050 --> 00:34:34,760 Not as long as I am here to protect him 374 00:34:35,805 --> 00:34:37,717 which is why, Holy Father 375 00:34:38,057 --> 00:34:43,473 I was the longest-standing Secretary of State in the history of the Church. 376 00:34:45,690 --> 00:34:48,148 And the second condition? 377 00:34:49,402 --> 00:34:51,314 You must do me a favour. 378 00:34:51,696 --> 00:34:56,487 If you do, I will return as your Secretary of State. 379 00:35:30,484 --> 00:35:31,850 Hello, my dear. 380 00:35:33,738 --> 00:35:36,856 Might you have half a minute for me? 381 00:37:37,528 --> 00:37:38,528 Amen. 382 00:38:11,395 --> 00:38:14,513 "Love your neighbour as yourself" 383 00:38:15,149 --> 00:38:16,606 Jesus says. 384 00:38:16,901 --> 00:38:20,770 I only have one neighbour: you, Girolamo. 385 00:38:22,865 --> 00:38:26,700 I am not very good at speaking in front of so many people. 386 00:38:27,745 --> 00:38:31,614 With Girolamo, I spent many a simple, serene hour. 387 00:38:32,082 --> 00:38:36,201 We didn't need to do grandiose things in order to be happy 388 00:38:36,712 --> 00:38:39,250 we didn't need to make grand speeches 389 00:38:39,340 --> 00:38:42,959 because between friends, silence is golden. 390 00:38:44,220 --> 00:38:48,510 Why did I ask you all here today in memory of Girolamo? 391 00:38:49,850 --> 00:38:52,513 To repair an injustice. 392 00:38:53,020 --> 00:38:56,229 Because I am the only one who had the great good fortune 393 00:38:57,107 --> 00:38:59,349 of spending time with him. 394 00:39:00,069 --> 00:39:02,311 I intend to right that wrong. 395 00:39:03,030 --> 00:39:07,149 Which means I need to tell you who Girolamo is. 396 00:39:09,578 --> 00:39:11,991 Girolamo is the world that suffers. 397 00:39:13,165 --> 00:39:14,781 Girolamo is grace. 398 00:39:15,793 --> 00:39:18,331 Girolamo is goodness and virtue. 399 00:39:18,587 --> 00:39:23,173 Girolamo, I say this for all of you who were not fortunate enough to know him 400 00:39:23,259 --> 00:39:27,048 is kind and cheerful 401 00:39:27,221 --> 00:39:29,929 joyous and full of life. 402 00:39:31,392 --> 00:39:36,183 You are probably wondering: what does Girolamo like to do? 403 00:39:36,981 --> 00:39:38,893 Girolamo loves to talk 404 00:39:39,441 --> 00:39:43,355 but he also likes to listen and to give me advice. 405 00:39:44,446 --> 00:39:48,531 He likes to watch TV and to listen to the radio together with me. 406 00:39:50,619 --> 00:39:53,077 Girolamo loves to run and dance 407 00:39:53,914 --> 00:39:56,201 to walk and sing and pray. 408 00:39:57,668 --> 00:39:59,910 He loves to swim at the sunset 409 00:40:01,005 --> 00:40:03,042 and flirt with the girls. 410 00:40:05,551 --> 00:40:08,385 Because Girolamo is a good-looking boy 411 00:40:09,013 --> 00:40:11,551 and he loves to give them flowers 412 00:40:13,225 --> 00:40:16,184 because Girolamo loves kindness. 413 00:40:18,939 --> 00:40:21,773 Girolamo is everything we are not. 414 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,154 Which is why we have gathered here today 415 00:40:27,740 --> 00:40:29,197 to celebrate him 416 00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:31,487 because we are not like him 417 00:40:32,077 --> 00:40:34,285 and because we would like to be. 418 00:40:35,247 --> 00:40:38,365 Which is why we contemplate and adore him 419 00:40:38,542 --> 00:40:41,626 because Girolamo knows how to love 420 00:40:42,254 --> 00:40:44,541 and how to be a true friend. 421 00:40:45,382 --> 00:40:49,001 Which is why his friends have come here today 422 00:40:49,303 --> 00:40:51,169 and why they are so many. 423 00:40:54,183 --> 00:40:56,391 Girolamo is a moral guide 424 00:40:57,102 --> 00:40:59,845 which is why the leaders of his country 425 00:41:00,356 --> 00:41:02,188 are all here today. 426 00:41:03,484 --> 00:41:08,070 Girolamo, my brothers and sisters 427 00:41:08,781 --> 00:41:10,192 is a saint. 428 00:41:11,617 --> 00:41:13,654 Which is why the Pope himself 429 00:41:14,286 --> 00:41:16,744 wanted to say Mass today. 430 00:41:21,085 --> 00:41:24,795 Girolamo is the world that suffers. 431 00:41:26,173 --> 00:41:29,166 Girolamo is the world that loves. 432 00:41:30,010 --> 00:41:34,675 And I thank God for giving me the extraordinary opportunity 433 00:41:34,807 --> 00:41:36,844 to be his best friend. 434 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:40,096 Thank you, Girolamo. 435 00:41:40,687 --> 00:41:43,600 You and only you who knew intimately 436 00:41:43,941 --> 00:41:46,228 the anguish of suffering 437 00:41:46,860 --> 00:41:49,102 the beauty of sacrifice 438 00:41:50,364 --> 00:41:52,071 and the power of love. 439 00:41:54,701 --> 00:41:57,694 I will never forget you, Girolamo. 440 00:41:59,206 --> 00:42:00,287 Never. 441 00:45:44,973 --> 00:45:46,635 I brought you something. 442 00:46:33,397 --> 00:46:34,729 Go ahead... 443 00:46:36,191 --> 00:46:37,773 scroll through them. 444 00:46:40,654 --> 00:46:43,442 Oh, there must be a video of the evening somewhere as well. 445 00:46:43,824 --> 00:46:49,570 We filmed it all with a camera hidden among all these expensive bottles. 446 00:46:52,999 --> 00:46:55,787 - What do you want, Essence? - Oh, just one thing, one thing... 447 00:46:57,629 --> 00:46:59,040 times three. 448 00:47:01,425 --> 00:47:03,166 Your resignations. 449 00:47:04,261 --> 00:47:08,050 You, as Minister of the Economy. 450 00:47:09,307 --> 00:47:10,798 You, Altbruck 451 00:47:12,018 --> 00:47:14,977 as head of the Vatican financial structure. 452 00:47:15,647 --> 00:47:18,185 And you, Spalletta 453 00:47:20,861 --> 00:47:25,196 will be defrocked in two hours. 454 00:47:27,701 --> 00:47:29,738 In exchange for what? 455 00:47:29,828 --> 00:47:31,490 In exchange for nothing. 456 00:47:32,038 --> 00:47:33,495 Who the hell are you? 457 00:47:34,124 --> 00:47:36,457 Oh, for you, I am God. 458 00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,412 I am the one who can save your asses 459 00:47:41,548 --> 00:47:44,165 by letting these photos simply sit on my phone 460 00:47:44,301 --> 00:47:46,588 or I can drown you in shit 461 00:47:46,720 --> 00:47:50,179 by posting them and turning them over to the magistrate. 462 00:47:50,265 --> 00:47:54,179 Now, in order to avoid any misunderstanding 463 00:47:55,020 --> 00:47:58,354 let me remind you that my friend here is a minor. 464 00:47:59,649 --> 00:48:01,140 And finally... 465 00:48:04,237 --> 00:48:05,603 a little warning: 466 00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:08,822 if any of you dare try 467 00:48:09,367 --> 00:48:12,781 and blackmail the Holy Father, I will simply... 468 00:48:15,582 --> 00:48:19,496 Jesus Christ, Bauer, how silly of you. 469 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,254 I was just about to issue a threat. 470 00:48:29,387 --> 00:48:31,925 OK, here's what's gonna happen. 471 00:48:32,516 --> 00:48:37,102 I'm gonna count to seven and then it'll be up to you to decide. 472 00:48:38,814 --> 00:48:40,396 In theory, of course, not in practice. 473 00:48:40,482 --> 00:48:43,941 In practice, I will decide, because I am God. 474 00:48:44,694 --> 00:48:45,810 Just... 475 00:48:46,780 --> 00:48:49,193 don't let word get around. 476 00:48:50,700 --> 00:48:52,282 It's a sensitive issue. 477 00:48:53,954 --> 00:48:54,954 Ha! 478 00:48:56,414 --> 00:48:57,414 Ha. 479 00:49:29,406 --> 00:49:32,615 You see, Lisette, what you've been saying 480 00:49:33,660 --> 00:49:36,277 is that society is progressing 481 00:49:37,163 --> 00:49:41,453 and the Church must keep pace with society. 482 00:49:43,003 --> 00:49:45,495 But we are not champions of progress 483 00:49:46,256 --> 00:49:50,546 we are champions of faith, we have a duty to be different 484 00:49:50,677 --> 00:49:54,091 which is why we live with privations and sacrifices 485 00:49:54,556 --> 00:49:58,425 while beyond these walls, life is comfort and pleasure. 486 00:49:59,936 --> 00:50:03,100 At times, these privations and sacrifices 487 00:50:03,315 --> 00:50:05,898 seem incomprehensible... 488 00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,147 wrong to us. 489 00:50:10,572 --> 00:50:14,407 They are neither. In truth, they are mysterious. 490 00:50:15,535 --> 00:50:18,994 And we have a duty to be mysterious, as well. 491 00:50:20,624 --> 00:50:22,741 This is our strength. 492 00:50:24,210 --> 00:50:27,749 Out there, society is predictable. 493 00:50:28,298 --> 00:50:31,257 And whatever is predictable is also puerile. 494 00:50:32,427 --> 00:50:36,512 Am I saying that everything must remain exactly as it is? 495 00:50:38,850 --> 00:50:39,886 Not at all. 496 00:50:40,769 --> 00:50:44,729 But you, sisters, are already different and mysterious. 497 00:50:45,815 --> 00:50:47,898 The priests, on the other hand 498 00:50:48,109 --> 00:50:50,476 have moved too close to civil society. 499 00:50:51,404 --> 00:50:54,897 So it is not a matter of extending to you sisters 500 00:50:55,116 --> 00:50:59,656 the rights and privileges of the priests, but rather extending to the priests 501 00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,664 the duties and the privations of you nuns. 502 00:51:05,460 --> 00:51:10,046 This is the only equality that is truly feasible in the church. 503 00:51:11,299 --> 00:51:15,885 The priests must do your laundry, just as you do theirs. 504 00:51:18,390 --> 00:51:21,224 They must look within themselves to find your grace 505 00:51:24,062 --> 00:51:25,678 your generosity 506 00:51:27,941 --> 00:51:29,227 your intelligence 507 00:51:30,902 --> 00:51:32,359 and your love. 508 00:51:33,822 --> 00:51:37,156 Your righteousness will become their righteousness 509 00:51:37,534 --> 00:51:40,902 but that's not to say that their sins will become your sins. 510 00:51:43,915 --> 00:51:46,077 Which of you is without sin? 511 00:51:55,927 --> 00:51:56,927 Fine. 512 00:51:58,930 --> 00:52:01,013 "Whoever is without sin 513 00:52:02,475 --> 00:52:04,512 shall cast the first stone." 514 00:52:13,319 --> 00:52:17,063 This would be a "psychologically mature relationship" 515 00:52:17,574 --> 00:52:19,156 as you would call it 516 00:52:19,701 --> 00:52:22,944 between men and women, Lisette. 517 00:52:26,499 --> 00:52:30,334 Tomorrow at noon, I want that photo everywhere. 518 00:52:31,046 --> 00:52:32,046 Fine. 519 00:52:32,422 --> 00:52:36,757 Are you happy we did in that idiot ex-husband of yours? 520 00:52:37,677 --> 00:52:39,168 Up to a point. 521 00:52:40,305 --> 00:52:42,797 But he will go unpunished for what he did. 522 00:52:44,059 --> 00:52:47,928 True punishment is served not in prison, Sofia 523 00:52:48,521 --> 00:52:50,513 but in one's soul. 524 00:52:51,733 --> 00:52:54,476 Sir John must make up his mind 525 00:52:54,652 --> 00:52:57,019 to meet Pius XIII. 526 00:52:57,447 --> 00:53:00,986 - I agree. - And you will have to convince him. 527 00:53:02,494 --> 00:53:04,907 No, not me. 528 00:53:07,290 --> 00:53:10,454 Fine. I'll convince him, then. 529 00:53:24,849 --> 00:53:27,887 The Catholic world is in total turmoil. A photograph... 530 00:54:24,784 --> 00:54:28,528 "What is to be done?" As Lenin used to ask. 531 00:54:29,247 --> 00:54:31,409 I have two ideas. 532 00:54:31,791 --> 00:54:37,037 The first: an official denial so as to calm agitated souls. 533 00:54:37,922 --> 00:54:39,754 We can release a statement: 534 00:54:39,841 --> 00:54:45,132 "That picture of Lenny Belardo is nothing but an old photograph." 535 00:54:45,263 --> 00:54:49,473 - That will convince no one. - True, but it will insinuate doubt. 536 00:54:50,143 --> 00:54:54,353 - And doubt is a weapon. - And your second idea? 537 00:54:55,565 --> 00:54:57,978 - To reinforce you, Holy Father. - How? 538 00:54:58,359 --> 00:55:03,696 With the golden opportunity that you are being offered: your Angelus. 539 00:55:04,407 --> 00:55:08,151 The popularity of those photos of you as a punk 540 00:55:08,244 --> 00:55:12,238 leads us to believe that hordes of people will come on Sunday. 541 00:55:13,041 --> 00:55:15,033 Regardless, Holy Father 542 00:55:15,460 --> 00:55:19,374 even though it is not our habit 543 00:55:20,089 --> 00:55:23,253 we have to make a decision about the future. 544 00:55:24,093 --> 00:55:25,129 What do you mean? 545 00:55:25,220 --> 00:55:29,385 We cannot confine Pius XIII to an apartment his whole life. 546 00:55:29,682 --> 00:55:31,799 What do you recommend we do? 547 00:55:32,143 --> 00:55:37,013 That is a decision only you and Pius XIII can decide. 548 00:55:37,398 --> 00:55:38,730 But how? 549 00:55:40,151 --> 00:55:41,437 By meeting.