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We are under siege.

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-(GROANS)
-Pray!

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CARDINAL VOIELLO: We have
only one viable candidate

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for the papacy,
Sir John Brannox.

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♪ (ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

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TOMAS ALTBRUCK: Come back
with a new pope in your pocket.

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I've got a lot of projects
to propose to Brannox.

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Then I will use my charm
to persuade him.

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SIR JOHN BRANNOX:
If I were to become pope,

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might I be able to meet
famous people?

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SOFIA DUBOIS: Oh.

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Finally, a sensible reason
for aspiring to the papacy.

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MAN: I still don't understand
why you can't get into

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Brannox's good graces.

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Guess who knows
the Pope's secret?

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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

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Do you remember me, Holy Father?

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[TV static drones]

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[bright tone]

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- Beautiful baby, your nephew.

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- Ah, thank you, Holy Father.

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Um...

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Appreciate that.

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Oh, sorry, I brought
a gift for you,

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a painting that I did.

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- Thank you.

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[bell tolling faintly]

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Interesting, thank you.

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- You're welcome.

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So...

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You look a bit older.

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And it might just be
the beard, but...

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- I've had a beard
since I was 31.

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- Well, I remember
this amazing speech

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that you gave in Venice,

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but I don't remember you
having a beard then.

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- That was Pius XIII.

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- Oh.

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So...who are you?

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- I'm John Paul III.

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- Oh, oh...oh.

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Please forgive me, Holy Father.

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You gotta understand,
I've been in the studio

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holed up for months,
and I don't really

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keep track of the news, so...

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- What helps?

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- Potassium phosphate

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mixed with a capsule of Xabol.

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- So you're quite
the pharmaceutical adventurer.

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- [chuckles]

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So you're not Pius XIII.

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- No, I'm the new pope.

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- May I ask what happened
to the old pope?

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- He's in coma,

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and he had a successor,
Francis II,

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and he died.

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- Wow.

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Um...have you gone
to visit him?

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- Who?

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- The pope in a coma.

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- No, not yet.

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- Maybe you should.

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[Sofi Tukker's
"Good Time Girl"]

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♪ ♪

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- ♪ When I said it out loud,
it wasn't as strong ♪

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♪ As it was in my head ♪

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♪ I tried not to think
about it ♪

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♪ So it came back louder ♪

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♪ I think it's been
about a year ♪

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♪ Since I became a snob,
decided not to play along ♪

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♪ So it grew bigger ♪

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♪ Me and my head have become
very, very, very close ♪

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♪ We decided not to tell you ♪

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♪ To tell you about it ♪

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♪ We're just gonna
play it safe ♪

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♪ Do what we know ♪

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♪ Play it cool, lay low ♪

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♪ Not tell you about it ♪

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♪ And here I am
playing by myself ♪

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♪ Me and my
superiority complex ♪

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♪ And here I am
playing by myself ♪

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♪ Me and my
inferiority contest ♪

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♪ I'm not winning ♪

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♪ But I'm having
a very good time ♪

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♪ ♪

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♪ You can call me ♪

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♪ You can
call me ♪

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♪ You can call me
the good-time girl ♪

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- ♪ When I said it out loud,
it didn't sound as good ♪

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♪ I couldn't be as proud
of my original thought ♪

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♪ I'm not trying to whisper
what should be barked ♪

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♪ But I can't imagine
being out of control ♪

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♪ Or knocked off the top,
my head and I ♪

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♪ When I'm all alone,
but we're in my prime ♪

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♪ Don't want the throne
when I'm doing just fine ♪

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♪ Just so long as I'm having
a real good time ♪

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♪ ♪

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- ♪ You can call me ♪

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♪ You can call me ♪

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♪ You can call me
the good-time girl ♪

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♪ ♪

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[laughter]

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[indistinct chatter]

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[soft guitar music playing]

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- [singing in Italian]

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♪ ♪

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- Brothers.

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Many,

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far too many members
of the clergy

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believe that love

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is an infinite meadow

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and they're allowed to pick
all the flowers they want.

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But they are not
picking flowers.

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They are ripping plants
from the earth

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and assuring
by their actions

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that in the scorched
and barren soil

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they've defiled,

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nothing more will ever grow.

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[dramatic orchestral music]

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This is what our Church
risks becoming.

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♪ ♪

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The world wants to see
pedophile priests hanged.

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♪ ♪

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But Jesus would not want this.

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Jesus is civility,
and the Church

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cannot, must not
abandon her children,

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especially if they are ill.

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♪ ♪

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But...

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if they are ill,

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she must distance them

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from the heart
of ecclesiastical life forever.

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♪ ♪

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Forever.

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♪ ♪

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[indistinct chatter]

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- I know it sounds trite,
but seeing you surrounded

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by all these men

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makes me swell with pride.

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- Is that what
we're calling it now?

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Pride?

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- Your Holiness.

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[whispering]
When you have a minute,

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I would like
to show you something.

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A gift...

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from me to you,
Your Holiness.

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They told me
you only love Bentleys.

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- So this is the way
the real world works.

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- Yes, this is how it works.

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I hope that you are
not offended, Your Holiness.

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It's only a welcome gift,

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one that expects nothing
in return.

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- What could I possibly give
in return, Eminence?

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I am only a primus inter pares.

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- To be concrete,

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you need to make appointments.

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- I'm never concrete.

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- Do you remember,
Your Holiness, when we slept

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in the same room
after the seminary?

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What happy memories.

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We were young then.

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- All I remember
about my youth

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is my brother, Adam.

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- Do you still sleep
with that silver box

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next to your bed?

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- Actually, you're right,
of course.

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We did sleep in the same room.

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I recall you had an endless
stream of young visitors

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day and night, no?

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- If you allow me,
Holy Father,

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I would be happy
to inform you sometime

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of certain habits
inside the Vatican.

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- Oh, I very much allow you,
Eminence.

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Do it now.
Do tell straightaway.

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I'm curious.

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- In the Vatican,
the choice is between

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blackmail and benevolence.

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I always prefer
the second option.

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Don't you?

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- I never answer
important questions

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in the evening, Eminence,

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especially after
three glasses of champagne.

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[Giorgia and Marco Mengoni's
"Come Neve"]

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♪ ♪

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- [singing in Italian]

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♪ ♪

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- [speaking Italian]

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- [speaking Italian]

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- Matter resolved.

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A quid pro quo
in the chain of command.

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- May I swear?

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- Just once.

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- Like fuck it is.

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The matter's
not resolved at all.

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- Reverend Mother,
Don Cavallo informed me

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that you had requested
200 euro

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in order to take
Lisette's mother to Lourdes.

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And I have just given you
200 euro.

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- What we want now
is not what we wanted before.

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Our requests have changed.

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- [sighs]

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- You don't understand.

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- I understand everything,
Reverend Mother,

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but you need to be more clear.

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- We sisters
have joined together,

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and we now understand
the difference

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between charity and rights.

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- I am all ears.

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- We...demand respect.

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Social, moral,

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and economic recognition
for the duties

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we sisters perform.

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We want to be welcomed
into the bosom of the Church,

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to be granted
a more active ministry,

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including administering
the sacraments.

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And, in general, we expect
the male clergy to adopt

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a psychologically
mature attitude

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in its relations
with us female members.

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- Please, clarify
this last point for me.

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- Do you really need me
to elaborate

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on the sort of things
your brothers are capable of?

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- No, not now--
I don't have time--

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but a detailed written account
would prove most useful.

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- That you shall have.
- No, you won't.

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It's a trap, Reverend Mother.

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We will be dismissed
as tattlers,

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and he will have a record

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of all his accomplices'
depravities,

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the better
to blackmail them with.

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- Spectacular--the talent.

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This will be a long war,
though it will end

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as they all do,
with my victory.

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But you, Sister Lisette,

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will make
a formidable adversary.

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- You can bet on that.

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- Now what are you doing?

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- I'm dismissing you.

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- Then we will carry on
with our strike.

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- Fine, and we priests will
learn how to cook and wash

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and iron our robes.

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It's about time.

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[soft dramatic music]

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Be careful, Sister Lisette.

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Your rights are one thing.

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The rites of the Church
are another.

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The former are negotiable,
for they belong to man.

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The latter are not,
for they belong to God.

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♪ ♪

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- [giggles]
- That's better.

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♪ ♪

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- You haven't joined
your sisters' protest?

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- No.

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Me, no.

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- Why not?

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- Because I decided
to believe in you.

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♪ ♪

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- What are your sisters
asking for?

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- Respect.

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♪ ♪

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- Don't you need respect?

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- I have always had it.

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I work with popes.

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♪ ♪

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- Are you mad at me?

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♪ ♪

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I couldn't.

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00:16:52,089 --> 00:16:55,130
- You're just
a Sunday morning Christian.

268
00:16:55,214 --> 00:16:57,798
- What does that mean?

269
00:16:57,881 --> 00:16:59,464
- Ready to do good

270
00:16:59,547 --> 00:17:02,798
only if you don't have
to get your hands dirty.

271
00:17:02,881 --> 00:17:05,172
You're like those
philanthropists who think

272
00:17:05,255 --> 00:17:07,005
they'll go to heaven
if they give away

273
00:17:07,089 --> 00:17:10,673
a tiny fraction
of their dirty money.

274
00:17:10,756 --> 00:17:13,714
- You're being unfair.
I tried.

275
00:17:13,798 --> 00:17:15,422
- No, you didn't try, Ester.

276
00:17:16,964 --> 00:17:20,589
You just deluded some people
who are truly suffering.

277
00:17:22,631 --> 00:17:24,839
- When will I see you again?

278
00:17:24,923 --> 00:17:32,130
♪ ♪

279
00:17:32,589 --> 00:17:35,506
[child singing in Italian]

280
00:17:35,589 --> 00:17:38,589
[footsteps approaching]

281
00:17:50,839 --> 00:17:52,381
Here I am, Holy Father.

282
00:17:52,464 --> 00:17:54,673
Forgive me for being
a little late,

283
00:17:54,756 --> 00:17:57,547
but the Napoli coach's
press conference

284
00:17:57,631 --> 00:17:59,464
dragged on and on.

285
00:17:59,547 --> 00:18:02,923
Brevity of speech
is not his strong point.

286
00:18:05,339 --> 00:18:09,214
- You, Voiello, have
the great gift of informing me

287
00:18:09,297 --> 00:18:11,089
of things that would not
interest me

288
00:18:11,172 --> 00:18:12,381
even if I were you.

289
00:18:12,464 --> 00:18:14,255
- [laughs]

290
00:18:14,339 --> 00:18:17,547
- So what is this
about the nuns occupying

291
00:18:17,631 --> 00:18:19,422
the Sistine Chapel?
[cell phone buzzes]

292
00:18:19,506 --> 00:18:23,547
- Every six months or so,
the sisters remember

293
00:18:23,631 --> 00:18:27,089
that somewhere
in some parallel universe,

294
00:18:27,172 --> 00:18:29,381
they, too, could say Mass.

295
00:18:29,464 --> 00:18:30,547
But don't worry.

296
00:18:30,631 --> 00:18:34,130
I have the situation
under control.

297
00:18:34,214 --> 00:18:36,339
- Don't be too hard
on them, Voiello.

298
00:18:36,422 --> 00:18:38,255
- The proper amount--

299
00:18:38,339 --> 00:18:41,881
that way, they will not
be too hard on me.

300
00:18:42,839 --> 00:18:46,631
- Marilyn Manson
doesn't know who I am.

301
00:18:46,714 --> 00:18:49,589
- Marilyn Manson
doesn't know who he is.

302
00:18:49,673 --> 00:18:51,589
- The Church I have in mind

303
00:18:51,673 --> 00:18:55,464
must be better
at informing people.

304
00:18:55,547 --> 00:18:57,798
Every Marilyn in the world

305
00:18:57,881 --> 00:19:00,547
should know reflexively
who the pope is.

306
00:19:00,631 --> 00:19:03,130
This is not vanity.
This is necessity.

307
00:19:03,214 --> 00:19:06,005
Um, as for them
knowing who they are,

308
00:19:06,089 --> 00:19:07,839
there's always time for that.

309
00:19:07,923 --> 00:19:10,547
- Emory Kitsworth
wants to interview you.

310
00:19:10,631 --> 00:19:13,506
An in-depth,
wide-ranging conversation.

311
00:19:13,589 --> 00:19:16,130
Exclusive coverage
on the "Times" website,

312
00:19:16,214 --> 00:19:19,297
live, then rebroadcast
an hour later

313
00:19:19,381 --> 00:19:22,547
on every TV channel
in the world.

314
00:19:22,631 --> 00:19:26,631
So voilà, now every Marilyn
in the world will know you.

315
00:19:26,714 --> 00:19:29,881
- Hmm, an appealing idea.

316
00:19:31,547 --> 00:19:33,381
I have another one.

317
00:19:36,589 --> 00:19:39,547
I wish to pay a visit
to Pius XIII.

318
00:19:43,422 --> 00:19:45,964
- Dutiful.
- Dangerous.

319
00:19:46,047 --> 00:19:49,839
To have two popes,
Pius XIII and John Paul III,

320
00:19:49,923 --> 00:19:52,464
together in one photograph

321
00:19:52,547 --> 00:19:54,839
wouldn't do much
to clear up the confusion.

322
00:19:54,923 --> 00:19:57,631
- That photograph
will never be taken.

323
00:19:57,714 --> 00:20:01,839
My visit to Pius XIII
will be strictly private.

324
00:20:01,923 --> 00:20:04,839
My face will only be seen
in public

325
00:20:04,923 --> 00:20:08,547
on my way to and from
the hospital.

326
00:20:08,631 --> 00:20:12,673
- In storytelling, that is
called powerful deference.

327
00:20:12,756 --> 00:20:16,339
- My admiration
for well-read women

328
00:20:16,422 --> 00:20:17,673
will never fade.

329
00:20:19,673 --> 00:20:21,673
Perhaps that's why
I don't miss Meghan.

330
00:20:23,255 --> 00:20:26,381
[Arum Rae's "Should I"]

331
00:20:26,464 --> 00:20:33,464
♪ ♪

332
00:20:43,172 --> 00:20:46,047
[gulls squawking]

333
00:20:46,130 --> 00:20:51,714
♪ ♪

334
00:20:51,798 --> 00:20:53,881
- ♪ Green light ♪

335
00:20:53,964 --> 00:20:57,089
♪ ♪

336
00:20:57,172 --> 00:21:00,589
♪ He's heading over
to the west side ♪

337
00:21:00,673 --> 00:21:03,589
♪ ♪

338
00:21:03,673 --> 00:21:07,547
♪ He said he'd be
around midnight ♪

339
00:21:07,631 --> 00:21:10,422
♪ ♪

340
00:21:10,506 --> 00:21:12,589
♪ And that's all right ♪

341
00:21:12,673 --> 00:21:15,589
♪ ♪

342
00:21:15,673 --> 00:21:18,923
[camera shutters snapping]

343
00:21:19,005 --> 00:21:21,756
♪ Red wine ♪

344
00:21:21,839 --> 00:21:24,547
♪ ♪

345
00:21:24,631 --> 00:21:28,214
♪ I got this bottle
from a friend of mine ♪

346
00:21:28,297 --> 00:21:30,756
♪ ♪

347
00:21:30,839 --> 00:21:33,798
♪ I've been saving it
for someone special ♪

348
00:21:33,881 --> 00:21:35,255
[bell tolling]

349
00:21:35,339 --> 00:21:37,714
♪ ♪

350
00:21:37,798 --> 00:21:40,798
♪ Been saving it for tonight ♪

351
00:21:40,881 --> 00:21:46,172
♪ ♪

352
00:21:46,255 --> 00:21:49,089
♪ Should I hide
my excitement ♪

353
00:21:49,172 --> 00:21:52,964
♪ Put on makeup
or wear a dress ♪

354
00:21:53,047 --> 00:21:56,964
♪ Should I hold back ♪

355
00:21:57,047 --> 00:21:58,798
♪ ♪

356
00:21:58,881 --> 00:22:00,464
♪ Or should I let go ♪

357
00:22:00,547 --> 00:22:02,589
♪ Should I put on a record

358
00:22:02,673 --> 00:22:06,464
♪ Or should I just
play the radio ♪

359
00:22:06,547 --> 00:22:08,089
♪ Should I ♪

360
00:22:08,172 --> 00:22:09,464
♪ ♪

361
00:22:09,547 --> 00:22:12,297
♪ Should I ♪

362
00:22:12,381 --> 00:22:14,839
- Is there any possibility

363
00:22:14,923 --> 00:22:16,297
he could wake up?

364
00:22:16,381 --> 00:22:19,964
♪ ♪

365
00:22:20,047 --> 00:22:22,714
- Based on the knowledge
we have now, no.

366
00:22:22,798 --> 00:22:24,297
No possibility.

367
00:22:24,381 --> 00:22:29,172
♪ ♪

368
00:22:29,255 --> 00:22:32,214
- His hand was so warm.

369
00:22:32,297 --> 00:22:34,214
I found that comforting.

370
00:22:35,756 --> 00:22:37,547
- He is still alive...

371
00:22:39,339 --> 00:22:41,130
Even though he doesn't know it.

372
00:22:41,214 --> 00:22:45,255
♪ ♪

373
00:22:45,339 --> 00:22:48,339
- ♪ Gonna slow it down
tonight ♪

374
00:22:48,422 --> 00:22:52,172
♪ ♪

375
00:22:52,255 --> 00:22:54,172
[bell tolling]

376
00:22:54,255 --> 00:22:56,714
♪ Should I hide
my excitement ♪

377
00:22:56,798 --> 00:23:00,005
♪ Put on makeup
or wear a dress ♪

378
00:23:00,089 --> 00:23:04,214
♪ Should I hold back ♪

379
00:23:04,297 --> 00:23:06,214
[camera shutters snapping]

380
00:23:06,297 --> 00:23:08,047
♪ Or should I let go ♪

381
00:23:08,130 --> 00:23:09,881
♪ Should I put on a record ♪

382
00:23:09,964 --> 00:23:13,714
♪ Or should I just
play the radio ♪

383
00:23:13,798 --> 00:23:16,047
♪ Should I ♪

384
00:23:16,130 --> 00:23:18,506
♪ Should I just take it slow ♪
- [speaking Italian]

385
00:23:18,589 --> 00:23:20,881
[crowd chattering]

386
00:23:20,964 --> 00:23:22,547
♪ ♪

387
00:23:22,631 --> 00:23:26,547
♪ Should I just
take it slow ♪

388
00:23:26,631 --> 00:23:31,005
♪ ♪

389
00:23:31,089 --> 00:23:33,881
♪ When I just want ♪

390
00:23:33,964 --> 00:23:38,339
♪ To rush in ♪

391
00:23:38,422 --> 00:23:45,089
♪ I just want to rush in ♪

392
00:23:45,172 --> 00:23:47,547
♪ And I just want ♪

393
00:23:47,631 --> 00:23:52,214
♪ To rush in ♪

394
00:23:52,297 --> 00:23:57,047
♪ I just want to rush ♪

395
00:23:57,130 --> 00:23:59,047
♪ In love ♪

396
00:23:59,130 --> 00:24:00,923
♪ ♪

397
00:24:01,005 --> 00:24:05,339
[reporters clamoring]

398
00:24:05,422 --> 00:24:08,089
♪ Should I
hide my excitement ♪

399
00:24:08,172 --> 00:24:13,047
♪ Put on makeup
or wear a dress ♪

400
00:24:13,130 --> 00:24:20,130
♪ ♪

401
00:24:44,172 --> 00:24:47,130
[soft dramatic music]

402
00:24:47,214 --> 00:24:50,673
♪ ♪

403
00:24:50,756 --> 00:24:53,297
- In Venice, my authority

404
00:24:53,381 --> 00:24:56,589
did not turn
into authoritativeness.

405
00:24:56,673 --> 00:25:00,798
- If I may, Your Holiness,
it is actually the opposite.

406
00:25:00,881 --> 00:25:04,631
Your authoritativeness
did not turn into authority.

407
00:25:04,714 --> 00:25:05,923
- What should I have done?

408
00:25:06,005 --> 00:25:08,547
- Never mingle with idolaters.

409
00:25:08,631 --> 00:25:10,631
Had you asked my advice,

410
00:25:10,714 --> 00:25:14,005
that is what
I would have told you.

411
00:25:14,089 --> 00:25:16,798
- What do you think, Sofia?

412
00:25:16,881 --> 00:25:19,673
- You cannot please everyone,
Holy Father.

413
00:25:19,756 --> 00:25:22,339
- If I do not please,
I cannot seduce.

414
00:25:22,422 --> 00:25:25,923
If I do not seduce,
I cannot influence.

415
00:25:26,005 --> 00:25:30,506
If I do not influence,
I repent.

416
00:25:30,589 --> 00:25:33,297
- Of what?

417
00:25:33,381 --> 00:25:35,297
- Of everything.

418
00:25:35,381 --> 00:25:38,673
♪ ♪

419
00:25:38,756 --> 00:25:40,047
- Do I please you?

420
00:25:40,130 --> 00:25:42,130
both:
Immensely.

421
00:25:44,047 --> 00:25:46,255
- May I ask you
an indiscreet question?

422
00:25:46,339 --> 00:25:48,839
- I will never tell you
what the woman

423
00:25:48,964 --> 00:25:52,047
whispered in my ear, Eminence.

424
00:25:52,130 --> 00:25:56,214
♪ ♪

425
00:25:56,297 --> 00:25:58,005
Appointments.

426
00:25:58,089 --> 00:26:03,005
Our dear Sofia reconfirmed
as director of communications.

427
00:26:03,089 --> 00:26:06,381
The masterful Voiello
reconfirmed

428
00:26:06,464 --> 00:26:08,172
as secretary of state.

429
00:26:08,255 --> 00:26:10,923
Gutierrez will be my adviser.

430
00:26:11,005 --> 00:26:14,673
And now an innovation...

431
00:26:14,756 --> 00:26:19,381
my new personal secretary
in charge of creativity,

432
00:26:19,464 --> 00:26:23,964
the most eminent
Cardinal Spalletta.

433
00:26:26,422 --> 00:26:28,214
- What would you have me do,
Holy Father?

434
00:26:28,297 --> 00:26:30,839
- Everything
I do not wish to do,

435
00:26:30,964 --> 00:26:34,964
which I can assure you
will be rather a lot.

436
00:26:35,047 --> 00:26:40,589
In terms of creativity,
what do you propose, Spalletta?

437
00:26:40,673 --> 00:26:42,714
- I would commission
Christo to make

438
00:26:42,798 --> 00:26:44,798
a gigantic contemporary cross

439
00:26:44,881 --> 00:26:47,339
to be exhibited
in St. Peter's Square.

440
00:26:50,339 --> 00:26:54,130
- A classic extemporary
operation, Holy Father,

441
00:26:54,214 --> 00:26:56,422
and also quite costly.

442
00:26:56,506 --> 00:26:59,089
Nor is it devoid
of the age-old stench

443
00:26:59,172 --> 00:27:00,631
of corruption.

444
00:27:00,714 --> 00:27:02,673
- So not a good idea.

445
00:27:04,130 --> 00:27:05,130
Spalletta?

446
00:27:07,130 --> 00:27:08,422
- Hmm.

447
00:27:08,506 --> 00:27:11,089
A momentous diplomatic visit
to North Korea?

448
00:27:11,172 --> 00:27:13,631
- That's already been done.

449
00:27:13,714 --> 00:27:15,506
I would be the second.

450
00:27:15,589 --> 00:27:18,464
I've playing second fiddle
my whole life,

451
00:27:18,547 --> 00:27:21,798
so not a good idea, Spalletta.

452
00:27:21,881 --> 00:27:24,756
- A smashing success,
Spalletta.

453
00:27:24,839 --> 00:27:27,464
- And now I will instruct

454
00:27:27,547 --> 00:27:30,756
my personal secretary
in private.

455
00:27:40,714 --> 00:27:42,089
Disappointed?

456
00:27:42,172 --> 00:27:45,673
- No, not in the least,
Holy Father.

457
00:27:47,297 --> 00:27:50,798
I won't deny that I aspired
to become secretary of state,

458
00:27:50,881 --> 00:27:53,589
but personal secretary
allows me

459
00:27:53,673 --> 00:27:56,005
to work closely with you,

460
00:27:56,089 --> 00:27:58,381
which is what really matters.

461
00:28:01,798 --> 00:28:03,839
I'm only thinking

462
00:28:03,923 --> 00:28:07,172
of your own good,
Holy Father,

463
00:28:07,255 --> 00:28:11,255
for your good coincides
with the good of the Church.

464
00:28:16,422 --> 00:28:20,714
- So Francis II's death--
what do you make of it?

465
00:28:20,798 --> 00:28:24,130
Did he really die
of natural causes?

466
00:28:29,381 --> 00:28:32,297
- Do you really want to know
what I think?

467
00:28:32,381 --> 00:28:33,422
- Hmm.

468
00:28:36,089 --> 00:28:37,464
- Probably not.

469
00:28:39,297 --> 00:28:42,422
Voiello probably had
a hand in it.

470
00:28:42,506 --> 00:28:43,923
[tense music]

471
00:28:44,005 --> 00:28:46,547
- So we share
the same suspicions.

472
00:28:46,631 --> 00:28:49,839
What do you say
we look into it,

473
00:28:49,923 --> 00:28:52,923
just to keep ourselves
from getting bored

474
00:28:53,005 --> 00:28:56,214
and to keep me from meeting
the same fate?

475
00:28:56,297 --> 00:28:58,547
♪ ♪

476
00:28:58,631 --> 00:29:01,881
- May I offer you some
impartial advice, Holy Father?

477
00:29:01,964 --> 00:29:03,297
- Of course.

478
00:29:04,714 --> 00:29:06,547
- I would let it drop.

479
00:29:06,631 --> 00:29:09,589
♪ ♪

480
00:29:09,673 --> 00:29:10,547
- Hmm?

481
00:29:10,631 --> 00:29:15,172
♪ ♪

482
00:29:15,255 --> 00:29:18,089
- I will not deny
my longstanding antipathy

483
00:29:18,172 --> 00:29:20,381
for Voiello.

484
00:29:20,464 --> 00:29:22,089
Yet I feel I must warn you

485
00:29:22,172 --> 00:29:24,589
that making inquiries
about him

486
00:29:24,673 --> 00:29:27,381
would mean setting yourself
against him...

487
00:29:27,464 --> 00:29:29,464
♪ ♪

488
00:29:29,547 --> 00:29:33,798
Which is the last thing you
want to do here in the Vatican.

489
00:29:33,881 --> 00:29:36,923
Even the walls know that.

490
00:29:37,005 --> 00:29:39,631
- What makes him so dangerous?

491
00:29:41,214 --> 00:29:44,214
- No one really knows.

492
00:29:44,297 --> 00:29:46,547
But the fact is,

493
00:29:46,631 --> 00:29:50,255
every time someone tries
to oppose him,

494
00:29:50,339 --> 00:29:52,631
he has ended up in pieces,

495
00:29:52,714 --> 00:29:54,089
literally.

496
00:29:54,172 --> 00:29:56,547
♪ ♪

497
00:29:56,631 --> 00:29:57,923
Literally.

498
00:29:58,005 --> 00:30:00,964
♪ ♪

499
00:30:01,047 --> 00:30:06,172
Voiello is helped...
by the Lord, Holy Father.

500
00:30:07,422 --> 00:30:12,964
But...what is difficult
to understand is,

501
00:30:13,047 --> 00:30:15,255
who is this Lord?

502
00:30:15,339 --> 00:30:18,297
♪ ♪

503
00:30:18,381 --> 00:30:20,631
Is he divine?

504
00:30:20,714 --> 00:30:22,798
♪ ♪

505
00:30:22,881 --> 00:30:25,464
Or is he human?

506
00:30:25,547 --> 00:30:28,214
♪ ♪

507
00:31:24,089 --> 00:31:26,047
- John!
[echoes]

508
00:31:26,130 --> 00:31:29,047
[birds squawking]

509
00:31:29,130 --> 00:31:32,130
[light laughter]

510
00:31:40,089 --> 00:31:43,089
[laughter continues]

511
00:31:47,089 --> 00:31:50,089
[wind whooshing]

512
00:32:07,297 --> 00:32:10,214
[soft harp music playing]

513
00:32:10,297 --> 00:32:17,089
♪ ♪

514
00:32:17,172 --> 00:32:20,422
- Sir John,

515
00:32:20,506 --> 00:32:23,547
what did that woman
in Venice say to you?

516
00:32:23,631 --> 00:32:29,631
♪ ♪

517
00:33:46,881 --> 00:33:48,631
Good day, Sisters.

518
00:33:48,714 --> 00:33:50,172
You wanted to see me?

519
00:33:50,255 --> 00:33:53,964
- Actually, we wanted
to see you five hours ago.

520
00:33:54,047 --> 00:33:57,047
- Ah, forgive me
for having kept you waiting.

521
00:33:57,130 --> 00:33:59,297
The consequences
of the strike--

522
00:33:59,381 --> 00:34:02,381
everything is moving
more slowly now.

523
00:34:02,464 --> 00:34:04,464
So what can I do for you?

524
00:34:04,547 --> 00:34:08,339
- To start, fix the Wi-Fi.

525
00:34:08,422 --> 00:34:11,923
- If only I could,
but the server is down.

526
00:34:12,005 --> 00:34:16,589
That happens occasionally,
and a nun usually repairs it,

527
00:34:16,673 --> 00:34:20,047
but that nun
is currently on strike.

528
00:34:20,130 --> 00:34:23,047
- Are you saying we have
to suspend our strike

529
00:34:23,130 --> 00:34:24,506
if we want Internet?

530
00:34:24,589 --> 00:34:26,422
- It would seem that I am.

531
00:34:26,506 --> 00:34:29,339
- Why don't you call in
an outside technician?

532
00:34:29,422 --> 00:34:32,881
- Because here in the Vatican,
we don't like waste

533
00:34:32,964 --> 00:34:37,047
and because we can live
just fine without Wi-Fi.

534
00:34:37,130 --> 00:34:42,089
We are the oldest institution
in the world, Sister Lisette,

535
00:34:42,172 --> 00:34:44,964
not the Apple campus.
[chuckles]

536
00:34:46,714 --> 00:34:49,881
Reverend Mother,
you seem tired.

537
00:34:49,964 --> 00:34:51,881
So am I.

538
00:34:52,005 --> 00:34:55,089
I am not sleeping well.
Are you?

539
00:34:55,172 --> 00:34:57,589
Try this, chamomile.

540
00:34:57,673 --> 00:34:59,214
It helps, I've found.

541
00:35:08,506 --> 00:35:11,089
- If we suspend our strike,

542
00:35:11,172 --> 00:35:12,798
what will you give us
in exchange?

543
00:35:14,214 --> 00:35:15,798
- Wi-Fi.

544
00:35:15,881 --> 00:35:18,589
- And our other demands,
what about them?

545
00:35:18,673 --> 00:35:22,381
- I will bring them
to the Holy Father's attention,

546
00:35:22,464 --> 00:35:27,589
as I do with every request
that comes across my desk.

547
00:35:27,673 --> 00:35:30,923
Do not overestimate my power,
Sister Lisette.

548
00:35:31,005 --> 00:35:33,714
I am merely a paper pusher.

549
00:35:37,172 --> 00:35:40,214
- We would like to meet
with the Holy Father ourselves

550
00:35:40,297 --> 00:35:41,631
to explain our position.

551
00:35:41,714 --> 00:35:44,130
- A sacrosanct right.

552
00:35:44,214 --> 00:35:47,964
You merely need to file
an official request to see him.

553
00:35:48,047 --> 00:35:49,089
- Mm-hmm.

554
00:35:49,172 --> 00:35:50,297
Filed with whom?

555
00:35:50,381 --> 00:35:51,839
- With me.

556
00:35:53,547 --> 00:35:55,464
- [sighs]

557
00:35:55,547 --> 00:35:58,464
[La Rappresentante Di Lista's
"Questo Corpo"]

558
00:35:58,547 --> 00:36:01,464
- [singing in Italian]

559
00:36:01,547 --> 00:36:08,547
♪ ♪

560
00:36:15,089 --> 00:36:16,798
- [sighs]

561
00:36:16,881 --> 00:36:23,881
♪ ♪

562
00:36:46,589 --> 00:36:53,631
♪ ♪

563
00:37:04,923 --> 00:37:06,381
- I'm confused.

564
00:37:06,464 --> 00:37:09,714
What exactly is the purpose
of this meeting

565
00:37:09,798 --> 00:37:11,381
which you have defined

566
00:37:11,464 --> 00:37:15,255
as both urgent
and highly confidential?

567
00:37:15,339 --> 00:37:18,422
- We are repealing
the "eight per thousand" law.

568
00:37:23,798 --> 00:37:25,798
- [whispering]
The tax Italian people pay

569
00:37:25,881 --> 00:37:28,547
to maintain the clergy.

570
00:37:28,631 --> 00:37:31,673
- This is a declaration of war
on the Church.

571
00:37:31,756 --> 00:37:35,047
- No, no, no,
it's a necessary step

572
00:37:35,130 --> 00:37:37,839
toward saving
the Italian people.

573
00:37:37,964 --> 00:37:39,005
- How?

574
00:37:39,089 --> 00:37:43,714
- One, our finances
are in incredible disarray.

575
00:37:43,798 --> 00:37:46,547
The EU won't grant us
any relief.

576
00:37:46,631 --> 00:37:51,047
- A surmountable problem.
I will talk with the EU.

577
00:37:51,130 --> 00:37:54,089
- Two, we were elected
on the basis

578
00:37:54,172 --> 00:37:56,214
of a clear
and simple platform:

579
00:37:56,297 --> 00:37:58,464
to do away with privilege,

580
00:37:58,547 --> 00:38:01,130
which is exactly
what we have done.

581
00:38:02,673 --> 00:38:05,839
We put the Church
at the bottom of the list,

582
00:38:05,923 --> 00:38:08,506
but now your time is up.

583
00:38:10,881 --> 00:38:14,756
- I see, so the issue
is not my confusion

584
00:38:14,839 --> 00:38:16,881
but your conviction.

585
00:38:18,339 --> 00:38:20,255
- I take that as a compliment.

586
00:38:20,339 --> 00:38:22,714
- Take it as a threat.

587
00:38:24,047 --> 00:38:27,964
Your conviction conveys
a distinct lack of respect

588
00:38:28,047 --> 00:38:33,172
for the only thing that matters
to us here in the Vatican.

589
00:38:35,047 --> 00:38:36,923
- What is that?

590
00:38:37,005 --> 00:38:38,589
- Mystery.

591
00:38:38,673 --> 00:38:40,464
[soft music]

592
00:38:40,547 --> 00:38:45,339
- If they go through with it,
it would be the end of us.

593
00:38:45,422 --> 00:38:47,798
The Church will be poor.

594
00:38:47,881 --> 00:38:49,923
♪ ♪

595
00:38:50,005 --> 00:38:53,089
What do you advise we do,
Holy Father?

596
00:38:53,172 --> 00:38:57,005
♪ ♪

597
00:38:57,089 --> 00:38:58,673
- Nothing.

598
00:38:58,756 --> 00:39:02,005
As the great Cardinal Newman
used to say,

599
00:39:02,089 --> 00:39:05,214
Christian virtues
are poetic:

600
00:39:05,297 --> 00:39:07,339
gentleness and grace,

601
00:39:07,422 --> 00:39:10,798
compassion, joy, and modesty;

602
00:39:10,881 --> 00:39:13,881
whereas common,
course sentiments

603
00:39:13,964 --> 00:39:15,839
are rhetorical tools:

604
00:39:15,923 --> 00:39:18,839
anger, indignation, emulation,

605
00:39:18,923 --> 00:39:23,631
combative spirit,
the love of independence.

606
00:39:23,714 --> 00:39:26,172
We must fly high.

607
00:39:26,255 --> 00:39:29,255
We shall hold on to the poetry

608
00:39:29,339 --> 00:39:32,547
and leave the rhetoric
to others.

609
00:39:32,631 --> 00:39:37,005
- Holy Father,
with all due respect,

610
00:39:37,089 --> 00:39:40,798
I'm afraid Newman
may not be enough.

611
00:39:40,881 --> 00:39:44,339
- What a shame, Eminence.

612
00:39:44,422 --> 00:39:46,047
What a shame.

613
00:39:46,130 --> 00:39:47,547
♪ ♪

614
00:39:47,631 --> 00:39:52,381
The world once again confirms
it has no use for poetry.

615
00:39:52,464 --> 00:39:54,714
♪ ♪

616
00:39:54,798 --> 00:39:56,881
But I am not the world.

617
00:39:56,964 --> 00:39:58,506
♪ ♪

618
00:39:58,589 --> 00:40:00,339
That is not me.

619
00:40:00,422 --> 00:40:02,547
♪ ♪

620
00:40:02,631 --> 00:40:04,839
- You're back.

621
00:40:04,923 --> 00:40:11,798
♪ ♪

622
00:40:11,881 --> 00:40:14,798
- Yes, Ester,
I came back...

623
00:40:16,756 --> 00:40:19,089
To test your righteousness.

624
00:40:41,673 --> 00:40:44,673
[tense music]

625
00:41:07,047 --> 00:41:11,047
♪ ♪

626
00:41:37,673 --> 00:41:41,172
- I should have stayed at home
to loll about my own house

627
00:41:41,255 --> 00:41:44,923
rather than having to
loll about in someone else's.

628
00:41:45,005 --> 00:41:46,964
♪ ♪

629
00:41:47,047 --> 00:41:49,214
- This is your house,

630
00:41:49,297 --> 00:41:52,172
and I will make it
more comfortable for you.

631
00:41:52,255 --> 00:41:54,422
♪ ♪

632
00:41:54,506 --> 00:41:57,839
Listen, I can convince

633
00:41:57,923 --> 00:42:02,631
the minister of economy
to delay the measure.

634
00:42:02,714 --> 00:42:06,506
Delay it until
the government falls,

635
00:42:06,589 --> 00:42:10,673
at which point we will be safe.

636
00:42:10,756 --> 00:42:13,547
Holy Father,
the "eight per thousand"

637
00:42:13,631 --> 00:42:17,005
is not the only source of
the money Guicciardini needs.

638
00:42:17,089 --> 00:42:19,464
It can be found elsewhere.

639
00:42:19,547 --> 00:42:21,005
- Where?

640
00:42:21,089 --> 00:42:24,172
- In our own backyard.

641
00:42:24,255 --> 00:42:28,339
We have our own
financial organization.

642
00:42:28,422 --> 00:42:32,255
- Which is free and easy,
I gather.

643
00:42:32,339 --> 00:42:34,255
- [chuckles]

644
00:42:34,339 --> 00:42:39,047
See, Holy Father, you can be
concrete when you want to be.

645
00:42:39,130 --> 00:42:42,673
- Don't alter my nature.
It may kill me.

646
00:42:42,756 --> 00:42:44,923
- So give me a free hand.

647
00:42:45,005 --> 00:42:48,214
I will continue to deal
with the stench of the body

648
00:42:48,297 --> 00:42:51,214
and you with the perfume
of the spirit.

649
00:42:51,297 --> 00:42:55,673
- An admirable
poetic utterance, Eminence.

650
00:42:55,756 --> 00:42:58,047
What must I do?

651
00:42:58,130 --> 00:43:02,005
- Tomas Altbruck,
Sofia Dubois' husband...

652
00:43:02,089 --> 00:43:03,881
♪ ♪

653
00:43:03,964 --> 00:43:08,714
Appoint him head
of our financial organization.

654
00:43:08,798 --> 00:43:13,297
♪ ♪

655
00:43:13,381 --> 00:43:15,255
- [chuckles]

656
00:43:15,339 --> 00:43:22,339
♪ ♪

657
00:43:35,547 --> 00:43:37,631
- Thank you, Holy Father,

658
00:43:37,714 --> 00:43:40,798
for receiving me
at this late hour.

659
00:43:40,881 --> 00:43:43,756
- I shall always have time
for you, Gutierrez.

660
00:43:43,839 --> 00:43:46,005
You are dear to my heart.

661
00:43:53,798 --> 00:43:56,881
I am ready to hear
your confession.

662
00:44:00,130 --> 00:44:03,881
- Freddie was dressed
nicely tonight.

663
00:44:05,714 --> 00:44:08,506
When we were in the hallway,
he took out his keys,

664
00:44:08,589 --> 00:44:12,172
and, with the calmness
of youth,

665
00:44:12,255 --> 00:44:14,673
he opened the door
to his room.

666
00:44:14,756 --> 00:44:17,631
But first...

667
00:44:17,714 --> 00:44:20,422
he turned and looked at me.

668
00:44:21,881 --> 00:44:25,172
[ambient music]

669
00:44:25,255 --> 00:44:27,631
Once inside,
he knew what to do.

670
00:44:27,714 --> 00:44:29,756
♪ ♪

671
00:44:29,839 --> 00:44:32,005
I didn't, though.

672
00:44:32,089 --> 00:44:33,798
His confidence excited me.

673
00:44:33,881 --> 00:44:36,089
♪ ♪

674
00:44:36,172 --> 00:44:38,964
He got undressed
in front of the mirror.

675
00:44:39,047 --> 00:44:42,839
♪ ♪

676
00:44:42,923 --> 00:44:46,506
He wasn't looking at me,
but...

677
00:44:46,589 --> 00:44:48,673
he knew I was looking at him.

678
00:44:48,756 --> 00:44:53,172
♪ ♪

679
00:44:53,255 --> 00:44:56,506
His back, his bare back.

680
00:44:56,589 --> 00:45:02,964
♪ ♪

681
00:45:03,047 --> 00:45:05,631
It was too much.

682
00:45:05,714 --> 00:45:08,297
I could barely bring myself
to look at it.

683
00:45:08,381 --> 00:45:11,130
It excited me so.

684
00:45:11,214 --> 00:45:13,506
But at the same time,
I wanted more.

685
00:45:13,589 --> 00:45:18,714
♪ ♪

686
00:45:18,798 --> 00:45:21,255
And...

687
00:45:21,339 --> 00:45:25,714
and it was as if there was
a wall between us.

688
00:45:25,798 --> 00:45:32,673
♪ ♪

689
00:45:32,756 --> 00:45:35,714
But it wasn't an obstacle,
that wall.

690
00:45:35,798 --> 00:45:38,547
- Please, that's enough.

691
00:45:38,631 --> 00:45:41,297
- Yes, enough.

692
00:45:41,381 --> 00:45:43,172
[whispering]
Holy Father, enough.

693
00:45:46,005 --> 00:45:48,172
Freddie satisfied my body.

694
00:45:49,798 --> 00:45:51,798
God satisfies my spirit.

695
00:45:53,130 --> 00:45:54,297
So...

696
00:45:56,422 --> 00:45:58,673
Why do I always feel so empty?

697
00:45:58,756 --> 00:46:00,506
- But you are not alone,
my friend.

698
00:46:00,589 --> 00:46:04,464
You are not alone.
That is all I can say to you.

699
00:46:06,172 --> 00:46:08,422
- This constant sense
of feeling inadequate--

700
00:46:08,506 --> 00:46:12,172
- Makes us constantly nervous.
I know.

701
00:46:13,506 --> 00:46:16,547
I absolve you of all your sins.

702
00:46:18,631 --> 00:46:22,005
But now you will have to hear
my confession.

703
00:46:26,631 --> 00:46:29,589
[soft dramatic music]

704
00:46:29,673 --> 00:46:33,214
♪ ♪

705
00:46:33,297 --> 00:46:35,923
In order to stoke my pride,

706
00:46:36,005 --> 00:46:38,589
soothe my insecurities,

707
00:46:38,673 --> 00:46:40,339
satisfy my vanity,

708
00:46:40,422 --> 00:46:43,297
and salvage
my limping papacy...

709
00:46:43,381 --> 00:46:45,798
♪ ♪

710
00:46:45,881 --> 00:46:49,297
I have taken the first step

711
00:46:49,381 --> 00:46:54,047
in the everlasting
garden of sin.

712
00:46:55,339 --> 00:46:58,923
And coward that I am,

713
00:46:59,005 --> 00:47:02,923
I pretended not to see,

714
00:47:03,005 --> 00:47:05,923
not to understand,

715
00:47:06,005 --> 00:47:08,631
and not to know.

716
00:47:08,714 --> 00:47:11,255
But I do see.

717
00:47:11,339 --> 00:47:13,631
I do understand.

718
00:47:13,714 --> 00:47:16,255
♪ ♪

719
00:47:16,339 --> 00:47:17,798
I know.

720
00:47:17,881 --> 00:47:24,923
♪ ♪

721
00:48:08,798 --> 00:48:11,798
- [breathing heavily]

722
00:48:14,756 --> 00:48:21,756
♪ ♪

723
00:48:45,422 --> 00:48:52,464
♪ ♪

724
00:48:58,047 --> 00:49:01,798
[Paolo Conte's
"L'orchestrina"]

725
00:49:01,881 --> 00:49:06,089
- [singing in Italian]

726
00:49:06,172 --> 00:49:08,547
♪ To be, to be, to be
or not to be ♪

727
00:49:08,631 --> 00:49:10,923
♪ ♪

728
00:49:11,005 --> 00:49:13,255
[singing in Italian]

729
00:49:13,339 --> 00:49:14,297
♪ Tra-la-la ♪

730
00:49:14,381 --> 00:49:17,089
♪ To be, to be, to be
or not to be ♪

731
00:49:17,172 --> 00:49:19,255
♪ ♪

732
00:49:19,339 --> 00:49:22,255
[singing in Italian]

733
00:49:22,339 --> 00:49:29,381
♪ ♪

734
00:49:40,047 --> 00:49:41,339
♪ To be, to be ♪

735
00:49:41,422 --> 00:49:42,631
♪ To be or not to be ♪

736
00:49:42,714 --> 00:49:47,964
♪ ♪

737
00:49:48,047 --> 00:49:49,297
♪ Tra-la-la ♪

738
00:49:49,381 --> 00:49:51,631
♪ To be, to be, to be
or not to be ♪

739
00:49:51,714 --> 00:49:55,547
♪ ♪

740
00:50:04,214 --> 00:50:06,881
[bright tone]

741
00:50:08,130 --> 00:50:09,005
♪ (ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

742
00:50:09,089 --> 00:50:09,964
SOFIA DUBOIS:
People are asking,

743
00:50:10,214 --> 00:50:12,631
"Is this pope porcelain
or steel?"

744
00:50:17,381 --> 00:50:21,839
All this fanfare over Pius XIII
has made quite an impression

745
00:50:21,923 --> 00:50:23,589
-on the masses.
-(CROWD CHEERING)

746
00:50:23,673 --> 00:50:26,923
It's indispensable
to refocus attention on you.

747
00:50:28,130 --> 00:50:31,422
I intend to make
an extraordinary overture.

748
00:50:31,506 --> 00:50:32,756
(CROWD CHEERING)

749
00:50:36,422 --> 00:50:38,422
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

