1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:07,560 Our hatred is concrete. Our enemy is obvious. 2 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,760 It's Iblis. It is the Christian. 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:14,320 And, as the Koran says: 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,120 "I will fill Hell with you all, you and all those after you." 5 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,400 THE NEW POPE Episode 2 6 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:06,600 Please, let my mother be cured. 7 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,400 She is all I have in the world. 8 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:16,800 You know I have always been so weak and fragile. 9 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:20,600 Holy Virgin Mary, 10 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,880 I am not capable of staying in this world alone. 11 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:29,520 If she dies, 12 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:33,560 let me die with her. 13 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,960 Good morning! You're listening to Radio 103. 14 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,040 It's six on the dot, time for "Questions of the Day", 15 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,641 when we read out the questions that have been keeping you up at night. 16 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,160 We've selected the ones most asked. So, here we go. 17 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,040 Number one: how did Pope Francis II die? 18 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,120 Number two: Does anyone believe the story of his sudden illness? 19 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,680 Number three: Didn't the same thing happen to Pope John Paul I? 20 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:21,280 Number four: Isn't it true that Pope John Paul I 21 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,280 caused more than a few problems for the upper echelons at the Vatican? 22 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,480 Number five: Does history repeat itself? 23 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,760 Number six: Who will the new pope be? 24 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:43,920 Come here! 25 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:01,960 On your knees. 26 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:07,880 Just don't get me dirty. 27 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:37,440 I have to change. 28 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:51,280 I'm off. 29 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,960 Come back with the new pope in your pocket. 30 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,160 By the way, they say Brannox is very attractive. 31 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,320 Then I will use all my brazen charm to persuade him. 32 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:05,720 Don't get me all excited once again. 33 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,400 I've got a lot of projects to propose to Brannox. 34 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:13,600 You only have one project in life, Tomas: to give me pleasure. 35 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,760 The New Pope is Dead 36 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:29,480 Voiello, more than one article insinuates, between lines, of course, 37 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:35,560 that you may have had a hand in Francis II's death. 38 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,120 I can't blame them. 39 00:08:39,560 --> 00:08:43,560 If I were in their shoes, I would be suspicious of me as well. 40 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:46,920 - Are you nervous? - I am always nervous. 41 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,960 - I am not a bland man. - What makes you nervous? 42 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:54,120 - Haste. - I agree. 43 00:08:54,680 --> 00:09:01,160 Haste drove us to make a rather questionable choice: Francis II. 44 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,400 We have to convince Brannox to accept 45 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,520 before we return to Rome for Francis II's funeral. 46 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,200 Why do you need him to agree in advance? 47 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,200 We can't afford to vote for him in the conclave 48 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,680 and then, perhaps, he doesn't accept. 49 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:19,880 There is a risk. 50 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:24,640 I am told he is a difficult man full of doubts and lofty. 51 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,440 I want a new pope on the first vote. 52 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,920 Sir John is a priest of the highest caliber. 53 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:34,880 A true father figure, wise and well-balanced. 54 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,160 We spent many fruitful days of serene study together, 55 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:43,240 during the European Synod. 56 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:48,800 They say sometimes he tends toward depression. 57 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,240 Do you know of a priest who doesn't have this tendency? 58 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,480 At any rate, it's astounding how many Anglicans 59 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:01,080 he has converted to Catholicism, a multitude. 60 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:07,520 He did not attend the last conclave. I find this unbecoming. 61 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:14,400 He wasn't able to attend because he had to look after his elderly, ill parents. 62 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaking of which, he has written me a very moving letter of 36 pages, 63 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,560 which I would like to share with all of you. 64 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,080 Please! 65 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:33,880 What would Pius XIII say? We have forgotten about Pius XIII. 66 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:41,720 I have not forgotten him, Gutierrez. Rather, I am trying to honor him. 67 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:48,200 Our beloved Lenny began his papacy animated by intransigence, 68 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:50,160 but in the end, he softened. 69 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,120 He was searching for the middle way. 70 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,040 Which is why we are going to see Sir John Brannox. 71 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,040 He is the great theorist of the middle way. 72 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,720 First conscience, then the papal infallibility. 73 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:10,600 First the softness of compromise, then the dogma. 74 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:15,520 This, roughly speaking, is Sir John's philosophy. 75 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:21,480 And the only philosophy that can placate the sex scandals, 76 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:27,840 the terrorist threats, the drift toward idolatry of Pius XIII 77 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:33,280 and the dreadful suspicions regarding the death of Francis II. 78 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,480 We are under siege, do you understand that? 79 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,080 Which is why we are at haste. 80 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:45,520 And which is why we have only one viable candidate: 81 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:48,000 Sir John Brannox. 82 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,160 The famous statue of Cardinal Newman! 83 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,000 I've only heard about that but I've never seen it before. 84 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:04,960 - Who's he? - What do you mean? 85 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,560 Sir John's philosophical spiritual mentor. 86 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:26,720 It's him. 87 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:37,320 It's not him. 88 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:45,040 We are the Vatican delegation. His Eminence is expecting us. 89 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:51,080 As his Eminence always says, we are all expected, sooner or later. 90 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,800 I told you he tends toward depression. 91 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:59,400 His Eminence sends his apologies, but he was extremely tired 92 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,120 and he never goes to bed later than ten thirty. 93 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:05,680 He is looking forward to see you in the morning. 94 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:07,400 Allow me to show you to yours rooms. 95 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:11,400 It is very important that we see him right away. 96 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,360 We were planning on leaving early tomorrow morning. 97 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:16,760 Imposible. 98 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,600 Sir John never alters his habits, not even in the face of death. 99 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,400 - Are there ghosts here? - Yes. 100 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:53,840 I felt lonely all of a sudden. 101 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,480 But if I I let you come in now, 102 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:13,280 we'll feel even more lonely later. 103 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:45,760 You made the right decision. 104 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,320 Pleasure leads to pain. 105 00:15:58,498 --> 00:16:02,058 - What's that music? - I think it's him, Sir John. 106 00:16:03,418 --> 00:16:07,498 - What's he like? Have you seen him? - Not yet. He was tired. 107 00:16:08,618 --> 00:16:12,058 - What is it, a harpsichord? - No, it's a harp. 108 00:16:13,138 --> 00:16:15,698 - You're wrong, it's a harpsichord. - Enough. 109 00:16:20,578 --> 00:16:22,858 These noblemen are looking at me. 110 00:16:27,778 --> 00:16:29,098 Lick me. 111 00:19:39,098 --> 00:19:41,618 We will never be apart, will we, John? 112 00:19:43,218 --> 00:19:44,898 Never, Adam, never! 113 00:20:36,938 --> 00:20:40,218 There you are, Eminence! I finally found you. 114 00:20:41,618 --> 00:20:48,258 They have been sitting there like that, without moving an hour and 10 minutes. 115 00:20:48,938 --> 00:20:51,858 What is it, some sort of embalming process? 116 00:20:53,018 --> 00:20:55,858 No, it's unberarable grief. 117 00:20:58,418 --> 00:21:01,178 Is the one in the tomb their son? 118 00:21:02,978 --> 00:21:05,098 Sir John's twin brother: Adam. 119 00:21:08,258 --> 00:21:11,338 Even after forty years, the Duke and Duchess 120 00:21:11,458 --> 00:21:15,418 will sit there like that for another eight hours. 121 00:21:16,698 --> 00:21:22,018 And then, at sunset, Duchess Brannox will sigh, just once. 122 00:21:23,858 --> 00:21:26,658 And the servants will know that it is time to go back inside. 123 00:21:28,618 --> 00:21:31,538 And it's time for you to go inside, as well, Eminence. 124 00:21:31,938 --> 00:21:34,698 - Sir John is waiting for you. - Finally. 125 00:22:19,498 --> 00:22:21,658 Do you know where I might find Sir John? 126 00:22:24,778 --> 00:22:26,738 You just have, Eminence. 127 00:22:51,138 --> 00:22:52,378 So, here we are 128 00:22:53,098 --> 00:22:57,178 faced with the frightful task of having to converse. 129 00:22:58,218 --> 00:23:01,338 Unfortunately they still have not discovered 130 00:23:01,418 --> 00:23:04,538 any better way to make someone's acquaintance. 131 00:23:04,938 --> 00:23:08,058 No-sense, of course they have. What about love at first sight? 132 00:23:08,178 --> 00:23:11,938 Followed by amorous passion, savage and silent. 133 00:23:12,978 --> 00:23:15,578 That would make me uncomfortable. 134 00:23:16,178 --> 00:23:20,058 So let's stick with an old-fashioned conversation. 135 00:23:22,378 --> 00:23:25,698 - I am... - You are the star. 136 00:23:26,218 --> 00:23:31,338 Everyone knows who you are! His Eminence, Cardinal Angelo Voiello. 137 00:23:32,098 --> 00:23:34,258 Do you know how many time I have read 138 00:23:34,338 --> 00:23:37,178 your delightful "Man Behind the Scenes"? 139 00:23:37,578 --> 00:23:39,458 - No, how many? - Once. 140 00:23:40,978 --> 00:23:44,858 Because I said to myself if I read this book again 141 00:23:44,938 --> 00:23:48,698 there is a good chance I will turn decidedly bad. 142 00:24:02,818 --> 00:24:04,578 So how do you find me? 143 00:24:06,138 --> 00:24:10,338 - I would say well, Eminence. - I am enchafed. 144 00:24:11,258 --> 00:24:14,938 It's only others who truly know how I am. 145 00:24:16,218 --> 00:24:20,778 I imagine that you can well imagine the reason for our visit. 146 00:24:21,538 --> 00:24:24,538 I have no imagination, Eminence. 147 00:24:25,618 --> 00:24:29,338 So, in order to lead an acceptable existence, 148 00:24:29,738 --> 00:24:32,058 I have learnt to pare down the questions. 149 00:24:32,138 --> 00:24:34,578 Then allow me to inform you. 150 00:24:34,938 --> 00:24:40,978 - Have you already seen my parents? - I believe I caught a glimpse of them. 151 00:24:41,978 --> 00:24:46,338 You were very fortunate. It is not easy to intercept them. 152 00:24:46,498 --> 00:24:49,698 They live in the other wing of the castle, the north wing, 153 00:24:49,778 --> 00:24:53,258 so as to scrupulously avoid ever having to see me. 154 00:24:55,298 --> 00:25:02,218 - Family dynamics can be wearing. - Everything can be wearing here. 155 00:25:03,298 --> 00:25:05,978 The weather, the food, the monotony, London. 156 00:25:08,458 --> 00:25:11,618 Do you know why my parents never ever wish to see me? 157 00:25:12,898 --> 00:25:14,018 No. Why? 158 00:25:14,898 --> 00:25:17,618 Because they believe I did not do enough 159 00:25:17,698 --> 00:25:20,058 to save the life of my twin brother Adam, 160 00:25:20,378 --> 00:25:24,938 their favorite son, on a cold winter days back in 1985. 161 00:25:27,938 --> 00:25:29,018 I am sorry. 162 00:25:31,058 --> 00:25:33,498 There is little to be sorry about now. 163 00:25:35,218 --> 00:25:38,218 My parents are only doing what all humans do: 164 00:25:38,858 --> 00:25:41,018 blaming everything on others. 165 00:25:43,538 --> 00:25:47,618 However, at least we Catholics blame everything on God. 166 00:25:49,138 --> 00:25:55,298 - Actually we give him all the credit. - Is that not the same thing? 167 00:25:57,218 --> 00:25:58,298 Tell me... 168 00:26:00,738 --> 00:26:05,618 how much of his life does a Secretary of State spend informing himself? 169 00:26:06,178 --> 00:26:09,858 All of it. Even when I pray, I inform myself. 170 00:26:13,978 --> 00:26:18,418 That joke is terribly funny, even tough I did not laugh. 171 00:26:20,378 --> 00:26:24,658 - How is our beloved Pius XIII? - Stable. 172 00:26:25,738 --> 00:26:30,378 - But still in coma, unfortunately. - Pius XIII was a great pope. 173 00:26:31,898 --> 00:26:36,138 I wept when I learnt his condition was irreversible. 174 00:26:38,218 --> 00:26:39,218 How I wept! 175 00:26:44,018 --> 00:26:45,858 Do you weep, Eminence? 176 00:26:49,178 --> 00:26:50,298 Far too often. 177 00:26:50,938 --> 00:26:54,298 More than one would expect of the Secretary of State. 178 00:26:55,738 --> 00:26:57,418 And what do you weep for? 179 00:26:58,698 --> 00:27:02,538 For Hollywood romances, and friends who suffer. 180 00:27:04,698 --> 00:27:07,538 And you? What do you weep for? 181 00:27:07,738 --> 00:27:11,258 For the inexhaustible imperfection of the world. 182 00:27:16,498 --> 00:27:20,218 - It must not be easy being you. - It is not. 183 00:27:30,258 --> 00:27:36,698 I want to make one thing perfectly clear from the start: 184 00:27:38,898 --> 00:27:40,458 I loved my brother Adam. 185 00:27:46,058 --> 00:27:49,018 Sir John, when will I see you again? 186 00:27:56,298 --> 00:27:59,258 A question a lover would ask, Eminence. 187 00:28:15,138 --> 00:28:16,458 Last night, in my room, 188 00:28:17,778 --> 00:28:20,538 I felt the clear presence of Pius XIII next to me. 189 00:28:43,378 --> 00:28:46,178 What sort of woman do you think she is? 190 00:28:48,618 --> 00:28:50,418 Pardon my vulgarity Sir, 191 00:28:52,138 --> 00:28:54,418 but she is a beauty. 192 00:28:57,658 --> 00:29:00,698 Why did you not bring me my box last night? 193 00:29:02,298 --> 00:29:03,738 I did bring it, Sir John. 194 00:29:04,978 --> 00:29:08,378 I left it on your bedside table in the usual place. 195 00:29:09,898 --> 00:29:11,098 I couldn't find it. 196 00:29:13,458 --> 00:29:16,378 Though I managed to fall asleep anyway. 197 00:29:21,058 --> 00:29:22,538 Perhaps it's a sign. 198 00:29:25,698 --> 00:29:26,818 Perhaps. 199 00:29:38,098 --> 00:29:39,658 They are coming back early. 200 00:29:44,658 --> 00:29:45,698 Strange! 201 00:30:18,098 --> 00:30:22,218 So, Eminence, the reason for our visit... 202 00:30:23,058 --> 00:30:27,418 - How did Francis II die actually? - Heart attack. 203 00:30:27,978 --> 00:30:30,538 - Like John Paul I? - Exactly. 204 00:30:31,458 --> 00:30:36,458 One of Giambattista Vico's ever-recurring cycles of human history. 205 00:30:37,098 --> 00:30:41,618 Your brazen tendency to oversimplify alarms me, Voiello. 206 00:30:42,058 --> 00:30:46,058 I suffered when Great Britain voted in favor of Brexit. 207 00:30:47,938 --> 00:30:52,058 Another small step toward the dechristianization of Europe. 208 00:30:52,818 --> 00:30:55,578 You already sound like a pope, Eminence. 209 00:30:56,298 --> 00:30:59,498 And you like an aspiring Secretary of State, Eminence. 210 00:31:05,018 --> 00:31:09,618 Do tell, Gutierrez, how is the weather in Rome, these days? 211 00:31:09,698 --> 00:31:11,818 I haven't been there since I was young, 212 00:31:12,018 --> 00:31:15,138 when I was a student at the Gregorian University. 213 00:31:17,778 --> 00:31:20,298 - Constantly mild, Eminence. - Not here. 214 00:31:21,658 --> 00:31:23,738 Here the weather is a torment. 215 00:31:24,698 --> 00:31:27,458 And life ends up adapting to the weather. 216 00:31:27,698 --> 00:31:30,738 Rome is different. Rome is joyful. 217 00:31:31,458 --> 00:31:34,538 And life ends up adapting itself to Rome. 218 00:31:36,698 --> 00:31:39,978 How large is your estate Eminence? 219 00:31:42,778 --> 00:31:43,898 I have no idea. 220 00:31:45,498 --> 00:31:49,458 Around 2500 acres or so would I've thought. 221 00:31:50,698 --> 00:31:53,658 The Vatican is only 108. 222 00:31:53,738 --> 00:31:56,738 It would be so much easier to manage, Eminence. 223 00:31:57,258 --> 00:32:00,058 Quite frankly, I am astounded at the method 224 00:32:00,578 --> 00:32:03,538 you chose to make me such a proposal. 225 00:32:03,778 --> 00:32:07,458 It's as if you are offering me a position as a CEO. 226 00:32:07,538 --> 00:32:09,458 They're pretending to be unaware 227 00:32:09,538 --> 00:32:13,618 of the enormous spiritual weight that such a mission requires. 228 00:32:15,258 --> 00:32:19,218 To be pope, Eminence, is a martyrdom. 229 00:32:19,898 --> 00:32:23,698 And after Pius XIII it's a burden. 230 00:32:25,018 --> 00:32:27,018 And after Francis II 231 00:32:29,218 --> 00:32:30,738 it's suspect. 232 00:32:32,538 --> 00:32:38,538 Thank you for your precious help, but being pope is not a martyrdom. 233 00:32:39,378 --> 00:32:41,258 It is an enormous privilege. 234 00:32:42,098 --> 00:32:45,578 Eminence, I am astounded at the results you have obtained. 235 00:32:45,698 --> 00:32:48,418 All those Anglicans converting to Catholicism? 236 00:32:49,138 --> 00:32:53,258 - How did you do it? - By talking about other things. 237 00:32:54,538 --> 00:32:59,538 For years, these rooms were a temple for lighthearted encounters. 238 00:32:59,738 --> 00:33:02,858 People expect priests to talk about religion. 239 00:33:02,938 --> 00:33:07,018 But I knew that a revealed religion must be poetic. 240 00:33:08,578 --> 00:33:13,938 So I would speak with them about golf, Holderlin, Montale 241 00:33:14,298 --> 00:33:16,138 and the Arsenal football club 242 00:33:16,458 --> 00:33:19,178 and the way women have of crossing their legs. 243 00:33:20,898 --> 00:33:21,978 Poetry! 244 00:33:24,458 --> 00:33:28,298 And they would discover what it means to be Catholic, 245 00:33:29,498 --> 00:33:33,858 means being everything, for everything belongs to the grace of God. 246 00:33:34,978 --> 00:33:40,458 I could hear myself talking and realized that I was playing a part. 247 00:33:42,778 --> 00:33:46,018 Good actors know that at a certain point 248 00:33:47,098 --> 00:33:49,898 it is time to withdraw from the stage. 249 00:33:52,138 --> 00:33:57,178 But great actors die on stage. Because they never stop improving. 250 00:33:59,658 --> 00:34:01,138 And growing, I know. 251 00:34:03,298 --> 00:34:07,858 "Growth is the only evidence of life", Cardinal Newman used to say. 252 00:34:09,258 --> 00:34:13,218 But the everlasting question is: do I want to grow? 253 00:34:14,018 --> 00:34:15,698 Do I want to live? 254 00:34:28,978 --> 00:34:31,338 You want me to be the next pope. 255 00:34:35,978 --> 00:34:37,698 The Church is naked, 256 00:34:38,418 --> 00:34:43,618 and you believe the most suitable outfit in which to cloth her 257 00:34:43,858 --> 00:34:45,498 is my famous middle way. 258 00:34:47,418 --> 00:34:52,818 But since the Church is already naked, before dressing her again, 259 00:34:53,458 --> 00:34:57,058 you need to examine her, the way a doctor would. 260 00:34:59,978 --> 00:35:04,338 Diagnosing the Church is a colossal enterprise, Voiello, 261 00:35:04,858 --> 00:35:06,938 which you underestimate gravely. 262 00:35:08,738 --> 00:35:14,898 It is essential to distinguish between what is physiological 263 00:35:15,818 --> 00:35:19,818 and what is pathological in the body of the Church. 264 00:35:20,818 --> 00:35:22,058 There. 265 00:35:22,218 --> 00:35:28,298 His Eminence has just explained to you the basic principle of the Middle Way. 266 00:35:31,138 --> 00:35:34,898 Will you take the stage again, Sir John? 267 00:35:39,378 --> 00:35:40,618 I don't know. 268 00:35:41,578 --> 00:35:42,938 I don't know. 269 00:35:44,138 --> 00:35:47,258 You oversimplify things, Voiello. 270 00:36:04,547 --> 00:36:07,547 Today was the first day in a long while, 271 00:36:08,387 --> 00:36:10,667 I was unable to speak with God. 272 00:36:12,067 --> 00:36:13,907 The words that came to me were ugly. 273 00:36:15,747 --> 00:36:18,587 Ugly? How? 274 00:36:20,627 --> 00:36:21,707 False. 275 00:36:27,587 --> 00:36:33,387 And just like that, the flower blossomed, right before my eyes. 276 00:36:36,827 --> 00:36:40,147 I placed a hand on my belly and whispered: 277 00:36:40,987 --> 00:36:43,867 "I feel it, Holy Father, I feel it." 278 00:36:44,907 --> 00:36:47,507 And Pius the XIIIth 279 00:36:49,947 --> 00:36:52,547 without looking at me, closed his eyes and said, 280 00:36:53,667 --> 00:36:56,987 in a voice filled with grace: 281 00:36:58,427 --> 00:36:59,907 "I feel it too, Ester. 282 00:37:02,707 --> 00:37:06,827 Yes, you are pregnant, and you will have a beautiful baby boy. 283 00:37:08,827 --> 00:37:11,787 But please, let's not call it a miracle. 284 00:37:13,747 --> 00:37:16,347 Let's let mystery remain mystery." 285 00:37:21,787 --> 00:37:25,027 Beautiful, beautiful, Ester. 286 00:37:26,147 --> 00:37:30,467 Your story gives us joy, it restore us our hope. 287 00:37:31,827 --> 00:37:33,827 Yes, hope! 288 00:37:39,507 --> 00:37:42,387 200 euro? We agreed on 500! 289 00:37:42,987 --> 00:37:46,347 Please don't you start busting my balls. I'm already late. 290 00:37:46,667 --> 00:37:48,187 200 it's all I can give you. 291 00:37:48,667 --> 00:37:52,587 Besides, you've already told that miracle bullshit 1000 times, 292 00:37:52,747 --> 00:37:54,347 on every TV in the world. 293 00:38:04,267 --> 00:38:05,507 Do you like it? 294 00:38:08,947 --> 00:38:11,267 Do you come here to pray or to drink? 295 00:38:12,387 --> 00:38:16,907 First he drinks then he prays to God to help him stop. 296 00:38:21,707 --> 00:38:23,667 Barolo Anversano. 297 00:38:27,467 --> 00:38:29,707 - To Brannox? - To Brannox! 298 00:38:34,107 --> 00:38:36,467 You're really sure he'll be the new pope? 299 00:38:36,987 --> 00:38:40,907 - I've got an insider very reliable. - Who? 300 00:38:41,627 --> 00:38:46,067 - My wife. - Your plan is brilliant, Tomas. 301 00:38:47,227 --> 00:38:49,947 You give a new luster to the term wheeler-dealer. 302 00:38:51,227 --> 00:38:55,427 I don't understand why you are so sure you can get into Brannox's good graces. 303 00:38:56,667 --> 00:38:58,387 Relax, Guicciardini. Relax. 304 00:38:59,027 --> 00:39:01,307 I am the Minister of Economy and Finance. 305 00:39:01,387 --> 00:39:03,187 Do you realize how exposed I am? 306 00:39:03,667 --> 00:39:07,307 Please don't tell me to relax because that only makes me more upset. 307 00:39:08,747 --> 00:39:11,587 Guicciardini, look the point is this: 308 00:39:12,627 --> 00:39:16,027 it's not me who will want to get into Brannox's good graces. 309 00:39:16,747 --> 00:39:19,507 It's Brannox, the new pope, 310 00:39:20,627 --> 00:39:22,907 who will want to get into my good graces. 311 00:39:25,267 --> 00:39:26,387 I don't understand. 312 00:39:27,267 --> 00:39:29,947 In the Vatican, whoever knows the pope's secret 313 00:39:30,187 --> 00:39:32,027 becomes in reality the pope. 314 00:39:32,987 --> 00:39:35,667 Guess who the only person is 315 00:39:36,027 --> 00:39:39,667 who knows the pope's unspeakable secret? 316 00:39:42,987 --> 00:39:44,067 You? 317 00:39:44,787 --> 00:39:47,507 You're a quick learner, Dullio, for a populist. 318 00:39:49,587 --> 00:39:50,707 What's the secret? 319 00:40:29,907 --> 00:40:34,627 Can you picture these photos on lighters, key chains, ashtrays? 320 00:40:35,747 --> 00:40:39,427 I can imagine a healthy sale of papal gadgets. Can't you? 321 00:40:40,587 --> 00:40:43,587 I am thinking bigger than that. 322 00:40:44,627 --> 00:40:48,467 I can imagine a healthy trade of souls. 323 00:40:52,027 --> 00:40:55,747 He did finally say "I don't know." 324 00:40:56,627 --> 00:41:00,147 If you ask me, "I don't know" means "yes." 325 00:41:00,707 --> 00:41:06,347 But he is still so wary, so diffident. He's studying us. 326 00:41:07,187 --> 00:41:10,227 But we are supposed to be studying him. 327 00:41:10,507 --> 00:41:11,827 What is there to study? 328 00:41:12,307 --> 00:41:15,627 He has all the necessary qualifications to make a great pope: 329 00:41:16,467 --> 00:41:21,427 the soporific calm that is in perfect harmony with the Vatican's heartbeat. 330 00:41:22,427 --> 00:41:26,547 The charisma to make people forget the recent past. 331 00:41:27,667 --> 00:41:31,787 The moral equilibrium to defuse the turbulence of the present. 332 00:41:32,067 --> 00:41:35,347 - And what about the future? - Don't be so naive, Aguirre. 333 00:41:35,827 --> 00:41:39,267 The Church doesn't have time to worry about the future. 334 00:41:39,547 --> 00:41:44,627 What's more, he is persuasive, seductive, he envelops you. 335 00:41:45,947 --> 00:41:47,987 The man seems to be made of velvet. 336 00:41:49,027 --> 00:41:50,387 What do you think, Eminence? 337 00:41:53,587 --> 00:41:57,387 I think we have to hurry. We don't have much time. 338 00:41:58,267 --> 00:42:03,227 We must raise the question directly. Leave the talking to me. 339 00:42:03,867 --> 00:42:08,347 Ma'am, Eminences, Sir John would like to speak with you. 340 00:42:10,907 --> 00:42:15,707 Eminence, might I have a word, in private? 341 00:42:17,467 --> 00:42:20,307 I have been looking after Sir John since he was a boy. 342 00:42:21,707 --> 00:42:23,387 He is a magnificent person, 343 00:42:25,347 --> 00:42:30,667 but he is also fragile, delicate. 344 00:42:32,307 --> 00:42:33,627 A piece of porcelain. 345 00:42:34,627 --> 00:42:38,427 Beautiful, glazed, and molded by great artists, 346 00:42:38,627 --> 00:42:41,587 but a piece of porcelain nevertheless. 347 00:42:43,627 --> 00:42:46,667 His life has been burdened with crippling sorrows 348 00:42:48,027 --> 00:42:50,147 and unspeakable disappointments. 349 00:42:50,587 --> 00:42:53,107 We will not be another disappointment. 350 00:42:53,747 --> 00:42:57,867 Sir John will become pope at the first round of voting. 351 00:42:58,467 --> 00:43:03,267 It will be the swiftest conclave in history. I promise. 352 00:43:31,187 --> 00:43:36,187 - I am a fragile, delicate man. - True. A piece of porcelain. 353 00:43:37,107 --> 00:43:40,307 - Am I right? - A beautiful piece of porcelain. 354 00:43:40,707 --> 00:43:43,027 Perhaps what you need is a man of steel. 355 00:43:43,587 --> 00:43:49,187 No. That is what lay governments and stupid people need. 356 00:43:50,427 --> 00:43:55,187 We are the Church, Sir John. Our duty is love. 357 00:43:57,267 --> 00:44:00,347 - Do you know what I crave? - What? 358 00:44:00,947 --> 00:44:03,147 That you would speak to me of this love. 359 00:44:04,947 --> 00:44:10,267 Now I will truly be honest, Sir John. 360 00:44:11,267 --> 00:44:16,427 I am rather weak on that topic. I would risk ruining everything. 361 00:44:17,347 --> 00:44:22,267 Perhaps Monsegnor Gutierrez will speak to me of love. 362 00:44:34,147 --> 00:44:39,907 Love is an abstract concept but a necessary one. 363 00:44:43,227 --> 00:44:45,827 Like happiness, like intelligence... 364 00:44:48,507 --> 00:44:49,667 Like God. 365 00:44:55,547 --> 00:44:57,027 When I was a boy... 366 00:45:01,667 --> 00:45:03,187 a man took advantage of me. 367 00:45:04,427 --> 00:45:08,787 And as he did so, he would say: 368 00:45:11,747 --> 00:45:13,187 "God does not exist." 369 00:45:16,027 --> 00:45:19,587 And I would answer back, in God's place: 370 00:45:21,827 --> 00:45:24,627 "Even if He doesn't exist, 371 00:45:27,827 --> 00:45:30,387 we desperately need to believe He is there." 372 00:45:47,587 --> 00:45:49,987 And you, Eminence? What is love to you? 373 00:45:54,107 --> 00:45:57,507 A vagrant lays dying on a street corner. 374 00:45:57,667 --> 00:46:00,547 The government says to him: I'll help you. 375 00:46:01,547 --> 00:46:03,707 The doctor says to him: I'll cure you. 376 00:46:04,707 --> 00:46:07,667 His daughter says to him: I'll give you money. 377 00:46:08,347 --> 00:46:11,467 His friend says to him: I'll share my wine with you. 378 00:46:15,347 --> 00:46:17,827 And the Church says nothing to him. 379 00:46:21,427 --> 00:46:23,707 The Church is thinking about him. 380 00:46:29,267 --> 00:46:30,827 Would you accept, Eminence? 381 00:46:32,347 --> 00:46:36,547 Tonight I will search for the answer hidden in my heart. 382 00:46:38,427 --> 00:46:41,907 Tonight the Church is thinking about that vagrant. 383 00:46:43,987 --> 00:46:47,507 And I will be thinking about the Church. 384 00:47:57,387 --> 00:47:59,627 Our hatred is concrete. 385 00:47:59,827 --> 00:48:01,947 Our enemy is obvious. 386 00:48:02,147 --> 00:48:03,627 It's Iblis. 387 00:48:03,827 --> 00:48:05,787 It's the Christian. 388 00:48:05,987 --> 00:48:09,907 And as the Koran says: 389 00:48:10,587 --> 00:48:16,187 I will fill Hell with you all, you and all those after you.