1 00:00:18,950 --> 00:00:23,350 You are all talking about miracles, awakenings, tricks, deception, 2 00:00:23,870 --> 00:00:26,310 resurrection, the second coming of Christ. 3 00:00:27,150 --> 00:00:31,590 Nonsense, all of it, which the Holy See unequivocally rejects. 4 00:00:32,510 --> 00:00:36,590 The photograph that sparked your imagination is from two years ago. 5 00:00:36,670 --> 00:00:39,550 Someone wanted to play a practical joke on us. 6 00:00:39,630 --> 00:00:41,590 A joke in rather bad taste. 7 00:00:41,750 --> 00:00:43,270 Lies, Sofia, lies ! 8 00:00:43,630 --> 00:00:48,710 We are certain that the intensive care room at the Venice hospital is empty. 9 00:00:49,230 --> 00:00:52,910 - Pius XIII is no longer there. - I deny it categorically. 10 00:00:53,790 --> 00:00:58,630 So what became of him, then ? Did he meet the same end as Francis II ? 11 00:00:58,710 --> 00:01:00,550 That is a deliberate provocation. 12 00:01:00,630 --> 00:01:04,190 And the Holy See never responds to provocations. Thank you ! 13 00:02:56,470 --> 00:02:59,830 THE NEW POPE Episode 9 14 00:04:23,350 --> 00:04:24,430 How am I ? 15 00:04:26,150 --> 00:04:27,150 Dazzling. 16 00:04:29,110 --> 00:04:30,110 I missed you. 17 00:04:30,950 --> 00:04:33,150 I am and always will be your friend. 18 00:04:35,390 --> 00:04:36,470 This is comforting. 19 00:04:40,990 --> 00:04:41,990 Are you nervous ? 20 00:04:42,070 --> 00:04:46,230 When I want, Gutierrez, I know how to take the stage. 21 00:04:48,150 --> 00:04:49,230 I know. 22 00:05:02,830 --> 00:05:04,710 BRANNOX ONE OF US ! 23 00:05:07,550 --> 00:05:11,510 The girls who snubbed us. The boys who deserted us. 24 00:05:11,750 --> 00:05:16,830 The strangers who ignored us. The parents who misunderstood us. 25 00:05:19,390 --> 00:05:23,950 The employers who rejected us. The mentors who doubted us. 26 00:05:26,550 --> 00:05:30,470 The bullies who beat us. The siblings who mocked us. 27 00:05:31,510 --> 00:05:33,630 The friends who abandoned us. 28 00:05:35,790 --> 00:05:38,070 The conformists who excluded us. 29 00:05:40,830 --> 00:05:47,190 The kisses we were denied because no one saw us. 30 00:05:52,830 --> 00:05:56,310 They were all too busy turning their gaze elsewhere, 31 00:05:56,670 --> 00:05:59,670 while I was directing my gaze at you. 32 00:06:01,790 --> 00:06:02,910 Only at you. 33 00:06:04,870 --> 00:06:07,350 Because I am one of you. 34 00:06:08,510 --> 00:06:11,070 POPE BRANNOX THANK YOU 35 00:06:18,830 --> 00:06:20,950 Sorrow has no hierarchy. 36 00:06:22,630 --> 00:06:27,230 Suffering is not a sport. There is no final ranking. 37 00:06:30,190 --> 00:06:34,590 Tormented by acne and shyness, 38 00:06:34,790 --> 00:06:39,190 by stretch marks and discomfort, by baldness and insecurity, 39 00:06:39,870 --> 00:06:45,030 by anorexia and bulimia, by obesity and diversity, 40 00:06:45,630 --> 00:06:49,870 reviled for the color of our skin, our sexual orientation, 41 00:06:50,630 --> 00:06:53,910 our empty wallets, our physical impairments, 42 00:06:54,670 --> 00:07:00,790 our arguments with our elders, our inconsolable weeping, 43 00:07:01,390 --> 00:07:07,070 the abyss of our insignificance, the caverns of our lost, 44 00:07:07,670 --> 00:07:14,310 the emptiness inside us, the recurring incurable thought of ending it all, 45 00:07:14,910 --> 00:07:19,590 nowhere to rest, nowhere to stand, nothing to belong to. 46 00:07:20,150 --> 00:07:22,350 Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. 47 00:07:26,110 --> 00:07:30,390 Yes, that is how we felt. 48 00:07:31,670 --> 00:07:35,950 And just like you, I remember it all. 49 00:07:38,230 --> 00:07:42,990 But it no longer matters, that the world took issue whit us. 50 00:07:44,710 --> 00:07:49,150 For now, it is us who shall take issue with the world. 51 00:07:49,790 --> 00:07:54,110 We will no longer tolerate being named as problem. 52 00:07:55,070 --> 00:08:00,430 Because in point of fact they are the problem, we are the solution. 53 00:08:00,510 --> 00:08:03,790 We who have been betrayed and abandoned, 54 00:08:04,030 --> 00:08:08,070 rejected and misunderstood, put aside and diminished. 55 00:08:08,550 --> 00:08:14,470 "There is no place for you here", they told us with their silence. 56 00:08:15,310 --> 00:08:21,550 "Then where is our place ?", we implore them with our silence. 57 00:08:25,110 --> 00:08:30,950 We never received that replied. But now we know, yes. 58 00:08:32,310 --> 00:08:33,430 We know our place. 59 00:08:36,070 --> 00:08:37,550 Our place is here. 60 00:08:41,230 --> 00:08:43,030 Our place is the Church. 61 00:08:44,870 --> 00:08:50,830 Cardinal Biffi said it first, and in an astonishing and simple way: 62 00:08:53,430 --> 00:08:58,830 "We are all miserable wretches whom God brought together 63 00:08:59,190 --> 00:09:01,110 to form a glorious Church." 64 00:09:03,470 --> 00:09:07,670 Yes, we are all miserable wretches. 65 00:09:08,270 --> 00:09:10,470 Yes, we are all the same, 66 00:09:11,950 --> 00:09:15,190 and yes, we are the forgotten ones, 67 00:09:17,910 --> 00:09:18,910 but no longer. 68 00:09:20,510 --> 00:09:25,270 From this day forth, we shall no longer being forgotten, 69 00:09:26,070 --> 00:09:27,110 I assure you. 70 00:09:27,630 --> 00:09:32,710 They will remember us, because we are the Church. 71 00:09:47,190 --> 00:09:48,310 What's wrong ? 72 00:09:51,030 --> 00:09:52,230 Nothing. 73 00:09:54,590 --> 00:09:55,630 Second thoughts ? 74 00:09:58,470 --> 00:10:01,510 - I just don't understand. - Understand what ? 75 00:10:06,230 --> 00:10:07,350 What it is we want. 76 00:10:16,870 --> 00:10:17,910 Lenny's body. 77 00:10:19,750 --> 00:10:20,990 That's what we want. 78 00:10:22,710 --> 00:10:23,710 Dead or alive. 79 00:10:26,070 --> 00:10:29,350 We won't rest until we find his body. 80 00:10:30,350 --> 00:10:31,430 Why ? 81 00:10:32,110 --> 00:10:35,790 Because for me it's like the body of Christ. 82 00:10:38,390 --> 00:10:39,790 Isn't the same for you ? 83 00:10:41,310 --> 00:10:43,950 You must realize that, if you go through with it, 84 00:10:44,030 --> 00:10:47,830 you probably won't be allowed to keep working here. 85 00:10:48,430 --> 00:10:50,790 So it's not a good idea to go to the police. 86 00:10:51,390 --> 00:10:56,790 A good idea is one that minimizes damages and maximizes profits. 87 00:10:57,790 --> 00:11:00,030 Outside of here they call it capitalism. 88 00:11:01,470 --> 00:11:04,870 But we've been practicing it since the time of the catacombs. 89 00:11:26,630 --> 00:11:27,710 Why did you do it ? 90 00:11:28,390 --> 00:11:30,470 You told me that true punishment 91 00:11:30,550 --> 00:11:33,470 isn't served in prison, but rather in one's soul. 92 00:11:35,390 --> 00:11:36,710 I got to thinking though 93 00:11:36,790 --> 00:11:39,950 that prison is the perfect place to wrestle with one's soul. 94 00:11:40,030 --> 00:11:44,790 So let's archive the entire incident and get back to work, Sofia. 95 00:11:45,070 --> 00:11:46,110 No. 96 00:11:49,470 --> 00:11:51,030 I have decided to resign. 97 00:11:53,190 --> 00:11:54,790 - I'm leaving. - But why ? 98 00:11:56,150 --> 00:11:58,470 Please Eminence, don't make me say it. 99 00:11:59,750 --> 00:12:02,270 You are the most intelligent man in the world. 100 00:12:02,750 --> 00:12:04,670 I am sure you can imagine why. 101 00:12:06,630 --> 00:12:09,630 Why do you all make the same mistake ? 102 00:12:10,830 --> 00:12:12,150 What's that ? 103 00:12:12,510 --> 00:12:15,710 Sooner or later, you all fall in love. 104 00:12:18,910 --> 00:12:22,510 VENTOTENE, LAZIO, ITALY 105 00:12:36,550 --> 00:12:39,790 ALTIERO SPINELLI SCHOOLHOUSE 106 00:13:11,270 --> 00:13:16,390 In the Christian Martyrology there are 9 900 saints and beati. 107 00:13:16,590 --> 00:13:19,510 I won't pray to any of them, I'll only pray to you. 108 00:13:19,670 --> 00:13:22,190 You are the only saint I have met, who cares about the others ! 109 00:13:23,590 --> 00:13:24,870 Let's stick to facts. 110 00:13:26,550 --> 00:13:27,670 The Caliph, 111 00:13:27,870 --> 00:13:33,950 presumably using the refugee community on the island of Ventotene, 112 00:13:34,070 --> 00:13:37,070 has taken six elementary school children hostage 113 00:13:37,150 --> 00:13:39,270 as well as their teacher, Don Antonio. 114 00:13:39,910 --> 00:13:43,670 A good priest, Girolamo. A good priest, I swear. 115 00:13:44,190 --> 00:13:47,430 But you know that, I've spent my life gathering information, 116 00:13:47,510 --> 00:13:50,110 but now you are surely better informed than me. 117 00:13:50,190 --> 00:13:51,510 Let's get to the point. 118 00:13:51,790 --> 00:13:54,910 I ask you with all my strength: free them. 119 00:13:55,630 --> 00:13:59,030 Free them all and all unharmed, they're children. 120 00:13:59,790 --> 00:14:00,910 They are innocent. 121 00:14:02,150 --> 00:14:04,670 They're saints, they're beautiful like you. 122 00:15:18,750 --> 00:15:23,270 Please, do with me what you will, but let the children go. 123 00:15:40,310 --> 00:15:43,750 I would have much preferred our first encounter 124 00:15:43,870 --> 00:15:47,270 to have been under more pleasant circumstances. 125 00:15:47,590 --> 00:15:50,790 Instead, we are burdened with a difficult and urgent mission. 126 00:15:52,230 --> 00:15:54,470 We have six children and a priest to save. 127 00:15:56,230 --> 00:15:59,670 - The police... - This is not a job for the police. 128 00:16:01,550 --> 00:16:03,150 This is a job for the Church. 129 00:16:10,190 --> 00:16:14,070 Do you know who was more afraid that I would wake up than you ? 130 00:16:14,830 --> 00:16:17,390 - Who ? - The caliph. 131 00:16:22,590 --> 00:16:25,950 Let's analyze the situation, Your Holiness. 132 00:16:29,350 --> 00:16:33,030 I've fallen into a coma, and I become a living saint. 133 00:16:35,350 --> 00:16:39,990 We witness the first signs of a Catholic fanaticism. 134 00:16:41,190 --> 00:16:45,230 Until now, fanaticism has been the exclusive prerogative of the Caliph. 135 00:16:46,390 --> 00:16:50,550 He feels we have usurped his territory and so he attacks us. 136 00:16:52,870 --> 00:16:58,230 He's afraid that I have woken up, so he ups his game 137 00:17:00,590 --> 00:17:05,630 and strikes at the thing I love most: children. 138 00:17:06,150 --> 00:17:08,470 But he is not afraid that you have woken up. 139 00:17:09,750 --> 00:17:12,310 He is afraid you've risen from the dead. 140 00:17:13,710 --> 00:17:16,670 In which case, you're not merely an infidel, 141 00:17:17,390 --> 00:17:20,550 but as you would be the Antichrist for us, 142 00:17:20,630 --> 00:17:26,390 for him you would be Iblis, the devil, and there is no dealing with the devil. 143 00:17:28,510 --> 00:17:31,910 That is precisely what I want. He's gonna have to deal with me. 144 00:17:34,950 --> 00:17:41,710 The Caliph doesn't know for sure if I've risen from the dead or not. 145 00:17:43,550 --> 00:17:44,670 He has doubts. 146 00:17:46,190 --> 00:17:50,510 And doubt, as Voiello says, is a weapon. 147 00:17:51,230 --> 00:17:53,350 But we have a secret, a certainty: 148 00:17:56,590 --> 00:17:57,590 I have come back. 149 00:17:58,590 --> 00:18:01,310 And our certainty is not a weapon, it's a bomb. 150 00:18:03,830 --> 00:18:07,590 No one is interested in having that bomb explode. 151 00:18:08,750 --> 00:18:11,630 Which is why we can force him to release the children. 152 00:18:12,590 --> 00:18:15,390 I don't understand what you plan to do. 153 00:18:16,310 --> 00:18:20,710 I plan to let the caliph know that I am no longer in a coma. 154 00:18:22,430 --> 00:18:24,990 He knows if I show myself to the world, 155 00:18:25,070 --> 00:18:27,550 I will rob him of his monopoly on fanaticism. 156 00:18:29,150 --> 00:18:32,590 I can create a billion Catholic fanatics in a week. 157 00:18:34,670 --> 00:18:37,950 The Caliph knows that, that's why he reacted so erratically. 158 00:18:38,990 --> 00:18:40,830 If I don't show myself to the world, 159 00:18:40,910 --> 00:18:45,230 he can carry on dreaming his delirious dreams. 160 00:18:47,470 --> 00:18:48,990 It will be up to him to decide. 161 00:18:50,630 --> 00:18:52,790 But if he doesn't want me to show myself, 162 00:18:53,670 --> 00:18:57,510 he's gonna have to let those children and their teacher go immediately. 163 00:18:59,470 --> 00:19:00,550 What do you think ? 164 00:19:05,070 --> 00:19:10,950 I think that we are the Church and we must act like the Church. 165 00:19:11,070 --> 00:19:16,070 We must kneel down and pray for six children and a priest, 166 00:19:16,510 --> 00:19:21,350 while the forces of law and order devise a plan to liberate them 167 00:19:21,550 --> 00:19:24,710 without leaving any dead bodies on the ground. 168 00:19:24,990 --> 00:19:27,830 And that is what we shall do, Lenny. 169 00:19:28,630 --> 00:19:30,070 That is the middle way. 170 00:19:30,870 --> 00:19:33,670 You are the Pope and you establish the line. 171 00:19:33,830 --> 00:19:35,270 I will submit to your will. 172 00:19:40,550 --> 00:19:43,470 That night that you wept over your brother Adam's tomb, 173 00:19:43,550 --> 00:19:45,590 you told him God doesn't like you. 174 00:19:52,430 --> 00:19:53,710 How would you know that ? 175 00:19:57,030 --> 00:19:58,430 Did you think you were alone ? 176 00:20:00,790 --> 00:20:02,350 I was there, with you, John. 177 00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:10,350 John, you're gonna have to resign yourself to believing in me. 178 00:20:12,230 --> 00:20:16,190 Now that you realized what I am ! 179 00:20:19,110 --> 00:20:21,150 Free them now ! 180 00:20:24,430 --> 00:20:26,510 Free them now ! 181 00:20:29,790 --> 00:20:32,110 Free them now ! 182 00:22:04,670 --> 00:22:06,030 Brother cardinals... 183 00:22:12,750 --> 00:22:13,790 I've come back. 184 00:22:16,470 --> 00:22:19,870 This meeting here today is to be our secret. 185 00:22:23,350 --> 00:22:25,710 If you reveal to anyone that I have returned, 186 00:22:27,150 --> 00:22:28,750 I will know how to punish you. 187 00:22:34,390 --> 00:22:36,550 Do you remember, brother cardinals, 188 00:22:37,190 --> 00:22:42,230 when I told you that the faithful have to come to us through a narrow door, 189 00:22:43,590 --> 00:22:45,150 that we would not go to them ? 190 00:22:47,470 --> 00:22:50,870 You were all rather skeptical. 191 00:22:52,510 --> 00:22:54,870 And that is exactly what happened. 192 00:22:57,590 --> 00:23:02,990 And it is why I want you all now, in absolute silence, 193 00:23:04,430 --> 00:23:05,990 with your eyes closed. 194 00:23:08,990 --> 00:23:13,110 With your eyes closed to concentrate 195 00:23:14,990 --> 00:23:19,710 and ask my forgiveness and say to yourselves: 196 00:23:21,070 --> 00:23:25,350 "It will never happen again that I, a wretched man, 197 00:23:26,630 --> 00:23:30,750 will fail to believe in Pius XIII." 198 00:23:39,910 --> 00:23:42,830 We're always saying that "We guide people's hearts." 199 00:23:43,230 --> 00:23:44,670 But what does that mean ? 200 00:23:47,390 --> 00:23:51,630 The heart, in and of itself, as I know perfectly well, 201 00:23:53,390 --> 00:23:56,310 is nothing more than an organ that beats. 202 00:23:57,670 --> 00:24:01,310 Sometimes it beats faster, sometimes it beats slower. 203 00:24:03,350 --> 00:24:05,110 Sometimes it stops. 204 00:24:07,150 --> 00:24:11,270 The heart is a mechanism. It means nothing. 205 00:24:11,630 --> 00:24:16,510 What does it mean exactly to guide people's hearts ? 206 00:24:20,230 --> 00:24:21,430 It means... 207 00:24:22,950 --> 00:24:25,390 to rule emotion. 208 00:24:27,150 --> 00:24:28,470 Your emotion... 209 00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:33,790 the emotion of other Catholics outside these walls. 210 00:24:35,430 --> 00:24:37,950 If you can rule the emotion of your fellow man, 211 00:24:38,470 --> 00:24:43,230 he will follow you wherever you please. 212 00:24:50,870 --> 00:24:54,310 This is called power. 213 00:24:58,390 --> 00:25:04,510 Our most excellent Voiello exercises it over you all. 214 00:25:07,070 --> 00:25:11,870 John Paul III and myself exercise it over the world at large. 215 00:25:17,150 --> 00:25:19,910 What a marvelous job John Paul III has done ! 216 00:25:23,270 --> 00:25:25,550 When he shouted that "No" in Lourdes, 217 00:25:26,830 --> 00:25:30,910 he displayed all the courage you have always lacked. 218 00:25:31,750 --> 00:25:34,990 And last Sunday, at the Angelus, 219 00:25:36,190 --> 00:25:41,590 when he bared his heart, he bared others' hearts as well. 220 00:25:43,070 --> 00:25:46,390 Others who had been concealing themselves. 221 00:25:47,270 --> 00:25:52,270 But now they have emerged from their sorry little rooms, 222 00:25:53,550 --> 00:25:56,510 their ditches of uncertainty. 223 00:25:58,710 --> 00:26:02,870 They're all out there now, in the square. 224 00:26:05,670 --> 00:26:09,070 They came, they stayed, 225 00:26:10,510 --> 00:26:12,310 and they will continue to stay. 226 00:26:16,790 --> 00:26:21,670 What a glorious pope John Paul III ! 227 00:26:42,470 --> 00:26:45,390 Because, at long last, John Paul III 228 00:26:46,030 --> 00:26:51,070 has formed the angry base of the young Catholic army. 229 00:26:53,110 --> 00:26:59,150 If need be, I will expand, inspire, and arm them. 230 00:27:01,470 --> 00:27:03,350 The coming days will be crucial. 231 00:27:04,510 --> 00:27:06,910 Which is now why I need you by my side. 232 00:27:07,870 --> 00:27:09,390 I need my red backdrop. 233 00:27:10,670 --> 00:27:13,350 So you will remain by my side, 234 00:27:13,950 --> 00:27:17,870 silent, obedient, and good. 235 00:27:19,310 --> 00:27:21,590 You're too old to reinvent yourselves. 236 00:27:21,790 --> 00:27:26,350 Too old to comprehend the shifts in the emotional nature of this world. 237 00:27:27,430 --> 00:27:28,950 You don't need to trust me. 238 00:27:29,830 --> 00:27:34,830 You need to entrust yourselves to me and pray. 239 00:27:36,070 --> 00:27:41,470 Pray for don Antonio, a good priest who is suffering, 240 00:27:42,390 --> 00:27:45,230 and for six frightened children. 241 00:27:47,510 --> 00:27:49,150 God is by our side. 242 00:27:50,470 --> 00:27:54,790 We tend toward the good and God tends toward the good. 243 00:27:55,630 --> 00:27:59,390 Which is why God will remain by our side. 244 00:28:00,790 --> 00:28:04,470 Because He knows me. And I know Him. 245 00:28:08,070 --> 00:28:09,310 Let us pray ! 246 00:28:28,070 --> 00:28:32,190 I don't understand, who is the pope now ? 247 00:28:33,670 --> 00:28:36,550 Shut up and pray, idiot. 248 00:28:38,070 --> 00:28:42,470 When a man, in the name of other men, 249 00:28:44,350 --> 00:28:46,030 and in one God's name, 250 00:28:46,710 --> 00:28:51,630 abducts children, terrorizes them, deprives them of food, 251 00:28:51,830 --> 00:28:56,590 and threatening them with death, he is not just committing a crime. 252 00:28:58,790 --> 00:29:00,310 He is declaring war. 253 00:29:02,110 --> 00:29:05,950 The modern church will not fall for these provocations. 254 00:29:07,430 --> 00:29:11,190 But I am not modern. I am ancient. 255 00:29:12,150 --> 00:29:16,470 I say to you now: I am ready to respond to this declaration of war. 256 00:29:16,710 --> 00:29:18,830 - Your Holiness... - Shut up, and listen to me ! 257 00:29:21,110 --> 00:29:24,110 We will annihilate them. 258 00:29:26,350 --> 00:29:27,710 Tomorrow morning, 259 00:29:27,790 --> 00:29:31,110 I want John Paul III to address the people in the square. 260 00:29:31,470 --> 00:29:34,430 Take notes, Voiello. I have to dictate what he will say. 261 00:29:42,870 --> 00:29:45,150 I speak to the kidnappers. 262 00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:50,310 Yes, you are despicable and yes, you're already dead. 263 00:29:51,070 --> 00:29:53,910 You act against any will of any God. 264 00:29:54,350 --> 00:29:59,470 Therefore I command you to release the children and don Antonio. 265 00:30:00,150 --> 00:30:03,230 If you fail to obey, I will come there, 266 00:30:03,470 --> 00:30:07,870 and I will have with me God and iron, faith and fire. 267 00:30:08,790 --> 00:30:13,990 And I will not be alone. You must know that: I will not be alone. 268 00:30:20,510 --> 00:30:23,950 You have any idea of the work we've been doing ? 269 00:30:26,110 --> 00:30:30,470 We haven't slept in days. Our intelligence services, 270 00:30:30,710 --> 00:30:33,470 our diplomats, the vice president, 271 00:30:33,670 --> 00:30:36,910 we're all been working our asses off to save your ass. 272 00:30:37,190 --> 00:30:41,910 Rescue those kids, the priest and your emeritus pope, how does he thank us ? 273 00:30:42,430 --> 00:30:46,310 By having John Paul III say he's ready to declare war ? 274 00:30:46,870 --> 00:30:48,790 Are you out of your minds ? 275 00:30:50,230 --> 00:30:53,790 Last time you fought a war was in 1540, 276 00:30:53,950 --> 00:30:56,070 and that was to conquer Perugia. 277 00:30:56,350 --> 00:31:01,990 Do you have the slightest idea what the danger of declaring war is ? 278 00:31:02,070 --> 00:31:05,070 - No. What ? - You are going to have to fight it ! 279 00:31:06,670 --> 00:31:12,670 Calm down, Bauer. Pius XIII is just a little wound up. 280 00:31:12,870 --> 00:31:16,070 Okay, so why don't you try to wind him down a little ? 281 00:31:16,230 --> 00:31:19,910 Cause otherwise I will be force to do something more decisive. 282 00:31:20,790 --> 00:31:23,630 What do you want to do, Bauer ? Assassinate the pope ? 283 00:31:24,150 --> 00:31:27,270 There would be no point. He would just rise again ! 284 00:31:27,470 --> 00:31:29,790 He might. You wouldn't. 285 00:31:30,870 --> 00:31:33,510 Let me explain something to you, Your Eminence. 286 00:31:33,870 --> 00:31:37,310 When we know the scenario, we can control it. 287 00:31:37,510 --> 00:31:41,550 But when it's all an unknown, things spin out of control. 288 00:31:42,190 --> 00:31:44,270 One day you're taking your kid to the park, 289 00:31:44,350 --> 00:31:47,230 and the next you're taking cover in a bomb shelter. 290 00:31:47,470 --> 00:31:50,270 One day you're pope, he's a little on wound, 291 00:31:50,390 --> 00:31:54,190 next day world war III breaks out before you even know it. 292 00:31:54,390 --> 00:31:57,790 Now, can you see that living legend behind me ? 293 00:32:00,310 --> 00:32:03,990 - I noticed him immediately. - General Parker. That says it all. 294 00:32:04,110 --> 00:32:08,270 Now, the General is not gonna utter a single word, 295 00:32:08,350 --> 00:32:11,630 but he will move his head in response to my questions. 296 00:32:11,710 --> 00:32:13,790 So watch him carefully. 297 00:32:14,030 --> 00:32:17,910 General Parker, in the event of a war, 298 00:32:17,990 --> 00:32:21,550 would the United States, the most powerful nation on earth, 299 00:32:22,270 --> 00:32:25,350 be willing to save the Vatican's ass ? 300 00:32:32,870 --> 00:32:35,070 - Got it ? - Yes, I got it. 301 00:32:35,990 --> 00:32:39,190 But you're the one who's pretending not to get it. 302 00:32:39,390 --> 00:32:40,670 No one wants a war. 303 00:32:40,950 --> 00:32:44,670 If Pius XIII shows himself to the world, 304 00:32:44,910 --> 00:32:47,830 Catholic fundamentalism will boil over. 305 00:32:48,270 --> 00:32:51,910 If Pius XIII utters the word "war", 306 00:32:52,790 --> 00:32:55,270 millions of people from around the world 307 00:32:55,550 --> 00:32:59,350 are ready to immolate themselves on the Syrian border, 308 00:32:59,950 --> 00:33:04,190 and to launch the greatest religious war of all time. 309 00:33:04,910 --> 00:33:07,550 Many of them will be Americans. 310 00:33:08,470 --> 00:33:13,430 The front lines would include Catholic factions 311 00:33:14,230 --> 00:33:17,630 from the conflicts in former Yugoslavia, 312 00:33:18,310 --> 00:33:22,870 freedom fighters from Ukraine, and the Lithuanian special forces. 313 00:33:23,470 --> 00:33:27,070 And affluent members of the Catholic diaspora 314 00:33:27,590 --> 00:33:31,390 stand ready to finance the conflict and provide arms. 315 00:33:32,750 --> 00:33:34,350 Am I wrong, General Parker ? 316 00:33:40,270 --> 00:33:45,110 See ? We might be a little rusty, but we still know a thing or two about war. 317 00:33:45,350 --> 00:33:48,310 I can't believe we're even having this conversation. 318 00:33:48,990 --> 00:33:54,430 The Vatican entertaining the idea of declaring war on Islam ! 319 00:33:54,790 --> 00:34:00,430 - Jesus fucking Christ, Voiello ! - No, hold on Bauer. Not on Islam. 320 00:34:00,670 --> 00:34:03,870 On Islamic terrorism. We know perfectly well 321 00:34:04,070 --> 00:34:06,830 that the majority of Muslims are moderate. 322 00:34:07,510 --> 00:34:12,270 But that's exactly the point. It's the moderate Catholics 323 00:34:12,550 --> 00:34:15,550 who now risk becoming few in number 324 00:34:15,670 --> 00:34:19,470 because the majority would become fundamentalists 325 00:34:19,590 --> 00:34:23,590 if Pius XIII were to show himself. 326 00:34:24,550 --> 00:34:26,230 So now, listen to me, Bauer. 327 00:34:26,910 --> 00:34:30,590 Pius XIII may have in mind to leave a sign, 328 00:34:31,270 --> 00:34:32,710 a divine sign. 329 00:34:33,790 --> 00:34:35,590 Not some momentary peace 330 00:34:35,910 --> 00:34:40,230 that lasts only until the next madman comes along, 331 00:34:40,350 --> 00:34:43,550 eager to carry out an attack somewhere in the world. 332 00:34:43,630 --> 00:34:49,030 But everlasting peace. Or at least a very long lasting peace. 333 00:34:49,390 --> 00:34:54,790 Where you were unable to do it, he may well prove to be successful 334 00:34:54,990 --> 00:35:00,830 because the collective imagination is more powerful than the atomic bomb. 335 00:35:01,430 --> 00:35:02,910 Now do you get it, Bauer ? 336 00:35:06,470 --> 00:35:07,790 Life is so beautiful. 337 00:35:09,790 --> 00:35:12,390 It would be enough to embrace it for what it is: 338 00:35:14,630 --> 00:35:17,550 an opportunity for joy and grace, 339 00:35:19,190 --> 00:35:22,070 for love and lightheartedness. 340 00:35:24,830 --> 00:35:27,150 When did you lose your lightheartedness ? 341 00:35:30,390 --> 00:35:31,390 When ? 342 00:36:00,950 --> 00:36:04,750 Everyone remembers my miracles but they forget about my murders. 343 00:36:08,630 --> 00:36:11,630 They don't know that it was me who killed that poor priest, 344 00:36:11,710 --> 00:36:13,190 that hero, in Ventotene. 345 00:36:13,310 --> 00:36:17,830 And I left those 6 bewildered children alone with those madmen. 346 00:36:18,710 --> 00:36:21,270 Tomorrow they will blame John Paul III but it was me. 347 00:36:22,350 --> 00:36:24,670 I am a danger to others. I am worthless. 348 00:36:25,190 --> 00:36:27,670 A rash, unreasonable child. 349 00:36:31,470 --> 00:36:34,270 Your Holiness, John Paul III would like to see you. 350 00:36:45,710 --> 00:36:48,510 - Your Eminence. - Bauer, what are you doing here ? 351 00:36:49,870 --> 00:36:51,550 I brought someone to see you. 352 00:36:56,230 --> 00:36:59,310 - Who is he ? - The man closest to the Caliph. 353 00:37:00,790 --> 00:37:02,990 - Did you track him down ? - Nope. 354 00:37:04,110 --> 00:37:06,390 And that's why it gets interesting. He tracked me down. 355 00:37:07,070 --> 00:37:08,190 It wasn't us. 356 00:37:10,430 --> 00:37:11,710 Why should I trust you ? 357 00:37:14,910 --> 00:37:17,670 I do not expect in the least that you would trust me. 358 00:37:18,910 --> 00:37:21,710 I don't trust you, and you do not trust me. 359 00:37:23,430 --> 00:37:28,510 I merely wanted to tell you, in person, that it wasn't us. 360 00:37:29,030 --> 00:37:34,630 Not in Lourdes, not in Saint Peter's, not in Ventotene. 361 00:37:37,310 --> 00:37:42,590 Give me one valid reason why I should believe you, and I will. 362 00:37:43,470 --> 00:37:45,550 Europe has become irrelevant. 363 00:37:46,710 --> 00:37:51,790 An old, abandoned shop window that doesn't interest us any more. 364 00:37:53,390 --> 00:37:57,830 Simply for that reason, it wasn't us. 365 00:38:00,950 --> 00:38:02,670 When you don't have proof, 366 00:38:05,150 --> 00:38:06,590 you don't have proof. 367 00:38:15,510 --> 00:38:16,670 Voiello called me. 368 00:38:17,270 --> 00:38:19,670 They made contact, they sought us out. 369 00:38:19,910 --> 00:38:22,830 They're afraid. They claimed it wasn't them. 370 00:38:23,630 --> 00:38:27,630 They're bluffing, naturally. This is the confirmation that it was them. 371 00:38:31,950 --> 00:38:35,750 Are you a charlatan ? Are you a Guru ? 372 00:38:37,390 --> 00:38:39,830 Are you a saint ? Are you the devil ? 373 00:38:40,750 --> 00:38:43,030 Are you the Messiah ? Are you Christ ? 374 00:38:43,710 --> 00:38:44,830 Are you God ? 375 00:38:45,910 --> 00:38:49,670 It doesn't matter, Lenny. I am the pope. 376 00:38:50,950 --> 00:38:54,070 For me, you are a priest, nothing more. 377 00:38:54,790 --> 00:38:59,070 And you will show me perfect obedience, as all priests do. 378 00:38:59,750 --> 00:39:03,670 For that is all we know, that is the Church. 379 00:39:05,310 --> 00:39:08,030 And we answer for the Church. 380 00:39:10,230 --> 00:39:12,350 Your Holiness, you're exactly right. 381 00:39:13,750 --> 00:39:15,030 I'm wrong. 382 00:39:16,150 --> 00:39:20,430 If you continue to listen to me I will continue to make mistakes. 383 00:39:21,270 --> 00:39:24,310 I will withdraw to my tower for the rest of my life, 384 00:39:24,390 --> 00:39:26,230 and no one will ever see me again. 385 00:39:26,310 --> 00:39:31,470 No, you will not withdraw. You will show yourself to the world 386 00:39:32,910 --> 00:39:36,750 and you will say what I did not have the courage to say. 387 00:39:38,830 --> 00:39:41,070 Will you be at my side, Your Holiness ? 388 00:39:41,190 --> 00:39:46,310 No. The moment I have always longed for has finally arrived. 389 00:39:49,230 --> 00:39:50,270 What moment ? 390 00:39:50,390 --> 00:39:53,990 When I fulfill my one and only ambition: 391 00:39:55,710 --> 00:39:56,950 to be forgotten. 392 00:39:59,150 --> 00:40:00,430 But you're the pope. 393 00:40:02,710 --> 00:40:03,710 No. 394 00:40:04,750 --> 00:40:07,310 I am a fragile piece of porcelain. 395 00:40:10,070 --> 00:40:12,270 But I have understood 396 00:40:12,350 --> 00:40:17,670 that my fragility is my strength, not my damnation. 397 00:40:21,150 --> 00:40:22,350 What are you gonna do ? 398 00:40:24,830 --> 00:40:25,990 Will you return home ? 399 00:40:33,910 --> 00:40:36,390 I will return to myself. 400 00:40:46,790 --> 00:40:49,470 Are we sure we didn't forget anything ? 401 00:40:51,110 --> 00:40:52,310 Yes, we are Sir. 402 00:40:58,070 --> 00:40:59,830 What shall I do with the box, Sir ? 403 00:41:02,590 --> 00:41:04,790 Let's keep it for now, shall we ? 404 00:41:06,190 --> 00:41:11,270 As Cardinal Newman used to say: "One never knows in life." 405 00:45:14,870 --> 00:45:15,910 Stand up ! 406 00:47:13,470 --> 00:47:14,470 Jesus ! 407 00:47:17,790 --> 00:47:20,350 That's Amber, an escort from Hannover. 408 00:47:20,630 --> 00:47:22,550 She follows me everywhere, 409 00:47:23,230 --> 00:47:25,590 actually have we recently decided to gonna get married. 410 00:47:26,310 --> 00:47:29,110 - I'm gonna miss you, Voiello. - You're leaving ? 411 00:47:29,390 --> 00:47:32,270 - Yeah, I'm done here. - Where will you go ? 412 00:47:32,350 --> 00:47:35,590 Korea. Things are really heating up over there. 413 00:47:35,710 --> 00:47:39,550 I'm gonna try calm them down. Don't tell that's where I'm going. 414 00:47:40,110 --> 00:47:43,310 - I didn't need this. - Yeah, I know. 415 00:47:44,910 --> 00:47:47,870 Even though I do all I can to dissuade people, 416 00:47:47,950 --> 00:47:50,750 in the end they always develop a soft spot for me. 417 00:47:51,950 --> 00:47:56,030 You were right, the Caliph didn't carry out any attacks in Europe. 418 00:47:56,830 --> 00:47:59,150 Who am I going to talk now ? 419 00:47:59,630 --> 00:48:03,390 Ever since Girolamo died, you've been my only friend. 420 00:48:03,470 --> 00:48:06,550 Relax Voiello. This is not the fifteen century. 421 00:48:07,110 --> 00:48:09,830 With a few precautions, we can talk on the phone. 422 00:48:09,910 --> 00:48:13,510 You better wish me luck, though. I've been dining on clams here, 423 00:48:14,430 --> 00:48:16,790 they are gonna feed me dog soup in Korea. 424 00:48:16,910 --> 00:48:20,990 Isn't he the sweetest thing, my little Bauer octopus ? 425 00:48:22,670 --> 00:48:26,590 Please, don't say that, sweetheart. You're demolishing the legend. 426 00:48:26,990 --> 00:48:30,190 Voiello, I need you to explain something to me. 427 00:48:31,750 --> 00:48:34,710 Why would some Catholics try to kill other Catholics ? 428 00:48:35,870 --> 00:48:40,550 Because fanaticism and obtuseness are one and the same thing. 429 00:48:41,230 --> 00:48:45,030 Anyway, they don't eat dog in Korea any more. 430 00:48:45,190 --> 00:48:47,950 I know. I know, but it doesn't merely matter. 431 00:48:48,350 --> 00:48:51,870 Whenever they serve me food, that's gonna be my expectation, 432 00:48:52,310 --> 00:48:53,910 that will be my perception. 433 00:48:54,630 --> 00:48:55,790 Dog. 434 00:48:56,190 --> 00:48:58,590 And as you and I know all too well, my friend, 435 00:48:59,790 --> 00:49:01,270 perception is everything. 436 00:49:14,110 --> 00:49:15,310 Sir John... 437 00:49:17,590 --> 00:49:19,470 Your parents wish to see you. 438 00:49:24,310 --> 00:49:26,270 They would like to welcome you home. 439 00:50:04,070 --> 00:50:07,670 Our mouths are filled with the word "love." 440 00:50:09,270 --> 00:50:14,630 But I, before anyone else, didn't know how to define it. 441 00:50:17,110 --> 00:50:19,590 Our mouths are filled with the word "beauty." 442 00:50:22,310 --> 00:50:26,390 But I, before anyone else, didn't know how to receive it. 443 00:50:29,670 --> 00:50:31,510 For this, I ask you forgiveness. 444 00:50:34,110 --> 00:50:35,350 Please, forgive me. 445 00:50:38,990 --> 00:50:43,790 At times we confound love with madness. 446 00:50:46,190 --> 00:50:49,270 Beauty with ecstasy. 447 00:50:52,670 --> 00:50:54,390 History has repeated itself. 448 00:50:54,910 --> 00:51:00,430 Madness and ecstasy have once again proven to be irresistible temptations, 449 00:51:02,270 --> 00:51:05,750 but they always end the way they did on Ventotene. 450 00:51:08,390 --> 00:51:09,710 With unjust death. 451 00:51:11,310 --> 00:51:14,390 In this case, of a good and innocent priest. 452 00:51:16,470 --> 00:51:22,990 There is a life of happiness to be found in the sphere of gentleness, 453 00:51:24,870 --> 00:51:30,270 kindness, mildness, lovingness. 454 00:51:34,110 --> 00:51:35,990 We must learn to be in the world. 455 00:51:37,870 --> 00:51:40,430 And the Church must contemplate 456 00:51:40,630 --> 00:51:43,830 the idea of opening up to the love that is possible, 457 00:51:44,430 --> 00:51:47,310 in order to fight against the love that is aberrant. 458 00:51:49,470 --> 00:51:53,710 All this, John Paul III, with great humility, 459 00:51:55,150 --> 00:51:56,550 calls "the middle way." 460 00:51:59,150 --> 00:52:01,310 In the past few days I have understood. 461 00:52:02,790 --> 00:52:04,830 It's not the middle way. 462 00:52:07,030 --> 00:52:08,230 It is the way. 463 00:52:12,710 --> 00:52:14,110 Ever since I came back, 464 00:52:15,310 --> 00:52:18,710 you've been asking yourselves all sorts of questions. 465 00:52:20,870 --> 00:52:22,590 Is he the father or the son ? 466 00:52:24,590 --> 00:52:27,870 Is he God or the Holy Spirit ? 467 00:52:29,590 --> 00:52:31,470 Is he man or is he Jesus ? 468 00:52:33,630 --> 00:52:37,430 Did he wake up or did he rise from the dead ? 469 00:52:40,790 --> 00:52:42,870 Is he a saint or is he an imposter ? 470 00:52:45,910 --> 00:52:49,510 Is he Christ or is he the Antichrist ? 471 00:52:52,710 --> 00:52:54,070 Is he alive or is he dead ? 472 00:52:57,030 --> 00:52:58,150 It doesn't matter. 473 00:53:06,670 --> 00:53:09,390 You know what is so beautiful about questions ? 474 00:53:15,790 --> 00:53:19,110 It's that we don't have the answers. 475 00:53:23,390 --> 00:53:25,390 In the end, only God has the answers. 476 00:53:28,550 --> 00:53:29,710 They are his secret. 477 00:53:31,710 --> 00:53:34,550 God's secret, which only He knows. 478 00:53:37,110 --> 00:53:39,310 That is the mystery in which we believe. 479 00:53:43,390 --> 00:53:46,590 And that is the mystery which guide our conscience. 480 00:53:53,990 --> 00:53:59,030 And now I would like to come down among you, 481 00:54:00,550 --> 00:54:03,350 and do what I have wanted to do since the first moment: 482 00:54:06,430 --> 00:54:09,670 embrace you, one by one. 483 00:58:53,070 --> 00:58:55,230 THE NEW POPE 484 00:58:57,350 --> 00:58:58,470 Brother Cardinals, 485 00:58:58,990 --> 00:59:02,790 after the good fortune of two truly great popes, 486 00:59:03,830 --> 00:59:06,510 John Paul III and Pius XIII, 487 00:59:06,870 --> 00:59:08,270 what is it we need ? 488 00:59:08,910 --> 00:59:11,230 A man steeped in mediocrity. 489 00:59:12,070 --> 00:59:14,870 Dull, hard working, sensitive, 490 00:59:15,230 --> 00:59:18,950 and receptive to the countless request 491 00:59:19,190 --> 00:59:22,910 of his beloved colleagues in the college of cardinals. 492 00:59:23,910 --> 00:59:26,430 I didn't sleep a wink last night. 493 00:59:27,270 --> 00:59:32,910 I read and re-read the pontifical yearbook a thousand times, 494 00:59:34,110 --> 00:59:37,270 and in the end, I didn't find 495 00:59:39,150 --> 00:59:42,030 a single name that responds to the call. 496 00:59:43,870 --> 00:59:47,670 I did. I've found a name. 497 00:59:48,390 --> 00:59:49,910 Which one, Don Cavallo ? 498 00:59:50,350 --> 00:59:54,470 The last one, alphabetically: Voiello Angelo. 499 00:59:55,510 --> 01:00:01,190 Why do you always have to make me feel so uneasy ? 500 01:03:29,710 --> 01:03:31,910 Pius, you're a pain in the ass.