The Borgias (TV Series)

The Poisoned Chalice (2011)

Jeremy Irons: Rodrigo Borgia

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Pope Innocent : [on his death bed]  You are afraid to enter, but you must. I am about to meet my maker. I have confessed. And I confess I am very afraid. Colonna. Sforza. Orsini. Borgia.

  Rodrigo Borgia : Your Holiness.

  Pope Innocent : Della Rovere. You will fight like dogs over this corpse I leave for this throne of St. Peter's. But it was pure once. We have all sullied it with our greed and lechery. Which of you will wash it clean?

  Rodrigo Borgia : It shall be cleansed, Your Holiness, with the tears we shed for you. I swear before the Living God.

• Rodrigo Borgia : God will forgive us, my son. But I will not forgive failure from you or your brother.

• Rodrigo Borgia : I am Rodrigo Borgia no longer. I am Alexander Sixtus.

  Cesare Borgia : But you know who you are. My father, still.

  Rodrigo Borgia : I am no longer "I." I am "we." We felt so alone out there. When the crown touched our head. Humbled, even. Even frightened.

• Cesare Borgia : That poison was meant for us.

  Rodrigo Borgia : You don't poison the Pope!

  Cesare Borgia : Do you know what the gossips are calling you? "The mitred ape". Half of Rome is waiting to celebrate your demise.

  Rodrigo Borgia : You would poison a dying dog! Not the heir to Saint Peter!

  Cesare Borgia : The idea offends you, then?

  Rodrigo Borgia : It offends me, it offends nature, it offends God Himself!

  Cesare Borgia : Then God will take his revenge.

  Rodrigo Borgia : Yes he will... with *our* help!