The Borgias (TV Series)

The Poisoned Chalice (2011)

Michael Poole: Pope Innocent

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.