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I would like to speak to the nun who dropped her tray just now.

She's safe with me, I'm dealing with the situation, Dean.

I'm sure you are, Sister Agnes, but I must see her myself.

I hardly think a dropped tray should concern

the Dean of the College of Cardinals.

Even so, I...

The welfare of the sister

is my responsibility.

And this Conclave is mine.

Please sit, my child.

My name is Cardinal Lawrence.

How are you feeling?

She's feeling much better.

Could you tell me your name?

Shanumi, her name is Shanumi.

Please, please do sit down.

I...I really think it would be better

if you let me deal with the situation.

Would you be so good as to leave us now, Sister Agnes?

Sister Shanumi,

I want you to understand that, first of all,

you are not in any kind of trouble.

The fact of the matter is that I have

a responsibility before God

to ensure that the decisions that we make here

are the right ones.

Now, it's important you tell me anything that is in your heart

or that is troubling you,

insofar as it relates to Cardinal Adeyemi.

Can you do that for me?

Even if I give you my assurance

it will go no further than this room.

Would you like me to hear your confession?

I'll be ready in a moment, Dean.

Shouldn't we be going?

In a moment.

That sounds ominous.

If this is about the incident downstairs,

I have no desire to talk about it.

I am the victim of a disgraceful plot

to ruin my reputation.

Someone brought that woman here and staged this melodrama.

She'd never left Nigeria before,

and suddenly she's here in the Casa Santa Marta.

With respect, Joshua, ow she came here

is secondary to the issue

of your relationship with her.

I have no relationship to her!

I hadn't set eyes on her in 30 years

until she turned up outside my room last night!

It was a lapse, Dean.

A lapse.

'Let God grant us a Pope who sins and asks forgiveness

and carries on.'

- Your words. - And the child?

The child?

The child was raised in a Christian household,

and to this day he has no idea who his father is,

if, indeed, it is me.

That is the child.

We were very young.

No, no, no, Joshua,

she was very young, she was 19 years old.

You were 30. - Thomas.

Thomas.

Listen to me... please.

I sensed the presence of the Holy Spirit this morning,

I swear it.

I am ready to take this burden.

Do... does a single... single mistake 30 years ago

disqualify me?

Thomas, please, I was a different man.

Please, I...I beg you, do... do not use this to ruin me.

Joshua, that thought's not worthy of you.

Shanumi will say nothing to protect her son,

and I am bound by the vows of the confessional.

So, I still have hope?

No.

There is no hope.

After such a public scene, there will be rumours,

and you know what the Curia is like.

Nothing terrifies our colleagues more

than the thought of yet more... sexual scandals.

I am more sorry than I can say.

You will never be Pope.

You must begin again.

But you are a good man.

I know you to be a good man,

and you will find a way to atone.

Will you pray with me?

Yes, of course.

The results of the fifth ballot are...

Cardinal Tremblay, 40 votes.

Cardinal Tedesco, 34 votes.

Cardinal Bellini, 13 votes.

Cardinal Lawrence, 11 votes.

Cardinal Adeyemi, 9 votes.

Cardinal Benitez, 6 votes.

My brothers...

My brothers, that concludes the fifth ballot.

No candidate having achieved the necessary majority,

we shall resume voting tomorrow morning.

Yes, Ray?

The... incident this morning, Your Eminence.

I have more information, if...

No, I too must be shielded from any knowledge

which could act as an interference

in the process of this Conclave.

Of course, Your Eminence.

Anything else?

Erm...

Oh, Cardinal Benitez... who has health problems?

He was issued a round-trip ticket to Geneva

paid for by the Pope's own account.

I checked his visa application,

the purpose for travel was given as 'medical treatment'.

Anyway, whatever it was, it can't have been serious.

The ticket was cancelled, he never went.

Alright. Thank you.

Forgive me, Your Eminence.

I know you said we should forget about the matter

of the withdrawn report.

But I...I wondered...

in light of Cardinal Tremblay's current position...

I...I could see if I could find out...

No, I'm not a witch-finder.

It's not my job to go hunting for secrets

in my colleagues' pasts.

Forgive me.

Please, no more investigations, I...

I think we've heard enough secrets.

Let God's will be done.

Yes, of course.

Goodnight then, Your Eminence.

Was this really necessary?

I feel as if I'm at some

American political convention.

Well, it isn't going to take long.

Our friend here doesn't have sufficient support

amongst our colleagues to be elected Pope.

It isn't over yet.

Well, I'm afraid,

as far as I'm concerned, it is.

So, now the question arises,

if I can't win,

whom do I advise my supporters to vote for?

Thomas,

I am no more an enthusiast

for Tremblay than you are.

But... we have to face the fact that...

We have to face the fact

that he has demonstrated broad appeal.

Maybe he'll be a unifying force.

- What? - Is this what we're reduced to,

considering the least worst option?

But the field has narrowed.

If we don't change our vote, we will be here for weeks.

And that's exactly what Tedesco wants.

We've had a Pope who was in the Hitler Youth

and fought for the Nazis.

We've had Popes accused of

colluding with communists and fascists.

We've had Popes who have ignored reports

of most appalling sexual abuse of children!

Shh. Okay. Shh-shh!

We take the point.

The point is we will never find a candidate

who doesn't have any kind of black mark against them.

We're mortal men.

We serve an ideal.

We cannot always be ideal.

Then we're agreed.

We urge all our supporters to back Tremblay.

Good.

The other night, you were kind enough

to say that you had voted for me.

Now, I don't know if you've continued to do so,

but if you have, then I must repeat my plea to you to stop.

Why?

Well, firstly, I lack the spiritual depth

to be Pope.

Secondly, I couldn't possibly win.

A long, drawn-out Conclave

would be seen by the media as proof

that the Church is in crisis.

You have come to ask me to vote for Cardinal Tremblay?

Yes, I have, and to urge your supporters to do the same.

Cardinal Tremblay already spoke to me about this.

Oh, well, I'm sure he has.

You want me to vote for a man you see as ambitious?

I do not want to see Tedesco as Pope.

He would take our church back to... to an earlier era.

I'm sorry, but I cannot vote for a man

unless I deem him the most worthy to be Pope.

And for me, that is not Tremblay.

It's you.

I don't want your vote!

Nevertheless... you have it.

Sister Shanumi is on her way home to Nigeria.

There was a flight to Lagos this evening,

and I thought it was best for everyone if she was on it.

How did Sister Shanumi come to be in Rome?

I received notification from the office

of the Superioress General that she would be joining us.

The arrangements were made in Paris.

You should Rue de Bac, Your Eminence.

I would, except of course, I am

sequestered for the duration of the Conclave.

Then you should ask them afterwards.

Err, the information is of value to me now.

Sister Agnes, I know that you were close to the Holy Father.

When I tried to resign as Dean, he wouldn't let me.

I couldn't understand why at the time, but...

now I think I do.

I think the Holy Father knew he was dying,

and for some reason he wanted me to run this Conclave.

Which is what I'm trying to do.

For him.

I would like you to withdraw your name

from the next ballot.

You are not the right man to be Pope.

Er, well...

40 of our colleagues

would disagree with you on that.

That's because they don't know you as I do.

This is sad, Thomas.

I shall pray for you.

I know there was some kind of

report into your activities.

I know the Holy Father raised the matter with you

hours before he died.

And that he dismissed you from all your posts.

And I know that somehow you discovered

Adeyemi's surrender to temptation 30 years ago,

and that you arranged for the woman involved

to be brought to Rome,

with the express intention

of destroying Adeyemi's chances

of becoming Pope.

I deny that accusation.

Will you deny asking our Superioress to transfer

one of her sisters to Rome?

- No. I asked her. - Hmm.

- But not on my own behalf. - Well, on whose behalf then?

The Holy Father's.

You would libel the Holy Father in his own home?

It isn't libel, it's the truth!

The Holy Father gave me the name of a sister

and asked me to make a private request to bring her to Rome.

I have no idea why.

And now you have chosen to...

You should be careful, Thomas.

Your own ambition has not gone unnoticed.

This might be seen as a tactic to blacken the name of a rival.

Well, that's a despicable accusation.

Is it?

I wonder...

if you really are so very reluctant

to have the chalice passed to you.

I shall pretend this conversation never took place.

But it has taken place!

It's the report on the activities of Tremblay.

It's an overwhelming prima facie case that he is guilty

of simony, which, of course, is an offence stipulated

in the Holy Scriptures... - I'm aware of what simony is,

thank you. - He only obtained

all those votes in the first ballot

because he bought them.

Cardenas, Diene, Figarella, Baptiste...

And all this in the last twelve months

when he must have guessed the Holy Father's

pontificate was... was coming to an end.

How do we know that this money wasn't used

for completely legitimate purposes?

Because I have seen their bank statements.

- Dear God. - Seems the Holy Father

was spying on all of us.

He didn't trust anyone.

Where did you get this?

You broke the seals.

I felt I didn't have a choice.

I suspected Tremblay of bringing

that poor woman from Africa to embarrass Adeyemi.

You must continue with your candidacy, Aldo.

Put them back.

Put them back, or burn them, or... just... put them back.

I could never become Pope in these circumstances.

A stolen document, the smearing of a brother cardinal.

I'd be the Richard Nixon of Popes.

Then stay clear of this, leave it to me.

I'm willing to handle the consequences.

You know who's gonna benefit most from this?

Tedesco.

The whole basis of his candidacy

is that the Holy Father led the church to disaster

by his attempts at reform.

If you reveal this report,

it isn't Tremblay's reputation that's going to suffer,

it's the Church's.

Accusing the Curia of institutional corruption...

I thought we were here to serve God, not the Curia.

Oh, don't be naïve!

Put them back.

And have Tremblay as Pope?

We've had worse.

What has he offered you?

Secretary of State?

Five times I cast my vote for you, Aldo.

But I was wrong.

You lack the courage required to be Pope.

I will do that for you, Your Eminence

Oh.

How many copies do you require?

Er, 108.

You are responsible for this, I believe.

No, Eminence. You are.

This report is entirely mendacious.

It would never have seen the light of day

if you had not broken into

the Holy Father's apartment to remove it!

If the report is mendacious,

then why did the Holy Father

in his last official act as Pope

ask you to resign?

He did no such thing.

As Monsignor Morales, who was at the meeting...

And yet Archbishop Wozniak insists the Holy Father...

The Holy Father,

may his name be numbered

among the high priests,

was a sick man toward the end of his life,

as those of us who saw him regularly can attest.

If I may join this amiable dialogue.

I want to remind you that

the names of eight cardinals have been obscured.

I assume the dean can tell us who they are?

Let them tell us themselves

here and now.

Here and now!

If Cardinal Tremblay requested their votes

in return for the money...

No, I won't do that.

Let each man examine his conscience, as I have.

I have no desire to create bitterness in this Conclave,

and I will be happy to stand down as Dean.

Eminences.

Although we sisters are supposed to be invisible,

God has nevertheless given us eyes and ears.

I know what prompted the Dean of the College

to enter the Holy Father's rooms.

He was concerned that the sister from my order

that made that regrettable scene

might have been brought to Rome

with the deliberate intention

of embarrassing a member of this Conclave.

His suspicions were correct.

She was indeed here at the specific request

of Cardinal Tremblay.

My brothers...

it's true.

But the Holy Father asked me to.

I had no knowledge

who this woman was, I swear to you.

Judas.

Traitor.

It seems that we're running out of favourites.

You must take over the supervision

of this election, Aldo.

Oh, no thank you.

You are steering this Conclave.

Exactly where, I do not know.

But that firm hand of yours has its admirers.

Thomas I've come to ask... for your forgiveness.

I had the temerity...

to tell you to examine... your heart,

when all the time it was my own that...

It's shameful...

to be this age and still not know yourself.

Ambition, 'The moth of holiness.'

I'm sorry.

So, perhaps it's time you decided... upon a name.

As the next most senior member of this Conclave,

it will fall to me to ask you

how you wish to be known as Pope.

For better or for worse,

it would seem that Tremblay is finished.

This is a contest between Tedesco and you.

You're the only one who can stop him now.

John.

I would choose John.

Everyone has been taken back

to the Casa Santa Marta,

Your Eminence.

No one was seriously hurt.

Some cuts, that's all.

Outside in the city, how bad is it?

Oh, dear God.

At 11:20 this morning,

a car bomb exploded in the Piazza del Risorgimento.

Shortly afterwards, as people were fleeing the scene,

an individual with explosives strapped to his body

detonated himself.

There are reports of further attacks in Louvain and Munich.

The current death toll stands...

at 52.

Hundreds have been injured.

Well, then.

Here at last we see the result of the doctrine of relativism

so beloved by our liberal brothers!

A relativism that sees all faiths and passing fancies

accorded equal weight.

So that now, when we look around us, we see the homeland

of the Holy Roman Catholic Church

dotted with the mosques and minarets

of the prophet Muhammad!

You should be ashamed ashamed.

Ashamed. Ashamed.

We should all be ashamed!

We tolerate Islam in our land,

but they revile us in theirs.

We nourish them in our homelands.

But they exterminate us.

How long will we persist in this weakness?

They are literally at our walls right now.

What we need now is a leader who understands

that we are facing a true religious war.

Do not touch me!

Yes, a religious war.

We need a leader who will put a stop to the drift

that has gone on almost ceaselessly for the past 50 years.

How long will we have to persist in this weakness,

how long?

We need a leader...

...who fights these animals!

Is this the man you want to lead us?

My brother cardinal...

With respect.

What do you know about war?

I carried out my ministry in the Congo.

In Baghdad, in Kabul.

I've seen the lines of the dead and wondered,

Christian and Muslim.

Would you say we have to fight?

What is it you think we're fighting?

Do you think it's those deluded men

who had carried out these terrible acts today?

No, my brother.

The thing you're fighting is here...

inside each and every one of us,

if we give in to hate now,

if we speak of "sides"

instead of speaking for every man and woman.

This is my first time here, amongst you,

and I suppose it will be my last.

Forgive me, but these last few days we have shown ourselves to be small petty men,

we have seemed concerned only with ourselves,

with Rome,

with these elections, with power.

But things are not the Church.

The Church is not tradition.

The Church is not the past.

The Church is what we do next.

We pray.

O Father, so that we may guide

and watch over Your Church.

Give to us, Your servants,

the blessings of intelligence, truth and peace,

so that we may strive to know Your will,

and serve You total dedication.

For Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Bellini.

Lawrence.

Tedesco.

Lawrence.

Do you accept your canonical election as Supreme Pontiff?

Do you accept your canonical election as Supreme Pontiff?

I accept.

And by what name do you wish to be called?

Innocent.

Monsignor.

I'm sorry to interrupt.

Ray...

I think you should gather up the cardinals' notes.

The sooner we light the stove,

the sooner the world will know

we have a new Pope.

What is it?

It wasn't...

wasn't the outcome I expected.

No, but it's wonderful all the same.

If it's my position you're worried about,

I can reassure you I feel nothing but relief.

Our new Holy Father will make a much better Pope

than I would ever have done.

I wonder if I could have a word in private.

I should have told you this morning when I found out, but...

with everything that...

And I didn't dream

that Cardinal Benitez would become...

Ray, please, tell me what's troubling you.

I found out...

Switzerland.

Cardinal Benitez's trip to Switzerland.

Switzerland, the... the hospital in Geneva, yes?

It wasn't a hospital.

It was a clinic.

A clinic for what?

Eminence, His Holiness won't get robed.

With permission.

May I speak to you alone?

Of course.

Gentlemen, let's clear the room.

I was waiting for you to come.

You must tell me about this treatment

at the clinic in Geneva.

- Must I, Dean? - Yes, you must.

Within the hour you will be the most famous man in the world,

so please tell me, what is your... situation?

My situation, as you put it,

is the same as when I was ordained a priest,

and when I was made a cardinal.

But the treatment... in Geneva?

There was no treatment.

I considered it.

I prayed for guidance and decided against it.

But what would it have been, this treatment?

It was called a laparoscopic hysterectomy.

You have to understand,

when I was a child, there was no way of knowing my situation

was more complicated.

And life in the seminary is...

as you know,

a very modest one.

The truth is...

there simply was no reason to think

I was physically different

from the other young men.

Then, in my late 30s,

I had a surgery to remove my appendix.

And that was when the doctors discovered...

that I had a uterus... and ovaries.

Some would say

my chromosomes would define me as being a woman,

and yet I'm also...

as you see me.

It was a very dark time for me.

I felt as if my entire life as a priest

had been lived in a state of sin.

Of course, I offered my resignation to the Holy Father.

I flew to Rome and I told him everything.

He knew?

Yes, he knew.

And he thought it acceptable for you

to continue as an ordained minister?

We considered surgery to remove the female parts of my body,

but the night before I was due to fly,

I realised I was mistaken.

I was who I had always been.

It seemed to me more of a sin

to change His handiwork than to leave my body as it was.

So, you are still, erm...

I am what God made me.

And perhaps it is my difference that will make me more useful.

I think again of your sermon.

I know what it is to exist...

between the world's certainties.

Hmm.