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* NotSoDifferent: "Someone as pitiless as you needs someone as pitiless as me."

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: "Someone as pitiless as you needs someone as pitiless as me."

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What does this mean? Well, Rodrigo sits naked in a chair with a hole in the seat and someone who has cold hands eventually tells us that he's got two testicles and he's well-hung.

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What does this mean? Well, Rodrigo sits naked in a chair with a hole in the seat and someone who has cold hands eventually tells us that he's got two testicles and he's well-hung.
well-hung. Rodrigo's comments and face and the cardinal's reactions are hilarious.



* CoDragons: Cesare and Juan act as this for Rodrigo, helping him become pope by buying off the votes.



* ProfessionalKiller: Micheletto, ladies and gentlement. You'll never meet another assassin like him, and he means it!



* TakeThatKiss: Rodrigo with della Rovere and Orsini.

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* TakeThatKiss: Rodrigo with della Rovere and Orsini. Apparently, that wasn't scripted, Jeremy Irons improvised that on the fly. Orsini and della Rovere's faces are sincerely befuddled, and hilarious.
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He sneaks into the kitchen, where he finds a man grinding something using a dagger as a pestle. He points his knife at the man's neck, but the assassin turns the tables swiftly and they end up in a Mexican stand-off. Cesare has two questions: one, "Who's paying you?" and two, "Do you want a job?" The assassin puts down his knife and Cesare shoves him against a wall. The assassin, who it turns out is called Micheletto, does some fast talking and the upshot of it all is that Cesare hires him. His previous employer was Orsini, who wants Cesare and Rodrigo poisoned, and picks up the dead monkey as evidence.

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He sneaks into the kitchen, where he finds a man grinding something using a dagger as a pestle. He points his knife at the man's neck, but the assassin turns the tables swiftly and they end up in a Mexican stand-off. Cesare has two questions: one, "Who's paying you?" and two, "Do you want a job?" The assassin puts down his knife and Cesare shoves him against a wall. The assassin, who it turns out is called Micheletto, does some fast talking and the upshot of it all is that Cesare hires him. His previous employer was Orsini, who wants Cesare and Rodrigo poisoned, and picks up the dead monkey as evidence.
evidence. Cesare points out this isn't very subtle, and Micheletto replies all cardinals want Rodrigo and Cesare dead, so there is no need for subtlety from their end.

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