Isabel

Isabel de Castilla:
[Fernando] might rule in Aragon. But the one who reigns in Castile is me.

Juan Pacheco:
[about Borja] He is a false and a hypocrite. If he wasn't he wouldn't have achieved his place in Rome.

Fernando de Arag?n:
Carrillo won't be Cardinal, we'll support Mendoza. It is our chance to get rid of Carrillo. I don't want to be in a marriage of three.

Ni?o:
Do you want to play?

Enrique IV:
It is too late to play. I should have done it long ago.

Ni?o:
Is it worth to be King?

Enrique IV:
No, it isn't.

Isabel de Castilla:
I want to be Queen. I must be. Even if that means thinking and doing things that my heart criticizes.

Gonzalo Chac?n:
We're facing difficult times, Your Majesty.

Isabel de Castilla:
Have they ever been easy, Chac?n? I hope it never happens. I will negotiate with Carrillo, and the Devil if it is necessary, so no more men die in the battlefield. But I won't be weak like my brother Enrique. If they want war, they'll have it. Everyone in this kingdom must understand something very clearly: I, Isabel, am the Queen of Castile. Only God will take me away from this throne.

Lorenzo Badoz:
You make me choose between my queen and my faith. What would you do?

Isabel de Castilla:
Tell me: Did the Duke truly gift me an African? Or did I dream it?

Isabel de Castilla:
Tell me first: Is this surgery proper of Christians?

Lorenzo Badoz:
My Lady, to this day I have not found difference between the entrails of a Jew and a Gentile. Nor in the cure they demand.

Fernando de Arag?n:
Have you noticed the motto in my shield?

Duque de Medina Sidonia:
"It ammounts to the same".

Fernando de Arag?n:
Do you know what it means? They say Alexander the Great was told that if he untied a certain intricate knot he would become lord of Asia. Having his sword at hand he declined to waste the time untying it and cut the knot. Problem solved. It amounts to the same: cutting and untying. That's where my motto comes from. Neither me nor the Queen like to delay in obtaining our interests, believe me in that. You won't see difference between male and female.

Guardia:
Your Highness? [whispers on Fernando's ear]

Fernando de Arag?n:
I got news for you, Duke. And you won't like them. They are sacking your arsenals.

Duque de Medina Sidonia:
What are you saying?

Fernando de Arag?n:
Uh-hu, all of them. One after another.

Duque de Medina Sidonia:
This must be the Marquis' doing.

Fernando de Arag?n:
No, don't take our merit from us. Your arsenals now belong to the Crown. We thank you, we were scarce of gunpowder. You wronged three times: When you disobeyed your Queen, when you believed I would betray her, and above all, when you governed against the Sevillans. Thank you for the bullfight.

Hernando de Talavera:
Trust the soul in our lord Jesus Christ, and the body in the physician with less corpses.

Isabel de Castilla:
My confessor thinks the pleasure atrophies the seed, because it takes away from the purpose of marriage.

Lorenzo Badoz:
Either he knows from first hand experience, which would make him a bad priest, or he speaks without knowledge, so you should better not follow his advice.

Diego Sus?n:
There is only one thing more cruel than letting a father see the murder of his son. Letting him live after!

Juan II de Arag?n:
Where is my grandson? A thousand times I ordered you to bring him here to Aragon.

Fernando de Arag?n:
You taught me that a king must be educated by other king. It wasn't the case with your firstborn, the Prince of Viana, and he ended fighting you.

Juan II de Arag?n:
I also taught you that the kings of Aragon must be educated in Aragon.

Fernando de Arag?n:
But this grandson of yours is called for a higher destiny. To inherit the kingdom that was taken from Don Rodrigo. A destiny you forged. The world is changing, father, and we are changing it. We can't leave a foot in the past if we must walk into the future.

Juan II de Arag?n:
So what happens with France? Are you negotiating with King Louis?

Fernando de Arag?n:
No.

Juan II de Arag?n:
Now I can finally rest. I wish you have as much fortune with your son as I had with mine. You never disappointed me.

Fernando de Arag?n:
And I never will. I will restore to the Crown the Roussillon and Cerdanya. I swear. Even if it is the last thing I do in my life. [Juan dies and Fernando breaks down crying]

Alfonso V de Portugal:
What do you mean, we are not married?

Duque de Braganza:
The Pope revoked the bull. With that, the rights that legitimized our war with Castile have disappeared. Everyone is turning their back on us, Your Highness, because they already see Castile victorious. We must negotiate the peace immediately, before we are weaker.

Alfonso V de Portugal:
Never! Never will I negotiate from humiliation! Portugal and its Queen don't deserve this!

Juan II de Portugal:
You are right father. We walk to victory, or win an advantage that lets us impose peace terms.

Alfonso V de Portugal:
What do you propose?

Juan II de Portugal:
Pacheco's daughter asked us for help securing her lordships in M?rida and Medell?n. Let's show the Castilians that we can invade their kingdom when we wish. The Bishop of ?vora is ready for combat.

Alfonso V de Portugal:
Everything shall be disposed today. [leaves]

Duque de Braganza:
You are mad! You send your father to war, and with nothing less but that inept, the Bishop of ?vora! They go to sure disaster!

Juan II de Portugal:
I hope so.

Beatriz de Braganza y Portugal:
You want the King to be defeated.

Juan II de Portugal:
The war is lost. But the King doesn't come to senses. He must see for himself. While the King makes his war, we must prepare the peace. Maybe you should write a letter to your niece Isabel.

Alfonso V de Portugal:
How can God allow, that in the end of his life, only treason surrounds his most devout king? When we returned the people insulted and spitted us. They were the only ones to abandon us yet and they just did.

Fernando de Arag?n:
Forgive me, Isabel.

Isabel de Castilla:
Forgive you? It's me who needs your forgiveness.

Fernando de Arag?n:
Forgive me for not letting you see how much I admire you. For not being by your side when you cry as mother what you must decide as queen. A man doesn't let his wife suffer in this manner. Even less if he loves her as much as I love you. Always together.

Isabel de Castilla:
Always.

Nicol?s Franco:
Your kingdom is a threat to Christendom. Border with infidels, refuge of Jews, infected by false converts.

Fernando de Arag?n:
Don't worry for the converts. The Queen gave Friar Hernando an evangelizing mission we trust in.

Nicol?s Franco:
But in Rome it is not understood this big reticence to establish the Holy Office of the Inquisition. In neighboring kingdoms they make good use of it.

Isabel de Castilla:
[to Carrillo] Sometimes I fear that because of doing my duty, and because of pride, I will become you.