The Borgias, Season One

Cesare Borgia:
Have you heard?

Vanozza Cattaneo:
(playing cards with her two youngest children) Even Joffrey has heard, have you not?

Joffrey Borgia:
The Pope is dead?

Cesare Borgia:
You know what that means?

Vanozza Cattaneo:
I know there will be an election.

Juan Borgia:
(enters after Cesare) And the city will be bedlam until it is over.

Lucrezia Borgia:
Do you think our father can win, Juan?

Juan Borgia:
Are we allowed to dream, Mother?

Vanozza Cattaneo:
Your father found ways to love and care for us in this house, but I'm not sure that, as Pope, he can do the same.

Juan Borgia:
As Pope, he can do what he wants.

Vanozza Cattaneo:
(gives him a direct look) Are you sure? Kings and Popes and Emperors belong to their people, not to their families.

Cesare Borgia:
So- we allow the election to run its' course, and he won't be Pope?

Vanozza Cattaneo:
What other course is there? It's in the hands of God.

Cesare Borgia:
(smiles) It's in the hands of the College of Cardinals, Mother. Not quite the same thing. (gestures to Joffrey to play a particular card) This one.