The Borgias, Season One

French General:
We are in danger of losing the initiative, Your Highness! (King Charles motions for him to shut up) Your Highness, I strongly urge you to-

Charles VIII:
You will wait! (pause) I will not harm her.

Juan Borgia:
(to Lucrezia) Lucrezia! My God-

Lucrezia Borgia:
They hold us hostage, Brother.

Juan Borgia:
"Us?"

Lucrezia Borgia:
Julia Farnese and I. We were riding to Rome-

Juan Borgia:
Then ride on.

Lucrezia Borgia:
Would you survive this day, dear Juan?

Juan Borgia:
We have a battle to fight.

Lucrezia Borgia:
Believe me, you have lost it already-

Juan Borgia:
It is hardly begun!

Lucrezia Borgia:
(sharply) I have heard one roar of cannon! A hundred more, and your whole army will be dead and bleeding, and you have yet to see their pikes!

Juan Borgia:
(stubbornly) I will not accept defeat-

Lucrezia Borgia:
Then do not call it that! Call it common sense! Say the French King asked for terms. You offered...

Juan Borgia:
...What did I offer?!

Lucrezia Borgia:
His safe passage to Naples, in exchange for... his bloodless entry into Rome.

Juan Borgia:
Lucrezia, he will pillage the place! Depose our father!

Lucrezia Borgia:
Leave that to me. (she returns to Charles) It was my brother, Your Highness!

Charles VIII:
Your brother?

Lucrezia Borgia:
The Gonfalionere of the Papal Armies. He thought you meant to sack Rome, like the Goths and Vandal hordes! I told him you're a gentleman- you had no such idea. (Charles glances away ashamedly) You had no such idea, had you?

Charles VIII:
... No such idea.

Lucrezia Borgia:
Your goal is Naples. (Della Rovere looks quickly at the King)

Charles VIII:
Naples... of course.

Lucrezia Borgia:
(smiles) So... my brother, the Duke of Gandia, the Gonfaloniere of the Papal Armies, bids you welcome to Rome.