The Borgias, Season Two

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
So... Cardinal Della Rovere is still alive.

Cesare Borgia:
I would... hardly call it living.

Juan Borgia:
(snidely) You need lessons in killing, Brother.

Cesare Borgia:
From you?!

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
Enough! (pause) And King Charles of France, what of him?

Cesare Borgia:
(smiles) He has been struck with the Neapolitan disease.

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
(nods) As we had hoped. So... Now, is the time of reckoning, for those who betrayed us.

Juan Borgia:
What- the Vitelli, the Orsini, the Sforza?

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
All the great families of the Romagna and the Papal States. Our task... is vengeance. We believe that the Cardinals will now, from henceforth, do our will- but now it is time to make sure their families feel the wind of our displeasure.

Juan Borgia:
"'Vengeance is mine', sayeth the Lord."

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
(smiles and shakes his head) Vengeance... will be ours. (looks at both of his sons) We shall subdue the arrogance of those Papal States, one by one by one. We will force them back into the arms of Rome. But, above all, the Sforzas... their betrayal of our Papacy shall be avenged.

Cesare Borgia:
By whom? (indicates Juan contemptuously) This headless cock? (Juan lunges at him, Rodrigo forces them apart and cuffs them around the heads)

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
WILL YOU STOP THIS DISCHORD?!! (gestures forcefully at them) WE ARE FAMILY! WE ARE ONE! And, we will only triumph AS ONE! (long pause) For, we have a second task -it is called renewal. We would restore Rome to its' former glory. Under the Borgias, it shall shine, as it did beneath the Caesars. But, if we are to achieve this greatness- your birthright- it will be together. As one! As family. Now, let me hear you speak that word. (takes Juan's wrist and holds his hand to his own) Give me your hand, Cesare. (Cesare does so, reluctantly, and Rodrigo holds it to his and Juan's) Family.

Juan Borgia:
Family.

Cesare Borgia:
(slightly hesitant) Family.

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
...Family.