The Borgias, Season Two

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
(trying to console Lucrezia, who is in deep mourning after Paolo's "suicide" and is refusing to nurse her crying son) Please talk to me, my love. You are the light of my life... the light of this family's life. If that light goes... (clutches her hand, worried)

Lucrezia Borgia:
... I would ask just one thing of you, Father.

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
Anything.

Lucrezia Borgia:
(looks him straight in the eye) Permit my Paolo a Christian burial.

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
(closes his eyes quickly) He is a suicide- it is impossible. (Lucrezia sits up, holding a scrap of paper)

Lucrezia Borgia:
This note was pinned to his sleeve. (Alexander takes it and examines it)

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
Yes. A suicide note-

Lucrezia Borgia:
(angrily) But he could not read or write Father! (Alexander looks up at her, startled) My Paolo could not even pen his own name. (long pause)

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
... So, it was murder. (pause) Where is the murderer?

Lucrezia Borgia:
...Too close for comfort.

Rodrigo Borgia/Alexander VI:
(sighs angrily) I will not have this family at war with itself!

Lucrezia Borgia:
(coldly) And I would have my Paolo saved, from the fires of Hell.

Rodrigo Borgia:
(nods resignedly)... And your infant must... feed.