ALFONSO AL_RAHIM ARMAMENTS_BOY BARBARIGO BAYEZID CARLO CATERINA CLARICE DA_VINCI DEUCALION DRAGONETTI GEDIK_AHMED GUARD IMA LORENZO LUCREZIA PIERO PRISONER_POPE RIARIO RODRIGO SENIOR_BANK_CLERK SHABEEB SHBEEB SIXTUS SIXTUS_AND_RIARIO THE_BRAZEN_HEAD THE_PRISONER THE_SOOTHSAYER TURKISH_SOLDIERS ZOROASTER AL RAHIM The journey before you   AL RAHIM will be AL RAHIM monumental.   THE BRAZEN HEAD Leonardo   DA VINCI It speaks with my mother’s voice     IMA Leonardo, please!   IMA Please! Don’t take the book   IMA away from my people.   DA VINCI There was no book.     DA VINCI Who are you?     CARLO Carlo de Medici.     DEUCALION We are the labyrinth   DEUCALION The servants of the Horned God will seize   AL RAHIM their opportunity.   DA VINCI You’re the labyrinth   CARLO Clarice   CLARICE Carlo, you took long enough   SENIOR BANK CLERK five hundred thousand florins   SENIOR BANK CLERK was withdrawn from the bank. Now that Carlo has gone, someone   SENIOR BANK CLERK will have to assume the blame.   CLARICE Bastard!   DRAGONETTI Clarice has gone, which makes you   DRAGONETTI as his mother   DRAGONETTI the Regent Head of the House   DRAGONETTI of Medici. THE PRISONER Girolamo, your suffering will not end until the day you die! DEUCALION Girolamo Riario, you were dead, now you are born again   RIARIO What do you want from me?   DEUCALION For you to see what we see   DEUCALION We are one, Girolamo. LUCREZIA The man you know as Pope Sixtus LUCREZIA is not the true Pope, but an imposter. SIXTUS I shall assume the Papal Throne at once.   PRISONER POPE Have the decency to spare my daughters. LUCREZIA Please   SIXTUS From now on, God   SIXTUS values SIXTUS what I value.   THE PRISONER I intend, to take my   THE PRISONER rightful place.   THE SOOTHSAYER Your only mission, was to get the son of the Sultan   THE SOOTHSAYER to Rome. Once that was accomplished, the outcome was all but assured.   THE SOOTHSAYER If Bayezid is killed, the result is war.   THE SOOTHSAYER Dishonoured and dismissed, retaliation will be required. AL RAHIM They will stop at nothing.   AL RAHIM In the kingdom of Naples, a place called Otranto, is where you will find what you seek. ALFONSO The Ottomans just ALFONSO brought the next Holy war to my doorstep. ALFONSO If the Turks are victorious, it gives ALFONSO them a stronghold to take all of Italy.   DA VINCI Unless you enlist a war engineer   DA VINCI to help you mount an offensive ALFONSO We are ALFONSO outnumbered by thousands. DA VINCI We’ve only got one shot at this   ZOROASTER Fuck!   ZOROASTER Open up! They’re coming! Open up! Open up! ZOROASTER No, no, no, noDon’t shoot! Don’t shoot! I’m not a Turk you stupid pricks!   ZOROASTER Long live Naples! Long live Naples! ZOROASTER Ah thanks ZOROASTER Shoot straight! GUARD Move back!   ZOROASTER I’m with Da Vinci!   DA VINCI Load the cannon.   ALFONSO Load the cannons! LORENZO Secure the Barbican! Double archers on the South wall!   BARBARIGO Yes, Sir.   LORENZO I can assure you, your precautions will not be necessary.   ALFONSO Perhaps. Perhaps I am unwilling to put all my faith and future in some tinkerer.   DA VINCI On my count   BAYEZID Allah will punish them Allah onlari cezalandiracak. BAYEZID by your hands Senin ellerinle   DA VINCI Three BAYEZID and bring them to disgrace! ve onlara utanç getirecek!   PIERO It cannot be!     DA VINCI Two     CATERINA He is with them. O onlarla beraber.   BAYEZID Da Vinci?   DA VINCI One!   DA VINCI Now! PIERO Leonardo!   DA VINCI What is it?   PIERO The woman. On the deck, standing next to the Ottoman Prince. That is your mother. PIERO You cannot fire! CATERINA May Allah grant you victory. Allah sana zafer bagislasin. BAYEZID Allah!   TURKISH SOLDIERS Praise be to Allah! Al-hamdu lillahi rabbil alamin.   DA VINCI I have to. I have to. ZOROASTER Leo?   ZOROASTER Is it true?     ZOROASTER Your mother?   DA VINCI I had no choice.     RODRIGO Count Riario!   RIARIO Cardinal Rodrigo. Where is His Holiness?   RODRIGO His Holinessis   RODRIGO not himself.   RIARIO Is he of ill humour?   RODRIGO stands.   RODRIGO Better that you should see for yourself.     SIXTUS Deeperdeeper   SIXTUS It is said that devils despise the netherworld. Which is why they so gleefully damn us mortals there. He would never believe I would stoop so low. Which is why I must. To be free. I must go below. RIARIO Your Holiness   SIXTUS I told you, leave me be!   RIARIO It’s Girolamo, your Holiness.     SIXTUS It is you!     SIXTUS Leave us.   SIXTUS Enjoying the irony are you? The captor now the captive.   RIARIO I see the prisoner has escaped.   SIXTUS Aided by someone within my household.   SIXTUS My dear brother wants my head on a platter and his wearing the Papal crown.   SIXTUS And would endanger his very soul to do so. Lying down with those damnable Turkish dogs!   SIXTUS And now   SIXTUS The prodigal returns.   RIARIO Planning your escape, father?   SIXTUS How dare you call me that!   RIARIO Holy Father.   RIARIO I am so very sorry.   RIARIO I prostrate myself before you. SIXTUS My dear boy     SIXTUS What have you done to yourself?     RIARIO FatherI despised you so.   SIXTUS Because   SIXTUS you despised yourself.   RIARIO Oh, I have done monstrous things. I have killed innocents. I have scorned you, betrayed you. I have sought false idols, worshipped false gods   SIXTUS Shhhhhhhh   SIXTUS It was all at the behest of others. At the behest of me.     SIXTUS Come, let us pray. Together.   SIXTUS AND RIARIO Domine Deus, quia tu es summum, infinitum, et perfectissimum bonum. In hac caritate viere et mori statuo     RIARIO Amen. SHBEEB Whoever you are looking for young lady, I can tell you now, he’s not here SHBEEB Signora de Medici!     SHBEEB Please, come in.   SHBEEB Please, this way.     SHBEEB I am a servant to the House of the Medici. They call me Shbeeb.   CLARICE I know who you are. And I know the nature of the services you provided for my husband   SHBEEB I would do anything for Lorenzo the Magnificent.   CLARICE Indeed. Anything his heart, or other organs desired, I suppose. My husband kept a suite here I believe?     SHBEEB I don’t know what you mean, Signora.   CLARICE A place of respite during those long banking excursions to Rome, Naples     SHBEEB Um I swear to you.   CLARICE A place where he can bring one of his whores for a good fuck.     SHBEEB This way.     SHBEEB We haven’t had the pleasure of his company for some time.     CLARICE And neither have I.   SHBEEB Will he be joining you?   CLARICE At present, Signor de Medici is in Naples, killing Turks I hope. Unlikely he will walk through that door any time soon. Sit.     CLARICE I need your help.   SHABEEB Anything for the House of de Medici   CLARICE Good. I have reason to believe an enemy of Florence is here in Rome.     CLARICE He must be found and brought to justice.   CLARICE Anyone who aids me in this mission will be handsomely compensated   SHBEEB Who is this man?   CLARICE Lorenzo’s uncle, Carlo de Medici.       ALFONSO A toast! To Leonardo Da Vinci! The Saviour of Naples!   LORENZO The Saviour of Italy!     ALFONSO A gold sovereign for every Infidel you sent to a watery grave.     ALFONSO And, more to come as you ply your destructive trade   ALFONSO for the Kingdom of Naples!       LORENZO A generous offer, no doubt     LORENZO but, I’m afraid, too little, too late. Leonardo has been in my employ now   LORENZO for a considerable time. And in many ways he is more brother to me than aide     ALFONSO I will double whatever Lorenzo the Magnificent   ALFONSO pays his “brother!” ALFONSO How dare you!       LORENZO Hold, Alfonso.     LORENZO You do not know how much Leonardo has lost.   ALFONSO We have all lost.   LORENZO Yes, but not something for which you have sought your entire life.   LORENZO Leave him be.   LORENZO Drink on. The day is ours!   ZOROASTER Leo! Leo!   ZOROASTER Hey. Come on. Buy me a drink.   ZOROASTER You still don’t know her fate. You know. Your mother may have survived.   DA VINCI So, you’re saying to me that my design failed?   ZOROASTER That’s not what I meant.   DA VINCI Well, then we do know her fate.   ZOROASTER Leo   DA VINCI I designed my weapon to destroy, destroy. That’s exactly what it did. I mean in truth, in truth, the damned thing works even better than I could have hoped. I mean the cannons, they showed remarkable range. The bombards, they kept their internal charges right up until the moment of impact   ZOROASTER Leo   DA VINCI One minute there’s a flotilla, next minute, there’s flotsam and jetsam.   ZOROASTER Leo, come on. Have a drink. Have a drink.   DA VINCI See you later!     RIARIO I have done as asked and positioned myself in the Pontiff’s good grace.   CARLO Has he agreed to lead the Crusade?   RIARIO No, I have yet to broach the subject. You must allow me to handle His Holiness in my own way. His current state of agitation requires a certain delicacy. Perhaps if I knew more of the Architect’s plan   CARLO Know your place, brother. The Architect would never deign to meet a mere acolyte.   CARLO Is this indeed why you sought us out?   RIARIO No   RIARIO No it is not. Clarice Orsini   RIARIO is here in Rome. Looking for you.   RIARIO The Medici have their spies as do we all   DEUCALION Did you really think   DEUCALION you could wander Rome, spending her money, and she would not get wind of you?   CARLO I was ordered to plunder the coffers of Florence, plunder them I did.   RIARIO I, umI don’t suppose you were ordered to plunder her body as well   RIARIO It is common knowledge you bedded   RIARIO the first lady of Florence. I can’t imagine your orders entailed such a blunderous tactic.   CARLO My methods are my own.   DEUCALION You fool.   RIARIO All that matters is we have the funds required.   DEUCALION I am a physician, a man of stature.   DEUCALION I have been seen with you in public   DEUCALION If your spurned lover is hunting you DEUCALION then she will find me.   CARLO I will resolve this.   DEUCALION Like you resolved Da Vinci?     DEUCALION You will remain here. Keep to your duties. I will resolve   DEUCALION Signora De Medici.   DA VINCI The remains of DA VINCI the Ottoman Flagship have been smouldering for nearly twelve hours. Just now, in a matter of minutes, the flames grew. More significantly, the amount of smoke increased exponentially   PIERO Perhaps you should get some sleep.   DA VINCI I have toyed with similar chemistry, many times. Haven’t I?   DA VINCI Yes. Different substances, when they’re set ablaze, they can create a different class of smoke. It can hug the ground   DA VINCI obscure the view, for hours, sometimes days.   ALFONSO You give the Ottoman more credit than they deserve.   ALFONSO This chemistry sounds much too ALFONSO sophisticated for a hoard of heathens   LORENZO These heathens defeated the Holy Roman Empire at Constantinople, the most heavily fortified     LORENZO city of its day.   LORENZO I doubt we have yet seen what they are truly capable of   ALFONSO I do not much care whether they are praying to their gods or   ALFONSO bedding their beast of burden. My fleet is due at sunrise ALFONSO They will all be cut to ribbons.   PRISONER POPE Daughter     PRISONER POPE Come forth.     PRISONER POPE Sit, you must be starved.     PRISONER POPE It’s not poisoned, if that’s what you fear?   LUCREZIA Indeed. You prefer suicide missions to outright murder.   PRISONER POPE Ah, the dreaded time has come. When the dutiful child begets a defiant youth.   LUCREZIA I haven’t come here to defy you, father. I have come here for answers.   PRISONER POPE Daughter, please. Sit.     PRISONER POPE Imprisoned for so many years, I do hate to waste a good meal.   PRISONER POPE So, what news from Otranto?   LUCREZIA You haven’t heard?   PRISONER POPE I want to hear it from you.   LUCREZIA Leonardo Da Vinci seems to have thwarted the invasion     LUCREZIA You are not perturbed by this?   PRISONER POPE The Ottoman Empire may have one or two surprises for Signor Da Vinci.   LUCREZIA How will their success bring you justice?   PRISONER POPE Justice, daughter?   LUCREZIA Your rightful place on the Papal Throne. The one, True Pope.     LUCREZIA That’s what you said.   PRISONER POPE You must understand, daughter. The throne was always a means to an end. The Sultan, and his armies too, mere stepping stones.   LUCREZIA Then why? Why’s the invasion necessary?   PRISONER POPE We are like the farmer.   PRISONER POPE After harvesting the wheat he uses fire to clear the field, burn the chaff.   PRISONER POPE Only then can a new crop take root.   LUCREZIA And the Turks are your fire?     PRISONER POPE Soon the day will come.     PRISONER POPE A world without Popes.   PRISONER POPE Or Sultans, or Kings. Only the Sons of Mithras.   LUCREZIA What are you saying?   PRISONER POPE The invasion is already beginning.     PRISONER POPE Sadly, many must die.   PRISONER POPE Yet the Enlightened shall survive. There is a place for you. At my side, daughter. Rest by the fire. We shall speak more upon the morning.     DA VINCI What is that? DA VINCI Smoke’s clearing. Look     DA VINCI They’ve been busy.     DA VINCI They’ve built some kind of wooden platform over the breakwater.       ZOROASTER Yeah, block and tackle too.   ZOROASTER Reminds me of the   ZOROASTER thing, in your studio   DA VINCI That’s for hauling marble and statuary. What would they be hauling?     DA VINCI Give me that!     ALFONSO Ah, Da Vinci! I’m pleased you’ll be here to bear witness.   DA VINCI Bear witness to what?   ALFONSO Our victory, at Otranto.   LORENZO On the horizon   LORENZO the grand fleet of Naples!   DA VINCI some form of underwater explosivetethered to the seabeddetonation on impact   DA VINCI How?     DA VINCI how?   PIERO My God!   ALFONSO Sound the alarm!   LORENZO Get a move on! You two! Move!   LORENZO Shoot now!   DA VINCI Light it!   ZOROASTER Bring it down! Bring it down! Bring it down!     ZOROASTER Ready!   BARBARIGO Again!   ALFONSO Re-arm! Re-arm!     DA VINCI How are they firing so fast?   LORENZO I don’t know.     DA VINCI It’s my cannon! It’s my cannon! It’s the one I designed for you!   ALFONSO The city walls. They’re breaching the city walls!   DA VINCI Zo!     DA VINCI Hey! Hey!   ALFONSO With me!   ARMAMENTS BOY Swords! Swords!   DA VINCI I’ll take two   ARMAMENTS BOY Long live Naples!     DA VINCI I can fix this.   GEDIK AHMED Kill the old and the infirm. The rest, take as slaves. Yaslilari ve hasta olanlari oldurun. Geri kalanlari, kole olarak alin. LORENZO Fall back!       LORENZO Fall back, fall back!     THE PRISONER So I have my answer.     LUCREZIA I’m not betraying you father.   THE PRISONER Indeed   THE PRISONER you are not. You are betraying her   THE PRISONER your sister.     THE PRISONER My dear, sweet Amelia. Murdered by my monster of a brother.     THE PRISONER That, is what has made me what I am.     THE PRISONER You too, I can see.   LUCREZIA I just need to go.   THE PRISONER Before you depart, let me give you one more piece of fatherly wisdom.   LUCREZIA Fatherly wisdom?   THE PRISONER Beware the midway, for that is the most dangerous path   LUCREZIA You would forsake your only daughter?     AL RAHIM Give her time. She will see the wisdom of her elders. As will Da Vinci.   RIARIO ex toto corde poenitet me omnium meorum peccatorum, eaque detestor quia peccando       RIARIO non solum poenas RIARIO non solum poenas a Te iuste statutas promeritus sum . DEUCALION Cardinal Rodrigo?   RIARIO He was the pontiff’s right hand since the departure of Lupo Mercuri.   DEUCALION Who did this?   RIARIO No one was seen nor heard. Yet I must concur with His Holiness. The Prisoner wants his brother dead. If he cannot get to him, he will get to those around him.   DEUCALION How could the Sons of Mithras infiltrate the Vatican?   RIARIO I’ve doubled the guards   RIARIO on His Holiness. Men I can trust.   CARLO Haven’t you learned?   CARLO There are none we can truly trust.   RIARIO I trust you, my brother.   DEUCALION How is the Pontiff taking this?   RIARIO I’ve yet to tell him. I fear his anxiety might overwhelm him     RIARIO Precisely his brother’s plan   RIARIO I presume.   DEUCALION That is a chance we shall have to take.   RIARIO Endanger the Pontiff?     RIARIO Is that   RIARIO the plan?   CARLO The Cardinal’s death provides an opportunity. Sixtus will be frantic.     CARLO Terrified to the bone.   CARLO Now is your chance to embolden him.   DEUCALION He’s right. No better time. Are you, are you having doubts, Girolamo?   RIARIO I confess I have suffered certain nightmares. Remnants of the past.   DEUCALION You will learn, Girolamo. On our great journey, our hardest-fought battles are with ourselves.   RIARIO May I ask for more guidance?   RIARIO Arrrrghhh!   DEUCALION We are the horns of the increatewe are the shadows at the centre   DA VINCI Stop! It’s overit’s overit’s overit’s over ZOROASTER This isthis is hell. This   DA VINCI Shhhh   DA VINCI Otranto has fallen. We have to get off the streets. Are you all right?   ZOROASTER Yeah.     PIERO Psssst!     PIERO Leonardo!   PIERO In here!     PIERO Stand down! It is Signor Da Vinci!   PIERO You’re alive!   ZOROASTER You could call it that.     PIERO Water   PIERO rations     ZOROASTER Something stronger   PIERO We must keep our wits about us if we are to survive.   ZOROASTER That’s a very large ‘if’.       DA VINCI Ahhh   DA VINCI Father I’m     PIERO Leonardo, please. Not now.   LORENZO I hear what you’re saying. But I am a banker. Money is my currency. There is nothing that cannot be bought. I say we make them an offer. A ransom     LORENZO For the survivors, the remaining populace I mean     LORENZO Even godless infidels must have a price.   BARBARIGO With all due respect, Lorenzo the Magnificent, you are in Naples now. And in Naples we do not stand idly by as our women are raped and murdered     BARBARIGO or our men and boys sold into slavery or our kings sent to an early grave   LORENZO You are out of your mind.     LORENZO Our only way to save lives is through negotiation   LORENZO now I am truly sorry that you’ve lost your liege   BARBARIGO Sorry? Alfonso, the King of Naples is lying out there in pieces being violated by all manner of Infidel     BARBARIGO I am sure   BARBARIGO Men of Naples! We must gather the troops and attack at first light!   LORENZO I cannot allow this!   LORENZO We must negotiate an acceptable peace!   ZOROASTER Jesus Christ, you are both fucking insane!     ZOROASTER I mean, seriously.     ZOROASTER ` Did you not see what we saw?   ZOROASTER Did you not just get the shit-piss-and-fucking-tears     ZOROASTER flogged out of you like we just did?   ZOROASTER You can’t stop them. You can’t pay them off. We have to turn around, and we have to run!   LORENZO No. Leonardo, Leonardo you can fix this. Now, listen. Leonardo   DA VINCI Fix this? I assure you you would have more success asking the Turks to fix this than me.     DA VINCI Can’t you see?   DA VINCI Can’t you see? What it is that you are asking me to fix?     DA VINCI Who you’re asking me to wage war against?   DA VINCI You know they have my cannons, they have my     DA VINCI detonators, they have my explosives, they have my bombard fire. I have no idea how   DA VINCI but somehow, they have my weapons   DA VINCI they have my work, they have my designs   ZOROASTER Holy hell   LORENZO What?     LORENZO Oh my God!     LORENZO It’s that thing you designedthat monstrous armoured cart.     DA VINCI How?   BARBARIGO We cannot stop that unholy thing!   PIERO We must retreat.   LORENZO We can’t just leave!   BARBARIGO Watch us.   ZOROASTER They’re headed this way.   PIERO We cannot fight that monstrosity   LORENZO We must at least try. If we can stall its progress, we can save hundreds of lives.   ZOROASTER Oh fuck! They must have heard you!     DA VINCI That’s good.   ZOROASTER How the fuck can that be good?!   DA VINCI We can fight back. I need liquor   ZOROASTER Yeah, you and I both!   DA VINCI Barrels, barrels, we need     DA VINCI Here, here   DA VINCI accelerant   DA VINCI Stack them. Stack them up over here now angle the trajectory, facing the Turks   BARBARIGO What the hell are you up to?   DA VINCI When they fire upon us the impact, the impact from the bombards will ignite the contents of the barrels which will create an intense backdrop that should stop them. Stop them in their tracks!     ZOROASTER Ok, you two     DA VINCI Right bring it   LORENZO Just get Leonardo whatever he needs.       ZOROASTER Leo, here they come!     DA VINCI Everyone take cover!     LORENZO You did it, Leonardo. You did it!     DA VINCI No, we need to be sure       ZOROASTER Oh my God   ZOROASTER Hey! Hey! Leo!     DA VINCI How can I fight myself?