ARCHITECT CARDINAL COUNCILMEN DA_VINCI DRIVER GUARD GUARD_EN_TURC LAURA_CERETA LORENZO LUCREZIA MADAME_SINGH NICO OFFICER OFFICER_EN_TURC OTTOMAN_OFFICER_EN_TURC PRISONER PRISONER_EN_TURC RIARIO SAVONAROLA SHOCK_TROOPER_1_EN_TURC SHOCK_TROOPER_2_EN_TURC SHOCK_TROOPER_3_EN_TURC SIXTUS SOPHIA THE_PRISONER VANESSA VLAD VLAD_EN_TURC ZOROASTER LUCREZIA There’s a girl, Sophia, she has the page. She’s your sister. DA VINCI Our mother, she wanted for us to find one another. RIARIO Lorenzo de’ Medici, I am not here to kill but to confess. I took Clarice’s life. LAURA CERETA Riario will only hang if they find him guilty. SIXTUS He is guilty. LORENZO He deserves to die in the streets like the rabid dog he is! VANESSA Then have the trial. Let all of Italy know what he did. ZOROASTER Every Turk in the Sultan’s army wears your armour. ZOROASTER We can’t defeat them without your help. SOPHIA The page must be read by lunar light. DA VINCI What we’re seeing must be related. DA VINCI What my machine could have to do with your strange bird is beyond me. It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before! Now! THE PRISONER Open it. PRISONER You heard me. Open her cell. PRISONER EN TURC Kaptan Pa?a’n?n kendisine mi emri verdirtmeliyim? GUARD EN TURC Emredersiniz efendim PRISONER We must talk. Away from here. LUCREZIA There’s nothing left to discuss. PRISONER You may hate me, daughter, but you are alive. LUCREZIA Ha, oh, so I should be grateful? To be kept here, locked up like a caged animal for your amusement? PRISONER Your incarceration is of your own doing. Now you must pay the price. PRISONER Unless you prove your worth. PRISONER Tell us what Da Vinci has planned. LUCREZIA You’re scared. You know he has the page and you’re terrified of the horror that he will rain down upon you. PRISONER I assure you I have nothing to fear. Let me show you why. PRISONER The greatest fighting force the world has ever known. LUCREZIA Engineered from Leonardo’s designs. PRISONER Without us, his creations would be lost forever. Relegated to the pages of long-forgotten journals. LUCREZIA You’ve created a monster you can’t control. Your alliance is crumbling. Without Caterina you have nothing left to offer them. PRISONER We have used the Turks, as they have used us. Our design was to unify Italy, and that we have done. And now, one way or the other, this war is coming to an end. The only question that remains is who lives or dies. DA VINCI Why would the page instruct us to build this construction if it wasn’t going to give us a mean to focus it? We are missing something! Arrrrgh! DA VINCI Tell me again, tell me again what you saw. SOPHIA The storm, the winged creature, the tall structure, your bell tower. DA VINCI In Otranto, that’s the Church of Santa Maria Annuziata. We know that. The highest point in the city. A clear line of sight with which to unleash the wrath of nature, and most likely destroy ourselves in the process. DA VINCI Look. You’ve heard of the legend of Pandora? DA VINCI A brilliant, gifted child, whose curiosity unleashed evil into the world. I’m not going to let that happen again. We will not wield this weapon until we can fully control it. DA VINCI Show yourself! DA VINCI Zo! ZOROASTER Yeah! DA VINCI What are you doing here? ZOROASTER I came to rescue you. DA VINCI Well, I appreciate the thought. You’re a little late. Carlo, he was here. If it wasn’t for Sophia. ZOROASTER Sophia?! Is you? SOPHIA Hello! ZOROASTER Hello. DA VINCI This is Zo, my most trusted friend and partner. This is Sophia. DA VINCI She’s my sister. ZOROASTER What? DA VINCI Yeah. Yeah, it was a shock to me too. ZOROASTER How? ZOROASTER No. I mean DA VINCI Where’s Nico? ZOROASTER I don’t know what I mean. DA VINCI Zo? ZOROASTER Yeah, what? DA VINCI Nico, where’s Nico? ZOROASTER Nico is helping to equip the Crusade forces with Vlad’s armour. He had enough for nearly our entire army. DA VINCI You got him to join us? ZOROASTER Well, he thinks we’re joining him. I suggest we keep it that way. We’re to meet up with them in Brindisi. DA VINCI What? They’ve left already? ZOROASTER Yeah. It’s been a fortnight, Leo. ZOROASTER What the hell have you been up to? DA VINCI Look. DA VINCI We’re working on a device to beat the Ottomans. ZOROASTER What is it? DA VINCI It is a prototype we’re still refining ZOROASTER That’s not an answer. SOPHIA We’re still trying to figure out how it works. DA VINCI We know it harnesses the power of nature. SOPHIA There were instructions in a page from the Book of Leaves. ZOROASTER Please tell me we’re not back on that hunt again. DA VINCI I know, I know, but this machine, this machine could be the thing that turns the odds in our favour. SOPHIA What? ZOROASTER Flipping hell! ZOROASTER Get it off me! Get it off me. DA VINCI The armour! SOPHIA The energy could have dispersed in any direction, but it focussed here. As though the armour attracted it. DA VINCI Ha ha! SOPHIA Where’s this from? DA VINCI Er, it’s Wallachia, but way of the Turks. SOPHIA Damascus steel. SOPHIA Made in ancient Persia. The secrets of its manufacture have been lost for centuries. SOPHIA It’s purported to have magical properties. ZOROASTER A Da Vinci who believes in magic? SOPHIA It only appears as magic to those who don’t understand it. DA VINCI Right DA VINCI We need to repeat the results to be sure. bring the armour here. DA VINCI That’s it. ZOROASTER Fuck it. DA VINCI Now stay back. DA VINCI Stay back. Right. DA VINCI Right, stay back. Stand back. Stand well back. DA VINCI The rotation of the lenses generates energy, which collects here, and then it’s dispersed. SOPHIA It directed the energy again! DA VINCI Something something in the forging must have altered the chemical composition. ZOROASTER Yeah, ok, that’s great, but it’s not just the Turks that use this armour anymore. We just outfitted our entire army. Which means, if we use your device, it’ll take us all out. DA VINCI Yes! Exactly! ZOROASTER That’s, er, I say something gives him an idea about something else It’s how we work VANESSA What’s this? LORENZO It’s yours. LORENZO I want you to have it. VANESSA Do not treat me as one of your services. LORENZO What? VANESSA I do not require payment for my services. LORENZO It’s not what is seems. That’s not what this is. LORENZO The necklace is a sign of affection and nothing more. My timing was suspect, perhaps But perhaps it’s just not to your taste? VANESSA It’s not. VANESSA This on the other hand. This would do quite well indeed. SIXTUS O salutaris hostilia quae coeli pandis ostium. Bella premunt hostilia; da rubur, fer auxilium Qui vitam sine termino, nobis donet in patria. Amen. LAURA CERETA Amen. SIXTUS May the Good Lord shield you from the sight of your enemies. SIXTUS Outmanned. Abandoned by the man who was to lead us. A lost cause to most. But not you. LAURA CERETA You lack faith, Your Holiness. SIXTUS And you regard truth as open to interpretation. LAURA CERETA Wars are not won by strength in numbers, but by strength of will. SIXTUS This magic armour. Is it impenetrable to reason as well? Wanting something does not make it so, my dear. SIXTUS You do realise it’s too late. LAURA CERETA The spies suggest the Turks are yet to move on Naples. There is still time. SIXTUS I was not speaking of the Turks. Girolamo’s fate was sealed long before he gave Lorenzo cause. LAURA CERETA He is your son. Do you not feel anything? SIXTUS He confessed. There is nothing left for us to do but mourn. LORENZO Silence! VANESSA We must be diplomatic. Show them that you’re a leader not a ruler. LORENZO Signore. LORENZO Florence is what it is today because of my grandfather. Cosimo de’ Medici. Whose legacy I continue. COUNCILMEN Yes! LORENZO And in defence of our great republic, and the memory of our beloved Mother of Florence, we must ensure that justice is upheld. But not, not at the expense of our humanity. If a man commits a crime, he is entitled to a trial. LORENZO Signore, signore, fear not! As is my won’t, justice will be applied swiftly. LORENZO The accused has already confessed. LORENZO Bring him forth. LORENZO Girolamo Riario, do you intend to recant your confession? RIARIO No. I am guilty of what I am accused. VANESSA Clarice Orsini. Captain Dragonetti. Who else’s blood is on your hands? RIARIO Recently, Cardinal Rodrigo of Venice and the proprietor of a house of ill-repute in Rome. MADAME SINGH Tell me, Count Riario one of my staff has not been seen in some time. MADAME SINGH He has been missing for several days. COUNCILMEN Yes! Where is he? RIARIO I do believe I killed him too. LORENZO Enough! LORENZO Girolamo Riario. For the crimes you have committed you shall be put to death. Two days hence on the anniversary of the coronation of your uncle, Pope Sixtus. Perhaps he will join us in the celebrations. SIXTUS What is this? NICO Your Holiness, may I present VLAD Your lord and saviour. SIXTUS Guards! LAURA CERETA This is Prince Vlad, leader of the Order of the Dragon. Young Machiavelli has convinced him to join our Crusade. VLAD An unholy war for the ages. LAURA CERETA He has also provided armour to equip our soldiers, the same armour used by the Turks. NICO Stolen by the Turks. Just as they stole the Maestro’s weapons. SIXTUS Where is Da Vinci? NICO He will meet us in Brindisi, on the road to Otranto. But we have his weapons, and we have already distributed the armour to the Swiss Guard. SIXTUS I see. A beat. SIXTUS How many men under your command? VLAD Eleven. SIXTUS Eleven hundred? A sizeable force to be sure. Perhaps I was too hasty in estimating our chances. NICO Your Holiness, the order stands at eleven, as in one more than ten. SIXTUS What can possibly be accomplished with eleven men? VLAD Well, many times that of one. But I am no abacist. CARDINAL They are here, your Holiness. SIXTUS They’re ready. Well this ought to be riveting. SIXTUS Countrymen, servants of God. The day has come for you to drive the heathen Turks from our shores. We must go forth and fight. Fight for your people, fight for your Church, fight for your Pope! LAURA CERETA We go forth now to fight, not for eternal glory, but for God. Who commands us to march. LAURA CERETA To be brave and to take back what is rightfully ours. LAURA CERETA We fight now united and a united Italy cannot be stopped! For our souls will be invincible, and our glory be immortal. Praise be to Heaven! Praise be to Italy! For Italy! DA VINCI Couldn’t help yourself? SOPHIA I’m sorry. You were asleep and I have so many questions. DA VINCI Well, I’d say we have about an hour before daylight. What do you want to know? SOPHIA In your journal, you write of a man named Al-Rahim. DA VINCI You broke my cipher? SOPHIA Well, the first section is backwards writing, transposing letters, simple enough. I haven’t cracked the last part yet. Maybe you could teach me? DA VINCI Not a chance. DA VINCI Al-Rahim. SOPHIA You say, he navigates “the river of time,” and that he plundered your mind and stole your designs. DA VINCI I thought he was taking me on a journey of discovery. That was not the case. SOPHIA Is that how mother came to me? She could navigate this river too. DA VINCI I believe so. I’m not sure of its mechanism. Perhaps, the ability has something to do with the energies we felt in the cave? And our mother was a soothsayer after all. She was schooled in arcane sciences. SOPHIA You were looking for her, for a long time. DA VINCI Most of my life. She left when I was a child, I just wanted to find out why. SOPHIA Did you get your answers? DA VINCI A few. But perhaps we’re not meant to have them all. SOPHIA What was he like? DA VINCI Who? SOPHIA Piero Da Vinci. DA VINCI Stubborn. Prideful. But, courageous when it mattered most. SOPHIA That description would fit our mother as well. DA VINCI Really? Then perhaps we’ve unravelled another mystery, as to why they didn’t last! DA VINCI So, how old did you say you were? Are you twenty? SOPHIA Nineteen. DA VINCI Nineteen, nineteen SOPHIA What is it? DA VINCI Nineteen I think we might only be half siblings. SOPHIA Piero isn’t my father? DA VINCI Caterina left him to join the Son’s of Mithras, and to be with the man who led them. SOPHIA Al-Rahim? The man that betrayed you? DA VINCI We should get going. ZOROASTER Bog off DA VINCI The Crusade Army. What’s left of them. ZOROASTER The dead are only ours. ZOROASTER There’s not a Turk among them. DA VINCI It was an ambush, then. They were waiting for us. ZOROASTER Nico! ZOROASTER Nico! Nico! DA VINCI Nico! SOPHIA Look! DA VINCI Vlad! ZOROASTER Vlad? DA VINCI What happened? VLAD A great reaping of souls. We could not save them. ZOROASTER Where’s Nico? DA VINCI Tell me what happened. NICO They know we were coming. That’s the only explanation. LAURA CERETA Alerted by a spy in our midst no doubt. NICO Our column was headed south. The bombards came first, under the cover of a smoke screen. We could not tell what direction they came from so we attempted to retreat. So we fled for the tree line where their, your armoured carriages met us with cannon fire and flame. They tore us apart. NICO If not for Vlad and his men, we would all be dead. They showed no mercy. DA VINCI How many armoured carts? NICO Dozens. ZOROASTER Ruddy hell. What do we do now? DA VINCI We keep going. LAURA CERETA How? More than half our forces have been wiped out. There is not enough of us left to face the enemy. DA VINCI That is exactly why they won’t expect us. MADAME SINGH It’s preposterous MADAME SINGH Allowing Last Rites to be administered to the Monster of Italy. SAVONAROLA We are all monsters, my dear. Haunted by our pasts or our presents. Our actions driven by the whispers of angels and demons. MADAME SINGH Perhaps he should have listened to his angel. RIARIO I murdered your master. Yet this is all you can muster? RIARIO Be my penance. Cleanse my blackened soul! GUARD I’ll cleanse your blackened soul! MADAME SINGH My business caters to all manner of clients. In fact we have entertained many an emissary form the Vatican. Perhaps when you are done here SAVONAROLA Oh, my poor child. How hard it must have been. You were an orphan, yes? Sold into slavery of the cruellest kind. So much pain, so little hope. And yet you persevered. And now you wield real power, but you do it still in service to others. SAVONAROLA There is still time to change your path. Look to God as your guide, and you will never need another master. SAVONAROLA Now please, take me to see this monster you fear so. MADAME SINGH You have a visitor. GUARD We ain’t done yet. RIARIO Why have you come? To revel in your grotesque creation? The Architect of my insanity. SAVONAROLA You think yourself insane? No, my dear boy. You are much more than that. More than I could ever have imagined. Your training, the guidance, it revealed you. I’m only sorry that it has taken so long for me to see. RIARIO I don’t SAVONAROLA What is the objective of the Labyrinth? RIARIO To reach the centre. SAVONAROLA To find the one, true path, and avoid the traps left along the way. That is why our Labyrinth exists. To weed through the blades of grass and find the one at the centre of it all. The one God has chosen as his messenger. His messenger is you, Girolamo. RIARIO No. I cannot be. I am not One. I resisted. SAVONAROLA Your resistance took a form like no other. But it is now clear. It was not resistance. Rather an extraction, one that revealed your true purpose. RIARIO My purpose is to kill? SAVONAROLA Yes! Don’t you see? You are an avenging angel. Excising sinners with a swipe of your glorious blade. You are the minotaur. You are God’s Monster. RIARIO Why? Why tell me this now? Tomorrow I will be put to death. How can I serve Him then? SAVONAROLA Leave that to me, dear boy. The city is undergoing a spiritual awakening. It started in the churches, but now our Brothers are taking to the streets. RIARIO And what am I to do? SAVONAROLA Embrace it. Embrace God’s will. Embrace His plan for you. Your life has been spent in search of meaning. Now you have it. Do not turn your back. DA VINCI Right, here’s what we know. DA VINCI The primary camp of the Ottoman forces is located here to the west of Otranto. VLAD And the roving killing machines are here. Outside the city. DA VINCI Destroying them, that’s our first priority. LAURA CERETA I thought they were made of the same impenetrable steel as the armour. SOPHIA The exterior, yes, but the inside is simple gears and wooden framing. DA VINCI Assuming that they stuck to my original design, yes. VLAD Even if you succeed, your troops are outnumbered by the thousands. You will not last long. DA VINCI I never said that we have to defeat them. VLAD So what? Your plan is to lose, hum? DA VINCI Well, you said it yourself. We cannot match them in battle, yes? So what we need to do is hold them off for as long as we can and then. Just let my device do the rest. LAURA CERETA What device? DA VINCI Sophia Destroying the tanks will draw out their troops to this location, giving our machine a clear line of sight from the bell tower. VLAD What is this sorcery? DA VINCI It’s the final nail in the coffin. Of the Turks. LAURA CERETA A machine? DA VINCI It’s a weapon. It’s designed to take out large numbers of enemy soldiers at one time. All we need to do Is just lure them out into the open. VLAD No. VLAD This is absurd. VLAD You cannot risk your soldiers’ lives on a magic trick. DA VINCI It’s not magic. LAURA CERETA It’s faith. VLAD Faith? Your Holy Crusade is led by men not some precious deity. LAURA CERETA I’m not talking about faith in God. I’m talking about faith in Da Vinci. VLAD Faith in Da Vinci? VLAD So how do you propose we destroy these tanks? DA VINCI First I need you to steal one SHOCK TROOPER 1 EN TURC Dün ak?am 10 adam öldürdüm. SHOCK TROOPER 2 EN TURC He? SHOCK TROOPER 3 EN TURC Dur! SHOCK TROOPER 2 EN TURC N’oldu? SHOCK TROOPER 1 EN TURC O neydi ya? SHOCK TROOPER 2 EN TURC Dön oraya! SHOCK TROOPER 1 EN TURC Ate?! SHOCK TROOPER 2 EN TURC Dön, geriye dön! SHOCK TROOPER 1 EN TURC O neydi? SHOCK TROOPER 2 EN TURC Sus! SHOCK TROOPER 1 EN TURC Ama ben. SHOCK TROOPER 2 EN TURC Sus ve orada kal! SHOCK TROOPER 1 EN TURC Evet. SHOCK TROOPER 1 EN TURC Nerdeler?! Ne görüyorsun? SHOCK TROOPER 1 EN TURC ?eytan! VLAD EN TURC eslim ol ya da öl! SHOCK TROOPER 1 EN TURC Öl! VLAD EN TURC Demek ölümü seçiyorsun. DRIVER Arrrrgggghhh! ZOROASTER First off I just want to say, great plan. ZOROASTER Genius, really. DA VINCI What is it? ZOROASTER It won’t work. DA VINCI I can make it to the catacombs. ZOROASTER No, you can’t. Because they’re on the other side of the city to the tank yard. Really, Leo, even you can’t be in two places at once. ZOROASTER We have to split up. Sophia and I can make it into the city. DA VINCI You’re volunteering my sister? ZOROASTER She’s the only one who knows how the device works. DA VINCI You’ve already talked to her. ZOROASTER She talked to me. Mostly I just nodded. DA VINCI No! SOPHIA Why not? DA VINCI Because, it’s too dangerous. SOPHIA Don’t worry, I’ll make sure nothing happens to him. ZOROASTER Oh, thank you! DA VINCI No, sorry. No. ZOROASTER Come on. Do you think the Turks are just going to stand there while everything’s going up in flames. SOPHIA You need one as a distraction for the other. It’s the only way the plan’s going to work and you know it. ZOROASTER We’ll look after each other. Just like we do. DA VINCI Fine. ZOROASTER Thank you. DA VINCI Help me with these. DA VINCI Careful with those. Be careful! VLAD My men and I should accompany you. DA VINCI Well, we want to get in and out without being detected so slaughtering everyone we see might attract unwanted attention. VLAD A fair point. DA VINCI You were right. What you said. About the Turks. VLAD Is this an apology for setting me on fire or pushing me off a ledge? DA VINCI I also poisoned you. VLAD Attempted. DA VINCI Right. Right. NICO Maestro, it’s the last one! DA VINCI Coming. VLAD Try not to die. DA VINCI Oh look at this, coiled spring. NICO They modified your drive system. DA VINCI Yeah. It’s powered by inertia. Stored energy. That’s, that’s really very clever. NICO How do you steer it? DA VINCI I’d say, left, right and then forward, both of them together. Then back, this way. Alright? DA VINCI Let’s go! NICO Sorry, sorry, that was I’ve got it, I’ve got it SOPHIA We’re not lost are we? ZOROASTER No, of course not. ZOROASTER Our pace has slowed. ZOROASTER Yeah. The basket’s heavy funnily enough. Right, this way. SOPHIA How do you know about this tunnel anyway? ZOROASTER Because, we used it to escape from the city that had just gone TURK. I wasn’t expecting to be back here. SOPHIA Perhaps the local vegetation can help you to retrace your steps. ZOROASTER Ah, thanks. SOPHIA Or finding your footprints left somewhere in the bushes. ZOROASTER Yeah found it. ZOROASTER Your brother likes to litter. DA VINCI That’s it, keep it slow NICO Maestro, the tank depot’s up ahead. DA VINCI Alright. DA VINCI Just take us in like you belong. GUARD EN TURC Nerde kald?n?z?! Geçin ?uraya! DA VINCI Just steady, careful, slowly. Slow down. DA VINCI Here we go. That’s it. DA VINCI That’s it. We are through. We’re through. We’re through. DA VINCI Just go straight down to the far end of the tank yard and be as confident as you can. DA VINCI Right. Stop here. DA VINCI Anyone around? NICO No. You’re clear. DA VINCI All right. Let’s do this. DA VINCI Nico, pass me another bag of bombards. DA VINCI That’s it, that’s it. That’s it. Now the powder keg. DA VINCI Now listen, I need you to drive alongside me while I plant the rest of them. We need to obscure the guard’s line of sight. NICO OK, but what if they see the powder trail? DA VINCI Well, let’s hope they don’t. ZOROASTER At the end of this we climb out into a building across from the church. SOPHIA And then what? ZOROASTER The tank yard explosions should give us the cover we need to get to the bell tower. Should be ZOROASTER Sheesh! This is new. SOPHIA We don’t have time to find a way around it. We’re going to have to go through it. Come on. OFFICER EN TURC Yanl?? yerdesin! GUARD EN TURC Arac? ?uraya b?rak! GUARD EN TURC Arac? ?uraya b?rak! SOPHIA When I told Leo I’d be looking after you I didn’t realise you’d be quite so delicate! ZOROASTER Those nuns in the convent, you were a pain in their sides weren’t you? SOPHIA Maybe a little bit! SOPHIA This way. And don’t forget the basket! ZOROASTER Wait! OTTOMAN OFFICER EN TURC Kendini tan?t! Kendini tan?t! Kendini tan?t! OTTOMAN OFFICER EN TURC K?p?rdama! OTTOMAN OFFICER EN TURC K?p?rdama! OTTOMAN OFFICER EN TURC K?p?rdama! K?p?rdama! DA VINCI It’s all right. It’s all right OFFICER EN TURC K?p?rdama! OFFICER Dur dedim! NICO Come on! ARCHITECT People of Florence ARCHITECT I come to you with a message from St. Peter himself. ARCHITECT From the bowels of this cursed city, under lock and key, you hold the sword of God. Count Girolamo Riario. ARCHITECT If you do not release him, it is you who will receive His punishment. ARCHITECT We are on the verge of a great of a great battle An ancient conflict DA VINCI In range NICO Shot’s loaded. ARCHITECT begun before time itself A battle between good and evil between light and dark. A battle for the very soul of man. LUCREZIA Leo. ZOROASTER It’s time. Come on! ARCHITECT We must be pure of heart. Imbued with the courage to fight. And prepared for the sacrifice to come! ARCHITECT I have seen a vision of your city in flames. God’s judgement, unless you heed my warnings. ARCHITECT For much will burn. ARCHITECT Many will be scorched and all must choose. ARCHITECT Whether to be amongst the ashes or the all-consuming flames. Unless you head my warnings embrace the path of righteousness or face his wrath! ZOROASTER Keep low SOPHIA Zo! ZOROASTER Flip me.