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- 0:04Speaker 1: After searching for a model in the Garden of Evil
- 0:07Speaker 1: in Rome, where prostitutes sell themselves in the open. In Rome,
- 0:11Speaker 1: Caravaggio and his friends spend a drunken night in the
- 0:14Speaker 1: Piazza de la Popolos Chapel to spy on Anibolo Caracci's
- 0:18Speaker 1: submission to the Vatican's important contest. Caravaggio finds Karacci in
- 0:23Speaker 1: the church doing the same thing he is, and knows
- 0:26Speaker 1: Karacchi will win the commission. Caravaggio and his friends then
- 0:30Speaker 1: visit a brothel, where at dawn he runs into Ronuccio Tomasoni,
- 0:34Speaker 1: who demands Caravaggio paying a debt he owes. Caravaggio refuses,
- 0:40Speaker 1: and both men make an oath to one day spill
- 0:42Speaker 1: the other's blood in the piazza. The story flashes forward
- 0:46Speaker 1: two weeks later, as Caravaggio sneaks out of Rome in
- 0:49Speaker 1: the dead of night on a ship to Malta to
- 0:52Speaker 1: paint the Grand Master's portrait. We learn in scenes back
- 0:56Speaker 1: in Rome with Cardinal del Monte and the Pope that
- 0:59Speaker 1: Karavaji has gone into exile to escape punishment for murder.
- 1:04Speaker 1: On Malta, Caravajo is threatened by the inquisition interior in
- 1:09Speaker 1: a sanctum dawn, Caravajio faces Ailof, who is dressed in
- 1:14Speaker 1: full body armor, holding a staff with a long sword
- 1:17Speaker 1: on his belt, and Roberto at his side.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Is the LFE satisfactory?
- 1:22Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it is?
- 1:24Speaker 4: Is that what you intend to wear? Yes?
- 1:27Speaker 2: Does that mean with your approval?
- 1:29Speaker 1: Caravajo moves around Ailof, inspects the armor, and touches Ailof,
- 1:34Speaker 1: who flinches in pain. Caravajou does not react.
- 1:39Speaker 2: You have no reaction to my pain.
- 1:41Speaker 5: Well, I take one look at your scars, and I
- 1:44Speaker 5: know you live with pain, You expect pain, you enjoy pain.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Caravajo steps back and takes in the entire picture, Ailof
- 1:54Speaker 1: in his costume and Roberto in his.
- 1:57Speaker 3: Roberto stands at his side.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Deah good.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Roberto stands where he's told as Caravaggio steps behind the
- 2:05Speaker 1: easel and quickly sketches, having already mixed the paints.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Suffering is a great teacher.
- 2:12Speaker 5: Paine teaches nothing, but it does beget anguish and despair.
- 2:19Speaker 4: Where is Stephano today?
- 2:20Speaker 2: I told him to leave us alone. I felt he
- 2:23Speaker 2: was distracting. You move just a fraction to your left.
- 2:29Speaker 1: Hayloft does what He's told, am I in the light.
- 2:33Speaker 3: You are the grand master of the Knights of Malta.
- 2:37Speaker 4: You are always in the light.
- 2:41Speaker 2: In fact is God's will.
- 2:43Speaker 1: There is another moment of understanding and affection between them.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Caravajiou readies himself and begins the portrait. Cut to exterior,
- 2:53Speaker 1: the letter Malta night. The moon bathes a fortress in
- 2:58Speaker 1: an eerie light interior Caravaco's room, Malta continues. Caravajo sits
- 3:05Speaker 1: in candlelight at his table and continues the sketch of
- 3:09Speaker 1: a young woman's face. As he sketches more, we see
- 3:12Speaker 1: it is Lena. Sounds of the city of Rome, loud,
- 3:17Speaker 1: deep human voices, life at its fullest. Overlaps in two
- 3:22Speaker 1: flashback two exterior Ghetto of or Taccio, the Evil Garden
- 3:28Speaker 1: Row Dawn. Caravajiou walks beside contain fires as they burned,
- 3:33Speaker 1: beside small houses with dark smoke swirlling up into the
- 3:37Speaker 1: dead air. Prostitutes stand on balconies or behind Venetian blinds. Alone.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Caravajiou walks, searching, not for sex, but for something else. Entirely,
- 3:49Speaker 1: he sees Lina. He stops, He stares.
- 3:54Speaker 4: What you've never seen a woman before. Oh, women are.
- 4:08Speaker 6: What?
- 4:09Speaker 1: You've never seen a woman before?
- 4:10Speaker 4: Women? I have seen you? I haven't.
- 4:13Speaker 7: Oh, yes, I remember at the tavern of the Hawk,
- 4:17Speaker 7: you're the poem a painter.
- 4:20Speaker 1: To Scooty for the hour and my room.
- 4:22Speaker 3: Is back there, No Five, Scooty, and you come with me?
- 4:27Speaker 4: Where to my home?
- 4:29Speaker 1: She nods. They make their way through the crowd towards
- 4:32Speaker 1: the border of the Ottacio.
- 4:35Speaker 4: How long have you been in Rome?
- 4:37Speaker 6: Three weeks?
- 4:38Speaker 5: Then I found you, just in time before Rome corrupts.
- 4:42Speaker 4: You, has corrupted you. I tried and failed. You were stronger. No,
- 4:49Speaker 4: I embraced it.
- 4:50Speaker 1: They continue and disappear in the shadows from the fires.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Flashback in interior Caravacco's room, Malta, dawn, Caravaggio is writing
- 5:02Speaker 1: a letter with a rising.
- 5:03Speaker 4: Sun, Dear Cardinal de Monte.
- 5:06Speaker 1: Exterior of a letter, Malta continuous. The brightly burning sun
- 5:11Speaker 1: rises over the fortress. Cut to exterior Rome, Saint Peter's Basilica.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Day clouds cover the city. Interior Papal chambers, Rome continuous.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Cardinal del Monte stands beside the dying Pope Clement the Eighth,
- 5:28Speaker 1: who lies in his bed. He's breathing is a wrath.
- 5:31Speaker 1: A bishop stands behind him in attendance.
- 5:35Speaker 8: Do you have any needs, your Holiness to breathe without pain?
- 5:42Speaker 8: Would you like me to hear your confession and give
- 5:45Speaker 8: you absolution?
- 5:46Speaker 2: No?
- 5:49Speaker 8: Concerning the papal pardon for Caravaggio, is it possible to
- 5:53Speaker 8: dictate it to the bishop now so that we can
- 5:57Speaker 8: get your signature.
- 6:00Speaker 1: The Pope's breathing stops. Cardinal del Monte makes the sign
- 6:04Speaker 1: of the.
- 6:04Speaker 8: Cross, him and the father's son, Holy Ghos.
- 6:08Speaker 1: Cut to interior. Cardinal del montees private chapel day. The
- 6:13Speaker 1: Cardinal is on his knees and grips the rosary around
- 6:16Speaker 1: his neck. He looks up and sees Caravaggio's Medusa hanging
- 6:20Speaker 1: on the wall. His assistant steps quietly over to him.
- 6:25Speaker 4: Your Eminence, there is something you should see.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Interior. Cardinal del montees Villa Ludovisi continuous. Cardinal del Monte
- 6:34Speaker 1: sees two men standing on the street facing the villa.
- 6:38Speaker 8: How long have they been there? Not long?
- 6:41Speaker 3: But I do remember seeing them yesterday.
- 6:45Speaker 4: Who are they, Your Eminence?
- 6:47Speaker 8: Bounty hunters?
- 6:49Speaker 1: Cardinal del Monte pulls down the curtains. Cut to interior
- 6:55Speaker 1: Saint Peter's Basilica. Later, Cardinal del montes with the College
- 7:00Speaker 1: of cardinals who have gathered to select a new pope.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Cut to exterior Sistine Chapel, Rome day. White smoke rises
- 7:09Speaker 1: from the chapel, signifying that a new pope has been selected.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Cut to interior papal chambers continuous. Cardinal del Monte faces
- 7:21Speaker 1: the new Pope, Pope John Cardinal del Monte faces the
- 7:34Speaker 1: new Pope, Pope called the Fifth is vigorous and vital,
- 7:37Speaker 1: youthful and energetic.
- 7:40Speaker 2: I cannot and I will not tolerate these random killings
- 7:43Speaker 2: in our city.
- 7:44Speaker 8: He killed in self defense.
- 7:46Speaker 2: Our lord turned the other cheek.
- 7:48Speaker 8: Your highness, the room, Your holiness. Our Lord didn't live
- 7:58Speaker 8: in Rome at the turn of the sixteenth century. We
- 8:02Speaker 8: have emerged from the dark ages, but the barbarian hordes
- 8:05Speaker 8: still have their hold on us. Their ways are still
- 8:09Speaker 8: in our blood. Our faith will change all that. Caravaggio
- 8:13Speaker 8: asked me to present this to you as a gift,
- 8:16Speaker 8: in hopes that you will have mercy on him. He
- 8:20Speaker 8: painted it before he left Rome.
- 8:23Speaker 1: Cardinal del Monte nods to his aid to remove the
- 8:26Speaker 1: cover from a canvas.
- 8:27Speaker 3: Is he still on Malta.
- 8:29Speaker 8: Yes, he writes me short notes. I hear that the
- 8:32Speaker 8: Grand Master had a dinner in his honor.
- 8:35Speaker 1: The painting is the Weeping Magdalen. It is clear by
- 8:38Speaker 1: his reaction that the Pope is moved.
- 8:41Speaker 8: I had never seen so much love and pain in
- 8:45Speaker 8: one face.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Cardinal del Monte places a petition on the table for
- 8:49Speaker 1: the Pope to see.
- 8:51Speaker 8: And this here is a petition signed by nine of
- 8:54Speaker 8: your most respected cardinals, asking you to pardon him.
- 8:59Speaker 1: Pope glances at the list of names.
- 9:01Speaker 7: Explain to me your devotion to this Caravaggio.
- 9:05Speaker 8: Our holy mother Church needs such advocates for our flock
- 9:10Speaker 8: in such dire times.
- 9:12Speaker 3: You are a politician to the core.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Per Paul the Fifth struggles not to be moved.
- 9:18Speaker 8: Michelangelo, Titian, Barcelli, Leonardo, he is one of them.
- 9:24Speaker 1: The Pope waves his hand for the Cardinal to leave,
- 9:27Speaker 1: but del Monte knows he's making his point. Interior hallway
- 9:31Speaker 1: outside papal chambers continuous. As Cardinal del Monte leaves the
- 9:37Speaker 1: private chambers, he's confronted by the Tomasoni brothers, Otavio and Giovanni.
- 9:42Speaker 8: Cardinal del Monte, yes.
- 9:45Speaker 3: I'm Ottavio Tomassoni, Ranuccio's brother, and I.
- 9:48Speaker 8: Am giovann Tomassoni. You would like to inquire if you
- 9:52Speaker 8: know the whereabouts of the painters Caravaggio. I secure his commissions, gentlemen,
- 10:00Speaker 8: I do not schedule his appearances. I am sorry for
- 10:06Speaker 8: your loss and bless your brother Ranuccio's soul. I will
- 10:10Speaker 8: offer prayers for him this Sunday at Mass. But his
- 10:15Speaker 8: demise is the matter for the police, not me. Anyone
- 10:20Speaker 8: knows what he's hiding.
- 10:21Speaker 4: You do.
- 10:22Speaker 1: You should be aware that we have employed bounty hunters.
- 10:26Speaker 1: Cardinal del Monte watches with apprehension as they bow and leave,
- 10:30Speaker 1: cut to interior in a Santa Malta dawn. Karavajo pains
- 10:35Speaker 1: furiously as ailof poses with discipline.
- 10:38Speaker 2: I've learned a few things about you. Your father died
- 10:43Speaker 2: in the plague.
- 10:45Speaker 3: Many fathers died in the plague.
- 10:47Speaker 2: A man without a father must be compelled to search
- 10:50Speaker 2: for him all his life. Not long after he died,
- 10:55Speaker 2: your mother died as.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Well, Caravajo paints fully absorbed.
- 11:02Speaker 2: When you look face to face with God on judgment Day,
- 11:07Speaker 2: what do you think his likeness will be?
- 11:11Speaker 4: God wears a hood of course, he does.
- 11:15Speaker 2: He fears that his love will blind us. His love
- 11:18Speaker 2: can be a terrible life.
- 11:22Speaker 4: Where is it?
- 11:24Speaker 2: You've seen it, my son?
- 11:27Speaker 4: I have?
- 11:29Speaker 2: It is in your painting, the Call of Marlshit. Yea,
- 11:39Speaker 2: it is in your painting, the Call of Saint Matthew.
- 11:43Speaker 2: When I first saw it, I was in a troubled
- 11:46Speaker 2: place in my faith. God was testing me, but your
- 11:52Speaker 2: painting took me back to the fold. Just the way
- 11:56Speaker 2: our Savior stood in the shaft of life with his
- 12:00Speaker 2: finger pointed to Matthew. In the silence, you could hear
- 12:05Speaker 2: him saying, I've come for you, Bruce.
- 12:10Speaker 4: Is just a typo here.
- 12:11Speaker 3: It should be the calling of calling of Saint Matthew.
- 12:15Speaker 8: Oh, yes, we calling correct.
- 12:17Speaker 4: So speak of that first sense or if you want
- 12:18Speaker 4: to read all that through it, that's mine.
- 12:19Speaker 6: Let's go all the way through that. I think you
- 12:21Speaker 6: said the life again instead of light, So it's right.
- 12:23Speaker 6: It's the shaft of light with his finger He's love.
- 12:28Speaker 4: Where is he? Oh?
- 12:30Speaker 2: You've seen it, my son?
- 12:32Speaker 5: I have?
- 12:34Speaker 2: It is in your painting, the Calling of Saint Matthew.
- 12:38Speaker 2: When I first saw it, I was in a troubled
- 12:42Speaker 2: place in my faith. God was testing me. But your
- 12:47Speaker 2: painting took me back to the fold, just the way
- 12:52Speaker 2: our Savior stood in the shaft of light with his
- 12:56Speaker 2: finger pointing to Matthew. In the silence, you could hear
- 13:00Speaker 2: him say, I've come for you.
- 13:05Speaker 1: The horn blasts through the room from atop the castle walls.
- 13:08Speaker 2: The Turks are in the harbor.
- 13:10Speaker 1: He rushes out as Caravaggio rushes to the window, hearing
- 13:13Speaker 1: agonizing screams. Exterior terranean sea continues. Fires are floating on
- 13:22Speaker 1: the sea towards the shore interior and a sanctum continues.
- 13:28Speaker 1: Caravajo gathers his courage and leaves interior. Caravaggio's room continues.
- 13:36Speaker 1: Caravaggio enters, grabs his sword and rushes out. Exterior fortress continues.
- 13:43Speaker 1: Caravaggio sees Alf directing his nights toward the fires floating
- 13:47Speaker 1: towards them. Out of the morning.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Mist Lorenzo form a line, Jacomo, take your men to
- 13:54Speaker 2: the boat. The rest hold your ground.
- 13:57Speaker 1: Caravaggio realizes that the fires are actually snailed on wooden
- 14:01Speaker 1: crosses and set a fire to be burned alive. The
- 14:08Speaker 1: screams of agony drown out the shouts from the knights
- 14:11Speaker 1: who race into the waist deep water to pull the
- 14:14Speaker 1: burning Knights into the water. Caravajo is unable to move
- 14:18Speaker 1: when Stefano, seeing him, grabs him this way. They rush
- 14:22Speaker 1: quickly to reach the boat and pull it to shore
- 14:24Speaker 1: as a burning Knight nearby screams.
- 14:26Speaker 8: And pain, Help me, brothers, help me.
- 14:34Speaker 1: Caravajo and Stefano pulled the still breathing Knight to the
- 14:37Speaker 1: sand as Caravajo covers him with his own shirt, getting
- 14:41Speaker 1: a minor burn. As he does stand god. Carajo turns
- 14:45Speaker 1: to see Ailof with Stefano at his side. Now standing
- 14:48Speaker 1: on the shoreline, as the rising sun burns the mist way,
- 14:52Speaker 1: several Turkish corsairs appear. They are headed for the beach.
- 14:57Speaker 1: It is a trap. Alov turns to the beach to
- 15:00Speaker 1: see where his knights are appointed and sees Caravaggio. Their
- 15:05Speaker 1: eyes lock. At that moment, Caravaggiou is compelled to prove
- 15:09Speaker 1: himself to embrace the knights in a way he wasn't expecting.
- 15:13Speaker 1: He races to join Alaf as cannons on the turrets
- 15:16Speaker 1: of the castle walls explode over his head.
- 15:19Speaker 2: Return to safety. I belong here with you.
- 15:23Speaker 1: Alof turns to rally his knights.
- 15:25Speaker 2: Steady your nerves, my brothers. The dervishes will attack us
- 15:33Speaker 2: now here they can.
- 15:34Speaker 1: The Turks reach the beach and disembarked their corsairs, rushing
- 15:38Speaker 1: in with the tide, swinging their curved swords and waving
- 15:41Speaker 1: their flag of the gold Ball and pressing the no.
- 15:45Speaker 1: Just then the beach explodes with cannon blasts from the
- 15:48Speaker 1: Turkish offshore ships. Caravajeu throws himself to the sand as
- 15:53Speaker 1: cannon balls hit the beach, exploding on contact right on
- 15:56Speaker 1: several knights. They are blown up and cut in two.
- 16:00Speaker 1: As body parts, sand and sea fly into the air
- 16:03Speaker 1: and back down again. Karavajiou raises his head, preparing for
- 16:08Speaker 1: the onslaught when another cannonball sholl hits the dark, flowing
- 16:12Speaker 1: up several more nights. They scream in paint as they
- 16:15Speaker 1: lose lembs, splinters of wood raining down on caravajo Eiloff
- 16:20Speaker 1: and Stefano. One particular sharp piece cuts into Caravaggio's shoulder.
- 16:26Speaker 1: Karavajeau falls to his knees as his shoulder bleeds. Seeing
- 16:31Speaker 1: that it is a flesh one, he quickly wipes the
- 16:33Speaker 1: blood away with his bare hand. Just then, the Turks
- 16:37Speaker 1: swarm the knights. It is too late for Karavajou to run.
- 16:41Speaker 1: He finds himself in the thick of it. Turks and
- 16:44Speaker 1: knights fight in hand to hand combat all around him.
- 16:48Speaker 1: A Turk, slashing his sword, comes at karava Jou, who
- 16:51Speaker 1: slashes his sword back. Karravajou's sword rips into the turks slash.
- 16:57Speaker 1: He pulls his sword out of the turk, bringing with
- 17:00Speaker 1: it flesh, muscle, and pouring blood. There is a gurgling
- 17:04Speaker 1: sound as the turk falls to his knees. Cutavaarjou quickly
- 17:08Speaker 1: joins Ailof and Stefano, and together they form a circle
- 17:11Speaker 1: to protect one another from the fanatical turfs. Cutavaarjou looks
- 17:16Speaker 1: to Stefano fighting off several Turks, and then to Ailof,
- 17:20Speaker 1: on one knee fending off two Turks at once. Cutov
- 17:24Speaker 1: our Jeou rushes to assist Ailof, who pushes himself up,
- 17:28Speaker 1: stabbing one of his attackers through the hull. The other
- 17:32Speaker 1: attacker comes at him as Ailof loses his balance in
- 17:35Speaker 1: the sand again, falling to one knee. The attacking turk
- 17:39Speaker 1: swings his sword at Ailoft, cutting him slightly above the ars.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Cutavaar Jou jumps in front of the attacking Turk to
- 17:46Speaker 1: protect Ailof by jumping on the turn, knocking him to
- 17:49Speaker 1: the ground with his hand on his throat. He throws
- 17:52Speaker 1: the turk on his side and reaches for the Turk's
- 17:55Speaker 1: sword and pulls it from him. He then sticks him
- 17:58Speaker 1: in the heart. The Turk screams a death mode and
- 18:02Speaker 1: dies as Karavajeou struggles to his feet and turns to
- 18:06Speaker 1: see Ailof heroically fighting off. Several turns, Caravajeou again rushes
- 18:11Speaker 1: to Ailof's aid. Just as Caravaggiou reaches Ailof, the Turk
- 18:16Speaker 1: is on top of Ailoff, ready to thrust his sword
- 18:19Speaker 1: into him. Caravaggiou swings his sword with all of his strength,
- 18:23Speaker 1: nearly cutting the Turk's header from behind it. Ailof looks
- 18:28Speaker 1: up at Karavajeou with gratitude. He was certain he was
- 18:32Speaker 1: about to die. Seeing the headless Turk fall backward onto
- 18:35Speaker 1: the sand, Caravajiou is shocked, appalled, and confused by the
- 18:40Speaker 1: sensations of fear and exhilaration. Just then, more knights arrive
- 18:46Speaker 1: from the ballance, chasing the Turks back into the sea,
- 18:49Speaker 1: battling them on the beach as hacking, cutting, and thrusting
- 18:52Speaker 1: of swords and lances continues all around. Caravajio Karavajeou watches
- 18:59Speaker 1: as Stefano leads the Knights in pursuit of the Turks,
- 19:02Speaker 1: who are now throwing themselves into the sea in desperate
- 19:05Speaker 1: hopes of reaching their ships. But the cannons from the
- 19:09Speaker 1: castle explode onto the Turkish corsairs and they begin to burn.
- 19:14Speaker 1: Screams come from the boats. The retreating Turks are now
- 19:18Speaker 1: caught between their burning ships and the pursuing Knights. Stefano
- 19:23Speaker 1: leads the Knights, who are hacking away at the confused
- 19:26Speaker 1: and lost Turks, who are doing all they can to
- 19:29Speaker 1: survive and avoid capture. Karavajo, out of breath and holding
- 19:34Speaker 1: his wounded shoulder, drops his sword and watches as the
- 19:37Speaker 1: Turks are hacked to death like cornered prey. The burning
- 19:41Speaker 1: excitement in his eyes reveals how the battle is ignited
- 19:45Speaker 1: a fiery animal instinct in him to kill or be killed.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Aware of the victory, Alof gets down on one knee
- 19:53Speaker 1: and bows. He looks up to the sky and makes
- 19:57Speaker 1: the sign of the cross odd.
- 20:02Speaker 2: To victory.
- 20:04Speaker 1: Ailov turns to Karravajio and nods his head slowly, his
- 20:08Speaker 1: eyes gleaming with the same passion that Caravaggio just fell.
- 20:13Speaker 1: Exterior beach Malta. Later, Exhausted and drained, Caravajiou walks through
- 20:19Speaker 1: the cornage. The beach is strewn with the dead and
- 20:22Speaker 1: the wounded from both sides. The knights are collecting the
- 20:26Speaker 1: bodies of their dead comrades for burial, while other knights
- 20:29Speaker 1: have dug a huge hole in the sand and tossed
- 20:32Speaker 1: the dead Turks into it. Ailov stands in command as
- 20:36Speaker 1: Stefano and more knights for dozens of Turkish prisoners in chains.
- 20:40Speaker 1: Caravajio walks away when he sees two banners in the sand.
- 20:44Speaker 1: One is the crescent moon and the other the Cross.
- 20:50Speaker 1: Caravaggio sees a young, wounded Turk moving among the dead.
- 20:54Speaker 1: The turk raises his hand out to Caravajo, who kneels
- 20:57Speaker 1: beside him. The turk grips Caravaggio's arm and holds onto
- 21:02Speaker 1: it tightly. Carava takes a water satrel off his belt,
- 21:07Speaker 1: lifts the young Turk's head and gives him water. The
- 21:11Speaker 1: turk grabs the satchel and drinks deeply. Just then Stefano appears.
- 21:18Speaker 1: Before Caravajo can react. Stefano thrusts his sword into the dying,
- 21:23Speaker 1: with blood splashing, and Caravaggio jumps to his feet.
- 21:29Speaker 3: He was a boy.
- 21:31Speaker 6: No he was a turk.
- 21:34Speaker 1: No no, no, you said no he was a turk.
- 21:36Speaker 1: Let's just get he was a boy.
- 21:37Speaker 7: He was, he was sorry, he was a boy, he
- 21:53Speaker 7: was a turk.
- 21:54Speaker 1: Stefano turns and walks away. Cut to interior dining hall Castle.
- 22:01Speaker 1: Sant Angelo, Knight alaf with Caravaggio standing at his side,
- 22:07Speaker 1: addresses the knights today.
- 22:11Speaker 2: Our prayers are for those who sacrifice their lives to
- 22:16Speaker 2: die for Our faith is our pledge as Knights of Mortar.
- 22:23Speaker 2: Today I saw courage from one who had not taken
- 22:28Speaker 2: our oath.
- 22:30Speaker 1: Please kneel. Caravaggio kneels. Ailof takes his sword and presses
- 22:34Speaker 1: it Fermilion Caravaggio's shoulder.
- 22:38Speaker 2: Michelangelo Marisi de Caravacchio, you are hereby today an honorary
- 22:46Speaker 2: knight of Mortar.
- 22:48Speaker 1: Ailof turns to Stefano, who brings over a fine sword
- 22:52Speaker 1: made of gold and hands it to Caravaggio.
- 22:55Speaker 2: Oldin edi obedienza.
- 23:00Speaker 1: Hailoff gestures for Karavajo to stand. Caravaggio stands proudly. The
- 23:05Speaker 1: knights stand in unison and cheer. Hailoff then hands Cutavaggio
- 23:11Speaker 1: a palm sized emblem of the knights.
- 23:14Speaker 2: This sword was a gift from the King of France.
- 23:18Speaker 2: It's pure gold with the inscription in silver. This was
- 23:23Speaker 2: mine once, now it is yours.
- 23:26Speaker 1: Cuavajou bows, then displays the sword proudly and lifts it
- 23:30Speaker 1: to the crowd. They cheer once more. Stefano leans into
- 23:36Speaker 1: Karavajou and whispers in his ear.
- 23:39Speaker 6: The Grand Master despises the King of France.
- 23:43Speaker 4: Hah.
- 23:45Speaker 1: Interior Caravaggio's room, dawn. Carvajo wakes, looks at his emblemen's
- 23:51Speaker 1: sword on the table. He then sees the soft blue
- 23:54Speaker 1: dawn emerging. Cut to interior in a santum dawn. Caravaggio
- 24:01Speaker 1: enters the room. He intensely looks over the unfinished portrait.
- 24:06Speaker 1: He picks up his brush. He approaches the portrait gingerly,
- 24:10Speaker 1: then paints interior in a sanctum. Later, Ailof and Stefano enters. Caravaggio,
- 24:18Speaker 1: focused and deliberate, continues to paint. Ailof goes to the canvas,
- 24:23Speaker 1: but Caravaggio stops him with a glare. Alof stops. Caravago
- 24:28Speaker 1: places his brush down.
- 24:30Speaker 2: Have I been a subject worthy of your talents?
- 24:34Speaker 4: And have my talents been worthy of the subject?
- 24:37Speaker 1: Caravajo nods, then steps back. Ailof faces the canvas, His
- 24:43Speaker 1: entire being exhales with amazement and approval.
- 24:50Speaker 2: You have painted my body and captured my soul. I
- 24:57Speaker 2: have no regrets, no suggestions. Who may think of me vain?
- 25:04Speaker 2: But this portrait will be viewed for centuries to come.
- 25:11Speaker 2: Holy man will admire its beauty, while sinners fear it's truth.
- 25:19Speaker 2: Caravago leaves the room. Stefano stares at the portrait with jealousy.
- 25:26Speaker 2: Leave me to gaze.
- 25:29Speaker 1: Hurt, Stefano leaves the room as Ailof absorbs his portrait.
- 25:34Speaker 1: Cut to interior Caravaggio's room night. Exhausted, Caravajiou lies on
- 25:39Speaker 1: his bed. The door opens. He quickly stands Ailof appears
- 25:44Speaker 1: in the doorway and looks at Karavajou with a mixture
- 25:47Speaker 1: of awe and also longing. The moment between the men
- 25:51Speaker 1: suddenly defines their growing relationship. Ailof takes a step towards Karavajou,
- 25:56Speaker 1: then stops himself before he goes too far. He turns
- 26:01Speaker 1: abruptly and leaves the room. Caravaggio slowly goes to the
- 26:04Speaker 1: door and closes it. He sees the nearly completed sketch
- 26:09Speaker 1: of Lena on the table, sits and sketches Lena. The
- 26:13Speaker 1: sound of voices, shouts, laughter and taunting overlaps into flashback two.
- 26:19Speaker 1: Exterior ghetto of Otaccio, the Evil Garden, Rome night. Ranuccio
- 26:26Speaker 1: faces Caravaccio and Lina.
- 26:28Speaker 3: You're with this trick?
- 26:31Speaker 4: I thought I smelled a horse sable.
- 26:34Speaker 1: Caravaggio stiffens as both are Tavio and giovann both drunk,
- 26:38Speaker 1: step out of the shadows, ready to pounce. Ranuccio grins
- 26:42Speaker 1: as he and his brother's edge closer to Caravaggio.
- 26:45Speaker 3: Geez my, Lina.
- 26:49Speaker 1: The brothers pull their swords from their belts. Cannon fire
- 26:53Speaker 1: overlaps into the following scene. Flashback end Interior Caravaccio's room
- 27:00Speaker 1: a day, cannon fire. Caravajo sits up abruptly from his
- 27:05Speaker 1: sleep as bright afternoon light falls across his bed. The
- 27:10Speaker 1: first thing he sees is the sketch of Lena on
- 27:12Speaker 1: the table. It is nearly complete. He has yet to
- 27:16Speaker 1: complete her eyes, her lips. He is now aware of
- 27:19Speaker 1: the cannon fire. Exterior prison yard Castle, sant Angelo continues.
- 27:27Speaker 1: Caravajo is looking over a large yard where Turkish prisoners
- 27:31Speaker 1: captured on the beach on our slaves. The steensh is strong.
- 27:36Speaker 1: Caravajo watches as dozens of armed knights lead dozens of
- 27:40Speaker 1: Turkish prisoners, often to the far side of the yard.
- 27:44Speaker 1: The prisoners are then made to get down on their
- 27:46Speaker 1: knees with their hands tied behind their backs. The knights
- 27:50Speaker 1: come up behind them and begin to behead them one
- 27:53Speaker 1: at a time. Caravajou watches as other prisoners gather up
- 27:57Speaker 1: the bloody heads and put them in bags. The prisoners
- 28:01Speaker 1: then place the bags near the three cannons. The knights
- 28:05Speaker 1: open the bags, take their heads out, place them in
- 28:08Speaker 1: the cannons, and blast their heads out to their targets.
- 28:12Speaker 1: The targets are several Turkish corsairs. Lingering in the harbor.
- 28:17Speaker 1: Caravaggio finds a small charcoal rock and sketches the face
- 28:21Speaker 1: of a Turk on a slate rock in front of him.
- 28:23Speaker 1: Grimacing in fear about to be headed, Stefano walks over.
- 28:28Speaker 6: To Caravajio, the grand Master wants you.
- 28:32Speaker 1: Caravaggio gets up and walks away. Stefano sees the sketch
- 28:36Speaker 1: and rubs it out with his boot. Cut to interior,
- 28:41Speaker 1: private quarters, Castle Santangelo Day. Caravaggio stands facing aloff.
- 28:47Speaker 2: You are aware of how pleased I am with the portrait. Yes,
- 28:53Speaker 2: there's something more I want to discuss with you. Please sit.
- 28:58Speaker 1: Carvajou sits.
- 29:01Speaker 2: I want a second portrait. I have a pose I
- 29:04Speaker 2: want to suggest. Are you disappointed?
- 29:10Speaker 4: That was not our agreement?
- 29:12Speaker 2: True? But you will be paid for your work. Pays
- 29:19Speaker 2: me to see you want to leave. I had a
- 29:21Speaker 2: life before Malta. Is not this life here?
- 29:24Speaker 3: Fulfilling in some ways, yet in many ways.
- 29:29Speaker 4: No, am I your prisoner.
- 29:34Speaker 2: You've never been a brisker.
- 29:37Speaker 1: Caravaggio leaves aloft, stands, closes the door, then pulls a
- 29:41Speaker 1: dagger from his desk drawer, pulls up his sleeve and
- 29:45Speaker 1: cuts himself.
- 29:47Speaker 4: God forgive me.
- 29:48Speaker 1: He quickly stops the bleeding. There is a knock at
- 29:51Speaker 1: the door. Yes, Stefano enters.
- 29:56Speaker 6: It is an excellent painting. You don't trust him, he
- 30:01Speaker 6: is not one of us.
- 30:03Speaker 3: Well, then proved to me his soul is not worthy.
- 30:08Speaker 1: Stefano leaves as Ailov shudders with his struggle. Cut to interior.
- 30:13Speaker 1: In a sanctum day, Caravaggio paints Ailof with Roberto as
- 30:18Speaker 1: they pose and Stefano watches interior. In a sanctum later,
- 30:25Speaker 1: Caravaggio labors over the canvas. Roberto falls asleep. He collapses
- 30:30Speaker 1: for a moment, then gets up immediately horrified. With his
- 30:35Speaker 1: gloved hand, Stefano smacks Roberto across his face. Caravaggio picks
- 30:40Speaker 1: up Roberto and glares at Stefano. Stefano puts his hand
- 30:44Speaker 1: on his sword. Caravaggio puts a slight dab of paint
- 30:47Speaker 1: on his nose. Ailov laughs, humiliated. Stefano glares at Caravaggio,
- 30:55Speaker 1: who goes back to his canvas. Ailof is clearly pleased
- 30:59Speaker 1: by Caravaggio's humanity and shuns Stefano, who is pained by
- 31:03Speaker 1: Alof's reaction. Cut to interior. In a sanctum day, Caravaggio
- 31:11Speaker 1: and Aloft are alone in the room as Caravaggio paints.
- 31:16Speaker 2: Is there a man there in your canvas? Or an
- 31:21Speaker 2: emblem of faith?
- 31:23Speaker 4: Or I painted a man.
- 31:25Speaker 2: To see anything else.
- 31:27Speaker 3: I don't see angels buzzing over your shoulder or saints
- 31:32Speaker 3: standing on your nose.
- 31:33Speaker 2: Now if you did, there'd be no room on the
- 31:35Speaker 2: canvas for the man or his faith.
- 31:40Speaker 4: What about his desires? Is there a room for what
- 31:46Speaker 4: he aches for?
- 31:48Speaker 1: Caravaggio touches Alof's cheek as if to kiss him. Aloft
- 31:52Speaker 1: doesn't move. Rejected, Caravaggio turns back to the canvas. Cut
- 31:58Speaker 1: to interior, Caravaggio's Room Night. Caravaggio continues his sketch.
- 32:05Speaker 4: No, no stand there in the moonlight.
- 32:08Speaker 1: Flashback two, Interior, Caravaggo's home Studio Rome Night. Caravaggio pulls
- 32:16Speaker 1: away the curtain, allowing moonlight to wash over Lena's face.
- 32:21Speaker 4: What do they call you?
- 32:23Speaker 1: Lena? He walks around her, his eyes inquire into her
- 32:28Speaker 1: entire being with charm. She underes her hair and it
- 32:31Speaker 1: falls over her shoulders. She drops her undergarments and then
- 32:35Speaker 1: gets down on the bed.
- 32:38Speaker 4: And you are from Grassoulia?
- 32:40Speaker 3: How did you know? Brow mostly and the eyes?
- 32:45Speaker 1: He turns away, leans over his water basin and bathes
- 32:48Speaker 1: his face and drives himself.
- 32:51Speaker 3: Have you been there?
- 32:52Speaker 4: Oh?
- 32:53Speaker 3: No?
- 32:54Speaker 5: When you live in room you don't have to travel
- 32:55Speaker 5: to see the world. The world comes to you. You
- 33:00Speaker 5: left Grassauria to escape the plague.
- 33:03Speaker 1: Yes, I told my mother I want to go to Rome.
- 33:06Speaker 4: She said, go while you are still young, and she
- 33:09Speaker 4: followed me.
- 33:11Speaker 1: He then places his canvas between her and the window.
- 33:15Speaker 1: You want a model, but you are paying me too much.
- 33:19Speaker 5: Just looking at that face, I see my virgin and
- 33:23Speaker 5: you are worth every scooty.
- 33:26Speaker 1: You're posing me for the virgin, and you have me naked.
- 33:30Speaker 3: I can't do that, No, not nude.
- 33:34Speaker 4: You're hungry. I'm sorry I didn't realize him. Take some
- 33:38Speaker 4: bread and meat.
- 33:39Speaker 1: She eats hungrily from food on the table.
- 33:42Speaker 4: I used to eat like that.
- 33:44Speaker 1: He pours her water and hands it to her. You
- 33:47Speaker 1: came here poor.
- 33:48Speaker 4: When I first came to Rome.
- 33:49Speaker 3: I swallowed what dogs would indeed to stay alive. How
- 33:53Speaker 3: did you survive when you came to Rome?
- 33:55Speaker 4: I painted?
- 33:57Speaker 1: Why are you looking at me like that?
- 34:00Speaker 3: Because I see you all life in your face?
- 34:04Speaker 1: Flashback in interior Caravacho's room, Malta night. The sketches complete.
- 34:12Speaker 1: Cut to interior in a sanctum day, Caravajo stares closely
- 34:17Speaker 1: at the canvas at ailof then steps back.
- 34:21Speaker 2: I've been where you tread, my son. I was once
- 34:25Speaker 2: a slave to the flesh. I see the agony I
- 34:29Speaker 2: once lived, now alive in your eyes.
- 34:34Speaker 1: Alof turns to the canvas.
- 34:37Speaker 4: Splendid.
- 34:39Speaker 1: Caravaggio moves past him to leave. Alof takes his hand. Yes,
- 34:46Speaker 1: both men take in the moment. Caravaggio leans in.
- 34:51Speaker 5: There is nothing to fear between you and I.
- 34:56Speaker 4: What you feel, what we do.
- 35:00Speaker 1: Waggio kisses Ailof, then steps back. Ailof allowed the kiss,
- 35:04Speaker 1: but then just as abruptly, he also steps back. The
- 35:08Speaker 1: tension between the two men is electrifying. Caravaggiou realizes he
- 35:13Speaker 1: needs to leave. Ailof moves to follow him and stops himself.
- 35:19Speaker 1: Cut to interior the grand Master's private chambers. Night, Ailof
- 35:24Speaker 1: is kneeling before a small statue of Saint Peter. When
- 35:27Speaker 1: Stefano enters with a letter from Caravaggio. Ailov makes the
- 35:32Speaker 1: sign of the cross, stands and looks to Stefano.
- 35:35Speaker 6: It's addressed to Cardinal del Monte in Rome. This time
- 35:39Speaker 6: I opened and read it.
- 35:41Speaker 2: I did not give you the authority to read his.
- 35:44Speaker 6: Man, you told me to prove my concerns. He asks
- 35:50Speaker 6: if there has been any progress in his pardon from
- 35:54Speaker 6: the Pope a pardon.
- 35:58Speaker 2: Send the letter ahead, then look into the meaning of
- 36:01Speaker 2: the request.
- 36:02Speaker 1: Ailov sees the sketch of Lena with the letter.
- 36:06Speaker 4: What is that?
- 36:08Speaker 2: A sketch with the letter ailof looks Send it ahead
- 36:14Speaker 2: as he had it.
- 36:15Speaker 1: He's lied to us.
- 36:17Speaker 2: Be careful, Stefano, I am fond of him.
- 36:23Speaker 1: Stefano leaves cut to exterior courtyard of a letter day.
- 36:30Speaker 1: Caravaggio follows Stefano through the courtyard, which leads to a
- 36:34Speaker 1: chapel interior, the chapel of Saint John Day. Stefano leads
- 36:40Speaker 1: Caravaggio to a large blank wall. There is plenty of
- 36:43Speaker 1: light from the stained glass windows.
- 36:46Speaker 4: Why are you here?
- 36:48Speaker 6: The Grandmaster wants to be heading of Saint John the
- 36:51Speaker 6: Baptist on this wall, and when you are done with that,
- 36:54Speaker 6: he wants a cupid in his private chambers.
- 36:56Speaker 4: Why is my door locked at night?
- 37:00Speaker 1: Or your protection?
- 37:02Speaker 6: We Knight have many enemies.
- 37:04Speaker 1: Stefano leaves as CARRAVAGIAU looks at the wall livid cut
- 37:09Speaker 1: to interior the Chapel of Saint John Day. Caravaggiou works
- 37:15Speaker 1: quickly the images of Saint John's beheading are already clear.
- 37:19Speaker 1: The painting is stark and bleak. He stops looks at it.
- 37:24Speaker 1: It expresses his very feelings. He paints a trail of
- 37:28Speaker 1: blood flowing from Saint John's neck to the bottom of
- 37:31Speaker 1: the canvas, spelling out his name in blood. Caravaggio steps back,
- 37:36Speaker 1: shuddering from a memory flashback to interior brothel Piazza del
- 37:43Speaker 1: Popolo Rome night. Caravaggio Mancinian Topper share a satchel of
- 37:49Speaker 1: wine as they stand facing the dark stretch of the piazza.
- 37:52Speaker 1: Waiting there, they see Ranuccio and his two brothers appear
- 37:57Speaker 1: at the far end, walking towards them. The two groups
- 38:01Speaker 1: of men walk towards one another, reading their swords. When
- 38:04Speaker 1: they are only a few feet away, they.
- 38:06Speaker 3: Stop, You owe me scooty, I hear take it.
- 38:12Speaker 1: Caravaggio pulls Scooty from his pockets and it drops to
- 38:15Speaker 1: the ground at his feet. With his sword in hand,
- 38:19Speaker 1: Ronuccio rushes at Caravaccio, but stumbles off balance as Caravaggio
- 38:24Speaker 1: raises his sword forward to protect himself. The steel cuts
- 38:28Speaker 1: deeply into Ronuccio's belly. Caravacho pulls out his sword Ronuccio
- 38:36Speaker 1: glares at Caravacchio. Stunned, he holds his open wound, turns
- 38:41Speaker 1: and staggers away. Caravaggio is immobile as he looks at
- 38:46Speaker 1: the blood on his sword. Flashback end Interior the Chapel
- 38:51Speaker 1: of Saint John, Malta day. Caravaggio pains frantically. Interior the
- 38:59Speaker 1: Chapel of Saint John. Later, Caravaggio stands facing the completed
- 39:04Speaker 1: painting with anxiety and despair. Exterior, the Chapel of Saint John. Dusk,
- 39:12Speaker 1: Caravaggio steps out of the chapel towards the beach. Exterior
- 39:17Speaker 1: Beach Valletta continuous. Caravaggio walks along the beach, seeing Stefano
- 39:23Speaker 1: walking from the fortress towards him with two guards. Stefano
- 39:28Speaker 1: gestures to the knights to continue keeping God and to
- 39:31Speaker 1: walk on. Caravaggio turns to walk in the opposite direction,
- 39:36Speaker 1: but Stefano follows him. Realizing that he has no choice
- 39:40Speaker 1: but to confront Stefano on the empty beach, he stops
- 39:44Speaker 1: and turns to.
- 39:45Speaker 6: Him, Am I interrupting your praying?
- 39:47Speaker 4: I wasn't praying?
- 39:49Speaker 6: Why out here.
- 39:51Speaker 4: Looking for sicily? Which never seems so alluring.
- 39:56Speaker 3: I never knew what real loneliness was until I came.
- 40:00Speaker 4: To this island.
- 40:02Speaker 6: But there is God everywhere.
- 40:04Speaker 3: I wasn't talking about that kind of loneliness.
- 40:09Speaker 1: Interior the grand Master's private chambers, continuous. A love stands
- 40:14Speaker 1: at the windows, seeing Stefano and Caravajo on the beach below.
- 40:19Speaker 1: Exterior beach continuous. Caravajo and Stefano walk on.
- 40:24Speaker 5: HM.
- 40:27Speaker 6: The moonlight has always fascinated me.
- 40:29Speaker 4: The moon has no light of it.
- 40:31Speaker 3: That's heresy, it's science.
- 40:34Speaker 6: When I was in Rome with the grand Master, I
- 40:38Speaker 6: saw some of your work. You paint men more beautifully
- 40:42Speaker 6: than I have ever seen.
- 40:45Speaker 3: I thought art didn't interest you.
- 40:47Speaker 6: I wasn't talking about art.
- 40:51Speaker 3: I haven't touched another human.
- 40:53Speaker 4: Being in months.
- 40:55Speaker 6: You talk of months, I talk of years.
- 40:59Speaker 3: You said the Knights have enemies, even here at the letter.
- 41:03Speaker 3: What am I to make of you?
- 41:06Speaker 6: You don't trust me.
- 41:09Speaker 1: Caravaggio grabs Stefano and kisses him on the mouth. Stefano
- 41:13Speaker 1: pulls away, then walks off.
- 41:16Speaker 6: Stefano It is settled, now, What is settled?
- 41:20Speaker 1: Caravaggio watches Stefano disappear down the beach, then looks up
- 41:24Speaker 1: at Alov's window Interior the grand Master's Private Chambers continuous.
- 41:30Speaker 1: Ailov steps away from the window in anger. Cut to interior,
- 41:35Speaker 1: Caravaggio's room.
- 41:36Speaker 4: Night.
- 41:37Speaker 1: Caravajo enters his room, closes the door, then quickly writes
- 41:41Speaker 1: another letter to Cardinal del Monte. Cut to interior, the
- 41:46Speaker 1: grand Master's Private Chambers.
- 41:48Speaker 4: Day.
- 41:50Speaker 1: Caravaggio faces Ailoff, who gestures to the.
- 41:53Speaker 2: Wall, I want my cupid there.
- 41:58Speaker 1: To Cravaggio's relief, Ailof turns and leaves. Interior the grand
- 42:04Speaker 1: Master's Private Chambers. Later, Caravajo paints quickly as Stefano watches him.
- 42:11Speaker 1: Cut to interior, the grand Master's Private Chambers.
- 42:14Speaker 4: Night.
- 42:16Speaker 1: Caravaggio sits, exhausted. His cupid is a sickly and vile
- 42:21Speaker 1: old man. Caravajo is pleased and yet at the same
- 42:25Speaker 1: time apprehensive. Cut to interior. In a sanctum night, Ailof
- 42:32Speaker 1: and Stefano enter the empty room together. Ailof gazes on
- 42:36Speaker 1: the cupid.
- 42:38Speaker 2: The devil has come to the letter.
- 42:41Speaker 1: Interior Caravacchio's room continues. Caravachio hears the sound of boots
- 42:47Speaker 1: coming down the hallway. The boots stop at his door.
- 42:51Speaker 1: He gets up and grabs his sword, but the door
- 42:54Speaker 1: flies open, and several masked knights quickly rush in, overwhelm him,
- 42:58Speaker 1: and drag him out. Cut to interior torture chamber.
- 43:03Speaker 4: Night.
- 43:05Speaker 1: With his face streaked with blood, Caravaco is chained to
- 43:08Speaker 1: the wall, facing alof and Stefano flanked by four knights
- 43:12Speaker 1: wearing hoods.
- 43:14Speaker 2: On this earth, there is no greater evil than duplicity.
- 43:19Speaker 3: I don't have the courage for duplicity.
- 43:22Speaker 2: It pains me to see you this way, But I've
- 43:25Speaker 2: placed my own dear brother of the rack. His spine
- 43:30Speaker 2: was broken, but he is no longer heretic. Now he
- 43:35Speaker 2: is a believer and a cripple.
- 43:36Speaker 1: Pa Stefano slaps Caravaccia.
- 43:40Speaker 2: Don't you see the value of your soul?
- 43:46Speaker 8: Answer him.
- 43:48Speaker 9: I grew up on the streets where I learned that
- 43:50Speaker 9: for refuge and shelter there is only the flesh.
- 43:54Speaker 3: And if i'd have a non god, it is when
- 43:56Speaker 3: I've held someone.
- 43:58Speaker 2: Michaelangelo, see the Caravaggio. You have painted my body, and
- 44:05Speaker 2: now I will save your soul.
- 44:07Speaker 4: How will you save my soul through pain?
- 44:13Speaker 2: Put him on the rack.
- 44:16Speaker 1: The four knights and Stefano Unlocky's chains and place him
- 44:19Speaker 1: on the rack. Because he desperately strungs.
- 44:22Speaker 10: You have no right to judge me. I have the
- 44:25Speaker 10: right given to me by the inquisition. I have the
- 44:29Speaker 10: right to judge the heretic. Seeing your paintings, I was
- 44:35Speaker 10: sure you carried God's love. But I've learned that you
- 44:38Speaker 10: have no belief, no faith, and without faith you are
- 44:44Speaker 10: an incomplete man. You will scream out for God and
- 44:51Speaker 10: rise above your suffering.
- 44:53Speaker 2: No pull.
- 44:55Speaker 1: Stefano nods to the two knights who pull on the rack.
- 44:58Speaker 1: Carago screams, ah Yeah. Overwhelmed by Caravaggio's suffering, ailoff, looks away.
- 45:06Speaker 1: Caravaggio remembers flashback to interior basilica of Saint Augustine Chapel,
- 45:13Speaker 1: Rome day. Caravaggio is painting the Death of the Virgin,
- 45:19Speaker 1: an altar piece, having staged prostitutes homeless surrounding Lena, who
- 45:24Speaker 1: lies on a bed with her arms outstretched. Cardinal del
- 45:28Speaker 1: Monte enters. Caravaggio sees him and puts down his paints.
- 45:33Speaker 1: It's so real.
- 45:34Speaker 8: I find it painful, but you pose this horror to
- 45:39Speaker 8: be the blessed mother.
- 45:40Speaker 4: Her name is Lena, but as.
- 45:43Speaker 8: The Virgin, the mother of God, she's a woman with
- 45:47Speaker 8: dirty feet.
- 45:48Speaker 2: She looks like a corpse.
- 45:50Speaker 4: She's dead.
- 45:51Speaker 8: And these others you take beggar yourself the street and
- 45:54Speaker 8: beat them exactly as they are.
- 45:56Speaker 1: He paints their torment.
- 45:58Speaker 4: Who is this woman?
- 45:59Speaker 8: Why is she talking to me?
- 46:01Speaker 3: She is Lena from Grassoia.
- 46:05Speaker 1: Frustrated, Cardinal del Monte walks away, and Caravaccia rushes off
- 46:10Speaker 1: to him.
- 46:11Speaker 4: I don't put haloes around them like God.
- 46:13Speaker 3: I paint people just as God made them.
- 46:17Speaker 8: Yes, God made disease and death, but nobody needs to
- 46:22Speaker 8: be reminded. When I first found you, you lived on nothing.
- 46:26Speaker 8: You had nothing, Michail, Listen to me. We are so
- 46:29Speaker 8: very close to what you want and public everyone denies
- 46:34Speaker 8: your brilliance, but behind closed doors they worship your canvases.
- 46:41Speaker 8: Play along just for a little, and.
- 46:43Speaker 2: You will own your own villa. Someday.
- 46:47Speaker 8: I have secured the commission for you to complete the
- 46:50Speaker 8: Weeping Magdalena. You wanted that commission, and I got it
- 46:55Speaker 8: for you.
- 46:55Speaker 3: Yes, I wanted that commission.
- 47:00Speaker 4: I use Lena as my Magdalena.
- 47:03Speaker 8: Impossible.
- 47:04Speaker 1: Cardinal del Monte leaves Caravajo walks back to his canvas,
- 47:08Speaker 1: finding Lina looking at it.
- 47:10Speaker 3: It is so painful.
- 47:12Speaker 1: You can see how she suffered.
- 47:14Speaker 4: Yes, she suffered.
- 47:16Speaker 1: Flashback in interior torture chamber, Malta day, Caravajo is still
- 47:23Speaker 1: unconscious as Ailof leans into him.
- 47:27Speaker 2: Are you the devil himself?
- 47:30Speaker 4: Who are you?
- 47:32Speaker 1: Caravajo spits blood.
- 47:35Speaker 4: Who's my love?
- 47:36Speaker 2: Not dear to you? God's love can be a terrible light.
- 47:43Speaker 2: Be all your sins remembered.
- 47:46Speaker 1: Ailof nods to one of the hooded knights bull. Caravajo screams,
- 47:55Speaker 1: faye to interior corridor prison.
- 47:58Speaker 4: Day.
- 48:00Speaker 1: Caravaggiou is unconscious, breathing with difficulty. Pained, Ailof leaves the room.
- 48:06Speaker 1: Stefano stays interior in a sanctum night. Ailov sits at
- 48:12Speaker 1: his table holding another letter. Stefano enters, is he dead?
- 48:20Speaker 2: No, he killed a man. Renownce your thomason. He must
- 48:25Speaker 2: die if he survives the night, place him in the
- 48:31Speaker 2: bell leave.
- 48:34Speaker 1: Stefano quickly leaves as Ailov struggles. Interior corridor prison continues
- 48:42Speaker 1: barely alive. Caravaggio lies on the rack, now drifting in
- 48:46Speaker 1: and out of consciousness. Stefano enters with two knights, one
- 48:51Speaker 1: sure that he is alive. A slowly unstrapped Caravajiou from
- 48:55Speaker 1: the rat. Exterior castle sant Angelo continuous. Stefano leads the
- 49:03Speaker 1: two knights, who drag a nearly dead Caravaggio along the
- 49:06Speaker 1: castle wall. Exterior bell shaped hole cell continues. Steffano steps
- 49:14Speaker 1: back as the knights pause over an eleven foot bell
- 49:16Speaker 1: shaped narrow hole in the castle's rock. They place Caravaggio
- 49:20Speaker 1: down and allow him to fall into it. Interior bell
- 49:25Speaker 1: shaped hole cell continues. Caravaggio hits the bottom of the
- 49:30Speaker 1: cell and moans in agony. Closing his eyes. Caravaggio looks
- 49:36Speaker 1: up at the blue light from the moon. Voices overlap
- 49:40Speaker 1: into following scene. Flashback to exterior Piazza del Popolo Rome night.
- 49:49Speaker 1: Caravaggio stands over Rouccio, who lies on his back, bleeding
- 49:53Speaker 1: and moaning, as voices rush to him. From the far
- 49:56Speaker 1: end of the piazza. Look up at a half a
- 50:01Speaker 1: dozen Carabanieri racing toward him with swords drawn and a
- 50:05Speaker 1: single torch lighting their way.
- 50:07Speaker 4: Carabinieri Mi.
- 50:11Speaker 1: Mancini staggers up to Caravaggio, dazed, bleeding from the head.
- 50:15Speaker 1: His appearance shakes Caravaggio from his bafflement. Right behind, Mancini
- 50:21Speaker 1: Caravaggio sees Lena tending to Toppa.
- 50:25Speaker 4: Take care of him.
- 50:26Speaker 2: Yes, where do I find you?
- 50:28Speaker 1: Caravaggio rushes to Lena, helping her lift Toppa up. With
- 50:32Speaker 1: both Toppa and Mancini wrapped around Lina, Caravaggio kisses her
- 50:37Speaker 1: strongly on the mouth.
- 50:41Speaker 2: God save you.
- 50:43Speaker 9: Meet me at the Cardinals Villa in Port, Princiard, fuck
- 50:51Speaker 9: me and me at the Cardinals Villa in Port.
- 50:53Speaker 1: The princ yes, with Toppa and Mancini at her side.
- 50:57Speaker 1: She disappears down a cobblestone street and the darkness. Caravaggio
- 51:02Speaker 1: hears Otavio and a bloody Giovan, both near exhaustion and
- 51:06Speaker 1: in pain, carrying a motionless Ranuccio to his feet, as
- 51:10Speaker 1: they rush off into a nearby alley away from the police.
- 51:14Speaker 1: Caravaggio then turns, watching as both men quickly make their
- 51:17Speaker 1: way down the piazza in the opposite direction of the police.
- 51:21Speaker 1: He follows them into the darkness. Exterior streets of Rome continues.
- 51:28Speaker 1: Caravaggio races through the narrow streets or the voices of
- 51:31Speaker 1: the Carabanieri behind him. Exterior alley continues. Caravaggio turns down
- 51:39Speaker 1: an alley exterior courtyard continuous. They race through the courtyard
- 51:45Speaker 1: and turn down a second alley. Exterior second alley continues.
- 51:51Speaker 1: He ducks into the shadows, out of breath, listening to
- 51:54Speaker 1: the voices. The voices grow faint. Caravaggio steps out of
- 51:59Speaker 1: the shade. Out of breath. He sees a light at
- 52:03Speaker 1: the end of a long alley. He walks to it.
- 52:07Speaker 1: Exterior Battista Barber Sharp continuous. Caravaggo walks up to the
- 52:13Speaker 1: sign on the narrow street, which reads barber shop the
- 52:17Speaker 1: barber sharp. The doctor's office of the time has its
- 52:21Speaker 1: curtains drawn. A tiny light glows from the back room.
- 52:25Speaker 1: Caravaggo looks around, then opens the door. Cut to interior
- 52:31Speaker 1: Battista Barber Sharp continuous. The barber Louis Battista forties, A short,
- 52:37Speaker 1: stocky man is wearing a white apron and is covered
- 52:40Speaker 1: in dried blood as he works on Caravaccio, who sits
- 52:44Speaker 1: in the barber's chair. Battista washes Caravaggio's wound, draining his
- 52:49Speaker 1: sponge in a large bucket.
- 52:51Speaker 2: Your wounds aren't that bad.
- 52:53Speaker 1: He pays Battista. Scoodie, I was never here, You were
- 52:57Speaker 1: never here, Just your blood, Battista, Dad's the wound again.
- 53:04Speaker 1: As Caravaggio moans in pain. He hands Caravaggio an open
- 53:08Speaker 1: bottle of wine. Caravaggio leans back and takes a big
- 53:12Speaker 1: slug of the wine. As he does, Battista takes a
- 53:16Speaker 1: dirty bucket filled with blood and flesh, walks to the
- 53:19Speaker 1: back door, opens it, and dumps it out just like Ala.
- 53:27Speaker 1: Cut to exterior Battista barber shop. Later in the night,
- 53:33Speaker 1: Caravaggio stands in the shadows outside the shop, watching A
- 53:37Speaker 1: Tavio and Giovan carry a slumping or Nuccio inside. Battista
- 53:41Speaker 1: watches as they put Ranuccio, pale and silent, in a chair.
- 53:46Speaker 1: He walks over to a Renucio and stands over him.
- 53:49Speaker 1: He looks this one's dad. Atavio and Giovan look to
- 53:53Speaker 1: him in disbelief. Atavio and Giovan then lift Rnucio out
- 53:57Speaker 1: of the chair. A Tavio manages and Batisto Scodi. Batista
- 54:03Speaker 1: takes the money.
- 54:04Speaker 2: He was never here, just as blood.
- 54:08Speaker 1: He opens the door and holds it open for them
- 54:10Speaker 1: as they sneak Ronuccia's dead body out. Caravaggio continues to
- 54:15Speaker 1: watch them through the window as they disappear into the shadows.
- 54:19Speaker 1: Batista comes to the door and splashes the blood from
- 54:22Speaker 1: his bucket down into the sewer. Caravaggio steps away to
- 54:26Speaker 1: avoid getting wet, then rushes into the darkness. Flashback end interior,
- 54:33Speaker 1: bell shaped whole cell malta day. Water splashes into the cell,
- 54:41Speaker 1: drenching Caravaggio. He attempts to crawl up the rock, but
- 54:45Speaker 1: it is impossible. He can only look into the sky,
- 54:48Speaker 1: where the sun follows a shaft of light down across
- 54:51Speaker 1: his face. He collapses. He lies on the hard rock
- 54:56Speaker 1: in a ball, remembering flashback too. Exterior Cardinal del Monte's
- 55:02Speaker 1: Villa Ludovisi, Rome night. Caravaggio cautiously makes his way to
- 55:08Speaker 1: the side entrance of the villa in the Porta Pinciana
- 55:13Speaker 1: Interior Cardinal del Monte's Villa Ludovisi continues. Caravaco enters, seeing
- 55:20Speaker 1: Cardinal del Monte wearing an apron, busy with his alchemical
- 55:24Speaker 1: experiment in a room filled with bottles of colored water,
- 55:27Speaker 1: chemicals and tubes a primitive lab. He hears something and turns.
- 55:33Speaker 1: Caravaggio closes the door.
- 55:35Speaker 4: Renuccio Tomsoni is dead.
- 55:38Speaker 1: I killed him, saying nothing. Cardinal del Monte quickly looks
- 55:43Speaker 1: over his minor wounds and then leaves the room. Caravaggio
- 55:47Speaker 1: sees Lena standing outside looking in. He opens the door.
- 55:51Speaker 1: She rushes to his son the others.
- 55:54Speaker 4: I took them to the tavern of hoc. Maria is
- 55:56Speaker 4: caring for them.
- 55:57Speaker 1: She holds him. Cardinal del monteers without.
- 56:01Speaker 8: His apron You need to leave Rome now why Last
- 56:06Speaker 8: month the Vatican issued Abanda capitale for all murderers without exception.
- 56:11Speaker 8: Anyone charged with murder faces arrest in execution where they
- 56:14Speaker 8: are found. The aggrieved parties and any bounty hunters they
- 56:20Speaker 8: employ can carry out the warrant. You killed the son
- 56:24Speaker 8: of a war hero. Your life is worth nothing.
- 56:28Speaker 4: As we speak, a mota, I.
- 56:32Speaker 8: Will send a messenger. Now, Pedro, the.
- 56:35Speaker 1: Bishop quickly enters as Cardnel del Monte writes a note.
- 56:39Speaker 8: I will write the Grand Master that you have accepted
- 56:42Speaker 8: his commission. I can arrange an official Vatican vessel to
- 56:46Speaker 8: take you there.
- 56:48Speaker 1: He hands the bishop the note. Rush to the dock.
- 56:52Speaker 8: This note must get to the boat to catch the
- 56:55Speaker 8: next high tide.
- 56:56Speaker 1: The Bishop rushes.
- 56:57Speaker 3: Off, how long will you need to secure a pardon
- 57:02Speaker 3: from the Vatican.
- 57:03Speaker 8: It will take some time, a care perhaps a year,
- 57:06Speaker 8: perhaps two, perhaps more.
- 57:09Speaker 2: I have faith in you.
- 57:11Speaker 1: Cardinal del Monte leaves the room. Caravaggio and Lina face
- 57:15Speaker 1: one another.
- 57:17Speaker 4: I refuse to give it to fear.
- 57:20Speaker 1: She embraces him as he keeps his nerves steady. Cut
- 57:24Speaker 1: to interior, Cardinal del Monte's Villa Ludovisi.
- 57:29Speaker 4: Night.
- 57:30Speaker 1: Caravaccio and Lina pack a small bag of Caravaccio's clothing,
- 57:34Speaker 1: some of his paint brushes, paints, and tightly wound canvases.
- 57:39Speaker 1: Caravaccio takes Lena's face in his hands, touching it gently
- 57:43Speaker 1: with his fingertips. In the dim light, he looks, seeing her,
- 57:47Speaker 1: the surroundings, the light as they all blended together. A moment,
- 57:52Speaker 1: an impression in how he creates what he creates. Exterior
- 57:59Speaker 1: Cardinal del montees Villa Ludovisi continuous. Cardinal del Monte waits
- 58:05Speaker 1: for Caravacio and Lina next to a carriage. They appear.
- 58:09Speaker 1: A valet places Caravaccio's things on the carriage and then disappears.
- 58:14Speaker 8: There is wine to warm you on your travels. Hope
- 58:19Speaker 8: Clement is dying and perhaps in God's infinite wisdom, I
- 58:23Speaker 8: may be given the reins of our holy mother church.
- 58:27Speaker 1: Caravaggio holds Lina gently and kisses her.
- 58:30Speaker 8: Be careful, be wise, be tolerant, and you will be safe.
- 58:36Speaker 3: And when was I ever any of those things?
- 58:39Speaker 1: He looks to Lina.
- 58:41Speaker 4: Don't let Rome devour you.
- 58:45Speaker 3: Come back.
- 58:46Speaker 4: I will have no fear.
- 58:49Speaker 1: He enters the carriage. He leans out the window.
- 58:53Speaker 4: I am Michelangelo de Marisi.
- 58:55Speaker 3: That Caravadzo go a.
- 58:59Speaker 1: Theamo interior carriage roam. Caravaggio follows back, stares ahead, overwhelmed,
- 59:06Speaker 1: fearing everything. Flash back in exterior of a letter, Malta night.
- 59:14Speaker 1: A fog covers the castle interior bell shaped, whole cell continues.
- 59:21Speaker 1: A thick rope flies down into the cell. It dangles
- 59:24Speaker 1: there next to the unconscious Caravagjo. A small stone comes
- 59:29Speaker 1: flying down into the cell. It hits Caravaggio's shoulder. He stirs.
- 59:35Speaker 1: Another stone flies down into the cell and bounces off
- 59:37Speaker 1: the wall. Carravaggio comes to looks around. He sees the rope.
- 59:43Speaker 1: He's startled by it. He aches but stands and looks up.
- 59:47Speaker 1: But he can't see anything or anyone. Only the bright
- 59:50Speaker 1: light from the moon. He grabs hold of the rope
- 59:54Speaker 1: and puts his feet up against the wall. He's slowly,
- 59:58Speaker 1: gingerly and with much agony, pulls and pushes himself up
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: and out of the cell. Exterior bell shaped, whole cell continuous.
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: Caravaggio reaches the top of the cell and is out
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: of it. He struggles to his feet. He sees that
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: the rope is attached to the chain link in the
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: castle rock. He's weak and disoriented and hopes it's not
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: a trap. Just then, a figure emerges from the shadows,
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: but he can't make out who it is. All he
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: can see is that they are small and slight. The
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: figure walks away from the cell. Caravaggio knows that he
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: must risk it. He follows, striving to make his way
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: through the shadows. Exterior castle wall Castle sant Angelo continuous.
- 1:00:52Speaker 1: Caravaggio is nearly crawling along, following the figure as it
- 1:00:55Speaker 1: moves ahead of exterior dark continues. Caravaggio is now on
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: the dock. He stops. He watches as the figure walks
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: into the moonlight toward a fishing boat. The moonlight falls
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: across his pale face. It is Roberto, Roberto reaches the
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: boat and hands money to one of the three local
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: fishermen who are in the boat and preparing to leave.
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: Caravaggio watches as Roberto walks past him, scared of him, yes,
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: but putting his life in jeopardy for the man who
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: once protected him. He disappears back toward the castle. As
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: Caravaggio turns to the fishing boat, the fishermen are waving
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: to him to follow. He pushes his body to make
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: it to the boat. Caravaggio falls into the boat and
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: rights himself, amazed at what is happening to him. The
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: fishermen quickly push off from the dark, and as they
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: do they raise the sail. Moonlight falls across their faces.
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: They look like sea worn but sublime angels to Karavai.
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: One of them offers him bread and water. He eats
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: and drinks, never taking his eyes off the worn faces.
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: In the spur exterior of a letter dawn, the sun
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: rises up and over the castle walls. Caravaggio has escaped. Interior,
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: the grand Master's private chambers continuous. Stefano faces ailof at
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: his breakfast table. Slaves and Robertas stand nearby.
- 1:02:29Speaker 6: How he had an accomplice.
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: Out the slaves and Roberto leave. Ailof turns to his
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: map on the wall and gestures to it as he speaks.
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: If he survives the journey, the only place he could
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: sail would be Sicily.
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: Ailof quickly finds official papers and writes a warrant, then
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: signs and stamps it with the official.
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: Seal ready provisions horses and six men. We sail to
- 1:02:59Speaker 2: Plato with the next tide. No one will defy the
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: warrant from the inquisition.
- 1:03:06Speaker 6: One second, it says, and then said later it says, bo, yeah.
- 1:03:16Speaker 8: Yes, can you can you say for us Plaza?
- 1:03:33Speaker 3: All right?
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: Alf quickly finds official papers and writes a warrant and
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: signs and stems it with the official seal.
- 1:03:42Speaker 2: Ready provisions horses and six men. We sail for Palazzo
- 1:03:48Speaker 2: with the next tide. You gotta write the first Okay, sorry,
- 1:03:59Speaker 2: ready provisions horses and six men. We sail for Pizzalo
- 1:04:04Speaker 2: with the next tide. No one will defy the warrant
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: from the inquisition. Yes, sire, I also want you to
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: dispatch messengers immediately. Have them go up the coast all
- 1:04:17Speaker 2: the way to Catania with copies of this warrant. This
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: warrant supersedes all pardons other than one from the pontiff himself.
- 1:04:27Speaker 6: If he is not in Puzzalo or Syracuse or Katana, and.
- 1:04:30Speaker 2: We follow him to Rome, I want him back at Falletta.
- 1:04:35Speaker 10: His arrogance defiles on those, his treacheries blasphemy.
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: I want him in chains.
- 1:04:45Speaker 4: End of that. Two yes,