(CROWD CHEERING)

The first series ends with Lenny Belardo

falling into a coma.

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

That's it, Holy Father. We are done.

What? No nudes?

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(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

He's a complicated man.

He has all kinds of wounds from his childhood

when his twin brother, Adam, died.

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

My parents started a great ecclesiastical career

for my brother Adam, but not for me.

They told me every day of my life

that I'd never amount to anything.

JOHN MALKOVICH: My character's parents saw the brother

as someone who could easily have become pope one day.

That was the dream for the twin brother.

He probably spends his life attempting to make up for that.

All my life, I have negated myself

to alleviate your suffering!

I will be pope!

Me! Not Adam!

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(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

I can imagine how strange it would be to become pope

because a pope is in a coma.

Rather than cementing your place,

you feel the earth moving under your feet.

If you become pope, liberty is the one outfit

you won't be able to wear.

But will I be able to see you every day?

Sofia's effect on him

is to make him want to be better,

so that she'll be approving of him or proud of him.

Pardon my vulgarities, sir, but she is a beauty.

They want to know if he's a kind of man of steel.

Because he's not Lenny.

He doesn't have that authority or cult status.

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

Our mission is to protect the fragile.

Wherever there is fragility, there is the Church.

That is who we are.

(CROWD CHEERING)

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪