Da Vinci's Demons

The Pazzis prepare a murderous plot for Easter Sunday. The Turk tells Leonardo where to find the Book of Leaves. Lucrezia makes a confession as Leonardo attempts to save the Medicis.

Leonardo builds an underwater suit and uses the sewers to enter the Vatican, where he meets the Pope and the mysterious prisoner. Giuliano reveals the true identity of Rome's spy.

The Abyssinian claimed the other key's here but look around.

She's been caring for an aunt in Siena.

- Till Holy Saturday then. - Indeed.

To consolidate power and to settle feuds.

Now I know you're besotted. You won't fit inside there.

Once I'm there, I'll plug the end of this line as signal to stop.

Zo.

Why don't I sack it all and come and live with you on your side of things?

These rumors have angered him greatly.

Somehow I never got to my chores last night.

and alerted them of our new war engineer.

Gentlemen.

Leonardo Da Vinci.

And judging by the direction of that breeze,

That he is not a leader of a republic

Well, is there no-one else?

And one only I can aid in reuniting you with.

Oh!

Is it defense or burial that you intend as its fate?

Don't bother, Nico. He doesn't know.

This ring belongs to you, doesn't it?

..a key piece in unlocking her puzzle.

..where I am forced to take your life, Girolamo.

Signora, you seem to be a sunrise behind.

What use is a slattern like this with the Pazzis about to seize control of Florence?

A clue from the Turk about the Book of Leaves sends Leonardo to Wallachia, where he encounters Vlad Dracula. Lorenzo and Piero meet the Duke of Urbino. The search for the true spy continues.

First I see Father Simeon. Simeon? No wonder you feel bad!

I told him enough. Listen, I gotta go. I'll catch you later.

You want some? You should, you're looking kinda peaky.

A matter of opinion.

I'm calling the doctor. I don't need one.

Galvin. He was talking about Galvin.

Mina's a bit exotic. Simeon passed on or out and I'm responsible?

So? So treat me with a bit more respect.

I know what you're thinking, not my scene.

What was the message? Dunno. She wouldn't say.

Will you do that? That would make him very happy.

Well, your man Jay takes no prisoners. I have to see you.

In that case I feel sorry for you, Luke.

The boy's arriving now. You promised you'd be here.

Come in.

Watch and wait. One day soon I'll send you a messenger.

A young associate of mine

I thought you were supposed to be on leave.

What a pretty room. There's such a thing as a professional code.

You're not a real researcher.

Oh, no, Mr Galvin, violence won't help.

'Those that offer friendship will not always be what they seem.

The car went off the road. Jay was unconscious.

Look at you. You're in a right old state.

In my own time and in my own way.

Is that it, Mr Galvin?

The car was on fire.

If this is true, why has he never told me?

'There are dragons out there. I wish I could keep you safe.

Lorenzo orders Piero da Vinci to defend his estranged son in court. During a performance for visiting royalty, Leonardo surprises the corrupt judge. Back at his workshop, Leonardo is surprised by the Turk.

Only our business together is.

like others I've heard of in this region?

Plants have devised a way to exploit it.

which her friar clearly longs to do.

Which was the appropriate forum for raising any objections.

stem from a wellspring of ignorance.

When you tax a crime, you make it a commodity.

Two hours of moral instruction? No.

- Bring me a transcription. - Is this wise, Excellency?

- It was for my silence. - Your silence?

buying drinks for the establishment's entire clientele?

I can't pass a guilty verdict without appearing corrupt myself.

Yeah, not in Florence.

Genesis, artista? I'm shocked you got that far.

Thus I ask the court to consider no other sentence but death.

You have let your hatred for the Medicis cloud your purpose.

that's wall to wall nun-sluts and horny priests?

..so that his eternal soul is separated from his perverted body.

Not without certain sacrifices...

I followed the specifications but your guess is as good as mine.

Have you given any thought to what will happen if it doesn't work?

and petitioners mark on the bench to indicate their place in line.

Prepare our production so that only the bawdy and vulgar stories remain.

Dying regimes flail dramatically in their death throes.

Whatever am I to do?

A romantic assignation requires the appropriate light.

to be held in safekeeping in the event of my death.

bears a lasting record of your infamy

To the friends who make it possible.

My experiments and curiosities, they're...

That one... was goodbye.

In a land with no name, across the seas.

- It was a sodomy charge. - I know.

In my pursuits, love is a liability.

Bechhi is accused of being a spy for Rome. The armies of Rome and Florence face off, and Leonardo reveals his latest weapon.

for 100 ducats.

There's perspective.

You can't take your eyes off that.

from the Medici Bank to my own,

He's been with our family his entire life.

And your answer?

uses alum from these mines to fix the dye.

Making each soldier's death indistinguishable from the last?

This is a casus belli,

He's a simple man, sir. I doubt he can read.

I think I have a cat in my bag.

Someone has to pray for the condemned.

when all your enemy knows is killing...

War engineer, actually.

Lorenzo's grandfather, Cosimo.

Well, what do you want me to do?

Who lived in the shadow of his father, Cosimo.

the Turks were forced to flee.

drive someone toward a similar agony.

Come here.

She said that their magic

you decided that, did you? You little...

- Da Vinci. - Nico...

Bombard's really only as good as one's ability to lob it."

doesn't carry fireworks, of course.

the draw strength needed to actually fire the damn thing

A few years.

implicating Lorenzo's lover.

The vial speaks for itself.

Once he confirms the charges, make your arrest.

Every time I find myself looking for da Vinci,

Christian iconography, but it's also

And the magician is leading me to it.

Our republic represents the cutting edge of inquiry.

Riario engages the Pope and a mysterious prisoner in a discussion concerning the count's defeat, while Leonardo searches for a rational explanation when an outbreak of demonic possession occurs at a convent, and the blame is placed on the Medicis.

I said that you hold her in high regard.

Goodnight.

Look down here on the left.

- Why wasn't I consulted? - It was incidental.

Only Da Vinci's guns will.

- What has befallen this woman? - Demons, signor.

Leonardo, they're beginning to putrefy.

- Well, I'm not a child, Andrea. - Yet you pursue this folly

The violence of her movements, her screeching,

If we can speak anywhere freely, it's here, in our family chapel.

and now a traitor in our midst.

That's what's brought the Devil to our doorstep.

Are you for God?

Soon they may call me by other names.

In my last letter to my family, I told them this:

No, no, no,

No. I know how he summons you.

There is a conspirator in our court.

- Our travels? - Forgive my indelicacy,

- I know why you came. - Eternal Word of God made flesh.

I think it is time to cleanse this dear soul as well.

Matters of state obsess me.

Many of the Sisters here do.

enable us to see clearly what may previously have been hidden.

a distinct sensation of being burned, as if by hellfire.

Well, all you need to do is kiss the feet of Saint Anthony to prove me wrong.

I think he's starting to respond.

I now know a great many things, Cardinal.

Show me now, Conti, or I'll think it's you with something to hide.

Leonardo continues his quest for the Book of Leaves. The Pope’s nephew arrives and meets his spy. Leonardo’s war designs fail, causing a rift with the Medicis. The Pope learns of Leonardo’s prowess.

We have met, haven't we?

The Turk said to start my quest with the hanged man.

Your heritage contains you.

It's not as if I don't have affection for him.

- Good luck. - Mmm.

Over there, third shelf from the top,

No, it's done a great deal, actually.

Soldiers advancing on Florence.

The materials alone will cost another 200 florins.

of the Holy Roman Church,

I wanted to demonstrate a remarkable device

Very well. Another turn.

Andrea: Leonardo!

Our visitor was expected.

And one final thing.

is the Holy Father himself.

I want your men to surround this building,

Maestro, did you not hear what Lorenzo said?

Thought so.

No, the narrative doesn't hold up,

could you describe what you heard that night?

The Jew wasn't fearful, he was searching for something.

to orient oneself towards the opposite cardinal direction,

We have a treacherous road ahead, my friends.

If you think the greatest mind in all of Europe

a stipend of 50 florins.

Francesco Salviati.

Or perhaps... ah.

I don't often attend affairs such as this.

in the myriad ways of exploiting it.

lies knowledge.

but I prefer it wild,

I'm sorry.

No, the fact that you just killed six of the Papal Guard

And I trust we can rely on his discretion.

Rising artisan Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned by the powerful Medici to create an Easter spectacle in Florence. After some maneuvering, da Vinci is hired to engineer war machines. A mysterious Turk intrigues Leonardo.

is my mother's face.

She's newly liberated from the Convent of St Anthony.

They say the Duke deflowered his niece.

No, Most Holy Father.

They say you're quite the free-thinker.

the same shoddy pageantry

Lorenzo's mistress.

- It clears my head. - It clouds it.

Look, Nico. There she is again.

I'm wounded, Nico.

A suspension between life and death and then perhaps...

that compels me to intervene whenever stupidity rears its head, so...

I return to Constantinople the day after tomorrow.

(Sighs)

And much as I may wish to disavow you,

And...you will never achieve greatness.

well done.

He said you could find him at the Roman ruins,

long before Christ.

- She was a servant girl. - She was a slave.

My hands and face...

is enter.

She insisted that you and none other be the one to...

Propulsion is achieved by two men, who are housed within.

I have no interest in waging war.

once one glimpses the gears beneath its face.

I need to examine it.

Probably the oldest family in Florence,

..is why would a noblewoman

and then I proceed accordingly.

You could strap yourself into this...

Fuck me again, Leonardo.