The Best Episodes Written By Neil Jordan

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.5/10(10 votes)

   #1 - The Wolf and the Lamb

   S3:E55/12/2013

   Lucrezia and Micheletto plot the death of King Ferdinand when he refuses her her baby as Cesare's promise of an annulment for Louis X!. gain him a wife and army.

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   7.2/10(9 votes)

   #2 - The Gunpowder Plot

   S3:E96/9/2013

   Lucrezia escapes with Alfonso and her baby from Naples while the Pope corners the market in sulfur, restricting others from manufacturing gunpowder.

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   6.9/10(13 votes)

   #3 - The Beautiful Deception

   S2:E34/22/2012

   Alexander VI refuses to allow a Catholic burial for Paolo, despite his doubts about the stable boy’s suicide, causing Lucrezia to embark on a hunger strike that threatens the life of her infant son; the French army heads back to Rome, allied with Sforza; Della Rovere slips back into the city unnoticed to launch a plot against the Pope’s life.

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   6.7/10(13 votes)

   #4 - The Choice

   S2:E55/6/2012

   Cesare deals with the cunning Sforzas decisively; Alexander disguises himself and travels to Florence to hear the fiery preacher Savonarola, not realizing that Della Rovere is trying to recruit the rebellious holy man to his cause.

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   6.6/10(13 votes)

   #5 - Stray Dogs

   S2:E44/29/2012

   Cesare recruits a band of mercenaries with the help of Micheletto to seek revenge on the retreating French troops for burning the nunnery where his beloved Ursula lived; the Pope forges more strategic alliances and enriches himself in the bargain; Lucrezia joins Giulia's quest to aid Rome's poor.

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   6.6/10(12 votes)

   #6 - The Purge

   S3:E24/21/2013

   Alexander tasks Cardinal Sforza with purging the College of Cardinals, old Roman families conspire against the Pope, and Lucrezia tries to seduce Cesare.

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   6.5/10(13 votes)

   #7 - Paolo

   S2:E24/15/2012

   The stable boy who fathered Lucrezia's child travels to Rome to rendezvous with her but suffers an unfortunate fate at the hands of Juan; the Pope's lovers Giulia and Vittoria take him in disguise on a revelatory tour of Rome's indigent.

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   6.4/10(14 votes)

   #8 - The Borgia Bull

   S2:E14/8/2012

   Pope Alexander VI takes a new lover and throws a grand, pagan fete for the citizens of Rome when a cache of ancient artifacts is discovered; the rivalry between brothers Cesare and Juan spills into the streets; Lucrezia tends to her newborn child; now a pastoral priest once again, Della Rovere narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.

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   6.4/10(12 votes)

   #9 - The Prince

   S3:E106/16/2013

   Micheletto returns to Cesare briefly to help him destroy the walls of Forli and capture Caterina Sforza and later recruit her assassin Rufio.

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    6.3/10(12 votes)

    #10 - Tears of Blood

    S3:E86/2/2013

    Micheleto learns his kept lover is a Sforza informant, Caterina Sforza mounts the Shroud of Turin as a rival holy relic, and Alfonso puts Lucrezia under house arrest.

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    6.2/10(11 votes)

    #11 - Lucrezia's Gambit

    S3:E75/26/2013

    After the French king occupies a deserted Milan, he tasks Cesare with killing Ludivico, and Lucretia becomes involved in Neapolitan palace intrigue.

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