Calling All Stand-Ins
Calling All Stand-Ins is a memory in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
Description
Ezio and La Volpe inquire about the whereabouts of Pietro Rossi, who is to be murdered by Cesare Borgia's butcher, Micheletto. Unable to locate Pietro, Ezio instead finds Micheletto and trails him to the various locations where he meets with his men and gives them their costumes for the play. Using his apprentices, Ezio kills and gathers the costumes from Michelletto's men and prepares to infiltrate the play at the Colosseum
Dialogue
Suspicion
La Volpe converses with one of his spies.
- La Volpe: Where is Pietro?
- Spy: I cannot tell you. But Micheletto waits at the city gates east of the Terme di Traiano (Baths of Trajan). He intends to disguise his men to make the killing look like an accident.
- Ezio: He will lead me to Lucrezia's lover.
- La Volpe: Ezio, Machiavelli has betrayed us. We would both wish to deny it, but the truth is now clear. Do what needs to be done. If you don't, I will.
La Volpe refuses to aid Ezio any further, and Ezio decides to use his recruits as support.
Execution
Ezio reaches the Porta Nomentana in his search for Micheletto. He finds him, along with Cesare and his guards, with a prisoner, Francesco Troche.
- Francesco: Please, I have done nothing.
- Cesare: Francesco Troche, dear friend. Would I lie to you? You told your brother about my war plan in Romagna, who contacted the ambassador of Venezia.
- Francesco: It was an accident. I am still your servant and ally.
- Cesare: Are you demanding that I discount your actions and rely on friendship?
- Francesco: I am asking... not demanding.
- Cesare: To unite Italia, I must have every institution under my control. And if the Church does not fall in the line, I will eliminate it entirely.
- Francesco: You know that I really work for you, not the Pope.
- Cesare: Ah. But do I, Troche? There's only one way I can know that unconditionally now.
- Francesco: You intend to kill me? Your most loyal friend?
- Cesare: Of course not.
- Francesco: Are you letting me go? Thank you, Cesare. You will not regret- (Francesco is strangled to death by Micheletto).
- Cesare: Guards! Give Micheletto the costumes for the play. Lucrezia is mine. No one else shall have her. (to Micheletto) Make doubly sure it is done correctly.
- Micheletto: I obey, Cesare.
- Cesare: Oh yes. Dump Francesco's body in the Tevere (Tiber).
Delivery
Ezio follows Micheletto as he delivers the costumes for the play to his men around Roma.
- Micheletto: Once you get dressed, you follow me to the play'.Capito? (Understand?)
Tieni. (Here.)
This is for you.
Il tuo costume (Your costume.)
Micheletto arrives at the Colosseum, unaware that his men have been replaced by Assassins. He speaks with the guards stationed at the gates.
- Micheletto: I seek Pietro.
- Guard: He acts on stage, Signore (Sir). One of my men will take you to him.
- Micheletto: (to the disguised Assassin) Don't forget, I wear the black shirt. Protect me and wait for Pilate's call to the Centurion to strike.
Outcome
Ezio discovers where Pietro is to be killed and all of Micheletto's men are assassinated by Ezio's recruits, who enter the Colosseum disguised in costumes for the play.
Trivia
- To achieve full Synchronization, the player should use the Assassin recruits to assassinate the targets.