It was shrewd of him to stay away from Rome until today. One outspoken newspaper interview could have written Tedesco off. Instead, he will do well tomorrow, I think.

Conclave (2024)
CARDINAL SABBADIN
A screenplay character in Conclave (2024).
- lines
- 18
- words
- 431
- scenes
- 5
- dialogue
- 4.7%
- avg words / line
- 24
- shortest / longest
- 5 / 55
source review flagged 1 dialogue line
Sample dialogue
But you can’t win either. Even if we delivered you all of Aldo’s fifteen votes - which I don’t believe we could - you’d still be in third place, behind Tremblay and Tedesco. No-one has enough traction to catch either of the front- runners. So, since we all agree that Tedesco would be a disaster...
scene 104, source scene 91 — INT. CASA SANTA MARTA - BACK STAIRS - NIGHTLet’s... let’s not mention women.
scene 43, source scene 38 — INT. CASA SANTA MARTA - AULA - NIGHTRocco, you talk to the Americans. Villanueva, I’ll leave the South Americans to you. Gianmarco, you take the Africans. And, obviously, no mention of women.
scene 43, source scene 38 — INT. CASA SANTA MARTA - AULA - NIGHTWhat am I supposed to tell them in Milan when they start to discover our new Pope’s social views?
scene 92, source scene 79 — INT. CASA SANTA MARTA - DINING ROOM - DAYAlright, that’s five votes coming to us, which takes us to twenty- two. All the candidates who received one vote today will fall away. Tha t leaves thirty-one votes available. We simply have to pick up most of them.
scene 72, source scene 64 — I/E. MINIBUS - LATE AFTERNOON
Bookends
You have wasted this report! We could have used it to control Tremblay after he was elected Pope. All you have done is strengthen Tedesco.