Rodrigo Borgia and the Apple of Eden — the game's penultimate confrontation, the highest target in the Pazzi conspiracy chain finally accessible. Called me criminal is the society's verdict on Ezio since the executions: he has been operating outside the law, hunted by the institutions that the Templars control, defined as the threat rather than the response to the threat. Called myself awake is the Creed's counter-reading: the criminal as the person who has seen clearly what the law is for and declined to be contained by it.