Exit Stage Right

Exit Stage Right is a mission in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.

Description
Ezio enters the Colosseum and along with his recruits, dresses up as actors and take to the stage in order to prevent Micheletto from murdering Pietro. Finding Micheletto disguised on stage, Ezio neutralizes him.

The Passion Play

 * Ezio: I must get to Pietro before he does.

Ezio climbs to the top of the Colosseum. Once on top, he makes his way to the backstage, and eliminates every Borgia gunman. Ezio then meets up with his recruits backstage. All this while, the play is going on.
 * Pietro: My god, my god, why hast thou thus forsaken me?
 * Ezio: Merda. Which cross is Pietro's?
 * Guard actor I: Hark, hark how he cryeth upon Elijah to deliver him.
 * Guard actor II: Wait and we shall see whether Elijah dare come here or not.
 * Pietro: My thirst is great, my thirst is great.

A guard actor gives him some wine from a cloth rolled onto the end of his spear. Pietro drinks from this.

Guard actor III: Yea, thou shall drink no more.
 * Pietro: Mighty God in majesty, to work thy will I will neve cease. My spirit I betake to there; receive it, lord, into thy hands. Consummatam est.
 * Centurion: Lords, I say you, this was God's son almighty. I know it must be so. I know by manner of his cry he has fulfilled the prophecy and godhead showed in him.
 * Bishop: Centurion, as God gives me speed, thou must be dalt; thou cannot read. When thou seest his heart bleed, let us see what thou will say. Now, Longyus, take this spear in hand.
 * Centurion : Yes, have this spear and take good heed. Thou must do, as the bishop bade thee, a thing that is full of great need. I will do as he bade me, but on your peril it shall be. What I do I may not see, whether it be evil or good.

Ezio dresses in a costume and leads his recruits to center stage. They move along with other actors without arousing suspicion.


 * Centurion: High king of heaven, I see thee here. On my hand and on my spear running water throw; and on my eyes some can fall that I may see both one and all. Lord where does this water come from?
 * Ezio: (to his recruits) I need to get onstage.
 * Joseph: Ah, lord God, what heart have ye to slay this man that I here see dead, hanging, that never yet did amiss? For surely, God's son is he. Therefore a tomb is made for me therein his buried shall be, for he is king of bliss.
 * Centurion: Sir Joseph, I say surely this is God's son almighty. Go ask Pilate for his body and buried shall he be. I shall help thee to take him down devotedly.
 * Joseph: Sir Pilate, special thee pray a boon thou grant me as thou may. This prophet that is dead today, thou grant me his body.
 * Pilate: Joseph, all ready in good faith! If that Centurion says that he is dead, him will I not deny. (Yelled) Centurion, is Jesus dead?

Micheletto's Plan
When Pilate points towards the Centurion, Ezio recognizes him as Micheletto and moves to stop him.


 * Micheletto: Hah. You cannot save Pietro. The wine he drank was poisoned. As I promised Cesare, I made doubly sure.

Ezio stands and leaves him.


 * Micheletto: I am not yet dead.
 * Ezio: I did not come here to kill you. He who is the cause of someone else becoming powerful is the agent of his own destruction.

Outcome
Micheletto is spared. Ezio Auditore learns that Pietro is dying due to the poison coursing through his veins.

Trivia

 * To achieve full synchronization, no guards other than the gunmen are to be killed.
 * If Ezio does not assassinate Micheletto in time, a cutscene will trigger in which Micheletto stabs Pietro with the spear.