In 1606, Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio murdered a man in a street brawl — and instead of facing justice, he fled Rome with powerful Cardinals quietly smoothing his path to pardon. This episode unpacks how the Catholic Church's desperate need for propaganda art made Caravaggio essentially too valuable to prosecute, and what that unholy transaction between genius and institutional power tells us about who actually gets to commit violence without consequence. Last week we watched the French Academy weaponize taste; this week we watch the Vatican weaponize forgiveness.