"For centuries, the Order of the Knights Templar have searched for the mythical Apple of Eden." "They believe it contains not only the seeds of man's first disobedience, but the key to free will itself." "If they find the relic and decode its secrets, they will have the power to control all human thought." "Only a brotherhood called the Assassins stands in their way ..." "Andalusia, Spain 1492" "The Inquisition has finally delivered Spain to the Templars." "Sultan Muhammad and his people still hold out in Granada." "But if his son, the prince, is captured, he will surrender the city and the Apple of Eden." "Do you, Aguilar de Nerha, swear to honor our Brotherhood in the fight for freedom?" "To defend mankind against the Templars' tyranny, and preserve free will?" "I swear." "If the Apple falls into their hands, the Templars will destroy everything that stands in their way." "Protest, dissent, our right to think for ourselves." "Swear to me that you will sacrifice your life and the lives of everyone here to keep it from them." "Yes, Mentor." "Our own lives are nothing." "The Apple is everything." "The spirit of the Eagle will watch over the future." "Where other men blindly follow the truth, remember:" "nothing is true." "Where other men are limited by morality or law, remember:" "everything is permitted." "We work in the dark to serve the Light." "We are Assassins." "Baja California, Mexico 1986" "30 years later" "Huntsville Penitentiary Texas, United States" "Our mission is the boy." "It is the prince." "Which household harbored the boy?" "Just me." "Nobody else knew he was there." "Hang his family and make him watch." "And burn the whole village." "With the prince of Granada as captive, his father, the Sultan, will surrender his rebellious city, the last safe haven for the infidels." "God ..." "will punish his people's heresy!" "Finally, Spain will be under one Templar rule!" "Aguilar!" "The boy!" "Aguilar, the child!" "Soon, they will conquer Granada." "Sultan Muhammad is weak." "He will surrender the Apple and betray the Creed to save the prince." "Love makes us weak." "I will gladly sacrifice my flesh and blood for the survival of the Creed." "If I die just now, do not waste your tears for me." "The Lord speaks." "And he said," ""If a man abide not in me, he is cast into fire" "and turned into ashes!"" "For decades, you have lived in a world torn apart by religious discord." "But soon, thanks to God and the Inquisition," "we will eradicate this evil!" "The sinners before you have sought to defend the heretic prince of Granada." "The last repellent heathen stronghold in our holy war." "And so today, before our King and Queen," "I swear that we shall purify ourselves in the holy fire of God!" "Behold ..." "God's will!" "You will watch your mentor burn, and then you will die slowly." "Give glory to the future." "And not to us." "Damned heretics!" "Don't let them escape!" "For the Creed." "Our own lives are nothing." "All that matters is what we leave behind." "Sultan ... surrender the Apple." "Your Assassin protectors are gone." "The Creed is finished." "My son." "Here lies the seed of man's first disobedience." "The key to free will itself!" "Thanks to the Apple of Eden, the known world" "will be ushered into a new age." "One age of peace, in which all the warring populations of mankind shall bow in perfect obedience" "to our Templar rule." "The Apple." "Give it back to him." "Now." "For the Creed." "Go!" "Forgive me." "It's over!" "The Assassins died for it." "Protect it with your life." "I am a friend of the Creed." "Take it to the grave." "I swear." "Grand Lodge of the Templars, London"