Warning: The following article contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Conclave.Conclave director Edward Berger pulls back the curtain on the significance of its final twist. The Ralph Fiennes-starring Catholic thriller ends with the surprising election of Cardinal Vincent Benitez (Carlos Diehz) as Pope after it was revealed that Cardinal Tremblay (John Lithgow) purposefully sent a nun to the Vatican to tarnish Cardinal Adeyemi’s (Lucian Msamati) reputation. However, after his election, Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) learns that Benitez is intersex, and the Pope paid for him to have the female parts of his body removed. Lawrence chooses to keep this a secret when Benitez tells him that he refused treatment because it is how God made him to be.