Al Mualim: There are rules. We are nothing if we do not abide by the Assassin’s Creed. Three simple tenets, which you seem to forget. I will remind you. First and foremost: ‘Stay your blade…’

Altaïr: ’…from the flesh of an innocent.’ I know.

Al Mualim: And stay your tongue, unless I give you leave to use it! If you are so familiar with this tenet, then why did you kill the old man inside the Temple? He was innocent! He did not need to die. Your insolence knows no bounds. Make humble your heart child, or I swear I will tear it from you with my own hands!

The second tenet is that which gives us strength: ‘Hide in plain sight.’ Let the people mask you such that you become one with the crowd. Do you remember? Because as I hear it, you chose to expose yourself, drawing attention before you struck! 

The third and final tenet, the worst of all your betrayals: ‘Never compromise the Brotherhood.’ It’s meaning should be obvious. Your actions must never bring harm upon us, direct or indirect! Yet your selfish act beneath Jerusalem placed us all in danger. Worse still, you brought the enemy to our home! Every man we lost today, was lost because of you!