[###]
[FOOTSTEPS RUNNING]
[PANTING]
[GRUNTS]
[ALARM BEEPING]
Stop now.
Tell me where it is.
You and your brethren possess what is not rightfully yours.
I... I don't know what you are talking about.
Is it a secret you will die for?
Please. As you wish.
Wait!
[GASPS]
[IN FRENCH] My God, forgive me.
In the sacristy...
the church of Saint-Sulpice, is the Rose Line.
Beneath the Rose.
SILAS: Thank you.
[GRUNTING]
[###]
[GRUNTING]
LANGDON: Thank you.
Symbols are a language that can help us understand our past.
As the saying goes, a picture says a thousand words,
but which words?
Interpret for me, please, this symbol. First thing that comes to mind. Anybody.
WOMAN 1: Hatred, racism. MAN 1: Ku Klux Klan.
Yes, yes, interesting. But they would disagree with you in Spain.
There, they are robes worn by priests.
[CROWD MURMURING]
Now this symbol. Anyone?
MAN 2: Evil.
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
In English, please.
Devil's pitchfork.
Poor, poor Poseidon.
That is his trident. A symbol of power to millions of the ancients.
Now this symbol.
WOMAN 2: Madonna and child. Faith. Christianity.
No. No, it's the pagan god Horus and his mother, Isis,
centuries before the birth of Christ.
Understanding our past determines actively
our ability to understand the present.
So how do we sift truth from belief?
How do we write our own histories, personally or culturally,
and thereby define ourselves?
How do we penetrate years, centuries, of historical distortion
to find original truth?
Tonight, this will be our quest.
WOMAN: My son is a student of yours at Harvard.
Michael Culp? He adores you. LANGDON: Oh, yeah.
WOMAN: He says you're the best teacher he's ever had.
LANGDON: Ms. Culp, I think I already gave Michael an A-minus.
WOMAN: He told me. Thank you.
Mr. Langdon?
Hi.
Bonjour, professor.
I'm Lieutenant Collet from DCPJ. A kind of French FBI.
Will you take a look at this photo, please?
My police chief, Capitaine Fache, had hoped,
considering your expertise and the markings on the body,
you might assist us.
[###]
Will you excuse me a moment?
I was supposed to have drinks with him earlier this evening.
Yes, we know.
We found your name in his daily planner.
He never showed. I waited for over an hour.
Why would someone do this to him?
Oh, you misunderstand, professor.
He was shot, yes.
But what you see in the photograph,
Monsieur Saunière did to himself.
SILAS [IN LATIN]: Teacher, all four are dead.
The sénéchaux and the Grand Master himself.
TEACHER [IN LATIN OVER PHONE]: Then I assume you have the location.
Confirmed by all.
Independently.
I had feared the Priory's penchant for secrecy might prevail.
The prospect of death is strong motivation.
It is here.
In Paris, Teacher.
It hides beneath the Rose in Saint-Sulpice.
You will go forth, Silas.
[PHONE HANGS UP]
[SPEAKS IN SPANISH]
[GASPING]
[GRUNTING]
[SPEAKING IN LATIN]
[IN LATIN] I chastise my body.
[YELLS]
[GRUNTING]
[MUSIC PLAYING AND MAN SINGING IN FRENCH OVER RADIO]
COLLET: Capitaine Fache is waiting for you.
Okay.
[###]
FACHE: Mr. Langdon. Yes.
I'm Captain Bezu Fache.
You like our pyramid?
It's magnificent.
A scar on the face of Paris.
After me, please.
LANGDON: Uh...
It's the pairing of those two pyramids.
It's unique.
The two are geometric echoes.
Fascinating.
I'm not sure how much help I'm gonna be here this evening.
FACHE: How well did you know the curator?
LANGDON: Not very well.
Frankly, I was surprised when he contacted me.
[MAN SPEAKING IN FRENCH OVER RADIO]
[###]
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
Could we take the stairs?
So Saunière requested tonight's meeting.
Yes.
How? Did he call you?
LANGDON: E-mail. He heard I was in Paris.
Had something to discuss.
What?
You seem uncomfortable.
LANGDON: Ah, the Grand Gallery. This is where you found the body.
How would you know that?
I recognize the parquet floor from the Polaroid. It's unmistakable.
[###]
Dear God.
MAN: Let's cover the talking points again, Your Eminence.
Many call Opus Dei a brainwashing cult.
Others, an ultraconservative Christian secret society.
Obviously, some people fear what they don't understand.
Perhaps a less defensive tack, Your Eminence.
The press continue to be harsh with us.
We are not Cafeteria Catholics.
We don't pick and choose which rules to follow.
We follow doctrine. Rigorously.
Does doctrine necessarily include vows of chastity, tithing
and atonement for sins through self-flagellation and the cilice?
Many of our followers are married. Many of them have families.
Only a small proportion choose to live ascetic lives.
[PHONE RINGS]
Why are some media referring..? That will be all, Michael, thank you.
Aringarosa.
TEACHER [IN LATIN OVER PHONE]: Silas has succeeded. The legend is true.
It hides beneath the Rose.
My part of our bargain is nearly fulfilled.
ARINGAROSA [IN LATIN]: I meet the council in an hour.
I will have your money tonight, Teacher.
LANGDON: The Vitruvian Man.
It's one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous sketches.
And the star on his skin?
A pentacle.
And its meaning?
The pentacle is a pagan religious icon.
Devil worship.
No. No, no, no, no, no. The pentacle before that.
This is a symbol for Venus.
It represents the female half of all things...
You are telling me that Saunière's last act on earth
was to draw a goddess symbol on his chest? Why?
Captain Fache, obviously I can't tell you why.
I can tell you he, as well as anyone, knows the meaning of this symbol,
and it has nothing to do with worshiping the devil.
Is that so? Yes.
Then...
what do you make of this?
LANGDON: "O, Draconian devil. Oh, lame saint."
It's a phrase. Doesn't mean anything, not to me.
What would you do if you had such limited time to send a message?
Well, I suppose I'd try to identify my killer.
[IN FRENCH] Precisely.
[IN ENGLISH] So, professor...
[WOMAN SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
FACHE [IN FRENCH]: Officer Neveu.
[IN ENGLISH] Please, pardon the interruption.
[IN FRENCH] This is not the time.
[IN FRENCH] I received the crime-scene jpegs at headquarters
and I've deciphered the code.
It's a Fibonacci sequence.
That's the code Saunière left on the floor.
Headquarters sent me to explain, captain.
LANGDON: It is the Fibonacci sequence.
SOPHIE [IN FRENCH]: The numbers are out of order.
[IN ENGLISH] But before that, I have an urgent message for Professor Langdon.
Right? Hm? Pardon me?
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
I'm Sophie Neveu, French police, Cryptology.
Your embassy called Division.
[###]
Um...
I'm sorry, monsieur, they said it was a matter of life and death.
This is the number of your embassy's messaging service.
LANGDON: Well, thank you.
[SOPHIE AND FACHE SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
SOPHIE [IN FRENCH ON MESSAGE]: Hello, you've reached the home of Sophie Neveu.
Miss Neveu? This...
[IN ENGLISH] No. That's the right number.
You have to dial an access code to pick up your messages.
But I'm getting...
It's a three-digit code. It's on the paper I gave you.
[###]
SOPHIE [IN ENGLISH ON MESSAGE]: Professor Langdon, do not react to this message.
You must follow my directions very closely and, above all,
reveal nothing to Captain Fache.
You are in grave danger.
[PHONE RINGING]
[IN FRENCH] Church of Saint-Sulpice.
MAN [IN FRENCH OVER PHONE]: Good evening, Sister.
I need you to show someone our church tonight.
Of course, Father.
But so late?
Wouldn't tomorrow?
This is a request from an important bishop of Opus Dei.
It would be my pleasure.
[WIND WHISTLING]
[SHUTTERS BANG]
[###]
There's been an accident. A friend.
I have to fly home in the morning.
FACHE: I see.
Is there a restroom I could use? I just wanna splash some water on my face.
Yes.
She said it is meaningless.
Mathematical joke.
Is it meaningless?
I'll take another look when I come back.
I'm sorry. Of course.
[SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE]
Do you have a message from Saunière?
What are you talking about?
Crazy old man.
You have me confused with someone else. I came here to...
Check your jacket pocket.
Just look.
GPS tracking dot.
Accurate within two feet anywhere on the globe.
The agent who picked you up slipped it into your jacket...
in case you tried to run.
We have you on a little leash, professor.
Why would I try to run? I didn't do anything.
So, what do you think about the fourth line of text
Fache wiped clean before you arrived?
He brought you here to force a confession, Professor Langdon.
[COLLET SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[IN FRENCH] He's still in there? What's he doing?
Fache isn't even looking for other suspects, okay?
He is sure you're guilty.
When did Saunière contact you?
Today? Yes, yes.
What time? What time?
At 3. Around 3. Three.
We call Fache "the Bull." Once he starts, he doesn't stop.
He can arrest you and detain you for months while he builds a case.
Miss Neveu... And by then whatever Saunière
wanted you to tell me will be useless.
Lady, stop it! Just stop!
Who are you?
Look at the letters.
"P.S."
P.S., postscript.
"Princesse Sophie." Silly, I know.
But I was only a girl when I lived with him.
Jacques Saunière was my grandfather.
Apparently, it was his dying wish that we meet.
If you help me understand why,
I will get you to your embassy, where we cannot arrest you.
Fache was never gonna let me just stroll out of here, was he?
No.
If we are to get away from here, we must find another way.
What exactly do you propose?
[COLLET SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
FACHE [IN FRENCH]: Saunière was reading his book.
"Blood trail."
[IN FRENCH] Excuse me, captain.
We have a problem.
Headquarters didn't send Sophie Neveu.
What?
Captain, look at this.
COLLET: He jumped!
Shit.
[###]
COLLET [IN FRENCH OVER RADIO]: He's moving again. And fast.
He must be in a car.
He's going south on Pont du Carrousel.
Bastard.
[SIRENS WAILING]
[###]
[MAN SPEAKING IN FRENCH OVER RADIO]
That cop will check the whole lower floor.
I will only take a moment.
Of course.
He is much older than I remember.
I hadn't seen or spoken to him in a very long time.
He phoned my office today. Several times.
He said it was a matter of life and death.
I thought it was another trick to get back in touch.
It seems when he couldn't speak to me...
he reached out to you.
Wait a minute. Professor?
LANGDON: This is wrong. Yeah. See? This is wrong.
The Fibonacci numbers only make sense when they're in order.
These are scrambled.
If he was trying to reach out, maybe he was doing it in code.
Would you hold this, please?
This phrase is meaningless.
Unless you assume these letters are out of order too.
An anagram.
You have eidetic memory?
Not quite. But I can pretty much remember what I see.
Whoa.
Anagram is right.
"O, Draconian devil. Oh, lame saint" becomes:
"Leonardo da Vinci. The Mona Lisa."
Professor, the Mona Lisa is right over here.
[CAR HORNS HONKING AND WHISTLE BLOWING]
COLLET [IN FRENCH]: Look at this. He must have thrown it from the window.
Smart to hit the truck.
[IN FRENCH] What, you admire him now?
We're stupid. Who did we leave at the museum?
Ledoux? Get him on the radio!
Her smile is in the lower spatial frequencies.
The horizon is significantly lower on the left than it is on the right.
SOPHIE: Why?
Well, see, she appears larger from the left than on the right.
Historically, the left was female, the right was male.
SOPHIE: There. Blood.
[###]
Hey.
"So dark the con of man."
No. It doesn't say that.
Is it another anagram? Can you break it?
[CLATTERING]
Professor, hurry. Hurry!
LANGDON: Moon. Sermon. Charms.
Demons. Omens. Codes. Monks. Ranks. Rocks.
Madonna of the Rocks.
Da Vinci.
Careful. Careful.
This... This can't be this. The fleur-de-lis.
[MAN SPEAKING IN FRENCH OVER RADIO]
[###]
[SIRENS WAILING]
SOPHIE: It was Saunière's.
I remember finding it once when I was a girl.
He'd promised he'd give it to me one day.
Have you ever heard those words before, Sophie?
"So dark the con of man"?
No. Have you?
When you were a child, were you aware of any secret gatherings?
Anything ritualistic in nature?
Meetings your grandfather would've wanted kept secret?
Was there ever any talk of something called the Priory of Sion?
The what? Why are you asking these things?
The Priory of Sion is a myth.
One of the world's oldest and most secret societies, with leaders like
Sir Isaac Newton, da Vinci himself.
The fleur-de-lis is their crest.
They're guardians of a secret they supposedly refer to
as "the dark con of man."
But what secret?
The Priory of Sion protects the source of God's power on earth.
[GASPS]
[TIRES SCREECH]
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
I can't do this by myself.
I'm in enough trouble as it is. That's my embassy.
Please.
Even if we could get out of this...
Okay.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[OFFICERS YELLING IN FRENCH]
No, no, no. You're not gonna make it. You're not gonna make it!
Well, that was...
[YELLING IN FRENCH]
We need to get out of sight.
[###]
[IN LATIN] Christ, give me strength.
[FATHER YELLING]
[MOTHER SCREAMING]
[SILAS YELLING IN SPANISH]
FATHER: Aah!
[IN SPANISH] You are a ghost.
[IN LATIN] Christ, give me strength.
[PRISONERS YELLING]
ARINGAROSA [IN SPANISH]: Stealing in a house of God!
[SILAS SPEAKS IN LATIN]
[IN SPANISH] You are an angel.
[IN LATIN] Christ, give me strength.
SANDRINE: You have powerful friends.
Bishop Aringarosa has been kind to me.
I could not miss this chance to pray inside the Saint-Sulpice.
SANDRINE: A pity you couldn't wait for morning.
The light is not ideal.
Tell me, Sister, please, of the Rose Line.
SANDRINE: A rose line is any line that goes from the North to South Poles.
Set into the streets of Paris, 135 brass markers
mark the world's first prime meridian,
which passed through this very church.
It hides beneath the Rose.
I'm sorry?
Sister.
I do not want to keep you. I will show myself out.
I insist.
May the peace of the Lord be with you.
And with you.
[IN FRENCH] They found Neveu's car abandoned at the train station.
And two tickets to Brussels paid for with Langdon's credit card.
[IN FRENCH] A decoy, I'm sure.
All the same, send an officer to the station.
Question all the taxi drivers. I'll put this on the wire.
Interpol? We're not sure he's guilty.
I know he's guilty. Beyond a doubt.
Robert Langdon is guilty.
[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
LANGDON: This is the Bois de Boulogne?
SOPHIE: We should be safe in this park for a few minutes.
[###]
[BANGING]
[SILAS GRUNTING]
SILAS: No!
Stay here.
[IN FRENCH] Police.
[IN FRENCH] What do you want?
Fifty euros for all your stuff.
Go and get something to eat.
Okay.
Did it occur to you that could be dangerous?
[IN ENGLISH] No. And now we have a place to think.
Any ideas, professor?
You could've just handed me a piece of a UFO from Area 51.
"What's the next step?"
With him, it's always:
"Sophie, what's the next step?"
Puzzles.
Codes.
A treasure hunt.
To find his killer.
Maybe there is something about this Priory of Sion.
I hope not.
Any Priory story ends in bloodshed. They were butchered by the Church.
It all started over a thousand years ago when a French king
conquered the holy city of Jerusalem.
This crusade, one of the most massive and sweeping in history,
was actually orchestrated by a secret brotherhood,
the Priory of Sion,
and their military arm, the Knights Templar.
But the Templars were created to protect the Holy Land.
That was a cover to hide their true goal, according to this myth.
Supposedly the invasion was to find an artifact
lost since the time of Christ.
An artifact, it was said, the Church would kill to possess.
Did they find it, this buried treasure?
Put it this way:
One day the Templars simply stopped searching.
They quit the Holy Land and traveled directly to Rome.
Whether they blackmailed the papacy
or the Church bought their silence, no one knows.
But it is a fact the papacy declared these Priory knights,
these Knights Templar, of limitless power.
By the 1300s, the Templars had grown too powerful.
Too threatening.
So the Vatican issued secret orders
to be opened simultaneously all across Europe.
The Pope had declared the Knights Templar Satan worshipers
and said God had charged him with cleansing the earth of these heretics.
The plan went off like clockwork.
The Templars were all but exterminated.
The date was October 13th, 1307. A Friday.
SOPHIE: Friday the 13th.
LANGDON: The Pope sent troops to claim the Priory's treasure,
but they found nothing.
The few surviving Knights of the Priory had vanished
and the search for their sacred artifact began again.
What artifact? I've never heard about any of this.
Yes, you have.
Almost everyone on earth has.
You just know it as the Holy Grail.
Please, Saunière thought he knew the location of the Holy Grail?
Maybe more than that.
This cross and the flower, this could be very old. But look.
This metal here underneath is much newer, and there's a modern ID stamp.
"Haxo 24."
And these dots. These dots are read by a laser.
This is more than a pendant. This is a key your grandfather left you.
He left us, professor.
And vingt-quatre Haxo, it's not an ID stamp.
It's a street address.
SAUNIÈRE [IN FRENCH ON MESSAGE]: This is Jacques Saunière.
Please leave a message after the tone.
[MACHINE BEEPS]
SANDRINE [IN FRENCH]: Please, Monsieur Saunière, pick up the phone.
This is Sandrine Bieil.
I have called the list.
I fear the other guardians are dead.
The lie has been told.
The floor panel has been broken.
Please, monsieur, pick up the phone. I beg you.
SILAS: Job 38, verse 11.
Do you know it, Sister?
Job 38:11.
Hitherto shalt thou come...
but no further.
"But no further."
[###]
Do you mock me?
Where is the keystone?
I do not know.
No.
You are a sister of the Church...
and yet you serve them: the Priory.
Jesus had but one true message. That...
Aah!
[IN LATIN] Come, you saints of God.
Hasten, angels of the Lord.
To receive her soul.
And bring her to the sight of the Almighty.
MAN: Welcome, bishop.
This council is convened.
[ALL SPEAKING IN LATIN]
PREFECT: Our words shall never pass these walls.
What business, say you?
As you know, my request for funds...
Yes, 20 million euro in untraceable bearer bonds.
A tad more than petty cash. Wouldn't you say, bishop?
I only offer a route to the renewal of faith for all men.
PRIEST: How humble.
Our savior, Bishop Aringarosa.
How dare you presume to...
I do not presume, I act!
The Vatican's unwillingness to support us
is both impious and cowardly.
Blood is being spilled because true Christian values lie in ruins. No more!
This council has forgotten its very purpose.
Tonight...
the Grail will be destroyed.
The Priory's few remaining members will be silenced.
[###]
I was contacted by a man who calls himself only "the Teacher."
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
COLLET [IN FRENCH OVER PHONE]: Two prostitutes identified Langdon and Neveu
getting into a taxi in the Bois de Boulogne.
SOPHIE: Because of your expertise?
I'm sorry? About the Priory.
Do you think that's why Saunière sought you out?
LANGDON: I can think of dozens of scholars who know a lot more about it.
Actually, I didn't think he liked me very much.
Once made a joke at my expense. Got a big laugh out of it.
What was it?
[DOOR OPENS]
[GUARD AND SOPHIE SPEAK IN FRENCH]
[IN FRENCH] How may I help you?
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
The door to the right, please.
[DOOR BUZZES AND OPENS]
[DOOR OPENS]
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
Good evening. I am André Vernet, the night manager.
I take it this is your first visit to our establishment?
Yes.
[IN ENGLISH] Understood.
Keys are often passed on and first-time users
are sometimes uncertain of protocol.
Keys are essentially numbered Swiss accounts.
Often willed through generations.
[###]
Is it yours, mademoiselle?
The shortest safety-deposit-box lease is 50 years.
And what's your longest account?
Quite a bit longer.
Technologies change, keys are updated.
Once the computer confirms your key,
enter your account number and your box is retrieved.
The room is yours, as long as you like.
What if I lost track of my account number?
How might I recover it?
I'm afraid each key is paired with a 10-digit number
known only to the account bearer.
I hope you manage to remember it.
A single wrong entry disables the system.
Ten. Ten.
Your grandfather's Fibonacci sequence.
[###]
Scrambled, unscrambled?
Unscrambled.
It's your key.
Funny, I don't even like history.
I've never seen much good come from looking to the past.
Moment of truth.
[MACHINE WHIRRING]
LANGDON: My God. I don't believe this.
A rose.
The rose was a symbol for the Holy Grail.
Forgive the intrusion.
I'm afraid the police arrived more quickly than I anticipated.
You must follow me, please.
For your own safety.
You knew they were coming?
My guard alerted me to your status when you arrived.
Yours is one of our oldest and highest-level accounts.
It includes a safe-passage clause.
Safe passage?
If you would step inside, please. Time is of the essence.
In there?
[WHISTLE BLOWING]
VERNET: Hey, is there a problem?
[IN FRENCH] Good evening, sir. Police.
[IN FRENCH] I just drive from here to Zurich. Not French, English?
[IN ENGLISH] English? [IN ENGLISH] Yes.
We are looking for two criminals.
You came to the right place. They're all criminals here.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Would you mind opening the hold?
VERNET: Please. You think they trust us, the wages I get paid?
COLLET: You don't have keys to your own truck?
VERNET: It's armored. Keys get sent to the destination.
You mind? I'm on a schedule here.
And do all the drivers wear a Rolex?
What?
This piece of shit.
Forty euros in Barbès.
Yours for 35.
No, no, no.
Thirty. No. It's okay, it's okay.
Come on, 30, eh?
I said, no! VERNET: Okay.
COLLET: Move along!
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
ARINGAROSA: Now we wait.
The Teacher will call and tell me where to deliver the money.
PREFECT: You have put tremendous faith in this Teacher of yours.
Yes, I have. And I have given him an angel to do his will.
For surely there is no better soldier for God than my Silas.
[###]
SILAS [IN LATIN]: I firmly resolve, with the help of thy grace, to confess my sins,
to do penance and to amend my life.
Amen.
The Holy Grail.
A magic cup. The source of God's power on earth.
It's nonsense.
You don't believe in God.
No.
Just people.
Sometimes that they can be kind.
[GEARS GRINDING]
Are you a God-fearing man, professor?
I was raised a Catholic.
Well, that's not really an answer.
Professor, are you okay?
Go ahead, open it.
Go on.
[SOPHIE GASPS]
A cryptex.
They are used to keep secrets.
It's da Vinci's design.
You write the information on a papyrus scroll,
which is then rolled around a thin glass vial of vinegar.
If you force it open, the vial breaks,
vinegar dissolves papyrus...
and your secret is lost forever.
The only way to access the information
is to spell out the password
with these five dials, each with 26 letters.
That's 12 million possibilities.
I've never met a girl who knew that much about a cryptex.
Saunière made one for me once.
My grandfather gave me a wagon.
This clearly is not the Holy Grail.
Come on.
Please, you're not all right.
May I try something?
I don't know why it works.
My mother used to do it when I was scared, I think.
You think?
Yes.
[###]
WOMAN [IN FRENCH]: Feeling better, Sophie?
My parents died in a car crash with my brother.
I was 4.
I'm sorry.
It was many years ago.
Better?
Yeah.
Okay.
[BRAKES SQUEAKING]
[LOCK CLICKS]
Twenty years waiting for someone to come for that box,
and now it's you two murderers. Bring it to me.
I don't know what you're talking about.
All right! Okay!
Right now!
[###]
Step back!
No one will lose sleep over a couple on a killing spree.
Turn around.
Turn around!
You too, mademoiselle.
[DOOR SLAMS]
[GRUNTING]
[GROANS]
Sophie!
Get in the truck!
I'll drive! Hurry!
What happened between you and your grandfather, exactly?
I've jammed my shoulder, I've been shot at, I'm bleeding.
I need to know.
You say he raised you, but you two don't talk anymore.
You call him by his last name.
You say you hate history.
Nobody hates history. They hate their own histories.
So now you're a psychologist too?
What if Saunière had started to groom you for the Priory?
What do you mean, groom me?
Your grandfather gave you puzzles and cryptex as a child.
So you are saying all this is real? The Priory, the Holy Grail?
We've been dragged into a world of people who think this stuff is real.
Real enough to kill for. Who?
I'm out of my field here.
I do know a Grail historian, absolutely obsessed with Priory myth.
An Englishman, lives here in France.
Do you trust this man?
I hope you can.
Vernet, André.
[IN FRENCH] It seems you're not a driver at all.
Apparently, you lost your tongue along with your truck.
You think you're in pain now, André Vernet?
My cause is worth your life. Understand?
[IN FRENCH] What do you want?
Your truck carries a homing device. Activate it.
[###]
MAN 1 [OVER SPEAKER]: Please wait. I'll see if he's available.
It's on the wrong side.
Leigh likes all things to be English, including his cars.
MAN 2: Robert! Do I owe you money?
Leigh, my friend,
care to open up for an old colleague?
Of course. Thank you.
But first, a test of honor.
Three questions.
Fire away.
Your first:
Shall I serve coffee or tea?
Tea, of course.
Excellent.
Second: milk or lemon?
Milk?
That would depend on the tea.
Correct.
And now the third and most grave of inquiries:
In which year did a Harvard sculler outrow an Oxford man at Henley?
Surely such a travesty has never occurred.
Your heart is true.
You may pass.
[SIGHS]
Welcome to Château Villette.
[SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
MAN [IN FRENCH OVER PHONE]: The truck's signal is coming online.
[IN FRENCH] It's about time.
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TECHNICIAN [IN FRENCH]: Locked on and tracking, sir.
Very good. Tell Collet not to move in until I get there.
TECHNICIAN: Attention! All of Collet's units to Château Villette.
TECHNICIAN [OVER RADIO]: The suspects Neveu and Langdon are likely at that location.
[PHONE RINGING]
ARINGAROSA [OVER PHONE]: Aringarosa.
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I still don't know why he put you into this...
and I'm sorry.
But I'm...
I'm also very glad.
You are requested to make yourself at home.
TEABING: Robert!
And you travel with a maiden, it seems.
Sir Leigh Teabing, may I present Miss Sophie Neveu.
Sophie, Sir Leigh Teabing.
[IN FRENCH] It's an honor to welcome you...
even though it's late.
Thank you for having us. I realize it's quite late.
[IN ENGLISH] So late, mademoiselle, it's almost early.
What a lovely smile you have.
Earl Grey?
Lemon.
Correct.
[TEABING LAUGHS]
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[HORN BLARING]
[PHONE RINGING]
[SPEAKS IN SPANISH]
[IN SPANISH] Château Villette. Yes.
TEABING: A dramatic late-night arrival.
What can an old cripple do for you, Robert?
We wanna talk about the Priory of Sion.
The keepers?
The secret war?
Sorry for all the mystery.
Leigh, I'm into something here that I cannot understand.
You? Really?
LANGDON: Not without your help.
Playing to my vanity, Robert. You should be ashamed.
Not if it works.
There are always four:
The Grand Master and the three sénéchaux
make up the primary guardians of the Grail.
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Thank you, Remy. That'll be all for now.
The Priory's members span our very globe itself.
Philippe de Chérisey exposed that as a hoax in 1967.
And that is what they want you to believe.
The Priory is charged with a single task:
To protect the greatest secret in modern history.
The source of God's power on earth.
TEABING: No, that's a common misunderstanding.
The Priory protects the source of the Church's power on earth:
The Holy Grail.
I don't understand.
What power? Some magic dishes?
[TEABING CHUCKLES]
Robert. Has he been telling you that the Holy Grail is a cup?
[###]
[CAR HORNS HONKING]
The Good Book did not arrive by facsimile from heaven.
[ALL CHUCKLING]
The Bible as we know it was finally presided over by one man:
The pagan emperor Constantine.
I thought Constantine was a Christian.
Oh, hardly, no. He was a lifelong pagan
who was baptized on his deathbed.
Constantine was Rome's supreme holy man.
From time immemorial,
his people had worshiped a balance between nature's male deities
and the goddess, or sacred feminine.
But a growing religious turmoil was gripping Rome.
Three centuries earlier,
a young Jew named Jesus had come along,
preaching love and a single God.
Centuries after his crucifixion,
Christ's followers had grown exponentially
and had started a religious war against the pagans.
Or did the pagans commence war against the Christians?
Leigh, we can't be sure who began the atrocities in that period.
But we can at least agree that the conflict grew to such proportions
that it threatened to tear Rome in two.
So Constantine may have been a lifelong pagan,
but he was also a pragmatist.
And in 325 anno Domini,
he decided to unify Rome under a single religion, Christianity.
Christianity was on the rise. He didn't want his empire torn apart.
And to strengthen this new Christian tradition,
Constantine held a famous ecumenical gathering
known as the Council of Nicaea.
And at this council,
the many sects of Christianity debated and voted on, well,
everything, from the acceptance and rejection of specific gospels
to the date for Easter
to the administering of the sacraments, and of course,
the immortality of Jesus.
I don't follow.
Well, ma chère, until that moment in history,
Jesus was viewed by many of his followers as a mighty prophet,
as a great and powerful man, but a man nevertheless.
A mortal man.
Not the Son of God?
Not even his nephew twice removed.
Constantine did not create Jesus' divinity.
He simply sanctioned an already widely held idea.
Semantics. No, it's not semantics.
You're interpreting facts to support your own conclusions.
Fact: For many Christians, Jesus was mortal one day and divine the next.
For some Christians, his divinity was enhanced.
Oh, absurd. There was even a formal announcement of his promotion.
They couldn't even agree on the Nicene Creed!
Excuse me! Excuse me. "Who is God, who is man?"
[###]
How many have been murdered over this question?
As long as there has been a one true God,
there has been killing in his name.
Now let me show you the Grail.
I trust you recognize The Last Supper,
the great fresco by Leonardo da Vinci.
Now, my dear, if you would close your eyes.
Oh, Leigh, save us the parlor tricks.
You asked for my help, I recall.
Allow an old man his indulgences.
Now, mademoiselle, where is Jesus sitting?
In the middle. Good.
He and his disciples are breaking bread.
And what drink?
Wine. They drank wine.
Splendid. And one final question:
How many wineglasses are there on the table?
One? The Holy Grail?
TEABING: Open your eyes.
No single cup.
No chalice.
Well, that's a bit strange, isn't it?
Considering both the Bible and standard Grail legend
celebrate this moment as the definitive arrival of the Holy Grail.
Hmm.
Now, Robert, you could be of help to us.
If you'd be so kind as to show us the symbols for man and woman, please.
Oh. No balloon animals. Huh. I can make a great duck.
This is the original icon for male. It's a rudimentary phallus.
Quite to the point. Yes, indeed.
This is known as the blade.
It represents aggression and manhood.
It's a symbol still used today in modern military uniforms.
Yes, the more penises you have, the higher your rank. Boys will be boys.
Now, as you would imagine, the female symbol is its exact opposite.
This is called the chalice.
And the chalice resembles a cup or vessel or, more importantly,
the shape of a woman's womb.
No, the Grail has never been a cup.
It is quite literally this ancient symbol of womanhood.
And in this case, a woman who carried a secret so powerful
that if revealed, it would devastate the very foundations of Christianity.
Wait, please.
You're saying the Holy Grail is a person? A woman?
[###]
And it turns out, she makes an appearance right there.
But they are all men.
TEABING: Are they?
What about that figure on the right hand of our Lord,
seated in the place of honor?
Flowing red hair.
Folded feminine hands.
Hint of a bosom. No?
[BOTH SPEAK IN FRENCH]
It's called scotoma. The mind sees what it chooses to see.
Who is she?
My dear, that's Mary Magdalene.
The prostitute?
She was no such thing.
Smeared by the Church in 591 anno Domini, poor dear.
Mary Magdalene was Jesus' wife.
[GRUNTS]
[###]
This is an old wives' tale.
The original one, in fact.
LANGDON: There's virtually no empirical proof.
He knows as well as I do there's much evidence to support it.
Theories. There are theories.
Notice how Jesus and Mary are clothed.
Mirror images of each other.
The mind sees what it chooses to see.
And venturing into the even more bizarre, notice how Jesus and Mary
appear to be joined at the hip and are leaning away from each other
as if to create a shape in the negative space between them.
Leonardo gives us the chalice.
Yes. Oh, and Robert, notice what happens
when these two figures change position.
Just because da Vinci painted it doesn't make it true.
No. But history,
she does make it true.
Now, listen to this. It's from the Gospel according to Philip.
Philip?
Yes, it was rejected at the Council of Nicaea,
along with any other gospels that made
Jesus appear human and not divine.
"And the companion of the Savior is Mary Magdalene.
Christ loved her more than all the disciples
and used to kiss her on the..."
But this says nothing of marriage.
Well, actually, um...
Robert.
Actually, in those days, the word "companion" literally meant "spouse."
And this is from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene herself.
She wrote a gospel? She may have.
Robert, will you fight fair? She may have.
"And Peter said, 'Did he prefer her to us?'
And Levi answered:
'Peter, I see you contending against a woman like an adversary.
If the Savior made her worthy, who are you, indeed, to reject her?"'
Yes. And then, my dear, Jesus goes on to tell Mary Magdalene
that it's up to her to continue his Church.
Mary Magdalene, not Peter.
The Church was supposed to be carried on by a woman.
Few realize that Mary was descended from kings, just as her husband was.
Now, my dear, the word in French for Holy Grail.
[SOPHIE SPEAKS IN FRENCH]
From the Middle English "Sangreal,"
of the original Arthurian legend.
Now, as two words. Can you translate for our friend?
Sang real, it means "royal blood."
TEABING: When the legend speaks of the chalice that held the blood of Christ,
it speaks in fact of the female womb that carried Jesus' royal bloodline.
But how could Christ have a bloodline, unless..?
Mary was pregnant at the time of the Crucifixion.
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TEABING: For her own safety and for that of Christ's unborn child,
she fled the Holy Land and came to France.
[MARY SCREAMING]
And here, it is said, she gave birth to a daughter, Sarah.
They know the child's name.
A little girl. Yes.
If that were true, it's adding insult to injury.
Why?
The pagans found transcendence through the joining of male to female.
People found God through sex?
LANGDON: In paganism, women were worshiped as a route to heaven,
but the modern Church has a monopoly on that
in salvation through Jesus Christ.
And he who keeps the keys to heaven rules the world.
Women, then, are a huge threat to the Church.
The Catholic Inquisition soon publishes
what may be the most blood-soaked book in human history.
The Malleus Maleficarum.
The Witches' Hammer.
It instructed the clergy on how to locate, torture and kill
all freethinking women.
LANGDON: In three centuries of witch hunts,
50,000 women are captured, burned alive at the stake.
TEABING: Oh, at least that. Some say millions.
Imagine, then, Robert,
that Christ's throne might live on in a female child.
You asked what would be worth killing for.
Witness the greatest cover-up in human history.
This is the secret that the Priory of Sion
has defended for over 20 centuries.
They are the guardians of the royal bloodline.
The keepers of the proof of our true past.
They are the protectors of the living descendants of Jesus Christ...
and Mary Magdalene.
[INTERCOM BEEPING]
REMY [OVER INTERCOM]: Sir Leigh?
Sometimes I wonder who is serving whom.
His sauces are not that fantastic.
TEABING [OVER INTERCOM]: Yes, can I help you?
Yes. They're on the news now.
Living descendants? Is it possible?
It's not impossible.
You have not been honest with me. Your pictures are on the television.
You are wanted for four murders!
That's why Vernet said "killing spree."
You come into my home, playing on my passions for the Grail.
That's why he needed you, Sophie. You will leave my house!
LANGDON: Leigh, listen! No, I'm calling the police.
Jacques Saunière was her grandfather.
You're the obsessive Priory scholar, Leigh.
You still keep lists of who might be in the Priory?
I'll bet Jacques Saunière was on one of those lists.
He was on your list of who could be Grand Master, wasn't he?
What? I'll bet he was right at the top.
Consider: Four men murdered? The same number as the guardians.
What if the Priory was compromised, the other sénéchaux dead?
What if you yourself were dying, a Grand Master?
You'd have to pass the secret on to someone you could trust.
Someone outside the society.
Maybe someone whose training you had begun but never finished.
Robert, your ruse is pathetic.
Not really.
No, that's impossible.
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Can that really..?
Is it the keystone?
I'll even show it to you, Leigh.
Will you just tell us what the hell it's for?
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[COLLET SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
[IN FRENCH] Fache says to wait, so I wait.
OFFICER [IN FRENCH]: What's Fache thinking? The truck is here. They're inside.
Oh...
Yes.
As the legend foretold:
"It hides beneath the Rose."
Oh, my.
[PANTS]
TEABING: Oh!
LANGDON: Leigh.
[TEABING MUTTERING INDISTINCTLY]
Leigh? Hm?
Please.
I'm sorry. Yes, of course.
Inside the keystone...
there'll be a map.
A map that will lead us to the Holy Grail.
[###]
To be trained by the Grand Master himself.
Did he pass down the fleur-de-lis? Is that how you found this?
And he must have sung you the riddle songs.
I know some of them.
[HUMMING]
Can you keep secrets?
Can you know a thing and never say it again?
And codes?
I imagine they lie down for you like lovers.
[TEABING CHUCKLING]
A sénéchal. A guardian of the Grail right here in my own home.
Okay. Tell him, please. I don't know any of this.
Leigh, it's not that simple. She doesn't rem...
[BOTH GRUNTING]
SOPHIE: Robert!
Do not move, woman.
Cripple.
Put the box on the table.
What, this trifle?
Well, perhaps we can make a financial arrangement.
Put the keystone on the table.
You will not succeed.
Only the worthy can unlock the stone.
[SILAS YELLS]
[IN FRENCH] Rip the gate down.
[SOPHIE PANTING]
Well, well, my dear.
[LANGDON GRUNTING]
Sit down.
Are you okay? Yeah, yeah.
Are you? Yeah.
Yes, well, make yourself useful, you French fool.
Get something to restrain this monster.
Above the joint.
Fortunately, a dragon most easy to slay.
He's wearing a cilice.
A what? TEABING: Well, look.
[LANGDON GROANS]
Inflicts pain so he can suffer as Christ suffered.
Opus Dei.
Fache is Opus Dei.
The policeman who's chasing us. He wears the cross in the world.
Robert.
Well, I must say, you two are anything but dull.