Stop now.
Tell me where it is.
You and your brethren possess what is not rightfully yours.
l don't know what you are talking about.
ls it a secret you will die for?
-Please. -As you wish.
Wait!
My god, forgive me.
ln the sacristy...
...the church of Saint-Sulpice, is the Rose Line.
Beneath the Rose.
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?
lnterpret for me, please, this symbol. First thing that comes to mind.
-Hatred, racism. -Ku Klux Klan.
Yes, yes, interesting. But they would disagree with you in Spain.
There, they are robes worn by priests.
Now this symbol. Anyone?
Evil.
ln English, please.
Devil's pitchfork.
Poor, poor Poseidon.
That is his trident. A symbol of power to millions of the ancients.
Now this symbol.
-Madonna and child. -Faith. Christianity.
No. No, it's the pagan god Horus and his mother, lsis...
...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.
My son is a student of yours at Harvard.
-Michael Culp? He adores you. -Oh, yeah.
He says you're the best teacher he's ever had.
Ms. Culp, l think l already gave Michael an A-minus.
He told me. Thank you.
Mr. Langdon?
Hi.
Bonjour, professor.
l'm Lieutenant Collet from DCPJ. A kind of French FBl.
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?
l was supposed to have drinks with him.
Yes, we know.
We found your name in his daily planner.
He never showed. l 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 Sauniere did to himself.
Teacher, all four are dead.
The senechaux and the grand Master himself.
Then l assume you have the location.
Confirmed by all.
lndependently.
l had feared the Priory's penchant for secrecy might prevail.
The prospect of death is strong motivation.
lt is here.
ln Paris, Teacher.
lt hides beneath the Rose in Saint-Sulpice.
You will go forth, Silas.
l chastise my body.
Capitaine Fache is waiting for you.
Okay.
-Mr. Langdon. -Yes.
l'm Captain Bezu Fache.
You like our pyramid?
lt's magnificent.
A scar on the face of Paris.
After me, please.
lt's the pairing of those two pyramids.
lt's unique.
The two are geometric echoes.
Fascinating.
l'm not sure how much help l'm gonna be here this evening.
How well did you know the curator?
Not very well.
Frankly, l was surprised when he contacted me.
Could we take the stairs?
So Sauniere requested tonight's meeting.
Yes.
How? Did he call you?
E-mail. He heard l was in Paris.
Had something to discuss.
What?
You seem uncomfortable.
The grand gallery. This is where you found the body.
How would you know that?
l recognize the parquet floor from the Polaroid. lt's unmistakable.
Dear god.
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.
-Why are some media referring--? -That will be all, Michael, thank you.
Aringarosa.
Silas has succeeded. The legend is true.
lt hides beneath the Rose.
My part of our bargain is nearly fulfilled.
l meet the council in an hour.
l will have your money tonight, Teacher.
The Vitruvian Man.
lt'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. The pentacle before that.
This is a symbol for Venus.
lt represents the female half of all things--
You are telling me that Sauniere's last act on earth...
...was to draw a goddess symbol on his chest? Why?
Captain Fache, obviously l can't tell you why.
l can tell you he, as well as anyone, knows the meaning of this symbol...
...and it has nothing to do with worshiping the devil.
-ls that so? -Yes.
Then...
...what do you make of this?
''O, Draconian devil. Oh, lame saint.''
lt'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, l suppose l'd try to identify my killer.
Precisely.
So, professor--
Officer Neveu.
Please, pardon the interruption.
This is not the time.
l received the crime-scene jpegs at headquarters...
...and l've deciphered the code.
lt's a Fibonacci sequence.
That's the code Sauniere left on the floor.
Headquarters sent me to explain, captain.
lt is the Fibonacci sequence.
The numbers are out of order.
But before that, l have an urgent message for Professor Langdon.
Right?
Pardon me?
l'm Sophie Neveu, French police, Cryptology.
Your embassy called Division.
l'm sorry, monsieur, they said it was a matter of life and death.
This is the number of your embassy's messaging service.
Well, thank you.
Hello, you've reached the home of Sophie Neveu.
Miss Neveu? This....
No. That's the right number.
You have to dial an access code to pick up your messages.
But l'm getting--
lt's a three-digit code. lt's on the paper l gave you.
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.
Church of Saint-Sulpice.
Good evening, Sister.
l 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.
lt would be my pleasure.
There's been an accident. A friend.
l have to fly home in the morning.
l see.
ls there a restroom l could use? l just wanna splash some water on my face.
Yes.
She said it is meaningless.
Mathematical joke.
ls it meaningless?
l'll take another look when l come back.
l'm sorry. Of course.
Do you have a message from Sauniere?
What are you talking about?
Crazy old man.
You have me confused with someone else. l 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 l try to run? l 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.
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 Sauniere 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.
And by then whatever Sauniere wanted you to tell me will be useless.
Stop it! Just stop!
Who are you?
Look at the letters.
'' P.S.''
P.S., postscript.
'' Princesse Sophie.'' Silly, l know.
But l was only a girl when l lived with him.
Jacques Sauniere was my grandfather.
Apparently, it was his dying wish that we meet.
lf you help me understand why...
...l 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.
lf we are to get away from here, we must find another way.
What exactly do you propose?
Sauniere was reading his book.
'' Blood trail.''
Excuse me, captain.
We have a problem.
Headquarters didn't send Sophie Neveu.
What?
Captain, look at this.
He jumped!
Shit.
He's moving again. And fast.
He must be in a car.
He's going south on Pont du Carrousel.
Bastard.
That cop will check the whole lower floor.
l will only take a moment.
Of course.
He is much older than l remember.
l 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.
l thought it was another trick to get back in touch.
lt seems when he couldn't speak to me...
...he reached out to you.
-Wait a minute. -Professor?
This is wrong. Yeah. See? This is wrong.
The Fibonacci numbers only make sense when they're in order.
These are scrambled.
lf 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 l can pretty much remember what l see.
Anagram is right.
''O, Draconian devil. Oh, lame saint'' becomes:
'' Leonardo da Vinci. The Mona Lisa.''
Professor, the Mona Lisa is right over here.
Look at this. He must have thrown it from the window.
Smart to hit the truck.
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.
Why?
Well, see, she appears larger from the left than on the right.
Historically, the left was female, the right was male.
There. Blood.
Hey.
''So dark the con of man.''
No. lt doesn't say that.
ls it another anagram? Can you break it?
Professor, hurry. Hurry!
Moon. Sermon. Charms.
Demons. Omens. Codes. Monks. Ranks. Rocks.
Madonna of the Rocks.
Da Vinci.
Careful. Careful.
This can't be this. The fleur-de-lis.
lt was Sauniere's.
l remember finding it once when l 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 k ept 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 lsaac 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.
l can't do this by myself.
l'm in enough trouble as it is. That's my embassy.
Please.
Even if we could get out of this--
Okay.
No, no, no. You're not gonna make it. You're not gonna make it!
Well, that was....
We need to get out of sight.
Christ, give me strength.
You are a ghost.
Christ, give me strength.
Stealing in a house of god!
You are an angel.
Christ, give me strength.
You have powerful friends.
Bishop Aringarosa has been kind to me.
l could not miss this chance to pray inside the Saint-Sulpice.
A pity you couldn't wait for morning.
The light is not ideal.
Tell me, Sister, please, of the Rose Line.
A rose line is any line that goes from the North to South Poles.
Set into the streets of Paris, 1 35 brass markers...
...mark the world's first prime meridian...
...which passed through this very church.
lt hides beneath the Rose.
l'm sorry?
Sister.
l do not want to keep you. l will show myself out.
l insist.
May the peace of the Lord be with you.
And with you.
They found Neveu's car abandoned at the train station.
And two tickets to Brussels paid for with Langdon's credit card.
A decoy, l'm sure.
All the same, send an officer to the station.
Question all the taxi drivers. l'll put this on the wire.
lnterpol? We're not sure he's guilty.
l know he's guilty. Beyond a doubt.
Robert Langdon is guilty.
This is the Bois de Boulogne?
We should be safe in this park for a few minutes.
Stay here.
Police.
What do you want?
Fifty euros for all your stuff.
go and get something to eat.
Did it occur to you that could be dangerous?
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.
l hope not.
Any Priory story ends in bloodshed. They were butchered by the Church.
lt 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 artefact...
... lost since the time of Christ.
An artefact, 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 travelled 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 1 300s, 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 1 3th, 1 30 7. A Friday.
Friday the 1 3th.
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 artefact began again.
What artefact? l've never heard about any of this.
Yes, you have.
Almost everyone on earth has.
You just know it as the Holy grail.
Please, Sauniere 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 lD 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 lD stamp.
lt's a street address.
This is Jacques Sauniere.
Please leave a message after the tone.
Please, Monsieur Sauniere, pick up the phone.
This is Sandrine Bieil.
l have called the list.
l fear the other guardians are dead.
The lie has been told.
The floor panel has been broken.
Please, monsieur, pick up the phone. l beg you.
Job 38, verse 1 1 .
Do you know it, Sister?
Job 38: 1 1 .
Hitherto shalt thou come...
...but no further.
'' But no further.''
Do you mock me?
Where is the keystone?
l 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--
Come, you saints of god.
Hasten, angels of the Lord.
To receive her soul.
And bring her to the sight of the Almighty.
Welcome, bishop.
This council is convened.
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?
l only offer a route to the renewal of faith for all men.
How humble.
Our saviour, Bishop Aringarosa.
How dare you presume to--
l do not presume, l 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.
l was contacted by a man who calls himself only ''the Teacher.''
Two prostitutes identified Langdon and Neveu...
...getting into a taxi in the Bois de Boulogne.
Because of your expertise?
-l'm sorry? -About the Priory.
Do you think that's why Sauniere sought you out?
l can think of dozens of scholars who know a lot more about it.
Actually, l 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?
How may l help you?
The door to the right, please.
good evening. l am Andre Vernet, the night manager.
l take it this is your first visit to our establishment?
Yes.
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.
ls 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 l lost track of my account number?
How might l recover it?
l'm afraid each key is paired with a 1 0-digit number...
...known only to the account bearer.
l hope you manage to remember it.
A single wrong entry disables the system.
-Ten. -Ten.
Your grandfather's Fibonacci sequence.
Scrambled, unscrambled?
Unscrambled.
lt's your key.
Funny, l don't even like history.
l've never seen much good come from looking to the past.
Moment of truth.
My god. l don't believe this.
A rose.
The rose was a symbol for the Holy grail.
Forgive the intrusion.
l'm afraid the police arrived more quickly than l 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.
lt includes a safe-passage clause.
Safe passage?
lf you would step inside, please. Time is of the essence.
ln there?
Hey, is there a problem?
good evening, sir. Police.
l just drive from here to Zurich. Not French, English?
-English? -Yes.
We are looking for two criminals.
You came to the right place. They're all criminals here.
Would you mind opening the hold?
Please. You think they trust us, the wages l get paid?
You don't have keys to your own truck?
lt's armoured. Keys get sent to the destination.
You mind? l'm on a schedule here.
And do all the drivers wear a Rolex?
What?
This piece of shit.
Forty euros in Barbes.
Yours for 35.
No, no, no.
-Thirty. -No. lt's okay, it's okay.
Come on, 30, eh?
l said, no!
Move along!
Now we wait.
The Teacher will call and tell me where to deliver the money.
You have put tremendous faith in this Teacher of yours.
Yes, l have. And l have given him an angel to do his will.
For surely there is no better soldier for god than my Silas.
l 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.
lt's nonsense.
You don't believe in god.
No.
Just people.
Sometimes that they can be kind.
Are you a god-fearing man, professor?
l was raised a Catholic.
Well, that's not really an answer.
Professor, are you okay?
go ahead, open it.
go on.
A cryptex.
They are used to keep secrets.
lt's da Vinci's design.
You write the information on a papyrus scroll...
...which is then rolled around a thin glass vial of vinegar.
lf you force it open, the vial breaks...
...vinegar dissolves papyrus...
...and your secret is lost forever.