The only way to access the information...
...is to spell out the password...
...with these five dials, each with 26 letters.
That's 1 2 million possibilities.
l've never met a girl who knew that much about a cryptex.
Sauniere 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 l try something?
l don't know why it works.
My mother used to do it when l was scared, l think.
You think?
Yes.
Feeling better, Sophie?
My parents died in a car crash with my brother.
l was 4.
l'm sorry.
lt was many years ago.
Better?
Yeah.
Okay.
Twenty years waiting for someone to come for that box...
...and now it's you two murderers. Bring it to me.
l 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.
Sophie!
get in the truck!
l'll drive! Hurry!
What happened between you and your grandfather, exactly?
l've jammed my shoulder, l've been shot at, l'm bleeding.
l 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 Sauniere 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?
l'm out of my field here.
l do know a grail historian, absolutely obsessed with Priory myth.
An Englishman, lives here in France.
Do you trust this man?
l hope you can.
Vernet, Andre.
lt seems you're not a driver at all.
Apparently, you lost your tongue along with your truck.
You think you're in pain now, Andre Vernet?
My cause is worth your life. Understand?
What do you want?
Your truck carries a homing device. Activate it.
Please wait. l'll see if he's available.
lt's on the wrong side.
Leigh likes all things to be English, including his cars.
Robert! Do l owe you money?
Leigh, my friend...
...care to open up for an old colleague?
-Of course. -Thank you.
But first, a test of honour.
Three questions.
Fire away.
Your first.'
Shall l 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.'
ln 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.
Welcome to Chateau Villette.
The truck's signal is coming online.
lt's about time.
Locked on and tracking, sir.
Very good. Tell Collet not to move in until l get there.
Attention! All of Collet's units to Chateau Villette.
The suspects Neveu and Langdon are lik ely at that location.
Aringarosa.
l still don't know why he put you into this...
...and l'm sorry.
But...
...l'm also very glad.
You are requested to make yourself at home.
Robert!
And you travel with a maiden, it seems.
Sir Leigh Teabing, may l present Miss Sophie Neveu.
Sophie, Sir Leigh Teabing.
lt's an honour to welcome you...
...even though it's late.
Thank you for having us. l realize it's quite late.
So late, mademoiselle, it's almost early.
What a lovely smile you have.
Earl grey?
Lemon.
Correct.
Chateau Villette. Yes.
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, l'm into something here that l cannot understand.
You?
-Really? -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 senechaux...
...make up the primary guardians of the grail.
Thank you, Remy. That'll be all for now.
The Priory's members span our very globe itself.
Philippe de Cherisey exposed that as a hoax in 1 967.
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.
No, that's a common misunderstanding.
The Priory protects the source of the Church's power on earth:
The Holy grail.
l don't understand.
What power? Some magic dishes?
Robert. Has he been telling you that the Holy grail is a cup?
The good Book did not arrive by facsimile from heaven.
The Bible as we know it was finally presided over by one man:
The pagan emperor Constantine.
l 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.
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 v oted 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.
l don't follow.
Well, ma chere, 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.
Absurd. There was a formal announcement of his promotion.
They couldn't even agree on the Nicene Creed!
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.
l 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 parlour tricks.
You asked for my help, l recall.
Allow an old man his indulgences.
Now, mademoiselle, where is Jesus sitting?
-ln 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?
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.
Now, Robert, you could be of help to us.
lf you'd be so kind as to show us the symbols for man and woman, please.
No balloon animals. l can make a great duck.
This is the original icon for male. lt's a rudimentary phallus.
-Quite to the point. -Yes, indeed.
This is known as the blade.
lt represents aggression and manhood.
lt'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.
lt 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.
Are they?
What about that figure on the right hand of our Lord...
...seated in the place of honour?
Flowing red hair.
Folded feminine hands.
Hint of a bosom. No?
lt'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.
This is an old wives' tale.
The original one, in fact.
There's virtually no empirical proof.
He knows as well as l 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. lt'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 Saviour 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....
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, l see you contending against a woman like an adversary.
lf the Saviour 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.
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.''
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.
For her own safety and for that of Christ's unborn child...
...she fled the Holy Land and came to France.
And here, it is said, she gave birth to a daughter, Sarah.
They know the child's name.
-A little girl. -Yes.
lf 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?
ln 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 lnquisition soon publishes...
... what may be the most blood-soak ed book in human history.
The Malleus Maleficarum.
The Witches' Hammer.
lt instructed the clergy on how to locate, torture and kill...
...all freethinking women.
ln three centuries of witch hunts...
... 50, 000 women are captured, burned alive at the stak e.
Oh, at least that. Some say millions.
lmagine, 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.
Sir Leigh?
Sometimes l wonder who is serving whom.
His sauces are not that fantastic.
Yes, can l help you?
Yes. They're on the news now.
Living descendants? ls it possible?
lt'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. -You will leave my house!
-Leigh, listen! -No, l'm calling the police.
Jacques Sauniere was her grandfather.
You're the obsessive Priory scholar.
You still keep lists of who might be in the Priory?
l'll bet Jacques Sauniere was on one of those lists.
He was on your list of who could be grand Master, wasn't he?
-What? -l'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 senechaux 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.
Can that really--?
ls it the keystone?
l'll even show it to you, Leigh.
Will you just tell us what the hell it's for?
Fache says to wait, so l wait.
What's Fache thinking? The truck is here. They're inside.
Yes.
As the legend foretold:
'' lt hides beneath the Rose.''
Oh, my.
Leigh.
Leigh?
Please.
l'm sorry. Yes, of course.
lnside 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? ls that how you found this?
And he must have sung you the riddle songs.
l know some of them.
Can you keep secrets?
Can you know a thing and never say it again?
And codes?
l imagine they lie down for you like lovers.
A senechal. A guardian of the grail right here in my own home.
Tell him, please. l don't know any of this.
Leigh, it's not that simple. She doesn't rem--
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.
Rip the gate down.
Well, well, my dear.
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? -Well, look.
lnflicts 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, l must say, you two are anything but dull.
Leigh?
You want what's in this box?
We need a way out of here.
Well, actually...
...l do have a plane.
-Robert! Where do we go? -Come along.
-ln here. Come in. -Over here.
Get the door. Hurry.
Over here. Over here. Sophie.
Watch out!
Be careful.
Come, Rem--
Shit.
Easy.
Jesus!
Apropos.
I can't imagine what your compIaint is.
I'd be within my rights to shoot you and Iet you rot in my woods!
Put that away. We might need him.
Better.
Opus Dei.
-What is it? -A conservative CathoIic sect.
Opus Dei is a preIature to the Vatican.
You're saying the Vatican is kiIIing peopIe for this box?
No, no, no. Not the Vatican...
...and not Opus Dei, but we are in the middIe of a war.
And one that has been going on forever.
On the one side stands the Priory...
...and on the other an ancient group of despots...
...with members hidden in high-ranking positions...
...throughout the Church.
And this CounciI of Shadows tries to destroy proof of the bIoodIine.
And that throughout history, they seek out and kiII...
...the Iiving descendants of Jesus Christ.
-That's insane. -Is it?
What if the worId discovers...
...that the greatest story ever toId is actuaIIy a Iie?
The Vatican faces a crisis of faith unprecedented.
I've got a signaI now, sir. It's ringing.
Roger, Iook, I'm so sorry. I've got tired of the weather here in France...
...and couId you make the pIane ready for...
...Zurich.
Yes. No, we Iove Zurich.
What the heII do you mean, you Iost them? CoIIet.
You're the one who Iost them.
You controI every step of this investigation.
You don't Iet anybody breathe.
You're acting Iike you Iost your mind.
What is it with these two birds?
InterpoI just registered a new fIight pIan from Le Bourget.
Stay out of my way on this, CoIIet.
Did you kiII Jacques Sauniere?
I am the messenger of God.
Did you kiII my grandfather?
I am the messenger--
Each breath you take is a sin.
No shadow wiII be safe again.
For you wiII be hunted by angeIs.
You beIieve in God?
Your God doesn't forgive murderers.
He burns them.
Sophie.
The Teacher wiII be pIeased.
What wiII you do once you have the GraiI?
Destroy it.
The documents and the sarcophagus, of course.
And the heir?
WiII you exercise the finaI edict? SpiII his bIood?
There wiII be no need.
Once the sarcophagus is destroyed, DNA testing wiII be impossibIe.
There is no way to prove a Iiving bIoodIine.
But if you had to...
...wouId you do as counciIs have done before us?
Christ....
Christ sacrificed his Iife for the betterment of humanity.
So, too, may be the fate of his seed.
I need the fIight pIan.
Ten minutes.
I asked you to get it for me.
I'm on break.
Come back in 1 0 minutes.
My nose! My nose!
The fIight pIan, pIease.
You asshoIe!
It's not ''cross.''
''Spear''?
What happened to her?
No one knows.
Mary Magdalene lived out her days in hiding.
And the zeaIots pursued her stiII...
...even in death, trying to destroy proof of her existence.
But she aIways had her Knights.
Brave men sworn to defend her.
You see, to worship before her sarcophagus...
... to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene...
...was to remember aII those who were robbed of their power...
...who were oppressed.
UItimateIy, the Priory hid her remains and the proof of her bIoodIine...
...untiI most beIieved her sarcophagus...
... the Holy grail...
...was finaIIy Iost in time.
What are you doing?
At the chateau, you said, '' It hides beneath the Rose.''
No, no, no. Do be carefuI.
In Latin, sub rosa. LiteraI transIation....
'' Beneath the rose.''
We need a mirror.
Backwards. In the styIe of Leonardo himseIf.
Thank you.
In London lies a knight a Pope interred
His labour's fruit a Holy wrath incurred
You seek the orb that ought be on his tomb
It speaks of rosy flesh and seeded womb
'' In London Iies a knight a Pope interred''?
A knight whose funeraI was presided over by the Pope.
Of course, the Priory knights were not just any knights.
TempIars.
And there's just one pIace to bury a TempIar knight in London.
TempIe Church.
If you'II excuse me, my dear...
...Roger and I must discuss a change in fIight pIan.
Leigh.
Harbouring and transporting fugitives?
You are aIready impIicated enough.
You and I, Robert, have observed history.
Time has been our gIass.
We are in history now. Living it.
Making it.
'' ImpIicated''?
I am on a GraiI quest.
Forgive me, Robert...
...but you two may weII have given this oId man...
...the greatest night of his Iife.
Thank you.
He's going to want more money.
I suppose this is a new technique for investigations.
I've Iost them. They fIew to SwitzerIand.
No extradition.
The controIIer fiIed charges. Ari was on dispatch. He caIIed me.
What's going on, Bezu?
You know that I am Opus Dei?
Yes.
A bishop of my order caIIed me.
He said a kiIIer came to him in confession.
His name was Robert Langdon.
He said I couIdn't imagine the eviI in this man's heart.
That he wouId keep kiIIing.
He said I had to stop him.
The bishop broke his vows to teII me this.
He charged me to stop Robert Langdon.
TeII me, CoIIet, who have I faiIed?
The bishop?
God himseIf?
They've changed their fIight pIan to London.
I have them, tower. ReIay Hawker to Iand and hoId on tarmac.
-Secure the area! -Wider!
-Armed poIice! -You two, round the back!
Armed poIice! Put your hands in the air!
-Three men up! -Ready!
Put your hands in the air! Do it now!
I'm afraid that's easier said than done in my case.
Oh, good morning.
Did that oId cannabis charge finaIIy catch up with me?
Sir, the French poIice say you're transporting fugitives...
...and you may have a hostage onboard.
I'm to take you aII into custody.
SadIy, I have an important medicaI appointment which I can't miss.
I'II fetch the car, sir.
This is serious, sir. The French poIice are on their way. Stop!
Inspector, I can't afford the time to induIge your games.
I'm Iate and I'm Ieaving.
If it's so important for you to stop us...
...then you're just going to have to shoot us.
You can start with him.
Search the pIane.
AII right.
I couId run them over.
Bad tip.
Let him go.
The French cannot be trusted.
Everyone comfy?
Biscuits?
They didn't notice anything?
WeII, peopIe rareIy notice things right in front of their eyes, don't you find?
Do you have the bonds, bishop?
Yes, I do, Teacher.
I have chosen an Opus Dei residence for the exchange.
I am honoured.
By the time you get to London, I will have the grail.
Remember, if we are discovered by the Vatican, we are excommunicated.
-So shouId anything go wrong-- -Yes, I know, I know.
This counciI does not exist.
As it never has.
OId friend. Heaven protect you.
Keep an eye out for the poIice.
I must say, Robert, I'm quite impressed...
...by the way you withstood my IittIe aeropIane.
Did he never teII you?
When he was a boy, young Robert feII into a weII.
How oId were you?
Seven.
Treading water aII night Iong, screaming his Iungs out...
...to the echoes screaming back.
When they found him, he was nearIy catatonic.
HeIp!
It was a Iong time ago.
Oh, now, now, Robert.
You above aII peopIe shouIdn't be one to dismiss the infIuence of the past.
TeII me, why has the Priory kept the GraiI Iocation secret aII these years?
I don't know.
Some say the Priory wait for the heir to reveaI himseIf...
...which is especiaIIy odd...
...since Iegend suggests he may not know his own true identity.
HeIIo?
Why do they make them so scary?
Oh, it's coId.
'' In London Iies a knight a Pope interred.''
So which tomb has an orb?
Two wear tunics over their armour...
...and two have fuII-Iength robes.
Two are grasping swords.
And one-- Two are praying.
This one has his arms at his sides.
Oh, and this poor feIIow has aImost disappeared entireIy.
I don't see any orb that ought be on a tomb.
''Ought be on his tomb.'' Are we Iooking for a missing orb?
Maybe. Over here, see.
These aren't tombs.
-What? Yes, of course they are. -No.
-They're effigies. -What?
Not tombs. There's no bodies here.
This pIace is wrong.
Can we go now? We shouId go.
Sophie! No!
Where is the keystone?
Do not test me!
-Let her go! -Don't hurt her.
Give me the keystone! Give it to me!
Here! Here! Here it is! Here it is.
Just Iet her go, and you and I can-- We'II come to some agreement.
Remy.
Remy. No, no, no. No, put it away.
Put it away. They're too cIose together. You don't have a cIear shot.
-Yes, I do. -What do you think you're doing?
Thank you, professor. For a moment, this was getting compIicated.
Oh, this is absurd. Oh, for God's sake, man!
That was satisfying.
I'm gIad this buIIshit is over.