Some men on the east post, archers on the west.
On my command,
u gh! Aah...
aah.
Jacques demolay, grandmaster of the knights templar.
You have been found guilty of heresy and conspiring against...
the Holy church and the crown. You are hereby under arrest.
Your sword, monsignor demolay.
With this blade, i have defended the weak and the humble...
and fought a hundred battles in the name of the lord.
I will never surrender it.
Arrest him.
The king is approaching the gates.
H e has a declaration from h is Holiness, pope clement,
that the order of the templar must be dissolved.
How many men are with him?
An army.
Are you certain?
Yes, my liege.
The order of the templars will rise again.
I'm entrusting you with our most sacred documents.
Make certain that which i have given you never falls into the wrong hands.
The king must never wield this sword.
Only a true knight can possess it.
Where will i take it?
The place sacré.
Now go, quickly. The balcony.
I will face the king.
Claudia, call the airlines. Book two tickets for paris.
- Paris? - Paris, Nigel.
- She said paris. - she said paris.
- I love paris. - Okay.
No, you don't understand. I, like, really, really love paris.
I love everything about it.
The clothes, the fashion, the... clothes.
I have to go, Nigel.
You're not going.
Call in sick.
I'm not calling in sick.
Fine. Then i'll tell her about the embezzlement.
What are you talking about?
September 15th, eleven hundred hours. You stole fifty dollars from petty cash.
I borrowed fifty dollars.
I didn't have any lunch money and there was only a fifty dollar bill.
And you never put it back.
It was last week.
Nigel, in this country, we take our crime very seriously.
What you did was a class b felony...
punishable by up to a year in state prison.
Look it up if you don't believe me.
- Strike one, pal. - You're certifiable.
- I wanna go to paris. - You're not going to paris.
What do you know about the knights templar?
The crusades. They protected the pilgrims in the Holy land.
That's right.
Nigel, i could be on the track to the sword of the last grandmaster himself,
jacques demolay.
I got a call from h enri jaebert, curator of the french institute of antiquities.
Apparently a fourteenth century medallion with the knights templar symbol...
on its face was uncovered in a monastery outside paris. Are you alright?
Oh yes, yes of course. So they...
they want you to authenticate it?
Yes. The medallion could lead us to the sword.
U m...
i just have one question.
Shoot.
In this country...
don't you find it refreshing how justice usually wins out for the little guy?
Actually i've found quite the opposite to be true.
It's the big guys that get off and the little guys that get punished.
It's not right, really.
No.
Here's the deal, honey bun.
I don't say a word to the district attorney,
you just head to the store du jour when i call.
- This is blackmail, claudia. - This is the land of opportunity, Nigel.
- Sydney fo x? - Yes.
Peter graham, assistant to the curator.
I'm glad to meet you.
My colleague, Nigel bailey.
Sydney!
Oh my god. Look at you.
H enri.
- Who are you? - Nigel bailey.
- Ah. Lover? - Assistant.
- Assistant lover? - Assistant assistant.
It's not as if it would be precedent setting.
Take a look at this, sydney.
It's amazing.
I knew you would be fascinated.
Where did you find it?
A monk brought it to me. They uncovered it while repairing...
the masonry behind the alter of their monastery's chapel.
It could have been covered up in a wall for over seven hundred years.
Seven hundred years.
Folklore holds that jacques demolay gave the order's sacred documents and...
his legendary sword to a young aide, and sent them into hiding.
In a monastery?
No one knows.
We've turned the place upside down. No sign of the sword or documents.
The sword supposedly made jacques demolay invincible during battle.
Yes. And if it still exists, it must be found.
You may be holding the key to the grandmaster's sword, sydney.
H ere's my cell number. You can call me twenty four hours a day.
About what doctor jaebert said.
About the medallion?
About the assistant lover business.
What did he mean by it not being precedent setting?
Do you think it is really appropriate now, Nigel?
- You don't want to talk about it? - No.
Well i completely understand. H ave you had many assistants?
When i say had, i mean it only in the employed sense of the word.
I just meant to inquire as to the...
what do you say we get our little english mind out of the gutter...
and back to the business at hand?
Sorry, syd.
Forget about it. I think i know where to begin our search.
It's a bar called I'explorateur fou.
Right. It was the guy before me, wasn't it?
My god, who are these people?
Relic hunters. Or wannabes.
They'd rob their own grandmother's grave for a fist full of coins.
Wait here.
Ah! Sydney.
You drooled on me, rene.
Oh, sorry. I didn't know you were in town.
What brings you here?
The food.
I wasn't... i wasn't staring at... at you. I was just admiring your necklace.
I gotta make this quick. If i needed an expert on the knights templar,
who would i speak to?
So the rumours are true? They found jacque demolay's medallion?
H ave you seen it? You have?
Is there such a person?
Michel previn.
Is he a scholar?
Maybe you... you should just meet him, hmm?
Rita, you gonna play?
It's the right address.
H ello?
Hello?!
H ello?
I say we unplug him.
H ey. ne touchez pas mes affaires.
Sorry.
Amazon chicks does not go with dead man's planet.
Order out of chaos, huh? We're looking for michel previn.
Yeah?
- You're michel previn? - And you are?
Sydney fo x.
You come to look at my comics, sydney fo x?
No. What i'm interested in was lost over seven hundred years ago.
Alright. And what would that be?
A sword.
Yeah. Every year, two or three times, somebody comes here to tell me...
that they found the sword of jacques demolay.
It's always a fake. Or a hoax.
They are always fortune hunters out to enrich themselves.
Since you seem to be the expert here, maybe you could tell me about this.
Where did you get this?
The monastery outside the city.
Do you mind?
These are his reference books?
C omic books are modern myths.
It's one of the few places that heroes still exist.
What about that medallion?
It's an old coin. It's got some value, but no significance.
The two men on horseback, it is the symbol of the templars.
Yes. The templars were the rock stars of their time.
So someone decides to commemorate them in a coin.
I'm afraid numismatists all over the world...
have pieces like this in their collections.
Well, that was a waste of time.
Maybe not.
What are you talking about?
If the medallion was so common, why did he take a wax impression of it?
Peter? We just had an interesting meeting with a fellow named michel previn.
You heard of him?
Can't say that i have.
H e's supposed to be an expert on the knight's templar.
I'll run the name by doctor jaebert.
Good. Great. Oh, peter, i've got another call coming in. I'ii...
i'll get back to you. Okay.
Yeah, hello?
Hey syd. Is nigel with you?
Yeah.
Can i talk to him?
It's for you.
- For me? - For you.
H ello?
Okay, here's the deal.
There's this hot little mid length number in this month's mark fashion,
page forty three.
It's by this new parisian designer lalouche.
You can get it either at the boutique...
or at la belle medecin. On the right bank. In teal, size two.
You can't be serious?
I'm dead serious nigel.
H ave you any idea how much something like that's gonna cost?
Fine. Don't get it. In fact, i'm gonna get you a new outfit.
It's a really great design. All wide horizontal strips in black and white.
Awesome designer. What's the name again? Oh right, the department of c orrections.
Alright. Alright, i'll figure something out.
What did claudia want?
Oh, the usual claudia nonsense.
Is everything okay?
Yes. Fine. Great. Really good. Great.
- Can we go now? - Not yet.
Sydney, it's cold, it's dark, we haven't eaten.
Not yet.
Well wherever he's gone, he's probably gone for the night.
I strongly suggest that we...
it's time to go.
Exactly. That's what i've been saying for the last hour.
We're under the seine. It's some kind of abandoned service tunnel.
What was he doing down here?
Now what?
A padlock, so what?
A padlock on the inside of a room that's completely empty?
Why would anyone lock themselves inside of an empty room?
U nless you didn't want to be seen because the room...
- wasn't really empty. - Wasn't really empty.
A hidden space of some kind?
Maybe.
If this room has a light, chances are the hidden one would have one as well.
It might be on the same circuit.
Which means it might be on right now.
So if we turn off the light in this room...
Nigel?
I'm quite capable of lifting you up, sydney.
I'm sure you can, but i'll take you up on that next time.
Look, it's not often i get to contribute in a physical way.
Not like your other assistants.
Look, at least allow me this.
This isn't working,
just gotta get my balance.
Right. Right.
Right. my right.
Nigel!
Oh. Oh...
okay.
Ah.
Ah, got it.
Looks like the templars aren't the only ones keeping secrets.
You don't suppose?
The rock star himself, jacques demolay?
Apparently our friend michel has more than just a passing interest in the sword.
So why was he so blasé about the medallion?
Sydney? Take a look at these.
A lion, crescent moon and a cross.
And all three in the shape of crosses.
What do you think they are?
I have no idea.
U gh!
Wait here.
Are you okay?
Yeah, why did you hit me?
He got away.
Well, what are you doing here, huh?
We know you're intrigued with the medallion and that it's real.
What we don't know is your interest in it.
So you broke in?
We're here with the french institute of antiquities.
What do you want from me?
We need your help, michel.
We need to get to demolay's sword before the wrong people do.
And how do i know you are the right people?
What did king philippe have against the templars?
H e borrowed a lot of money from them. And rather than pay them back,
he strong-armed pope clement into signing their death warrant.
But demolay had his vengeance, didn't he?
Uh huh.
Before his ex ecution, he put a curse on the king and on the pope.
Within one year, they were both dead.
They say the sword was the instrument of his power.
H mm, so they say.
Do you believe that?
I know it sounds crazy but i do.
I don't know why. I just always have.
Then help us find it, michel.
Yes.
I need more time to study this medallion.
Alright. While you're doing that, we'll go figure out who the competition is.
Not now, rene.
Look nigel, it's your pigmy friend.
Great necklace.
I wouldn't do that if i were you.
Sydney!
It's good to see you, sydney.
I'll bet. The last time we parted, you left me in a flea market...
with a dead bedouin named fez.
I cut his throat?
Stabbed him in the back.
Right.
That sort of business is behind me now, sydney.
Oh is it?
I'm in paris to find a husband. Settle down.
Oh i'm sure you'll find someone suitable for you in here.
The sword belongs to whoever who finds it, sydney.
Not exactly true, rita. Whoever finds it has to hold onto it.
You're right about that.
Because if anyone finds it before me, they're as dead as fez.
How was doctor jaebert?
Still sleeping. I filled in peter graham though. Any luck?
While doing some cleaning i found a few markings on the rim of the medallion.
Early arabic letters.
I think the letters translate loosely to read something like pierre chevalier.
The stone knights.
Pierre chevalier? Pierre chevalier...
what's this?
This is my bible. It was written six hundred years ago by cloistered monks.
They were disciples of demolay.
They were maybe the same order that possessed the medallion.
La place sacré, the sacred place?
This says that the order's most sacred possessions, and the sword,
were kept in a secret hideaway outside paris.
What was sacred about it?
Nobody knows. Maybe a ritual retreat. It's never been found.
There is a painting in the louvre called pierre chevalier.
Do you always get this kind of treatment in a museum?
You should see what they do for her at disney world.
This painting was a gift for king philippe on his birthday.
And guess who the patron was?
- Jacques demolay? - Jacques demolay?
The two men were on good terms then.
The stone knight. Demolay commissioned his own treasurement?
Hmm, maybe.
- H ello? - hey syd.
- Claudia? - is nigel with you?
- Yes, he's here. - can i talk to him?
What's going on with you two?
Nothing. Yes, what do you want?
Where are you?
The louvre.
Do they have the dress?
It's a museum, claudia.
They sell dresses in museums? Oh, paris is so cool.
I am not dress shopping.
Claudia, this is ridiculous. I just don't have the time.
I saw this really great movie last night, cool hand luke.
You should rent it. It's all about prison.
They've got this tiny metal bo x that they throw people into.
And in the day it gets really, really hot.
Claudia, i can't.
Nigel, what we have here is a failure to communicate.
I'll be in touch.
But...
is there something i should know?
No. Definitely not.
Does this abbey still exist?
Nothing.
No, nothing.
I don't know. It was always a long shot.
Maybe the sword wasn't meant to be found.
I don't think you believe that's true, michel.
This has been your quest.
I don't know anymore.
I think it's only a matter of time before we find the sword.
Over here!
Look at this indentation. It's the exact same shape as the stones.
That's right.
Where did those stones come from, michel?
They were found at the ruins of the old knights templar's castle years ago.
It seems to be the same geological composition as the stones.
Yeah, well if one of the stones fits in there...
then there should be two other indentations somewhere else around here.
Right. We need those stones.
Looks like someone's a step ahead of us.
They've taken everything. My stones, my research.
Rita.
Where is she, rene?
I don't know.
You're gonna know.
We need to talk about this.
Bad timing, claudia.
Is sydney with you?
Yeah well she's kinda busy... right now.
Well we're not exactly sure what the stones do yet.
But we're headed out to the ruins of the abbey near rambouillét.
Thanks for keeping us posted, sydney. I'll tell doctor jaebert.
Well, i'd rather tell him myself, peter.
H e's resting, sydney. I'll pass on the information.
Okay.
Was that sydney?
Yes. Yes, it was.
What did she say?
U nfortunately, it's not going well. They seem to have hit a dead end.
The third one's here.
So, all we have to do is match the stones with the indentations.
What are you doing?
I have an idea. Just humour me.
The lion is a symbol for england.
So let's try this in the northernmost position.
- There? - Yeah.
The crescent is a symbol of islam.
On the eastern border.
The holy cross is a sign for the templars.
So this will stay right here.
Yes. That's in. It fits.
Same here. Now what?
Stand with your back to the rock.
Start walking in the direction of the arrow.
The stone's pointed us here.
We have to trust the signs, but...
what?
Sarcophagi.
La place sacré.
They buried their dead here.
A templar memorial.
It's incredible.
Stone knights.
Sydney? Sydney?
No!
Take your hands off that sword.
You're even better than doctor jaebert said, sydney.
I can't believe how quickly you found it.
And i can't believe i was taken by a common thief.
C ommon? I don't think so.
I'm going to have demolay's sword and the power that goes with it.
This shrine is a holy place.
You have desecrated the memory of the knights templar.
Well, we never would have found it without the medallion.
So...
i guess this belongs to doctor jaebert now.
The sword is meant for a knight with a true heart.
This is where it should stay. With you.
You think so?
You were chosen.
I don't know.
You were the only one that could withdraw the sword.
I'd say it was your destiny, michel.
Welcome back.
- Did you get it? - Oh i got it alright.
I'm gonna make a few phone calls, then i've got to run to the library.
If blaine calls, tell him i'll be back in a few minutes.
This isn't a dress.
Very astute.
Where's my dress?
Well that's the thing. I was in the boutique...
about to max out my entire credit and lay out a month's pay,
- when it hit me. - What hit you?
Section 201.5 paragraph a.
H uh?
The penal code. You must know it after how easily you quoted it to me.
Obviously you didn't study it hard enough.
Section 201.5 paragraph a states that any unauthorised use of...
a designated handicapped parking space is a class a misdemeanour.
Punishable by three months in jail, a five hundred dollar fine or both.
But you don't have any...
proof?
It's amazing what jimmy from the video department will do for a case of beer.
Of course, a misdemeanour is less than the felony you accused me of.
But, considering i have five separate incidents on tape.
Oh, i did get you something.
Amazon chicks number thirty-three. I understand it's a collectable.