Angels and Demons Page #3

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of the camera's location.

Dr. Vetra, besides yourself

and your research partner,

who else knew about this antimatter project?

No one but the research team.

This project was strictly confidential.

But Silvano kept detailed journals.

If he told anyone else

about what we were doing,

he would have made a note of it.

Do you have these journals?

I can have them flown here

from Geneva in an hour.

Please.

Professor Langdon.

Mr. Langdon, you are correct that

I may grant you access to the archives.

Thank you, Padre.

I said that you were correct that I may,

not that I will.

Christianity's most sacred codices

are in that archive.

Given your recent entanglement

with the Church,

there is a question I'd like to ask you first

here in the office of His Holiness.

Do you believe in God, sir?

Father, I simply believe that religion...

I did not ask if you believe

what man says about God.

I asked if you believe in God.

I'm an academic.

My mind tells me I will never

understand God.

And your heart?

Tells me I'm not meant to.

Faith is a gift that I have yet to receive.

Be delicate with our treasures.

The archives are this way.

Professor Langdon.

if this path really leads

to the Church of Illumination,

that may be where

they've hidden the antimatter.

"A shining star at the end of the path."

I thought so, too.

Follow the path.

- And we may find the canister at the end of it.

- Can you deactivate the device?

I can change the canister's batteries

as long as we have

more than five minutes of life.

That would give us another 24 hours

to get it safely back to CERN.

Robert Langdon.

Vittoria Vetra.

Are you really a symbologist,

or was he mocking you?

Well, both. You're a physicist?

Bio-entanglement physics.

Interconnectivity of life systems.

Okay.

Your project,

it was geared towards energy research?

Eventually, yes.

One speck of antimatter

could power an entire city for a month.

Or tonight, I guess, destroy one.

What are we looking for in the archives?

A bound volume written by Galileo.

Galileo was Illuminati?

Yeah. And an obedient Catholic

who didn't think

that Church and science were enemies,

but just a different language

telling the same story.

And he wanted like minds

to find the Church of Illumination,

but he couldn't exactly advertise

its location, so he created a coded path.

Richter has started to turn off

the power of various grids.

It'll be back on in a minute.

Then some unknown Illuminati master

sculpted four statues.

Each one a tribute to one

of the fundamental elements,

earth, air, fire, water,

and placed the statues out in public

in churches throughout Rome.

Each statue held a clue pointing to the next.

At the end of the path

was the Church of Illumination.

And if you could find that,

you were one of them.

What makes you think he's going to

murder the cardinals in the churches?

The Illuminati called those four churches

by the special name, L'Altare della scienza.

"Sacrifice them on the altars of science,"

he said.

Exactly.

Oh, wow.

Look at this.

Excuse me, signore.

Cardinal Strauss,

you've been informed of the situation?

Yeah.

My belief is we should proceed

with the sealing of conclave.

At this late hour?

That would be highly unorthodox.

And yet within Church law.

It's in my power. I am Great Elector.

The cruelest honor in Christendom.

I have no personal ambitions, Patrick.

Only those I hold for my Church,

St. Peter's Church,

which is under attack

at its most vulnerable moment.

And this is not a coincidence.

The Church will not fall in a day.

We must evacuate Vatican City.

Oh, that is exactly what they want.

Publicity and panic.

No, we must not give them oxygen

for the media fire.

But the people in St. Peter's Square...

Care deeply about their Church, as we do.

Their faith will sustain them.

Their faith will not protect them

from an explosion.

Well...

We are all bound for heaven eventually,

are we not?

Spoken like one who has enjoyed

the blessings of a long and full life.

Patrick, do not confuse the power

of the office you temporarily hold

with your true place here in the Vatican.

You were a favorite of His Holiness,

but His Holiness is with his father now.

Mea culpa.

Seal the doors.

CAMERLENGO". Extra omnes.

Hello. This way, please.

Oh, beautiful.

The chambers are hermetic vaults.

Oxygen is kept at lowest possible levels.

It's a partial vacuum inside.

So extended stays are not recommended.

So don't panic

if you feel lightheaded at first.

I'll be just outside the door.

Watching you, Mr. Langdon.

Conclave will go on without us.

It must, now of all times.

May God forgive you for what you've done.

Father, if God has issues,

they won't be with what I've done.

They will be with what I'm about to do.

It was confiscated from the Netherlands

by the Vatican just after Galileo died.

I've been petitioning to see it

for about 10 years,

ever since I realized what was in it.

What makes you so sure the segno's there?

The number 503.

I kept seeing it over and over again

in Illuminati letters,

scribbled in the margins,

sometimes just signed "503."

It's a numeric clue. But to what?

Five? Well, that's a meaningful

number to the Illuminati.

There's the pentagram, Pythagoras,

dozens of other examples in science.

But what about three?

Didn't make sense until I thought,

"What if it's Roman numerals?"

- Dlll.

- D-3. Galileo's third text.

"Dialogo. Discorso. Diagramma."

Oh...

Yeah.

Just a few days with this,

and I could have actually finished my book,

and sold dozens of copies

at the Harvard bookstore.

"II Diagramma Veritatis. "

Diagram of Truth.

I know about Dialogo and Discorsi.

Galileo laid out his theories about

the Earth revolving around the sun.

Yeah, and said the Earth

was not the center of some universe

with heaven above, hell below,

as the Church had said it was.

So they forced him to recant in the

second book. But what was this one?

This is how he got the word out.

This is the truth,

not what the Vatican forced him to write.

Smuggled out of Rome,

printed in Holland on sedge papyrus, see?

That way, any scientist that was caught with

a copy could just throw it in water

and Galileo's heresy

would dissolve, disappear.

And between that and Vatican burnings,

it's possible that

this is the only copy that remains.

And if I'm correct,

the segno is hidden on page number...

Five.

Yeah.

Do you need help with the Latin?

Sure.

Movement of the planets,

elliptical orbits, heliocentricity.

Sorry, I don't think there's anything

that could be interpreted as a...

Wait, wait, wait.

Do that again.

What is that?

Wait a minute, it's a watermark.

And there's a line of text.

Go back.

It's in English.

English? Why English?

English wasn't used in the Vatican.

It was too polluted.

It was free-thinking.

It was a language of radicals

like Shakespeare and Chaucer.

Here's another one.

"The path of light is laid, the sacred test..."

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