Angels and Demons Page #4

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- Will you write this down as I dictate?

- Sorry, professor, no time.

Yeah, yeah, what the hell. Yeah.

Twenty minutes till 8:00.

- Where are we headed?

- Hold on, hold on.

I'll tell you in a minute.

All right, let me see that page again.

Where did you get that paper?

We borrowed it.

"From Santi's earthly tomb

with demon's hole..."

Are you insane?

"'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold.

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

"Let angels guide thee on thy lofty quest."

You removed a document

from the Vatican Archives?

She did.

"From Santi's earthly tomb."

- The first marker is at Santi's tomb.

- Yeah.

- But who's Santi?

- Raphael.

- II Raffaello, the sculptor?

- Yeah, Santi was his last name.

So the path starts at Raphael's tomb.

Raphael's buried at the Pantheon.

- Isn't the Pantheon a church?

- Oldest Catholic church in Rome.

I just pulled a dozen of our best men for this.

You better be right.

This is one of the busiest spots

in all of Rome.

He'd never get away with it. It's impossible.

- The poem implies...

- "The poem"? Unbelievable.

I'm basing this operation

on an American's interpretation

of a 400-year-old poem.

Well, the information we have

clearly refers to Raphael's tomb.

And Raphael's tomb is inside that building.

And because the Vatican destroyed all

of the pagan statues in the late 1800s,

if this is the first marker,

whatever clues were here to lead us

to the next church are gone now.

The path is dead.

So this is it, your only chance.

Separate approaches.

No closer than two blocks and no uniforms.

Three minutes.

And I need a set of eyes inside.

Excuse me?

Two weightlifters in matching

black suits and earpieces?

They're hardly disguised.

- Well, it's what I have.

- Well, fine, I'll go in.

You don't have communication.

You can't carry a walkie-talkie.

It's too conspicuous.

- Tourists have cell phones, don't they?

- No, no.

You can't send her in there alone.

All right, I won't.

Don't look so anxious.

We're supposed to be married.

Well, maybe we're not

getting along today. Hmm?

Hold my hand.

- But don't crush it.

- Sorry. A nervous newlywed.

Look. Look, honey, the oculus.

That could be the "demon's hole"

in the poem.

Why are the tombs at an angle?

They're facing east

to worship the rising sun.

But this is a Christian church.

New religions often adopt

the existing customs and holidays

to make conversion less of a shock.

Like the 25th of December?

It's the pagan celebration

of the Unconquered Sun

and also makes a handy date

for the birth of Christ.

- Let's check the recesses.

- Okay.

I'll go to the right.

I'll meet you at 180 degrees.

Follow me, please.

Now, the Pantheon, which means

"Temple of All Gods,"

was originally built as a temple

to all the gods of ancient Rome in 27 B.C.

Although the design of the building

is usually credited

to Apollodorus of Damascus...

Robert!

Robert.

It's Raphael's tomb.

- But it's the wrong one.

- What are you talking about?

He was moved here in 1759,

a century after Diagramma was published.

Where was he originally buried?

Uh...

Urbino, I think. "Santi's earthly tomb."

What could it possibly be?

"Santi's earthly tomb."

Damn it. Santi's tomb.

It must mean a chapel that he built.

He's not buried in it, he designed it.

The "demon's hole," it's not that oculus.

It's an undercroft. It's a crypt.

Are there any questions?

Yes.

Yes.

Did Raphael Santi ever design

a chapel with an ossuary annex

and an angel figure commissioned

by the Catholic Church?

I'm sorry, I can only think of one.

One is good.

Wrong?

What do you mean wrong?"

It's the Chigi Chapel,

in the church of the Santa Maria del Popolo.

t was once called the Capella della Terra,

the Chapel of the Earth.

The Earth, the first element. That's it.

- You were certain about the Pantheon.

- We have four minutes.

Back to the Vatican? You can't.

Comandante, if you care at all

about your church, you'll listen to me.

"My church"?

My church comforts the sick and dying.

My church feeds the hungry.

What does your church do, Mr. Langdon?

That's right, you don't have one.

Take him if you want. I'm done with him.

All right, this makes sense.

Look, right in front of the church.

An obelisk, a lofty pyramid.

Egyptian symbol adopted by the Illuminati.

f he's going to kill him, he'll do it here.

Robert-.

No, no, here. It's an annulus.

Which one is the Chigi Chapel?

It's in one of these apses.

Pyramids in a Catholic church.

This is it. This is the Chigi Chapel.

The demon's hole.

But it's askew.

Come here.

Hand me your flashlight.

What's that?

I call as my witness Christ the Lord,

who will be my judge, that my vote is given

to the one before God

I think should be elected.

I elect as the most high Pontiff,

Dominic Scolamiero.

They are voting for themselves

to prevent a majority.

They are waiting for the preferiti

to be rescued.

Perhaps we should as well, yes?

Not until the smoke is white,

will the College of Cardinals

have chosen a new Holy Father.

For now, the Vatican seat of ultimate power

remains vacant.

Get the body out of there,

and search the rest of the building.

- Chartrand!

- Sir?

Outside, a perimeter.

Secure but invisible.

No lights, no guns, nobody knows.

- Understand?

- Yes, sir.

I'm calling all off-duty.

No information.

Is it Raphael?

The chapel is Raphael.

But the sculptures are Bernini.

The unknown Illuminati master...

Bernini?

He worked for the Church.

Almost exclusively.

But the Illuminati were infiltrators.

There wasn't a powerful organization

on Earth they didn't penetrate

including the Vatican

by hiding in plain sight.

Habakkuk and the Angel.

He's the prophet that predicted

the annihilation of the Earth.

"Let angels guide thee

on thy lofty quest."

This is the first marker.

The path is alive.

Southwest.

It was pointing southwest.

Earth, air, fire, water.

We're looking for a Bernini sculpture

having something to do with air.

The second church is somewhere

southwest of here.

You're sure this time?

I need a map showing

all the churches of Rome.

I could use it now.

All right, the purple areas with these

black crosses represent the churches.

But nothing intersects the line until it hits...

- Until it hits St. Peter's.

- Michelangelo designed St. Peter's,

not Bernini.

Michelangelo designed the Basilica.

Bernini designed St. Peter's Square.

The second marker must be

a statue in St. Peter's Square.

It's 10 minutes till 9:00.

Can you go any faster?

Not unless you want the full attention

of the world press.

There was no consensus after the first ballot

but Cardinal Baggia, the Italian,

is the odds-on favorite...

There is no new Pope but it is possible that

that Cardinal Guidera, the Spaniard,

is the most probable...

it is possible that Cardinal Ebner,

from Germany, is the favorite...

Stem cell research is murder!

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