As Above, So Below Page #2

Be careful. Let me... I

need to see the back.

Okay. I can't...

Watch your foot.

We're gonna have to put it

down because I can't see.

Sh*t.

There's nothing there.

I can see that.

Ammonia sulfonate,

distilled, with lime.

It's the mix of a couple of

basic cleaning products.

Help me out here, man.

What are you doing?

Okay. You don't want

to breathe this in.

This is not gonna end well.

It's on the back.

They will never see it.

My God.

And I need some matches.

Matches? No. No.

We're not burning that.

Benji, give me your matches.

Scarlett, this is a museum! Are

you out of your... Shut up!

Sh*t!

My God!

This is not okay!

Okay, that's pretty cool.

That's not "go to jail" cool.

But that's really cool.

Get your camera.

"Winged vulture leads the way

with brightest

light in darkest day."

"Underneath the heaven's reign

what is lost

shall be regained."

"Halfway twixt the darkest gate

and this tablet laid

atop a paird fate."

So, "Underneath

the heaven's reign,

what is lost

shall be regained."

"What is lost

shall be regained."

So that is,

underneath the night sky

or in the open?

Or on the tablet. There's a

night sky right on the tablet.

Yes, good. Okay.

So, darkest gate.

Hell. Hell. Darkest gate,

the gates of Hell.

The gates of Hell.

Right?

Yeah.

The gates of Hell.

Okay, but that

doesn't give us anything.

I mean, that's halfway between

this grave and the gates of Hell.

No, wait. I have

my dad's notebook.

My God. Okay.

So this marks what

they believe to be

the distance between

Heaven and Earth and Hell.

If alchemists believed that the

number of the Devil was 741

then it makes sense that they would

think that Hell was 741 feet

beneath the surface of the Earth, right?

So halfway twixt...

So, 370.5 feet beneath

Flamel's tombstone

is where we'll find the stone!

Wait. Hold on, guys.

How are we

supposed to get 370

feet into the Earth?

The catacombs. Right?

The what?

Okay, we're in Paris, so

there are over 200 miles of tunnels

right underneath our feet.

That are holding the remains

of six million corpses.

Six million corpses?

Yeah.

That's where I would put it!

Right. Of course

you would.

Flamel's grave was here.

With the catacomb map,

would make it roughly...

There. Sh*t.

Wait. Are you sure?

What is it? What happened?

Sh*t!

Catacombs don't go

under Flamel's grave.

But if we burrowed

through this wall here...

No, you can't.

In this tunnel...

The walls are solid limestone.

There's no way you can burrow in.

Plus, they've all

been reinforced

since pieces of

the city fell into the...

Well then...

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

In 1774,

about a hundred feet

of Avenue Denfert-Rochereau

was literally swallowed up

into the ground by the city.

A couple of years later,

the same thing happened...

Barrire d'Enfer, right there.

Followed by a third collapse.

Rue des Innocents.

Why would the street

collapse if there's nothing

but solid ground underneath it?

That's a good question, Benji.

So there's a hidden chamber?

It would appear so.

We have to get down there.

You have to get down there.

I don't go underground.

Remember?

Yes.

Sorry.

By the end of the 1700s,

residents from all over

Paris began to complain

about the horrible smell of the

bodies in the overcrowded cemetery.

Something had to be done.

Benji, get this.

"Stop. This is

the empire of the dead."

Wait, check out the patterns

and crosses that they made.

It's beautiful.

Six million bodies,

almost three times

the population of Paris

are housed in these quarries.

Making it, by far, the

largest crypt in the world.

Seriously, Scarlett,

this is creeping me out.

Get this.

"At the sound of the trumpet,

the dead will rise."

Benji, here.

Cimetire des Innocents.

These remains are from the same

cemetery as the Flamel graves.

Which means that...

Yeah, we basically need to go

about half a mile

through this wall.

We need to find a way into the

off-limits area of the catacombs.

Go to the club

called Le Showcase.

Sorry?

Ask for Papillon.

He'll bring you.

Papillon?

Please!

Thanks.

Come back into the group.

Please. Come on.

Sorry.

Are you sure this is where

we're supposed to go?

Yeah, I think it's...

I think it's just down here.

What's his name again?

Papillon.

Papillon?

Yeah.

Okay.

Papillon?

Yes, what do you want?

I need to get into the catacombs

and someone told me

that you could take me.

No, sorry. Do I look

like a tour guide to you?

Do I look like a tourist?

Okay, why would I want

to bring you down there?

Because we have

found a secret tunnel

in the catacombs that no

one else knows about.

Look.

No. I know that place. We would

have found it if it was there.

No, you wouldn't have.

Yes, we would.

No, you wouldn't have,

because it was designed,

years and years ago,

to be invisible.

Unless you knew it was there,

you would never find it.

Why would that be?

Because I believe it's

filled with treasure.

You know what I mean?

Treasure, yeah, I know what you mean.

It's a joke.

I mean, is she serious?

I'm 100% serious.

If it's true,

me and my friends, can we

take half of the treasure?

You can have all

of the treasure.

It's not what I'm looking for.

Half is fine.

Okay.

So you'll take us?

Yes, I said okay.

Try this.

No, I'm sorry, I'm not going.

No, he's coming.

He's coming.

I'm not coming.

George, come on, please.

I need your help.

You can text me

whatever you find

down there.

I'm gonna be around...

No. You can't.

No cell phones down there.

The ground is too dense.

We are so close.

I know.

You know there's

something there.

Guys, meet my team.

This is Zed, our climber.

And this is Souxie, the banshee.

Hi. a va?

Souxie, the banshee.

Okay.

Okay.

Then we go near la plage.

Okay.

And then it's a bit tricky.

There's water to here.

And we're prepared for that?

We have enough equipment?

Yeah, we got everything.

Zed, right? How

do you know Papillon?

I grew up with him.

He's my friend, you know.

Do you know how he got

the scar on his hand?

Don't talk about that to him.

Souxie, what are the dangers that

we're facing when we go down there?

If you run out of batteries,

with no flashlight,

you will die.

If you run out of water,

if you get hurt.

And there are also

dangers like police and bats,

rats, claustrophobia,

drowning, bugs.

Yeah.

De Niro? You want to see De Niro?

Yes, yes.

Don't do it.

No. He's bad.

Let me do De Niro.

F***, man. F***.

Just like that!

You're up.

Hey, yo, hey, yo...

Listen to that.

No. And it's over.

Do it like that.

Three seconds. You suck.

Guys, when we leave the van,

we need to be quick, okay?

Because if the police catch us

with all that stuff, we're f***ed.

- Okay?

- Okay.

I'll walk you guys

down there but then I'm out.

- Quick, quick.

- Go, go, go.

Okay, Souxie.

Okay, make it quick, make it quick.

Okay?

Okay, wait.

Zed?

Yeah.

Can we keep going?

Congratulations.

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