National Treasure: Book of Secrets Page #2

You do?

- Of course you do.

- But I'm free on Friday.

- Awkward.

- Oh, great.

- Good night.

- Good night.

I cannot believe you broke in.

- What did you take?

- It's just my things.

Hand it over, Ben.

I need to see

the Booth diary page.

You saw the page yourself.

There is no treasure map on it.

No, it's a cipher leading to a map.

Anyone spectral-image the page?

No need to. The ink writing

on the page is clearly visible.

It could have been erased or faded.

You're the director of document

conservation. You know this.

Not up to me.

It's not my department.

That department reports

to your department.

Come on. One look under infrared.

You can have the Boston Tea Tables.

Both of them?

We've been looking

at this page for hours.

There's nothing there.

Ben, I really don't think we're

going to find anything on this page.

In a hundred years,

no one's going to remember

anyone involved in the Lincoln

assassination besides Booth.

That's not true. Do you know

the expression, "His name is mud"?

- Yes. Of course.

- You do?

- You know the origin of the expression?

- Does anyone but you?

Dr. Samuel Mudd was convicted

of being a co-conspirator

in the Lincoln assassination.

The evidence was circumstantial.

He was later pardoned,

but it didn't matter.

Mudd's name still lives in infamy. And I

will not let Thomas Gates' name be mud.

- Ben.

- What?

Look at this.

- See that?

- Oh.

- That's quite something, isn't it?

- Yeah. It says "smudge."

It's nothing.

Residual ink

from the facing page. Flip it.

The letters are backwards.

- It's a cipher.

- Yes. It is.

A cipher.

See how the letters are coupled?

Playfair ciphers encode letters

in pairs. This could prove his story.

Unless you decode the cipher,

this does not prove a theory.

That's OK.

We need a five-letter keyword.

- What's the keyword?

- I don't know yet.

- All right.

- Uh, can I get a printout of this?

There's a billion words

in the English language.

Got to be a logical...

Let's start from the beginning.

A. Aardvark.

Don't want to rain on your parade here,

but I don't think this is gonna stop

Dr. Nichols from announcing

the discovery of the page tomorrow.

No, now, wait. Can't you ask him to

wait until I prove Thomas is innocent?

What if he isn't innocent?

Sir? Looks like our old friend

Ben Gates is in the news again.

What did he find now? Atlantis?

A guy came forward

with a missing Booth diary page.

That's not the best part.

Listen to this.

"On the page are the names

of the conspirators

in the Lincoln assassination, as well

as a previously unknown conspirator,

Thomas Gates. Thomas Gates is said

to be the great-great-grandfather

of treasure hunter

Benjamin Franklin Gates."

- Thought my relatives were bad.

- What do we know about this Wilkinson?

- Sir?

- Guy claims he had this page

for 140 years then just suddenly

comes forward with it?

- Why?

- We'll find out.

Better.

Bacon.

- Keep going.

- That's stupid.

- How's he doing?

- Keep working.

We're grateful

to the Wilkinson family

for coming forth with the page.

On the page is a name of a previously

unknown conspirator, Thomas Gates.

- Nichols has bought into it. See?

- Would you stop watching that.

It's on the Internet!

- No stopping it now.

- Gates may have been the architect...

- They have no understanding.

- You know the truth.

That's all that matters.

You heard the story from Grandpa.

The story? This guy's got evidence.

He's got everything.

We have a story. We have nothing.

For one brief moment,

the Gates family could hold its head up.

- Now we're a bunch of crazies.

- But we're not liars.

Wilkinson is saying that Thomas Gates

was a mastermind to one of

the darkest hours in U.S. history.

And he burned the diary page

to cover that up.

You and I both know he burned the page

to keep Booth's men

from finding the treasure.

That's what we're going to prove.

- Only one way to prove it.

- Find the treasure.

You've got to find it. You're

going to help me find it. So come on.

Let's hear the story again

from Grandpa Charles.

Grandpa heard his father say,

"Treasure map."

- Then there was a commotion.

- Got all that. Anything after that?

Anything he said,

something he did? Anything at all?

- Wait a minute.

- What?

He took his son's hand.

He looked him in the eye, and he said,

with his dying breath,

- "The debt that all men pay."

- "The debt that all men pay"?

The debt that Thomas paid.

That's five letters.

Oh!

Try "Death."

- What?

- It's the keycode.

The debt that all men pay is death.

All right.

L-A-B-O-U-L...

It's Lab-ool...

Lab-ahl... La...

It's gibberish.

- Laboulaye!

- Laboulaye!

- What is that?

- It's a who. douard Laboulaye.

Where's the phone?

I don't know.

Can't find anything in this mess.

- Temporary till I find a new place.

- Find the old one. I like her.

- Hi.

- Dr. Chase.

- Abigail, please.

- Abigail.

- Nice to meet you.

- Have a seat.

Thanks for agreeing to meet with me.

Of course. I was actually going

to call you about the diary page.

- Any news?

- Well...

We actually found some

latent letter fragments on it.

Take a look.

Random letters. A cipher?

- Maybe.

- Gates seen this?

He's the one that discovered it.

- I'm sorry.

- Not a problem.

- I need one minute.

- Please, take your time.

Hey. What?

We cracked the cipher. It's "Laboulaye."

The cipher spells "Laboulaye. "

So? Laboulaye was well-known

in France. It could be nothing.

Or maybe there was a treasure map

like Thomas Gates said there was,

and Laboulaye had it.

We only got a partial on the next word.

L-A-D, lad... ladder...

- L-A-D.

- Aladdin! Aladdin?

- Lady!

- Thank you, Abigail!

Laboulaye Lady. Do you know

what Laboulaye was planning

right around the time

Lincoln was assassinated?

OK, Ben, I've got to go.

There's a map or a clue to a map

on the Statue...

- She hung up.

- She took your call. That was good.

- Dr. Gates?

- Yes.

Sounds like he cracked the cipher.

I couldn't help but overhear.

Laboulaye? As in douard Laboulaye?

He seems to believe so, yes.

Man who had the idea

for the Statue of Liberty.

You're saying there's a treasure map

in the Statue of Liberty?

Laboulaye was a Mason.

They built clues into everything.

Did you learn that from my book?

- Have an interest in history?

- Fascinated by it.

Civil War, especially.

My family's descended from

Confederate General Albert Pike.

He was a remarkable man.

But, then again, what is history but

a marker for the deeds of great men?

A man only has one lifetime,

but history can remember you forever.

So the only question is,

which Statue of Liberty?

Exactly.

Is there more than one?

There are three, actually, Riley.

One is in New York,

one in the Luxembourg Garden.

But he only referred to one

as his "lady."

This is like, impossible,

what you're doing.

I'm glad you're enjoying it.

Laboulaye had to leave a clue

somewhere on here. Move in on the torch.

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