National Treasure Page #3

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It's like stealing him.

It can't be done. Not shouldn't be done.

It can't be done.

Let me prove it to you.

OK, Ben, pay attention.

I've brought you to the Library of Congress.

Why? Because it's the biggest library

in the world.

Over 20 million books.

And they're all saying

the same exact thing:

Listen to Riley.

What we have here, my friend,

is an entire layout of the archives.

Short of builders' blueprints.

You've got construction orders,

phone lines,

water and sewage -

it's all here.

Now, when the Declaration

is on display, OK,

it is surrounded by guards

and video monitors

and a little family from Iowa and little kids

on their eighth-grade field trip.

And beneath an inch of bulletproof glass

is an army of sensors and heat monitors

that will go off if someone gets too close

with a high fever.

Now, when it's not on display,

it is lowered into a four-foot-thick

concrete, steel-plated vault...

that happens to be equipped

with an electronic combination lock

and biometric access-denial systems.

You know, Thomas Edison tried and failed

nearly 2,000 times

to develop the carbonized cotton-thread

filament for the incandescent light bulb.

Edison?

When asked about it,

he said, "I didn't fail,

I found out 2,000 ways

how not to make a light bulb."

But he only needed to find one way

to make it work.

The Preservation Room.

Enjoy. Go ahead.

Do you know

what the Preservation Room is for?

Delicious jams and jellies?

No. That's where they clean,

repair and maintain

all the documents

and the storage housings

when they're not on display or in the vault.

Now, when the case needs work they take

it out of the vault, directly across the hall

and into the Preservation Room.

The best time for us. Or Ian. To steal it

would be during the gala this weekend

when the guards are distracted

by the VIPs upstairs.

But we'll make our way to the Preservation

Room, where there's much less security.

Huh.

Well, if Ian...

Uh...

Preservation... Hm.

The gala, huh?

This might be possible.

It might.

Ah...

And we are in.

There you are.

(British accent) Hello.

The hallway.

That's what I want.

Game on.

I'll buy that.

Cool.

This just came for you.

I hope it's not from Stan.

"For the woman who has everything else...

Thanks for listening. Paul Brown."

(insistent beeping)

(rings)

Abigail Chase.

Hey, Mike.

- (man #1) Let's do this by the book.

- (man #2) Hallway is secure.

- (man #1) Keep the document level.

- (man #2) No problem.

(Abigail) What have you got?

(man) The heat sensor went off

in the Declaration frame.

(Abigail) Run full diagnostics.

Then I want them all changed out.

Our evil plan is working.

Ben, are you sure that we should?

(Ben) Riley.

- Can you hear me?

- Unfortunately. Yeah.

We're all set in here.

You want to go around to the front

and present your invitation.

You're gonna have to show ID.

Go ahead, man.

Howdy.

I need your invitation

and your ID, please.

(Riley) How do you look?

- Not bad.

- Mazel tov.

This is it.

For you.

- Oh, Mr. Brown.

- Dr. Chase.

- (Abigail) What are you doing here?

- Is that that hot girl?

- How does she look?

- I made a last-minute donation. A big one.

Well, on that subject,

thank you for your wonderful gift.

- Oh, you did get it? Good.

- Yes, thank you.

You know, I really couldn't accept

something like that normally, but...

I really want it.

- Well, you needed it.

- Come on. Romeo. Get outta there.

I have been wondering, though,

what the engraving indicated

- on the pipe that Big Foot took.

- (man) Hi.

- Here you go.

- Oh, Dr. Herbert, this is Mr. Brown.

- Hi.

- Hi there.

- (Riley) Who's the stiff?

- Here, why don't you let me take that?

- So you can take that off his hands.

- (Abigail) Thank you.

A toast, yeah?

To high treason.

That's what these men were committing

when they signed the Declaration.

Had we lost the war, they would have been

hanged, beheaded, drawn and quartered,

and - Oh! Oh, my personal favorite -

and had their entrails cut out and burned!

So, here's to the men

who did what was considered wrong

in order to do what they knew was right.

What they knew was right.

Well, good night.

- Good night.

- Good night.

(Ian) Yeah!

OK, go! Go!

This better work.

Clear!

- On.

- Door one. 30 seconds.

How does it look?

It's working.

It's working...

Unbelievable.

Second door. 90 seconds.

(beep)

(beep)

Well done, boys. Let's go.

- We're in the elevator.

- OK.

I'm gonna turn off

the surveillance cameras. Ready?

In five. Four.

Three... Now.

Ben Gates,

you are now the Invisible Man.

- I'm here.

- Give me the letters for her password.

What do you got for me?

Hit me with it.

A-E-F-G...

L-O-R-V-Y.

Anagrams being listed.

OK.

Top results:
"A glove fry."

"A very golf."

"Fargo levy."

"Gravy floe. Valey frog."

Also "Ago fly rev."

Uh..."Grove fly a."

"Are fly gov."

"Era fly gov."

- "Elf gov ray."

- It's "Valley Forge."

"Valley For..."

I don't have that on my computer.

It's "Valley Forge" -

she pressed the E and L twice.

(Ben) We're in.

(Riley in British accent) Hello.

Ben, you're doing great.

Ben, pick it up.

You got about one...

We own video.

- I lost my feed.

- What?

I lost my feed, Ben.

I don't know where anyone is.

I have nothing.

Ben, I have no...

Ben, I have nothing.

Get out of there.

Get out of there now.

I'm taking the whole thing.

I'll get it out in the elevator.

What are you talking about?

Is it heavy?

Shaw. Door three, one minute.

Gates.

What was that?

Who's shooting?

- Damn.

- He's got the bloody map!

Are you still there? Ben?

I'm in the elevator.

- Ians here. There was, uh, shooting.

- I hate that guy.

Hey, Rebecca.

Do you have a Paul Brown on that list?

Paul Brown?

Uh, no. Not here.

Have a good night.

Are you trying to steal that?

Oh, uh...

It's $35.

- For this?

- Yeah.

- That's a lot.

- Hey, I don't make the prices.

It's, um...

I have $32...

We take Visa.

This is Mike. Sublevel three.

I have an alert.

(sings) Where are you, Ben?

- Where are you?

- Stop talking.

Start the van.

Ben, the...

the mean Declaration lady's behind you.

Hey.

Oh, it's you. Hello.

Mr. Brown, what's going on?

What's that?

- It's a souvenir.

- Really?

Stop chatting and get in the van.

Code red. Code red.

We have a break-in.

Lock it down. Nobody leaves the building.

Get the FBI on the phone.

- Did you enjoy the party?

- Yeah.

(alarm)

- Oh, my God.

- Oh, my God! You did not?

- No...

- Security! Over here!

- Give me that!

- It's yours. Take it.

- Security!

- Uh-uh-uh.

- Over here! Security!

- Got you.

Go.

Viktor! Move!

- We can't just let her go!

- We can. Go!

- Security, over here!

- Wait. No, hold it.

Hold it!

- Wha?

- Oh, bad.

- What do you want?

- Give me the document.

Bad, bad, bad!

- Let me go!

- Just bring her!

No! No!

- That's...

- Go! Go!

(sirens approaching)

And just who might you be?

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