The Da Vinci Code: The Da Vinci Sets Page #4

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May I try something?

I don't know why it works.

My mother used to do it

when I was scared, I think.

You think?

Yes.

Feeling better, Sophie?

My parents died in a car crash

with my brother.

I was 4.

I'm sorry.

It was many years ago.

Better?

Yeah.

Okay.

Twenty years waiting

for someone to come for that box...

...and now it's you two murderers.

Bring it to me.

I don't know what

you're talking about.

All right! Okay!

Right now!

Step back!

No one will lose sleep

over a couple on a killing spree.

Turn around.

Turn around!

You too, mademoiselle.

Sophie!

Get in the truck!

I'll drive! Hurry!

What happened between you

and your grandfather, exactly?

I've jammed my shoulder,

I've been shot at, I'm bleeding.

I need to know.

You say he raised you,

but you two don't talk anymore.

You call him by his last name.

You say you hate history.

Nobody hates history.

They hate their own histories.

So now you're a psychologist too?

What if Saunire had started

to groom you for the Priory?

What do you mean, groom me?

Your grandfather gave you puzzles

and cryptex as a child.

So you are saying all this is real?

The Priory, the Holy Grail?

We've been dragged into a world

of people who think this stuff is real.

- Real enough to kill for.

- Who?

I'm out of my field here.

I do know a Grail historian,

absolutely obsessed with Priory myth.

An Englishman,

lives here in France.

Do you trust this man?

I hope you can.

Vernet, Andr.

It seems you're not a driver at all.

Apparently, you lost your tongue

along with your truck.

You think you're in pain now,

Andr Vernet?

My cause is worth your life.

Understand?

What do you want?

Your truck carries a homing device.

Activate it.

Please wait.

I'll see if he's available.

It's on the wrong side.

Leigh likes all things to be English,

including his cars.

Robert! Do I owe you money?

Leigh, my friend...

...care to open up

for an old colleague?

- Of course.

- Thank you.

But first, a test of honor.

Three questions.

Fire away.

Your first:

Shall I serve coffee or tea?

Tea, of course.

Excellent.

Second:
milk or lemon?

Milk?

That would depend on the tea.

Correct.

And now the third

and most grave of inquiries:

In which year did a Harvard sculler

outrow an Oxford man at Henley?

Surely such a travesty

has never occurred.

Your heart is true.

You may pass.

Welcome to Chteau Villette.

The truck's signal is coming online.

It's about time.

Locked on and tracking, sir.

Very good. Tell Collet not to move in

until I get there.

Attention! All of Collet's units

to Chteau Villette.

The suspects Neveu and Langdon

are likely at that location.

Aringarosa.

I still don't know why

he put you into this...

...and I'm sorry.

But...

...I'm also very glad.

You are requested

to make yourself at home.

Robert!

And you travel with a maiden,

it seems.

Sir Leigh Teabing,

may I present Miss Sophie Neveu.

Sophie, Sir Leigh Teabing.

It's an honor to welcome you...

...even though it's late.

Thank you for having us.

I realize it's quite late.

So late, mademoiselle,

it's almost early.

What a lovely smile you have.

Earl Grey?

Lemon.

Correct.

Chteau Villette. Yes.

A dramatic late-night arrival.

What can an old cripple

do for you, Robert?

We wanna talk about

the Priory of Sion.

The keepers?

The secret war?

Sorry for all the mystery.

Leigh, I'm into something here

that I cannot understand.

You?

- Really?

- Not without your help.

Playing to my vanity, Robert.

You should be ashamed.

Not if it works.

There are always four:

The Grand Master

and the three snchaux...

...make up the primary

guardians of the Grail.

Thank you, Remy.

That'll be all for now.

The Priory's members

span our very globe itself.

Philippe de Chrisey

exposed that as a hoax in 1967.

And that is what

they want you to believe.

The Priory is charged

with a single task:

To protect the greatest secret

in modern history.

The source of God's power

on earth.

No, that's a common

misunderstanding.

The Priory protects the source

of the Church's power on earth:

The Holy Grail.

I don't understand.

What power? Some magic dishes?

Robert. Has he been telling you

that the Holy Grail is a cup?

The Good Book did not arrive

by facsimile from heaven.

The Bible as we know it

was finally presided over by one man:

The pagan emperor Constantine.

I thought Constantine

was a Christian.

Oh, hardly, no.

He was a lifelong pagan...

...who was baptized

on his deathbed.

Constantine was Rome's

supreme holy man.

From time immemorial...

... his people had worshiped a balance

between nature's male deities...

...and the goddess,

or sacred feminine.

But a growing religious turmoil

was gripping Rome.

Three centuries earlier...

...a young Jew named Jesus

had come along...

...preaching love and a single God.

Centuries after his crucifixion...

... Christ's followers

had grown exponentially...

... and had started a religious war

against the pagans.

Or did the pagans commence war

against the Christians?

Leigh, we can't be sure who began

the atrocities in that period.

We can at least agree that the

conflict grew to such proportions...

...that it threatened

to tear Rome in two.

So Constantine may have been

a lifelong pagan...

...but he was also a pragmatist.

And in 325 anno Domini...

...he decided to unify Rome under

a single religion, Christianity.

Christianity was on the rise.

He didn't want his empire torn apart.

And to strengthen this new

Christian tradition...

...Constantine held

a famous ecumenical gathering...

...known as the Council of Nicaea.

And at this council...

... the many sects of Christianity

debated and voted on, well...

... everything, from the acceptance

and rejection of specific gospels...

... to the date for Easter...

...to the administering

of the sacraments, and of course...

...the immortality of Jesus.

I don't follow.

Well, ma chre,

until that moment in history...

...Jesus was viewed by many of his

followers as a mighty prophet...

...as a great and powerful man,

but a man nevertheless.

A mortal man.

Not the Son of God?

Not even his nephew twice removed.

Constantine did not create

Jesus' divinity.

He simply sanctioned

an already widely held idea.

- Semantics.

- No, it's not semantics.

You're interpreting facts

to support your own conclusions.

Fact:
For many Christians, Jesus was

mortal one day and divine the next.

For some Christians,

his divinity was enhanced.

Absurd. There was a formal

announcement of his promotion.

They couldn't even agree

on the Nicene Creed!

Excuse me.

"Who is God, who is man?"

How many have been murdered

over this question?

As long as there has been

a one true God...

...there has been killing

in his name.

Now let me show you the Grail.

I trust you recognize

The Last Supper...

...the great fresco by

Leonardo da Vinci.

Now, my dear,

if you would close your eyes.

Oh, Leigh, save us the parlor tricks.

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