INT VATICAN ARCHIVES DAYInside the archive, Vittoria is searching the lower shelves while
Langdon, on a ladder, digs through folio bins higher up.
LANGDON
-- confiscated from the Netherlands by
the Vatican shortly after Galileo's
death. I've been petitioning to see
it for almost ten years. Ever since
I realized what was in it.
VITTORIA
What makes you so sure the Segno is
there?
LANGDON
(while searching)
The number 503. I kept seeing it over
and over in llluminati letters, scribbled
in the margins, or sometimes just signed
that way, "503." It's a numerical
clue, but to what? Five, of course, is
the sacred llluminati number -- the
pentagram, Pythagoras, a dozen other
examples in science -- but why three?
(MORE)
32.
LANGDON (cont'd)
It made no sense. And then I thought --
what if it were a Roman numeral?
VITTORIA
(THINKS)
D-I-I-I?
LANGDON
D3. Galileo's third text.
(ticking them off)
Dialogo. Discorsi.
His eyes light up as he pulls a slender volume out of a folio bin
on one of the top shelves.
LANGDON (cont'd)
Diagramma.
A MOMENT LATER,
Langdon, now wearing white cotton gloves, sets the tiny manuscript
on a viewing stand.
LANGDON
Diagramma della Verita. The Diagram
of Truth.
VITTORIA
I know about Dialogo and Discorsi --
Galileo laid out his theories about
the earth revolving around the sun,
and the church forced him to recant.
But what was this?
LANGDON
This is where he got the word out. The
truth, not what the Vatican forced him
to write. Smuggled out of Rome and
printed in Holland on sedge papyrus.
That way any scientists caught with a
copy could simply drop it in water and
the booklet would dissolve.
Carefully, he turns the first page.
LANGDON (cont'd)
Between its delicate nature and the
Vatican burnings, it's said this is
the only copy that remains.
(turns the second page)
(MORE)
33.
LANGDON (cont'd)
And if I'm right the Segno should be
hidden --
(and the third)
-- on page number --
(and the fourth)
-- five.
He stops. They study the page,
LANGDON (cont'd)
Latin. Can you --- ?
VITTORIA
A bit.
She reaches for the book, to pull it towards her, but Langdon
SLAPS her hand. He holds up his own, glove
LANGDON
Finger acids.
She rolls her eyes and leans in, studying the page. There are
sketches on the page as well.
VITTORIA
(READING)
Movement of the planets... elliptical
orbits... heliocentricity...
Langdon's nervous. This doesn't sound right. Vittoria turns the
page, turns it back.
VITTORIA (cont'd)
I'm sorry, I don't think there's
anything that could be interpreted
as a-
LANGDON
Do that again.
She turns the page, then turns it back. Noticing something in
the deep crevice of the margin as the page moves, Langdon grabs a
magnifying glass on the end of a long pole and swings it over.
There, in the print gutter, what looked like a smudge is revealed
under the magnifier to be --
LANGDON (cont'd)
A line of text. In English.
(CONT'D)
34.
VITTORIA
English? Why English?
LANGDON
No one spoke it at the Vatican. It
was considered polluted. Too free-
thinking, the language of radicals
like Shakespeare and Chaucer.
He rotates the book.
LANGDON (cont'd)
Another line.
He keeps rotating the book, finds two more tiny lines written at
the very edges, barely visible to the naked eye.
LANGDON (cont'd)
"The path of light is laid, the sacred
test..." I need a pen, we have to
transcribe this.
VITTORIA
Sorry, Professor. No time.
Before Langdon can do anything to stop her, she RIPS the page from
the text and shoves it in her pocket.
Langdon's jaw drops. He shoots a look over his shoulder at Lt.
Chartrand, but the man's back is turned.
LANGDON
Ah, what the hell.
He SNAPS the magnifying glass off the end of its pole.
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