EXT VATICAN ARCHIVES DAY

The doors SLAM on a Vatican police car and the tires SQUEAL as

Olivetti hits the gas.

INT CAR DAY

Olivetti is behind the wheel, Vittoria's in front, Langdon leans

in from the back seat.

OLIVETTI

Twenty minutes till eight, where are

we headed?

35.

LANGDON

I'll know in a minute, give me the

paper.

Vittoria pulls the page from the Diagramma out of her pocket and

hands it to Langdon. He pulls the magnifier from his coat and

studies the thin paper, turning it in his hands.

LANGDON (cont'd)

(READING)

From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's

hole...

OLIVETTI

Where did you get that paper?!

LANGDON

'Cross Rome the mystic elements

unfold.

VITTORIA

We borrowed it.

LANGDON

The path of light is laid, the sacred

test...

OLIVETTI

Are you insane?!

LANGDON

Let angels guide you on your earthly

quest.

OLIVETTI

You removed a document from the

Vatican Archives?!

LANGDON

Huh? Oh, um -- well, she moved so

fast.·.

VITTORIA

The first marker sounds like it's at

Santi's tomb.

LANGDON

(MUSING)

Sounds like.

VITTORIA

But who is Santi?

36.

LANGDON

Raphael.

VITTORIA

Raphael? The sculptor?

LANGDON

Santi was his last name.

VITTORIA

So the path starts at Raphael's tomb!

LANGDON

(not entirely

CONVINCED)

Yeah.

OLIVETTI

Raphael is buried at the Pantheon.

VITTORIA

Is the Pantheon even a church?

OLIVETTI

(snatching up the

RADIO)

Oldest Catholic church in Rome!

Langdon has fallen silent, but it all makes perfect sense, so he

says nothing as Olivetti cranks the wheel hard --

EXT ROME - STREET DAY

-- the car fishtails into a 180, and they take off in the opposite

direction, headed for the Pantheon.

CUT TO:

EXT PANTHEON - SIDE STREET DAY

The police car pulls to a stop, as quietly as possible, across an

open plaza from the Pantheon.

Two black Alfa-Romeos with tinted windows glide to a stop on

either side of them. As Langdon and the others get out,

Commander Rocher and THREE MORE SWISS GUARD, all in black suits,

surround them. Rocher goes straight to Langdon, highly skeptical.

ROCHER

I've just pulled a dozen of my best

men from Vatican City during conclave

and left the search for the antimatter

device in the hands of secondary

officers. You'd better be right.

37.

LANGDON

I believe I am.

ROCHER

The Pantheon is one of the busiest

tourist spots in Rome, how could he

hope to get away with it? It's

impossible.

LANGDON

As impossible as kidnapping four

cardinals from Vatican City? The

poem is precise.

Olivetti catches eyes with Langdon, who's still clutching the page

pulled from the Diagramma. He slips it quietly into his jacket

pocket.

ROCHER

The poem. Unbelievable. I'm

basing this operation on an American's

interpretation of a four hundred year

old poem.

VITTORIA

The information we have clearly refers

to Raphael's tomb, and Raphael's tomb

is inside that building.

She points to the Pantheon, its edifice shimmering in the early

evening light.

LANGDON

The Pantheon is your one chance to

catch this guy.

ROCHER

One? I thought you said four. A

pathway, four markers. We'll have

four chances to catch him.

LANGDON

You would have, a hundred years ago.

The Vatican had all the pagan statues

in the Pantheon removed and destroyed

in the late 1800s. Whatever marker

was there to lead us to the next

church is gone now. The path is

dead. This is your chance.

Rocher looks at him for a long moment, then turns abruptly to a

UNIFORMED OFFICER.

38.

ROCHER

Separate approaches. Cars to Piazza

della Rotunda, Via degli Orfani,

Piazza Sant'Ignazio, and

Sant1Eustachio. No closer than two

blocks, no uniforms, three minutes.

Understood?

The Officer salutes and they snap into action.

ROCHER (cont'd)

And I need a set of eyes inside.

Two BEEFY GUARDSMEN in black suits step forward.

VITTORIA

Wait a minute, you'll scare him off.

ROCHER

They're not in uniform.

VITTORIA

I'm sorry, two weightlifters in

matching black suits and earpieces,

they're hardly disguised.

ROCHER

There's no time to get undercover men

here.

VITTORIA

Fine. I'll go.

ROCHER

I'm not sending a wom-

Her arched eyebrow stops his sentence in its tracks.

ROCHER (cont'd)

-- a civilian into this situation. You

have no communications and you can't

carry a walkie-talkie, it's too

conspicuous.

VITTORIA

Tourists have cell phones, don't they?

(pulls out her own and

holds it to her ear)

Hi honey, I'm at the Pantheon, you

should see this place!

39.

Rocher seems to be thinking about it. Langdon looks at her, his

protective instincts aroused.

LANGDON

You can't send her in there alone.

ROCHER

I don't intend to.

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