EXT PIAZZA DEL POPOLO DAYOlivetti's car SCREECHES to a halt in the Piazza del Popolo at
sunset. Langdon, Vittoria, Olivetti, and Vincenzo, the Vatican
cop who first came to see Langdon, all climb out, start scanning
the square.
LANGDON
This is the place.
He points to an obelisk in the center of the square.
LANGDON (cont'd)
An obelisk, with a pyramid at the top.
Both Masonic symbols.
VITTORIA
The Freemasons? Are Illuminati?
LANGDON
The Illuminati were infiltrators.
There isn't a powerful organization on
earth they didn't place members in.
Look at a dollar bill some time. A
pyramid, an occult symbol representing
convergence upward, with the eye of
illumination above it, and beneath it
the Latin for "New World Order."
45.
VITTORIA
The United States government was
infiltrated by Illuminati?
LANGDON
FDR's vice-president was a high-
ranking Freemason. Convinced him
the words in Latin actually meant "New
Deal."
A church bell begins to TOLL.
OLIVETTI
Eight o'clock!
Langdon takes off running, toward and eleventh-century church at
the southwest corner of the plaza, covered in scaffolding.
At the front door of the church,
Langdon hops over the sawhorses blocking the entrance and tries
the door. Locked. A sign says the place is under
construction.
At a side door,
Olivetti races alongside the church, followed by the others.
He reaches a door with a large, heavy ring, and pulls it toward
him. But the door won t budge. He pushes, throws his shoulder
into it. Locked.
LANGDON
(APPROACHING)
No, no, it's an annulus!
But Olivetti just races onward, looking for another door, followed
by Vincenzo. As they disappear around the back of the church,
Langdon steps up to the large ring, gives it an almighty twist --
INT SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO DUSK
-- and the heavy door CLUNKS open.
The interior of the church is an obstacle course of torn-up
flooring, brick pallets, mounds of dirt. Silt drifts in the
dying sunlight that shines through the broken windows and walls.
Nothing moves. Dead silence. Langdon and Vittoria walk
slowly to the middle of the floor, at one end of the chapel.
There are eight recesses, four on either side of a central aisle,
all covered with large sheets of plastic, to protect them during
construction.
46.
LANGDON
(WHISPERING)
The chapel is in one of those apses.
The plastic RUSTLES ominously. Anything could be behind any one
of them.
Vittoria pulls the gun from her waistband and holds it in front of
her. Langdon notices, it makes him uncomfortable.
LANGDON (cont'd)
You have to give that back.
She looks at him --- what are you, nuts? Something rushes at them
from the side, she whirls --
--- and nearly blows Olivetti to kingdom come as he and Vincenzo
barrel in through the side door.
Langdon gestures --- everybody quiet. Olivetti points to the left
gestures to Langdon and Vittoria to go to the right.
They separate, to either side of the main aisle.
AT THE FIRST CHAPEL,
Langdon pulls the plastic aside, eyes scan the chapel. Nothing.
ON THE OTHER SIDE,
Olivetti does the same, at another chapel. Nothing.
Date: 2015-12-18; view: 614
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