INT OFFICE OF THE SWISS GUARD NIGHTCLOSE ON a row of weapons in a cabinet in the Office of the Swiss
Commander Rocher selects a pistol and slips it into a harness.
While his back is turned to the room, Lt. Chartrand, the young
Swiss Guardsman who escorted Langdon to the Archives, hurries up
behind him.
CHARTRAND
Langdon says Cardinal Guidera will be
killed in Piazza Navona. He's on
his way there with two Carbinieri.
98.
ROCHER
Send everyone we can spare.
He closes and locks the cabinet, heads for the door. Alone.
CHARTRAND
You?
ROCHER
Staying here to continue the search
for the explosive.
He leaves. Chartrand looks back at the weapons cabinet. Sees
the space from which the pistol was taken.
CUT TO:
EXT CASTEL SANT'ANGELO NIGHT
We fly over a bridge, flanked by a dozen angel statues standing
sentinel on either side, leading directly toward--
-- the Castel Sant'Angelo, Castle of the Angels, its ancient
stone ramparts lit by floodlights. Soaring swiftly up its
facade, we close in on a mammoth bronze angel standing atop the
citadel.
It points the way, all right, its sword aimed directly downward,
at the castle itself, as if to say you've found it.
DOWN ON THE GROUND,
several Police Cars come to a stop in front of the castle at the
same time.
Langdon climbs out the back of one just as Vittoria gets out of a
car driven by a SWISS GUARDSMAN.
Langdon grabs her, thrilled to see her.
LANGDON
You're all right?
VITTORIA
I'm all right, what about you?!
LANGDON
Cold and wet but alive. Where's
Rocher?
VITTORIA
I don't know. He took the journals,
he's hiding something.
99.
More Cops arrive, and a SECURITY GUARD is pressed into service
behind them, opening the massive front doors to the Castle,
LANGDON
This is it. The Church of
Illumination is somewhere in the
castle.
Cops pour into the courtyard of the castle. Langdon and
Vittoria follow.
EXT CASTEL SANT'ANGELO - COURTYARD NIGHT
They dash around the outer bulwark of the Castle. The courtyard
beneath them looks like a museum of ancient warfare -- catapults,
stacks of marble cannonballs, fearful contraptions.
As the Cops quickly and silently search every nook, Langdon and
Vittoria follow closely.
LANGDON
The Vatican used this place for
centuries as a hideout, a prison for
enemies of the church -- there are
passages and catacombs everywhere. It
makes sense, the Illuminati
infiltrated the Church's own
stronghold. Bernini was chief
architect here, he left clues
everywhere, it's even surrounded by a
pentagonal park!
They reach the central core of the castle.
Another angel statue, similar to the one atop the citadel, stands
in front of them, its sword held in the same position, pointing
downward at an angle.
Langdon studies it, follows the line of the angel's sword -- and
sees a gated drive that cuts across the courtyard itself.
LANGDON (cont'd)
There.
A MOMENT LATER,
he and Vittoria are down in the courtyard, at the mouth of the
gated drive. The gate is open and leads to a tunnel, a gaping
entry in the central core.
100.
LANGDON
A traforo. Commanders on horseback
used them to ride directly into a
castle from the outside.
He gestures to the nearby Cops, who are already on it, and they
all head into the darkened tunnel.
INT TUNNEL NIGHT
Police flashlights switch on and their beams bounce crazily off
the walls of the tunnel.
Footsteps CRUNCH as they all press in, Langdon and Vittoria
content to let men with guns lead the way.
It gets darker as they descend, and then, by the echo of their
footfalls, they can tell they've entered --
A LARGE CHAMBER.
More lights are switched on, illuminating the space, which
terminates in three stone walls.
LANGDON
It's a dead end.
But the Police attention is focused on the black van parked in the
center of the room.
Roman Police snap into action, flashlight beams bounce everywhere,
guns point in every possible window of the van, SHOUTS for
whoever's inside to get the hell out now, now, now.
The doors are flung open.
The van is empty.
Except for the two dead policemen from the Piazza Navona.
The police frenzy reaches an even higher level, URGENT MESSAGES
passed along on radios, half the Cops turning and heading back out
of the tunnel.
LANGDON (cont'd)
Where are they going?
Vittoria listens to the orders being given in Italian.
VITTORIA
Back to search the outer castle.
101.
LANGDON
No... no, it has to be here!
But there's no stopping the Cops, and the only two that remain are
posted outside the van, guarding their fallen colleagues.
VITTORIA
Robert, it's a dead end.
Langdon walks forward, to the stone wall at the end of the tunnel,
and feels his way along it.
It joins smoothly with the wall on the right side.
VITTORIA (cont'd)
Robert...
But he waves her off, this has to be it. He feels all along the
wall toward the other corner, and as he looks down at the ground,
his eyes widen.
LANGDON
Bring a flashlight.
Vittoria borrows a flashlight from one of the two remaining Cops,
who now get a CRACKLY MESSAGE on their walkie-talkies and race out
of the tunnel, toward the top, leaving Langdon and Vittoria alone
in the dead end.
She brings the light to Langdon, who shines its beam down at the
floor. There, in the corner, is a granite block.
LANGDON (cont'd)
None of the other blocks are granite.
And they're all square.
He bends down, looks closer.
LANGDON (cont'd)
This one's a pentagram. It points --
Sure enough, the block is carved in the shape of a pentagram, with
the tip pointing into the corner.
LANGDON (cont'd)
-- at nothing.
But as he shines the light, there's something off about the shadow
it casts in the corner of the room. It creates an odd, dark
slit.
Langdon crouches in the corner and slides his hand along the back
wall of the chamber. When he reaches the point at which it
should intersect the side wall --
102.
-- his hand disappears.
LANGDON (cont'd)
The walls overlap.
He flattens himself against the back wall, shining the light
straight at what should be the intersection of the walls. Half
the flashlight's beam falls on the side wall, and the other half --
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