INT HELICOPTER NIGHTThe Camerlengo is indeed at the controls of the helicopter,
piloting it upwards and away from the crowd below. The canister
is beside him on the passenger seat.
EXT ST. PETER'S SQUARE NIGHT
The crowd falls silent, all eyes turning upward, watching the
helicopter recede into the clouds.
117.
INT HELICOPTER NIGHT
The canister BEEPS on the seat beside the Camerlengo -- still a
few minutes left on its timer, but the urgently flashing red power
light can't be considered a good sign.
The Camerlengo looks at it.
Crosses himself.
Raises the crucifix from around his neck and brushes it against
his lips.
EXT ST. PETER'S SQUARE NIGHT
All eyes are upturned, all voices have fallen still, watching as
the helicopter's anti-collision lights disappear into the clouded
night sky.
EXT IN THE SKY NIGHT
High above the square, the helicopter still climbs, rotating in
circles.
INT HELICOPTER NIGHT
CLOSE ON the canister as the red light flashes even faster, and a
shrill BEEPING fills the cockpit.
EXT ST. PETER'S SQUARE NIGHT
In the crowd, faces turn, PEOPLE point. There's something in
the sky above them.
Langdon and Vittoria see it too -- a faint white speck, far up in
the sky. This is the explosion?
EXT IN THE SKY NIGHT
No, the faint white speck is a billowing parachute -- and the
Camerlengo dangles at the end of it.
ABOVE HIM,
the helicopter continues to climb, far up into the night.
INT HELICOPTER NIGHT
And in the canister, the BEEPING sound becomes continuous and the
light winks out altogether.
118.
The shimmering bead of anti-matter falls out of suspension and
drops, slowly, toward the bottom of the canister, it barely
touches the surface --
EXT IN THE SKY NIGHT
-- and the helicopter explodes in a blinding pinpoint of white
light.
EXT ST. PETER'S SQUARE NIGHT
Up in the sky over St. Peter's Square, the pinpoint of light is
tiny at first, then it shoots out to either side in a searing
white line, then the white line balloons out on either side,
expanding into a gigantic ball of hot white light.
And then the sound hits.
THIS is the explosion, and it is so much more ferocious than we
could have imagined.
The entire image is bleached white, with only the faint outlines
of people visible within it.
And then concussive force of the blast hits, like heat waves,
rippling everything in its way. SCREAMING and panic.
EXT IN THE SKY NIGHT
The Camerlengo, clinging to the parachute, is buffeted wildly,
spun over and over, tangling him in his cords, which makes him
fall faster.
EXT ST. PETER'S SQUARE NIGHT
The second wave of the blast comes, and this one's ten times as
powerful as the first.
Everything standing is flattened -- PEOPLE, camera trucks, the
fountain in the middle of the square collapses in a shower of
marble and water.
INT ST. PETER'S BASILICA NIGHT
Ceiling tiles fall and SMASH on the floor inside St. Peter's,
statues topple.
EXT IN THE SKY NIGHT
The Camerlengo falls, unconscious now, tumbling over and over,
dropping too fast. He SLAMS off an angled rooftop, headed for the
ground.
119.
EXT ST. PETER'S SQUARE NIGHT
In the square, Langdon and Vittoria dodge falling debris.
Vittoria loses her footing as a chunk of plaster CRUNCHES off a
building, plummeting toward her.
Langdon pulls her to safety as the plaster PULVERIZES itself in
the square.
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