INT VATICAN ARCHIVES DAY

Inside 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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