EXT PIAZZA DEL POPOLO DAY

Olivetti'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: 718