INT OFFICE OF THE SWISS GUARD NIGHT

CLOSE 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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