![]() Unsure how to open it, Langdon suggests they turn to British Royal Historian Leigh Teabing for help after the bank’s manager, André Vernet, helps them escape the police. Inside is a white stone cylinder with a coded lock, a cryptex. They are brought to a subterranean vault where they retrieve Sauniére’s safety deposit box. The key allows them entrance into the high security bank. The address leads to a Swiss Depository Bank. There, Sophie discovers another clue left by her grandfather: a key.Īfter leaving a trail of false leads to throw off Fache and Collet, Langdon and Sophie discover an address written on the key in invisible ink. As they chase the errant tracking device, Langdon and Sophie sneak into the gallery in which the Mona Lisa is displayed. As the truck drives away, Fache and his lieutenant, Collet, believe Langdon is fleeing. She buries it in a bar of soap and throws it out the window where it lands in the back of a truck. The keystone is not there.Īt the Louvre, Sophie finds a hidden tracking device in Langdon’s coat. After smashing through a floor tile, he realizes the Priory brethren have all told him the same lie. He visits a church where he believes a relic of great power-the Priory’s keystone-is hidden. Silas, a monk with the conservative Catholic sect, Opus Dei, is the man responsible for Sauniére’s murder-as well the murder of three others, all members of the secretive Priory of Sion. Pretending to have important information for Langdon, she bustles him into a bathroom where she informs him that Sauniére was her grandfather and that his messages were intended for her. While Fache questions Langdon, agent Sophie Neveu, a cryptologist, bursts into the museum gallery. ![]() Langdon had been scheduled to meet with Sauniére earlier that evening, and he senses Fache considers him the prime suspect. The Louvre curator, Jacques Sauniére, has been murdered, a cryptic message written next to the body alongside Langdon’s name. Bezu Fache, a detective with the French Judicial Police, summons him to the Louvre. Renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is in Paris for a lecture. The novel has a character who is referred to as “The Albino,” an offensive characterization of people with albinism.
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