The Da Vinci Code 200-300

Langdon realizes that they must be holding the Priory keystone. He says that only the leader of the Priory would have access to the keystone, and Sophie says she thinks her grandfather may have been the leader of the Priory. The car stops and Vernet lets them out, but then apologetically pulls a pistol on them. Vernet tells Langdon and Sophie to give him the box. He just heard over the radio that they are wanted for three other murders. Langdon realizes who the three must have been. He hands the box over to Vernet, but he also manages to put a spent shotgun shell into the door. When Vernet tries to shut them into the truck, but can't. Langdon bursts out of the door, takes the box back, and gets back into the truck while Sophie drives away. Vernet then calls the manager of the bank and has him activate the tracking system on the armored truck. Langdon smuggles the cryptex into Teabing’s house and hides it underneath a divan in the sitting room. Langdon says that Sophie doesn’t know the true story of the Grail, and Teabing says he will tell her. Teabing explains that Leonardo Da Vinci thought the New Testament was written by men, not God, and that some gospels had been left out. Teabing shows Sophie a picture of the Da Vinci fresco The Last Supper. There is no chalice or Holy Grail present in the painting, as many people think, but only wine glasses for each person. Teabing says the Holy Grail is not a thing, but a person. Teabing says that the Holy Grail is Mary's body and that the documents prove that everyone in Mary’s blood line is related to Jesus. Collet receives a tip about Langdon’s and Sophie’s location. He gets in his car and heads to Versailles. Langdon tells Teabing that all of the members of the Priory are dead. They guess that the Church itself figured out who the brothers were and killed them. They also surmise that the Church struck because it thought the Priory was planning to release the documents. Teabing, Langdon, and Sophie look at the cryptex. Langdon tries to determine whether part of the box might contain a clue about the password. He finds a small hole in the interior. When he pushes the end of a paper clip through it, the rose falls out of the wood. Behind the rose there are some lines of text. As he is looking at the text, Silas hits him on the head. Silas has Teabing and Sophie at gunpoint. He orders Teabing to hand him the cryptex. Teabing agrees and then slashes Silas with one of his crutches, right on the punishment belt strapped around Silas’s thigh. Silas goes down, and they bind and gag him. Langdon, Teabing, and Sophie fool Collet and the police into going upstairs. Collet goes down to the barn and finds that most of the sports cars are there, except for one of them. On the plane, Langdon and Teabing try and fail to decipher the text on the back of the rose. Sophie takes the text from them and says it is simply written backwards, the way Da Vinci used to write in his notebooks and that it can be read in a mirror. At the airfield, Fache cannot find out who is on Teabing’s plane with him, but he does manage to determine where the plane will land.