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(crusader:)well?

Yes.

The sign. It's here.

[screaming in pain]

[tapping]

[screaming]

(allian:)can you tell me which room is britney spears'?

I'm sorry, sir.

I can't give you that information.

But if you'll tell me your...

[phone ringing]

Just a second.

Yes?

(concierge:)yes.

Yes.

Yes, tomorrow morning.

Goodnight.

Now, if you'll tell me your...

Sir?

Sir?

Allain.

I remember those lips.

Ah, no, no, no, no,

No light.

You're being followed?

By people will stop at nothing.

Oh, a relic's involved.

The towered cross.

Oldest christian cross,

Missing since the crusades?

Which I've got less than 12 hours to find,

Or I'm dead.

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(syd:)so let me get this straight.

You're diagnosed with the virus.

Yah, not just any virus.

A necron virus.

And then some guy calls you,

Offering the antidote in exchange for a relic?

There's nothing they can do.

What do you mean?

(allain:)they identified the bug.

It's the second case they have seen in the last day.

But the doctors have no antidote.

Then how did the blackmailer get one?

I don't know.

Mr. Chabot.

Make him go away.

This better be good, anton.

We'll go to the police. No police.

Allain...

There's no time to go to the police, sydney.

I've got less than 12 hours to live.

12?

The doctors calculated it exactly.

That's not enough time.

I'm sorry it's not a slower-growing virus.

You don't look ill.

I spiked a fever.

That's how I found out I was sick.

It's not contagious,

I have no symptoms,

And the doctors say I won't feel a thing until...

If you say no, I understand.

The relic may place your life in danger.

Like we've never been there before.

The tower cross has to be delivered

To a pre-determined location

By noon tomorrow.

Noon.

Is there anything else you left out?

If the blackmailer reneges,

Promise me you won't live to enjoy the cross.

She was about to untie my shoes with her tongue.

The anti-virus.

Good.

I followed allain conroy from the hospital.

He went to the police?

No. He ran to sydney fox.

The relic hunter.

Straight to her hotel.

You're sure?

Smart boy.

Dramatically increases his chances for a longer life,

And mine of getting the cross in time.

Should I tell your father?

No. Tell him nothing.

Syd, I really don't think it's such a good idea

Us helping him instead of going to the police.

We have 12 hours.

Well, now I'm certain. The man could keel over and die.

If we don't help him.

Is the virus contagious?

I hope not. We...

You... Oh.

You don't feel the least bit...

He's a vector, a carrier who's not contagious.

Why don't I find that comforting?

Syd?

Didn't you hear your phone, claudia?

I was having the best dream.

We were hunting for a relic at versace...

Well, get dressed, meet me in my room.

Now?

We're leaving in 15 minutes.

Are we going to versace?

(syd:)nigel.

The tower cross was fashioned for the prophet

Ezekiel around 600 bc.

It was later adopted by the first christians.

After the ark of the covenant,

It's believed to be one of,

If not the most powerful old testament relic.

It's believed that the ark's power struck down enemies of god.

The tower cross raises them to heaven,

Even the souls of the damned.

It was found by a templar knight,

Geoffrey de boulogne who brought it to France,

Just after the first crusade.

As I recall, the...

The knights were ambushed en route.

(allain:)fearing such a treachery, geoffrey and his loyal knights

Had taken precautions and hidden the cross.

They were interrogated, but none revealed where it was hidden.

Making your job a piece of cake, wouldn't you say so?

(allain:)the location was lost,

Until a researcher at the louvre discovered a templar rosary.

The louvre let you borrow this?

Sort of.

Templar legend states that the rosary contains

A coded message which will lead directly to the cross.

When did you borrow this?

A few days ago.

And then you're suddenly diagnosed with the necron virus.

The ornamentation.

Middle eastern origin. Sidranese?

I haven't been able to place them.

Sidra, a port city on the mediterranean

During the crusader period. 10th century?

11th.

There's nothing written or encoded on the beads themselves.

Were the knights interrogated in the middle east?

No, here in France, on their return.

(nigel:)sidranese rosaries were...

Were far more elaborate during the crusader period.

There's something missing from the end of this one,

A... A cross, or a religious icon.

Do you know exactly where the knights were interrogated?

No, I don't.

But the answer's here in paris.

It's lying somewhere among the records

Kept at the templar grand library.

I can see them.

Waiting to greet me in hell.

Don't let them take me away.

I won't, papa.

Do you have it?

Not yet.

The priest is here.

These hands drip with the blood of every

Life taken by a chabot chemical weapon.

There is too much for an army of priests to wash away.

You only made what governments bought.

And built a fortune on the pain of others.

I need the tower cross.

@@ I must havet in my hands...

To get to heaven.

Sydney fox, the relic hunter,

Will put it in your hands herself.

Sydney fox?

How did you ever...

I didn't.

Fate intervened.

You once said you would give anything

To the person who brought you the tower cross.

Does that still stand?

Yes.

Syd.

Claudia, say hello to allain.

Hi. Where are we going?

Not to a hospital, which is where we should be going,

But nobody listens to me.

Nigel, I really can't appreciate your problem right now.

Can't you tell I'm in crisis?

Crisis?

What?

Crisis.

What just happened up there?

Where?

Upstairs. Did I say or do to sydney

Something in my sleep that I may regret?

Something that may make her doubt my commitment to ancient studies,

Re-think bringing me back to paris,

My favourite shopping stop in the whole world?

No.

Well...

I'm sure you'll be able to redeem yourself somehow.

How? Anything.

I'll think of something.

(allain:)a-ha. Of course.

The knights were interrogated at the royal prison of neuilly.

Many templar knights died at the hands of their interrogators,

But I didn't realize that geoffrey of boulogne was one.

Nuit is not far.

What's the matter?

The nuit prison is in ruins.

Over the years, the foundations have just decayed.

I tried to explore it myself recently,

And nearly ended up trapped.

We'll manage.

Don't worry.

I'm sure we'll be able to manage everything just fine.

Actually, claudia,

I was thinking that you could be our point person here.

But I'm ready for anything.

I mean, totally committed.

(syd:)research may be the only way we get to this cross.

I need you to become an expert,

Beginning with nuit prison.

Okay. Well, then,

I'll re-schedule all your lectures between chapters.

How's our time?

Less than 8 hours left.

I'll bring the car around.

Here's how to access the other research material you may need.

And be careful.

Why?

Well, if word of this leaks out,

Every relic hunter in France will be after the cross.

Rivals may show up here.

Rivals. You said something about a

Second report of the virus?

Yes, so the doctors mentioned. Why?

Claudia, keep that cell phone close.

What could happen, right?

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Cheery spot.

(allain:)oh, cold this time of year.

It goes right to your bones.

Gesun...

Dungeons are still partly intact.

Everything above was unstable.

How did you get in?

An old doorway that's not completely collapsed.

Although...

I only managed to get a few feet down

Before the stones started to cave in on me.

The dungeons extend below this entire area.

[rumbling]

What was that?

Underground cave-in?

Probably.

All we did was walk over it.

The last time I was here,

I barely made it out alive.

So you said.

I mean, the slightest movement causes shifting.

You all right, nigel?

Fine.

Other than the fact that the slightest breeze

Will bring this whole place down.

I think I can still find the entrance to the dungeon...

If it hasn't caved in.

What good will it do if none of us come out of there alive?

Well, 1 alone might survive.

2, well...

2 would be madness.

3 would probably be...

Suicide.

Shouldn't one of us wait up here?

It might be wise, yah.

In case the others need assistance.

Any suggestions?

I think we have our volunteer.

Call me if you find anything promising.

Like steel reinforcing and a hard hat.

Just like old times, eh, sydney?

I wish you'd start taking the dying thing a little more seriously.

And what would that leave you to do?

You know, as I recall,

The last time we saw each...

Yah, we were hanging by our fingernails.

Yah. Inches from being hacked to pieces.

By those ruwandi whose idol you...

You liberated.

Maybe I did.

While nearly getting us both killed.

Here we go again.

This place is as dingy as that bar in nepal.

That's the night we met.

I was...

Stealing a relic out of my bag?

As I recall, you placed me in a hammer-lock.

Which is one of the reasons why I first fell in love with you.

[rumbling]

We always were good together.

I know.

But nepal was a long time ago.

The passage narrows up ahead.

These must be the prisoners' cells.

Ah. I didn't get this far last time.

The names of the prisoners.

Scratched their dates into the rocks.

Everyone has a need to be remembered.

There's hundreds.

[rumbling]

Sydney, come here!

This name.

It's the secret templar name of geoffrey of boulogne.

The templar who brought the tower cross back from the first crusade.

Hiram?

(allain:)it's an old testament name given to a templar

In their initiation into the order,

So they can be recognized only by other templars.

It's there, inside.

A tower cross.

But unfortunately, not the tower cross.

That would be too easy.

The rosary.

The missing piece.

"I tego arcana dei."

"I conceal secrets of god."

[rumbling]

Let's go!

Daylight!

Easy up, now.

Nice and slow.

Put the gun down before you hurt yourself.

I didn't hear him arrive.

I'll have the tower cross, allain.

You know this guy?

Van geldin, bottom - feeding pond scum with feet.

Calls himself a relic hunter.

The tower cross, or he's dead.

We don't have it.

Don't lie to me.

It wasn't down there.

I don't have time for this, allain.

The bug is eating me up.

Starts with a fever.

Docs say there's no antidote.

That's right.

Chabot punched my ticket too.

He's got us both on a deadline.

Chabot, as in the pharmaceutical company?

(van geldin:) you didn't know?

The son of the founder.

I think I protested outside of a chabot pharmaplant

When I was in college.

(van geldin:)chabot's antidote came out of their

Chemical weapon research program.

Chabot, the son, hired me to get him the tower cross,

And then infected me with the virus when it took too long.

But what does he want with the cross?

His father is dying.

He wanted the tower cross to get into heaven.

This is crazy.

If we know who is the blackmailer is,

Why don't we go to the police?

To find out there's only one dose of the antidote?

I work alone.

I was hoping for the tower cross,

But I'll settle for the rosary beads, allain.

I know you have them.

Go to hell.

I've got nothing to lose.

"I tego arcana dei," of course.

Do you know the significance of this?

You do?

I will soon enough.

Why did you go do that, allain?

Oh yah. You're already dead.

Shouldn't we go after him?

We need to find a place to tend to this shoulder.

And you need to decode that phrase.

I know you can hear me.

Hold on, papa.

Hold on.

We've got to go after van geldin.

Hang on.

Ow. Oh.

Guardian angel.

Sydney, if I don't make it...

Shh.

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[cell phone ringing]

Yah.

(nigel:)claudia?

Nigel. How's syd?

Fine, but allain's been wounded

By a rival relic hunter who ambushed us.

So whatever you do there, be careful.

Oh my gosh.

Is he all right?

Well, sydney's tending to him, but he'd be a lot better

If you can find the following phrase amongst

Those templar texts. Ready?

Well, I've been reading all the books on the templars

And the cross in here, just like sydney asked me to, so shoot.

Sorry.

(nigel:)"I tego arcana dei."

"I tego arcana dei."

"I conceal the secrets of god."

That was impressive.

Tell syd?

Well, the phrase is the key.

We need to know if it's in the research.

Good luck.

Any word?

Nothing.

I can find them.

And find the cross?

Before he dies,

I need my father's signature on these estate transfer documents,

Or every penny goes to charity.

His will leaves me nothing, anton.

An allowance.

Tell me what to do.

If I bring the cross, I know he'll sign.

He's promised me that;

I'll hold him to it.

But there's no other way.

I don't care who lives or who dies.

I need someone to bring me that cross.

How's the patient?

(nigel:)allain, you said when we first talked the rosary contained

A coded message that would lead to the cross.

And that's what the legends say.

Yes, templar codes used during the crusades

Were as famous as the enigma codes of the second world war.

And as unbreakable.

Well, I tried re-arranging the words to make a new meaning,

But no luck.

[cell phone ringing]

Hello?

(claudia:) hi, it's me.

Claudia.

Sydney, I couldn't find the phrase nigel asked me look up.

She couldn't find the phrase.

(claudia:)I did find a painting of you, though.

What?

Some of the templar knights were women.

One of them is this painting is you.

Well, not you, you.

And the other is a dead ringer for allain.

So I did a tarot card reading.

I dealt the cards one at a time,

Just like I always do,

And the same cards came up for each of you.

You guys share a destiny.

I mean, the same cards came up,

But in a different order.

So the meaning is different,

But the cards are the same.

Do you know what the odds of this are?

I mean, talk about a powerful connection.

So is allain there now?

Are the sparks, like, flying everywhere?

I'm hanging up now, claudia.

What was that about?

She didn't tell you a past life theory, did she?

Yes, and it gave me an idea.

Now, you said when you re-arranged the words,

All you got was gibberish, right?

What if you used all the letters from the entire phrase,

Re-arranged them into new words.

A new phrase.

Like claudia's tarot cards:

One deck, same cards,

Different order.

Well, assuming the letters are part of an extended anagram,

You re-organize the letters

Of the text to reveal a secret meaning.

"et in arcadia ego."

And "in arcadia, I."

Hid the cross.

That's why van geldin reacted the way he did.

He knew it was a coded message.

Arcadia.

There's a greek mythological island by that name.

Sir philip sydney wrote about a place

Called arcadia in his poems.

Arcadia. Arcadia.

I'm almost certain there's a castle near chartres.

A... A temple of property known as arcadia.

But I don't remember any research connecting it to the tower cross there.

We can have claudia re-check en route.

3 hours.

There's van geldin's car.

He's inside.

He could be laying in wait for us just beyond this gate.

Could be.

[cell phone ringing]

Claudia.

I couldn't find much in the research.

The castle was templar property

Up until the order was dissolved by the french king in...

1305.

It's been maintained by the state ever since.

And it... I'm reading from a guide here.

"known for its gothic architecture,

And the many templar knights buried within its walls."

But I wouldn't bother going in.

Why?

It's closed on mondays.

That's today.

It's closed mondays.

Thank you, claudia.

How much time do we have?

1 hour and 39 minutes.

Less 1 hour travel back to paris leaves...

39 minutes.

Once we're inside, we should spread out,

Check everything.

Keep an eye out for van geldin.

(syd:)"brave knights of the cross."

Do you believe any of that, syd?

Fate?

Destiny?

Two souls as one?

I believe that...

This painting's not concealing a hidden wall safe.

Geoffrey of boulogne went down fighting.

I wonder whatever happened to her.

Let's just make sure what happened to him doesn't happen to you.

Van geldin.

God.

We've got to get you to a hospital.

No. Stay back.

In a few hours, it'll be one.

He's right.

You should get to a hospital.

No. No hospital.

(syd:)but look at you.

You need help.

I need the tower cross.

And you can help me by finding it.

And if you don't, I'll kill you.

Nigel!

(nigel:) van geldin.

No!

He couldn't have survived.

Look.

I'd really rather not.

No, over there.

The tower cross.

(anton:) mr. Chabot.

Your father...

It couldn't be helped, nigel,

You saved our lives.

The cross.

(nigel:)there's a mechanism of some kind

At the centre of the cross.

It looks like the dial on a combination lock.

And each of the rings moves.

The letters on each ring.

Allain, take a look at this.

Allain?

He was right here.

The car.

Allain!

He has van geldin's gun.

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Yah?

(syd:)claudia, sydney.

Hey, syd. What's up?

Allain's gone back to paris.

Great.

Not great. (syd:)not great.

I need you to go to chabot's house.

(claudia:)why?

Because that's where allain's headed. I need you to stop him.

Until we get there.

Okay. I'm on my way.

Stay calm.

Don't provoke him.

Right.

(syd:)just stall.

Tell him we're on our way.

We can use van geldin's car.

It's still here.

We could.

But my gut tells me that that cross we found is the key.

We're close to finding the tower.

Okay.

Now, it looks like each ring has the same 14 letters.

The same letters as the phrase on the rosary cross.

That marker looks like an ordinal point.

Like it's some sort of templar combination lock.

A combination made up of the letters in the phrase,

"I tego arcana dei."

Let's try keying in the first letter of each word.

Making an acrostic.

The Sunday times crossword always has a few of them.

An acrostic.

A word made up of the first letter of each

Word in a phrase,

Not unlike an anagram.

First an I,

Then a t...

A...

D.

(nigel:)it's a key hole?

The rosary cross.

Sorry, van geldin.

[rumbling]

It's coming from below.

We're going down there.

Down there?

Yah.

(nigel:)would you say this is the most powerful

Relic we've ever encountered?

It's a good possibility.

So the cross's power could be dangerous.

Legend says, as long as you don't touch it,

You're fine.

We don't really know, do we?

(syd:)no.

Then how do we find out?

Trial and error?

[rumbling continues]

The tower cross.

I don't know what I was expecting,

But I didn't think any relic could be so...

That light.

Beautiful, isn't it?

I just want to reach out and touch it.

(syd:)nigel. Don't.

What just happened?

I don't know,

But we'll figure it out back in paris.

Allain.

It's claudia.

Sydney sent you?

She's on her way with the cross.

Nice try.

No. They found it.

Her and nigel are on their way.

I just talked to them.

Look, I can't let you go in there.

No.

Are you nuts?

Just a girl on a mission...

Why don't we take this inside?

I'd really rather not.

[cell phone ringing]

(nigel:)there's no answer on claudia's cell phone.

Well, that's allain's car.

That's claudia's cell.

[gun shots]

Hold this.

Come on.

Sydney.

This maniac came in here shooting,

Demanding an antidote for some virus.

(syd:)claudia.

I'm all right.

He's alive, just.

You can drop the act, chabot.

Sydney fox.

Forget the introductions.

What you want's in the box.

You're too late.

Come again?

(chabot:)I wanted the tower cross for my father.

He died just before you arrived.

He's refusing to give me the antidote.

You're a day late and a dollar short, sydney fox.

The deal was 12 hours.

Deals don't matter anymore.

In fact, nothing does.

And if I'm screwed,

Then so are you.

Well... At least let me show you the cross.

Beautiful, isn't it?

Yes.

[screaming]

Allain!

To your health.

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The ironic thing is, is that by not getting his father's signature

On the estate papers before he died,

He forfeited the entire company

And a sizeable inheritance.

Live by the cross, die by the cross.

Well, what's going to happen to the fortune now?

The father stipulated a scholarship model

On the nobel prize to be set up

With it to fund crucially important research projects.

Well, what about the cross?

Representatives from museums,

As well as the vatican,

Will be calling for it.

Not long until we know that.

I think we should...

[together]...Sleep on it.

Well, shouldn't we at least have claudia call a few of them back?

Oh. Oh...

Oh, oh. You mean sleep...

On it.

It's only been a thousand years.

Well, you know...

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