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I'm doing this early in the hopes that I don't keel over and fall asleep.

Right. So.

The Banker, Andre, has a gun pointed at Sophie and Langdon. He has a duty to protect grandpa's assets which includes the box. Apparently he's heard that the two of them are wanted for FOUR murders now. How the fuck did this happen? Surely the must realize that Langdon was perhaps lecturing when the other three murders happened and that Sophie was at work? That there's no possible way that they could have done the previous three murders? That since the four murders are connected and Langdon and Sophie couldn't have done the first three that it's highly unlikely that they did the last? That the police should be looking for someone else then? And that the APB for the two of them should be called off? \~/

Logically speaking, after all.

Also. How have they even linked the murders. While I'm at it. The only thing linking them is Silas. Who no one ever saw... or something. Awfully convenient \~/

Andre doesn't want the box to become part of police evidence so he's going to shoot the two of them to get it back. Which would be a crime. Which would make the box part of the evidence of the crime. Which would put in police evidence. \~/

Langdon gives him the box, after getting shot at. He shoves the spent casing into the door jam however.

Andre needs two hands to pick up the box. So, he lays down the gun and picks up the box and tries to shut the door. Which jams. Which allows Langdon to knock him to the ground and beat him senseless. YAY RANDOM VIOLENCE! And Langdon and Sophie escape with the truck. \~/

Cellphone Bishop is driving off with lots of money. Twenty Million Euro's worth. And he's afraid that his teacher might not have been able to get in contact with him. \~/

Meanwhile Langdon and Sophie are trying to figure out what to do now that they have the codex thingy and where to go. The idea of turning over the keystone back to the Priory (if they even knew who was apart of it) is impossible because they've been compromised. The Priory that is. As Langdon stares at the broken bumper of the stolen trunk he starts to get an epiphany about Sophie's family, from the fact that Grandpa left her a phone message saying that he wanted to tell her about her family. \~/ Meanwhile Sophie tries to figure out what the code is to open the codex thingy. She tries "Grail", "Vinci" and "Voute". Apparently the letters are in English? Sopie then becomes the poor helpless female with this following thought.

Looking outside at Langdon, Sophie felt grateful he was with her tonight. P.S. Find Robert Langdon. Her grandfather's rational for including him was now clear. Sophie was not equipped to understand her grandfather's intentions, and so he had assigned Robert Langdon as her guide. A tutor to oversee her education.


Sophie, who has been trained by her grandfather in all sorts of puzzles and cryptology, who has been raised by her grandfather and knows his way of thinking better than anyone else, is not equipped to understand her grandfather, but some guy who never met her father is. Yes. That makes perfect sense. For all his talk about the feminine mystique and things like that Brown seems to be remarkably interested in turning his female lead into sounding board for Langdon to sound intelligent at. Out of all the puzzles that they've solved she's only solved one. And she's supposed to be the trained cryptologist and Langdon's just the guy who knows symbols about the holy grail. If anything he should be helping her. \~/ \~/ \~/ Sophie is essentially useless here. Just a device for Brown to expose his theories. \~/

So, they drive on and Langdon suggests that they go find a friend of his another Grail Scholar who lives near Versailles. After some discussion they decide that his friend Teabing, here after referred to as Teabag, is worth trying. He apparently knows more about the Holy Grail than anyone outside the Priory. Oh and it's Sir Leigh Teabag. Apparently his name is Brown being cute again \~/ "Leigh Teabing's name is actually an anagram of the surnames of Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent — authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, a real book which espouses very similar beliefs to Teabing's (in the novel, Teabing explicitly refers to this book). Teabing's physical description resembles that of Henry Lincoln, the third author of that book. " Wikipedia. I think Brown likes Anagrams a bit too much. Which is why he ended up with such a stupid last name as Teabing. \~/ \~/ \~/

Teabag hates the French. He's made his house his own little British Ilse with the signs made in English and the intercom on the English Driver's side of the road. Teabag is also infirm with crutches and and leg braces from a bought of Polio which is supposed to refer to the Fisherking. \~/ . Teabag asks them three questions to get into the gate and test their honor. They involve asking if Langdon would like tea or coffee (tea) what would he like in his tea (lemon, in Earl Grey) and what year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henly? (such a travesty has never occurred)\~/ This proves that Langdon's heart is true and he may enter. Cute? No? \~/

Meanwhile the LoJack on the on the armored truck gets activated by Andre.

That's enough for tonight. I think.

Drinks: 17

Date: 2007-10-04 06:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] delphinapterus.livejournal.com
I think that the Monty Python & the Holy Grail question rip off is the only thing worthwhile in the whole thing.

Date: 2007-10-04 06:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kippurbird.livejournal.com
You would think that. At least the questions could have been funny.

Date: 2007-10-04 08:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yetanotherbob.livejournal.com
Oh, if only. The only thing that can save this book would be for the Da Vinci code to be cracked, its text laid bare:

DONTFORGETTODRINKYOUROVALTINE

Date: 2007-10-04 07:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kippurbird.livejournal.com
DFEDKRT
OOTRYOI
NRTIOVN
TGONUAE

Like that?

Date: 2007-10-04 11:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yetanotherbob.livejournal.com
But then, does Sophie tell Brown that he'll "Shoot his eye out"?

Date: 2007-10-04 01:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] delphinapterus.livejournal.com
Well of course they could have been better but hearing Grandalf Ian McKellan deliver them through a speaker box really was the best part of the entire film.

Date: 2007-10-04 07:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kippurbird.livejournal.com
Yeeees. He was the best part of the film.

Date: 2007-10-05 09:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dove-cg.livejournal.com
He was. Which is pretty sad, considering that his character only appears in the second half and is the VILLAIN.

Date: 2007-10-04 01:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wariena.livejournal.com
We Brits aren't all that bad. Really.

... I don't even like tea. T_T

Date: 2007-10-04 07:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kippurbird.livejournal.com
I rather like Brits. ^_^

Date: 2007-10-05 09:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dove-cg.livejournal.com
Awww. We know they're not. But hey, no shame in liking or disliking tea. It's just a beverage, regardless of how popular it may be. (Same can be said for various colas, coffee, and hot chocolate.)

Date: 2007-10-05 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] reverie-shadow.livejournal.com
Same can be said for a lot of things. I once had some jackass say, "I thought all Americans liked football." After expressing my extreme hatred for almost all sports alike.

Date: 2007-10-04 08:04 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] spoofmaster
...If he hates the French so much, why is he living in France? Sounds to me like he's just being bloody-minded.

Date: 2007-10-05 09:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dove-cg.livejournal.com
From what I've heard from a woman who lived in England, it is or was fashionable to vacation in France but only in areas specifically set up for British tourists. So everything there is British, including the food and rules and such. (Apparently it's okay to be nude on the beaches of France, which is part of what they're trying to avoid. Or something. This all came up in only one conversation. She was basically explaining how incredibly unexciting and timid that someone else had been, so I may be getting some of my details incorrect.)

But yeah, it's pure bloody-mindedness.

Date: 2007-10-05 09:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dove-cg.livejournal.com
Teabing... where did he get the ing from? Oh, wait. I see it. The in in Lincoln and the g in Baigent. Ugh. He's not that good at anagrams, is he? He could have tried combining more of their last names or something. Feh.

I think Sir Henry Michael Leigh would have been a better name, personally. Or Sir Lincoln Richard Baginet. Almost anything would have worked. But yeah... the banker turning on them was one of the dumbest things in the whole plot! Plus, how the hell did they get connected? I guess because Fache is Opus Dei or something like that. Or determined. Oh, who really cares?

Date: 2007-10-05 10:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-norseman.livejournal.com
Uhm no it's an anagram of Baigent.

See:

Baigent - T
Baigent - Te
Baigent - Tea
Baigent - Teab
Baigent - Teabi
Baigent - Teabin
Baigent - Teabing

Date: 2007-10-05 05:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dove-cg.livejournal.com
Ah. Still a horrible name. ;)

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