kippurbird | We have a Teabag with the Code.

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