- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Christianity's most sacred codices are in that archive. Given your recent... entanglement with the Church, there is a question I'd like to ask you first here in-in the office of His Holiness.
- [Walks towards Robert Langdon]
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Do you believe in God, sir?
- Robert Langdon: [pause] Father, I simply believe that religion...
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believe in God.
- Robert Langdon: [pause] I'm an academic. My mind tells me I will never... understand God.
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: And your heart?
- Robert Langdon: [pause] Tells me I'm not meant to. Faith is a gift... that I have yet to receive.
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: [pauses to consider his words] Be delicate with our treasures.
- Richter: He said they'd be killed publicly.
- Robert Langdon: Yes. Revenge... for La Purga.
- Richter: La Purga?
- Robert Langdon: Oh, geez, you guys don't even read your own history, do you? 1668, the Church kidnapped four Illuminati scientists and branded each one of them on the chest with the symbol of the cross... to purge them of their sins, and they executed them. Threw their bodies out into the street as a warning to others to stop questioning Church ruling on scientific matters. They radicalized them. The Purga created a darker, more violent Illuminati, one bent on... on retribution.
- Chartrand: The Catholic Church is not a corporation, it's a beacon. A source of inspiration for a one billion lost and frightened souls.
- Robert Langdon: Sure, I get that. It's also a bank.
- Cardinal Baggia: May god forgive you for what you've done...
- Assassin: Father, if God has issues, they won't be with what I've done. They will be with what I'm about to do.
- [last lines]
- Cardinal Strauss: Mr. Langdon. Thanks be to God for sending someone to protect His church.
- Robert Langdon: I don't believe He sent me, Father.
- Cardinal Strauss: Oh, my son. Of course He did.
- Cardinal Strauss: And when you write of us... and you will write of us... May I ask one thing? Do so gently.
- Robert Langdon: You will counsel him wisely.
- Cardinal Strauss: [chuckles] I am an old man. I will counsel him briefly.
- Robert Langdon: I need access to the Vatican Archives.
- Inspector Olivetti: Professor, I don't think this is the appropriate moment.
- Richter: Your petition has been denied seven times.
- Robert Langdon: No, no. This has nothing to do with my work. The Path of Illumination is a hidden trail through Rome itself that leads to the Church of the Illumination, the place where the Illuminati would meet in secret. If I can find the Segno, the sign, that marks the beginning of that path, the four churches along it may be where he intends to murder your Cardinals. One every hour at 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00. Then the device explodes... at midnight. If we can figure out the first church and get there before he does, may be we can stop it. But I can't find the start of the path until I get into the Archives.
- Richter: Even if I wanted to help you, access to the Archives is only by written decree by the curator and the Board of Vatican Librarians.
- Robert Langdon: Or by papal mandate.
- Richter: Yes, but as you no doubt have heard, the Holy Father is dead.
- Robert Langdon: What about Il Carmerlengo?
- Richter: The Carmerlengo is just a priest here, the former Pope's chamberlain.
- Robert Langdon: Doesn't the power of the Holy See rest in him during Tempo Sede Vacante?
- [all the Vatican police men look at each other, with various degrees of doubt and uncertainty]
- Robert Langdon: Fellas... you called me.
- Assassin: Were it up to me, it would not be this way. It's a sin to kill the pain. It's a sin to kill without reason. Father... they make me a sinner.
- Assassin: You know, when they call me... and they all call me... it is so important to them that I know what they ask is the Lord's will. Or Allah's or Yahweh's... And I suppose they're right... Beause if he was not vengeful, I would not exist, now would I?
- Robert Langdon: The Illuminati did not become violent until the 17th Century. Their name means "The Enlightened Ones." They were physicists and mathematicians, astronomers. They were concerned with the Church's inaccurate teaching and they were dedicated to scientific truth. But the Vatican didn't like that. So the Church began to... how did you say it? Oh, "Hunt them down and kill them."
- [Police have been ordered to return Langdon to the Vatican]
- Robert Langdon: [to poiice] The Vatican is about to see its fourth Cardinal murdered tonight! Now, look... You can do as they say and force me back to the Vatican, where we can all mourn his death together. Or you can show how real cops act, and take me to the Piazza Navona, where we still might be able to stop it!
- [the police start conferring between themselves]
- Robert Langdon: Oh, by all means, let's talk it over. In 14 minutes, he's gonna be dead!
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Their faith will not protect them from an explosion.
- Cardinal Strauss: Well... We are all bound for heaven eventually, are we not?
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Spoken like one who has enjoyed the blessings of a long and full life.
- Inspector Olivetti: Where did you get that paper?
- Vittoria Vetra: We borrowed it.
- Robert Langdon: [reading paper with magnifier] "From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole...
- Inspector Olivetti: Are you insane?
- Robert Langdon: ...Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test. Let angels guide thee on they lofty quest."
- Inspector Olivetti: You removed a document from the Vatican Archives?
- Robert Langdon: [points at Vittoria] She did.
- Vittoria Vetra: He chose the name Luke.
- Robert Langdon: There's been many Marks and Johns. Never a Luke.
- Cardinal Strauss: It's said he was a doctor.
- Vittoria Vetra: It's quite a message, science and faith all in one.
- Cardinal Strauss: The world is in need of both.
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Would it surprise you to find those clothes suit you?
- Robert Langdon: [chuckles] It would surprise the hell out of me.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: The Ring of the Fisherman, which bears the official papal seal, must be destroyed immediately following the Pope's death. The papal apartment is then sealed for nine days of mourning, a period known as "Sede Vacante", the time of the empty throne.
- [the bomb that threatens to destroy St.Peter's is set to go off at midnight. The Camerlengo is discussing evacuation with his security chief]
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: At 11:15, if the Church is still in peril, If we are still in peril... give the order to evacuate the Cardinals. But with dignity. Let them walk out into St. Peter's Square with their heads held high. I don't want the last image of this Church to be of frightened old men sneaking out the back door.
- Vittoria Vetra: You know, the worst thing we thought would happen... was that our work would fall into the hands of the energy companies... We thought we could change the world... So naive.
- Robert Langdon: No, no. Not naive. Innocent, maybe. But that's not a crime.
- Vittoria Vetra: I'm not so sure.
- Robert Langdon: Go back to work. Change the world.
- Robert Langdon: Do you smoke?
- Chartrand: A little bit.
- Robert Langdon: Then you better sit down before you keel over.
- Robert Langdon: [Swiss Guards Offices Corridor. As Langdon and Olivetti walk, Langdon studies the row of statues of male nudes that line both sides of the hallway, all wearing fig leaves] Oh, yes, Pope Pius the Ninth's Great Castration.
- Inspector Olivetti: I beg your pardon?
- Robert Langdon: 1857. Pius the Ninth felt the male form might inspire lust, so he took a hammer and chisel and unmanned hundreds of these statues. The plaster figs were added later.
- Inspector Olivetti: [Olivetti stops abruptly, outside a heavy steel door with a security keyboard beside it] Are you - anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?
- Robert Langdon: No, I'm anti-vandalism.
- Assassin: I've had several chances to eliminate you tonight. You're still alive because you have no weapon - and they didn't ask me to kill you. But if you pursue me, it is another matter. Be careful. These are men of God.
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: [after breaking into Conclave and announcing that church is at war] ... but science and religion are not enemies! There are simply some things that science is just too young to understand. So the church pleads: "stop", "slow down", "think", "wait"... and for this - they call us backward. But who is more ignorant: the man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its natural awesome power?
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Our church is at war. We are under attack from an old enemy. The Illuminati. They have struck us from within. Murdering our Holy Father. And threatening us all with destruction at the hands of their new god, science.
- Assassin: [on video] We will destroy your four pillars. We will brand your Preferiti and sacrifice them on the altars of science, then bring your church down upon you. Vatican City will be consumed by light. A shining star at the end of the Path of Illumination.
- Vittoria Vetra: [points to computer diagram of the antimatter device] The antimatter is suspended there in an airtight nanocomposite shell with electromagnets in each end. But if it were to fall out of suspension and come in contact with matter, say, the bottom of the canister, then the two opposing forces would annihilate one another violently.
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: Open the doors, evacuate St. Peter's Square and tell the world the truth.
- Robert Langdon: [Swiss Guards Offices corridor. As Langdon and Olivetti walk, Langdon studies the row of statues of Male nudes that line both sides of the hallway, all wearing fig leaves] The Great Castration.
- Inspector Olivetti: I beg your pardon?
- Robert Langdon: 1857. Pius IX felt that the male form might inspire lust, so he took a hammer and chisel and unmanned hundreds of these statues. These plaster fig leaves were added later.
- Robert Langdon: [Olivetti stops abruptly outside a heavy steel door with a security keyboard beside it] Are you anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?
- Robert Langdon: Me? No, I'm anti-vandalism?
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: We are at war! We're weak when we should be strong! If science is allowed to claim the power of creation, what is left for God?
- Robert Langdon: Look, I don't study symbols because I consider them unimportant. Ceremony, traditions, it's how we mark our lives.
- Inspector Olivetti: I urge you to guard your tone here. The Swiss Guard is a calling, not a profession, and it encourages a - certain zealotry.
- Richter: Ah, Professor Langdon.
- Robert Langdon: Yes.
- Richter: [sarcastically] What a relief, the symbologist is here.
- Robert Langdon: Why me?
- Claudio Vincenzi: Your expertise. Your erudition. Your recent involvement with certain Church, shall we say: Mysteries.
- Robert Langdon: I thought you were Swiss Guard.
- Inspector Olivetti: No, la Gendarmeria. We are responsible for everything inside the Vatican walls with the exception of the security of His Holiness.
- Robert Langdon: Yeah.
- Inspector Olivetti: And the Apostolic Palace. That is Swiss Guard. The Roman Carabinieri are here as well - in an advisory capacity.
- Robert Langdon: So jurisdictionally, this is...
- Inspector Olivetti: A goddamn nightmare.
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: I'm familiar with Illuminati lore and the legend of the brandings. La purga is a dark stain on this Church's history. I'm not surprised this ghost has returned to haunt us.
- Robert Langdon: That's another Illuminati legend. This one says that there are a set of five brands, each one an ambigram. The first four are the fundamental elements of science. Earth, air, fire and water. The fifth, it's a mystery. Maybe it's this.
- Vittoria Vetra: It's a way of studying the origins of the universe, to try to isolate what some people call the "God particle." But there are implications for energy, research...
- Richter: "God particle"?
- Vittoria Vetra: Yeah, what we call it isn't important. It's what gives all matter mass. The thing without which we could not exist.
- Robert Langdon: You're talking about - the moment of creation.
- Vittoria Vetra: Yes. In a way, I am.
- Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: His Holiness once told me a pope was a man torn between the real world and the divine. It seems the real world is upon us tonight.
- Robert Langdon: You're a physicist?
- Vittoria Vetra: Bio-entanglement physics. Interconnectivity of life systems.
- Robert Langdon: Okay. Your project, it was geared towards energy research?
- Vittoria Vetra: Eventually, yes. One speck of antimatter could power an entire city for a month. Or tonight, I guess, destroy one.
- Vittoria Vetra: Galileo was Illuminati?
- Robert Langdon: Yeah. And an obedient Catholic who didn't think that Church and science were enemies, but just a different language telling the same story.
- Richter: The poem? Unbelievable. I'm basing this operation on an American's interpretation of a 400-year-old poem.
- Vittoria Vetra: Don't look so anxious. We're supposed to be married.
- Robert Langdon: Well, maybe we're not getting along today.
- Vittoria Vetra: Hold my hand. But, don't crush it.
- Robert Langdon: Sorry. A nervous newlywed. Oh, look, honey, the oculus.
- Robert Langdon: It's in English.
- Vittoria Vetra: English? Why English?
- Robert Langdon: English wasn't used in the Vatican. It was too polluted. It was free-thinking. It was a language of radicals like Shakespeare and Chaucer.
- Robert Langdon: New religions often adopt the existing customs and holidays to make conversion less of a shock. Like the 25th of December? It's the pagan celebration of the Unconquered Sun and also makes a handy date for the birth of Christ.
- Richter: My church comforts the sick and dying. My church feeds the hungry. What does your church do, Mr. Langdon? That's right, you don't have one.
- Robert Langdon: Nothing intersects the line until it hits - until it hits St. Peter's.
- Richter: Michelangelo designed St. Peter's, not Bernini.
- Robert Langdon: Michelangelo designed the Basilica. Bernini designed St. Peter's Square.