Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

Previously on "The Lost Symbol"...

This is breakthrough stuff.

And we may only be scratching the surface.

Zachary Solomon died in a prison riot in Turkey.

-We need Langdon. -What about Peter Solomon?

Peter is in the borderland

-between Heaven and Hell. -He might already be dead.

It's a piece of rock. -It's a map!

The pyramid and the capstone

will reveal the location of the portal.

The Hebrew... it's code.

The ring could contain some kind of decryption.

I am doing what you wanted.

You were told to do it alone.

Cut her loose.

Hey!

Hey, you can't be in here, man.

Park's closed.

Let's see some ID.

Hey!

The doctors say his partner should make a full recovery.

What about him?

Too early to say.

I got sent 7,000 miles away to fight extremists.

This isn't your fight.

I got a hole in my side that says otherwise.

Some evidence went missing yesterday.

Peter Solomon's ring.

You happen to know anything about that?

What are you saying?

I'm saying if--

hypothetically--

you were aiding Langdon and Katherine,

you'd only be putting them in more danger.

You can't protect them from the guy who did this.

You don't have to worry about me.

I'm done playing the hero.

Made my wife a promise.

Make sure you keep it.

-Home sweet home. -Hmm.

Oh, you make tostones, babe?

I wouldn't get my hopes up.

What?

Welcome home.

-Hey. -How you feeling?

Hungry.

I said you guys could set up here,

-to crack your Bible code, not eat all my food. -Oh.

I'll leave you to your new friends.

-Maybe we should go. -No. She's fine.

She's just worried about me.

Besides, I wouldn't go anywhere right now.

We got a lurker.

Three houses down, north side.

-He's found us. -No, it's Sato's people.

She came to the hospital looking for you two.

And if you're wrong and it's Mal'akh

or someone he sent, what then?

Why would he do that? He needs you.

What's going on with you?

Nothing. Nothing, I'm fine.

Don't bullshit me, Robert.

There's something I haven't told you.

He called when we were at the library.

Who?

Mal'akh.

And he made it very clear that he wants me doing this

on my own.

Without you.

-And you didn't tell me this before? -I didn't want to scare you.

Right. Or maybe you agree with him.

Maybe you think you'd be better off doing this alone.

-It's not about agreeing with him. -He has my father.

-It's about acknowledging the very real danger he presents. -I'm not going anywhere.

He has a literal assassin...

And that's what it's going to take to get me to stop.

Mr. Bellamy, Ellison Blake, Central Intelligence.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

Oh, I doubt that.

Looks like you put your time here to good use.

Caught up on a little reading.

Uh, I miss books.

Sci-fi-- that was my first love.

I know it's not high art,

but the stakes--

I mean, how can you beat a story about the end of the world?

I don't get much time to read anymore.

Not fiction.

But that's okay, because I've come to realize

that the most interesting stories...

...are true.

I don't know what that is.

I do.

That's the sign for the Leviathan Group.

It's a secret sect within the Freemasons,

to which you belong.

I also know that their purpose is to protect

some very old, very valuable information.

So my question for you is:

where is it?

This portal that I've heard about.

I don't know what you're talking about.

But I do know that you can't keep me here.

No.

Not here.

Any word on Langdon?

Not yet. Got people looking.

-What about him? -Mm, he's the quiet type.

I think he could use a change of scenery.

Have him moved over to Southwoods.

All right, where are we?

Okay, it's an equation. Maybe an equation.

Maybe a... Or coordinates?

Maybe coordinates.

No.

So what else?

Ciphers... A Hill cipher.

Maybe a Hill cipher.

It's right here. It's right here.

Damn it.

-Back to anagrams? -Back to nowhere.

Clearly, a cipher was used to alter the Hebrew,

likely one with...

Masonic characteristics or themes.

I-I j... I just cannot figure out what it is.

Well, maybe it's related to the Solomon story.

When Dad talked about the Masons,

he always said it was a beautiful system of morality

-veiled in allegory. -Veiled in allegory, yes.

It's in there, hiding in plain sight.

-I should be able to see it, but I... can't think.

I'm blocked.

Please reconsider.

-No. -My-my brain, it...

it can't work if I'm constantly worried about you.

Well, that's very sweet, but I'm not gonna let this guy

tell me that I can't participate in saving my own dad's life.

But... we're not gonna save him if I can't work this out.

-We are going to work this out, Langdon. -Katherine...

At some point, you are going to realize

-that you actually need me, you know that? -You have vast knowledge

in-in many topics.

Codebreaking isn't one of them.

It's not my knowledge that's important, it's yours.

The key to decoding this is buried in your mind...

and I know how to dig it out.

Uh...

He's getting weaker.

But we can't rush the process.

You know that better than anyone.

This things belonged to his boy.

They will find him in the Araf.

Then he will see himself for who he truly is.

: What is the predominant wish of your heart?

Has his daughter surfaced?

No. She's still off the grid, as far as I can tell.

If they've ignored my warning...

...then they must be made to understand.

: Okay.

Trish.

Aw, that's so sweet. You got me cannolis?

That's my jam.

Oh. Okay.

We're hugging.

Come on inside. Did you get a new EV?

-Yeah. -That looks great. How many miles are you getting?

-What? -Yeah.

Hang tight.

: Okay.

Thank you so much for coming.

Yeah.

So, who was that?

And why am I sneaking you lab equipment

-disguised as baked goods? -I'll explain later.

You're kidding, right?

Listen, I know how this is gonna sound,

but the less you know the better.

Is everything okay?

Everything's fine. I promise.

Um, I'm just really pressed for time,

but I can't thank you enough for coming

-all the way out here. -Mm.

And I'll call you tomorrow.

It's your name on the door.

Hey, do me a favor?

Say goodbye to the complete stranger that just hugged me?

That's tight.

So what's this thing do, anyway?

It lets Katherine reprogram the parts in me she doesn't like.

Oh, no, that requires much more equipment.

With all the cryptographic data you've absorbed over your life,

it's not a question of having the answer.

We know it's in there.

There's just too much other noise.

With auditory stimuli that can boost neurological activity,

we can elicit your frequency following response,

drown out that noise and find it.

Ah.

It would be best if we had a closed environment.

Ah, yeah. Sure, I'll leave y'all to it.