Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

Previously on "The Lost Symbol"...

Put aside regrets and do what you do best.

This belonged to his son.

My friends are gonna give your boss everything he wants.

They get Peter Solomon back, and everybody wins.

He can't go back.

No!

Leviathan exists to protect a secret.

We must ensure the mystery remains unsolved.

Freeze right now!

Hands on your head!

You seemed real eager to tell Blake.

Here, you will solve the great mystery.

If you don't, you will die.

I don't know where this falls, exactly--

between insubordination and treason--

but suffice it to say I could have you charged.

Maybe that's what you want.

Maybe this is some guilt-fueled, self-fulfilling prophecy

that you wind up in a cell just like Zachary Solomon.

I'm not gonna apologize for trying to do the right thing.

We're not in the "right thing" business.

We are in the geopolitical life support business,

and we are pulling our own plug if we don't do

everything possible to stay one step ahead.

And some ancient myth is gonna do that?

Last year, pharmaceutical companies spent over $90 billion

searching for a new molecule

so someone's grandpa could have a softer stool.

So I think, relatively speaking, our search for this thing

is time and energy well spent.

I'm revoking your clearance.

You're no longer part of this operation,

because you're gonna take an early retirement.

Second prize was federal time, so consider yourself lucky.

Rookie move, by the way-- the security cameras.

NSA captures that entire system.

Your hack trigged red flags within seconds.

How do you think I found out about your little operation?

I'm sorry.

Hello. It's Isabel.

I'm away from the phone.

Please leave a message.

Mom, it's me.

I need to talk to you, um...

I don't have my phone, so I, um...

I'll try in a bit.

Any word? Is she alive?

I don't know. There's no listing

of a Sophie Bastin at any D.C. hospital,

and there's no record of the 911 call I placed.

-How is that possible? -It's not,

unless someone's trying to make it disappear.

And you know who's really good at making shit disappear?

The CIA.

Well, then she must be alive.

Why make her disappear if she's dead?

They'd just call it a suicide or something, right?

You're getting really good at this cloak-and-dagger stuff.

The one person who might know

where Dad and Robert are, and she's gone.

He always taught me that when you hit a dead end,

you go backwards, look for the path you missed.

You think we missed something?

Maybe. I need to get to my lab.

What happened to you?

Got any new leads?

What about Sophie Bastin?

The janitor's wife?

We think your people have her holed up somewhere.

If they do, you can find out where.

Maybe I could if I still had clearance.

I'm out.

-Out? -For all intents and purposes,

my CIA career is over.

-Sorry. -It's okay.

I can't be who they want me to be anymore.

I have something for you-- Zachary's letters.

Here.

Did they help?

They confirm Zach had contact with that other inmate,

but I can't go much further with it.

'Cause you can't investigate now.

Not without the international resources I'd need.

But you still think they're the same person?

Mal'akh and this other prisoner that Zach was with?

I don't know.

I'm going to help you get your dad and Robert back.

-How? You've been benched. -Right.

So if you think about it,

I kind of have nothing to lose.

What'd you have in mind?

Your wife called, said it's important.

But if you don't leave now,

you'll be late for Bristol Myers Squibb.

I'll call Emily from the car.

Wait.

Actually, I'm gonna need you to reschedule.

Now? But the meeting's in 20 minutes.

So who is the widow's son, anyway?

Sorry to use your Masonic Bat-Signal

when I'm not part of the brotherhood,

but it was urgent.

Who are you?

This is a CIA file on the Leviathan Group.

Diplomats, defense contractors, Nobel scientists.

It's a real who's who.

Ever read Hanan Mansour's "Times" series

on the Arab Spring?

No? Won a Pulitzer.

There was a podcast, too.

Really good.

That reporting wouldn't exist without my intel.

If you know half as much as you claim,

then you know how far our reach extends.

Your "Times" exposé would be buried,

and you with it.

I'm already buried.

I want to locate someone,

and your reach is what I need to do it.

-What about protecting the wisdom?

Assuming that's still your prime directive,

I could help.

You get me what I need,

I'll get you your pyramid back and the capstone.

You find a new hiding place for them,

it'll be like all this never happened.

If you don't deliver,

there will be consequences.

Circumpunct.

Eyeball carving in the box.

It's a symbol, a circumpunct.

Suspect it's another clue.

A circumpunct

symbolizes many things,

most commonly, uh, the eye of God.

It's a symbol for the Egyptian sun deity, Ra.

Sun is... light.

It's-it's, uh... it's enlightenment,

spiritual insight.

The sun.

In kabbalah, the circumpunct is the Keter,

the divine superconsciousness.

In the Hindu tradition, it's the Ajna chakra,

second sight, third eye.

The ancient mantra says true enlightenment is gained

by looking through the third eye.

"Omnia revelantur gradu 33."

"Omnia revelantur gradu..."

"Omnia revelantur gradu 33."

"All will be revealed

at the 33rd degree."

Hey. Hey.

You want this to go any further,

I'm gonna need something from you.

Robert, my time is running out.

This software is used in assessing

instrumental transcommunication, EVP analysis.

Uh, electronic voice phenomenon.

EVP, yeah, like in "Ghost Hunters."

So that's real-- getting messages

from dead people through toasters and shit?

I didn't say that.

It's a subject we're trying to better understand with noetics.

Right.

Ness no...

Onsen.

-"Onsen"? -Yeah, apparently

it means "hot springs" in Japanese,

which helps us not at all.

Wait, but he said something before that.

Pruk...

"Pruk"?

Corp.

-"Corp." -Onsen Corp?

Some element containing water.

An element containing water.

-What? -A tank.

-I don't understand. -Onsen.

-I didn't even think of it. -I'm confused.

They make water tanks.

Pods for floatation, sensory deprivation.

The skin on his hands and neck is inflamed,

which could be from prolonged exposure to moisture,

and his bloodshot eyes, cracked lips-- if they weren't

-properly protected in the water... -Hey, hey. Hang on.

S-Slow... slow down.

So you're saying this guy...

had your dad floating in a tank?

Yeah.

But why?

What was he doing to him?

Where is Robert?

Your concern for him-- it's touching.

He has nothing to do with this.

He's been locked up for one day.

Zachary was confined for months before he died.

Where was your concern then?

He says he requires you for the task.

Let's hope this reunion is productive.