The Lost Symbol (2021) s01e05 Episode Script

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Previously on
"The Lost Symbol"
Your husband shot me.
He's not my husband anymore.
(grunting)
Let me see some ID.
SATO: First your brother,
then your father.
You could be next.
This is crazy.
LANGDON: A psychopath
is killing people
to ensure that I keep going,
and your Leviathan friends
are showing up in gas masks
trying to get me to stop.
But I can't stop,
not if I want to get Peter back.
It's a piece of rock.
It's a map.
The pyramid and the capstone
will reveal the location
of the portal.
KNOPP: So the bottom line is,
if this contract gets awarded
it'll add 10,000 new jobs.
And that's in Nevada alone.
Every one of those
is a future vote
the senator can count on.
If those projections
are even accurate.
CBO sees it differently.
Your boss didn't get to be chair
of the Armed Services Committee
by listening to the CBO.
Now, I know she'd like
to keep that position,
but she's gonna have
to get reelected first.
If she pushes this
over the line,
we'd be happy to ensure
she meets her fundraising goals.
(door opens)
SECRETARY: Sir?
Your next appointment is here.
He's waiting in your office.
Warren.
Thanks for coming in.
- How have you been?
- I've been well.
Still dreaming of that
cracked crab down at Nags Head.
(laughs) I'm glad.
Nothing gives Emily and I
more pleasure
than sharing that house
with people.
So, I've been trying
to push through
a piece of defense legislation,
and I could use your help.
Well, unless somebody's
changed the Constitution
when I wasn't looking,
the Architect of the Capitol
doesn't get a vote.
Well, I don't need your vote.
I need your access.
I need to know which way
people are leaning.
You're asking me
to spy on Congress?
And if I was?
You would strenuously object,
of course,
because that would mean
betraying your oath
to a sacred institution.
And you would never do that,
would you?
Institutions are important.
When individuals are weak,
they ensure
the group remains strong.
You understand that.
At least, you used to.
Leviathan exists
to protect a secret
more important
than any one person's life.
More important
than Peter Solomon's,
certainly more
important than yours.
"We protect it from those
who would do evil.
We must ensure
the mystery remains unsolved."
What do you want,
Jonathan?
I want to know how far
Robert Langdon has gotten.
"The secret hides
within The Order."
"The Order," capitalized--
what Order?
It can't just mean Freemasonry,
that'd be redundant.
So what?
The Carthusians?
Too hermetic.
Franciscans? Too familiar.
Friend of mine forwarded me
the tox screens from Trish.
She was drugged. Ketamine.
Ketamine.
That's like
a party drug, right?
Used to be.
People use it now for pain,
depression.
Put people in a coma with it
sometimes.
Point is, it's not easy to get.
Unless you have a contact.
Like a doctor?
Or pharmacist.
Sophie Bastin.
The janitor's wife?
You said you believed her.
Well, maybe I just wanted
to believe her.
I'm thinking
I should pay her another visit.
Hey, anything book smart
happen in 1514?
Not especially.
Somewhere in the middle
of the War of the Holy League,
Copernicus is finishing
his theory that the sun is,
in fact, the center
of the universe. Why?
Because the box is dated.
1514 AD.
"AD" isn't a date.
It's a person.
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(coughing)
(labored breathing)
(coughing)
(grunts softly)
(sighs)
(groans)
(panting)
(exhales sharply)
MAL'AKH: You're awake.
If that's what you're wondering.
You seem to be recovering well.
Is that what this is?
Post-op?
If you're going to torture me,
at least have the good grace
to do it while I'm awake.
(sighs)
I assume you have a reason
for all this?
You'll understand soon enough.
But first, a statement.
Think of it as, uh, a lecture.
If that helps.
Why Robert?
He's not even a Freemason.
He's in need
of your encouragement.
There are others
who will never let him succeed.
Leviathan?
They don't concern me.
(clicks tongue)
Well, they should.
- I'm not reading this.
- You will.
Or you will go back
into the tank
to whatever awaits you there.
A.D. stands for Albrecht Dürer.
German. 16th century.
In medieval art,
initials were often drawn
this way.
Symbols used
instead of signatures.
He had the ultimate
Renaissance mind;
artist, philosopher, alchemist,
and lifelong student
of the ancient mysteries.
So we're looking
for a painting he did in 1514.
An engraving.
- "Melencolia I."
- Creepy.
Dense with symbolism.
It represents
mankind's failed attempt
to transform human intellect
into godlike power.
Like in the Rotunda.
"Apotheosis"
"Of Washington."
Exactly.
That's not a coincidence.
And neither is that.
A magic square.
Dürer accomplished
what had seemed impossible.
Every number added horizontally,
vertically,
diagonally and quarterly,
all equals the same number, 34.
(voice-over)
My earlier decryption
of the pyramid
gave us meaningless letters.
Using the magic square,
you see that the first box
is 16.
That becomes "J."
Second is three, that's an "E."
Then two, "O."
Next box, that's "S."
11's "A." "N."
U-N-U-S.
"Jeova
"Sanctus
Unus."
What does it mean?
One true God.
NUNEZ: All right, cool.
I'm gonna let you
Harvard this out.
I'm gonna go see
the janitor's wife.
- Great. Yeah.
- All right. Okay.
(door opens)
- (door closes)
- (phone vibrates)
Robert, my time is running out.
If you fail to locate
the portal,
it won't be my hand you find,
but my head.
(sighs)
- Hey.
- Hey.
PETER: He understands,
Nare-uh-thack that
the present situation
is unsustainable.
Ness no
he knows government personnel
are involved,
and the time he needs
to get from you
what he wants is waning.
Act quickly.
And do not prok
do not provoke contact
with others on this,
or
this communication
may be my last.
I went back and forth over
whether I should even show you.
No, it's good.
He's alive.
There's something else
I wanted you to see.
Is that
The capstone.
Um
it came in a in a stone box,
and there was an inscription on
it that led me to an engraving,
- "Melencolia I."
- I know that piece.
Dad used to point it out on our
trips to the National Gallery.
Do you, do you remember
any-anything he said about it?
Did he did he ever mention
the phrase "one true god"?
I don't think so,
not specifically.
I wish he was here to tell me
what makes it so important.
Maybe I need to go and see it.
There could be something hidden
in the actual engraving
that you can't see
in a photo online.
I could go with you.
I might remember something.
It's risky. It's risky us
even being here together.
Look, Dad said
that time was running out.
We have to finish this,
and two people can
do that better than one.
SATO: She's right.
Whoa.
Heard you left the house
in a rush.
Thought you might need help.
Well, I don't.
Wha Wha-What's going on here?
Why is she here?
She has some ideas
about who took Dad.
And she helped me
with something at the lab.
I think we can trust her.
Warren told me the CIA
is looking for the portal, too.
The CIA looks
for a lot of things.
I could just take
what you've got in that bag
and walk it over to Langley, if
that's how I wanted to play it.
But it's not.
Why else would you want to go
to the museum with me?
If anything goes wrong,
I have something you need.
What's that?
A gun.
(sighs)
(door opens in distance)
(door closes)
(other engine starts)
(clears throat)
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MAL'AKH: The shivering is normal.
You've been
to a very cold place.
Hell is not a burning pit.
No, in truth, it's
so very cold.
What was the goal?
The goal is clarity.
Did you see him in the Araf?
Did you live out
your poor son's death?
You don't have to feel guilty.
No.
(chuckles softly)
Death was a blessing for him.
And all this you did
to find the ancient wisdom.
Tell me what you think
this will bring you in the end.
What did it bring
the Adepts of ancient Egypt?
I will move as a god
among the masses.
I will return us
to the days of the Old Kingdom.
I will initiate the worthy
and destroy the weak.
Excuse me,
the Albrecht Dürer exhibit?
Oh, I got it. Thank you.
(indistinct chatter)
That's some coincidence.
Let's go.
Little faster.
Hey, wouldn't we be safer
in the crowd?
The crowd wouldn't be.
Take it easy, Professor.
Where's your friend?
(grunting)
Langdon, run!
(grunting)
- (yells)
- Go!
(tires screech)
Get in!
(tires squeal)
KATHERINE: So these guys
were part of your group?
They were Leviathan?
Yes.
I'm sorry I put you
in this position.
It was my choice.
It takes a while sometimes
to decide
where one's loyalties lie.
Warren.
Thank you.
I don't know what we'd do
without you.
Well, I guess
you're gonna find out.
I have to go.
Where?
Somewhere far away
until this blows over.
Be safe.
You, too.
We could offer you protection.
No.
If I stay, they'll find me.
And they know how
to find anyone.
I appreciate you
not saying anything to her
about Zachary.
I hope you get what
you're looking for in all this,
not only for your sake
but for theirs.
(phone ringing)
Sato.
We're fine.
I'm with Langdon and Katherine
at Solomon's house.
There's no need.
I can handle it.
I understand.
Robert,
my time is running out.
(taps keyboard)
Hey.
Maybe you
should stop watching that?
Dad used to play this game
with me.
He would talk backwards,
and then I'd try to guess
what he was saying.
I always knew
the game had started
when he said my name.
And listen.
He understands, Nare-uh-thack
That's "Katherine" backwards.
(backwards)
Katherine
So he could have planted clues
in the audio?
Mm-hmm. Here.
PETER: situation is
unsustainable.
Ness no
(backwards)
On ssen
"On sen."
Something sounds familiar
about that.
In Japanese,
onsen is a term for hot springs.
- Hot springs.
- Right.
He could be trying to tell us
something about the geography.
Yeah, like where he's
being held, near hot springs.
- West Virginia, maybe.
- This is a long shot, you know?
Maybe, but worth investigating.
We don't have time.
My boss knows
what happened at the museum.
He's worried Leviathan
could come for those.
He's told me to bring them in
so our analysts
can try to crack it.
KATHERINE: You can't do that.
If you do that and Mal'akh
finds out, my dad is dead.
If I don't check in soon,
the Agency will send people,
- and they won't be nice like me.
- There has to be another way.
The other way is
to solve this thing
and give Mal'akh
the answers he wants, but
without more time,
I don't know how to get them.
Damn it.
But he doesn't know that.
He doesn't know
you're at an impasse.
We can fake it.
- What does that mean?
- Robert tells him he's figured out
the location of the portal
and arranges a drop.
A drop. So then I meet him,
and, uh, what,
I'm supposed to lie?
Do what you're good at.
Tell him a story.
Keep him occupied
while we extract Peter.
You'd be going against orders.
Sometimes
it takes a while to decide
where one's loyalties lie.
I'll keep it stripped down,
bring in one person I trust,
- no more.
- Maybe one more;
someone I trust.
(phone vibrating)
(sighs)
- Hello?
- Hey. It's Robert.
Langdon? I almost didn't answer.
- Where are you? You okay?
- Yeah.
Yeah, this is Sato's phone.
- Say what?
- I'm with her and Katherine.
Things have escalated.
Did you find anything
on your end?
Nah, I searched the whole house.
This place is a bust.
Okay, well
Sato has a plan-- it could be
dangerous, so I won't blame you
- if you don't want to be a part of it.
- No, I'm part of it.
- What do you need me to do?
- We're gonna set an exchange
to get Peter back.
Can you meet us?
- I'll text you the address.
- Leaving now.
(floor creaks)
(grunts)
(objects clatter)
(camera clicks)
I have
the answers.
I want Peter.
(beeps)
How's the arm?
Fine, thanks.
I didn't know
you two knew each other.
Oh, yeah, we go way back.
(phone vibrating)
- Yes?
- MAL'AKH: I'll be at 57 Caelian Street
in two hours.
You bring your answers.
Have him ready to go
in 90 minutes.
(phone vibrating)
Is everything all right?
Cop from the Capitol came back.
He won't be a problem anymore.
- SATO: What do you think?
- ADAMU: Could be worse.
CCTV all through the square.
If we can tap those cameras,
- we'll have angles.
- Maybe.
This guy doesn't do anything
without a reason,
so why'd he choose this site?
Who's Blake sending?
I want to keep this small.
Blake would never back this.
He doesn't care
about Peter Solomon.
So he doesn't know?
- Not about this.
- We need backup.
This guy's got people,
we don't know how many.
Remember the M23 rebellion?
UN commander snatched back
from his captors
- by just two operatives.
- In a rented minivan.
We were good.
(chuckles)
This isn't Kinshasa.
This is American soil.
Doing this without a permit
could blow back.
Only if we don't execute.
(indistinct conversation)
You haven't told her?
Good.
It's not going to help anything.
I'm gonna ask you once more,
take this up the chain.
We have less than two hours
to save a man's life,
so I'm gonna ask you,
go with me on this.
Please.
LANGDON: There's a cross grain
on Dürer's engraving
that only appears when lit
from underneath.
So when we got to the museum,
I saw it, a symbol.
Which was?
A Maltese cross.
An eight-pointed cross
adopted by a subset
of the Knights Templar.
- Suddenly it made sense to me.
- Stop.
- What?
- Who was with you at the museum?
No one.
You said "we."
Could you tell the story
backwards?
- Why would I do that?
- Because the most reliable way
to detect a liar is to ask them
to tell their story in reverse.
- He's not gonna ask me that.
- And you need to relax.
- I need to relax?
- If you don't,
he'll see right through you.
Let me guess,
you want me to meditate?
I remember this argument.
What argument?
There was no argument.
Meditation was pretty much
the only thing that got
me through Zach's death,
and you called it "flimsy."
The only thing
that got you through.
You say that like
my support meant nothing.
You left.
You pushed me away.
Okay, can we just
(scoffs)
This is a perfect example.
Um, I let you derail me
just then.
(breath trembling) When
we're in stressful situations,
our anxiety runs wild, and
mistakes from the past,
fear of what could go wrong
in the future takes over.
I hear you.
I-I just think
I need to simplify
all this.
Yeah.
You really feel like
I wasn't there for you?
You're here for me now.
(groans softly)
- I wish you could meet him.
- (low, muffled groan)
Then maybe you'd understand.
Maybe you haven't
suffered enough.
When you suffer like we did,
when there is nothing left
to believe in,
and then someone comes
into your life
and shows you how it was all
a necessary stage in the process
of being reborn
(takes deep breath)
well
that brings a great clarity.
It allows you to believe
with a fortitude
you would have never had before.
And you would die
for that kind of belief.
(voice-over)
You've reached Alfonso Nuñez.
I'm not able to take your call.
Leave a message, I'll get back
to you as soon as I can.
Voice mail again.
What if something happened
to him?
Well, we can't worry
about that right now.
Okay, Langdon.
We're all in place.
Can you hear me okay?
SATO: Crystal clear.
Whenever you're ready.
Just a walk in the park.
LANGDON: What about Nuñez?
Stay focused.
Don't talk.
Scratch your nose
if you hear me.
Langdon,
could be him at six o'clock.
Sorry, false alarm.
(coughs)
I don't see him.
Do you see anything?
Stay put.
We're here on his terms.
(phone vibrating)
SATO: Answer it.
Put the phone on your left ear,
so there's no feedback
from the earwig.
I'm in the square.
Where are you?
MAL'AKH: Closer than you think.
But I'm not coming to you.
You're coming to me.
Now follow my directions.
Do not deviate,
or I will hang up
and you
will never see Peter again.
Okay, I understand.
Over your left shoulder,
there's a trash can
on the southwest corner.
Go to it. Now.
I'm here.
Good.
Now say goodbye to the CIA.
- What?
- Toss your earpiece in the trash
and head directly north.
Langdon, don't. He's bluffing.
MAL'AKH: Do it now.
Hold here.
You're going to cross
in ten seconds.
Five.
Four.
- Three. Two.
- Whoa, hold on, there's a bus.
- One. Go.
- Oh, shit.
(horn blows)
We lost him. He's alone.
No, he's not.
Adamu, we lost contact.
Don't let him out of your sight.
ADAMU: You got it.
- (tires screeching, horns honking)
- Hey!
Adamu, do you have a visual?
Stand by.
He's moving north now.
(audio breaking up)
SATO: Say again?
You're breaking up.
- He's planned all this.
- (audio breaking up)
He's two steps ahead.
- Adamu.
- (audio breaking up)
ADAMU: Wait.
I see him.
He's going into
the Caelian parking structure,
- corner of H and 23rd.
- I'm coming.
Listen in.
If things go bad, call 911,
say there's a bomb. Got that?
Yeah.
MAL'AKH: Take the stairs.
Go to level 1.
Section C.
(low groaning)
I could see your pain
when we met yesterday.
You looked like Nick
before he found peace.
(Nuñez grunts)
- Now you'll have no more pain.
- (exhales)
(grunting)
Put it down.
We don't have to do this.
Okay? My friends are gonna give
your boss everything he wants.
Okay? They get Peter Solomon
back, and everybody wins.
He can't go back.
He's the instrument.
(pants)
Instrument?
What the hell
are you talking about?
For the final stage.
Okay, look.
We can do this here or downtown,
but either way
I got the gun, so
I'm taking you in, and
you're gonna tell us everything.
- No!
- (grunting)
I'm here.
Level 1, section C.
MAL'AKH: We meet upon the level.
And what have you brought
for me?
Put it on the ground.
And what does it say?
"Jeova Sanctus Unus."
It's Latin for
One true God.
The pyramid and capstone
come together to form a map.
I'm not saying anything else
until I see Peter.
Peter!
Are you okay?
Now tell me
where has the map pointed you?
It's not that simple.
There are parts of this myth
that require greater context.
Oh.
Well, please
enlighten me, Professor.
(panting)
As you know
the legend says
that the Freemasons
brought the ancient wisdom
from the Old World to the New.
But if one goes back further,
then it was the Knights Templar
who originally discovered it.
And it is from them
that we get this very specific
protective mechanism,
this portal
I got eyes on Peter.
- So, keeping all that in mind
- There's one man with him.
LANGDON: according to the myth,
the pyramid will lead us
to a large stone
covering the entrance
to a spiral staircase
that descends several
hundred feet into the ground.
MAL'AKH: I know the myth.
What else?
You have to understand,
this staircase
doesn't exist.
Perhaps, not surprisingly,
it's a metaphor.
A-a spiral
symbolically represents a unity
of the mental,
physical and spiritual self
in an expansion
of consciousness.
MAL'AKH: I'm losing my patience,
Professor.
It wasn't until I saw
the, the capstone
and I read the inscription
that I was able
to narrow down the location.
"The secret hides
within the Order."
Not the Masonic Order, per se
We go now.
You take Bastin.
I'll cover Mal'akh.
but the Order
of the Eastern Star.
(sighs)
And the Order
of the Eastern Star
is headquartered here in D.C.,
the Perry Belmont House on
on C Street.
The Belmont House.
It was finished in 1906,
but the plot of land
over which the house was built
had remained undeveloped
for decades
because of a very large,
very problematic stone right
in the center of the property.
Mal'akh!
This is over.
Drop your weapon.
Give the bag to Langdon.
Come with me, sir.
What's the final stage?
"Peter Solomon is the instrument
of the final stage."
What does it mean?
MAN: Freeze! Right now!
- Hands on your head!
- Hands on your head!
- (grunts)
- (gunshot)
- MAN: Left, go left.
- (engine starts)
Don't shoot!
- (tires squealing)
- Go, go, go, go.
- Let him go. Let him go!
- Stop!
(tires screech)
(grunts)
(tires squealing)
Hold your fire!
What happened?
Where's my dad?
Katherine
(Katherine crying)
What happened?
They're gone.
Gone?
Wait, wait.
Robert? Robert?
Robert!
What happened?
No.
How did this happen?
Who are all these people?
There wasn't supposed to be
anyone else.
They're ours. And, no,
they weren't supposed
to be here.
But somehow they knew.
You think this was me?
You seemed real eager
to tell Blake.
Then his guys show up.
What am I supposed to think?
(gasps)
MAL'AKH: No more lies.
This is your last chance.
You are now free of distraction.
In isolation
we find things in ourselves.
Buried things.
Here you will solve
the great mystery.
If you don't,
you will watch Peter die.
And then you will die.
Publish or perish, Professor.
(breathing heavily)