Reading – The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, p. 398- 422

In chapter 89, Fache is in Teabing’s plane with the box, which he found in the safe. He sees that the cryptex is empty. He takes a call from Vernet, who is desperate to get the box back and save his bank’s reputation.

In chapter 90, at the chateau, Collet discovers that the computer in the barn was conducting surveillance on five separate people, including Jacques Sauniere. The other four people are important figures, including the head of French Intelligence. The agents on the scene also find blueprints that show that the bug was hidden in the replica of a knight on Sauniere’s desk.

In chapter 91, Silas and Remy have put Teabing in the back of the limo. The Teacher calls Silas and says that Remy will bring him the keystone so he can be “dealt with.” The Teacher tells Remy where to drop Silas and where to meet the Teacher. Remy thinks Silas will be gotten rid of. He laughs to himself at the way the Teacher has used the Bishop and Silas as pawns.

In chapter 92, at Kings College, where the religious research database is housed, Sophie and Langdon speak with Pamela Gettum, who agrees to help them use the database. They show her only the first two lines of the poem and ask her to search for a knight who was buried by a pope in London. The search turns up too much data, and they have to show her the second two lines of the poem. She realizes that their search is related to the Grail and laughs at the number of Grail hunters who have come into her library. She starts a new search and tells them it will take fifteen minutes.

In chapter 93, Silas goes to the Opus Dei house in London, where he is welcomed by the numerary at the door and given a room. The numerary gets a call from the London police, who ask if an albino monk has been let into the house. When the numerary says yes, the police tell him not to alert the monk. They say they will be over immediately.

In chapter 94, Remy meets the Teacher in St. James Park and accepts some cognac from his flask. The drink contains peanut dust, which Remy is allergic to. Remy slowly dies. The Teacher reflects on how unfair it was that he knew immediately which tomb Sauniere meant, since he had been bugging Sauniere’s office and knew of his respect for this particular knight. Meanwhile, Bishop Aringarosa leaves the airport and is met by a British police deputy, who says that Fache told him to take Aringarosa to Scotland Yard. In the car, Aringarosa hears Opus Dei’s address being broadcast over the scanner. He demands that the officer take him there instead.

In chapter 95, at King’s College, Sophie and Langdon look at several results for their latest search before hitting on a book about Sir Isaac Newton. Langdon realizes that Newton is probably the knight they’re looking for. He was buried in London, was a knight, and was buried by Alexander Pope, the writer.

I thought it was very ironic how Remy laughed to himself at the way the Teacher used the Bishop and Silas and how he thought he was really special because he was the only person who knew what the Teacher looked like, when in reality the Teacher used Remy too and killed him. I also thought it was clever that the “pope” in the poem was not a Catholic Pope, but an actual person.  I also thought it was interesting that it was Alexander Pope because my English Lit class has been talking about him.