by Kevin Guo

Created on: June 08, 2010

The plot in The Da Vinci Code continues the search for the Holy Grail, renewing it from the early times of the Crusades. The story begins with Silas’s murder of Jacques Sauniere, the museum curator of the Louvre, and also one of the guardians of the location of the Holy Grail. Thinking that the three other guardians would be able to pass on the secret to one more after his demise, he comes quietly to his death. But Jacques soon realizes that Silas has killed all the other guardians, and if he dies, the secret will disappear forever. After being mortally injured, with only 15 minutes left to live, he scrawls a secret message on the floor, intended to help pass on the location.

Meanwhile, one of the main characters, Robert Langdon, a historian learned in religious symbology, is roused to be interviewed as a witness to the sudden murder of Jacques Sauniere. After arriving at the scene, Langdon discovers a message on the floor, involving a series of numbers and several queer sentences.

After brief talks with the Judicial Police on the meaning of these words, everything seems to be going well until a code breaker named Sophie working for the police shows up under the excuse of having broken the code, and secretly tells Langdon that he is in danger, and that he must go to the bathroom, where she will find him and fill him in on the danger he is in. She tells him that Langdon is actually the main suspect for Jacques’s murder. Sophie expertly causes a distraction, allowing Sophie and Langdon to search the crime scene more thoroughly, where they discover a laser-engraved key after discovering the some evidence is actually an anagram. After retrieving the key, they escape in Sophie’s car.

Langdon suddenly realizes that this is a hunt for the Holy Grail, as Jacques Sauniere is the grand keeper of the treasure. Langdon soon discovers invisible ink written on the key, pointing them to the address of a large Swiss bank. After using the key discovered at the crime scene to unlock the vault, Langdon and Sophie discover a cryptex inside, a device invented by Leonardo Da Vinci to protect information. The cryptex is a cylinder with a 5 digit combination, which opens if the correct letters are entered. Still closely followed by the Judicial Police, they turn to British historian Leigh Teabing for help. After getting filled in on Langdon and Sophie’s adventures, Teabing helps them escape the police driven by his desire to find the location of the Holy Grail,

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