The Da Vinci Code Negative comments on the
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Sir Leigh Teabing: You have not been honest with me. Your pictures are on the television. You are wanted for four murders!
Robert Langdon: That's why Vernet said "killing spree."
Sir Leigh Teabing: You come into my home, playing on my passions for the Grail.
Robert Langdon: That's why he needed you, Sophie.
Sir Leigh Teabing: You will leave my house!
Robert Langdon: Leigh, listen!
Sir Leigh Teabing: No. I'm calling the police.
Robert Langdon: Jacques Sauniere was her grandfather. You're the obsessive Priory scholar, Leigh. You still keep lists of who might be in the Priory? I'll bet Jacques Sauniere was on one of those lists. He was on your list of who could be Grand Master, wasn't he?
Sophie Neveu: What?
Robert Langdon: I'll bet he was right at the top. Consider: four men murdered? The same number as the guardians. What if the Priory was compromised? The other senechaux dead? What if you yourself were dying, a Grand Master? You'd have to pass on the secret to someone you could trust. Someone outside the society. Maybe someone... whose training you had begun but never finished.
Sir Leigh Teabing: Robert, your ruse is pathetic.
Robert Langdon: [showing him the cryptex container] Not really.
Sir Leigh Teabing: No, that's impossible. Can that really... is it the keystone?
Robert Langdon: I'll even show it to you, Leigh. Will you just tell us what the hell it's for?
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Robert Langdon: Understanding our past determines actively our ability to understand the present. So, how do we sift truth from belief? How do we write our own histories, personally or culturally, and thereby define ourselves? How do we penetrate years, centuries, of historical distortion to find original truth? Tonight, this will be our quest.