As they walked into the study, Langdon stared wonderingly. The room had such a mix of things in it Langdon didn't know what to make of it. As he looked around he saw on one side of the room religious artifacts, and on the other, scientific wonders. Kohler explained to Langdon that Vetra was a Catholic Priest. He was a man of both religion and of science. When Langdon heard this he thought about the Illuminati, he asked himself if they would have killed Vetra to avoid him bringing his religious message to the masses? Quickly he shook the thought from his head convinced that the ancient brotherhood is long gone, far into history. Kohler went on to explain that Vetra had many enemies who were scientists. As the two men went on to talk, they were interrupted by an intercom message saying that Leonardo Vetra's daughter had arrived. Kohler was pleased to hear this, and intended to ask Vittoria Vetra some questions about their secret project before informing her of the terrible news. Langdon wondered why Kohler wanted to know about the Vetra's project, but then Kohler explained that it might be able to help explain Leonardo's murder. As they went on to talk about this, Kohler told Langdon to look at Vetra's face, which Langdon found hard to do since it was turned toward the ground, but then Kohler turned it over. Kohler mentioned to Langdon that something had been stolen of Leonardo Vetra's, so why Langdon was instructed to look at his face did not make any sense to him. When Kohler turned over the victim's head, Landon jumped back in shock noticing what had been stolen. Staring up at Landon was a bloody face with one eye gouged out.
The two men rushed out of the study in a hurry to go meet Vittoria Vetra, discussing the Illuminati brotherhood and whether or not it could be resurfacing. Langdon was now undecided about the matter, and had no idea what to make of it anymore. Langdon states that he stays with his original thoughts that this is not the work of the Illuminati, because they were not people of random mutilation, but everything they did, they did for a purpose. Langdon thought that the removal of the eyeball served no purpose at all, and therefore, this could not be the works of the brotherhood. When Kohler heard this he disagreed, and assured Langdon that the removal of the eyeball did indeed serve a purpose, and a very important one at that.
Just as the two men were discussing this on there way down to meet Vittoria, they saw the helicopter landing. When Vittoria jumped out of the helicopter to meet the two men, Kohler greeted her, and she introduced herself to Langdon. Kohler explained to her that he is a specialist from the United States and that he is there to help to find out who has done this to her father. When Vittoria asks about the police Kohler says nothing, and she demands to see her fathers body. Kohler said to her, "your father was brutally murdered. You would be better to remember him as he was" Vittoria begins to say something but is interrupted by other scientists at CERN greeting her. Vittoria realizes by their positvity that nobody there knows about the death of her father, and is outraged at finding this out. Kohler explains to her that they cannot tell people yet for privacy issues, and for the safety of Vittoria and her fathers secret experiment. Kohler tells Vittoria that he needs to know what she and her father were working on in their lab. When Vittoria hears this she says "The lab is irrelevent. Nobody knew what my father and I were doing. The experiment could not possibly have anything to do with my father's murder." Kohler tells her that evidence would suggest otherwise, and leaves Langdon and Vittoria questioning what he means by this statement.
As the three of them walked back into the building Langdon wanted to wish Vittoria his sympathy, as he too knew how it felt to lose a parent, but decided against it. As they continued walking, Langdon felt an uneasiness come about him as they went to enter an elevator to the Vetra's subterranean lab.
No comments:
Post a Comment