Section Fifty-Two

When Langdon arrived at the final destination, he saw a van. The van had the Hassassin and the fourth Cardinal in it. Langdon new he had to be careful, and sneaky to try and stop the Hassassin.

Langdon had a chance to kill the Hassassin and save the Cardinal, but he tried to get where he had Vittoria hidden out of him, and he lost his chance. The Cardinal was stripped of his clothing, and branded with the word water as an ambigram on his chest. He was tied in ropes, and pushed into a fountain where the van was parked beside. Langdon and the Hassassin had an intense battle, but Langdon was unsuccessful in stopping the Hassassin. The Hassassin had Langdon pinned under the water, luckily, Langdon had found an air pump to keep himself alive. He had faked a death, and the Hassassin finally left. Langdon shot to the surface quickly for more air, and to try to find the last place on the Path of Illumination. The only place left to find now was the ancient hide away of the brotherhood.

Langdon struggled to figure out the last clue, but his knowledge of symbology helped him greatly, and he knew where he had to go.

Section Fifty-One

When they were just around the corner from their next location, they saw just a little ways away, flames coming from the inside of a church. They knew that was where they had to be. They ran into the church, and an immediate feeling of horror came upon them. Vittoria and Langdon saw, hanging from the ceiling, a man, stripped of his clothes with the ambigram of fire burned onto his chest. Beneath the man was a pile of benches which were lit on fire. The fire was climbing quickly up towards the man. Vittoria and Langdon did all they could to get the man down, but they could not get to him in time as they heard the screams of excruciating pain, and smelled the terrible scent of burning flesh.

The difference between this situation, and the last two were that the Hassassin was still there this time. Landgon and Vittoria tried to stop him, but the Hassassin had Langdon trapped, and he took Vittoria.

When the fire crew got to the church, they heard what they thought was a bomb, and went towards the sound. When they got closer, they realized that the ticking was from a watch. The watch which was attached to Langdon's wrist. This is the reason that he got found, and survived the fire. When Langdon got up, he searched for Vittoria, but soon realized that she was gone, and that the Hassassin had taken her. Langdon new that the Hassassin would be "saving" her until the end of the night, and that he had one last chance to catch him.

Langdon scrambled to find the clue which would lead him to the destination of the final killing. Finally, after searching frantically, Langdon was on his way to the place where the last killing was going to take place.

Section Fifty

As they came around the corner to their next destination, they saw a girl screaming in horror. When they finally realized what was going on, they realized that there was a man, stumbling around in agony struggling to breath. He then collapsed to the ground and stopped breathing. At this, Vittoria tried to give him CPR to bring him back, but when she did, blood started spewing out of two holes just beneath his rib cage. When they looked to see why this was happening, they saw that his lungs had been punctured, and that he had been suffocating. Also, when they looked at his chest, they saw an ambigram of air branded into his flesh. Once again, they were too late.

Once again the team of the Swiss Guard cleaned up the mess which was created by the Hassassin. This time, they realized that the reporters from BBC had been broadcasting this event live.

After cleaning up, Vittoria and Langdon once again, searched for the next marker on the Path of Illumination. After much searching, they finally knew where the next killing was going to take place, and they were on their way.

Analysis Part Three

Once Langdon and Victoria are let into the Vatican archives, they have a great lead in where the murders are going to take place. At first, they go to the wrong destination, but they figure out where they actually are to be. After going to the new destination where the murder is actually going to occur, they are able to follow the ancient markers of the Path of Illumination. Though they come across many hurdles along their path, Vittoria and Langdon are able to follow the ancient path, and make it all the way to the end. Langdon rescues Vittoria from the Hassassin and they make their way back to the Vatican to try to stop the mayhem. When they get back a series of crazy, and intense events occur but once they get the problem of the hidden antimatter under control, and everybody is back at the Vatican, something even crazier happens. They find out that the person behind all of the terrorism events is the Comerlegno which is very unexpected. This played a huge factor in the whole book, it made everything possible. This was the way that the Hassassin was let into the Vatican City, and the whole time, the Comerlegno did such a great job at hiding that he was behind it all. He made it very believable that he nothing that was going on, and was worried out of his mind for the city and for the four Cardinals, when really, he had it all planned out.

Section Fourty-Nine

Langdon slowly descended into the Demon's hole. When he got to the bottom, his foot hit on the slippery decay. He felt a bolt of fear sent through his body when he found himself face-to-face with skulls. As he looked around, his eyes came across the body, stripped naked, standing upright, buried up to his waist in dirt. His hands were tied behind his back with a red Cardinal's sash. His mouth was filled with dirt from the earth, and on his chest he was branded with an ambigram which said, earth. They were too late, the first killing had already occured.

After the Swiss Guard team came and got the body cleared out, Langdon and Vittoria searched for a sign that would point them to their next destination. When they finally realized that it was a statue outside, they looked up all of the churches which were in the direction of the pointed finger of the angel on the statue. Once they knew where they had to go, they were on their way to the next destination to try and stop the Hassassin.

Section Fourty-Eight

Glick and Macri had recieved another phone call, this time the man told them that inside of a church there would be evidence to prove his last phone call. They made their way to the destination that the caller had told them. On their way, a line of dark cars which were all the same rushed passed them, and they decided to follow.

Section Fourty-Seven

The inside of the chapel was dark and gloomy, and under construction. As they looked around the chapel, they searched for the Chigi Chapel (a certain part of the whole chapel itself). There were four different recesses, meaning eight chapels, which were all covered with plastic making it harder to figure out which one was the right one, and easier for the Hassassin to hide. Vittoria saw a plaque on the wall which helped them immensely, it read;

COAT OF ARMS OF ALEXANDER CHIGI

WHOSE TOMB IS LOCATED IN THE

SECONDARY LEFT APSE OF THIS CATHEDRAL

They made their way over to the tomb, it was now 8:06, they wondered if the killer was still in there, or if he had been punctual and been in and out already. When they got over to the Chigi tomb, Vittoria realized they were too late. As they looked around the room they gasped as they saw the demon's hole. The top was off of the pit and a terrible stench was coming up from the whole under neath. At first when they looked in the whole it was so dark they could not see anything, so Vittoria went to search for some sort of light. After Vittoria came back with a blow torch. This time when they looked down, as Vittoria held the light, Langdon saw a figure stripped of his clothing, standing up right, and lifeless. They began yelling down to the man, but got no response, so Langdon decided that he would go down and check things out.