Robert Langdon, #2
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
Contents
CHAPTER 84
Overview
Rémy frees Silas and reveals that he too serves the Teacher, exposing the escape from Château Villette as part of a deeper inside operation tied to Teabing’s household. Rémy’s access to Teabing’s Grail research explains how the Teacher gained knowledge and why Langdon’s refuge was anticipated.
At Biggin Hill, Fache uncovers the pilot’s confession and learns about both Silas and the wooden box left in Teabing’s safe. Aringarosa reroutes to London, raising the stakes as Fache, the conspirators, and the fugitives all converge around the keystone and its secrets.
Summary
In an alley near Temple Church, Rémy Legaludec stops the Jaguar limousine and checks that the area is deserted. Rémy climbs into the rear cabin, where Silas remains bound but unnervingly calm after a night of capture and pain.
Rémy drinks vodka, finds a wine-opener blade, and approaches Silas. Silas believes Rémy is about to kill him and interprets the pain of the blade as fatal wounds, but Rémy is actually cutting away the duct tape binding Silas. Rémy gives Silas vodka and explains that the agony is blood returning to Silas’s muscles.
Silas realizes he has not been abandoned and sees his rescue as divine intervention. Rémy reveals that Rémy is not the Teacher, but another servant of the Teacher. Rémy explains that the Teacher recruited Rémy because Rémy lives in Sir Leigh Teabing’s house and has access to Teabing’s Grail research, making Langdon’s decision to seek Teabing’s help predictable.
Rémy arms Silas with the loaded Heckler Koch pistol and retrieves a small revolver for himself, saying there is more to explain but they have a job to do first. The revelation turns Rémy from a mere servant into an active conspirator working with Silas under the Teacher’s direction.
Meanwhile, Captain Fache arrives at Biggin Hill and learns from the Kent chief inspector that the fugitives escaped. Fache quickly finds blood near where the limousine had been, forces Teabing’s pilot to confess, and learns that a bound albino monk was present and that Langdon and Sophie left a wooden box in Teabing’s safe.
Fache orders the safe opened within half an hour and tries to reassess the situation. Bishop Aringarosa calls to say he has rerouted to London out of concern for Silas. Fache directs Aringarosa to Biggin Hill and warns that Aringarosa is not the only man close to losing everything.
Who Appears
- Rémy LegaludecFrees Silas, reveals allegiance to the Teacher, and prepares for another task.
- SilasBound monk who mistakes rescue for execution before learning Rémy is an ally.
- Captain FacheInvestigates the Biggin Hill escape, extracts the pilot’s confession, and pressures Aringarosa.
- Bishop AringarosaReroutes to London out of concern for Silas and speaks tensely with Fache.
- Teabing’s pilotConfesses under pressure and reveals the bound monk and wooden box in the safe.
- The TeacherAbsent mastermind revealed to have recruited Rémy through Teabing’s household access.