Patrick Gates The status quo has changed, son.
Tied for 5th most-quoted character in National Treasure (2004): in 7 of its 75 quotes
Most scenes with: Riley Poole (3), Benjamin Franklin Gates (3), Abigail Chase (3)
Scenes with Patrick Gates
7 scenes Patrick Gates
Ben
I'm in a little trouble.
Patrick Gates Is she pregnant?
Ben
If she is would you leave the mother of your grandchild standing out in the cold?
Patrick Gates [He shakes his head]
Come in.
[examining the back of the Declaration]
So if this things in invisible ink, how do we look at it?
Patrick Gates Throw it in the oven.
Abigail, Ben: NO!
Patrick Gates [lifts up the Declaration to see the front]
Ben, Abigail, Riley: NO!
Patrick Gates [realises that it's the Declaration of Independence and goes pale]
Oh my God!! You--you stole it!
You can't just leave us here.
Yes, I can. Unless Ben tells me the next clue.
Ben
There isn't another clue.
Ian, why don't you come back down here and we can talk through this together?
Okay...
The clue. Where's the treasure? Ben?
Patrick Gates The lantern.
Ben
Dad...
Patrick Gates The status quo has changed, son.
Ben
Don't.
Patrick Gates It's part of Freemason teachings. In King Solomon's temple there was a winding staircase. It signified the journey that had to be made to find the light of truth. The lantern is the clue.
What does it mean?
Ben Gates
Boston. It's Boston.
Patrick Gates The Old North Church, where Thomas Newton hung a lantern in the steeple, to signal Paul Revere that the British were coming. One if by land, two if by sea. One lantern. Under the winding staircase of the steeple, that's where we have to look.
Thank you.
Patrick Gates Hey, you have to take us with you.
Why? So you can escape in Boston? Besides, with you out of the picture, there's less baggage to carry.
Patrick Gates What if we lied?
Did you?
Ben
What if there's another clue?
Then I'll know right where to find you. See you, Ben.
(Ian Howe escapes, leaving Ben and the others behind)
We're all gonna die.
Ben
It's gonna be OK, Riley. I'm sorry I yelled at you.
Patrick Gates It's okay, kiddo.
OK, boys, what's going on? The British came by sea. It was two lanterns, not one.
Patrick Gates Ian needed another clue, so we gave it to him.
It was a fake. It was a fake clue.
Ben
The all-seeing eye. Through the all seeing eye.
That means by the time Ian has figured it out, we'd still be trapped and he'll shoot us then. Either way, we're going to die.
Ben
Nobody's going to die. There is another way out.
Where?
Ben
Through the treasure room.
John Adams Gates
[In 1974 John Adams Gates tells the story of a mysterious treasure to a young Ben Gates]
OK, here we go. It was 1832, on a night much like this. Charles Carroll was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was also a member of a secret society known as the Masons, and... he knew he was dying. He woke up his stable boy in the middle of the night and ordered him to take him to the White House to see Andrew Jackson because it was very urgent that he speak to the President.
Young Ben Gates
Did he talk to him?
John Adams Gates
No. He never got the chance. The President wasn't there that night, but Charles Carroll had a secret. So he took into his confidence the one person he could: my grandfather's grandfather, Thomas Gates.
Young Ben Gates
What was his secret?
John Adams Gates
A treasure! A treasure beyond all imagining. A treasure that had been fought over for centuries by tyrants, pharaohs, emperors, warlords. And every time it changed hands, it grew larger. And then, suddenly, [snaps his fingers] it vanished. It didn't reappear for more than a thousand years when knights from the First Crusade found hidden vaults beneath the Temple of Solomon. You see, the knights who found the vaults believed that the treasure was too great for any one man, not even a king. They brought the treasure back to Europe and took the name... the Knights Templar. Over the next century, they smuggled it out of Europe and formed a new brotherhood known as the Freemasons, in honor of the builders of the Great Temple. War followed. By the time of the American Revolution, the treasure had been hidden again. By then, the Masons came to include George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere. They knew they had to make sure the treasure would never fall into the hands of the British, so they devised a series of clues and maps to its location. Over time the clues were lost or forgotten, until only one remained. And that was the secret that Charles Carroll entrusted to young Thomas Gates.
Charles Carroll
Charlotte.
Young Ben Gates
Who's Charlotte?
John Adams Gates
Oh, not even Mr. Carroll knew that. Now, look here, Ben. The Freemasons among our Founding Fathers left us clues [takes out one-dollar bill] like these. The unfinished pyramid, the all-seeing eye. Symbols of the Knights Templar, guardians of the treasure. They are speaking to us through these.
Patrick Gates You mean laughing at us. You know what that dollar represents: the entire Gates family fortune. Six generations of fools... chasing after fool's gold.
John Adams Gates
It's not about the money, Patrick. It's never been about the money!
Patrick Gates Come on, son. Time to go. You can say your goodbyes.
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