Most scenes together: Benjamin Franklin Gates & Riley Poole (15), Benjamin Franklin Gates & Abigail Chase (10), Riley Poole & Abigail Chase (6)
Two years ago, if you hadn't shown up, hadn't believed the treasure was real, I don't know if I ever would have found Charlotte.
You would have found it, I have no doubt. That's why I didn't think it was as crazy an investment as everyone said.
I'm just relieved that I'm not as crazy as everyone says. Or said my dad was. Or my granddad. Or my great-granddad.
We don't need someone crazy. But one step sort of crazy, what do you get?
Obsessed.
Passionate.
Hello, Ben. How are you?
Um, chained to a desk.
Sorry to hear that. I want you to meet me on the flight deck of the USS Intrepid. You know where that is?
New York.
Meet me there at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. And bring those glasses you found at Independence Hall. Yeah, I know about the glasses. We can take a look at the Declaration, and then you can be on your way.
And I'm supposed to believe that?
I told you from the start, I only wanted to borrow it. You can have it. And the glasses. I'll even throw in the pipe from the Charlotte.
I'll be there.
And tell the FBI agents listening in on this call if they want the Declaration back, and not just a box of confetti, then you'll come alone.
We could borrow it.
Steal it? I don't think so.
Ben, the treasure of the Knights Templar is the treasure of all treasures.
Oh, I didn't know that. Really?
Look, Ben... I understand your bitterness. I really do. You've spent your entire life searching for this treasure,only to have the respected historical community treat you and your family with mockery and contempt. You should be able to rub this treasure in their arrogant faces, and I want you to have the chance to do that.
How?
We all have our areas of expertise. You don't think mine are limited to writing checks, do you!? In a life, I've arranged several operations of questionable legality.
I'd take his word for it if I was you.
So don't worry. I'll make all the arrangements.
No!!
I could really use your help here.
Ian, I'm not going to let you steal the Declaration of Independence.
Alright. From this point on, all you're going to be is a hindrance. [signals Shaw to ready gun to which Ben nervously laughs]
Hey!
What are you going to do? Are you going to shoot me, Shaw!? Well, you can't shoot me. There's more to the riddle; information you don't have, I do. I'm the only one who can solve it.
He's bluffing.
We play poker together, Ian. You know I can't bluff.
Tell me what I need, or I'll shoot your friend. [Shaw points gun at Riley]
Hey!
Quiet, Riley. Your job's finished here.
Look where you're standing. All that gunpowder. You shoot me, I drop this, we all go up.
Ben?!
Ian Howe What happens when the flare burns down? [Ben looks questionably] You just tell me what I need to know.
You need to know... If Shaw can catch.
Nice try, though. [coat sleeve catches on fire and drops flare on gunpowder]
You all right, Ben? No broken bones? A jump like that could kill a man.
No, it was cool. You should try it some time.
The Declaration of Independence and the meerschaum pipe. All yours.
That's it?
That's it. I knew you'd keep your promise. Now, where is it? Where's my treasure?
It's right here. The map said "Heere at the wall", spelled with two E's. Wall Street follows the path of an actual wall that the original Dutch settlers built as a defence to keep the British out. The main gate was located at a street called De Heere, also two E's. Later De Heere Street was renamed Broadway after the British got in. So, "Heere at the wall." Broadway, Wall Street. Cheerio.
Just a moment, Ben.
Ian, if you break our deal, the FBI will be only a few minutes behind you. You might get away, you might not.
Is that all the map said?
Every word.
Oh, Ben. You know the key to running a convincing bluff? Every once in a while, you've got to be holding all the cards.
Dad.
Is there anything else you want to tell me?
Trinity Church. We have to go inside Trinity Church.
Good. Excellent. Well, why don't you ask Dr. Chase and Riley to join us? I'm sure they're around here somewhere.
Museum Kid Is this real?
Just tell me what you told my friend.
Museum Kid Just a bunch of letters. I can't remember.
Can you remember which ones you were gonna tell him next?
Museum Kid Yeah, here. S-T-O-W.
Oh my God!! You--you stole it!
Powell Look... this is a waste of time. How could a ship wind up way out here?
Well, I'm no expert but... it could be that the hydrothermic properties of this region produce hurricane-force ice storms that cause the ocean to freeze and then melt and then refreeze, resulting in a semisolid migrating land mass that would land a ship right around here. [walks away]
For the record, Ben, I like the house.
You know, I chose this estate because in 1812 Charles Carroll met...
Someone that did something in history and had fun. Great. Wonderful. [puts on a pair of sunglasses and starts the car] Could have had a bigger house.
OK Ben. Pay attention. I've brought you to the Library of Congress. Why? Because it's the biggest library in the world. Over twenty million books, and they're all saying the same exact thing: listen to Riley. What we have here is an entire layout of the Archives: sort of builder's blueprints. We've got construction manuals, phone lines, water, and sewage. It's all right here. [Riley continues in voiceover as the camera moves around the archives] Now, when the Declaration is on display, it is surrounded by guards...and video monitors... and little families from Iowa... and little kids on their eighth-grade field trip. And underneath an inch of bulletproof glass is an army of sensors and heat monitors that will go off if someone gets too close with a high fever. Now, when it's not on display, it is lowered into a four-foot-thick concrete, steel-plated vault that happens to be equipped with an electronic combination lock and biometric access-denial systems.
You know, Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2,000 times to develop the carbonized cotton-thread filament for the incandescent light bulb.
Edison?
And when asked about it, he said "I didn't fail; I found out 2,000 ways how not to make a light bulb," but he only needed one way to make it work. [sets down a book in front of Riley] The Preservation Room. Enjoy. Go ahead. Do you know what the preservation room is for?
Delicious jams and jellies?
No, that's where they clean, repair, and maintain all the documents and their storage housings when they are not on display or in the vault. Now, when the case needs work, they take it out of the vault and directly across the hall and into the Preservation Room. The best time for us or Ian to steal it would be during the gala this weekend, when the guards are distracted by the VIPs upstairs; but we'll make our way to the Preservation Room, where there is much less security.
Well... uh... Ian... Preservation, hmm. Well, this might be possible.
It might.
We're all gonna die.
It's gonna be OK, Riley. I'm sorry I yelled at you.
It's okay, kiddo.
OK, boys, what's going on? The British came by sea. It was two lanterns, not one.
Ian needed another clue, so we gave it to him.
It was a fake. It was a fake clue.
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.
Nobody's going to die. There is another way out.
Where?
Through the treasure room.
You know, it took you all of two seconds to decide to steal The Declaration of Independence.
Yeah, but I didn't think I was going to have to personally tell my dad about it.
This is... huge. [Beat] Prison... huge. You are gonna go to prison. You know that, right?
Yeah, probably.
Well... that would... bother most people.
Tell you what- next time we find a treasure that redefines history for all mankind, you call the shots.
What do you care? You got the girl. Enjoy your spoils while I sit on one percent. Half of one percent, actually. [Jumps into red Ferrari]
I'm sorry for your suffering, Riley.
Not bad.
Mazel tov.
