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Sophie :
You're saying the Holy Grail is a person? A woman?
Leigh : And
it turns out, she makes an appearance right there.
Sophie : But
they are all men.
Leigh : Are
they? What about that figure on the right hand of
our Lord seated in the
place of honor? Flowing red hair.
Folded feminine hands. Hint of a bosom. No? It’s
called scotoma. The mind sees what it chooses to
see.
Sophie : Who
is she?
Leigh : My
dear, that's Mary Magdalene.
Sophie : The
prostitute?
Leigh :
She was no such thing.
Smeared by the Church in 591 anno Domini, poor dear.
Mary Magdalene was Jesus' wife.
Robert : This
is an old wives' tale.
Leigh : The
original one, in fact.
Robert :
There's virtually no empirical proof.
Leigh : He
knows as well as I do. Now, my dear, the word in
French for Holy Grail.
Sophie : Le
Sangreal.
Leigh : From
the Middle English "Sangreal" of the original
Arthurian legend. Now, as two words. Can you
translate for our friend?
Sophie : Sang
real, it means "royal blood."
Leigh : When
the legend speaks of the chalice that held the blood
of Christ, it speaks in fact of the female womb that
carried Jesus' royal bloodline.
Sophie : But
how could Christ have a bloodline, unless--?
Leigh : Mary
was pregnant at the time of the Crucifixion. For her
own safety and for that of Christ's unborn child,
she fled the Holy Land
and came to France. And here, it is said, she gave
birth to a daughter, Sarah.
Sophie : They
know the child's name.
Robert : A
little girl.
Leigh : Yes.
Robert : If
that were true, it's
adding insult to injury.
Sophie : Why?
Robert : The
pagans found transcendence through the joining of
male to female.
Sophie :
People found god through sex?
Robert : In
paganism, women were worshiped as a route to heaven
but the modern Church has a monopoly on that in
salvation through Jesus Christ.
Leigh : And
he who keeps the keys to heaven rules the world.
Robert :
Women, then, are a huge threat to the Church. The
Catholic inquisition soon publishes what may be the
most blood-soaked book in human history.
Leigh : The
Malleus Maleficarum.
Robert : The
Witches' Hammer.
Leigh : It
instructed the clergy on how to locate, torture and
kill all freethinking women.
Robert : In
three centuries of witch hunts, 50, 000 women are
captured, burned alive at the stake.
Leigh : Oh,
at least that. Some say millions. Imagine, then,
Robert, that Christ's throne might live on in a
female child. You asked what would be worth killing
for. Witness the greatest cover-up in human history.
This is the secret that the Priory of Sion has
defended for over 20 centuries. They are the
guardians of the royal bloodline. The keepers of the
proof of our true past. They are the protectors of
the living descendants of Jesus Christ and Mary
Magdalene.
Remy : Sir
Leigh?
Leigh :
Sometimes I wonder who is serving whom. His sauces
are not that fantastic. Yes, can I help you?
Remy : Yes.
They're on the news
now.
Sophie :
Living descendants? Is it possible?
Robert : It’s
not impossible.
Leigh : You
have not been honest with me. Your pictures are on
the television. You are wanted for four murders!
Robert :
That's why Vernet said "killing spree."
Leigh : You
come into my home,
playing on my passions for the
Grail.
Robert :
That's why he needed you. Sophie.
Leigh : You
will leave my house!
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