Chapters 74, 75, 76, 77, 78 Summary

With Teabing in the back of the plane to check on their hostage and the butler, Langdon takes the opportunity to ask Sophie how she is doing. He also tells her that he thinks that he knows why her grandfather told her to find him; he knows why she cut off all contact with her grandfather. He asks her if she witnessed a sex rite. Sophie did not understand how he would know that. Langdon tells her that she witnessed a two-thousand year old tradition that ancient people believed they were not complete, spiritually, without a union with the sacred feminine. Then Sophie told him what she had witnessed. She was sobbing by the time she was through.

Aringarosa was also traveling by air at the same time as Teabing's group en route to Paris. After receiving a call from Fache, he knows...