Chapters 41-50 Summary

The caller's voice is cold and arrogant with an accent that Langdon thinks might be Middle Eastern. He says that he is a messenger for the Illuminati and that the Illuminati have infiltrated elitist organizations, including the Vatican. The caller also says that he has the four missing cardinals, and he plans to kill them one by one before midnight. He is going to put their bodies in public locations around Rome as the Catholic Church did to four Illuminati in la purga.

Cardinal Mortati is sweating in his black robe because the conclave is set to start in twenty minutes, and the four cardinals are still missing. One of them, Cardinal Aldo Baggia, is expected to be named the next Pope. The camerlengo is torn between his duty to elect a new Pope and his desire to keep the cardinals...