National Treasure: Book of Secrets Page #2

Synopsis: While Ben Gates is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth's diary, a man by the name of Mitch Wilkinson stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth's diary. Thomas Gates, Ben's great-grandfather, is mentioned on the page. It shows that Ben's great-grandfather was a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's murder. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail Chase, and Riley Poole to Buckingham Palace (which they break into). They discover a plank that has early Native American writing on it. The plank has only one symbol that Patrick Gates can identify. The symbol is Cibola (see-bowl-uh) meaning the City of Gold. In order to define the rest they have to go to Ben's mother, Patrick's divorced wife. After 32 years it brings back old arguments. After that the other clue is in the President's desk in the Oval Office in the White House (which Ben and Abigail sneak into) to discover that the clue lies in The President's
Director(s): Jon Turteltaub
Production: Buena Vista Pictures
  1 win & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
36%
PG
Year:
2007
124 min
$219,932,519
Website
1,373 Views


We have 30 seconds after

the alert starts to disable the alarm.

Go.

I'll probably regret asking this, but

what happened with you and Abigail?

I don't know. I don't know.

She started using the word "so" a lot.

"So?"

Yeah, like,

"So, I guess my opinion doesn't matter."

"So, you seem to always know what's

best." "So, I guess I'm invisible."

Now I've moved out,

we're dividing furniture...

Oh.

Women. Can't live with them, especially

if they change the alarm codes.

You did that in 25 seconds.

That's why I tell people to get a dog.

- Got it.

- All right, let's go.

That's not Abigail's car.

She was on a date.

Isn't that that guy?

The White House guy?

The White House Easter Egg Roll

is next Monday. Maybe if you're not...

He's weird!

What happens if kids

don't find all the eggs?

Wow. You work in a museum,

and you live in one.

Pretty much.

What clever repartee.

She must like him.

All right, let me give you

a tour of the house.

- OK.

- That's actually kind of...

Oh, Abigail.

- What are you doing here?

- I just needed to get some things.

- Connor, good to see you again.

- Gates.

How did you get in, Ben?

Riley! Come out here!

What?

Hey! What are you doing here?

I mean, it's your house, but...

I sent you a copy of my book.

Did you get a chance...?

- No, I haven't read it yet.

- Mm.

I know you.

You're the White House curator.

- I'm Riley. We met, uh, back in...

- Right. You're, uh, Ben's assistant.

What?

Um, maybe I should go.

- Yeah, I'm really...

- Dinner tomorrow night?

I... I actually already

have plans for tomorrow.

You do?

- Of course you do.

- But I'm free on Friday.

- Awkward.

- Oh, great.

- Good night.

- Good night.

I cannot believe you broke in.

- What did you take?

- It's just my things.

Hand it over, Ben.

I need to see

the Booth diary page.

You saw the page yourself.

There is no treasure map on it.

No, it's a cipher leading to a map.

Anyone spectral-image the page?

No need to. The ink writing

on the page is clearly visible.

It could have been erased or faded.

You're the director of document

conservation. You know this.

Not up to me.

It's not my department.

That department reports

to your department.

Come on. One look under infrared.

You can have the Boston Tea Tables.

Both of them?

We've been looking

at this page for hours.

There's nothing there.

Ben, I really don't think we're

going to find anything on this page.

In a hundred years,

no one's going to remember

anyone involved in the Lincoln

assassination besides Booth.

That's not true. Do you know

the expression, "His name is mud"?

- Yes. Of course.

- You do?

- You know the origin of the expression?

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