National Treasure: Book of Secrets Page #3

- Does anyone but you?

Dr. Samuel Mudd was convicted

of being a co-conspirator

in the Lincoln assassination.

The evidence was circumstantial.

He was later pardoned,

but it didn't matter.

Mudd's name still lives in infamy. And I

will not let Thomas Gates' name be mud.

- Ben.

- What?

Look at this.

- See that?

- Oh.

- That's quite something, isn't it?

- Yeah. It says "smudge."

It's nothing.

Residual ink

from the facing page. Flip it.

The letters are backwards.

- It's a cipher.

- Yes. It is.

A cipher.

See how the letters are coupled?

Playfair ciphers encode letters

in pairs. This could prove his story.

Unless you decode the cipher,

this does not prove a theory.

That's OK.

We need a five-letter keyword.

- What's the keyword?

- I don't know yet.

- All right.

- Uh, can I get a printout of this?

There's a billion words

in the English language.

Got to be a logical...

Let's start from the beginning.

A. Aardvark.

Don't want to rain on your parade here,

but I don't think this is gonna stop

Dr. Nichols from announcing

the discovery of the page tomorrow.

No, now, wait. Can't you ask him to

wait until I prove Thomas is innocent?

What if he isn't innocent?

Sir? Looks like our old friend

Ben Gates is in the news again.

What did he find now? Atlantis?

A guy came forward

with a missing Booth diary page.

That's not the best part.

Listen to this.

"On the page are the names

of the conspirators

in the Lincoln assassination, as well

as a previously unknown conspirator,

Thomas Gates. Thomas Gates is said

to be the great-great-grandfather

of treasure hunter

Benjamin Franklin Gates."

- Thought my relatives were bad.

- What do we know about this Wilkinson?

- Sir?

- Guy claims he had this page

for 140 years then just suddenly

comes forward with it?

- Why?

- We'll find out.

Better.

Bacon.

- Keep going.

- That's stupid.

- How's he doing?

- Keep working.

We're grateful

to the Wilkinson family

for coming forth with the page.

On the page is a name of a previously

unknown conspirator, Thomas Gates.

- Nichols has bought into it. See?

- Would you stop watching that.

It's on the Internet!

- No stopping it now.

- Gates may have been the architect...

- They have no understanding.

- You know the truth.

That's all that matters.

You heard the story from Grandpa.

The story? This guy's got evidence.

He's got everything.

We have a story. We have nothing.

For one brief moment,

the Gates family could hold its head up.

- Now we're a bunch of crazies.

- But we're not liars.

Wilkinson is saying that Thomas Gates

was a mastermind to one of

the darkest hours in U.S. history.

And he burned the diary page

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