
National Treasure
(thunderstorm)
(floorboard creaks)
Grandpa!
You're not supposed to be up here,
looking at that.
I just wanted to know.
Well, you're old enough, I suppose.
You should know the story.
OK, here we go.
It was 1832.
On a night much like this.
Yah!
Charles Carroll was the last surviving
signer of the Declaration of Independence.
He was also a member
of a secret society known as the Masons.
And he knew he was dying.
He woke up his stable boy
in the middle of the night
and ordered him to take him to
the White House to see Andrew Jackson.
Because it was urgent
that he speak to the president.
Did he talk to him?
No. He never got the chance.
The president wasn't there that night.
But Charles Carroll had a secret.
So he took into his confidence
the one person he could,
my grandfather's grandfather,
Thomas Gates.
What was the secret?
A treasure.
A treasure beyond all imagining.
A treasure that had been
fought over for centuries
by tyrants. Pharaohs.
Emperors. Warlords.
And every time it changed hands
it grew larger.
And then suddenly...
it vanished.
It didn't reappear
for more than a thousand years.
When knights from the First Crusade
discovered secret vaults
beneath the Temple of Solomon.
You see. The knights who found the vaults
believed that the treasure
was too great for any one man -
not even a king.
They brought the treasure back to Europe
and took the name "the Knights Templar."
Over the next century
they smuggled it out of Europe
and they formed a new brotherhood
called the Freemasons.
In honor of
the builders of the great temple.
War followed.
By the time of the American Revolution
the treasure had been hidden again.
By then the Masons included
George Washington.
Benjamin Franklin. Paul Revere.
They knew they had to make sure
into the hands of the British.
So they devised a series of clues
and maps to its location.
Over time the clues were lost or forgotten,
until only one remained -
and that was the secret that Charles Carroll
entrusted to young Thomas Gates.
Charlotte.
"The secret lies with Charlotte."
Who's Charlotte?
Oh... not even Mr. Carroll knew that.
Now look here, Ben.
The Freemasons
among our Founding Fathers left us clues.
Like these.
The unfinished pyramid.
The all-seeing eye.
Symbols of the Knights Templar,
guardians of the treasure.
- They're speaking to us through these.
- (man) You mean laughing at us.
You know what that dollar represents?
The entire Gates family fortune.
Six generations of fools...
chasing after fool's gold.
(Grandpa) It's not about the money,
Patrick. It's never been about the money.
Come on, son. Time to go.
You can... say your goodbyes.
Grandpa?
Hm?
Are we knights?
(chuckles)
Do you want to be?
All right. Um... kneel.
Benjamin Franklin Gates,
you take upon yourself the duty
of the Templars, the Freemasons
and the family Gates.
Do you so swear?
I so swear.
(man) I was thinking about
Henson and Peary,
crossing this kind of terrain with nothing
more than dog sleds and on foot.
- Can you imagine?
- It's extraordinary.
(beeping)
We getting closer?
Assuming Ben's theory's correct
and my tracking model's accurate,
we should be getting very close.
But don't go by me -
I broke a shoelace this morning.
- It's... it's a bad omen.
- Shall we turn around and go home?
Or we could pull over
and just throw him out here.
OK.
Riley, you're not missing that little
windowless cubicle we found you in?
No, no. Absolutely not.
(continuous beep)
Why are we stopping?
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