Commander Garza is in cuffs as he is led before reporters in front of the palace. An angry Mónica Martín states that Garza has been arrested for murdering Kirsch and attempting to implicate Bishop Valdespino. Garza is hauled away before he can hear the rest of her report.

Moments earlier, security officer Suresh Bhalla watched Martín take a private call and then march directly to the press. The security officer does not know who called Martín. Just then, the guard gets an email from Monte, the informant behind ConspiracyNet’s claims, warning him to check Valdespino’s SMS messages. He deletes the message from Monte, creates an access card for the palace, and slips away.

Langdon searches for a book of poetry that might contain the 47-line code to opening Kirsch’s presentation. He recalls Kirsch’s story about his mother, Paloma, who was a devout Catholic and who fell pregnant out of wedlock, drawing God’s ire and moving to America, where her reluctant spouse died in an accident. She then put her son Edmond Kirsch in an orphanage, returned to a Spanish convent, and hanged herself. This is why Kirsch abhorred religion and worked against it.