kippurcritiquesbadbooks | The Code gets caught in the bathroom soliciting sex.

Langdon goes to the bathroom. Sophie comes in. They have hot mad sex against the urinals. Well, no. They don't. But I like to think that they did. It would have been much more interesting than what happens next.

Langdon stood besides the sinks, staring in bewilderment at the DCPJ cryptographer Sophie Neveu. Only minutes ago, Langdon had listened to her phone message, thinking the newly arrived cryptographer must be insane. And yet, the more he listened, the more he sensed Sophie Neveu was speaking in earnest. Do not react to this message. Just listen calmly. You are in danger right now. Follow my directions very closely. Filled with uncertainty, Langdon had decided to do exactly as Sophie advised. He told Fache that the phone message was regarding an injured friend back home. Then he had asked to use the bathroom at the end of the Grand Gallery.

Let me translate that.

Langdon: Oh Crazy Chick is telling me I'm in danger. Let me believe her instead of this police officer who obviously is trying to solve this case and go off into the bathroom, lying to the nice police man where she can maybe do something horrible to me because she's crazy. WEEE!

And that's a drink there, yup.

We get a description of Sophie, "In the fluorescent lights, Langdon was surprised to see that her strong air actually radiated from unexpectedly soft features. Only her gaze was sharp, and the juxtaposition conjured images of a multilayered Renoir portrait... veiled but distinct, with a boldness that somehow retrained its shroud of mystery."

So, she's hidden but in plain sight? I'm not really sure what that means.

Sophie tells Langdon that he is the chief suspect. She says that Fache planted a homing beacon on Langdon because they were hoping he would run, thus making their case even stronger. So, what is he going to? He's going to run! (that's another drink there, by the way) Why? Because apparently our dirty limerick had a fourth line. "P.S. Find Robert Langdon".

Let us look at the entire limerick now.

13-3-3-21-1-1-8-5
O, Draconian Devil!
Oh, Lame Saint!
P.S. Find Robert Langdon.

We have, Code, Gibberish, Gibberish and intelligible. Question: Why did Sauniere do this? I have no idea. If anything he should have put that last line in code as well. Or at least something a bit less damning than "Find Robert Langdon". Perhaps "Robert Langdon can help" or something like that besides Find Robert Langdon, because that sounds like he's the one who did it. No wonder Fache is suspicious of him. It's the name of the murderer that Fache was looking for.

Langdon is of course, stunned. He babbles about having gone straight to bed and there not being any evidence. Sophie tells him that they have enough to bring him in on for questioning cause his name was on the floor and in Sauniere's little black book. She says that even if he's innocent or not, they're going to hold him until they can figure out what happened.

And this is supposedly a bad thing? It's typical police procedure. They'd easily be able to tell that Langdon doesn't have any gunshot residue on his hands and after checking through Langdon's things and stuff, they would discover no clothes with gunshot residue on them either. I know this from watching too much CSI.

Sophie tells Langdon that she thinks he's innocent and this is all her fault. The code was in fact meaningless and the message on the floor was meant for her. See, Sauniere was her grandfather and the Vitruvian man was her favorite painting and P.S. stands for Princess Sophie.

BUMP BUMP BUUUUUMMM!!

So that's another three drinks, I believe.