Chapters 121-130 Summary

From the helicopter, Langdon can see the coast and then the blackness of the quarries. Neither is getting any closer. He looks down and sees that they are over St. Peter's Square. The chopper continues to go upward as Langdon shouts at the camerlengo that they need to get away from the square. The camerlengo says that it's too dangerous and that he wishes Langdon hadn't come because he made the ultimate sacrifice by doing so. Langdon realizes that the camerlengo isn't going to drop the antimatter. He is trying to get as far away from Vatican City as possible before the canister blows.

Vittoria stares upward from St. Peter's Square. The helicopter has disappeared from sight above them. The world watches the events unfold. Then, time runs out. "The dead silence of the event was the most terrifying of all...