FBI agents emerge from hiding and arrest them under charges of "kidnapping, attempted murder, and trespassing on government property." The U.S. However, Sadusky says that someone has to go to prison for the theft of the Declaration, so they fly to Boston, where Ian and his men are breaking the lock to gain entry to the Old North Church. Chase not being penalized for the theft of the Declaration. Ben proposes to give the treasure to various museums around the world, with credit being given to the entire Gates family and Riley, with Dr.
When they leave through the second exit and the FBI arrives, Ben discovers that the chief investigator, Special agent Peter Sadusky (Keitel), is a Freemason. This lock opens a door into the true treasure room, containing artifacts from all periods of history. Ben examines the walls of the room, to find a hole the shape of the pipe from the Charlotte. However, they realize a secondary exit must have been created in case of cave-ins. To their disappointment, they find it empty, and assume that the treasure was already moved. They find a secret passage into another chamber. Ian goes to Boston with his men, leaving everyone else to die in the caverns.Īfter Ian leaves, Ben reveals there is another exit that must be through the treasure room. When they arrive at a seemingly dead end, Ben's father makes up another clue to keep Ian going, telling him a lantern is the clue to the Old North Church in Boston, referencing Paul Revere's ride. Using Ben's father, Riley, and Abigail as leverage, Ian forces Ben to interpret the clue on the back of the declaration, a reference to a secret chamber under the Trinity Church in New York City. When the FBI attempts to use Ben as bait to get the Declaration back, Ian arranges to have him escape by jumping from the deck of the USS Intrepid, into the Hudson River, a feat not too difficult for Ben as a graduate of the Navy Diving and Salvage Training Center.
After a short chase, Ian gets the Declaration from Riley and Abigail, and the FBI arrests Ben, who has the glasses. Ben examines the back of the Declaration with the glasses, to find another clue. The coded message in the letters leads them to Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where they find special bifocals invented by Benjamin Franklin Gates inside of a brick from the building. Despite his father's disbelief in the treasure, Ben manages to reveal an Ottendorf cipher on the back of the Declaration, referring to characters in the Silence Dogood letters. As she will not leave without the Declaration, and Ben will not let her leave with it, she is forced to go along with them.īen and Riley agree that the only place to hide from the police would be Ben's father's (Voight) house.
Chase, who is holding a replica, is kidnapped by Ian who thinks she has the real one, and Ben has to engage in a car chase to rescue her. Ben and Riley manage to steal the Declaration during a 70th anniversary-gala, just before Ian arrives. Ben thinks otherwise, however, and decides to steal it to keep it from Ian. Abigail Chase (Kruger) at the National Archives, but no one takes them seriously, believing it to be too heavily guarded to be under any threat. They attempt to warn the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and Dr. In the standoff, Ian escapes and the Charlotte explodes with Ben and Riley inside, nearly killing them. While Ben sees gaining access to such a highly guarded artifact as an obstacle, Ian finds no problem in stealing it. After examining the riddle, Ben deduces that the next clue is on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Using sophisticated computer arctic weather models, Ben, with his friend Riley Poole (Bartha) and financier Ian Howe (Bean), finds the wreckage of a Colonial ship, the Charlotte, containing a meerschaum pipe engraved with a riddle.
The first clue was given to Ben's great-great-great-great grandfather Thomas Gates ( Jason Earles) by Charles Carroll, the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence, saying simply, "The secret lies with Charlotte." The story centers on Benjamin Franklin Gates (Cage), an amateur cryptologist with a mechanical engineering degree from MIT and an American history degree from Georgetown who comes from a long line of treasure hunters that believe in the legend of a fantastic treasure trove of artifacts and gold, hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States, and forgotten to all but a few.
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