Riley tells Ben that the Book of Secrets contains documents collected by Presidents for Presidents' eyes only, covering such controversial subjects as the eighteen minutes erased from Watergate tapes, Area 51, and the assassination of John F. Ben discovers that the second plank is missing, but he does find a stamp bearing the seal of the Book of Secrets. Ben and Abigail coax Abigail's new love interest, Connor (Ty Burrell), who works at the White House, into letting them into the office to see the desk. There must be another part hidden in the other Resolute desk located in the Oval Office.
She does so, but points out that something is incomplete. Emily Appleton (Helen Mirren) for help in translating the symbols. At Ben's insistence, Patrick reluctantly asks his ex-wife and Ben's mother, Dr. Wilkinson eventually obtains the wooden plank, but not before Ben manages to photograph the symbols carved into the plank. Meanwhile, Wilkinson breaks into Patrick Gates' (Jon Voight) house and clones Patrick's cell phone in order to track Ben's whereabouts. From the Queen's desk, he obtains an ancient wooden plank with ancient symbols carved into it. Ben then infiltrates Buckingham Palace with the help of his friend Riley Poole (Justin Bartha) and estranged girlfriend, Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) (His relationship with Abigail having soured due to him constantly predicting what she might want without even bothering to ask her, even if he is often correct in his assumptions). He deciphers the hint is referring to the two Resolute desks. He travels to Paris, France, where he finds a clue engraved on the torch of the smaller model of the Statue of Liberty. Refusing to allow his ancestor's name to be tarnished, Ben discovers a cipher pointing to Édouard Laboulaye hidden on the back of the diary page. Black market dealer Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris), a Virginia Military Institute graduate, shows one of the 18 missing pages of John Wilkes Booth's diary, with Thomas Gates' name on it, convincing everyone that Thomas was not only a conspirator, but the grand architect of the Lincoln assassination, which tarnishes the Gates family's reputation and Ben is disgraced. As Thomas dies, Thomas tells his distraught son, Charles Gates, "The debt that all men pay." Over 140 years later, Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) is telling his great-great-grandfather's story at a Civilian Heroes conference. Thomas is shot, and the gunman attempts to retrieve the pages, but only obtains a page fragment. A fight breaks out, and Thomas rips several pages from the diary and throws them in the fireplace. Thomas solves the puzzle, a clue to a map to Cibola, the city of gold, and realizes the men are still loyal to the South and have a sinister motive for finding the treasure. While he does so, Booth leaves for Ford's Theatre to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Thomas recognizes the message and begins to translate it.
Five days after the end of the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth and Michael O'Laughlen, both members of the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC), enter a tavern and approach Thomas Gates (Ben Gates' great-great-grandfather), a well-known puzzle solver, to decode a message written in Booth's diary.
This journey leads Ben and his crew not only to surprising revelations but to the trail of the worlds most treasured secrets. Ben follows an international chain of clues that takes him on a chase from Paris to London and ultimately back to America. Somebody uses a page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth to accuse Ben's ancestor.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
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