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Chapter 10
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Da Vinci Code, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Conspiracies and Secrets
Art and Symbolism
Faith vs. Knowledge
Sacred Femininity and Revisionist History
Power and Manipulation
Summary
Analysis
While Langdon continues his phone call, Fache berates Sophie for interrupting them. She informs him Saunière’s numbers are a scrambled Fibonacci sequence, in which each number is equal to the sum of the two preceding it. Fache is furious at Sophie’s implication that Saunière’s last message is a mathematical joke. She leaves. Langdon hangs up with the U.S. embassy (who Fache hates because they interfere with his jurisdiction), claiming an emergency requires he leave in the morning. Fache allows Langdon a solitary bathroom break, confident he cannot escape. Then, Fache returns to Saunière’s office and asks Collet to keep a close eye on their suspect, who is still in the bathroom according to the GPS tracker concealed on his person.
Unlike other agents, Sophie isn’t intimidated by Fache’s anger. Her assessment of Saunière’s numeric code may be correct, but for now, she doesn’t explain why a Fibonacci sequence might be important—and thus, it appears to Fache to be a joke. Fache’s irritation with the U.S. embassy shows that he dislikes having to defer to anyone else’s power. Knowing the embassy wasn’t actually on the line, Langdon’s behavior after the phone call hint to the reader that Sophie’s voicemail instructed him to get some distance from Fache. Even so, Fache and Collet are monitoring Langdon’s movements, making escape seem impossible.
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