![]() ![]() 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.“With such an iconic lineup, you really just want to see these girls in their natural look, so that when they walk through the smoke at the beginning of the runway, you get that little treat, like, ‘Oh, my God, this is a major moment!’” said Wilson.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. The air was thick with moisture and anticipation as a will-it-or-won’t-it conversation about forecast thunderstorms made its way around the outdoor tented area overlooking the show’s West 13th Street runway, but Wilson seemed unfazed the weather would hold, and the loose waves, braids, and slicked-back chignons and ponytails that he customized for each model benefited from what was, hands down, the best casting of the week. “Should we talk about the weather?” Lucas Wilson asked with a smile last night as he motioned toward his station backstage at Vogue World, which was outfitted with the best humidity fighters the hairstylist could assemble: Bumble and Bumble’s Hairdresser’s Invisible Oil to help repair dry strands near the end of New York Fashion Week its iconic Thickening Spray to strengthen lengths and “lock in these flyaways and fluffies” and its Dryspun Texture Spray for soft, movable piecey-ness. ![]()
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