The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.

The first scene shows Agent Sam Stanley and Agent Chet Desmond late at night after performing the autopsy on the body of List of Twin Peaks characters#Teresa Banks as they discuss how much time had passed since they entered the morgue. Later, they arrive at Hap’s Diner, where Teresa once worked the night shift as a waitress, and question the owner of Hap’s about Teresa. Sheriff Cable of Deer Meadow goes outside with Desmond, and fights him over taking the body of Teresa with him back to Portland, which took the murder investigation out of the hands of the local and corrupt Police Department. Later, Special Agent Dale Cooper is shown in a doorway in the Philadelphia headquarters of the FBI talking to his secretary Diane. Next, Cooper meets Sam Stanley after Desmond went missing.

Jacques Saunière, the Louvre's curator, is pursued through the Grand Gallery by an albino Catholic monk named Silas, who demands the location of the Priory's "keystone" to find and destroy the Holy Grail. Saunière gives him a false lead and is murdered. When the police arrive, they find his body posed like Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. The police captain, Bezu Fache, sends his lieutenant, Jérôme Collet, to summon American symbologist Robert Langdon, in the midst of signing autographs after one of his public talks, to examine Saunière's body.