Character Analysis
Mr. Peanut (Allergy)
Rémy's Teabing's bitter Lyonais manservant. Why's he bitter, you ask? Well, we think he was never really cut out for service.
Although to outsiders he seems like the devoted butler, he's totally in it for the ultimate prize: one third of the twenty million euro in Vatican bonds, promised to him by the Teacher.
He's a pretty integral part of the Teacher's plan, so one third of the "reward" is justified. He's the one who monitored the high-tech surveillance methods used to glean all the information the Teacher used for his manipulations. He's also the only one who knows the Teacher's true identity.
So, when faced with the orders to get the cryptex back from Langdon and Sophie without showing his face, he got pretty desperate:
The cryptex was to be Rémy's ticket to freedom and wealth. A little over a year ago, he was simply a fifty-five-year-old manservant living within the walls of Château Villette, catering to the whims of the insufferable cripple Sir Leigh Teabing. Then he was approached with an extraordinary proposition. Rémy's association with Sir Leigh Teabing— the preeminent Grail historian on earth— was going to bring Rémy everything he had ever dreamed of in life. Since then, every moment he had spent inside Château Villette had been leading him to this very instant. (86.18)
Unfortunately, when Silas's attempts to finagle the cryptex from Langdon seem to be failing, Rémy panics and disobeys his orders.
This crucial mistake leads to his demise-by-peanuts at the hands of his old boss. Teabing justifies his death by rationalizing about how Rémy showing himself implicated him beyond reproach, but we think he would've been a loose end no matter what he did.
Poor Rémy. All he wanted were daiquiris on the beach.