Sophie Neveu Timeline & Summary

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• Sophie cleverly arranges for Langdon to call her answering machine in order to tell him that Fache is gunning to arrest him for the death of her grandfather.
• The two of them meet in the men's room (how daring!) and hatch a plan of escape involving a bar of soap, a tracking device, and a lucky throw onto a moving truck.
• Before they can really escape, though, Langdon realizes the clue Saunière left them would lead to the Mona Lisa.
• Langdon and Sophie manage to flee the Louvre after collecting their clues, thanks to some pretty quick thinking on her behalf.
• When they're prevented from getting to the American Embassy by a bunch of cops, they concoct a ruse to throw the police off their trail, and take a cab to the address Saunière had written on the back of the key he'd hidden for them.
• Sophie gets a quick lesson on the history of the Priory of Sion from the ever-knowledgeable Langdon.
• When they hear their names over the cabbie's radio, Sophie convinces Langdon to help her steal the cab. She's fearless, this one.
• They realize the address written on the key leads to a fancy shmancy bank.
• After finally piecing together the account number (thanks, Saunière!), Langdon and Sophie recover a fancy wooden box from the bank's elite vaults.
• Thanks to their new friend André Vernet (the bank president), they narrowly escape capture once again, and flee to the countryside in the back of an armored truck.
• While ensconced in their getaway vehicle, they open the box and discover a cryptex built by Sophie's grandfather, a device based on secret blueprints drawn up by Da Vinci.
• It becomes more and more clear that they have embarked on a quest to find the Holy Grail.
• Vernet betrays them (thinking he's defending Saunière's last wishes), but Langdon outwits him, kicks his butt, and then steals the armored truck and once again flees with Sophie. (This is becoming a pattern for them, huh?)
• The two of them head to Sir Leigh Teabing's house, because there's no better expert on the Holy Grail than that eccentric Brit.
• Langdon and Teabing have a great time lecturing Sophie all about the true Holy Grail, and how it's a bloodline, not a cup.
• Silas crashes the party with a gun and the goal of stealing the cryptex.
• Cops arrive. Teabing, Rémy, Sophie, Langdon, and a captive Silas escape through the woods in a fancy car.
• They make it to Teabing's private plane and they all head to London, where Teabing's sure they will find the next clue.
• Meanwhile, Sophie continues to inwardly wrestle with the ritual she saw her grandfather perform which led to their unfortunate estrangement.
• Upon landing they once again narrowly escape capture, and go to the Temple Church to search for clues and a missing orb.
• Silas, freed by Rémy, once again tries to steal back the cryptex by using Sophie as a hostage.
• Rémy is forced to intervene when Silas seems to be botching it up again. He gets the cryptex from a reluctant Langdon and takes Teabing as a hostage, instead.
• Langdon and Sophie go to the King's College Research Institute to try and piece together Saunière's riddle about a missing orb, and figure out that they need to find Isaac Newton's tomb.
• While there they are lured to a deserted area by a note from the Teacher, their mysterious nemesis.
• It is revealed that Teabing has been the Teacher all along. He's the bad guy. Huh.
• Bezu Fache storms in, and in a glorious deus ex machina move, saves the day by arresting Teabing.
• Langdon and Sophie go to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland for the last clue.
• There, they find Sophie's long-believed-dead grandmother and little brother. Turns out Sophie's family is the Holy Grail bloodline.
• Sophie is ecstatic to realize that she has family left, after all.
• Langdon and Sophie make a date to meet in Florence. Aww.
• Sophie stays in Rosslyn with her grandmother and little brother in order to get to know them better.