Lara!
Lara, Lara!
Lara,
What happened?
Uh,,,
Oh!
He combined the Stones,
Eva was right,
It won't be unicorns,
It'll be fire,
Devereaux is disrupting the balance of the world,
By messing with the Stones, he's unleashing chaos,
All right, Good, Good, Yeah,
Now, I feel scared, but,,, but excited, Where,,, where do we start?
We start nowhere,
I cannot save Jonah, stop this man, and also see to you,
Oh, "see" to me, Like I'm a baby,
A,,, a baby who saved your ass more than I can count,
Which is high, It's high!
You need me, LC,
I know!
I do need you, Zip,
That's why you're going home,
Devereaux wants the Stones to take out the Light,
the secret society that killed his father,
Maybe by learning more about them, I can figure out where he's going next,
There's only one problem,
I'm going to have to go to the worst place in the world,
Oh yeah, What a disgustin' trash pile, I feel sorry for you,
You do know breakin' into the home of an Interpol agent is a serious crime?
Hey, I ain't bailin' you out,
There's no,,, other way,
Cam would never tell me what I need to know if I asked,
Cam who? Wait, wait, wait, wait,
Do you know this woman?
Camilla Roth, We grew up together,
Oh, hello! Backstory! Tell me more,
There isn't more, She left me and never looked back,
It's,,, complicated,
Like "ripped your heart out, that's why you're closed off"
kind of complicated?
Tell me about the lockbox,
Okay, then, You know, I've run some tests,
Turns out it's pure lead, which means it has an extremely high density
and also is soft and malleable,
Makes for a perfect natural barrier
for absorbing sound, vibration, radiation,,,
It's an energy shield,
If you must use layman's terms,
That's how it dulled Kaya's wrath,
It shields against the Stone's power, Its energy,
I'm in,
What exactly are you hopin' to find here?
Whatever corrupted Devereaux started here when he was a child,
Maybe if I learn what happened, I'll know how to stop him,
Stop who?
Lara Croft,
Ah,,,
Then let me guess, You're here to steal something,
Then you have one minute before I call the police,
The Light,
Good, You know it,
I'm head of Interpol's organized crime division,
Of course I know it,
The question is, how do you?
What are you? A professional hiker?
What?
You stink like sweat and leather,
So, what's life look like for grown-up Lady Croft, anyway?
You dating anyone?
No,
- Job? - Delivered furniture for a bit,
Was a bouncer for a while,
That would be fun to see,
Hah! Ya little rascals!
I'll start a bath,
The Light is a secret society started here in Paris,
Descendants of the Knights Templar,
The Templars?
Or so they claim, Probably just to drum up numbers,
But religious and political leaders have been disappearing,
and I've tracked them all back to the same shadow group,
The Light,
But I suspect they're also behind other hits
that make little sense to rational people,
They're ramping up for something, But for what?
It's like they're taking people off the board,
They're playing chess, and I'm playing Mille Bornes,
They're learning from their mistakes,
They're removing people who can challenge them,
Quietly amassing power, That's the key,
How do you know that?
Anyone by the name of Devereaux on the hit list,
killed 40 years ago or so, here in Paris?
That why you're here? Devereaux?
Hmm,
The name does sound familiar,
Aha! Pastor Charles Devereaux Sr, That's right,
He had a church in the 20th, Was killed on his own dais,
Interpol suspected it was a professional hit,
You think the Light killed him, Why?
Lara?
Oh! New record,
I was talking,,, to you,
Devereaux Sr, Professional hit at his church in the 20th,
I can multitask,
You're just like my father,
Thank you,
It was not a compliment,
Immediately after Pastor Devereaux was murdered,
the church was bought up by Montgisard Innovations
and turned into a Knights Templar museum,
The Light's really trying to sell that Templar connection,
So when are we going?
Uh, we are not, And tomorrow, when I can bring my team,
The Cam I used to know had a sense of adventure,
You used to see a hill and think of it as a challenge from nature,
That was you,
But I learned it from you,
Mm,
Mm, I miss those days,
Maybe we can have a little adventure,
The smallest,
Devereaux Sr,'s church,
This is where it started,
So, the Light kills the pastor, buys his church, only to never use it,
Why?
Ah!
Couldn't wait two seconds,
- I,,, saw another way, - Saw another way,
Zip, can you look into Montgisard Innovations?
Track down names,
Uh, rude! You just can't turn me on and off like a light,
Do you have a friend?
Is that her? Tell her I say I love her hair,
Jacques de Molay,
Leader of the Templars in the 14th century,
The Knights Templar were created
to protect Christians traveling through the Holy Land,
But when they returned from the Crusades, something went wrong,
Legend is they began to worship a disembodied head called Baphomet,
A demon,
When the Pope found out,
he executed every Templar he could find,
Starting with their leader,
Molay's final words were a curse on the church,
God knows who is wrong,
Soon, a calamity will occur
to those who have condemned us to death,
That,,, that was both funny and terrifying,
Lara, this place is so clearly terrible,
It's a front,
- Medieval churches were often built over,,, - Catacombs,
Look for secret doors,
Look at you two,
This turned out to be a nice team-building exercise,
Cam isn't really good at teams,
Yeah, that's like a slug callin' a worm slimy,
This really was a Templar church,
Hmm, Lucky guess,
Hmm!
I looked up Montgisard Innovations,
A shell company out of,,,
Owned by,,, Interesting thing is,,,
Zip? Zip,
We're too far underground,
What do you think the connection is?
Knights Templar and the Light?
I'm not sure, but they killed a man deliberately
to gain access to these catacombs,
There's something here they needed,
Remember that deerstalker you used to wear?
Oh God, Don't remind me,
We'd wander through your dad's digs,
and you'd make up this whole story about what happened there,
Make up? Excuse you, I was a detective, We work in facts,
You've always been more imaginative than me,
My father said it was my weakness,
I think he always wished I was more like you,
That's not normal behavior,
I can still feel their tiny, disgusting feet,
Ugh! I shouldn't have done this,
You're fine,
I'm not fine, Don't tell me what I am, Lara,
- I'm calling in my team, - Right,
I forgot when things get tough, you leave,
What's that supposed to mean?
Forget it, Let's split up, We'll cover more ground,
If the Light is down here, we're safer together,
You really are like him,
Baphomet,
The stories are true,
The Gold Peril Stone,
It was here, The Stone of Betrayal,
It made them turn away from God,
The Templars who survived did become the Light,
If you were hunted down like a dog,
what would you want?
Revenge,
Camilla?
Any post from Camilla?
Of course not, milady, She hates you, You stole her father from her,
Oh,
Huh?
Ah!
Oh,,,
The old fart doesn't understand,
None of them do,
You're not the only one who's grieving,
Jonah, I'm fine,
You're just like my father,
It's careless for people like us to have confidants,
Sam says you're not on speaking terms,
Zip says you've been everywhere in the world but home,
Roth was right,
It's better to go it alone,
You keep at this pace, you just might, Little Bird,
Help! Please!
Uncle Roth!
You failed because you thought someone would save you,
The sooner you stop needing people, the sooner you'll learn to survive,
People?
They're just burdens,
But Jonah will drop everything to help me,
Zip stands by me, even when I'm wrong,
They are not burdens,
Camilla was my friend, Your daughter is not a burden!
Lara!
Lara?
Lara, follow my voice,
I can't,
Lara, do you trust me?
Of course,
You're my best friend,
Yes, Yes, I am,
And I won't let anything bad happen to you,
Camilla!
Help!
I'm coming!
They're cultists,
Followers of the Light,
The mist is an hallucinogen,
I was able to find the vents and close them,
What's all this about, Lara?
The world is in danger from a terrorist called Charles Devereaux,
The pastor's son?
He is collecting Stones of Power
that could bring about the end of the world,
Why is everything so dramatic with you?
I ask myself that all the time,
The Templars found the Gold Peril Stone in the Crusades,
It's why the Light wanted this church,
The power of betrayal in the palm of your hands,
They must have thought it was buried here,
The tomb of Cyrus the Great,
Cyrus was a king of Babylon, His tomb is in Pasargadae,
Iran?
There was a great battle, The Stone was lost there,
The Templars are the Light, Cam,
They betrayed the church, but their mission has stayed the same,
Control not just the West, but everything,
One world under the Light
and death to those who defy them,
The assassinations,
They're all here,
The people who could challenge them,
The Light approached Devereaux Sr, to buy the church,
He refused,
He wanted the church to stay a safe place for the homeless,
They killed him and took it anyway,
All for a Stone that's not even here,
Poor kid,
He found the body, you know,
Because he lived here, He grew up here,
If he was anything like we were as kids, he must've explored all the tunnels,
He would've seen this,
Seen the story of the Stone and its last resting place,
He's going to Iran,
He's going to use the Gold Stone against them, It makes so much sense now,
Pasargadae is a heavily guarded heritage site,
He would have needed the power of the other Stones first to even get close,
The Gold Stone is next,
How do you know all this?
Because it's what I would do,
I put in a call, I'll send you what I find on Devereaux,
Huh,
Lara Croft, Always in a hurry to get somewhere else,
Thank you for your help,
Hmm, It was good to be on the same team again,
I'll be watching the Light,
They're up to something, I'll let you know,
Why did you want to leave?
In Chalchuapa?
You,,, you never even said goodbye,
Uh,,, you wanted me to leave,
What? Roth said you hated it,
Our life, The traveling, The tents,
You said you'd rather be home with your mum in Paris,
I never said that,
So you didn't leave because you thought I was replacing you,
"Replacing"?
Lara, you were like a sister to me,
Ugh, My dad could be a real son of a bitch sometimes,
No, Cam, Roth sacrificed himself to save my life, He died because of me,
No, he died because that was the life he chose,
Have you been carrying this around?
You listen to me,
I loved my papa,
but he ran from every relationship he ever had
because he didn't have the strength for them,
I'm glad you were with him,,, in the end,
I am,
I didn't leave because of you,
I didn't want you to leave,
Promise me something,
Don't make the same mistakes he did,
If this is the life you've chosen,
don't do it because you're running away from the things that are hard,
The people we love are the treasure you will never find in a tomb,
Here,
I stole it,
So you won't forget you still have a friend in Paris,
There's our heading,
After you, my friend,