1:01:14
That's not a map.
1:01:16
- Is it?
- More clues. What a surprise.
1:01:19
Are those latitudes and longitudes?
1:01:21
That's why we need
the Silence Dogood letters.
1:01:23
- That's the key?
- Yeah. "The key in Silence undetected. "
1:01:26
Dad, can we have the letters now?
1:01:28
Will somebody please explain to me
what these magic numbers are?
1:01:32
- It's an Ottendorf cipher.
- That's right.
1:01:35
Oh, OK.
1:01:36
- What's an Ottendorf cipher?
- They're just codes.
1:01:39
Each of these three numbers
corresponds to a word in a key.
1:01:44
Usually a random book
or a newspaper article.
1:01:46
In this case,
the Silence Dogood letters.
1:01:48
So it's like the page number
of the key text,
1:01:51
the line on the page,
and the letter in that line.
1:01:54
So, Dad, where are the letters?
1:01:57
You know, it's just by sheer happenstance
that his grandfather...
1:02:02
- Dad.
... even found them.
1:02:03
They were in an antique desk
from the press room...
1:02:05
- Dad.
... of The New England Courant.
1:02:07
- That's a newspaper.
- Dad, where are the letters?
1:02:10
I don't have them, son.
1:02:12
- What?
- I don't have them.
1:02:22
Where are they?
1:02:23
I donated them to the Franklin Institute
in Philadelphia.
1:02:27
Time to go.
1:02:30
I still can't believe it. All this time
no one knew what was on the back.
1:02:34
The back of what?
1:02:36
No!
1:02:38
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- I know.
1:02:41
Oh, my God. What have you done?
This is... this is the...
1:02:43
- I know!
- This is the Declaration of Independence.
1:02:46
Yes. And it's very delicate.
1:02:49
You stole it?
1:02:51
Dad, I can explain, but I don't have time.
It was necessary. And you saw the cipher.
1:02:56
And that will lead to another clue,
and that will lead to another clue!
1:02:59
There is no treasure.
I wasted 20 years of my life.