:27:00
Yeah, probably.
:27:03
So that would bother most people.
:27:06
Lan's gonna try and steal it. And if he
succeeds, he'll destroy the Declaration.
:27:10
The fact is, the only way to protect
the Declaration is to steal it.
:27:14
It's upside down.
:27:18
I don't think there's a choice.
:27:21
Ben, for God's sakes,
:27:23
it's like stealing a national monument. OK?
:27:27
It's like stealing him.
:27:29
It can't be done. Not shouldn't be done.
It can't be done.
:27:35
Let me prove it to you.
:27:37
OK, Ben, pay attention.
:27:40
I've brought you to the Library of Congress.
:27:43
Why? Because it's the biggest library
in the world.
:27:46
Over 20 million books.
:27:48
And they're all saying
the same exact thing:
:27:51
Listen to Riley.
:27:53
What we have here, my friend,
is an entire layout of the archives.
:27:58
Short of builders' blueprints.
:28:00
You've got construction orders,
phone lines,
:28:05
water and sewage -
it's all here.
:28:08
Now, when the Declaration
is on display, OK,
:28:11
it is surrounded by guards
and video monitors
:28:14
and a little family from Iowa and little kids
on their eighth-grade field trip.
:28:18
And beneath an inch of bulletproof glass
is an army of sensors and heat monitors
:28:23
that will go off if someone gets too close
with a high fever.
:28:27
Now, when it's not on display,
:28:30
it is lowered into a four-foot-thick
concrete, steel-plated vault...
:28:38
that happens to be equipped
with an electronic combination lock
:28:42
and biometric access-denial systems.
:28:44
You know, Thomas Edison tried and failed
nearly 2,000 times
:28:48
to develop the carbonised cotton-thread
filament for the incandescent light bulb.
:28:52
Edison?
:28:53
When asked about it,
he said, "I didn't fail,
:28:55
I found out 2,000 ways
how not to make a light bulb. "
:28:58
But he only needed to find one way
to make it work.