An Inside Job

Carrying the lost Leonardo, Gabriel meets up with Rossetti at a café inside the Italian border. The policeman wants to discuss the documents that Ingrid downloaded from the Camorra bank. Two names appear frequently in the records: Nico Ambrosi, the financial advisor to the Vatican, and Piedmont Global Capital, the company associated with the disastrous real estate deal in London that prompted the theft of the Leonardo in the first place.

Rossetti says that Nico launders money for the Camorra, but the Italian police haven’t been able to arrest him because of his powerful friends in the Vatican. The Art Squad intends to look into Nico’s activities further as they relate to Piedmont Global Capital. 

A helicopter arrives to whisk Gabriel to the Vatican, where he meets with the pope. Gabriel shows him the painting and explains how it slipped out of the Vatican and into the hands of a Russian oligarch. The pope says he can tell Gabriel all he wants to know about the real estate deal in London that went bad.

Attended by Father Keegan and Gabriel, Pope Luigi leads the men to his private quarters to discuss the matter further. He says that the Vatican’s investments are all controlled by the Secretariat of State,