Opus Dei deploys one of its agents, Silas (Paul Bettany), to silence anyone who finds out the truth — including Sophie's grandfather. Ironically, The Da Vinci Code wasn't meant to be a movie at ...

while members of the priory and an underground Catholic society known as Opus Dei give chase, determined to prevent them from sharing their greatest secrets with the world.

John McCloskey was dispatched by Opus Dei, the secretive right-wing ... center of the web of conspiracies in The Da Vinci Code? In the Tom Hanks movie, Paul Bettany played Silas.