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* FictionalCounterpart: Umbra Domini is a fictionalized version of the actual Catholic organization [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_dei Opus Dei]]
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* FictionalCounterpart: Umbra Domini is a fictionalized version of the conspiracies/controversies that surrounded the actual Catholic organization [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_dei Opus Dei]]
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After Father Giulio Azetti, a priest in the remote Italian village of Montecastello, hears a shocking confession from the elderly Dr. Ignazio Baresi he rushes to the Vatican to inform the Church leadership. The secret of the confession was meant to only be shared with Cardinal Orsini, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but is overheard by the Cardinal's temporary secretary Father Donato Maggio, a member of the right-wing reactionary Catholic group Umbra Domini ("The Shadow of the Lord"). While the Church officially decides to put the matter of Baresi's confession on hold, Maggio passes on the news to the leader of Umbra Domini, Father Silvio della Torre, who states that "there is only one thing that can be done".
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After Father Giulio Azetti, a priest in the remote Italian village of Montecastello, hears a shocking confession from the elderly Dr. Ignazio Baresi he rushes to [[UsefulNotes/VaticanCity the Vatican Vatican]] to inform the Church leadership. The secret of the confession was meant to only be shared with Cardinal Orsini, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but is overheard by the Cardinal's temporary secretary Father Donato Maggio, a member of the right-wing reactionary Catholic group Umbra Domini ("The Shadow of the Lord"). While the Church officially decides to put the matter of Baresi's confession on hold, Maggio passes on the news to the leader of Umbra Domini, Father Silvio della Torre, who states that "there is only one thing that can be done".
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* HospitalHottie: Juliette, the nurse [[spoiler:who helps Grimaldi escape]] is remarked to be this by one of the cops
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After Father Giulio Azetti, a priest in the remote Italian village of Montecastello, hears a shocking confession from the elderly Dr. Ignazio Baresi he rushes to the Vatican to inform the Church leadership. The secret of the confession was meant to only be shared with Cardinal Orsini, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but is overheard by the Cardinal's secretary Father Donato Maggio, a member of the right-wing reactionary Catholic group Umbra Domini ("The Shadow of the Lord"). While the Church officially decides to put the matter of Baresi's confession on hold, Maggio passes on the news to the leader of Umbra Domini, Father Silvio della Torre, who states that "there is only one thing that can be done".
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After Father Giulio Azetti, a priest in the remote Italian village of Montecastello, hears a shocking confession from the elderly Dr. Ignazio Baresi he rushes to the Vatican to inform the Church leadership. The secret of the confession was meant to only be shared with Cardinal Orsini, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but is overheard by the Cardinal's temporary secretary Father Donato Maggio, a member of the right-wing reactionary Catholic group Umbra Domini ("The Shadow of the Lord"). While the Church officially decides to put the matter of Baresi's confession on hold, Maggio passes on the news to the leader of Umbra Domini, Father Silvio della Torre, who states that "there is only one thing that can be done".
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''The Genesis Code'' is a 1997 thriller written by husband and wife team Jim and Carolyn Hougan (under the [[PenName pen name]] "John Case").
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''The Genesis Code'' is a 1997 thriller ConspiracyThriller written by husband and wife team Jim and Carolyn Hougan (under the [[PenName pen name]] "John Case").
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** Watching VHS tapes rented from Blockbuster that came highly recommended from ''SiskelAndEbert''
** Plugging a computer into a hotel phone to send email
** Pagers
** Watching VHS tapes rented from Blockbuster that came highly recommended from ''SiskelAndEbert''
** Plugging a computer into a hotel phone to send email
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Umbra Domini has 17 of the children born from Baresi's procedure (and their mothers) murdered]].
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Umbra Domini has 17 of the children born from Baresi's procedure (and their mothers) murdered]].murdered, and they almost kill the 18th]].
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Umbra Domini has the seventeen children born from Baresi's procedure (and their mothers) murdered]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Umbra Domini has 17 of the seventeen children born from Baresi's procedure (and their mothers) murdered]]murdered]].
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In a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. a house suddenly explodes in flames, throwing a man violently into the grass and killing Kathy Lassitter and her young son Brandon who lived inside. The Kathy's brother, private investigator Joe Lassiter, works to uncover the identity of the "John Doe" found outside his sister's house (now recovering in hospital) as well as the reason Kathy and her son were killed.
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In a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. a house suddenly explodes in flames, throwing a man violently into the grass and killing Kathy Lassitter and her young son Brandon who lived inside. The Kathy's brother, private investigator Joe Lassiter, works to uncover the identity of the "John Doe" found outside his sister's house (now recovering in hospital) as well as the reason Kathy and her son were killed.
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* ChurchMilitant: [[spoiler:Franco Grimaldi, aka "John Doe", a former mercenary assassin turned Umbra assassin]]
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* ChurchMilitant: [[spoiler:Franco Grimaldi, aka "John Doe", a former mercenary assassin turned Umbra Domini assassin]]
* [[spoiler:CloneJesus]]: The goal of Baresi's work [[spoiler:by extracting cells from holy relics considered to be most likely to be genuine parts of Jesus' body and implanting them in women seeking to become pregnant]]
** [[spoiler:Jesse, the only child created by Baresi's procedure to survive, is firmly implied to be this when he brings a dead fish back to life in the Epilogue]]
** [[spoiler:Jesse, the only child created by Baresi's procedure to survive, is firmly implied to be this when he brings a dead fish back to life in the Epilogue]]
* DeadManWriting: Baresi's letter to Father Azetti, spelling out the reasoning behind what he did
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Umbra Domini's response to the 18 children that may potentially be genetic offspring of Jesus]]
** Justified in that [[spoiler:the bodies needed to be thoroughly burned to ash in order to remove any genetic material that could be extracted]].
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Starts with the relatively minor crime of the killing of Joe Lassiter's sister and nephew, and ends with [[spoiler:the reveal of a major conspiracy to murder children conceived by a new fertility procedure using genetic material of Jesus obtained from holy relics]]
** Justified in that [[spoiler:the bodies needed to be thoroughly burned to ash in order to remove any genetic material that could be extracted]].
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Starts with the relatively minor crime of the killing of Joe Lassiter's sister and nephew, and ends with [[spoiler:the reveal of a major conspiracy to murder children conceived by a new fertility procedure using genetic material of Jesus obtained from holy relics]]
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Starts with the relatively minor crime of the murder of [[PrivateDetective Private Investigator]]: Joe Lassiter's sister Lassiter and nephew, his company, Lassiter Associates.
* RenaissanceMan: [[spoiler:Baresi was a genius in genetics, theology (specifically religious relics), andends with [[spoiler:the reveal of a major conspiracy to murder children conceived using the DNA of Jesus obtained from holy relics]]fertility]]
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''The Genesis Code'' is a 1997 thriller written by husband and wife team Jim and Carolyn Hougan (under the [[PenName pen name]] "John Case").
After Father Giulio Azetti, a priest in the remote Italian village of Montecastello, hears a shocking confession from the elderly Dr. Ignazio Baresi he rushes to the Vatican to inform the Church leadership. The secret of the confession was meant to only be shared with Cardinal Orsini, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but is overheard by the Cardinal's secretary Father Donato Maggio, a member of the right-wing reactionary Catholic group Umbra Domini ("The Shadow of the Lord"). While the Church officially decides to put the matter of Baresi's confession on hold, Maggio passes on the news to the leader of Umbra Domini, Father Silvio della Torre, who states that "there is only one thing that can be done".
In a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. a house suddenly explodes in flames, throwing a man violently into the grass and killing Kathy Lassitter and her young son Brandon who lived inside. The Kathy's brother, private investigator Joe Lassiter, works to uncover the identity of the "John Doe" found outside his sister's house (now recovering in hospital) as well as the reason Kathy and her son were killed.
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!!Contains examples of:
* ChurchMilitant: [[spoiler:Franco Grimaldi, aka "John Doe", a former mercenary assassin turned Umbra assassin]]
** Umbra Domini calls for "a more muscular Catholicism", with some characters comparing them to a Catholic version of Hamas
* DarkIsEvil: Umbra Domini, often shortened by many characters to simply Umbra ("Shadow")
* FunetikAksent: Tommy Truong, the medical examiner friend of Joe's that autopsies Kathy and Brandon
--> '''Truong:''' "Oh, Cho. Very sorry. So very sorry."
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the officer's supervising [[spoiler:Grimaldi]]'s transfer from the hospital [[spoiler:remarks on the attractiveness of the nurse but remembers hearing the other nurses say she was "some kind of religious nut"]]
* FictionalCounterpart: Umbra Domini is a fictionalized version of the actual Catholic organization [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_dei Opus Dei]]
* InfoDump: Everything from the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church to [[spoiler:fertility procedures]].
* TheMole: Umbra Domini has several.
** Father Maggio, Cardinal Orsini's secretary.
** [[spoiler: Juliette, the nurse that helps Grimaldi escape the hospital and fake a carjacking]]
** [[spoiler: Tom Drabowski, the FBIAgent brought in to "investigate" the carjacking that helps Grimaldi escape police surveillance]]
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Starts with the relatively minor crime of the murder of Joe Lassiter's sister and nephew, and ends with [[spoiler:the reveal of a major conspiracy to murder children conceived using the DNA of Jesus obtained from holy relics]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: Nigel and Hugh, the gay couple that run the pensione in Montecastello
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Umbra Domini has a slick and efficient PR machine, with Father della Torre himself described as being "movie star" handsome and very media-savvy
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Umbra Domini has seventeen children (and their mothers) murdered]]
''The Genesis Code'' is a 1997 thriller written by husband and wife team Jim and Carolyn Hougan (under the [[PenName pen name]] "John Case").
After Father Giulio Azetti, a priest in the remote Italian village of Montecastello, hears a shocking confession from the elderly Dr. Ignazio Baresi he rushes to the Vatican to inform the Church leadership. The secret of the confession was meant to only be shared with Cardinal Orsini, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but is overheard by the Cardinal's secretary Father Donato Maggio, a member of the right-wing reactionary Catholic group Umbra Domini ("The Shadow of the Lord"). While the Church officially decides to put the matter of Baresi's confession on hold, Maggio passes on the news to the leader of Umbra Domini, Father Silvio della Torre, who states that "there is only one thing that can be done".
In a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. a house suddenly explodes in flames, throwing a man violently into the grass and killing Kathy Lassitter and her young son Brandon who lived inside. The Kathy's brother, private investigator Joe Lassiter, works to uncover the identity of the "John Doe" found outside his sister's house (now recovering in hospital) as well as the reason Kathy and her son were killed.
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!!Contains examples of:
* ChurchMilitant: [[spoiler:Franco Grimaldi, aka "John Doe", a former mercenary assassin turned Umbra assassin]]
** Umbra Domini calls for "a more muscular Catholicism", with some characters comparing them to a Catholic version of Hamas
* DarkIsEvil: Umbra Domini, often shortened by many characters to simply Umbra ("Shadow")
* FunetikAksent: Tommy Truong, the medical examiner friend of Joe's that autopsies Kathy and Brandon
--> '''Truong:''' "Oh, Cho. Very sorry. So very sorry."
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the officer's supervising [[spoiler:Grimaldi]]'s transfer from the hospital [[spoiler:remarks on the attractiveness of the nurse but remembers hearing the other nurses say she was "some kind of religious nut"]]
* FictionalCounterpart: Umbra Domini is a fictionalized version of the actual Catholic organization [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_dei Opus Dei]]
* InfoDump: Everything from the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church to [[spoiler:fertility procedures]].
* TheMole: Umbra Domini has several.
** Father Maggio, Cardinal Orsini's secretary.
** [[spoiler: Juliette, the nurse that helps Grimaldi escape the hospital and fake a carjacking]]
** [[spoiler: Tom Drabowski, the FBIAgent brought in to "investigate" the carjacking that helps Grimaldi escape police surveillance]]
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Starts with the relatively minor crime of the murder of Joe Lassiter's sister and nephew, and ends with [[spoiler:the reveal of a major conspiracy to murder children conceived using the DNA of Jesus obtained from holy relics]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: Nigel and Hugh, the gay couple that run the pensione in Montecastello
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Umbra Domini has a slick and efficient PR machine, with Father della Torre himself described as being "movie star" handsome and very media-savvy
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Umbra Domini has seventeen children (and their mothers) murdered]]
