Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

HENRY

(laughs)

Good point.

Indy steps to the door and stands, listening.

HENRY

But better safe than sorry.

Henry slides his umbrella through the straps of his bag.

HENRY

Humpf – so I was wrong this time. But by God, I wasn't wrong when I mailed you my Diary. You obviously got it.

INDY

I got it and I used it. We found the entrance to the catacombs.

HENRY

(excited)

Through the library?

INDY

Right.

HENRY

I knew it. And the tomb of Sir Richard?

Indy nods.

INDY

Found it.

HENRY

(breathless)

He was actually there? You saw him?

INDY

Well, what was left of him.

HENRY

(trembling with anticipation)

And his shield... the inscription on Sir Richard's shield...?

INDY

Alexandretta.

(beat)

It's a great moment in Henry's life. He turns aside, lost to himself for a moment, then turns to Indy with joy.

HENRY

Alexandretta... of course... on the pilgrim trail from the Eastern Empire. Oh, Junior...

Indy winces, and would interrupt but suddenly it's not the moment.

HENRY

... you did it.

INDY

No, Dad. You did. Forty years.

HENRY

If only I could have been with you.

INDY

There were rats, Dad.

HENRY

Rats?

INDY

Yeah. big ones. What do the Nazis want with you Dad?

HENRY

They want my diary.

INDY

(interested)

Yeah?

Indy's interest is a moment which becomes important later but for now it passes.

HENRY

I knew I had to get that book as far away from me as I possibly could.

Indy's hand moves unconsciously to his pocket. His eyes turn inward.

INDY

(thoughtfully)

Yeah...

Then... BAM! The door is kicked open and three NAZIS enter. One is an S.S. OFFICER. The other two are SOLDIERS with machine guns. Henry and Indy raise their hands.

S.S. OFFICER

Doctor Jones!!

HENRY & INDY

Yes!!

S.S. OFFICER

I will take the book now.

INDY & Henry

(simultaneously)

What book?

S.S. OFFICER

(to Indy)

You have the Diary in your pocket.

Henry laughs genuinely, believing himself to be laughing at the expense of the S.S. Officer.

HENRY

Do you think that my son would be that stupid that he would bring my Diary all the way back here?

At which point an awful thought strikes Henry.

HENRY

You didn't, did you?

(a beat)

You didn't bring it, did you?

INDY

Well, uh...

HENRY

You did!!

INDY

Look, can we discuss this later?

HENRY

I should have mailed it to the Marx Brothers.

INDY

(overlapping)

Will you take it easy!

HENRY

Take it easy?! Why do you think I sent it home in the first place?

(points towards the Nazis)

So it wouldn't fall into their hands!!

INDY

I came here to save you.

HENRY

Oh yeah? And who's gonna come to save you, Junior??

Indy's eyes blazes His nostrils flares He's so pissed off, he literally RIPS A MACHINE GUN from the hands of one of the startled soldiers... and for a moment we think he's going to use it on his dad.

INDY

I told you –

He turns and sprays the room with machine gun fire, cutting all three Nazis to ribbons and blowing them backwards across the room.

INDY

– don't call me Junior!

Henry looks shocked and horrified.

HENRY

Look what you did!!

Indy grabs him and pushes him ahead.

HENRY

(aghast)

I can't believe what you just...

INT. CASTLE HALLWAY – DAY

Indy leads Henry down the hallway as he searches for Elsa.

INDY

Elsa? Elsa?

He opens a door and enters:

INT. FIRST CASTLE ROOM – DAY

Indy and Henry rush back into the room where Elsa had been left, only to find: A Nazi COLONEL HOLDING ELSA HOSTAGE.

His name is Vogel: a vicious-looking, lantern jawed brute. One arm is wrapped around Elsa's waist, the other hand presses the muzzle of a LUGER behind her ear.

VOGEL

That's far enough Put down the gun, Doctor Jones. Put down the gun or the Fraulein dies.

HENRY

But she's one of them!

ELSA

Indy, please!

HENRY

She's a Nazi!

INDY

What?!

Indy is thrown. He doesn't know what to do. He looks at Elsa, then back to his father. Everyone is yelling at once:

HENRY

Trust me!

ELSA

Indy, no!

VOGEL

I will kill her!

HENRY

Oh yeah? Go ahead!

INDY

No! Don't Shoot!

HENRY

(to Indy)

Don't worry. He won't.

ELSA

Indy, please! Do what he says!

HENRY

And don't listen to her!

VOGEL

Enough! She dies!

Vogel jams the barrel of the Luger painfully into Elsa's neck. Elsa SCREAMS.

INDY

Wait! Wait!

And then Indy gives in. He drops the machine gun to the table and it slides across, SHATTERING GLASS. Henry GROANS audibly.

Vogel releases his grip on Elsa and shoves her toward Indy. She is propelled directly into his arms. He holds her tightly. She buries her face in his chest.

ELSA
I'm sorry.

Indy comforts her.

INDY

No, don't be.

Her hand slips into his coat pocket and removes the Grail Diary.