Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Scene 9 Summary

  • Back at Castle Brunwald, Indiana and Henry are tied up in back-to-back chairs, watched over by Donovan and Elsa. Vogel enters and says Elsa has orders to return to Berlin, ASAP.
  • Donovan tells Elsa to take the Grail diary to the Nazi museum in Berlin. Without the map, it's no good to him.
  • Vogel asks if he can kill the Joneses now. No, he can't, says Donovan. They need them to get the missing pages back from Brody.
  • Elsa tells Indiana not to be so judgmental of her. He would have done anything to get the Grail, she claims. Indiana disagrees.
  • Elsa leans in and tells Indiana she can't forget how wonderful it was to be with him. Henry thinks she's talking to him and says thanks.
  • Elsa kisses Indiana and leaves.
  • Vogel punches Indiana in the face just because he can.
  • Indiana struggles to untie the ropes. He and Henry need to get to Brody before the Nazis do.
  • Indiana directs Henry to pull a cigarette lighter out of his pocket and burn through the ropes. Henry tries, but he drops the lighter, setting the rug ablaze. Soon the furniture's going up like a campfire on steroids, too.
  • Outside, Donovan's about to leave by car when he gets a message that Brody's been captured, which means the Nazis have the map, and they have permission to take out the Joneses. Vogel's stoked.
  • Back inside, the entire room's on fire. Indiana and Henry scoot their chairs over to the safest place in the room, which, ironically, is the fireplace. Indiana accidentally hits a lever with his knee, and the fireplace revolves. Suddenly, Indiana and Henry find themselves inside another Nazi war room. No one notices them.
  • Indiana hits the lever again, and they're back to the fiery dining hall. He hits the lever once more, and they spin around to the war room again. This time, they get noticed.
  • A trio of Nazis run toward the Joneses as they spin back toward the dining hall. The revolving fireplace gets wedged open, and the Nazis run through, into the fire, to find that Indiana and Henry have escaped—except the haven't; they're still hiding in the fireplace.
  • Indiana and Henry spin the door back around and have the war room all to themselves. They look for a way out.
  • Henry sits in a chair that tips back and causes a stairway to open up in the floor. Indiana's standing on it, and he tumbles down the stairs. Henry follows.
  • Indiana and Henry make their way outside to a boat dock, where Indiana starts up a motorboat and sends it away from the dock, empty. Henry's bummed they're not going in the boat.
  • We see Vogel and the Nazis head down the staircase to the dock.
  • Vogel and his cronies hit the dock and see the boat slowly traveling away. They pile onto their own boat. Indiana and Henry take off on a motorcycle and sidecar.
  • Soon the Nazis are in hot pursuit in their own vehicles. Indiana takes out one guy on a motorbike with a pole like he's jousting. Another two Nazis in a car run over the first Nazi, and Indiana throws his pole through the fourth and final Nazi's motorbike spokes, causing him to fly up in the air.
  • Indiana's proud of himself; Henry looks at his son like he wants to ground him 'til he's 60.
  • The Joneses pull over and argue about where to go next. Indiana wants to find Brody and the map. Henry wants to go get his Grail diary, explaining there's more to it than just the map that got torn out. Indiana takes the Lord's name in vain, and his dad smacks him.
  • Henry explains to Indiana that the Grail's not about archaeology, it's about a race between good and evil. If the Nazis get it, game over.
  • Indiana says that his dad's obsessed with the Holy Grail and always has been. He's never understood it, and neither did his mom. Henry tells him that she did understand it—better than anybody, in fact—and then slips into exposition mode as he divulges to the audience that Mrs. Jones got sick, didn't tell anybody she was sick, and died. Indiana's silent.
  • Henry continues. If the Nazis get the Grail, everything's going to turn out really, really badly for everybody on the planet.
  • Cut to a signpost that conveniently points to Venice in one direction and to Berlin in the other. The camera zooms in on Berlin. Guess we know where the Joneses are going.
  • Time to get that diary back.