Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Page #18

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.

ELSA:

But you should have listened to your

father.

She steps back next to Vogel. Indy is stunned. Henry gives

him his most withering look of reprimand.

INT. BARONIAL ROOM - DAY

A large baronial room decorated with ancient tapestries and

suits of armor. Firelight -- from the giant fireplace --

dances across the ceiling and walls.

Indy and Henry are ushered in, hands tied behind back,

accompanied by Vogel and Elsa and TWO NAZI GUARDS.

Elsa crosses the room toward a high-backed chair facing the

fireplace. Indy and Henry do not have the advantage of seeing

who is sitting in that chair. They only see a HAND REACH OUT

AND TAKE THE BOOK.

INDY:

(quietly to Henry)

She ransacked her own room and I

fell for it. How did you know she

was a Nazi?

HENRY:

Umh?

INDY:

How did you she was a Nazi?

HENRY:

She talks in her sleep.

Indy nods, and then the statement catches up with him. He

looks at Henry with surprise.

HENRY:

I didn't trust her. Why did you?

MAN IN CHAIR:

Because he didn't take my advice.

The MAN IN THE CHAIR gets to his feet and turns, revealing

himself to be... Walter Donovan. Indy and Henry react with

stunned expressions.

INDY:

DONOVAN!

DONOVAN:

Didn't I warn you not to trust

anybody, Doctor Jones?

Donovan smiles benignly and flips through the Grail Diary.

HENRY:

I misjudged you Walter -- I knew

you'd sell your mother for an Etruscan

vase. But I didn't know you'd sell

your country and your soul to the

slime of humanity.

DONOVAN:

(suddenly erupting)

Doctor Schneider. There're pages

torn out of this!

Elsa rushes to Donovan's side. She takes the Grail Diary

from him. Elsa takes a look for herself -- then glances up

at Indy.

ELSA:

This book contained a map -- a map

with no names -- precise directions

from the unknown city to the secret

Canyon of the Crescent Moon.

INDY:

So it did.

DONOVAN:

Where are these missing pages? This

maps we must have these pages backs

Henry gives Indy a look of surprise. Indy smirks.

ELSA:

(to Donovan)

You're wasting your breath. He won't

tell us. And he doesn't have to...

it's perfectly obvious where the

pages are...

(looking at Indy)

...he's given them to Marcus Brody.

Henry now wears a pained expression.

HENRY:

(to Indy)

Marcus?! You didn't drag poor Marcus

along, did you? He's not up to the

challenge.

DONOVAN:

He sticks out like a sore thumb.

We'll find him.

INDY:

The hell you will. He's got a two-

day head-start on you, which is more

than he needs.

(beat)

Brody's got friends in every town

and village from here to the Sudan.

He speaks a dozen languages, knows

every local custom. He'll blend in.

Disappear. You'll never see him again.

With any luck, he's got the Grail

already.

Henry looks amazed and impressed.

EXT. TRAIN STATION - CITY OF ISKENDERUN - DAY

Brody disembarks from the train along with the other

PASSENGERS, a cross-section of ARABS and TUSKS.

BRODY:

Does anyone here speak English? Or

even ancient Greek?

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