Sean Connery: Professor Henry Jones
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Sallah : Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Junior"?
Professor Henry Jones : That's his name.
[points to himself]
Professor Henry Jones : Henry Jones...
[points to Indy]
Professor Henry Jones : ...Junior.
Indiana Jones : I like "Indiana."
Professor Henry Jones : We named the *dog* Indiana.
Marcus Brody : May we go home now, please?
Sallah : The dog?
[starts laughing]
Sallah : You are named after the dog? HA HA HA...!
Indiana Jones : I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog.
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Elsa : It's perfectly obvious where the pages are. He's given them to Marcus Brody.
Professor Henry Jones : Marcus? You didn't drag poor Marcus along did you? He's not up to the challenge.
Walter Donovan : He sticks out like a sore thumb. We'll find him.
Indiana Jones : The hell you will. He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he needs. 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.
[Cut to middle of fair in the Middle East, Marcus Brody wearing bright suit and white hat, sticking out like sore thumb]
Marcus Brody : Uhhh, does anyone here speak English? Or even ancient Greek?
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[Nazi Colonel Vogel is torturing Henry to get answers]
Colonel Vogel : Tell me about this miserable little diary of yours. The book is useless and yet you come all the way back to Berlin to get it. Why?
[he slaps Henry in the face with his glove]
Colonel Vogel : Why?
[he slaps him again]
Colonel Vogel : What are you hiding?
[he slaps him again]
Colonel Vogel : What does the diary tell you that it doesn't tell us?
[he tries to slap him again; Henry grabs his wrist, stopping him]
Professor Henry Jones : [through his teeth] It tells me, that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try *reading* books instead of *burning* them!
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[Indiana and Henry are tied up]
Indiana Jones : Come on, dad. Help me get us out of here. We have to get to Marcus before the Nazis do.
Professor Henry Jones : But you said he had a two day head start. That he would blend in, disappear.
Indiana Jones : Are you kidding? I made all that up. You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum.
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Professor Henry Jones : I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky...
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Indiana Jones : [of Indy's new lover] How did you know she was a Nazi? How did you know she was a Nazi?
Professor Henry Jones : She talks in her sleep.
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Professor Henry Jones : [accidentally shoots their own plane with the machine gun]
Indiana Jones : Dad, are we hit?
Professor Henry Jones : More or less. Son, I'm sorry. They got us.
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Professor Henry Jones : Those people are trying to kill us!
Indiana Jones : [shouts] I know, Dad!
Professor Henry Jones : This is a new experience for me.
Indiana Jones : It happens to me all the time.
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[Indiana slips and nearly falls into the abyss, but Henry grabs his hand]
Professor Henry Jones : Junior, give me your other hand! I can't hold on!
Indiana Jones : [reaching for the Grail] I can get it. I can almost reach it, Dad...
Professor Henry Jones : Indiana.
[surprised, Indy looks up at his father]
Professor Henry Jones : Indiana... let it go.
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Professor Henry Jones : The Word of God.
Marcus Brody : No, Henry. Try not to talk.
Professor Henry Jones : The Name of God.
Indiana Jones : The Name of God... Jehovah.
Professor Henry Jones : But in the Latin alphabet, "Jehovah" begins with an "I".
Indiana Jones : J-...
[he steps on the "J" and almost falls to his death; he scrambles back up]
Indiana Jones : Oh, *idiot*! In Latin Jehovah begins with an "I"!
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[Indiana Jones and Professor Jones Sr. are trapped between a room on fire and a room full of Nazis]
Professor Henry Jones : Our situation has not improved.
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[after commandeering a plane]
Professor Henry Jones : I didn't know you could fly a plane.
Indiana Jones : Fly, yes. Land, no.
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[talking about how they both slept with the same woman]
Indiana Jones : It's disgraceful, you're old enough to be her... her grandfather.
Professor Henry Jones : Well, I'm as human as the next man.
Indiana Jones : I *was* the next man.
Professor Henry Jones : Oh... ships that pass in the night.
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[to Indiana, while watching a Nazi parade and book burning]
Professor Henry Jones : [solemnly] My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.
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[Vogel is holding Elsa hostage at gunpoint]
Colonel Vogel : Throw down the gun or the girl will die.
Professor Henry Jones : But she's one of them.
Elsa : Indy, please!
Professor Henry Jones : She's a Nazi.
Indiana Jones : What?
Professor Henry Jones : Trust me.
Elsa : Indy, help!
Colonel Vogel : I will kill her!
Professor Henry Jones : Oh yeah? Go ahead.
Indiana Jones : No! Don't shoot!
Professor Henry Jones : Don't worry. He won't.
Elsa : Indy, please do what he says!
Professor Henry Jones : And don't listen to her.
Colonel Vogel : Enough! She dies!
Indiana Jones : Wait! Wait.
[Indy tosses over the gun. Vogel lets Elsa go and she runs right into Indy's arms]
Elsa : I'm sorry.
Indiana Jones : Don't be.
[Elsa takes the grail diary from Indy's pocket, smiles, then hands it to Vogel]
Elsa : But you should have listened to your father.
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Professor Henry Jones : Elsa never really believed in the grail. She thought she'd found a prize.
Indiana Jones : And what did you find, Dad?
Professor Henry Jones : Me? Illumination.
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Professor Henry Jones : Marcus.
Marcus Brody : Aah.
Professor Henry Jones : Genius of the res-to-ration.
[Brody finishes the handshake]
Marcus Brody : Aid our own re-sus-ci-tation. Henry, what are you doing here?
Professor Henry Jones : It's a rescue. Come on.
[the Nazis catch both Marcus and Henry]
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Indiana Jones : [as the room is burning] Dad!
Professor Henry Jones : What?
Indiana Jones : Dad!
Professor Henry Jones : What?
Indiana Jones : DAD!
Professor Henry Jones : WHAT?
Indiana Jones : Dad, head for the fireplace!
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[Indiana Jones walks over after climbing up from the cliff and Professor Henry Jones grabs him in hug]
Professor Henry Jones : I thought I'd lost you boy.
Indiana Jones : I thought you had too Sir.
Professor Henry Jones : [moves back and attempts to compose himself] Well... well done. Come on.
[Professor Henry Jones walks away and Indiana Jones collapses to the ground in exhaustion]
Professor Henry Jones : [looks back and frowns] Why are you sitting there resting when we're so near the end?
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Principal SS Officer at Castle : [the Nazis burst into the room] Dr. Jones?
Indiana Jones , Professor Henry Jones : Yes?
Principal SS Officer at Castle : I will take zuh book now.
Indiana Jones , Professor Henry Jones : Wuh-what b-book?
Principal SS Officer at Castle : You have zuh diary in your pocket.
Professor Henry Jones : You dolt! Do you think my son would be that stupid? That he would bring my diary all the way back here?
[pause]
Professor Henry Jones : You didn't, did you?
[another pause]
Professor Henry Jones : You didn't bring it, did you?
Indiana Jones : Well, uh...
Professor Henry Jones : You *did*!
Indiana Jones : Look, can we discuss this later?
Professor Henry Jones : I should have mailed it to the Marx Brothers!
Indiana Jones : Will you take it easy?
Professor Henry Jones : Take it easy? Why do you think I sent it home in the first place? So it wouldn't fall into their hands!
Indiana Jones : I came here to SAVE you!
Professor Henry Jones : Oh, yeah? And who's gonna come to save you, JUNIOR?
Indiana Jones : [shouts] I told you...
[grabs a gun and shoots all soldiers dead]
Indiana Jones : DON'T call me Junior!
Professor Henry Jones : Look what you did! I can't believe what you did!
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Professor Henry Jones : [Examining the broken vase] Late 14th Ming Dynasty. Oh it breaks the heart.
Indiana Jones : And the head. You hit me dad.
Professor Henry Jones : I'll never forgive myself.
Indiana Jones : Don't worry I'm all right.
Professor Henry Jones : Thank God... it's fake. See you can tell with the cross sections.
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Elsa : [to Indy] I'll never forget how vonderful it vas.
Professor Henry Jones : Why thank you. It was rather wonderful.
Elsa : [kisses Indy, sucks on his lower lip] Zat's how Austrians say goodbye.
Colonel Vogel : Und zis is how ve zay goodbye in Germany, Dr. Jones.
[punches Indy with the head of his cane; Indy's head smacks into Henry's behind him]
Indiana Jones : I liked the Austrian way better.
Professor Henry Jones : So did I.
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Professor Henry Jones : I'm sorry about your head though. But I thought that you were one of them.
Indiana Jones : Dad, they come in through the doors.
Professor Henry Jones : Ha, good point.
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Professor Henry Jones : I find, that if I just sit down to think...
[sits in chair, which tilts backward and opens up a hidden staircase]
Indiana Jones : [falling down hidden staircase] Daaaaad!
Professor Henry Jones : [resetting chair legs] The solution presents itself!
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Professor Henry Jones : And in this sort of race, there's no silver medal for finishing second.
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[last lines]
Marcus Brody : Indy, Henry, follow me. I know the way. Ha!
[Marcus' horse rides off with him barely hanging onto it]
Professor Henry Jones : Got lost in his own museum, eh?
Indiana Jones : Uh-huh.
Professor Henry Jones : After you, Junior.
Indiana Jones : Yes, sir. Ha!
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Indiana Jones : It was just the two of us, Dad. That was a lonely way to grow up, lonely for both of us. I can remember the last time we had a drink together; I had a milkshake. But we didn't talk; we've never talked. If you'd been an average and regular father, like all of my friends' dads, you would've understood.
Professor Henry Jones : I was a wonderful father.
Indiana Jones : Yeah, how?
Professor Henry Jones : Did I ever tell you to eat up, go to bed, wash your ears, or do your homework? No. I respected your privacy, and I taught you self-reliance.
Indiana Jones : What you taught me is that I was less important to you than people who've been dead for 500 years in another country. And I learned it so well, that we've hardly spoken for 20 years.
Professor Henry Jones : You left just as you were becoming interesting.
[He closes his diary]
Professor Henry Jones : Okay, I'm here now. So what do you want to talk about?
[Indy finds himself at a loss for words]
Indiana Jones : I... I can't think of... anything.
[Henry looks baffled]
Professor Henry Jones : Then what are you complaining about? We have work to do.
[opens his reclaimed diary and reads from it]
Professor Henry Jones : Now then... he who finds the Holy Grail must face three challenges. First, is the Path of God: Only the penitent man shall pass. Second, is the Word of God: Only in the footsteps of God, shall he proceed. Third, is the Breath of God: Only in a leap from the lion's head, shall he prove his worth.
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[Indy has untied a boat as a diversion for the Nazis]
Indiana Jones : Come on, Dad! Come on!
Professor Henry Jones : What about the boat? We're not going on the boat?
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Professor Henry Jones : I misjudged you, Walter. I knew you would sell your mother for an Etruscan vase. But I didn't know you would sell out your country and your soul... to the slime of humanity.
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[Indy and his father have stolen a plane from the airship, and are now being chased by German fighters]
Indiana Jones : Dad, you're going to have to use the machine gun. Get it ready!
[Henry turns around and gets the gun ready]
Indiana Jones : [spotting an approaching fighter] 11 o'clock! Dad, 11 o'clock!
Professor Henry Jones : [looking at his watch] What happens at 11 o'clock?
[Frustrated, Indy turns around and moves his arm in a counter-clockwise formation]
Indiana Jones : TWELVE! ELEVEN! TEN! ELEVEN O'CLOCK, FIRE!
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Professor Henry Jones : [after escaping from the Nazis, and coming onto a road sign] Stop, wait, stop! Stop! You're going the wrong way. We have to get to Berlin.
Indiana Jones : [Points to the sign] Brody's *this* way.
Professor Henry Jones : My diary's in Berlin.
Indiana Jones : We don't need the diary, Dad. Marcus has the map.
Professor Henry Jones : There is more in the diary than *just the map*.
Indiana Jones : [turns off the motorcycle engine; annoyed] All right, Dad. Tell me.
Professor Henry Jones : Well, he who finds the Grail must face the final challenge.
Indiana Jones : What final challenge?
Professor Henry Jones : Three devices of such lethal cunning.
Indiana Jones : Booby traps?
Professor Henry Jones : Oh, yes. But I found the clues that will safely take us through them in the Chronicles of St. Anselm.
Indiana Jones : [pleased] Well, what are they?
[short pause as Henry tries to recall]
Indiana Jones : Can't you remember?
Professor Henry Jones : I wrote them down in my diary so that I wouldn't *have* to remember.
Indiana Jones : [angry] Half the German Army's on our tail and you want me to go to Berlin? Into the lion's den?
Professor Henry Jones : Yes! The only thing that matters is the Grail.
Indiana Jones : What about Marcus?
Professor Henry Jones : Marcus would agree with me!
Indiana Jones : Two selfless martyrs. Jesus Christ.
[Henry slaps Indy]
Indiana Jones : [gasps]
Professor Henry Jones : That's for blasphemy! The quest for the Grail is not archaeology; it's a race against evil! If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the Earth! Do you understand me?
Indiana Jones : This is an *obsession*, Dad! I *never* understood it! *Never*! Neither did mom.
Professor Henry Jones : [clearly hurt] Oh, yes, she did. Only too well. Unfortunately, she kept her illness from me until all I could do was mourn her.
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[Henry Jones has just disarmed a Nazi soldier by squirting ink in his face from his fountain pen]
Marcus Brody : [meaningfully] Henry... the pen.
Professor Henry Jones : What?
Marcus Brody : Don't you see? The *pen* is mightier than the sword!
[Brody smiles goofily yet happily]
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Indiana Jones : [looking through his binoculars] I see Brody. He seems okay. They've got a tank. Six-pound gun.
Professor Henry Jones : What do you think you're doing? Get down!
Indiana Jones : Dad, we're well out of range.
[the tank fires on them]
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Professor Henry Jones : [after Indy saves him from a German tank] You call this archaeology?
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[Indy and his father have boarded the airship]
Indiana Jones : Well, we made it!
Professor Henry Jones : [looking out from behind his newspaper] When we are airborne, with Germany behind us, *then* I will share that sentiment!
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Indiana Jones : [Indy bursts through the window into his father's room. He's hit on the head with a vase]
Professor Henry Jones : Junior!
Indiana Jones : [reflexively] Yes, sir!
Professor Henry Jones : It IS you, Junior!
Indiana Jones : Don't call me that, please!
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Indiana Jones : [Being tied up together] We've got to get to Marcus before the Nazis do.
Professor Henry Jones : You said he had two days' start. That he would blend in, disappear.
Indiana Jones : Are you kidding? I made that up. You know Marcus. He got lost once in his own museum. Dad, can you reach into my left jacket pocket?
Professor Henry Jones : What will I find?
Indiana Jones : [Sarcastically] A lucky charm.
Professor Henry Jones : [Reaches into Indy's left jacket pocket] Feels like a cigarette lighter.
Indiana Jones : Use it to burn the ropes.
[Then Henry lights thew lighter and reaches back and burns himself androps the lighter to the floor, and after blowing on it a few times he starts a fire]
Professor Henry Jones : Son, there's something I have to tell you.
Indiana Jones : Don't get sentimental now, Dad, save until we get out.
Professor Henry Jones : The floor is in fire, and the chair.
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Professor Henry Jones : You say this has been just another typical day for you, huh?
Indiana Jones : NO! But better than most.
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Professor Henry Jones : [after hearing that Indy read the tablet] If only I could have been there with you.
Indiana Jones : There were rats, Dad.
Professor Henry Jones : [Startled] Rats?
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[repeated line]
Professor Henry Jones : This is intolerable!
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Young Indy : [bursts into his father's study] Dad...!
Professor Henry Jones : Out.
Young Indy : I have to show you something!
Professor Henry Jones : It can wait. Count to twenty.
Young Indy : No, Dad, I-!
Professor Henry Jones : Junior!
Young Indy : One, two, three, f...
Professor Henry Jones : In Greek.
Young Indy : [rolls his eyes] Ana, theo, thea...
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Professor Henry Jones : Junior?
Indiana Jones : Yes, sir.
Professor Henry Jones : It *is* you, Junior.
Indiana Jones : Don't call me that. *Please*.
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Professor Henry Jones : [to Indy] Well, I didn't trust her. Why did you?
Walter Donovan : Because he didn't take my advice. Didn't I tell you not to trust anyone, Dr. Jones?
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Professor Henry Jones : Nice landing.
Indiana Jones : Thank you.
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Professor Henry Jones : [as Kazim and the Brotherhood engage Donovan and the Nazis] Now, who are all these people?
Indiana Jones : Who cares? As long as they're keeping Donovan busy. Dad, you stay here while Sallah and I organize some transportation.
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Indiana Jones : She ransacked her own room and I fell for it. How did you know she was a Nazi?
Professor Henry Jones : Hmm?
Indiana Jones : How did you know she was a Nazi?
Professor Henry Jones : She talks in her sleep.
Professor Henry Jones : [Indy nods at his father, then the statement catches up with him. He looks at his father in surprise] I didn't trust her, why did you?
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Marcus Brody : [Last lines] Indy! Henry! Follow me, I know the way! Ha!
[His horse takes off, nearly causing him to fall out of the saddle]
Professor Henry Jones : Got lost in his own museum, huh?
Indiana Jones : Mmm - hmm.
Professor Henry Jones : After you, Junior.
Indiana Jones : Yes, Sir!
[Rides off, followed by Sallah and his father]
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Professor Henry Jones : When we get to Alexandretta, we will face three challenges. The first, "The Breath of God. Only the penitent man will pass." Second, "The Word of God. Only in the footsteps of God will he proceed." Third, "The Path of God. Only in the leap from the lion's head will he prove his worth."
Indiana Jones : What does that mean?
Professor Henry Jones : I don't know. We'll find out.
