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8	* The scene at the crossroads, where the argument between the Jones' about which direction to go gradually takes on more personal tones as old wounds are brought up for what, it's implied, is the first time.
9	-->'''Henry Jones:''' The quest for the grail is not archeology, 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?\
10	'''Indiana Jones:''' This is an obsession, Dad! I've never understood it. Never! ''[Bitterly]'' And neither did Mom.\
11	'''Henry Jones:''' ''[Deeply hurt]'' Oh yes she did. Only too well. Unfortunately, she kept her illness from me until all I could do was mourn her.
12	* It's a small moment, but the look on Elsa's face when she's watching the books being burned is devastating. She looks like she lost one of her best friends. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Perhaps it's when she finally realizes exactly what she's gotten herself into, allying with the Nazis.]]
13	* A minor one, but during their time on the zeppelin, Indy's conversation with Henry indicates how fractured his relationship with his father has been since his childhood.
14	-->'''Indiana Jones:''' You remember the last time we had a quiet drink like this? I had a milkshake.\
15	'''Henry Jones:''' What did we talk about?\
16	'''Indiana Jones:''' We didn't talk. We never talked.\
17	'''Henry Jones:''' Do I detect a rebuke?\
18	'''Indiana Jones:''' A regret. It was just the two of us, Dad, it was a lonely way to grow up, for you as well. Had you been an ordinary, average dad like the other guys' fathers, you'd have understood that.\
19	'''Henry Jones:''' [[NeverMyFault Actually, I was a wonderful father]].\
20	'''Indiana Jones:''' ''(scoffs)'' When?!\
21	'''Henry Jones:''' [[HandsOffParenting Did I ever tell you to eat up, go to bed, wash your ears, do your homework? No, I respected your privacy, and I taught you self-reliance!]]\
22	'''Indiana Jones:''' [[ParentalNeglect What you taught me is that I was less important to you than people who'd been dead for 500 years in another country...and I learned it so well, that we've barely spoken for 20 years!]]
23	* The bit where it seems that Indy has gone over the cliff in the tank, and his father and friends are staring over the side of the cliff, stricken. And then Indy appears beside them, battered but alive, looking over the cliff in confusion to see what they're all looking at. And then -- the truly tear-jerking bit -- Indy's father embraces him in a bear hug for the first time ever and chokes out "I thought I'd lost you, boy!"
24	* Henry immediately filled with regret after thinking his son has died. It's made even sadder in the Junior Novel and Adult Novelization, where Henry [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes that he was so obsessed with the Grail, he was never a good father at all and never even told his son that he loved him]].
25	-->''"Oh, God. I've lost him. And I never told him anything. I just wasn't ready, Marcus. Five minutes would have been enough."''
26	* When Henry's shot by Donovan and Indy falls to his knees, frantically trying to stem the bleeding, his hands trembling ... it's devastating to see that sarcastic bastard so shaken. Even after decades, this scene has lost none of its shock value. You know it's coming, you tell yourself it's all special effects, but it still gets you anyway. After all the bickering they engaged in, both dramatic and comical, seeing ''Indiana Jones'' actually shedding tears when his father was shot is proof that he ''did'' still love and respect him.
27	* Elsa's death due to her inability to let the Grail go, and Indy's near-death for the same reason until his father intervenes. Even Indy screams in anguish when it happens, and he even desperately reaches for the Grail itself afterwards until his father consoles him.
28	-->"Indiana... Indiana... ''let it go''."
29	* Just before the temple collapses, Henry and Indy see The Knight one last time. Henry looks upon The Knight with awe and respect, while The Knight waves them goodbye, knowing his duty is done and he's going to die. Finally.

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