10 Unanswered Questions From Recent Movies

7. How Was Indy Found Innocent Of Murder? - Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny

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In the fifth and final Indiana Jones film, Indy (Harrison Ford) becomes a wanted man, being framed for the murder of two of his colleagues at Hunter College at the hands of Jürgen Voller's (Mads Mikkelsen) goons.

While the evidence against Indy is ultimately relatively flimsy - a bloody hand on a phone circumstantially placing him at the scene - the film more-or-less implies that it's iron-clad, with the NYPD embarking on a manhunt to capture him.

But this thread is basically abandoned once Indy sets off on his adventure, and by film's end we never hear how the matter is resolved. While we're left to infer that Indy was somehow exonerated, how was he?

After all, it's not like the authorities will believe the particulars of Indy's adventure - especially that he fought time-travelling Nazis - and given that the only witness to all of his acts is Helena Shaw (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), the cops are unlikely to give a criminal's testimony much weight.

Evidently James Mangold and co. likely realised they couldn't satisfactorily provide an explanation for this and so just... didn't.

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