Plot hole

Elsa did ransack her own room. Indy even says it after he realises she's a Nazi 'ransacked her own room and I fell for it'. Elsa has been working with the Nazi's all along and was using Indy and his Father before that to locate the grail for the Nazi's. I guess the real question is why didn't it occur to Indy that she should have heard something? The scene is contrived but not a plot hole.

24/04/1916

Yea you really need to pay attention more. We cant just go around and call everything a plot hole we don't understand

This was possibly the dumbest thing in the whole movie, Elsa ransacking her own room. It was so excruciatingly obvious that she ransacked her own room, and her subsequent reaction to Indy having the grail diary only reinforced this impression, that the first time I saw the movie I thought "this must mean she didn't ransack her own room" - because the movie was doing everything it could to cast suspicion on Elsa. Just like an Agatha Christie murder mystery: there is always someone who has an obvious motive and who, in front of witnesses, declares that they want the future victim dead. After the murder, this person never has an alibi. And this person always turns out to be innocent, guaranteed.

And I also didn't know Indy fell for it until he said so - I naturally thought he suspected her. After all, why would he believe Elsa? No one would ransack a room like that if they knew the occupant was in the bathroom. Besides, why would anyone ransack Elsa's room for the grail diary? Why would anyone think she had it? So of course that obscenely amateurish attempt at making the room look ransacked had to be fake. This was obvious to the audience, and should have been obvious to Indy as well. So obvious, in fact, that surely the movie is trying to trick us.

I agree that was dumb, Indy should have realized at that moment that she was full of shit.