Raiders of the Lost Ark Page #3

INDY:

Forrestal.

SATIPO:

(gulps)

We can go no further.

INDY:

Now, Satipo, we don’t want to be

discouraged by every little thing.

Indy steps sideways into the chamber. His back pressed

against the very points of the retracted spikes, he moves

along the edge of the light beam, and steps clear on the

other side. Satipo grimaces and begins sweating his way

through.

STAIRWAY:

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Indy and Satipo come down stone stairs to a tight landing.

Framing the entry are a carefully strung network of dead

vines, each somehow hooked into the wall, narrowing the

opening even more.

INDY:

(taking the torch)

Let me see that.

He lowers the torch to the floor of the landing. The landing

is carpeted with human skeletons, one on top of another, all

squashed flat as cardboard. Satipo gasps. Indy looks up at

the ceiling of the landing, then steps onto the skeletons,

which make a cracking noise under his feet.

INDY:

Try not to touch the vines.

7 FOYER OF THE SANTUARY 7

The men are in a high, straight hallway 50 feet long. The

door at the end is flooded with sunlight.

SATIPO:

Senor, I think we are very close.

Indy stands still looking at the hall.

SATIPO:

(impatient)

Let us hurry. There is nothing to

fear here.

INDY:

That’s what scares me.

They begin walking down the hall side by side. Satipo has

inched a little ahead. Suddenly his lead foot comes down and

through the floor! As Satipo beings to pitch forward, Indy

grabs him by the belt and pulls him back. They both look down

at the “floor”.

Indy swings his whip across the floor. Fifteen feet of it

cuts open beneath the lash, falling away to reveal a black

pit as wide as the hall. The illusory floor was made of dust-

covered cobwebs. Satipo picks up a stone and drops it down

the pit. No sound. The two men exchange glances. Indy looks

up at the high roof of the hall. He swings the whip up around

a support beam, tests its strength with a pull and swings

over the pit on the whip. From the other side he swings the

whip back to Satipo, who throws Indy the torch. Satipo swings

across.

7.

When they are both standing on solid floor there is a moment

of quiet in which they hear, from far, far below-- SPLASH!

Indy wedges the whip handle into the wall and leaves it

strung to the beam for quick retreat.

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8 THE SANTUARY 8

A large, domed room. Ten evenly-spaced skylights send their

shafts of sunlight down to a unique tiled floor: white and

black tiles laid out in a lovely, intricate pattern. Indy and

Satipo stand at the door and look across the wide room at the

alter. There, in the supreme hallowed spot, is a tiny jeweled

figurine, Indy’s real objective.

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