Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Page #27

VOGEL:

Bring den Schatz!

TWO NAZI SOLDIERS bring forward a HUGE STEAMER TRUNK. They

open the lid and begin to empty it of its contents:

Gold and silver objects of every description.

DONOVAN:

Precious valuables, Your Highness,

"donated" by some of the finest

families in all of Germany.

The Sultan gets up from his chair and walks toward the trunk.

He goes right past it and begins to inspect the Nazi staff

car parked nearby.

SULTAN:

Rolls-Royce Phantom Two. 4.3 litre,

30 horsepower, six cylinder engine,

with Stromberg Downdraft carburetor.

The Sultan points to the engine under the hood.

SULTAN:

Can go from zero to 100 kilometres

an hour in 12.5 seconds. And I even

like the color.

DONOVAN:

(after a beat)

The keys are in the ignition, Your

Highness.

SULTAN:

You shall have camels, horses, an

armed escort, provisions, desert

vehicles -- and tanks!

DONOVAN:

You're welcome.

Somebody else is also taking note... and we see that it is

Kazim, the spy at the court.

Elsa is revealed coming down the stairs toward Donovan and

Vogel.

ELSA:

We have no time to lose. Indiana

Jones and his father have escaped.

EXT. ISKENDERUN STREET - DAY

Sallah drives his car through the crowded streets, Indy beside

him and Henry in the back seat.

SALLAH:

We go this way.

Sallah waves his arms and shouts to a CAMEL HERDER.

SALLAH:

Get that camel out of the way!

INDY:

What happened to Marcus, Sallah?

SALLAH:

(overlapping)

Ah, they set out across the desert

this afternoon. I believe they took

Mister Brody with them.

Henry removes his hat and hits Indy with it.

HENRY:

Now they have the map! And in this

sort of race, there's no silver medal

for finishing second.

EXT. DESERT VALLEY - DAY

Elsa and Donovan's party -- consisting of a SUPPLY TRUCK,

OPEN CAR, TURKISH SOLDIERS RIDING CAMELS, SPARE HORSES AND A

TANK AND VARIOUS OTHER VEHICLES -- all moving along through

the ramble of this box canyon.

Elsa, Donovan and Vogel travel in the open car. The TANK is

a vintage World War I model with enormous treads. The Turkish

soldiers wear native dress and carry both carbines and sabers.

Brody sits alongside Elsa in the rear of the car carrying

Donovan. Donovan hands a canteen back to him.

DONOVAN:

Care to wet your whistle, Marcus?

BRODY:

I'd rather spit in your face. But as

I haven't got any spit...

Vogel snatches the canteen away from Brody before he can

drink.

VOGEL:

We must be within three or four miles.

Otherwise we are off the map.

He hands the map to Elsa, drinks from the canteen, and hands

that back to Donovan.

DONOVAN:

Well, Marcus, we are on the brink of

the recovery of the greatest artifact

in the history of mankind.

BRODY:

You're meddling with powers you cannot

possibly comprehend.

Henry and Sallah are at Indy's side as he views Donovan's

party in the distance. Parked nearby is a CAR containing all

of their supplies.

INDY:

Ah, I see Brody. He seems okay.

They've got a tank. Six-pound gun.

Then Donovan notices a reflection from the hills.

What he sees is:

THE SUN REFLECTING OFF THE LENSES OF INDY'S BINOCULARS

HENRY:

What do you think you're doing?! Get

down!

INDY:

Dad, we're well out of range.

At that moment the tank FIRES A SHELL in their direction.

It WHISTLES overhead and BLOWS UP THE PARKED CAR. Indy, Henry

and Sallah cover their heads as automobile fragments rain

down upon them.

SALLAH:

That car belonged to my brother-in-

law.

INDY:

(gesturing to the

others)

Come on -- come on!

EXT. DESERT VALLEY - DAY

VOGEL:

I can't see anyone up there.

DONOVAN:

Maybe it wasn't even Jones.

ELSA:

No. It's him all right. He's here

somewhere.

DONOVAN:

(to Vogel)

Put Brody in the tank.

Kazim peers over a rock, pointing his rifle at the group

below.

DONOVAN:

(to Elsa)

Well, in this sun, without

transportation, they're as good as

dead.

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