Raiders of the Lost Ark Page #10

INDY:

Belloq. So he got away from the

Indians. This is going to be more

interesting than I thought.

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SALLAH:

I’m afraid this has put the Germans

close to finding the Well of the

Souls.

INDY:

(indicates the headpiece)

Even Belloq won’t be able to find

it without that. Can you make

anything of those markings? They’re

nothing I’m familiar with.

SALLAH:

(shakes his head “no”)

But I know someone who might. You

can go to see him tomorrow.

(a worried expression)

Indy... something bothers me.

INDY:

What it is, my friend?

Sallah finds it hard to say. When he finally speaks, his

words are accompanied by a strange, eerie, foreboding rush of

wind through the courtyard. Just a coincidence we might

suppose.

.

SALLAH:

It is the Ark. If it is there, at

Tanis... It is not something man

was meant to disturb... Death has

always surrounded it. It is not of

this earth.

The wind dies down. Indy shakes off a chill and stares

thoughtfully at his friend.

62 EXT. HEAVILY TRAFFICKED CAIRO STREET - DAY 62

Indy and Marion are briskly walking along one of Cairo’s busy

bazaar streets. Vendors with fine cloth, pottery, baskets,

jewelry, etc line the street. Marion has the Monkey from

Sallah’s house on her shoulder.

INDY:

Do you really need that monkey?

MARION:

I’m surprised at you, Indy. Talking

that way about our baby. He’s got

your looks, too.

45.

INDY:

And your brains.

As Indy and Marion turn a corner, the Monkey seems to notice

something and immediately jumps from Marion’s shoulder and

hurries off at a frantic pace down the street.

MARION:

(looking disappointed)

Hey! Hey! ... where’re you going?

INDY:

(dragging Marion along)

He’ll be OK. Come on. Come on.

63 EXT. ANOTHER CAIRO STREET - DAY 63

The Monkey is seen running around another corner and jumps

into the waiting arms of MONKEY MAN, who appears to be like a

beggar with a dirty turban and an eye patch. MONKEY MAN

immediately hurries down the street and passes into a

building. In the building are two GERMAN AGENTS. MONKEY MAN

and the MONKEY both give the Heil Hitler salute and engage in

quick talk.

MONKEY MAN quickly leaves the two GERMAN AGENTS and gets back

to the street. He is obviously shadowing Indy and Marion.

Indy and Marion are just now passing by and the MONKEY MAN

ducks back behind some baskets.

64 EXT. ANOTHER BUSY CAIRO STREET - DAY 64

Indy and Marion are passing under a balcony where a lone

GERMAN AGENT stands watch. After they pass, the AGENT nods to

some BAD ARABS who are hiding in the shadows of the street.

In a moment, Indy and Marion pass by the break. Monkey Man

turns and looks up at a roof further down the alley. He waves

with his hand. Someone up there waves back.

.

65 EXT. A SMALL BAZAAR - DAY 65

Indy and Marion have reached a tiny square, made even more

cramped by its use as a small bazaar. They have started

working their way through the crowd when several Bad Arabs

and a German Agent begin to converge on them. Indy

immediately sees what’s happening and pulls the bull whip

from his jacket. The first Bad Arab to reach them gets hit in

the mouth by the handle of the whip.

46.

Now all hell breaks loose, with Bad Arabs, Innocent Shoppers,

baskets of fruit and tables of good flying every which way in

the constricted space.

INDY:

(to Marion)

Run! Get out of here!

Indy catches a dagger-wielding Bad Arab around the legs with

the whip and flips him. Marion is reluctant to leave Indy.

INDY:

Go, damnit! Go!

Marion goes. She runs off between two buildings. A Bad Arab

takes off after her. Monkey Man, now standing at the edge of

the square, points at Marion. The Monkey jumps off his

shoulder and follows Marion.

66 EXT. BETWEEN THE BUILDINGS - DAY 66

Marion runs along the narrow space and soon encounters a five

foot wall. She flops over it. The Bad Arab is right on her

heels. He reaches the wall and vaults over. On the other side

of the wall, the Bad Arab lands in a crouch, looks ahead and

doesn’t see Marion. Immediately a heavy earthen pot smashes

over his head, putting him out. Marion steps from an alcove

and starts to run toward the street at the other end of the

walkway. Suddenly another Bad Arab and a new German Agent

appear in the street at that end. Before they can spot her,

Marion retreats to the alcove again. There is a huge rattan

basket sitting there. Marion climbs in and closes the top

above her.

.

The only witness: the Monkey, who is now perched on the five

foot wall.

67 EXT. THE SMALL BAZAAR - DAY 67

Chaos. An entire booth of pots and pans collapses on a Bad

Arab and a German Agent as Indy whips away a support.

68 EXT. BETWEEN THE BUILDINGS - DAY 68

The chattering Monkey leads a German Agent and two Bad Arabs

to Marion’s hiding place, gesturing manically.

47.

69 EXT. THE SMALL BAZAAR - DAY 69

Indy ducks under the swinging blade of a huge Arabian sword

and kicks the Bad Arab Swordsman in the groin.

70 EXT. SIDE STREET - DAY 70

The German Agent leads the way as the two Bad Arabs carry the

huge basket above their heads. The basket top has been

fastened closed, but Marion is making a fuss inside. As the

place where the street cuts across the far side of the

bazaar, Marion is able to wedge the top open one inch and

screams-

MARION:

Indy-y-y-y!

71 EXT. THE SMALL BAZAAR - DAY 71

Indy has heard her. He looks across the square as the basket

and its escorts disappear beyond a building. One last Bad

Arab rises before him. Indy’s whip flashes and the Bad Arab’s

robe falls down to his ankles. Indy frantically pushes his

way through the panicked mass of humanity in the direction

the basket has gone.

EXT. THE FOOT CHASE - INTERCUTTING INDY AND THE MOVING BASKET

72 72

-DAY

The Bad Guys move the basket as fast as they can through

streets, alleys and passageways thick with people. Indy

always seems to round a corner just in time to catch a

glimpse of the basket before it disappears around a new

corner. Indy must fight a flow of humanity as powerful as an

ocean riptide. Finally, at the head of one particularly

crowded alley, Indy leaps up onto a wall for a clearer view.

Whatever he sees gives him an idea and he cuts between two

buildings rather than following the basket.

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73 EXT. DESERTED ALLEY - DAY 73

Two Bad Arabs come running down the alley with the basket

between them. Suddenly, Indy’s whip flashes out sending both

Arabs and the basket tumbling. Indy steps into view, his .45

trained on the sprawled Arabs, and looks at the basket. The

top has come flying off and the contents have clattered onto

the cobblestone:
inside is not Marion, but a load of

contraband pistols, rifles and ammo.

48.

Indy is advancing on the trembling Bad Arabs with an ugly

look when suddenly he hears Marion scream around the corner.

74 EXT. DESERTED SQUARE - DAY 74

Indy rounds the corner and is immediately driven back by

machine gun fire. Taking cover, he gets quick, intermittent

glimpses of this scene: At the far corner of the large,

deserted square is a canvas-covered trunk. Two Bad Arabs are

hurrying toward it with a large rattan basket between them,

Marion screaming inside. A German Agent is covering the

retreat with a machine gun from the cab of the truck. Indy

runs up to see the rattan basket being heaved into the back

of the truck.

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