INDIANA JONES and the TEMPLE of DOOM
STORY BY:
GEORGE LUCAS
SCREENPLAY BY:
WILLARD HUYCK
AND
GLORIA KATZ
TM* & (c) Lucasfilm Ltd., 1984
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FADE IN:
1. INT. "THE DRAGON" NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT 1.
A Chinese GONG SOUNDS and the glittering doors of an art Deco pa-
poda slide open to reveal a mammoth silver stairway down which
rows of beautiful women start descending (BEGIN MAIN TITLES)
The lovely ladies are a mix of races and they sing a strange,
haunting melody -- one might think them a heavenly choir, if it
weren't for their sexy, clinging lame gowns.
2. INT. CLUB ENTRANCE 2.
From the ethereal beauties, we cut to a street urchin's dirty
face: SHORT ROUND is a ten-year-old Chinese kis wearing a beat-
up American baseball cap.
Sneaking into the club, Short Round weaves past the fancy gowns
and silk suits, heading toward the music in the main ballroom.
3. INT. THE BALLROOM 3.
Short Round enters and stares across the smoky nightclub. On the
stage, he sees a giant paper-mache dragon laying curled around
the pagoda.
Now, the dragon's eyes light up, its nostrils exhale smoke and
its enormous jaws open. Out of the dragon's mouth walks the star
of the stage show:
WILLIE SCOTT, a dreamy beauty singing a sultry solo white the or-
chestra wails the accompaniment.
But Short Round's not here to ogle crooning dames. He surveys
the rich Chinese, American and European revelers. Jewels flash
and champagne flows. Short Round finally spots a table of
somber-looking Chinese men in suits.
Short Round chews gum and stares at the men. Then he turns to
go. WU HAN, a waiter with a scar across his cheek, watches Short
Round leave.
4. INT. CLUB ENTRANCE 4.
As Short Round hurries toward the exit, he bumps into a man in a
tuxedo entering the club. Short Round looks up at the man, but
we don't see his face.
Then Short Round is grabbed by the scruff of his neck and a door-
man hustles him out the door, Short Round yelling insults all the
way.
A maitre d' apologizes to the man in the tuxedo and two hat-check
girls smile at him familiarly as he continues into the ballroom.
We notice something incongruous: the man in the tuxedo is wear-
ing work boots caked with mud.
5. INT. THE BALLROOM 5.
The man in the tuxedo stops to watch Willie Scott singing sexily
on the stage. Then he looks around and sees the table of somber
Chinese men that Short Round spotted earlier.
As the man in the tuxedo walks toward the table, he removes a
cigarette from a silver case. He arrives at the table just as
the chorus and orchestra reach a crescendo --
And on the stage, a glistening, muscular slave swings a huge ham-
mer toward an enormous brass gong --
The man in the tuxedo leans to receive a light from a cigarette-
girl and, as the GONG BOOMS, the match flares to reveal his face
for the first time:
It's INDIANA JONES. Elegant in a tuxedo -- dressed to kill. The
TITLES END and over this a legend appears on the screen:
SHANGHAI - 1935
At the table, the four Chinese man in suits stare coldly at Indi-
ana.
LAO
Dr. Jones.
INDIANA
Lao She.
LAO
Nee chin lie how ma?
Lao's men laugh and assume that Indy doesn't understand his joke.
INDIANA
Wah hung how, nee nah? Wah hwey
hung jing chee jah loo nee kao
soo wah shu shu.
LAO SHE looks angry and his men's smiles fade.
LAO
You never told me you spoke my
language, Dr. Jones.
INDIANA
I don't like to show off.
Indiana takes a seat across the table from Shanghai's notorious
crime-lord. Lao is fifty, wealthy enough to now display some
fat, but still muscular from his fight to the top of the garbage
heap.
LAO
For this special occasion, I
ordered champagne and caviar.
Indiana looks at the pile of caviar on the plate in front of him
-- and stubs his cigarette out in it. The cigarette sizzles and
Lao's smiles dies with it.
There's applause as Wille Scott finishes her song. At the
table, Lao stares at Indiana with a strange intensity.
LAO
So, it is true, Dr. Jones? you
found Nurhachi?
INDIANA
Sure, I found him. Then last
night I had a little trouble.
Somebody tried to slit my throat.
Indiana looks across the table at Lao's son, CHEN, who resembles
a bulldog and snarls like one now.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
It was dark, but I think one of
your sons tried to get Nurhachi
without paying for him.
Indy stares pointedly at Chen's recently bandaged hand. Chen
mutters and stands angrily -- Lao barks a command in Chinese and
Chen sits down again.
LAO
You have insulted my son.
INDIANA
Next time I'll cut off more than
his finger.
LAO
Dr. Jones -- I want Nurhachi.
Lao pulls a wad of cash out of his pocket and puts it on the
table. Indiana glances at it.
INDIANA
As I recall the deal was consid-
erably more.
Now a pretty hand slips onto Lao's shoulder and he looks up to
see Willie Scott. Lao kisses her hand. Willie is unaware of the
explosive mood at the table and she smiles flirtaciously at Indi-
ana.
WILLIE
(to Lao)
Aren't you going to introduce
us?
LAO
This is Willie Scott.
(watching Indy)
And this is Indiana Jones, the
famous archaeologist.
Willie sits down between Lao and Indy. She takes out a small
mirror to check her make-up.
LAO (Cont'd)
Dr. Jones found Nurhachi for me
and is about to deliver him --
now.
Lao nods across the table and Indy sees KAO KAN, Lao's second
son, open his coat and remove a silver-plated pistol. Indiana
looks worried. Willie doesn't notice as she fixes her make-up
and coyly teases Indiana.
WILLIE
Well -- I thought archaeologists
were always funny little men
searching for their mummies --
(yelping)
Aaahhh!
She looks down terrified at the knife Indy is poking against her
ribs.
WILLE (Cont'd)
I was only kidding, can't you
take a joke -- ?
(to Lao)
Lao, he's got a knife!
INDIANA
Put the gun away, sonny.
Kao Kan glances at his father. Lao finally nods to his son and
he slips the pistol back into his pocket.
INDIANA
Now I suggest you pay me what you
promised -- or your girlfriend
here is going to be squealing a
new tune.
The ritzy patrons at the tables nearby are unaware of the tawdry
drama quietly unfolding at this table.
Willie eyes the blade and whimpers. She looks imploringly at Lao
and he slowly reaches into his pocket. He puts ten gold coins
next to the cash on the table.
Indy leans forward to look at the gold coins -- so intently that
he fails to notice Kao Kan spilling some powder into Indy's cham-
pagne glass!
INDIANA
Try again Lao -- the deal was
more.
The knife pokes Willie and she whimpers again. Lao reaches into
another pocket and brings out a folded piece of rice paper -- he
opens it and a large diamond and ruby spill out onto the table.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
Bingo...you see, Lao, with a
but of persuasion, even you can
be an honest fellow.
Indy smiles and jabs the knife into the middle of the table.
Then he lifts his champagne glass in a toast to Lao -- who
watches expectantly as Indiana moves the glass toward his lips --
Suddenly Willie stands angrily, jostling Indy's arm so that he
doesn't drink his champagne.
WILLIE
Look at this! He put a hole
in my dress from Paris!
Lao sees Indy put his champagne glass down and he snarls at Wil-
lie --
LAO
Sit down!
Willie quickly obeys. Lao forces a smile at Indy and lifts his
glass to seal the deal --
LAO (Cont'd)
To your health, Dr. Jones.
Lao sips hs champagne and watches hopefully as Indy picks up his
glass and this time Indy does drink the champagne. Then he
reaches for the cash --
But Chen grins and puts a silver snuff bottle next to the cash,
gold and jewels -- he tips the little bottle over and some white
powder spills out of it --
INDIANA
What's that?
LAO
A bonus, Dr. Jones. That is
poison. You just drank the
rest of it.
Indiana examines his champagne glass and sees a residue at the
bottom of it. He swallows and feels sick, wondering it it's fear
or the poison already taking effect.
LAO (Cont'd)
There is an antidote for this
poison. You give me Nurhachi --
I give you the antidote.
Indiana is sweating. Willie looks at him and sees Indy's hand
shaking.
LAO (Cont'd)
The poison works fast, Dr. Jones.
Where is Nurhachi?
Indiana finally reaches into his pocket. Next to the cash, gold,
jewels and poison, Indiana sets down a beautiful small box. Lao
and his men stare hypnotically at the exquisite gold and enamel
box.
WILLIE
(nervously)
This Nurhachi's a very small guy.
Nobody pays any attention to her as Lao reaches for the box.
INDIANA
Inside are the remains of Nur-
hachi -- the first Emperor of the
Manchu Dynasty.
Lao opens the box carefully and stares reverently at the grey
powder inside.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
Now what about the antidote,
Lao.
LAO
(holding the box)
At last I have the ashes of my
sacred ancestor!
WILLIE
So, what's the big deal? Let
me see it --
Qillie grabs Lao's arm and some of the precious ashes spill out
of the gold box. Stunned by this desecration of his ancestor,
Lao grabs Willie by the wrist and twists her arm --
LAO
You fool!
WILLIE
Ow, you're hurting me, you miser-
able little hood!
INDIANA
Let go of her, Lao. And give me
the antidote.
Lao just laughs evilly -- until a waiter moves up behind Lao and
the crimelord suddenly stiffens. He lets go of Willie's wrist
and raises his hands off the table. Chen stops collecting the
money and jewels.
Kao Kan tenses and Indy smiles at Wu Han, the Chinese waiter with
the scar, who is standing behind Lao. Wu Han has a towel over
his hand -- under it, he has a pistol pressed against Lao's
spine.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
(smiling at Wu Han)
I like the service here.
WILLIE
(puzzled)
Hey, he's not a waiter...
INDIANA
No, Wu Han's an old friend I
brought along.
(to Lao)
So, the game's not over. Put
the antidote on the table, Lao.
Lao carefully reaches into his pocket and puts a small glass vial
of liquid next to the cash, gold, jewels, poison and sacred box.
Indy looks relieved as he reaches for the vial of antidote --
then he hears a muffled report! And another!
Wu Han groans and sways. Indy starts to stand but Chen immedi-
ately turns the smoking pistol with the silencer that he used to
kill Wu Han -- Indy sees it pointed at him now and he remains in
his seat.
Kao Kan stands and grabs Wu Han, easing the phoney waiter into
the chair he just vacated. The muffled shooting hasn't attracted
any attention. The nightclub activity continues an Indy speaks
emotionally to his dying friend.
INDIANA
Wu Han -- listen to me -- I'm
going to get you out of here.
In pain, Wu Han looks at Indy and struggles to speak --
WU HAN
Not this time, my friend...
(smiling bravely)
I followed you on many adventures --
but into the great Unknown Mystery,
I go first, Indy...
Wu Han dies and slumps forward. Indiana is shattered by the
death of his old friend.
LAO
Don't be sad, Dr. Jones -- you
will soon join him.
Indy's gaze shifts from his dead friend to Lao's sneering face.
Then Indy sees the murderous Chen giggling perversely. Indy's
anger is compounded by the poison burning in his gut and his vis-
ion of Chen's ugly face blurs into a double image --
Indy stands up unsteadily. Chen assumes he's about to keel over
from the poison -- but Indy suddenly turns and grabs a real wai-
ter at another table. The waiter holds a long skewer of roasted
pigeons that he's just set afire --
Indy grabs the skewer of pigeons flambee and hurls is across the
table! Chen fires and misses -- and screams as the skewer stabs
into his chest and the burning pigeons flame in front of his hor-
rified face!
This the other tables definitely notice. There are screams and
all hell breaks loose. Indiana shoves past Willie and reaches
for the vial on the table --
INDIANA
The antidote -- !
But he's grabbed from behind by Kao Kan. Indy elbows the punk,
reaches back and grabs his head -- and somersaults Kao Kan onto
the table!
As nubmer two son crashes into the table, the impact sends the
Emperor Nurhachi's ashes billowing into Lao's stricken face!
Indiana yells as he sees the vial of antidote rolling across the
table -- and falling!
Indiana dives and catches the antidote just before it hits the
floor -- then Indy's hand is brutally stomped on by one of Lao's
henchmen and the vial rolls away.
Indiana angrily raises his head, smashing it up into the hench-
man's groin -- the man howls like a banshee and hobbles away.
Meanwhile, Willie watches Lao grabbing for cash from the table.
Willie lunges past the pigeon-skewered Chen to snatch the jewels,
but unfortunately Kao Kan knocks them off the table as he leaps
to attack Indy.
Indiana scrambles on his hands and knees after the rolling vial.
People keep kicking it -- he almost has it when Willie runs into
him, trips and lands on her back.
INDIANA
Look out, damn it, I need that
antidote!
WILLIE
Who cares? Where's that diamond!
Gunfire explodes and they both scramble in different directions.
Indy dives through the fleeing nightclub patrons and slides be-
hind a water-spewing fountain. Water kicks up as Indy is shot at
by Lao and his henchmen.
Indy sees the vial of antidote kicked again and it spins across
the marble floor -- feeling the poison, Indy shakes his head
groddily and splashes water on his face.
Meanwhile, Willie is chasing her diamond, shoving through the
panicked crowd. She spots the diamond! Another elegantly
dresses soman is bending to pick it up --
WILLIE
(acidly polite)
Excuse me, but I believe that's
my diamond!
Willie smiles and suddenly kicks the woman in the butt! Willie
reaches to get the diamond but not before the other woman tackles
her.
Behind the fountain, Indiana makes a break -- he runs and dives
on top of a serving cart. The wheeled cart hurtles toward an un-
suspecting gunman, crashes into him from behind and sends him
flying head first into a row of ice buckets.
Nearby, Willie slugs the other lady in the jaw and grabs for the
elusive diamond just as the ice buckets showers ice across the
floor -- which camouflages the diamond!
WILLIE
Aw nuts!
Searching desperately for the jewel, Willie sees the vial of
antidote spinning across the floor --as it slides by, she grabs
it.
INDIANA (O.S.)
Hey,doll! Don't move!
She sees Indy speeding by atop the serving cart. Lao and his
gunmen rush out to block the way. Indy rolls off the cart and
slides behind a potted palm as Lao's men open fire again.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
(shouting to Willie)
Hey, don't go away! I need that!
Willie smiles meanly as she slips the vial down the front of her
dress, thumbs her nose at Indiana and walks away.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
If I wasn't dying, I'd kill her...
Hiding behind the palm tree, Indiana looks around and spots a gi-
ant statue at the side of the stage. Indy makes a break for it.
As the gunmen open fire, Indy springs onto a chair -- jumps onto
a table -- and leaps onto the stage. He grabs the golden broad-
sword from the Chinese warrior statue!
As bullets smash into the statue, Indiana hides behind it. Then
he jumps out and swings the large sword toward the enormous brass
gong.
The crimson cord holding the gong is SLASHED! Indy slings the
sword at his assailants and gives the three-meter-high gong a
helpful shove --
The giant gong rolls and echoes as it crashes down the marble
steps. Indiana ducks behind it as it gains momentum and rolls
across the dance floor.
Using the gong as an enormous shield, Indy evades the gunfire ex-
ploding -- bullets ricochet off the rolling brass gong as Indy
runs behind it.
Ahead, Willie hurries toward an exit -- she hears something and
turns -- her eyes go wide as she sees the mammoth gong bearing
down on her!
Willie yells as Indiana grabs her arm and pulls her behind the
gong with him --
Lao watches amazed as he and his gunmen dodge tables trying to
get better firing positions -- and more henchmen come into the
club now and start firing machine guns!
As bullets clang against the gong, Indiana and Willie run behind
it. Willie hollers as they head directly for a towering, floor-
to-ceiling window!
Indiana grabs Willie around the waist and, after the huge gong
crashes through the stained-glass window, they both fly after it!
6. EXT. "THE DRAGON" NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT 6.
In a shower of sparkling glass, the enormous gong sails out and
crashes down a sloping green-tiled roof. Indiana Jones and Wil-
lie Scott hurtle into the night air after it!
The gong rolls down the roof and they hit the tiles behind it,
Indiana holding onto Willie as they roll one-over-the-other
toward the edge -- Willie screams as they fall into thin air!
Their entwined bodies plummet three stories: ripping through a
third-floor awning, crashing through an old man's mattress on a
second-floor balcony --
Finally they smash through the convertible top of a parked Duesen-
berg and fall into the back seat!
7. INT. THE DUESENBERG 7.
Willie sits up wide-eyed, speechless and amazed to be alive.
Then she sees an equally astonished Short Round looking at them
from the front seat.
SHORT ROUND
Wow! Holy smoke! Crash landing!
INDIANA
Step on it, Short Round!
SHORT ROUND
Okey doke, Indy! Hold onto your
potatoes!
The twelve-year-old Chinese kid turns his baseball cap bill-
backwards and steps on the gas! The tires squeal as the car
roars off --
WILLIE
For crying out loud, a kid's driv-
ing the car?!
INDIANA
Relax, I've been giving him lessons.
8. EXT. THE NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT 8.
The Duesenberg races past the entrace to the nightclub as Lao
and his man rush out and jump into two black sedans. The sedans
screech off in pursuit of the Duesenberg.
9. INT. THE DUESENBERG 9.
As Short Round eagerly swerves around a corner, Willie holds on
for dear life. Indiana suddenly puts his hand down the front of
Willie's dress --
WILLIE
Listen, we just met for crissake!
I'm not that kind of gril!
INDIANA
Don't get your hopes up -- where's
the antidote?
Indiana withdraws his hand, having finally found the vial. He
opens is quickly, tips the vial to his lips and grimaces as he
swallows the stuff.
WILLIE
You don't look very good.
INDIANA
Poison never agrees with me.
(shouting forward)
Pull a right, Short Round, and
head for the Wang Poo bridge!
SHORT ROUND
Check! Gotcha!
As the car accelerates, Indy peers out the back window at their
pursuers. Willie notices her reflection in the side window --
WILLIE
Look at what you've done to me!
I'm a mess! My lipstick's smeared,
I broke two nails, I've got an aw-
ful run in my stocking -- !
Gunfire suddenly explodes, bullets whizz through the canvas top
and the rear window shatters and sprays glass! Willie ducks and
cringes terrified in the corner --
INDIANA
Somehow I think you've got bigger
problems.
Indy grabs his shoulder bag and pulls a pistol out of it. He
pokes the gun through the broken window and starts firing back at
their pursuers -- then he turns and looks ahead.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
There, Shorty! Through the
tunnel!
Through the windows we see the car racing into a tunnel. Lights
from the pursuing cars flash through the rear window and gunfire
echoes in the tunnel.
WILLIE
What're we going to do?! Where're
we going?!
INDIANA
The airport...No, look out,
Short Round! Left, left!
Indy reaches over the front seat and helps Short Round navigate.
10. EXT. A SHANGHAI SQUARE - NIGHT 10.
The Duesenberg tears around the square, followed by Lao's two se-
dans. People on the street dive for cover -- coolies pulling
rickshaws go into hyper-jov --lanterns spanning the street crash
down and are dragged behind the Duesenberg. Bullets exlode and
amazed prostitutes watch the cars zoom past.
11. INT. THE DUESENBERG - NIGHT 11.
The chaotic chase continues -- bullets whine past and the shred-
ded convertible top whips in the wind.
INDIANA
(shouting)
You got the tickets, Short Round?
SHORT ROUND
Sure, Indy -- three tickets!
You, me and Wu Han --
Shorty throws an envelope back and Indy looks at the three
tickets.
INDIANA
(sadly)
Wu Han's not coming, Shorty.
Unaware of what happened at the club, Short Round thinks a mo-
ment.
SHORT ROUND
Don't worry, Indy. Short Round
number one bodyguard now!
Willie reaches for the extra ticket.
WILLIE
I'll take the extra ticket.
(grabbing it
from Indy)
Where's this plane going anyway?
INDIANA
Siam.
WILLIE
Siam? But I'm not dressed for
Siam...
12. EXT. COUNTRY HIGHWAY - NIGHT 12.
Leaving behind the squalid port, the Duesenberg flies along the
highway through the trees. In a moment, Lao's two sedans race
by.
13. EXT. NANG TAO AIRFIELD - NIGHT 13.
The Duesenberg swings around a curve and skids through gravel to-
ward the airfield. In the distance there is a small terminal but
Short Round wheels the car toward the cargo area --
A two-engine passenger plane is revving its motors and the last
passengers are boarding. The Duesenberg squeals to a stop and
Indy jumps out with Willie and Short Round right on his heels.
A contingent of airport Military Police move to bar their way
until WEBER, a heavy-set Englishman, runs up pufffing and shout-
ing.
WEBER
No, no, they're all right!
Let them through please.
INDIANA
Thanks, Weber.
WEBER
Dr. Jones, this is positively the
last time our airline can hold a
plane for you. Now you must hurry!
While Short Round grabs a small bag out of the car, Weber and a
stewardess take their tickets and rush them all toward the air-
plane.
Meanwhile, the two sedans skid to a stop and Lao and his son Kao
Kan jumpsout with their henchmen. The puzzled military police
advance on them usspiciously --
Realizing he's outnumbered, Lao instructs his men to stay back
and to put away their weapons.
14. EXT. THE AIRPLANE 14.
Willie and Short Round charge up the ladder and onto the plane.
Indy pauses at the top of the steps to give Lao a cocky farewell
salute. Indy boards the plane and the co-pilot slams the door.
15. EXT. THE AIRFIELD 15.
The plane starts taxiing. By the cars, Lao is buffeted by the
prop wash as he angrily watches the plane roll away. Behind Lao,
his son, Kao Kan, stares at the plane taking off -- a look on Kao
Kan's face indicates that he hasn't given up yet...
The plane lifts off the airfield, silhouetted against the clouds
and the first light of dawn.
CUT TO:
16. EXT. THE DKY - MORNING 16.
The sun flashes above the horizon and the plane banks through
white billowing clouds at it heads west.
17. INT. THE PLANE 17.
A door opens at the rear of the plane and Indiana Jones exits
wearing more familiar attire: a beat-up leather jacket over a
khaki shirt and a snap-brim hat. He passes a dozen passengers as
he moves up the aisle carrying his rolled-up tuzedo.
In the first row, Willie is busy fixing her make-up. Shorty sits
in the seat across the aisle from her. Indy comes up and drops
his tuxedo onto the floor.
Willie sees him hook his coiled bullwhip over a coat-peg.
WILLIE
So, what're you supposed to be,
a lion tamer?
INDIANA
Since I was nice enough to let
you tag along, why don't you give
your mouth a rest? Okay, doll?
Indy pats her leg -- she removes his hand and reaches down and
picks up his tuxedo coat. She slips it on.
WILLIE
I'm freezing. What do you mean,
tag along? From the minute you
walked into that nightclub, you
haven't been able to keep your
eyes off me.
INDIANA
Oh yeah?
He smiles and tips his hat down over his eyes to go to sleep...
18. INT. THE COCKPIT 18.
At the same moment, the Chinese co-pilot tips his hat up off his
eyes -- and looks scared to death! He exclaims in Chinese --
CO-PILOT (*subtitled*)
Good lord!
He and the pilot see two biplanes materialize out of the clouds
and dive directly toward them! Suddenly, machine gunfire erupts!
PILOT (*subtitled)
Dive for the clouds! Dive!
19. EXT. THE SKY - DAY 19.
The DC-3 banks into the clouds as the two biplanes attack. In
the back seat of the first biplane, we see Kao Kan watching the
DC-3 like a hawk about to bring down a sparrow.
20. INT. THE COCKPIT 20.
The biplanes swoop past both sides of the plane and bursts of
gunfire rip along the fuselage.
CO-PILOT (*subtitled)
They hit a fuel line!
PILOT (*subtitled*)
Reduce speed -- get everyone out
of the plane!
21 INT. THE PASSENGER CABIN 21.
As the air battle rages, the passengers are tossed about and some
start screaming. Short Round peers out a window.
SHORT ROUND
Lao send planes to kill Indy!
Willie shakes Indy's arm but he continues snoring under his hat.
WILLIE
Wake up! It's the drug he drank
to stop the poison --
The cockpit door bursts open and the Chinese co-pilot exits to
make an announcement -- he smiles and speaks in CHINESE, then he
smiles and speaks in FRENCH --
Willie looks lost until the Chinese co-pilot smiles again and
speaks in ENGLISH --
CO-PILOT
Please to remain calm. We start
passing out parachutes now --
The co-pilot hurries toward the rear. Willie looks petrified as
a stewardess rushes up and hands her a parachute.
WILLIE
You got to be kidding! No! No,
I can't!
The pilot hurries out of the cockpit and grabs his parachute as
he heads toward the back.
WILLIE (Cont'd)
Wait -- who's flying the plane?!
She opens the door to the cockpit --
WILLIE (Cont'd)
Nobody's flying the plane ...
22. EXT. THE SKY - DAY 22.
The DC-3 smokes through the clouds. Passengers are bailing out
-- parachutes billowing. As one of the fighters swoops through
the parachutes, Kao Kan searches the faces -- then he points at
the DC-3.
KAO KAN
(into the radio)
Jones! Indiana Jones!
The two planes roar off and start strafing the DC-3 again.
23. INT. THE PASSENGER CABIN 23.
The co-pilot has a parachute on and is trying to get Short Round
into one.
CO-PILOT
Put it on! What's wrong with
you? You've got to jump!
SHORT ROUND
No, can't leave Indy!
Short Round suddenly butts the co-pilot in the stomach with his
head. The co-pilot yells and falls out the door. Short Round
sees the co-pilot's parachute billow. Then Willie rushes up.
WILLIE
Give me that parachute, I
changed my mind --
She grabs the parachute and starts to fight Shorty over it--
SHORT ROUND
No, this last one! It's for Indy!
They scuffle until the parachute skids across the floor. Short
Round jumps for it -- the parachute falls out the door and Short
Round starts to fall out after it!
Willie grabs him by the seat of his pants and hauls him back from
the abyss!
24. EXT. THE SKY - DAY 24.
The fighters peel off toward the DC-3 with their guns flaming in
another attack.
25. INT. THE PASSENGER CABIN 25.
Short Round tries to wake Indy again. Finally, Shorty grabs
Indy's bag, pulls his holster out of it and runs toward the back.
Indy continues to sleep -- until bullets smash the window by his
head and a fire extinguisher is hit and starts spraying into
Indy's face.
He finally awakens and jumps up. He looks around is disbelief at
the battle-torn, nearly-empty airplane.
INDIANA
(groggily)
We there yet?
Indiana sees Shorty shooting his pistol out the side door as the
planes swoop by again. Out of ammo, Shorty throws the gun
angrily at the passing plane.
Indiana picks up his whip and attaches it to his belt as Willie
runs over to him.
WILLIE
There's nobody flying the plane!
26. INT. THE COCKPIT 26.
The door flies open and Indy rushes in with Willie behind him.
Indy appraises the situation quickly and jumps into the pilot's
seat with total confidence --
WILLIE (Cont'd)
You know how to fly?
Indy surveys the control panels, the myraid of dials and switches --
INDIANA
No.
(hopefully)
Do you?
27. INT. THE PASSENGER CABIN 27.
Willie runs screaming out of the cockpit, her last hope shatter-
ed. Shorty is pulling something out of the cargo compartment --
he's found a machine gun and sets it up on a short tripod.
SHORT ROUND
Come here, lady, hold this and
shut up please!
He pulls Willie down to the floor and shoves her the ammunition
belt that's draped toward the gun. Then Shorty jumps behind the
machine gun --
As the first fighter appears off their side, Short Round blasts
out the open door! The machine gun explodes to life, chewing
bullets, smoking and spitting shells at Willie --
Willie hollers terrified by manages to feed the ammo belt as
Short Round sights the blazing machine gun -- suddenly he shoops!
Willie sees the fighter hit -- it smokes and veers away -- and
then EXPLODES!
SHORT ROUND
I get it!
WILLIE
You got it!
The second plane swoops down and Short Round blasts away. This
time as he swivels the gun, he misses and hits one of the DC-3's
own engines and it explodes!
SHORT ROUND
Oh oh -- big mistake!
28. INT. THE COCKPIT 28.
Trying to figure out the controls, Indy looks up to see their en-
gine explose into flames --
INDIANA
(angrily)
Short Round, what in the hell
are you doing?
Suddenly the DC-3 emerges out of a cloud and Indy sees they are
headed directly for a mountain! He pulls back hard on the con-
trols as a rocky peak looms lethally in front of them.
29. EXT. THE SKY - DAY 29.
The DC-3 lifts at the last second and smashes some snow off the
uppermost pinnacle as it clears the mountain by inches!
Kao Kan's fighter is glued to the DC-3's tail and continues to
strafe -- but the fighter pilot pulls up too late -- and the
fighter explodes as it hits the peak of the mountain!
30. INT. THE PASSENGER CABIN 30.
Indy rushes out of the smoking cockpit to find Willie and Short
Round crawling out from under the debris that's fallen on them.
Then Indy spots something in the wreckage --
He pulls at some yellow canvas and Willie sees as sign: EMERGENCY
LIFE RAFT. Indy drags the folded canvas over to the open door.
WILLIE
Are you crazy, a lift raft?! We're
not sinking, we're crashing!
INDIANA
Get over here, damn it! Short Round,
come on, grab onto me tight!
Willie sees Short Round rush over to Indiana and grab him around
the waist from behind. Willie finally jumps up and runs over --
WILLIE
Wait for me!
She throws her arms around Indy's neck so that she and Shorty are
both hugging him from behind. Indy clutches the folded lift raft
in front of him and surveys the mountainside rushing close be-
neath the skinking airplane --
Finally, an instant before the plane will hit, Indy dives and
pulls the inflation cord!
31. EXT. THE SKY 31.
As the smoking DC-3 screams out of control toward the mountain,
skimming the rocky snow-covered slopes, we see the lift raft
spilling out the open door --
The raft pops into its full shape, acting now as a spoiler, soar-
ing against the rushing wind and finally crashing and bouncing
against the snowy mountainside.
In the distance, we see the DC-3 finally kiss the earth and ex-
plode in a cloud of flame against a rocky escarpment -- metal and
earth mushrooming in a million directions!
32. EXT. THE MOUNTAINSIDE 32.
As the raft rockets down the snow, Indiana clutches the front and
Willie and Short Round hold on for dear life on either side of
him.
The raft plummets down the mountain, crossing the timber-line and
entering a forest. Bouncing over a snow-hidden log, the raft
shoots directly for a tree --
Indiana pulls on the perimeter rope, rolls on his side and man-
ages to swerve the raft so it caroms offthe snow-drifted side of
the tree trunk.
Continuing its downhill run, the raft smashes across a small
steam, sending silvery water spraying.
As the raft skids below the snow-level, it starts bouncing over
rocky ground and its three passengers' teeth start chattering.
33. EXT. A BLUFF 33.
The yellow raft crashes through a tangle of bushes and then plum-
mets toward a bluff! The raft goes airborne over a small bluff
and lands with a splash in a slow-moving river.
34. EXT. THE RIVER 34.
The life raft drifts down the river and Indy looks around and
smiles cockily at Willie and Short Round --
Their faces don't show gratitude, but horror -- Indy hears some-
thing and turns to see:
35. EXT. WHITE WATER RAPIDS 35.
The raft is heading directly toward a surging stretch of treach-
erous rapids. Indiana looks less cocky as he and Willie and
Short Round hold on again for dear life!
The raft plunges into the roaring torrent, bouncing over rock-
swollen waves, twisting and spinning through narrow gaps. The
three helpless passengers are drenched in the thundering cascades
of white water.
Willie is hallering, Short Round hangs on wide-eyed and even Indy
looks terrified as the raft crashes down the rapids. Finally,
after one heart-stopping bounce, the raft seems to slow.
36. EXT. RIVER CLEARING 36.
The raft drifts out of the main part of the river and glides to-
ward a clearing. Its three soaked and bedraggled passengers lie
motionless in the bottom.
Indy's hand drags alongside the raft, his fingers leaving a trail
in the almost still water. Battered and exhausted, but always
Indy's "bodyguard", Shorty looks over at him worriedly --
SHORT ROUND
Indy?
INDIANA
Okay, Shorty.
Indy looks over at Willie who is moaning.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
You all right?
WILLIE
No... I'm not cut out for the
kind of life you lead.
(moaning)
Oh no...I ripped my dress. Where
are we anyway?
The raft floats to a gentle stop -- we see it nudge against a
pair of dark feet. Indy squints up into the sun and sees some-
thing.
INDIANA
India...
WILLIE
Holy cow -- India? How do you
know we're in --
She rolls over and yelps as she looks up at the bizarre, painted
face of a SHAMAN. Silhoutted against the blazing sun, the skin-
ny little old man in a loincoloth stares down at them in the raft.
An eerie wind rises and howls. The old man places his palms to-
gether and moves his hands up to touch his forehead. Willie and
Short Round watch mystified as Indiana returns the old shaman's
silent greeting.
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37. EXT. THE MAYAPORE HILLS - DAY 37.
Indya and Short Round follow the shaman and four peasants down a
gutted path through barren rolling hills. Willie is out of her
milieu, stumbling along this forlorn landscape in high heels,
tuxedo jacket and disheveled lame gown.
She hears the old shaman talking to Indy and catches up with them
to find out what's going on.
WILLIE
(to Indiana)
What'd he say?
INDIANA
He told me they knew I was coming
here.
WILLIE
What do you mean -- how?
INDIANA
The old man saw it in a dream.
WILLIE
Dream -- nightmare is more like it.
INDIANA
He said that's whey they were at
river -- they were waiting for
the plane to fall down.
He looks at her bewildered face and smiles faintly. As they
walk, a hot wind swirls dust around them, a wind slowly ravaging
what soil is left in this terribly blighted region.
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38. EXT. MAYAPORE - DAY 38.
At the base of the hills, Mayapore village does nothing to re-
lieve the awful sense of devastation. A desolate road runs
through the village, along which groups of ptiifully poor vil-
lagers stare at the strangers being brought in.
Hopeless women lift buckets from a dry well -- finding only sand.
Skinny miserable dogs skulk between the decrepit village huts,
eyed by the patient vultures lurling in scraggly trees.
Indiana notices the wretched peasants staring at Short Round,
some of them pointing at him, a few haggard women shedding tears
down their wrinkled faces as the little Chinese boy passes.
There is no sign of children in the village and Short Round grows
frightened by the odd attention. He moves closer to Indy as they
pass the devastated population.
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39. RXT. MAYAPORE VILLAGE - AFTER SUNSET 39.
Black clouds clot across the blood-red sky as darkness falls.
Indiana, Willie and Short Round sit tensely on a shabby rug.
Above their heads, there is a thatched roof, but there are no
walls.
The dying sunset silhouettes them and the half-dozen elders seat-
ed in the dirt around them. A grey-haired man, the village
CHIEFTAIN, gives quiet commands to the women who scuttle in and
set wooden plates in front of the three visitors. No plates are
places in front of the elders.
WILLIE
(quietly to Indy)
I hope this means we're going to
get some dinner.
Indiana sees the painted shaman, who sits next to the chieftain,
watching Willie. The women bring in a bowl from which they scoop
tiny portions of grey gruel onto three plates.
To this the women add a few grains of yellowed rice and a with-
ered ,molding piece of fruit. Willie looks aghast at the unappe-
tizing combination.
WILLIE
(quietly)
God, I am starving, but I can't
eat this...
INDIANA
That's more food than these people
eat in a week.
(pointedly)
They're starving, too...
Willie looks around at the emaciated faces and feels like crawl-
ing into a hole.
WILLIE
I'm sorry, I -- here, please.
She picks up her plate and gently hands it back to the women.
The chieftain finally speaks to them --
CHIEFTAIN
You will rest here before you go
on.
INDIANA
We'd appreciate that. This was an
unexpected detour. We'll have to go
to Delhi now and find a flight west.
SHORT ROUND
(smiling)
Indy is taking me to America.
All eyes are on Short Round. Puzzled by this strange attention,
Shorty's smile fades nervously.
INDIANA
I'm a professor. I have to re-
turn to the university. Can you
give us a guide to take us to Delhi?
The chieftain indicates a young villager sitting near them.
CHIEFTAIN
Sanju will guide you.
INDIANA
Thank you.
The old shaman speaks now for the first time.
SHAMAN
On the way to Delhi, you will
stop at Pankot.
INDIANA
(puzzled)
Pankot isn't on the way to Delhi.
SHAMAN
You will go to palace there.
INDIANA
Hasn't the Pankot palace been de-
serted since the Mutiny of 1857?
SHAMAN
(darkly)
No. Now there is new Maharajah --
and palace is powerful again.
The shaman looks around at his unfortunate people.
SHAMAN (Cont'd)
It is Pankot Palace that kills my
village.
INDIANA
I don't understand. What's hap-
pened here?
SHAMAN
The evil starts in Pankot. Then
like monsoon, it moves darkness
over all country.
INDIANA
What evil?
SHAMAN
They came from Palace and took
sivalinga from out village.
Willie looks over at Indiana --
WILLIE
Took what?
INDIANA
It's a sacred stone in a shine
that's supposed to protect a
village.
SHAMAN
It is why Krishna brought you here.
INDIANA
(politely firm)
Nobody brought us here. Our plane
crashed. We were shot down by --
SHAMAN
(interrupting)
No. We pray to Krishna to help us
find the stone. It was Krishna who
made you fall from sky -- so you can
got to Pankot Palace. To find siva-
linga -- and bring back to us.
Indy's about to object -- then he looks at the sad chieftain, the
elders and peasants who are watching him helplessly. And he sees
again the dark steady eyes of the old shaman.
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40. EXT. MAYAPORE VILLAGE - NIGHT 40.
Torches falre eerily and dogs howl as the peasants accompany the
shaman, elders and three visitors out ot the edge of the dark
village. Short Round walks beside Indy.
SHORT ROUND
Indy, they make out plane crash?
To get you here?
INDIANA
It's just superstition, Shorty.
Like a ghost story.
Short Round looks plenty scared as they all stop walking. The
shaman motions and the men with torches circle around a pile of
rocks to illuminate them. The shaman makes a gesture of devotion
to the primitive shrine and Indy speaks to the village chieftain.
CHIEFTAIN
Yes.
Indiana seems skeptical as he kneels to study the shrine. On top
of the pile of rocks, there is a carved niche. The niche is
empty but an indentation indicates the conical shape of the stone
that was stolen.
INDIANA
Was the stone very smooth?
(he sees the
chieftain nod)
It was probably brought here from
a sacred river.
SHAMAN
(joining Indy and
the chieftain)
Long ago -- before my father's
father.
INDIANA
And it had three lines painted
across it?
(seeing the
shaman nod)
The lines represent the three
levels of the universe. I've seen
stones like the one you lost.
Indy stands slowly. Willie is beside him looking at the shrine.
WILLIE
I don't understand how losing one
rock could destroy this village.
(whispering to Indy)
Is it really powerful?
Indy gives a doubtful smile. He turns again to the old shaman.
INDIANA
But why would the Maharajah take
this sacred stone?
SHAMAN
They say we must pray to their
evil god. We say we will not.
The old shaman looks off and fights the tears in his eyes as he
starts speaking in Hindi.
INDIANA
(translating)
He says that when the sacred stone
was taken the village wells dried
up first and then the river stopped.
Indy turns and asks the shaman a question in Hindi. The shaman
answers in Hindi.
INDIANA
(translating)
He says their crops dies and then
the animals died.
The shaman walks to the edge of the torchlight and looks out into
the darkness as he continues speaking emotionally in Hindi --
INDIANA
(translating)
And then they took their children.
WILLIE
Their children?
She looks at Short Round and finally understands the sorrowful
faces always watching him. Indy asks another question in Hindi
and the shaman continues his story --
INDIANA
(translating)
He says one night there was a fire
in the fields. The men went to
fight it. When they came back,
they heard the women crying in the
darkness. And the children were
gone.
The shaman walks slowly toward Indiana.
SHAMAN
You will find them when you find
sivlalinga.
INDIANA
I'm sorry, I don't know how I can
help you here.
The shaman and the chieftain stare and Indiana, refusing to accept
that.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
The English authorities who con-
trol this area are the only ones
who can help you.
CHIEFTAIN
They do not listen.
INDIANA
I have friends in Delhi and I will
make sure they investigate this...
SHAMAN
No, you will got to Pankot...
The old man speaks again in his own tongue and Indy looks dis-
turbed.
WILLIE
What'd he say now?
INDIANA
It was destined that I came here --
and the future cannot be changed...
Indy looks ath the shaman and the torchlight reflected in his
eyes.
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41. EXT. MAYAPORE - NIGHT 41.
Suddenly we're rushing headlong down a dark dirt path seen from
the POV of somebody running in terror. We hear heavy breathing
-- above we see the scraggly trees blowing against the full moon
as an eerie wind rises and howls. We continue crashing through
the dying fields tward the dark village...
42. INT. INDIANA'S HUT - NIGHT 42.
The wind swirls into the hut and Indiana's eyes open. He lies
still a moment and then sits up slowly. He sees Short Round
sleeping nearby.
Sensing something strange, Indy gets to his feet. He steps
around Short Round and goes to the door of the hut.
43. EXT. THE HUT - NIGHT 43.
Indy walks against the rising wind and looks around. The village
is asleep and seems deserted. Then he turns and sees something.
We follow small bare feet stumbling through the dust...
Indy sees an emaciated child in rag running out of the darkness.
Indiana moves forward and the child runs toward him. Indy grabs
the little boy as he falls into his arms.
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44. INT. THE SHAMAN'S HUT - NIGHT 44.
A few minutes later, the little boy is lying unconscious on a
blanket. Elders crouch around him. Indy is kneeling and watches
the shaman wet the boy's forehead with a rag and drip water onto
his lips.
The little boy's eyes open and he begins to revive. Shrot Round
And Willie watch from a corner as the little boy looks at all the
faces peering down at him.
The little boy's arm moves and he reaches out to Indy rather than
any of the others. Indy takes his small hand and sees that the
boy's fingers are cut and bruised -- his fingers open and drop
something into Indy's hand.
The little boy tries to whisper. Indy has to lean close to hear
as the little boy's lips move again --
LITTLE BOY
Sankara...
A mother rushes into the hut now and kneels and hugs her little
boy. His skinny arms go around her as they are reunited. Indy
stands slowly and looks at what the little boy gave him --
It is a small tattered piece of cloth: an old fragment of a mini-
ature painting. Indiana looks at it with an expression of recog-
nition and apprehension...
INDIANA
Sankara...
45. EXT. THE VILLAGE - MORNING 45.
The camera follows Indiana -- he's walking fast and determinded-
ly. Villagers trot alongside of him, trying to keep up with is
pace as he questions thm in Hindi.
Indy approaches two large elephants and sees their guide Sajnu
trying to politely drag Willie toward one of them.
INDIANA
Damn it , Willie, get on -- we've
got to move out!
Willie's head comes up over the back of the elephant as she's
helped from below -- there is a look of sheer terror on her face.
WILLIE
Whoa! Easy now -- nice elephant...
Waiting by the second elephant, Short Round sees Indy coming and
runs up to him --
SHORT ROUND
I ride with you, Indy?
INDIANA
Nope, you got a little surprise
over there, Shorty.
Short Round runs around the big elephant and sees a baby elephant
being brought out. He can't believe his luck --
SHORT ROUND
Oh boy!
Meanwhile Sajnu goads Willie's elephant over. The villagers look
grief stricken and many are crying as they watch the three stran-
gers' departure.
WILLIE
(to Short Round)
This is the first time anybody
ever cried when I left.
SHORT ROUND
They don't cry about you. They
cry about the elephants leaving.
WILLIE
Figures...
SHORT ROUND
They got no food to feed them. So
they taking the elephants away to
sell them.
Indy lumbers over on his elephant.
INDIANA
All right, let's go. I want to get
to Pankot before tomorrow night.
She looks at Indiana as he rides past.
WILLIE
Pankot?! I thought we were going
to Delhi! Hey, wait a minute!
(looking at
the villagers)
Can't somebody take me to Delhi?!
I don't want to go to Pankot!
Sajnu guides her elephant and Willie lurches forward --
WILLIE (Cont'd)
(yelling)
Indiana! Damn it! Why'd you
change your mind? What did that
kid tell you last night?!
Indy ignores her hollering. The elephants move off through the
crowds of pitiful villagers. Indy sees the elders, chieftain and
the old shaman who brings his hands up to his forehead as Indy
rides past.
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46. EXT. THE COUNTRYSIDE - DAY 46.
The elephants move across the desolate countryside toward the
distant hills.
47. EXT. THE TRAIL 47.
Indiana rides the lead elephant. Sajnu passes on foot guiding
Willie's elephant. With the tuxedo jacket wrapped around her
waist, Willie is dabbing perfume behind her ears.
WILLIE
(to her elephant)
I think you need this more than
me.
Willie leans forward and puts perfume behind the elephant's ears.
Grimacing at the animal's smell she simply dumps the rest of the
perfume on the elephant's back.
Willie yelps when the elephant's trunk comes back, sniffs the
foriegn fragrance and suddenly trumpets in disgust.
WILLIE (Cont'd)
What're you complaining about,
this is expensive stuff!
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48. EXT. LOWER JUNGLES - DAY 48.
From a cliff, we see the elephants below passing into the lower
jungles.
Spotting something on an overhanging tree branck, Short Round
stands up precariously on the baby elephant's back. He pulls a
vine from the tree as they pass under it. Plopping down onto the
baby elephant's back, he picks the wild fruit from the vine --
SHORT ROUND
Here you go, lunch time!
The baby elephant's trunk comes back and takes the fruit. Shorty
looks up in the sky.
SHORT ROUND (Cont'd)
Indy, look!
Indiana and Willie look up and see hundreds of enormous winged
creatures flapping across the afternoon sky.
WILLIE
Those are very big bird.
Sajnu says something and Indiana nods.
INDIANA
Those aren't birds -- those are
giant bats.
Willie shudders as she watches the bats.
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49. EXT. THE HILLS - AFTERNOON 49.
An enormous sun silhouettes the three elephants trekking west-
ward.
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50. EXT. A RIVER - LATER AFTERNOON 50.
The three elephants stand sucking up river water with their
trunks. Seated on the huge beasts, Willie, Short Round and Indi-
ana watch the thirsty animals.
WILLIE
They must be pretty dumb to drink
that awful-looking water.
In response, Willie's elephant calmly lifts its trunk and sprays
her in the face. Short Round and Indy laugh as Willie sits
soaked and shocked.
INDIANA
I think maybe we'll camp here.
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51. EXT. THE RIVER - SUNSET 51.
A plume of water sprays. The three elephants submerge in a deep,
wide spot in the river. Indy wades in the current with his shirt
off. He and the guide splash water on the weary animals.
Short Round laughs and plays with the baby elephant. Wrapped in
its trunk, he's swung in the air and lands on the elephant's
back. Shorty makes a swan dive back into the water and the baby
elephant gives him a shower when he surfaces.
52. EXT. UPRIVER 52.
Thirty yards upstream, birds and monkeys chatter in a tree. In
the shady river beneath, Willie surfaces cooly and wipes hair
from her eyes. She hums contendedly.
Indiana wanders up the riverbank in his dripping trousers. He
notices Willie's wet clothes spread over a tree limb hanging low
over the water and then he sees Willie paddling around.
INDIANA
Hey, Willie -- I think you better
get out now.
WILLIE
Stark naked? You wish... If you're
trying to seduce me, Dr. Jones,
this is a very primitive approach.
INDIANA
Me seduce you? Honey, you're the
one who took your clothes off.
(shrugging)
I just came over to remind you
that you never know what else
might be in the water.
WILLIE
Somehow I feel safer in here.
As Indy turns and starts off, Willie reaches up to the tree
branch above her head and grabs her underwear. At this moment we
notice something awful:
A BOA CONSTRICTOR is moving out along the branch, the enormous
snake slithering over Willie's clothes.
Willie watches Indiana walk away as she reaches up for her dress
-- her hands feel something strange -- not the dress and not the
tree limb --
Willie looks up and sees that she's pulling on a snake! She
SCREAMS as the boa constrictor falls off the t-ee on top of her!
Indy hears the scream and hears Willie calling to him. He runs
back toward the river. Stopping on the riverbank, he sees Willie
backing away in the water -- Indiana's already starting to pull
his boots off --
WILLIE
Indy! Help me!
INDIANA
Don't worry, I'm coming in! What
is it?
WILLIE
A snake!
Suddenly Indiana freezes and a strange look corsses his face --
INDIANA
A what...?
WILLIE
A SNAKE!!
He finally sees the boa constrictor thrashing in the water close
to Willie. He leaves his boots on.
WILLIE (Cont'd)
Hurry, help me out of here!
What're you waiting for?!
INDIANA
Uh, listen -- Willie -- I got a
better idea.
WILLIE
What?!
INDIANA
First of all -- don't panic!
Willie suddenly screams as the boa constrictor wraps around her
arm --
WILLIE
It's got me ! Indy, help me!
Indy runs along the riverbank, trying to get closer to her, but
not about to jump into the river (due to his aversion to snakes
-- see Episode One: "Raiders of the Lost Ark").
INDIANA
Don't let it pull you deeper!
WILLIE
It's pulling me deeper!
INDIANA
Don't let it curl around you!
WILLIE
It's curling around me! Damn it,
stop talking and do something!
The snake is wrapping around her body and neck -- her head is
barely above water --
On the riverbank, Indy reaches down and grabs a piece of wood.
But as he watches the repulsive reptile, he starts to sweat and
his fear and loathing overpower him --
WILLIE (Cont'd)
What's wrong?! Indy please help
me!
Indy groans and bolsters his courage -- he takes two steps into
the water -- but the complex is to strong and he can't go any
further. He drops the piece of wood...
INDIANA
Listen, Willie. Do exactly what
I tell you now.
WILLIE
What?!
INDIANA
Can you move your arm?
WILLIE
Just one arm!
INDIANA
Okay, I want you to lift your hand --
and pet the snake.
WILLIE
PET IT??!!
INDIANA
Yes, stroke it right along the
maxillary and precaudal verte-
brae.
WILLIE
THE WHAT?!
INDIANA
Pet it on the head! Go on, pet
it!
In the water, Willie is whimpering as she lifts her hand and
starts petting the snake coiling around her pale body.
WILLIE
Oh -- my -- god -- it's going to
crush me!
INDIANA
Keep stroking it!
Willie keeps rubbing her hand along the snakes head and back and
it slowly stops thrashing in the water.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
What's happening?
WILLIE
It's starting to let go!
INDIANA
That's good -- you're doing fine.
Grimacing as she stares at the ugly serpent's head, Willie keeps
stroking it.
WILLIE
It's letting fo. I think it's --
I think it's going to sleep!
Indiana looks relieved. He sees the snake starting to drift away
from Willie and she starts paddling back to shore, collecting her
floating clothes along the way.
Holding her dripping dress against herself, she walks out of the
water toward Indy who smiles at her weakly.
INDIANA
See -- I got you out...
She slows and hauls off and punches him in the mouth. Indy holds
his jaw as she walks away infuriates.
WILLIE
Thanks for nothing! I hate snakes!
INDIANA
(looking at
the water)
I know the feeling...
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53. EXT. THE CAMPSITE - NIGHT 53.
By firelight, we see Sajnu feeding the big elephants while Short
Round feeds and talks to the baby elephant --
SHORT ROUND
You come to America with me, and
we can get job in the circus --
you like that?
The baby elephant trumpets affirmitively.
A ways off, Willie stands wrapped in a blanket watching Shorty
and the elephant as she dries her hair by a campfire. Now Indy
comes up and drops an armload of wood for yet another fire.
WILLIE
Where'd you find your little body-
guard?
INDIANA
I met Short Round when he tried
to pick my pocket.
Indiana kneels and arranges the wood.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
Shorty's family was killed when
they bombed Shanghai. He was
living on the streets.
WILLIE
(smiling)
He'll be okay. He's a good kid.
Indy strikes a match and lights the new fire.
WILLIE (Cont'd)
All these fires -- you expecting
more snakes, Dr. Jones?
She smiles snidely and continues drying her hair.
INDIANA
By the way, how'd you end up in
Shanghai?
WILLIE
Well, when my nightclub career was
run over by the Depression, some
pinhead convinced me that "a girl
could go places in the Orient..."
So, look where I got.
Indy picks up a blanket and spreads it on the ground.
INDIANA
What about the future?
WILLIE
Oh, that's easy -- I'm going to
latch onto a good-looking, in-
credibly rich prince.
Indy lies down on the blanket.
INDIANA
I'd like to find one of those
myself.
WILLIE
(raising an eyebrow)
Oh really?
INDIANA
Yeah, but he's got to be dead and
buried for a couple of thousand years.
(smiling)
Fortune and glory...
WILLIE
Is that what you're hoping to find
at this palace, Dr. Jones?
INDIANA
Maybe...
Indy reaches into his pocket and removes the old piece of cloth.
WILLIE
What's that?
She walks over to where he's lying down and sits on a boulder.
He hands her the cloth and she looks at it by the firelight.
INDIANA
Something that kid gave me last
night. It's a piece of an old
manuscript.
Willie sees a crude drawing in reds, blue and gold.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
The drawing shows a priest named
Sankara who lived centuries ago.
WILLIE
What does the writing say?
INDIANA
It's Sanskrit. It tells the story
of Sankara climbing Mt. Kalisa
where he met the Hindu god Shiva.
WILLIE
(examining it)
That's Shiva? What's he giving
the Priest?
INDIANA
Legend says he told Sankara to go
forth and combat evil. To do that
he gave him five sacred stones that
had magical powers.
WILLIE
(looking at Indy)
You mean magical like the rock that
was stolen from that village?
Indy looks at her meaningfully.
INDIANA
It could be.
Willie seems frightened. She hands him the piece of cloth and
stands up.
WILLIE
(quietly)
Fortune and glory...sweet dreams,
Dr. Jones.
She picks up a blanket and starts off.
INDIANA
I think you should sleep closer.
(seeing her sus-
picious look)
I meant for safety.
WILLIE
(smiling)
I'd be safer sleeping with
that snake.
She steps over to a tree by the fire where her clothes are dry-
ing. Indy watches her pull her dried clothes from the lower
branches.
She reaches up to remove another piece of her clothing -- it's
stuck to the tree and she looks up and yanks it. Suddenly the
piece of clothing moves!
Two enormous winds open and the hideous face of a GIANT BAT
screeches and hisses at Willie! She screams hysterically as the
bat flaps against her, biting and scratching at her before it fi-
nally takes off.
The bat flies off into the darkness and Indy chuckles as he
watches Willie shanking as she backs slowly toward the fire --
WILLIE
Did you see it?! It was one
of those bats!
(staring into
the darkness)
God, what else is out there...?!
She quickly picks up her blanket and lays it out very close to
Indy.
INDIANA
Couldn't keep away, huh?
WILLIE
Just try and control yourself.
Indiana watches her lie down and wrap herself in her blanket.
then he rolls over and tips his hat down over his eyes to get
some well-deserved shut-eye.
In a moment, however, we see something grotesque and snake-like
slide into frame and move towards Indy -- finally, we realize
it's an elephant's trunk. The trunk nudges Indy's shoulder.
INDIANA
(without looking)
Still scared? Okay, Willie, you
can get closer if you want...
The elephant's trunk moves closer and nuzzles Indy's neck.
INDIANA
Honey, I knew you'd be the first
one to give in...
Now, we see that Short Round is guiding the baby elephant's trunk
with a prod. Willie watches, stifling a laugh as the elephant's
trunk sniffs Indiana's ear --
INDIANA (Cont'd)
You're going to start something
I'm going to have to finish.
(moaning)
Okay, doll, you asked for it.
Indiana rolls over, lifts his hat and hollers! He nearly jumps
out of his pants as he stares into the elephant's trunk. Willie
and Short Round dissolve into laughter.
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54. EXT. THE JUNGLE - DAY 54.
Tall, vine-covered trees sway in the wind. Beneath them, the el-
ephants plough through the dense tropical forest. The sounds of
the teeming jungle multiply as Short Round surveys the distant
hills.
SHORT ROUND
Indy, look!
INDIANA
That's it. Pankot Palace.
Willie looks off at the resplendent while Moghul-style palace ri-
sing in the distance above the jungle.
CUT TO:
55. EXT. A JUNGLE CLEARING - LATER 55.
Their Mayapore guide walks toward the camera and suddenly looks
frightened. He barks commands and the elephants stop. Indiana
jumps down an joins the fearful guide.
They stare at a small statue of a malevolent goddess with eight
arms. Around the goddess's neck, a carved necklace displays
small human heads -- her eight hands hold other heads by their
hair.
Indiana moves closer to the statue as the terrified guide backs
away. Indy is fascinated by the ritual objects adorning it:
leaves, dead birds, rodents and turtles. Indiana grimaces as he
lifts a necklace of real pierced human fingers...
WILLIE (O.S.)
Why are we stopping here?
Indiana goes back and joins the scared, jabbering guide who is
helping Willie down from the elephant. Short Round jumps down.
SHORT ROUND
What you look at, Indy?
INDIANA
Just a statue.
WILLIE
What's the guide talking about?
He hasn't said a word the whole
trip.
Indy listens to the agitated guide and then speaks a few words in
Hindi back to him. They watch the distressed guide trun the ele-
phants and start away with them as fast as possible.
WILLIE
He's afraid of something.
INDIANA
He said he couldn't take us any
farther. He has to go sell the
elephants.
WILLIE
You mean we have to walk the rest
of the way?
Willie moans and follows Indy. Short Round watches the elephants
trudging away. The little elephant turns and looks back. Short
Round quickly wipes a tear from his face.
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56. EXT. A PALACE APPROACH - AFTERNOON 56.
Indiana and Short Round hike up a rock-paved road beside a high
wall. Exhausted, carrying her high heels, Willie trudges along
behind them.
WILLIE
-- shot at, fallen out of a plane,
nearly drowned, squashed by a snake,
attacked by a bat -- I smell like
an elephant!
(yelling)
I tell you I'm not going to make it!
Indiana finally stops. He walks back to Willie, suddenly picks
her us in his arms and starts carrying her the remaining way.
Willie is surprised and puzzled.
INDIANA
Any more complaints?
WILLIE
(smiling faintly)
Yeah, I wish you'd thought of this
sooner...
She doesn't seem to mind being carried by Indy. He arrives at
the entrance to the palace and puts her down -- she stands close
to him and he gently smoothes the collar of her dress.
INDIANA
It doesn't feel like there's been
any permanent damage.
She smiles at him again and then turns around -- and whistles as
she sees Pankot Palace: a sprawling, monumental mixture of Mo-
ghul and Rajput styles, the palace is an extravaganza of Princely
architecture.
57. EXT. A BRIDGE 57.
The three travelers start across a marble bridge toward the main
entrance. Lined along the bridge, palace guards stand with
lances.
As the threesome passes, the first Rajput guard snaps noisily to
attention and Willie jumps. As Willie continues across the
bridge, the other guards snap to attention in sequence and she
grins, enjoying the attention.
58. INT. THE OUTER COURTYARD 58.
Short Round and Willie follow Indiana through a dark archway into
a glittering courtyard. The palace seems deserted and forebod-
ing.
INDIANA
Hello?...(hello?)...(hello?)
Indy's voice echoes off the marble facades -- three enormous Raj-
put guards with curved swords in their sashes appear silently at
opposite sides of the courtyard.
WILLIE
(frightened)
Hi...(hi)...(hi)...
Then, a tall severe-looking Indian in an English suit material-
izes out of the shadows and comes forward slowly. CHATTAR LAL
appraises the intruders suspiciously:
He sees a whoozy beauty in a weary evening gown; a dirty Chinese
kid with a baseball cap; a rugged-looking American carrying a
bullwhip...
CHATTAR LAL
I would say you look rather lost.
(disdainfullt)
But then I cannot imagine where
in the world the three of you
would look at home...
INDIANA
(smiling evenly)
Lost? No, we're not lost. We're
on our way to Delhi. This is Miss
Scott -- and Mr. Round. My name's
Indiana Jones.
CHATTAR LAL
(surprised)
Dr. Jones? The eminent archae-
ologist?
WILLIE
Hard to believe, isn't it...?
CHATTAR LAL
I remember first hearing your name
when I was studying at Oxford. I
Am Chattar Lal, Prime Minister for
His Highness the Maharajah of Pankot.
He bows and Willie sort of curtsies.
CHATTAR LAL (Cont'd)
Welcome to Pankot Palace.
59. INT. PANKOT PALACE - AFTERNOON 59.
They walk along the marble halls, past dazzling walls inlaid with
pieces of mirror and semi-precious stones. Fountains spray in
ivory countyards and they gaze in awe at the ornate splendour.
As Willie walks with Shorty she appraises the chronolgoical
portraits of the Pankot Prices that line the hall. Dissipated
faces, elegant faces, evil faces -- she reacts to them.
WILLIE
(to Short Round)
How'd you like to run into him in
a dark alley...that one's kind of
cute...I could see myself married
to a prince like that...
Ahead of them Chattar Lal walks with Indy and questions him
suspiciously --
CHATTAR LAL
The plane crash and your journey
here sound -- most incredible.
WILLIE
You should have been there...
INDIANA
We'd appreciate it if the Mahara-
jah would let us stay tonight.
We'll be on out way in the morn-
ing.
CHATTAR LAL
I am only his humble servant, but
the Maharajah usually listens to
my advice.
WILLIE
Is that him?
They've come to the last in the row of Princes portraits. Wil-
lie stops and looks up disappointedly at a picture of an aged,
immensely corpulent Rajput prince.
WILLIE (Cont'd)
(politely)
He's not exactly what we call
"a spring chicken".
CHATTAR LAL
No, no, that is Uhmed Singh, the
present Maharajah's late father.
WILLIE
Oh -- good. And maybe the pres-
ent Marahajah is a little younger?
And thinner?
Two female servants approach silently and bow.
CHATTAR LAL
They will escort you to your rooms
now. You will be provided with
fresh clothes. Tonight you will
be dining with His Highness.
WILLIE
Dinner? And with a prince?! My
luck is changing. But look at
me -- my god, I've to to get
ready!
She hurried off with one of the servants toward her room. Chat-
tar Lal smiles cooly at Indiana --
CHATTAR LAL
Eight o'clock in the Pleasure
Pavilion.
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60. EXT. THE PLEASURE PALIVION - NIGHT 60.
An extraordinary gold dome rises in the middle of the eleaborate
gardens. The Pleasure Pavilion is ablaze with torch lights,
flickering candles and exotic music.
Indiana comes out of the palace with Short Round. Indy has on a
tweed jacket and a nectie -- his university professor's outfit.
Short Round has been cleaned up, but still sports his baseball
cap.
Willie joins them, looking stunning is a silk Western-styled
gown. She's also been loaned some Moghul jewelry which sparkles
on her neck and arms.
INDIANA
You look like a princess.
Willie's flattered by the first nice thing Indy's said to her.
WILLIE
It's sort of like being in heaven.
They cross the garden toward the pavilion and Willie's eyes are
like a kid's at Christmas.
61. INT. THE PLEASURE PAVILION 61.
As they enter, Indiana gives a half-dressed dancing girl the
once-over as she spins to the music of drums and "vinhas".
INDIANA
(smiling)
I've always had a weakness for
folk dancing.
WILLIE
(snidely)
She might get away with that act
here, but she'd never make it in
a real nightclub.
They walk among the rich court ministers and Indian merchants.
Chattar Lal approaches with a British cavalry captain in unifrom.
CHATTAR LAL
We are fortunate tonight to have
some many unexpected guests. his
is Captain Phillip Blumburtt.
Blumburtt bows to Willie and Indiana.
CHATTAR LAL (Cont'd)
Captain Blumburtt and his troops
are here to check up on the
"natives".
CAPT. BLUMBURTT
(politely)
Just a routine inspection tour.
CHATTAR LAL
The British worry so about their
Emprie -- it makes us feel like
well-cared-for children.
WILLIE
Listen, Mr. Lal, what do you call
the Maharajah's wife?
CHATTAR LAL
His Highness has not yet taken a
wife.
WILLIE
(happily)
No? Well, I guess he just hasn't
met the right woman...
As Willie chatters on with the Prime Minister, Indiana wanders
off. He moves to a wall where bronze statues and strange devo-
tional objects are displayed.
CAPT. BLUMBURTT
(joining Indy)
Interested in local curios?
INDIANA
No. But I am interested in the
occult. And this is a krtya.
Indiana picks up a small clay figurine and examines it.
CAPT. BLUMBURTT
(grimacing)
Charming.
INDIANA
It's like the voodoo dolls of West
Africa. The kryta represents your
enemy -- and gives you complete
power over him.
CAPT. BLUMBURTT
That God all that mumbo jumbo
rubbish is disappearing.
INDIANA
You think so?
CAPT. BLUMBURTT
Of course. Admittedly, it's taken
time. Britian's controlled India
for almost two hundred eyars now.
Indiana smiles at the somewhat pompous bureaucrat.
INDIANA
You're hanging on better here
than you did in America.
CAPT. BLUMBURTT
(smiling sourly)
This is a different situation, Dr.
Jones. These people are like
children. We have to lead them
slowly into the twentieth century.
Indiana puts the doll down and looks over at Chattar Lal and
Willie.
INDIANA
The Prime Minister doesn't seem
that naive.
CAPT. BLUMBURTT
No, he's a very shrewd old boy.
Power behind the throne and all
that. He actually runs this whole
province.
Indy and the Prime Minister exchange distant looks as Willie
comes back over to Indiana. She talks to him conspiratorially --
WILLIE
I think this Maharajah is swim-
ming in money. Maybe coming here
wasn't such a bad idea.
Blumburtt finds these Americans quite suspect and seems relieved
when he hears a drum.
CAPT. BLUMBURTT
I believe we're being called to
dinner.
WILLIE
Finally!
As the drum beats the assembled guests move toward a long, low
table surrounded by colorful pillows. Short Round follows with a
little monkey he's found perched on his arm.
As everyone stands around the table, Chattar Lal makes an an-
nouncement in Hindi and then in English --
CHATTAR LAL
His Supremem Highness, guardian of
Rajput tradition -- the Maharajah
of Pankot -- Zalim Singh.
All eyes are on two solid silver doors which open -- and through
which now walks the MAHARAJAH ZALIM SINGH. Everyone is bowing,
including Indiana and Willie, who looks amazed --
WILLIE
That's the Maharajah -- that kid?!
INDIANA
Maybe he likes older women.
Indeed, Zalim Singh is only thirteen. Outfitted in silver and
gold brocade, festooned with enormous jewels, the litlle Mahara-
jah gazes imperiously at the bowing crowd -- and then glares at
Short Round.
Indy sees Short Round chewing gum, staring antagonistically at
the Maharajah. Indy pushes SHort Round into a bowing position.
The Maharajah finally sits down on golden pillows. He nods and
his guests take their seats. Indiana sees Willie's dreams of
queendom have vanished.
INDIANA
Cheer up, you lost your prince,
but dinner's on the way.
WILLIE
I've never been so hungry in my
life...
Servants appear with silver platters of steaming food. They
place a platter in front of Willie and she stares at it in amaze-
ment:
It's a whole raosted boar, replete with a decorative arrow pierc-
ing its bloated stomach and tiny broiled baby bores placed around
it as if they were suckling on their well-cooked mother.
WILLIE
(grimacing)
My god, sort of grusome, isn't
it...?
Seeing the meat being served, Indiana looks across the table at
Blumburtt who seems equally puzzled. Meanwhile, the little Maha-
rajah whispers to his Prime Minsiter. Then Chattar Lal speaks to
the table --
CHATTAR LAL
His Highness wants me to welcome
his visitors. Especially the
renowned Dr. Jones from America.
Indy bows slightly toward the Maharajah.
INDIANA
We are honored to be here.
Servants put down another platter. Willie stares at an enormous
steaming boa constrictor on the platter. With a flash of a
knife, a servant slits the huge snake and exposes a mass of
squirming, live baby eels inside...
WILLIE
Suddenly I'm not so hungry...
Meanwhile, Indiana is chatting poleitely with the Prime Minister.
INDIANA
I had a question, Mr. Prime Mini-
ster. I was examining some of the
Maharajah's artifacts.
CHATTAR LAL
A very fine collection of very old
pieces, don't you think?
INDIANA
Yes, very fine. But not all of the
pieces look old. Some were carved
recently and look like images used
by the Thuggees to worship the god-
des Kali.
At the emntion of the Thuggees, the Indians at the table quiet,
as it a taboo has been broken. Chattar Lal glares at Indiana.
CHATTAR LAL
Dr. Jones, you know very well that
the Thuggee cult has been dead for
nearly a century.
CAPT. BLUMBURTT
Of course. The Thuggees were an
obscenity that worshipped Kali
with human sacrifices. The Brit-
ish Army wiped them out about the
time of the Mutiny of 1857.
Short Round avoids the dinner by feeding it to his little monkey
as he listens to the scary conversation.
The talk is bad enough, but Willie finds the food unbelievable!
A servant leans overher shoulder and places a six-inch long BUG
on her plate!
Willie whimpers quietly as she watches the fat merchant next to
her lift one of the black, shiny baked-beetles -- and crack it in
two! The man proceeds to enthusiastically suck the gooey innards
out.
MERCHANT
(looking at Willie)
But you're not eating!
WILLIE
(weakly)
I uh -- had bugs for lunch.
Meanwhile, Indiana continues to politely needle Chattar Lal.
INDIANA
I suppose stories of the Thuggees
die hard.
CHATTAR LAL
There are no stories anymore.
INDIANA
Well, I don't know... we came here
from a small village and the peas-
ants there told us that the Pankot
Palace was growing powerful again
-- becuase of some ancient evil.
Indiana smiles and shrugs.
CHATTAR LAL
(sneeringly)
Their stories are just fear and
folklore.
INDIANA
(cooly)
Maybe.. but how do you explain
The Thuggee shrine I saw right
below the palace?
Indy catches a glance between the little Maharajah and the prime
minister, who answers slowly --
CHATTAR LAL
The local peasants are just as
superstitious. You're very ob-
servant, Dr. Jones. But you're
beginning to worry Capt. Blum-
burtt.
Blumburtt's phlegmatic attitude has changed to curiosity.
CAPT. BLUMBURTT
I'm not worried, Prime Minister,
just interested.
During their conversation, Willie listens to beetles SNAPPING and
she watches revolted as the other dinner guests suck the gooey
insides out of the bugs.
WILLIE
(to Short Round)
Give me your hat...
SHORT ROUND
What for?
WILLIE
I'm going to puke in it...
Meanwhile, Indy continues ingenously with Chattar Lal.
INDIANA
You know the villagers also
claimed that this palace stole
something from them.
CHATTAR LAL
Dr. Jones, it our country a guest
does not usually insult his host.
INDIANA
Sorry, I thought we were just talking
about folklore.
CAPT. BLUMBURTT
(trying to make peace)
I'm sure it's nothing. Just ru-
mors.
(but interested)
What was it they claimed was
stolen?
INDIANA
Something magical. A sacred rock.
CHATTAR LAL
(condescendingly)
There, you see, Captain. A rock!
INDIANA
When they lost this rock their
fields and animals dies. They
also said their children were
taken from them.
CHATTAR LAL
I think that's enough of this
nonsense, Dr. Jones...
Indiana smiles faintly at Chattar Lal's anger. Across the table,
Willie looks pale and motions to the waiter.
WILLIE
So you have something, you know,
simple -- like soup or something?
The servant goes off and returns with a covered bowl. He uncov-
ers it and Willie looks at a soup with a dozen eyeballs floating
in it.
MERCHANT
Looks delicious!
WILLIE
I wanna go home...
Willie whimpers and tears start down her cheeks.
INDIANA
(to Chattar Lal)
I was dubious muself at first.
Then something connected -- the
village's rock and the old legend
of the Sankara Stones...
CHATTAR LAL
(controlling himself)
Dr. Jones, we are all vulnerable
to vicious rumors. I seem to re-
member that in Honduras you were
accused of being a grave robber
rather than a scientist.
INDIANA
(shrugging)
The newspapers exaggerated the
incident
CHATTAR LAL
And didn't the Sultan of Madagas-
car threaten to cut your head off
if you ever returned to his coun-
try?
INDIANA
That was a misunderstanding.
CHATTAR LAL
(smiling)
Exactly what we have here, Dr.
Jones.
MAHARAJAH
I have heard the terrible stories
of the evil Thuggee cult...
When the little Marahajah speaks it surprises everyone and there
is silence.
MAHARAJAH (Cont'd)
I thought the stories were told
to frighten children. Later, I
learned that the Thuggee cult was
once real and did unspeakable
things.
The Marahajah looks at Indiana.
MAHARAJAH (Cont'd)
I am ashamed of what happened here
so many years ago. We keep these
objects -- to remind us that this
will never again happen in my
kingdom!
INDIANA
(after a moment)
I'm sorry if I've offended you.
Now, more trays are whisked in by servants.
MERCHANT
Ah, dessert!
Short Round's monkey suddenly screeches and takes off. Willie
closed here eyes in dread - but curiosity gets the best of her
and she looks -- it's worse than she could imagine:
Plates full of small, dead monkey heads! (*Production note: be-
cause of his extremely sensitive nature, the director has reque-
ted that these monkey heads be simulated).
The tops of the monkey's skulls have been cut off and sit loose
like little covers. Willie watches in utter dismay as the Maha-
rajah and his guests remove the skull-tops and start dipping
spoons into what's inside --
MERCHANT (Cont'd)
Chilled monkey brains!
Willie keels over, crashing backwards in a dead faint!
CUT TO:
62. INT. A PALACE HALL - LATER 62.
Women servants help a woobly-kneed Willie toward her room.
63. EXT. THE PELASURE GARDEN - NIGHT 63.
Hundreds of lanters illuminate the garden where after dinner
drinks are served, cigars lighted and hookah pipes puffed on.
Indiana comes out of the pavilion into the garden with Capt.
Blumburtt and they talk quietly.
CAPT. BLUMBURTT
Rather bizarre menu, woundn't you
say?
INDIANA
Even if they were trying to scare
us away, a devout Hindu would
never touch meat.
(looking around)
Makes you wonder what these people
are...
Now, the little Maharajah comes over with his retinue and he
reaches for Indy's whip which Short Round is carrying.
MAHARAJAH
I have seen this thing. What is
it, Dr. Jones?
SHORT ROUND
Hey, nobody touches Indy's whip!
Short Round grabs for it, but Indiana restrains him.
INDIANA
We're guests here, Shorty.
The Maharajah glares are Short Round and five the whip to Indy.
MAHARAJAH
You will show me how it works
please.
Indy bows to the little prince and smiles ironically --
INDIANA
You wish is my command, your
Highness.
While Short Round watches angrily, Indiana walks across the gar-
den and unfurls the whip. Indy sees a servant lighting a candle.
Suddenly the whip flies and CRACKS like a pistol shot. The
candle disappears! Indiana whirls and CRACKS the whip again,
snagging a flower out of a dancing girl's hair.
The Maharajah reacts like any kid -- he shoops happily.
MAHARAJAH
That is wonderful! Please teach
me how!
Short Round sulks as he listens to Indiana instructing the Maha-
rajah on how to hold the whip. As the young prince practises the
grip, Indy notices Chattar Lal slip behind a fountain to talk to
a dark figure in robes who appears.
Indiana sees Chattar Lal bow to the dark figure -- and Indy
catches a glimpse of the stranger's pale face and dark hollow
eyes. Then the robled apparition seems to disappear.
Meanwhile everyone watches respectfully as the Maharajah unfurls
the whip for his first attempt. He flings the whip but it flies
back and snaps -- biting his own cheek.
There's a stunned silence -- then Short Round laughs at the
little prince who is holding his wounded cheek. The incensed Ma-
rahajah suddenly flashes the whip as Short Round.
Short Round grabs the end of it and pulls hard -- the whip is
tugged taut between the two hostile boys. As they draw near each
other, Short Round sees something weird:
The little Maharajah's eyes begin glowing yelloe and he hisses
softly in a strange voice. Nobody else sees or hears the bizarre
transformation...
Indiana finally intercedes -- he grabs Short Round by the neck.
INDIANA
Okay, Short Round, let go of it.
Short Round lets go and Indy gently takes the whip back from the
little prince.
INDIANA (Cont'd)
The Turks say that a whip can be
an enemy even to its owner. If
you get some rope, it'll be easier
to learn with, your Highness.
Now, I think we'll say goodnight.
The Maharajah and Short Round stare hostiley at each other as
Indy recoils his whip.
CUT TO:
64. INT. A PALACE HALL - NIGHT 64.
Short Round walks beside Indiana down the shadowy hall toward
their room. Short Round has Indy's whip curled around his shoul-
der. The little fellow yawns and shakes his head.
SHORT ROUND
That little Maharajah think he
big stuff.
INDIANA
You don't like him do you?
SHORT ROUND
Next time I flatten him! Did you
see his eyes?
INDIANA
No.
SHORT ROUND
Indy, they glow like fire and get
real crazy! Then he talk in this
real scary voice!
Indy tousles Short Round's hair.
INDIANA
He was afraid of you. He knows a
tough guy when he sees one.
SHORT ROUND
(not so shure)
Yeah, that's what happened...
They reach their room and Short Round opens the door.
INDIANA
I better see how Willie is.
Short Round shakes his head scornfully as Indy crosses the hall
and knocks on another door. After a moment, the door opens and
Willie is standing there in a tempting nightgown.
INDIANA
I brought you something.
He holds up something wrapped in a piece of silk.
WILLIE
(disgusted)
Not leftovers?
INDIANA
No -- real food.
Willie opens the bundle suspiciously -- then her hace lights up
as she examines the breads and fruits inside.
WILLIE
Oh, it is real food...it's
beautiful.
She bites happily into a piece of fruit -- its juice runs down
her chin and Indy wipes it off gently with his hand. The mouth
deliberately seductive and Willie is not displeased.
WILLIE (Cont'd)
You're nice. Listen, I'm taking
applications -- how'd you like to
be my palace slave?
INDIANA
(smiling)
Wearing your jewels to be, prin-
cess?
Indy touches her necklace -- then his hand caresses her neck and
ear. She shivers slightly and speaks softly.
WILLIE
Yeah -- and nothing else.
(smiling)
That shock you?
INDIANA
(shaking his head)
I'm a scientist. I like doing
research on certain "nocturnal
activities" --
She smiles and puts a grape to his lips. He opens his mouth
takes it and chews it.
WILLIE
You mean like love rituals...
He swallows the grape and they move toward each other slowly to
kiss, revealing the passion that's simmering.
INDIANA
And mating customs...
They kiss again more heatedly.
WILLIE
Primitive sexual practices?
INDIANA
You're taling to an authority
in that area.
They kiss again hungrily --
WILLIE
You're dying to come into my room,
aren't you?
INDIANA
You want me so bad, why don't you
invite me?
WILLIE
Too proud to admit you're crazy
about me, Dr. Jones?
INDIANA
I think you're too used to get-
ting you own way, Willie...
They kiss yet again -- and Indy breaks it off, just to show he's
still in control. He backs away toward his room.
WILLIE
(watching him)
We'll see who gives in first --
I'll leave my door open.
INDIANA
Don't catch cold.
WILLIE
Dr. Jones -- ?
Indy stops by his door and sees Willie smiling as she holds up
five fingers --
WILLIE (Cont'd)
Five minutes... you'll be back
over here in five minutes...
INDIANA
You're dreaming, Willie. You want
to make it real, just knock on my
door.
He winks. She waves. But neither one will surrender first.
Willie does into her room, leaving the door ajar. Indy opens his
door.
65. INT. INDIANA'S SUITE 65.
Indy comes in and closes the door -- leaving it open a crack. He
stands and listens, waiting for her to come over.
66. INT. WILLIE'S SUITE 66.
Willie stands likewise by her door, waiting to hear Indy come
back over.
67. INT. INDIANA'S SUITE 67.
Indiana shrugs and walks over to a couch and starts taking off
his tweed jacket and necktie --
INDIANA
Five minutes... fat chance.
68. INT. WILLIE SUIT 68.
Willie moves around her lavish suite, turning down lights, creating
a romantic effect, checking herself in a mirror --
WILLIE
(confidently)
Five minutes, Dr. Jones...
69. INT. INDIANA'S SUITE 69.
Indy undresses in the magnificently decorated room: wall paint-
ings show palace scenes and landscapes; life-size figures
dance and there are full-scale portraits or Rajput princes and
prancing horses. But Indy's more concerned with lust than with
art.
INDIANA
(muttering)
...want me to be her palace slave!
He picks up his whip and smiles, considering using it on her.
Then he just grubles and tosses the bullwhip onto the couch.
70. INT. WILLIE'S SUITE 70.
Lying in bed in a seductive pose, Willie waits for Indy to show
up and she starts to look worried. She grabs a clock and shakes
it to see