Raiders of the Lost Ark Movie Quotes
Marion
You're not the man I knew ten years ago.
Indiana
It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.
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Indiana
Meet me at Omar's. Be ready for me. I'm going after that truck.
Sallah
How?
Indiana
I don't know. I'm making this up as I go.
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[Upon opening the Well of the Souls and peering down]
Sallah
Indy, why does the floor move?
Indiana
Give me your torch.
[Indy takes the torch and drops it in, revealing hundreds of snakes all over floor of the Well of Souls]
Indiana
Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
Sallah
Asps... very dangerous. You go first.
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Indiana
Do we need the monkey?
Marion
I'm surprised at you, Jones. Talking that way about our baby. He's got your looks too.
Indiana
And your brains.
Marion
I noticed that. She's a smart little thing. Smart!
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Jock
Oh, that's just my pet snake Reggie!
Jock
Come on! Show a little backbone, will ya!
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[Discussing the fate of the Ark]
Maj. Eaton
We have top men working on it right now.
Indiana
Who?
Maj. Eaton
Top... men.
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[Marion is being kidnapped]
Marion
You can't do this to me, I'm an *American*.
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Belloq
How odd that it should end this way for us after so many stimulating encounters. I almost regret it. Where shall I find a new adversary so close to my own level?
Indiana
Try the local sewer.
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[Marion hands him the whiskey bottle and he smashes it over his assailant's head]
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Brody
Marion's the least of your worries right now, believe me, Indy.
Indiana
What do you mean?
Brody
Well, I mean that for nearly three thousand years man has been searching for the lost ark. It's not something to be taken lightly. No one knows its secrets. It's like nothing you've ever gone after before.
Indiana
[laughing]
Oh, Marcus. What are you trying to do, scare me? You sound like my mother. We've known each other for a long time. I don't believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus pocus. I'm going after a find of incredible historical significance, you're talking about the boogie man. Besides, you know what a cautious fellow I am.
[throws his gun into his suitcase]
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[Indiana needs his bullwhip to swing across a chasm]
Indiana
Give me the whip.
Satipo
Throw me the idol.
[they both see a stone door closing]
Satipo
No time to argue! Throw me the idol, I'll throw you the whip!
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[as the Nazis are opening the Ark]
Indiana
Marion, don't look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don't look at it, no matter what happens!
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Indiana
The Ark of the Covenant, the chest that the Hebrews used to carry around the Ten Commandments.
Major Eaton
What, you mean *the* Ten Commandments?
Indiana
Yes, the actual Ten Commandments, the original stone tablets that Moses brought down from Mt. Horeb and smashed, if you believe in that sort of thing...
[the officers stare at him blankly]
Indiana
Didn't any of you guys ever go to Sunday school?
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Brody
Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought.
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Sallah
Indy, there is something that troubles me.
Indiana
What is it?
Sallah
The Ark. If it is there, at Tanis, then it is something that man was not meant to disturb. Death has always surrounded it. It is not of this earth.
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Sallah
Oh, my friends! I'm so pleased you're not dead!
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Indiana
Hello, Marion.
Marion
Indiana Jones. I always knew some day you'd come walking back through my door. I never doubted that. Something made it inevitable. So, what are you doing here in Nepal?
Indiana
I need one of the pieces your father collected.
[Marion surprises him with a right cross to the jaw]
Marion
I've learned to hate you in the last ten years!
Indiana
I never meant to hurt you.
Marion
I was a child. I was in love. It was wrong and you knew it!
Indiana
You knew what you were doing.
Marion
Now I do. This is my place. Get out!
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Indiana
Here, take this,
[hands Marion a torch]
Indiana
Wave it at anything that slithers.
Marion
The whole place is slitherin'!
[turns and mistakes Indy's whip on his side for a snake]
Marion
Indy!
[tries to burn it with the torch]
Indiana
[screams]
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Belloq
Good afternoon, Dr. Jones.
Indiana
I oughta kill you right now.
Belloq
Not a very private place for a murder.
Indiana
Well, these guys don't care if we kill each other. They're not going to interfere in our business.
Belloq
It was not I who brought the girl into this business. Please, sit down before you fall down. We can at least behave like civilized people.
[Indy sits down while the monkey crawls off his shoulder]
Belloq
I see your taste in friends remains consistent. How odd that it should end this way for us, after so many stimulating encounters. I almost regret it. Where shall I find a new adversary so close to my own level?
Indiana
Try the local sewer.
Belloq
You and I are very much alike. Archaeology is our religion, yet we have both fallen from the purer faith. Out methods have not differed as much as you pretend. I am a shadowy reflection of you. It would take only a nudge to make you like me, to push you out of the light.
Indiana
Now you're getting nasty.
Belloq
You know it's true. How nice. Look at this.
[holds out a pocket watch]
Belloq
It's worthless. Ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless... like the Ark. Men will kill for it. Men like you and me.
Indiana
What about your boss, der Fuhrer? I thought he was waiting to take possession.
Belloq
All in good time. When I am finished with it. Jones, do you realize what the Ark is? It's a transmitter. It's a radio for speaking to God. And it's within my reach.
Indiana
You want to talk to God? Let's go see him together. I've got nothing better to do.
[prepares to fight Belloq, but Belloq's men train guns on him, and a crowd of children hurries in to escort him away]
Belloq
Next time, Dr. Jones, it'll take more than children to save you.
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[Indiana falls asleep while kissing her]
Marion
We never seem to get a break, do we?
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Marion
Well, Jones, at least you haven't forgotten how to show a lady a good time.
Indiana
Boy, you're something!
Marion
Yeah? I'll tell you what: until I get back my five thousand dollars, you're gonna get more than you bargained for. I'm your goddamn partner!
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Belloq
You and I are very much alike. Archeology is our religion, yet we have both fallen from the pure faith. Our methods have not differed as much as you pretend. I am but a shadowy reflection of you. It would take only a nudge to make you like me. To push you out of the light.
Indiana
Now you're getting nasty.
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Katanga
Jones is dead. I killed him. He was of no use to us. This girl, however, has certain value where we're headed. She'll bring a very good price. Herr Colonel - that cargo you've taken - if it's your goal, go in peace with it, but leave us the girl. It will reduce our loss on this trip.
Dietrich
Savage! You are not in a position to ask for anything. We will take what we wish, and then decide whether or not to blow your ship from the water.
Belloq
The girl goes with me. She'll be part of my compensation. I'm sure your Führer would approve. If she fails to please me, you may do with her as you wish.
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Major Eaton
Doctor Jones, we've heard a lot about you.
Indiana
Have you?
Major Eaton
Professor of Archeology, expert on the occult, and how does one say it... obtainer of rare antiquities.
Indiana
That's one way of saying it. Why don't you sit down, you'll be more comfortable.
Colonel Musgrove
Yes, you're a man of many talents.
Major Eaton
Now, you studied under Professor Ravenwood at the University of Chicago.
Indiana
Yes, I did.
Major Eaton
You have no idea of his present whereabouts?
Indiana
Only rumors, really. Somewhere in Asia, I think. I haven't really spoken to him in ten years. We were friends once, but we had a bit of a falling out, I'm afraid.
Colonel Musgrove
Now, Doctor Jones, you must understand that this is all completely confidential.
Indiana
I understand.
Colonel Musgrove
Yesterday afternoon, our European section intercepted a German communique that was sent from Cairo to Berlin.
Major Eaton
You see, for the last two years, the Nazis have had teams of archaeologists running around the world looking for all sorts of religious artifacts. Hitler's a nut on the subject. He's crazy. He's obsessed with the occult. And right now, apparently, there is some kind of German archaeological dig going on in the desert outside Cairo.
Colonel Musgrove
Now, we have some information here, but we can't make anything out of it and maybe you can. "Tanis development proceeding. Acquire headpiece, Staff of Ra, Abner Ravenwood, US."
Indiana
The Nazis have discovered Tanis!
Major Eaton
Now just what does that mean to you... 'Tanis'?
Indiana
Tanis is one of the possible resting places of the Lost Ark.
Colonel Musgrove
The Lost Ark?
Indiana
Yeah, the Ark of the Covenant. The chest the Hebrews used to carry the Ten Commandments around in.
Major Eaton
Alright now, what do you mean the Ten Commandments, you're talking about THE Ten Commandments?
Indiana
Yes, the actual Ten Commandments. The original stone tablets that Moses brought down out of Mount Horeb and smashed, if you believe in that sort of thing. Didn't you guys ever go to Sunday School? Look, the Hebrews took the broken pieces and put them into the Ark. When they settled in Canaan, they put the Ark in a place called The Temple of Solomon, where it stayed for many years, till all of a sudden... whoosh, it was gone.
Major Eaton
Where?
Indiana
Nobody knows where or when.
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[talking about Marion's late father]
Marion
He said you were a bum.
Indiana
Aw, he's being generous.
Marion
The most gifted bum he ever trained. You know, he loved you like a son... took a hell of a lot for you to alienate him.
Indiana
Not much... just you.
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Brody
However, an Egyptian pharaoh...
Indiana
Shishak.
Brody
...yes, invaded the city of Jerusalem round about 980 B.C., and he may have take the Ark back to the city of Tanis and hidden it in a secret chamber called The Well of Souls.
Brody
However, about a year after the pharaoh had returned to Egypt, the city of Tanis was consumed by the desert in a sand storm which lasted a whole year. Wiped clean by the wrath of God.
Colonel Musgrove
Obviously, we've come to the right men. Now you seem to know, uh, all about this Tanis, then.
Indiana
No, no, not really. Ravenwood is the real expert. Abner did the first serious work on Tanis. Collected some of its relics. It was his obsession, really. But he never found the city.
Major Eaton
Frankly, we're somewhat suspicious of Mr. Ravenwood, an American being mentioned so prominently in a secret Nazi cable.
Brody
Oh, rubbish. Ravenwood's no Nazi.
Colonel Musgrove
Well, what do the Nazis want him for then?
Indiana
Well, obviously, the Nazis are looking for the headpiece to Staff of Ra and they think Abner's got it.
Major Eaton
What exactly is a headpiece to the Staff of Ra?
Indiana
Well, the staff is just a stick. I don't know, about this big. Nobody really knows for sure how high. And it's...
[turns blackboard to blank side]
Indiana
it's, uh... it's capped with an elaborate headpiece in the shape of the sun with a crystal in the center. And what you did was, you take the staff to a special room in Tanis, a map room with a miniature of the city all laid out on the floor. And if you put the staff in a certain place at a certain time of day, the sun shone through here and made beam that came down on the floor here... and gave you the exact location of the Well of the Souls.
Colonel Musgrove
Where the Ark of the Covenant was kept, right?.
Indiana
That's exactly what the Nazis are looking for.
Major Eaton
Now what does this Ark look like?
Indiana
Uh... there's a picture of it right here.
[opens a book on the table]
Indiana
That's it.
[they all look at an illustration of the Hebrews devastating their enemy with the Ark]
Major Eaton
Good God!
Brody
Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought.
Colonel Musgrove
[pointing to a beam of light]
Uh, now what's that supposed to be coming out of there?
Indiana
Lightning. Fire. Power of God or something.
Major Eaton
I'm beginning to understand Hitler's interest in this.
Brody
Oh, yes. The Bible speaks of the Ark leveling mountains and laying waste to entire regions. An army which carries the Ark before it... is invincible.
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Belloq
Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away. And you thought I'd given up.
[Indy reaches for his gun, but pauses and hands over his gun when the warriors draw back their weapons]
Belloq
You chose the wrong friends. This time it will cost you.
Indiana
Too bad the Hovitos don't know you the way I do, Belloq.
[hands over the prized idol to Belloq]
Belloq
Yes, too bad. You could warn them... if only you spoke Hovitos.
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Sallah
Indy, you have no time. If you still want the ark, it is being loaded onto a truck for Cairo.
Indiana
Truck? What truck?
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[Toht prepares to torture Marion with a hot poker]
Marion
Wait, wait! I can be reasonable!
Toht
That time has passed.
Marion
You don't need that. I'll tell you everything!
Toht
Yes, I know you will.
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Marion
What do you want?
Toht
Ah, the same thing your friend Dr. Jones wanted. Surely he mentioned there would be other interested parties?
Marion
Must have slipped his mind.
Toht
The man is nefarious. I hope for your sake that he has not yet acquired it.
Marion
Why, are you willing to offer more?
Toht
Oh, almost certainly. Do you still have it?
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Belloq
It's a transmitter, a radio for speaking to God.
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[the old man reveals writing on the back of the medallion, which states that part of the staff must be removed]
Indiana
Balloq's medallion only had writing on one side? You sure about that?
Sallah
Positive!
Indiana
Balloq's staff is too long.
Indiana
Indiana, Sallah: They're digging in the wrong place!
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[Indy triggers a hidden booby trap, which fires a poisoned dart into a stick]
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[Marion removes heavy robe to reveal satin negligèe]
Indiana
Where'd you get that?
Marion
From him.
Indiana
Who 'him'?
Marion
Katanga. I got a feeling I'm not the first woman to travel with these pirates.
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Belloq
Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless. Like the Ark.
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Toht
Now... what shall we talk about?
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Indiana
[Marion tends to Indiana's wounds as she lifts his legs onto his bed]
Please I don't need a nurse I just want to sleep.
Marion
Don't be such a baby
Indiana
Marion leave me alone, go away.
Marion
What's this here?
[touches one of his injuries]
Indiana
Yes it hurts.
[she puts some rubbing alcohol on his wound]
Indiana
Ow!
Marion
Well goddamnit Indy where doesn't it hurt?
[she kisses it]
[she removes his hat and kisses him on the head]
[she kisses it]
[she gives him a long passionate kiss on the lips]
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[Marion and Belloq are both very drunk]
Belloq
[laughing as well]
I grew up on this. It's my family label.
[Marion falls to the ground laughing, then calmly pulls out the knife she was concealing and points it at Belloq, who bursts out laughing in response]
Belloq
[flicking his hand and laughing]
Ta-ta.
Marion
[walking off]
I like you, Rene, very much. Perhaps we'll meet again under better circumstances.
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Indiana
I'm gonna blow up the Ark, Rene.
Belloq
Your persistence surprises even me. You're going to give mercenaries a bad name.
Dietrich
Dr. Jones. Surely you don't think you can escape from this island?
Indiana
That depends on how reasonable we're all willing to be! All I want is the girl!
Dietrich
If we refuse?
Indiana
Then your Führer has no prize!
Belloq
[Ordering the soldiers]
Okay, stand back. All of you, stand back. Get back.
[to Jones]
Belloq
Okay, Jones. You win. Blow it up.
[some soldiers move in the way of the Ark, but Belloq holds a machine gun to them and they move back]
Belloq
Yes, blow it up! Blow it back to God. All your life has been spent in pursuit of archaeological relics. Inside the Ark are treasures beyond your wildest aspirations. You want to see it open as well as I. Indiana, we are simply passing through history. This...
[gestures to the Ark]
Belloq
This *is* history. Do as you will.
[Indy lowers the grenade launcher and four soldiers appear above him]
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Toht
Your fire is dying... here, why don't you tell me where the piece is right now?
Marion
Listen, Herr Mac, I don't know what kind of people you're used to dealing with, but nobody tells me what to do in my place.
Toht
Fräulein Ravenwood, let me show you what I am used to...
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1st Mechanic
[to Indy, in German]
Hey, thin man! Come here! Come here! Come here! Come on, fight! Boy, come down! Down now!
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[first lines]
[tastes the end of the dart, spits it out quickly]
Satipo
The poison is still fresh, three days. They're following us.
Barranca
If they knew we were here, they would have killed us already.
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[looking at an old picture of the Ark]
Colonel Musgrove
Now, what's that supposed to be coming out of there?
Indiana
Lightning. Fire. The power of God or something.
Major Eaton
I'm beginning to understand Hitler's interest in this.
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[last lines]
Marion
Hey, what happened? You don't look very happy.
Indiana
Fools. Bureaucratic fools!
Marion
What'd they say?
Indiana
They don't know what they've got there.
Marion
Well, I know what I've got here. Come on. I'll buy you a drink. You know, a drink?
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[Belloq and the Nazis are walking and arguing]
Belloq
I told you not to be premature in your communique to Berlin. Archeology is not an exact science. It does not deal in time schedules!
Dietrich
The Fuhrer is not a patient man. He demands constant reports. You led me to believe...
Belloq
[interrupting him]
Nothing! I made no promises! I merely said it looked very favorable. Besides, with the information in our possession, my calculations were correct.
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Toht
We meet again, Fraulein. You Americans, you're all the same. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.
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[Belloq and the Nazis are walking and talking some more]
Belloq
Who knows. Perhaps the Ark is still waiting in some antechamber for us to discover. Perhaps there's some vital bit of evidence which eludes us. Perhaps...
Dietrich
My feeling exactly. She was in possession of the original piece for years. She may know much if... properly motivated.
Belloq
I tell you the girl knows nothing.
Dietrich
I am surprised to find you squeamish. That is not your reputation. Anyway, it needn't concern you. I have the perfect man for this kind of work.
[Toht approaches]
Toht
Heil Hitler.
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Messenger Pirate
[searching for Jones after the Germans board the U-boat]
I can't find Mr. Jones, Captain. I've looked everywhere.
Katanga
He has to be here somewhere. Look again.
Messenger Pirate
[notices Indy climbing aboard the U-Boat]
I found him.
Katanga
Where?
Messenger Pirate
[pointing to the U-Boat]
There!
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Imam
This were the old way, this says "six Kadan height - "
Indiana
About seventy-two inches.
Imam
Wait!
[turns medallion over]
Imam
"And take back one Kadan, to honor the Hebrew God whose ark this is."
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Indiana
This site also demonstrates one of the great dangers of archaeology; not to life and limb, although that does sometimes take place. I'm talking about folklore.
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Toht
Shoot them. Shoot them both.
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Indiana
I knew the Germans had hired you, Sallah. You're the best digger in Egypt.
Sallah
My services are entirely inconsequential to them. They hired or shanghaied every digger in Cairo. The excavation is enormous. They hire only strong backs and they pay pennies for them. It's as if the pharaohs have returned.
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Dietrich
Doctor Jones, surely you don't think you can escape from this island?
Indiana
That depends on how reasonable we're all willing to be. All I want is the girl.
Dietrich
[looks at Belloq. Belloq shakes his head]
And if we refuse?
Indiana
Then your Führer has no prize.
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Indiana
Jock! Start the engines! Get it up! Jock, the engines! Start the engines, Jock!
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Dietrich
You're as stubborn as that girl.
Toht
You like her too much, I think.
Belloq
Your methods of archeology are too primitive for me. You would use a bulldozer to find a... china cup.
Belloq
[saw men working on getting the ark. He runs up to them and points to Colonel Dietrich]
Colonel! Wake your men!
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[Katanga meets Indy, who is dirty and injured from the truck chase]
Katanga
Mr. Jones! I've heard a lot about you, sir. Your appearance is exactly the way I imagined.
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Belloq
The girl was mine!
Dietrich
She's of no use to us. Only your mission for the Führer matters.
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Belloq
[looking down at Indy in the Well of Souls]
Hello! Hello! Why, Dr. Jones, whatever are you doing in such a nasty place?
Indiana
Why don't you come on down here, and I'll show ya?
Belloq
Thank you, my friend, but I think we are all very comfortable up here. Yes, indeed. We are all very quite comfortable up here. So once again, Jones, what was briefly yours is now mine. What a fitting end to your life's pursuits. You're about to become a permanent addition to this archaeological find. Who knows? In a thousand years, even you may be worth something.
Indiana
[laughs]
[muttering]
Indiana
Son of a bitch!
Belloq
I'm afraid we must be going now, Dr. Jones.
Dietrich
Our prize is awaited in Berlin. Yes... we are finished here with everything. But we do not wish to leave you down in that awful place... all alone.
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Dietrich
I am uncomfortable with the thought of this - Jewish ritual.
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Marion
I have no loyalty to Jones. He's brought me nothing but trouble.
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Indiana
What do I want to see them for? What am I, in trouble?
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[Looking over the destruction of the airfield]
Dietrich
Get the Ark away from this place immediately! Have it put on the truck! We will fly it out of Cairo! And Gobler, I want plenty of protection!
Gobler
Jawohl, Herr Ob...
[Gobler is interrupted midsentence by an explosion]
Belloq
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Jones!
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Marion
How the hell are we going to get out of here?
Indiana
I'm working on it. I'm working on it!
Marion
Well, whatever you're doing, do it faster!
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Indiana
You want to hear about it?
Brody
Not at all. I'm sure everything you do for the museum conforms to the International Treaty for the Protection of Antiquities.
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