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Raiders of the Lost Ark Scene 2 Summary

In the Temple

  • The temple has a whole smorgasbord of death traps laid out for our boys in a neat little row. First up: deadly tarantulas!
  • Having brushed aside the tarantulas (quite literally in this case), Indy discovers an old rival impaled on a spear trap. Dead body + South American humidity = seriously icky.
  • Indy uses his bullwhip to swing over a pit in the floor, followed much less gracefully by Satipo.
  • They reach the idol. All is well.
  • Oh wait, it's not. Some of the stones on the floor are pressure activated, blowing poison darts at whoever steps on them.
  • Indy gets to leapfrog his way to the idol while Satipo, in Maximum Wimp mode, stays behind and winces a lot.
  • Indy reaches the idol and swaps it out for a bag of sand that he figures weighs about the same.
  • He figures wrong. The bag sinks and the entire temple starts to collapse.
  • Nuts to being careful. Indy sprints back along the booby-trapped stones, outrunning the darts that come screaming at him like angry hornets.
  • Satipo swings back over the pit first and now holds the whip. He cuts Indy a deal: throw him the idol and he'll throw Indy the whip.
  • Indy complies. Satipo reneges, because he's a jerk, and Indy has to jump over the pit. He barely makes it.
  • Karmic comeuppance arrives very quickly: Indy discovers Satipo impaled on the same spear trap that got Indy's rival.
  • Indy scoops up the idol and moves on, gently nudged by the five-ton boulder rolling down at him like a giant bowling ball. Unbelievably great scene, btw.
  • He outruns the bowling ball and exits the temple just as it's sealed up forever. Everything is awesome. Oh wait… remember those headhunters?