- [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.
- [Discussing the fate of the Ark]
- Maj. Eaton: We have top men working on it right now.
- Indiana: Who?
- Maj. Eaton: Top... men.
- 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]
- 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?
- Maj. Eaton: [sees a picture of the Ark with rays of power coming out of it] Good God!
- Brody: Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought.
- Indiana: [Indiana is being strangled against the bar. He calmly looks up at Marion] Whiskey
- [Marion hands him the whiskey bottle and he smashes it over his assailant's head]
- [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!
- Indiana: [Indy meets Belloq in a crowded bar] Belloq.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- Marion: [blows smoke in his face] No.
- 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.
- Major Eaton: [skeptically] Secret chamber?
- 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.
- Major Eaton: [turns slowly toward Col. Musgrove] Uh... huh.
- 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.
- 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.
- [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.
- 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?
- Indiana: [points at his elbow] Here!
- [she kisses it]
- Indiana: [points at his head] Here!
- [she removes his hat and kisses him on the head]
- Indiana: [touches his eye] This isn't too bad
- [she kisses it]
- Indiana: [touches his lips] Here
- [she gives him a long passionate kiss on the lips]
- 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.
- Toht: We meet again, Fraulein. You Americans, you're all the same. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.
- 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!
- [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...
- Gobler: [interrupting him] Perhaps the girl can help us.
- 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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By what name was Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) officially released in the United States?
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