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INDY (getting up) Take it easy. I’m looking for your father.
MARION
(bitterly) Well you’re two years too late.
Indy’s attitude changes instantly. This is sad news. He is silent for a long time. Mahdlo comes in the front door and hurries forward when he sees Indy with Marion. He looks to her for guidance, but she stays him with a gesture.
(MORE) MARION Go home, Mahdlo. I’ll see you tomorrow.
Mahdlo is hesitant, but lays the axe handle on the bar and goes out. Indy has been barely aware of him. Now he settles again on the barstool. Marion has a vindictive look. She’ll let him stay, but she wants to inflict as much pain as possible.
INDY What happened?
MARION Avalanche. Up there. He was
digging. What else? He spent his whole life digging. Dragging me all over this rotten earth. For what?
INDY Did you find him?
MARION Hell no. He’s buried where he was working. Probably preserved real good, too. In the snow.
Suddenly the hardness cracks. She is on the verge of tears and does not want him to see them. She turns away and takes a whiskey bottle from the shelf, then turns back to pour herself a drink.
INDY Not a bad way to go. Doing what he loved.
MARION
(vitriolic) Don’t give me that stuff!
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