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INDY We don’t need them.
Satipo watches this confrontation with some concern.
BARRANCA I do not carry supplies.
INDY We’ll leave them. Once we’ve got it, we’ll be able to reach the plane by dusk.
He turns back to the trail. Satipo gets the two remaining Indians moving behind Indy. Satipo and Barranca then have a fast, silent communication: Barranca indicates his desire to slit Indy’s throat; Satipo gives him a look that says “Be patient, you idiot”
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THE APPROACH TO THE TEMPLE
The party fans out to fight their way through the entwined trees that guard the temple. Visibility is cut to five feet in the heavy mist. Satipo extracts a short, native dart from a tree and examines the point gingerly.
SATIPO (showing Indy)
The Hovitos are near. The poison is still fresh...three days. They’re following us, I tell you. INDY If they knew we were here, they would have killed us already.
The two Indians jabber in Quechua, near hysteria. Barranca is sweating profusely, eyes darting. He yells at the Indians in Quechua to “shut up”.
In the undergrowth, there is slithering movement.
Indian #1 draws aside a branch and is face with a horrific stone sculpture of a Chachapoyan demon. The Indian is so frightened no sound comes out when he screams. He turns and runs silently away. Indian #2 calls to his friend. Getting no response, he steps in that direction. A huge macaw, flushed from the undergrowth, screams and flies away. Indian #2 does exactly the same thing, never to be seen again.
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