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EXT. AMONG THE TENTS - MORNING
Indy and Sallah move stealthily among the tents. Indy carries a smooth wooden staff almost seven feet tall. They stop between two tents and look across a path at the entrance to the map room. What appeared to be a mound of dirt is actually the roof on the ancient building. The hole/entrance is a five- foot square skylight. Indy looks around, then walks casually to the edge of the hole and looks inside. Sallah joins him, producing a length of rope from his robes. Indy drops the staff into the unseen map room as Sallah ties the rope around an oil drum. When it’s secure, Indy wastes no time disappearing down it into the map room.
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INT. MAP ROOM
Indy is down the twenty feet to the floor of the room in seconds. He tugs on the rope and it immediately gets pulled up. Indy looks around with real wonder and excitement. The room is lovely, with elaborate wall carvings and frescoes, all lit by the bright stream of sunlight flooding in from above. This beam of light leads Indy’s eye to the far end, and the room’s truly remarkable feature: built into the floor in meticulous relief is a miniature stone model of the ancient city of Tanis. Already, the sunlight has worked its way down the far wall and is edging onto the miniature of the city. On the floor, to the skylight side of the miniature, is an elaborate line created by embedded mosaic tiles. The evenly spaced slots in the line, each accompanied by a symbol of a time of year, are for the base of the staff. Indy pulls the headpiece from his robes -- it has been welded together -- and reaches for the staff.
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EXT. ABOVE THE MAP ROOM - DAY
An extremely nervous Sallah has the gathered rope in his hands and is trying to appear casual as he inches back toward the oil drum. There is now a good bit of activity going on up here.
JEEP GERMAN (O.S.)
Hey! You, the skinny one!
Sallah jumps about three feet. The JEEP GERMAN is standing in an open space ten yards away looking at Sallah.
JEEP GERMAN Yes, you. What are you doing there?
Sallah gestures his innocence.
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