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Indy and Satipo come down stone stairs to a tight landing. Framing the entry are a carefully strung network of dead vines, each somehow hooked into the wall, narrowing the opening even more.
INDY (taking the torch)
Let me see that.
He lowers the torch to the floor of the landing. The landing is carpeted with human skeletons, one on top of another, all squashed flat as cardboard. Satipo gasps. Indy looks up at the ceiling of the landing, then steps onto the skeletons, which make a cracking noise under his feet.
INDY Try not to touch the vines.
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FOYER OF THE SANTUARY
The men are in a high, straight hallway 50 feet long. The door at the end is flooded with sunlight.
SATIPO Senor, I think we are very close.
Indy stands still looking at the hall.
SATIPO
(impatient) Let us hurry. There is nothing to fear here.
INDY That’s what scares me.
They begin walking down the hall side by side. Satipo has inched a little ahead. Suddenly his lead foot comes down and through the floor! As Satipo beings to pitch forward, Indy grabs him by the belt and pulls him back. They both look down at the “floor”. Indy swings his whip across the floor. Fifteen feet of it cuts open beneath the lash, falling away to reveal a black pit as wide as the hall. The illusory floor was made of dust- covered cobwebs. Satipo picks up a stone and drops it down the pit. No sound. The two men exchange glances. Indy looks up at the high roof of the hall. He swings the whip up around a support beam, tests its strength with a pull and swings over the pit on the whip. From the other side he swings the whip back to Satipo, who throws Indy the torch. Satipo swings across.
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