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She looks beyond it with terror-widened eyes, then up through the increasing smoke at the distant Indy. Near the top of the pillar, Indy’s hands strain along his taut whip, which he has moved higher. A snake slithers into view there, inches from Indy’s straining face. Indy turns his head so the torch in his mouth can burn it. The snake falls from the pillar. Indy’s torch is dwindling. Indy works his body around so that he’s in on the side of the pillar away from Marion. The pillar moves, showering dust. Indy looks at the chamber wall five feet away, takes a breath and swings his legs up against it. He is now braced between the pillar and wall.
MARION (O.S.)
(screaming) Where are you?!
Snakes are moving in force up the pillar toward Indy’s dwindling torch. Indy grasps the pillar for dear life, grimaces with exertion and pushes against the wall with all he’s got. The pillar begins to break loose of the ceiling, then stops. Indy’s eyes are on the torch. It is just a spot of flame now. Snakes are sliding up toward his hands. Indy again pushes against the wall and torch falls out of his mouth. The pillar goes! In the dim light, we see it fall like a tree directly at Marion. Indy rides it down. The top hits the wall three feet from a cringing Marion and smashes through to a black chamber beyond. Indy flies off into the darkness. Gone. Marion clutches her torch at the black hole.
MARION Indy! Where are you?! Please Lord!
There is a moment that seems an eternity, then Indy appears like an apparition out of the void.
INDY
Come on!
He grabs her and helps her over the remains of the wall into - -
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The winding string of connected chambers is revealed to them only a few feet at a time as their torch lights the way.
MARION The snakes... are they here?
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