Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Then he looks at the bag holding the Sankara Stones and grows still more determined –
 

INDIANA (CONT'D)

And then we're going to get these out of here – !

(seething)

And somehow I'm going to see this place destroyed.

INT. THE CAVERN – MOMENTS LATER

A gaurd passing hears a voice and stops –
 

INDIANA (O.S.)

Ah, sir? Excuse me –

The guard turns and looks amazed to see Indy smiling at him from the mouth of the tunnel.

INDIANA (CONT'D)

Listen, I'm from the union and I'd like to talk about the working conditions here. Could you step inside a minute?

Indy smiles again and disappears into the tunnel. In astonished rage, the guard draws his sword and goes after Indy into the tunnel – there's a pause and then we hear the guard yell!

INT. THE TUNNEL

Willie flattens against the wall as Indiana catapults the big guard past her back into the mine where he's set upon a horde of rebellious slave children.

The kids swarm over the guard like jackals and we see Short Round pull a key from the struggling guard's robe.

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MONTAGE – THE MINES

A key is twisted and the chains are pulled from kids' legs...

Elsewhere, more chains are unlocked and rattle free. Liberated kids spill out of the tunnels...

A guard is tripped and attacked by a horde of ex-slaves...

In another location, kids wrap captured guards in layers of chains...

High up on a ledge, a fleeing guard skids to a stop when he sees kids charging at him. He sees more kids rushing from behind him. The guard scrams as he dives off the ledge...

INT. BEHIND THE ALTAR – DAY

Freed children scramble up numerous ladders to escape the mines below. They follow the mass of children moving toward the front altar.

INT. THE ALTAR

On the altar, under the statue of Kali, Willie and Short Round are helping Indy and some of the bigger children rip down a long wooden panel decorated with hideous Kali figures.

The children's' escape is blocked by the chasm separating the altar from the deserted worshippers' area of the temple. The swelling crowds of children push and teeter dangerously on the edge of the fire pit.

Indiana and the others carry the wooden panel through the crowd toward the chasm. They stand it up and when Indy gives the word they drop it –

The panel crashes across the chasm forming a plank across which the children now begin running to safety.

INT. BEHIND THE ALTAR

The last of the children scramble up the ladders and run toward the front of the altar.

INT. THE ALTAR

The children's bare feet stomp across the wooden plank – below them the lava of the fire pit bubbles and shows outbursts of flame.

Indy stares at the plank and sees that it's starting to smoke from the intense heat rising up.

On the far side of the plank, the children safely across scatter through the deserted temple toward freedom.

Willie and Short Round help the last kids out onto the plank – Indy sees one child's foot break though the smoldering wood – the kid in front pulls the child to safety.

Willie and Short Round start to go out onto the plank but Indy shouts at them –

INDIANA
No, wait!

He runs over and pulls them aside – he steps out onto the plank and takes a few steps to test it – suddenly the plank bursts into flame in the middle.

Indy takes one more step – and then the plank breaks! Indy dives back to the ledge of the altar and Willie and Short Round grab him and pull him up and the wooden plank plummets into the fiery chasm.

WILLIE
What're we going to do?!

INDIANA

There's got to be another way out.

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INT. A TUNNEL

Indiana, Willie and Short Round run through the deserted mine tunnels. They hear a rumbling noise and Indy leads them down a side tunnel. They stop and peer into a quarry.

INT. THE QUARRY CAVERN

A large cavern is the depository for the mine cars rolling in with loads of rock. Emaciated children (still unaware of the revolt and the other children's' escape) break their backs shoving the heavily-loaded mine cars.

Thuggee guards supervise the deadening work, while others operate the pulley-and-hoist system used to drag the cars up the sloped dump ramp.

Behind this operation, a thunderous waterfall cascades into a huge cistern. From there, chutes deeply the rushing water to power the large conveyor belt below it.

As the cars rise up the ramp, they tip and spill rocks onto the conveyor belt which carries them toward an awesome stone cylinder that rolls relentlessly , crushing the rocks into sand.
 

From the side tunnel, Indiana watches the noisy operation.

INDIANA
Those empty cars have got to go out of the mines.

Willie and Short Round watch the children push the empty mine cars. The cars gain momentum and roll away down two dark tunnels.

INDIANA (CONT'D)

Come on, let's see if we can catch a ride...

Tey duck out of the tunnel and run for cover behind a slag heap. Loaded mine cars roaring down from the mines hurtle past them and crash to a stop against the cars in front.

INDIANA (CONT'D)

Okay, Shorty – go!

He pushes Short Round who darts out after a mine car roars past and dodges across the tracks before the next one descends. Indy pushes Willie in the position and holds her ready –

WILLIE

I can't!

INDIANA

Go!

After another car crashes past, Indy shoves her. Willie runs out – her shoe gets stuck and she freezes in the tracks! Willie sees a rock-filled car blasting down out of a tunnel directly toward her!

Indiana dives, knocking Willie safely to the ground on the other side of the tracks – the heavy car hurtles past and crashes into the cars in front.

Indy pulls Willie behind a massive wooden post holding up the dump ramp and they hide from a passing guard.

INDIANA
We've got to get across to the empty cars. Wait here until I signal you.

They watch him run and hurdle a pile of lumber, bound up three steps and duck behind a tool shack on the platform. Indy reaches out and grabs one of the passing slave children.

They see Indy put his hand over the kid's mouth and whisper to him. He releases the kid who sneaks away, alerting the other children who start making their escapes into side tunnels.

Now Indy motions to Short Rounds and Willie to follow. As they start to move out they freeze dead in their tracks and Indy motions again angrily –

INDIANA
Come on!

Willie and Short Round see a guard coming up the steps on the other side of the platform. As the man rises he gets taller and taller – until they see it's a Thuggee giant coming up behind Indiana.

INDIANA (CONT'D)

Come one, what's wrong?

SHORT ROUND

Behind you!

Indiana turns and looks into the bare chest of the seven-foot tall guard. Indy has to look up to see the man's mean-looking face.

INDIANA

I see the problem...

Indiana suddenly punches the giant in the stomach – the giant does not flinch, he just belches rudely.

Indiana growls and winds up to take a killer swing – he steps back, cocks his arm – and suddenly turns and runs away.

No dummy, Indy dashes over and picks up a piece of wood. The giant starts toward him. Indy drops the wood and looks around for a much larger piece of wood.

As the giant stalks toward him, Indiana raises the large piece of lumber – Indy suddenly groans, drops the wood and clutches his stomach. Willie and Short Round looks startled –

WILLIE
What happened?

Short Round shakes his head. They see Indy recover from the spasm as the giant rushes him. Indy jumps aside, landing on a loaded mine car that is passing by.

The car is being dragged up the dump ramp and the giant jumps out onto it after Indiana. Indy quickly grabs a rock and, as the giant rushes him, Indy smashes the rock against the big man's skull!

Unfortunately, it's the rock that shatters and not the skull. Indy dives to the other end of the mine car and lifts a large boulder.

Suddenly Indy drops the boulder and grabs him arm, feeling a shooting pain again. Then he yells as he feels yet another stabbing pain in his left leg.

WILLIE
What's wrong with him?

Shorty is confused and worried – and then he sees something! He looks up and there on a rock-cut balcony over the cavern is the little Maharajah!

The little prince clutches the clay kryta doll that represents Indy. He jabs it in the leg with a long sapphire-tipped turban pin.

On the mine car, Indy yells and grabs his right leg, which collapses beneath him. Short Round takes off. He dashes under the platform toward a bucket-chain carrying spent water back up to the cistern.

Short Round leaps over the pool of water and grabs onto a bucket. He rises up on this make-shift elevator toward the rock balcony and the malicious little Maharajah.

Meanwhile, Indy is on the brink of unconsciousness as the giant's massive hands throttle his neck. Indy's head hangs over the end of the mine car and suddenly his eyes widen –

The car with Indy and the giant reaches the peak of the dump ramp and its upended – spilling both of them and a shower of rocks down the conveyor belt!

Down below, Willie dodges wooden pillars and weaves around quarry equipment, trying to follow Indy's battle with the giant. She trips and swears angrily –

Willie pushes and empty mine car out of her way – an empty mine car! She runs back and starts shoving the mine car along the rails toward the conveyor belt.

WILLIE
I got one! Indy, I got one!

Near the waterfall, Short Round ascends on the rising bucket chain. Up on the balcony, the little Maharajah chuckles evilly as he watches Indiana on the conveyor belt –

The Maharajah lifts the clay doll and viciously jabs the pin in the back of it!

On te conveyor, Indiana gets to his feet and then yells as a stabbing pain lacerates his back! He falls and writhed helplessly as the giant staggers up the rocky conveyor belt toward him.

Willie shoves the mine car forward. She sees Indy's desperate situation as he's pulled along the conveyor toward the rock crusher!

WILLIE
Indy, look out!

She looks up and sees Short Round leap from the bucket-chain onto the balcony. The little Maharajah's eyes glow fiendishly as he lifts the clay doll – and jabs the pin into the doll's face.

On the conveyor belt, Indy yells agonizingly and clutches his stabbed face! Behind him, rocks explode as they're crushed and pulverized by the mammoth roller.

In front of Indy, the Thuggee giant grabs a pick-axe as the conveyor slides past a tool bin. The giant approaches Indy with it.

Short Round dashes across the balcony and tackles the Maharajah. They fall and fight like mortal enemies. Short Round sees the little Maharajah's eyes glowing as he punches him in the face.

Only a few feet away from the rock-smashing roller, Indy is still on his back on the conveyor belt, thrashing in pain, feeling the Maharajah's pin piercing his face. The giant raises the pick-axe above his head and it about to split Indiana in two!

On the balcony, the Maharajah drops the doll and Short Round dives for it – he grabs the clay doll and pulls out the pin!

On the conveyor belt, Indiana is suddenly released from the and looks up to see the giant swinging the pick-axe. Indy rolls aside at the last minute!
 

The pick-axe cleaves into the conveyor belt and the giant lurches forward – Indy gives him a helpful kick, sending the giant flying toward the rock-crusher as Indy jumps off the conveyor belt!

Seeing the huge roller looming in front of him, the giant crawls desperately against the movement of the conveyor belt – but he gets snagged!

The sash around his waist gets caught under the rolling crusher and he's dragged back under it feet first. The Thuggee giant screams hideously as his body is rolled over and squashed by the enormous stone wheel!

On the balcony, Short Round is jabbing the pin into the squirming little Maharajah. The little prince's eyes still glow yellow as he hollers –

SHORT ROUND
How you like being pin cushion, Mr. Rajah-ha-ha?

The little prince rolls on the ground and tries to fight off Short Round who keeps jabbing him – suddenly the Maharajah swings and the pin is accidentally rammed clear through his hand!

Shorty sees the pin sticking through both sides of the kid's hand. The Maharajah stares at his pierced hand, gasping in astonishment.

Short Round notices the yellow glow dying out of the Maharajah's eyes – just as Indy's eyes cleared after he was released from Kali's trance.

MAHARAJAH
Please – pull it out!

Short Round yanks the pin out of the little prince's hand. The Maharajah looks like he's jsut awakened from a bag dream.

SHORT ROUND

It was the black sleep of Kali...

MAHARAJAH

They made me do evil things... may lord Krishna forgive me.

Meanwhile, Indy runs along the catwalk above the conveyor belt. He jumps and grabs onto a cross-bard – he kicks out with his feet and knocks a quarry guard off the catwalk.

The guard flies through the air and topples into the sand pit where he thrashes around blindly under the sand falling from the crusher.

Across the cavern, Willie shoves the rolling mine car toward the balcony.

WILLIE
Get down here, Shorty! I got us a ride!

Willie shrills as another quarry guard rushes toward her. She yanks the iron brake-handle off the mine car and holds it threateningly like a baseball bat –

WILLIE (CONT'D)

Come on, let's see hoe hand your head is!

Up on the rock balcony, Short Round lowers himself over the edge. The little Maharajah grabs his arm –
 

MAHARAJAH

Please – listen – to go out you must take the left tunnel.

Shorty looks at him and he knows he's telling the truth.