Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

SHORT ROUND

Indy, look out!

A sharper curve looms ahead and Indy shoves the brake completely off!

WILLIE

What're you doing?! We're going too fast!!

Willie closes her eyes as they rocket toward the curve. In the car behind, the Thuggee guard at the brake also shoves the brake off – and looks extremely worried. Indy's car hits the curve and the centrifugal force lifts the inside wheels off the rails!

INDIANA

Get over on the other side!

Willie and Short Round jumps over to his side as the car whips around the curve! Indy looks back and sees the car pursuing them is also taking the curve at full speed –

Suddenly the Thuggee car swerves dangerously, the weight shifts too much to the outside – and the car derails!

The car bounces off the tracks and flies through the air into a siding where is CRASHES against a stone wall in an EXPLOSION of rock and metal!

Pieces of debris pommel the drive of the second Thuggee car and he quickly grabs for the brake to slow down and avoid the same fate! In the lead car, Indy smiles smugly as Willie opens her eyes.

INDIANA

One down, one to go!

INT. THE CAVERN ABOVE

Mola Ram's guards continue to bash away with sledge hammers at the rock supports under the mammoth cistern. One of the supports starts to crumble –

From above, we see the cistern list to one side and water laps dangerously over the edge as the huge tank creaks and sways.

INT. THE TUNNEL

Indiana and Short Round heft a railroad tie out of the bottom of the car and Willie watches them lift it onto the back.

As gunfire continues to explode from the car behind them, Indiana and Short Round shove the railroad tie off the back of the car –

The wooden railroad tie falls and bounces back across the tracks. The gunmen in the car behind spit it and yell in panic –

Indy and Willie watch the car behind crash into the railroad tie – but the tie just skids, catches and bounces up and out of the way like a huge tumbling matchstick!

WILLIE

Anymore ideas...?

INDIANA

Yeah – this time you're gonna help!

INT. THE CAVERN

The sledgehammers continue – until two of the rock supports give way! There are shouts as the guards run for cover.

Mola Ram stands on a platform watching the huge cistern slowly keel over – the noise is incredible as the colossal tank crashes to the ground!

Suddenly a half-million gallons of water explode across the cavern and surge in a tidal wave toward the tunnels!

INT. THE TUNNEL

The walls of the tunnel flash past and curves appear suddenly out of the darkness as the hair-raising chase continues.

Short Round and Willie struggle to help Indy lift a large boulder from the bottom of the speeding mine car. The cars descend again into a stretch of much lower tunnel where the beams flash past inches above them. Indy judges the beams –

INDIANA

Okay– one – two – NOW!

All three of them groan as they raise the boulder and shove it off the back of the car – ducking instantly to avoid being decapitated by the next beam!

Looking back, they see the gunmen pop up between the beams – and they see the looks of terror on the gunmen's faces as they see the boulder in front of them!

The Thuggee car hits the boulder and upends! The guards scream horribly as the car tumbles end over end, slamming against the tunnel walls, getting ripped to shreds so that finally only pieces of metal, wheels and debris fly like a meteorite shower down the tunnel!

Willie whoops for joy and hugs Indy who smiles modestly –

INDIANA

Okay, Shorty, hit the brakes!

Short Round dives for the front of the car and happily pulls the brake lever – it doesn't work! Short Round yanks on it harder – the brake level suddenly breaks off!

SHORT ROUND

Indy!!

Indy sees Short Round holding up the broken brake lever! Indy crawls quickly toward Shorty while Willie holds on for dear life! Completely out of control, the car hurtles down a decline into a section where the tunnel if larger again –

Indiana bends over the front of the car and looks underneath. He sees the brake tension hanging loose from the brake-pad. Indiana pulls himself back up and looks at Willie and Short Round.

INDIANA

Grab onto me – I'm going to try and slow us down from underneath!

Willie looks terrified but helps Short Round grab onto Indy's arm and the back of his jacket. He skips over the front of the car and swings a leg underneath –

Indy is inches above the rails and the rocky ground blurring beneath the car as he tries to kick at the brake-pad. His feet fall and he bumps along, dragged dangerously for a moment –

Indy manages to find a foothold on the undercarriage of the car. As they hold onto him, Indy kicks again and his foot hits the brake-pad. He shoves it and slowly the pad closes against the spinning wheel...