0:00 -- 0:02 Main Titles

0:02 -- 0:25 Prologue, Ancient Tanis. An Egyptian Pharaoh enters the Well of Souls to consult with his mysterious prize. By end of scene, an enormous sandstorm wipes out city. Introduce character of young Aleph, a street thief who absconds with the headpiece to the Staff of Ra

0:25 -- 0:30 Newsreel footage, to introduce the fact that it's 1926.

0:31 -- 0:50 University of Chicago; introduce Forrestal, Belloq and Indiana Jones, and their rivalry as they try to woo Marion Ravenwood, their professor's young daughter. Abner Ravenwood is teaching about Tanis. Belloq cheats on his final, somehow swaps papers with Jones

0:51 -- 1:00 Flash-forward to 1936 - we see Indy on a plane to Peru. He's been reminiscing about ten years prior, looking at a dog-eared photo of Marion. He closes his book.

Introduce Jock, the pilot, and his love of fishing through lengthy monologue that serves as allegory for archeology and women.

1:01 - 1:15 - The trek through the jungle to find the Chachapoyan temple. Introduce Barranca and Satipo. Action sequence as they fight through a cave full of giant bats that eat their Quechuan Indian porters.

1:15 - 1:30 - Barranca turns traitor. Indy and Satipo find the temple entrance. They enter. Fight through tarantula pit. They make their way into the heart of the temple and find Forrestal's body. Slow motion and stirring music as Indy cries over the loss of Forrestal.

He then finds the inner sanctuary wherein a golden fertility idol rests. Indy steals Golden Idol.

1:31 - 1:40 - Temple erupts in a tremendous quake. Dozens of huge rolling boulders emerge from hidden chutes, and chase Indy through the countryside. He eventually crashes into a Hovitos village.

1:41 - 1:45 - Terrifying montage to show just how scary the Hovitos are. They truss Indy up, take back the Idol, and march them to their new king.

1:46 - 1:50 - Seated atop an enormous bone and wood throne is Belloq, who has taken over the Hovitos tribe. He takes back the Idol and orders Indy to sacrificed in the jaguar pit.

1:51 - 2:10 - Indy faces seven vicious jaguars but uses them against each other, and escapes from the pit. A chase begins and it looks Indy will be cornered by the Hovitos, until an ingenious escape rope engineered from fishing equipment falls down from overhead, and Jock airlifts him out.

2:11 - 2:15 - Newsreel footage. Explains the growing unrest in Europe as the world marches towards war. Then makes mention of famous professor Indiana Jones and that he teaches at Marshall College.

2:16 - 2:20 - Indy at college. He is lecturing. A young woman, Lora, catches his attention through her use of eye-liner to spell a secret message of her eyelids. Indy's class is interrupted by military intelligence agents.

2:21 - 2:30 - Army Intelligence tells Indy that Abner Ravenwood is somehow involved in a Nazi dig for Tanis. Indy signs on to find the lost Ark of the Covenant.

2:31 - 2:37 - Indy, back at his house. Lora is waiting there with a bottle of wine. It gets steamy, but Indy seems conflicted. He begins to explain that something is on his mind... flashback shots of young Marion and an angry Abner with stirring music - maybe some sort of Gaelic vocals?

2:38 - 2:45 - Indy flies to Nepal. Underworld contacts lead him to the Raven. Meets Marion. Learns that Abner is dead. Flashback to avalanche that killed him, and Marion's pained anguish of that day.

2:46 - 3:00 - German agents burst into the Raven. Prolonged gunfight triggers avalanche that sends the entire building skidding down the side of the mountain with the heroes and villains still in it. Indy and Marion eventually escape with the headpiece to the Staff of Ra

3:01- 3:10 - Indy flies to Cairo. Meets Sallah, his digger friend. As a break from the grueling action, there's an extending dining/dance scene as Sallah and his ten children entertain Indy and Marion.

3:11 - 3:15 - Marketplace scene. Indy and Marion are accosted by saber-wielding thugs. Extended action sequence.

3:16 - 3:20 - Marion is captured and placed in a basket; Indy follows basket and sees it aboard a truck that explodes. He is devastated. Music by Enya starts, as he silently mouths words of anguish in a slow motion montage. Also include flashbacks to previous parts of the movie to underscore what Marion meant to Indy.

3:21 - 3:50 - Indy has terse words with Belloq; later finds map room with Sallah's help; begins digging new excavation site; learns that Marion is still alive (Marion has lengthy flashback to explain how she survived).

3:51 - 4:00 - Well of Souls antechamber -- scarab beetle fight sequence.

4:01 - 4:15 - Indy and Sallah find the Well of Souls; Ark removed; Indy stranded in snake-pit; Marion thrown in with him. Extended chase through Well of Souls by giant snake.

4:16 - 4:20 - As Indy breaks his way out of chamber, horrific (and lengthy) sequence of Marion fighting zombie mummies.

4:21 - 4:30 - Airstrip fight sequence.

4:31 - 4:51 - Indy learns that Ark is being moved by truck convoy, escorted by tanks and fighter planes. On horseback he systematically engages and destroys a dozen trucks until he finds the right one. Epic action sequence of one man versus thousands of German soldiers. Indy escapes with the Ark.

4:52 - 5:00 - Indy meets up with Sallah at the docks; meet Captain Katanga and the Bantu Wind crew, including little Isaac, the lovable scamp of a ship-hand who will have his own subplot regarding his inability to read. Jones and Katanga have lengthy philosophical discussion about the inherent ironies of freedom of the sea, and dependence to a boat; Indy sees it allegorical to his situation with Marion.

5:01 - 5:10 - Giant squid attack.

5:11 - 5:20 - Bantu Wind is overtaken by German sub. Nazis retake Ark. With Isaac's help, Indy sneaks aboard the sub as it heads to a hidden base in a Mediterranean island.

5:21 - 5:35 -- Indy goes undercover as German soldier, follows Ark convoy to a prepared altar site. Little did the Nazis realize that the island had savage natives. They attack, thousands upon thousands of them. Nazis fight them off. German officers urge Belloq to unleash the power of the Ark now, but he says not until after the completion of the ceremony. In the battle, Jones is forced to reveal himself. As the Germans escape, they take Jones captive.

5:36 - 5:45 - Indy and Marion are bound together. Facing their final moments, they put to rest their old arguments and both discuss Abner in loving, nostalgic tones. To their surprise, they are not shot by an execution squad, but rather, are taken to the altar site. Belloq wants them to witness the opening of the Ark as his ultimate triumph.

5:46 - 6:12 - The Ark is opened. At first nothing happens - and then Spectral warriors emerge, clad in nebulous armor and holding oddly gaseous swords. They arm Indy and Marion with their ghostly weapons. What follows is an enormous war, as the Nazi soldiers are cut down by the Armies of the Ark, led by Marion and Indy. The supernatural hordes also wipe out the heathen savages on the island.

6:13 - 6:25 - With the last heretic, Belloq, slain, the ghostly forms retreat into the Ark, stripping Indy and Marion of their supernatural vestments. They stare at each other in silence, and then embrace, looking in awe at the Ark that now rests silently on the otherwise uninhabited island.

6:26 - 6:30 - Indy returns to Washington DC, where he is given the runaround by Army Intelligence. While they will pay him, they renege on their original promise to give the Ark to Indy's patron museum. They assure him that the Ark will be safe. Indy leaves, disgusted, to meet up with Marion for a drink.

6:31 - 6:35 - Over the stilted and awkward course of the drink, Indy quotes to Marion some of Katanga's philosophies about freedom. It's his way of avoiding committing to Marion. Funnily enough, Marion is attempting to do the same thing. She can't settle down either.

6:36 - 6:40 - Indy flies back home. He puts his hat in a hatbox. Takes a sip of scotch as he sits down to grade papers. He finds Lora's phone number scrawled on the essay she submitted. He smiles. Fade to black.

6:41 - 6:45 - Fade in. New York City skyline. We cut in to see a bunch of painters and drywallers working on an Art Deco-rich nightclub. We see Marion, calling the shots. A heavy canvas tarp is removed from the sign in front: The Raven's Nest. Fade to black.

6:46 - 6:50 - Fade in. Sallah looks down at a picture of him and Indy right before they set off for the Tanis digs. He puts it on his mantle next to a whole series of other photos of him and Indy. Fade to black.

6:51 - 6:55 - Fade in. The Bantu Wind cuts through the waves off the coast of an asian city. Captain Katanga watches the sun set on the horizon. He looks back to see Isaac, reading a newly printed hardcover entitled "Raiders of the Lost Ark" by Prof. H. Jones, Jr. Fade to black.

6:56 - 7:10 - Fade in. Army warehouse. The Ark is placed in a crate, one of thousands of similar crates forever locked in an undisclosed warehouse. Fade to black. End credits.

7:11 - 7:30 - Fan Club Members in credits.