Jock: Alright we can fly this baby to the ocean coast and be on my plane within the hour.
Indy: First where going to give this mask back to the bogomono tribe.
Betty: Follow river. Take you to bogomono soon.
Indy: Well, you heard the lady.
Jock: Wait, I'm not landing in the middle of those cannibal's village!
Indy bends down and gets some rope.
Indy: You won't have too. We'll simply tie this rope around the mask and lower it!
Meanwhile the balloon is being watched through a telescope by Karsten. Glenn is behind him in the car.
Karsten: Your sure they are heading back for the Bogomono village?
Glenn: Yes. They will be following the river nearly the whole way. We need to get in the water if we are to continue pursuing them.
Karsten: Up ahead there should be a small dock with a couple speed boats used by the locals. I don't think they will object to us….using them.
Back in the balloon, Indy, Jock, and Betty are resting thinking everything is over with, while behind them outside the basket, Helge is inching his way up waiting for everyone's guard to be down before he comes aboard. Indy sees a bunch of trees and notices they are slowly going down. The score becomes a bit more dramatic.
Indy: Are we going down?
Jock: I don't know! We must be running out of fuel!
Betty: We crash in trees!
Indy: What?!
Jock: Well it's not like we took the time to refill the tanks.
The score becomes like similar to 'saving Willie' as Helge comes aboard from behind. Indy hears and spins around and grapples Helge who is trying to pull out his flame thrower.
Jock: Indy! Look out!
Betty: Watch Indy!
Indy: Get down!
As Indy and Helge grapple each other, the flame thrower ignites and a couple big blasts of fire come from the gun. One blast catches the rope on fire!
Indy: Put that fire out!
Jock gets his canteen and pours some water on the rope that is burning, but the lower part of the rope attached to the basket burns through and the basket becomes a bit shaky and starts going a little sideways, but is mostly still level. The balloon is getting real close to crashing in the trees and Jock notices.
Jock: We need to go higher!
Betty: We crashing! We crashing!
As Indy is still grappled to Helge, he forces him to aim the flame thrower upwards and ignite it. The extra flame from the thrower causes the balloon to go just high enough over the trees! Indy keeps forcing the flame thrower to burn, but too much fire is coming out and the balloon itself starts to burn up! Indy punches Helge and throws him out of the balloon. Helge screams as he falls to his death. Meanwhile the Nazis get to the speedboats and take off in them and start going down the river full speed. At the balloon, Everyone is panicking as the balloon is burning and descending down towards the river!
The fire is spreading very fast to the basket. Indy is finding a way to save them.
Indy: Cut those ropes or we'll burn to a crisp!
Betty, Jock, and Indy start cutting the ropes.
Jock: Why do I feel that near death experiences are a regular thing with you?
Indy: I don't know. Ask the people trying to kill me! Brace yourselves. We're going to land pretty hard in the river!
All the ropes get cut and the basket falls into the river as everyone screams! The river is flowing pretty good but not too rough yet.
Indy: See, we're O.K.!
The score changes to one like 'the jungle chase' The first boat speeds up towards the basket with all their guns drawn but just as they are catching up the remains of the burning balloon completely cover the boat and everyone in it starts to scream and catch on fire! Finally the boat explodes. Indy looks back with a grin.
Indy: One down!
Betty: Here come more!
The other boat goes around the burning one and speeds up towards the basket. Every officer draws their guns. Indy draws his and the two boats start firing back.
Jock: We can't lose them in this thing.
Indy shoots and hits the boats motor. It starts smoking, and they are no longer gaining on the basket.
Indy: That's better!
Just then the basket comes to a halt! It is stuck between two large rocks and the boat starts to catch up.
Indy: Everyone rock the basket. Maybe we can get free.
They start to rock back and forth and the basket is getting freed but the Nazi's boat gets close enough for one of the Nazi soldiers to jump across right before the basket gets free. Indy and the Nazi wrestle each other a few moments when up ahead on the river banks, Betty notices a few spear fishing natives of the Bogomono tribe on both sides of the banks.
Betty: Bogomono!
Indy: This isn't time for talking…
Betty: Bogomono by river!
Jock: I see them too!
The Bogomono tribesmen see the basket and get really stirred up. They start throwing their spears at the basket from both directions. Indy uses the Nazi as a human shield and keeps turning him in both directions depending where the spears come from! Several spear nearly hit Jock, Betty, and Indy, and many pierce the basket. The Nazis in the boat are getting spears thrown at them too, but only one is hit and killed. After a few moments the basket and boat drift away from the Bogomono and the river starts picking up more speed. Indy notices he is out of bullets and grabs one of the spears from the body of the nazi and throws his body out of the basket. Indy looks for a way to fight back without his gun.
Indy: Betty! Cut some of this rope. Long like boa! Understand?
Betty: Yes! I understand.
Indy: Jock, get the spears that are stuck and bring them here.
Jock: You got it!
The score gets faster like 'the mine cart chase' The river start to get much faster now and it is making the movement of the boat and basket very unpredictable and dangerous. The Nazi's boat still has three soldiers in the front and two in the middle while Karsten and Glenn are in the back. They are still trying to fire on the basket but the wild white water rapids are making it difficult. Indy ties one of the lengths of rope to a spear and twirls it around to gain momentum and tosses it at the Nazi's boat hitting one dead in the chest, killing him right after letting out one last scream.
Indy: Give me another one.
Jock hands him the next one and Indy tosses it like before but this time it gets stuck in the front of the boat. The Nazi up front takes the homemade harpoon out of the boat and tosses it back! It gets stuck tightly in the basket! The Nazi uses the rope to pull their boat forward closer to the basket. Indy tries to throw one more but misses. The boat is getting closer and Indy is trying to reach out of the basket to cut the rope but when he does a gunshot gets too close to hitting him. One of the Nazis pulls himself on the rope in the water to the basket and another follows. When the first Nazi gets close enough, Indy tries to throw him off the end of the basket. The second Nazi jumps for the basket and starts to climb in while trying to attack Indy! Jock comes to help fight.
Jock: Hang on buddy!
One of the Nazis punches him once and he is out cold. Betty tries to wake him up.
Betty: You O.K.?
Jock: (groaning) Ohhhhmmmmm…
Indy punches the first Nazi several times and throws him in the water. The Nazi tries to swim to safety when he sees several logs in the water. He grabs one and it turns out to be an alligator! The alligator doesn't hesitate to eat the Nazi, and starts swimming towards the basket for more. Indy is getting overpowered by the Nazi and both are pulled to the outside of the basket and are hanging on. The alligator swims up and is trying to bite both Indy and the Nazi while they are hanging on! As Indy and the Nazi are trying to throw each other off they take turns kicking the gator! One of the Nazis in the boat fires at the gator and scares it away. Indy and the nazi that is grappled on to him fall in the water and are fighting as they are rushing downstream! The Nazi's boat is getting closer when it gets stuck on a couple rocks!
Karsten: (In German) Get this boat moving!
The two soldiers in the middle are doing what they can but the boat won't budge. In the river Indy and the Nazi are still trying to drown each other when Indy hears Betty yell out.
Betty: End of water Indy!
Indy and the Nazi look over and see a huge water fall that is just yards away! Jock wakes up and looks out the side to see the falls.
Jock: Whoa!
Betty: Hold on! Going fall!
Indy: Betty!
Betty and Jock goes over the huge falls while screaming all the way down! Indy pulls out his whip and whips a branch near the bank. He starts to go over the falls but the whip hold him up while the nazi grabs on to him! Betty and Jock make it safely over the falls and swim to shore. They see Indy and call to him.
Betty: Indy! Hold on!
Jock: Hang on bud!
Indy is dangling over the falls with water pouring over him and the nazi trying to make him fall. Indy elbows the Nazi in the face and causes him to fall where he hits his head on some rocks and dies. Indy is slipping and just then the branch breaks and Indy falls.
Jock and Betty: NOOOO!
The score slows but stays dramatic and suspenseful. Betty and Jock look for him to come up but don't see him. A few seconds go by when they see a log floating. The log rotates and Indy is hanging on the other side. The score gets bright here with a few bars of Indy's theme.
Betty and Jock: Indy!
Indy swims to shore and gets on land.
Indy: I'm O.k. Come on were almost to the village right?
Betty: Yes not far now. This way!
The score is pretty normal here. Meanwhile at the boat, the two remaining Nazis along with Karsten and Glenn have lassoed a rope around a branch and are pulling themselves to shore.
Karsten: They got away!
Glenn: No need to worry captain. I know where they are headed!