The Desert Chase

The Chase
The Nazis stole the Ark of the Covenant from Indiana Jones and were headed back to Cairo to fly it out. However, Indy chased after the cargo truck containing the Ark on a horse. Indy jumped onto the truck and threw out the passanger. He and the driver wrestled for control of the truck. The driver's foot was forced onto the pedal speeding the truck up. After that the driver took his foot off and sent a solider from the back to die by crashing his head into the wind shield of a troop car driven by Major Gobler, a German Lietenant, and a gunner. In the staff car ahead, a Blond Driver, Rene Belloq, Toht, and Colonel Dietrich were stearing clear avoiding to hit any pedestrians. However, the cargo truck crashed into some ladders causing some pedestrians to fall down. One fell onto the truck then hopped off. Indy and the truck driver were laughing at this, but the driver was distracted into laughing when Indy punched him out of the truck and off of a cliff. Indiana now had control of the truck. A two person motorcycle tried to stop the truck, but Indy knocked them into a lake. The two soliders tried desperately to push the bike back up. Gobler's car tried to shoot Indy, but the archaeologist knocked the troop car off of a cliff where Gobler and his men met there doom. In the back of the cargo truck, a Sergeant ordered his men to kill Jones and take control of the truck. Jones saw the men climbing over the side of the truck in his review mirrors and ran through the trees losing most of the men. One solider shot the archaeologist in the shoulder before falling off the truck with the side door. The sergeant, being the last one in the back, took charge. This time, he climbed over the truck and made it to the front. He punched Jones' bullet wound and threw him out the window. Jones managed to grab on to the truck's grill. Dietrich ordered the sergeant to speed up so that they can ram into each other and squish Jones. Indy used his whip to climb under the truck and climb back to the front. Belloq desperately tried to warn the sergeant the location of Jones but it was no use. Indy beat up the sergeant and threw him out the window. The sergeant was ironically in the same situation as Jones was but he lost his grip and the truck ran him over. Jones then knocked the staff car off the road and into the dirt. The truck made it back to Cairo and hid the truck. The staff car arrived too late.

Behind the Scenes

 * The truck chase has been different in many sources.
 * In the novel, script, and comic book the Lietenant did not appear. Instead Toht rode in his place.
 * The sergeant was killed in the script by Shliemman (Dietrich) who is afraid that if the sergeant kills Jones, then the truck will crash and damge the Ark.
 * In the comic book adaption, there were no soliders in the back of the truck. Only the driver and the passanger.
 * In LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures Indy and Sallah are on top of various trucks fighting soliders. Indy didn't go horseback, Gobler, his truck, the motorcycle, and the sergeant did not appear.
 * In the film after Indy jumps off the horse and throws the passanger out, the horse dissapears.
 * The LEGO set Race For The Stolen Treasure replaced the Ark with a treausre chest and replaced Gobler with a nameless solider.

Apppearances
Raiders of the Lost Ark Raiders of the Lost Ark(novel Raiders of the Lost Ark (comic) LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures