Marion's Box (contained $5,000)

A wooden box that contained Marion's $5,000 in cash, present in the center of the Raven bar during a violent brawl. Fire and falling beams consume the box and bills, leaving a shapeless pile of ash and charred splinters on the floor; Marion dives into the hot ruins to retrieve a scalding sun medallion, reacting with humiliation and fury at the loss of the money.

2 appearances

Purpose

Container for $5,000 cash

Significance

Drives Marion's humiliation and sparks her defiant partnership with Indy; its loss strips her independence but yields the crucial medallion.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S1E1 · RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Ashes and Alliance: Marion Claims the Medallion

The wooden box that held Marion's five grand is found wrecked in the fire; it transforms from a literal store of value into a pile of ash, serving narratively as the brutal confirmation of financial humiliation and the catalyst for Marion's switch to the medallion as leverage.

Before: Contained the five thousand dollars, kept on the bar; intact prior to the fire consuming it.

After: Ruin: charred splinters and its cash reduced to a shapeless pile of ash and burned fragments.

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S1E1 · RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Flames, the Medallion, and a Reluctant Partnership

Marion rushes to the box that contained the five grand and finds it destroyed: the box and its contents are reduced to ash. The object's destruction underlines Marion's material loss and forces her to cling to the medallion as the only remaining prize.

Before: Box sitting at the centre of the bar containing $5,000 in cash.

After: Charred fragments and ash; the cash burned and effectively lost.

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