You know, it just occured to me that, through our edits, we've finally given this scene a 'raison d'etre'. As it stands now, this scene is entirely redundant and unnecessary. I doesn't really move the story along and given Indy no new useful information, since the whole scene is built around revealing Spalko's identity, which she kindly already offerred to Indy right up front in the opening sequence. At least now, because of our edits, he has no idea who she is and only learns in this scene.

I'm sure we'll be getting a thank you card from Lucas and Spielberg any day now :)

Also, had Koepp made the FBI agents even slightly less stupid, he could have used them to reveal the identity of Spalko without adding the additional otherwise entirely unnecessary character of Ross, who we never hear from again. So, as it stands in the original, not only is this scene pointless, but it also introduces THREE pointless new characters that we never see again! Damn you Koepp! They waited 19 years for this?! Ugh!

Ryan