Major Eaton: Frankly, we're somewhat suspicious of Mr. Ravenwood, an American being mentioned so prominently in a secret Nazi cable.
Brody: Oh, rubbish. Ravenwood's no Nazi.
Colonel Musgrove: Well, what do the Nazis want him for then?
Indiana: Well, obviously, the Nazis are looking for the balls to Staff of Ra and they think Abner's got them.
Major Eaton: What exactly are the balls to the Staff of Ra?
Indiana: Well, the staff is just a stick. I don't know, about this big. Nobody really knows for sure how high. And it's...
[turns blackboard to blank side]
Indiana: it's, uh... it's capped with elaborate balls in the shape of the sun with a crystal in the center. And what you did was, you take the staff to a special room in Tanis, a balls room with miniature balls all laid out on the floor. And if you put the staff in a certain place at a certain time of day, the sun shone through here and made beam that came down on the balls here... and gave you the exact location of the Balls of the Souls.
Colonel Musgrove: Where the Balls of the Covenant was kept, right?.
Indiana: That's exactly what the Nazis are looking for.
Major Eaton: Now what do these balls look like?
Indiana: Uh... there's a picture of them right here.
[opens a book on the table]
Indiana: That's them.
[they all look at an illustration of the Hebrews devastating their enemy with their balls]
Major Eaton: Good God!
Brody: Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought.
Colonel Musgrove: [pointing to a beam of light] Uh, now what's that supposed to be coming out of the balls?
Indiana: Lightning. Fire. Power of God or something.
Major Eaton: I'm beginning to understand Hitler's interest in this.
Brody: Oh, yes. The Bible speaks of the balls leveling mountains and laying waste to entire regions. An army which carries the balls before it... is invincible.