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** Possibly this was a [[Batman Gambit]] on the Thuggees' part, as they'd already prepared ways to [[Mind Control]] Indy via voodoo dolls and black blood of Kali. The assassin and secret passage could have been an audition, to see if he was worth ensorcelling; had his trance not been broken, he'd have been a useful agent to seek out more relics for the cult.
** He's there because a nearby village told him that people from the palace had abducted their children, and he let them know this. So he probably wasn't going to just give up, and seeing as he is a world renowned archaeologist and tomb raider, the kind of guy who has made a career out of finding what he's looking for, it makes sense to kill him. Especially since he might inform the British authorities.
*** Especially since this is still colonial-era India. You can torment all the peasant villagers you want and the authorities aren't going to pay much attention to them, because 'they're just bloody wogs', but if an educated white man tries to file a police report with the British you are ''far'' more likely to get a response. Once they know Professor Jones is likely on to them they have a ''very'' compelling need to kill him before he can actually tell anyone.
* Played with in ''[[Race to Witch Mountain]]''. The lead characters are quick to publish a book on what happened to them during the movie, specifically they're [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know [[The Government]] can't touch them without validating their claims.
* In ''[[The Other Guys]]'', a highly armed crew makes a daring heist into a jewelry store using a wrecking ball. As it turns out, {{spoiler|the real target was not the jewelry store but the adjoining accountancy firm where the "robbers" surreptitiously snuck into and altered the books}}.
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*** Which is still a straight example, since only the NSA knew it was their code, and the kid had only told the NSA that he broke it. Killing them all should not be plan A.
* In the movie ''Sniper 3'', the sniper's mission to kill an old war buddy turned Vietnamese drug lord/rogue intelligence agent is interrupted by a second sniper trying to kill ''him''. This is due to the fact that said drug lord is one of three people who had participated in a war crime in Vietnam, the other two being the NSA director and a powerful senator, and they wanted him dead to protect themselves, and kill the killer to ensure that the sniper didn't learn why. Given that they had destroyed all physical evidence of their crimes thirty years earlier, the only reason why it gets discovered is because they tried to cover it up.
== [[Literature]] ==
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