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Belzig's Heated Iron Poker

A heavy iron poker Belzig heats in The Raven's fireplace until its tip glows red-hot; he uses it to threaten Marion while demanding the medallion. Indy cracks his whip to yank the poker free, sending it into the curtains where it ignites the bar's fire.
3 appearances

Purpose

Torture tool to burn and extract information through intense heat

Significance

Belzig wields it to break Marion's resistance, but Indy's intervention turns it into an improvised incendiary device that sparks the firefight, destroys the bar, and scatters the Nazis while revealing the medallion's protective power.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

3 moments
S1E1 · RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Choice at The Raven — Belzig's Interrogation and the Medallion's Burn

Belzig’s glowing poker is heated in the fireplace, used as a torture tool to threaten Marion’s face, is torn from his hand by Indy’s whip and is flung into the heavy curtains where it ignites them — directly triggering the room-wide fire.

Before: Red-hot at the hearth in Belzig’s hand, brandished toward Marion.
After: Thrown into curtains where it starts a spreading fire that engulfs part of the bar.
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S1E1 · RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Feigning Compliance, Glowing Poker, and Whip Rescue

Belzig's poker—heated in the fireplace until its tip glows orange—is the immediate instrument of torture and threat; Indy’s whip wraps and tears it from Belzig’s hand, whereupon it sails into the curtains and ignites the fire that transforms interrogation into full conflagration.

Before: Red-hot and held by Belzig near the fireplace, used as a torture prop.
After: Snatched by Indy's whip and tossed into the curtains, which catch fire and spread across the ceiling.
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S1E1 · RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
The Raven: Whip, Fire, and the Medallion's Burn

Belzig's poker — heated in the fireplace — is the immediate torture instrument; it threatens Marion's face until Indy's whip disarms him. Once flung into the curtains it ignites the blaze; later it is incidental as attention shifts to the medallion and the fire.

Before: Glowing red-hot in Belzig's hand, used to coerce Marion at the fireplace.
After: Torn free by the whip and lodged in the curtains where it begins the fire; its active role ends as flames take over.
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