Who poisoned the date?
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy goes to eat a date but is stopped by Sallah who catches it and points to the dead monkey, saying:
"Bad dates"
My assumption has always been that they were poisoned but on re-watching, it's unclear. So were the dates poisoned and if so, by who?
Best Answer
Monkey Man, a local man wearing an eye patch, poisoned the dates.
An apparent native of Cairo, who wears an eye patch and is in the credits as Monkey Man, clearly sneaks into Sallah's apartment and pours liquid over the dates. Watch this scene (on YouTube). Monkey Man is acting in a surreptitious manner, indicating he is doing something nefarious. From subsequent events, the most reasonable inference is that the liquid he poured on the dates was a poison that is fatal from ingestion, but harmless on skin contact. The only thing not immediately clear is the man’s motive.
The assassin was enlisted by the Germans.
Earlier in the movie, Monkey Man is seen to be the monkey's master. In one earlier scene -that I cannot find on YouTube- he meets with German agents with the monkey on his shoulder, indicating that he and his monkey are in the employ of the Germans.
You may remember that scene for its comic aspect: the Monkey gives a sieg heil salute, prompting the Germans to reflexively return the monkey's salute before they realize what they are doing.
From all this, we can infer that the Germans hired Monkey Man to get rid of Indiana Jones.
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