The Indiana Jones Timeline - Part 3: From 1921

Edited and Expanded by Allen Lane

Part 3 covers Indy from 1921 on

1922

May:

Indy finally completes his undergraduate degree on May 23rd and moves onto a graduate program (in linguistics) at the Sorbonne. His archaeology professor, Dorian Belecamus, invites him along on a dig in Greece. There, she's involved in a plot to overthrow King Constantine, and Indy is unknowingly set up to take the blame for the king's murder. Indy saves the king but loses Dorian when she is killed by a bullet meant for him. It is this adventure that marks the turning point in Indy's life. Archaeology now becomes his lifelong pursuit. (Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi - B)

1924

Still a graduate student in France, Indy goes on a dig with Roland Walcott and other students. Indy discovers an underwater cave with Ice Age paintings and clay animals inside. Walcott learns of this and tries to steal the glory for himself, but disappears into an underground river during a struggle. He is presumed dead. (Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy - B)

1925

Indy finally completes his graduate studies at the Sorbonne and is hired for his first professional job at London University. The job is teaching a summer archaeology course. On the way to London, Indy is troubled by several unpleasant "gifts" (black widows and scorpions) and thinks he is being followed. Once in London, the head of the Archaeology department, Joanna, invites Indy on a dig in Whithorn, Scotland. The purpose of the dig is to confirm the legend of Merlin and to study Stonehenge. Indy also ends up romancing Joanna's daughter, Deirdre. Indy's mysterious follower is revealed as a British Parliament member working to revive the Druids. (Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants - B)

1926

March:

Indy and Deirdre recover the mask of Camozotz and other artifacts during an expedition in Guatemala. (Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils - B)

April:

Indy returns to New York to recover from a gunshot wound suffered in Guatemala. Marcus Brody gives Indy several pages from the journal of Fawcett, an explorer gone missing in Brazil. Deirdre and Indy get married and she tags along. They are eventually captured by the same people who captured the missing explorer. The residents of Ceiba (the kidnappers) need new blood or the magical abilities they use to veil their city will be lost. Indy, Deirdre and Fawcett escape, but their plane crashes, killing Deirdre and Fawcett. (Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils - B)

1927

Indy parts ways with his job in London and returns to Chicago. He visits an old college friend, Jack Shannon, a jazz musician with family ties to organized crime. After their first reunion, Shannon convinces Indy to attend a lecture given by a Russian who claims to have climbed Mount Ararat and seen Noah's Ark. They join an expedition to the mountain after being chased out of Chicago. A group of Bolshevik spies known as the Janissary Corps also attack Indy's group, but they still manage to reach the site of the Ark. An avalanche occurs, saving them from the Janissaries, but at the cost of burying the Ark beneath tons of snow and ice. Any hope of its recovery is lost. (Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge - B)

1928

May/June:

Indy spends the 1927-1928 school year teaching at a small New England college. Once classes end, he plans to resume studies with fellow archaeologist Mara Rogers (they met during the Southern France dig in 1924). Unfortunately, he receives a telegram announcing delays in their plans, so Indy heads off to Utah to study the Anasazi ruins without her. His traveling companion, Jack Shannon, is kidnapped by Roland Walcott (long thought dead) who mistakes Jack for Indy. Walcott's plan is to trade Indy (Jack) for Mara's knowledge of a unicorn's horn. Mara turns the tables on Walcott, saying that she will kill Indy herself before giving up the horn. Later, Marcus Brody and Indy work together with a fake horn to trick Mara out of the original. Once they recover the horn, Indy returns to the Anasazi ruins and replaces the horn in the crevice in which it was found and seals the entrance with dynamite. (Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy - B)

1929

Spring:

After spending a few weeks attempting to decipher the rongo-rongo tablets on Easter Island, Indy is contacted by Marcus Brody, who needs his help on an urgent mission. Brody's brother-in-law, Hans Beitelheimer, has disappeared and Indy is asked to look for him. Indy discovers Beitelheimer's fascination with a local myth of a ghost ship and is led on an adventure which takes him to the dream-like "interior world." Indy eventually escapes, ending up on Liberty Island in New York City. (Indiana Jones and the Interior World - B)

1930

Indy is sent on a mission to discover the origin of mysterious flying discs which have been forcing down and destroying aircraft. Indy gathers together some other adventurers and they find and destroy the discs and the dirigible from which they are launched. (Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates - B)

After the UFO adventure, Indy bounces back and forth between England and the United States. First, he completes some business at the University of London, then resumes his teaching job at Princeton. He cycles back to England during a vacation to take flying lessons and has an adventure in the St. Brendan Glen area. He discovers that a friend of his instructor has Merlin's scabbard, which protects from gunshot wounds. Together they return to the United States once more, this time on the trail of some valuable gold coins. (Indiana Jones and the White Witch - B)

1933

March:

Indy and his Guatemalan guide, Bernabe, discover the lost city of Cozan in British Honduras. They make there way to the Sacred Well in the Temple of the Serpent and discover the Crystal Skull, a sculpture from a previous and unknown civilization. Before they can make their exit, however, a bald Italian named Leonardo Sarducci takes the skull from them and leaves his gunman, Marco, to dispose of them. The timely entrance of a thirty-eight-foot anaconda results in Marco's death and Indy and Bernabe's escape. The two make their way back to San Pablo where Indy learns from Bernabe the curse of the Crystal Skull, whoever touches it will kill what he loves. Indy returns to his teaching at Princeton University where he and Marcus discuss the Vyonich Manuscript. The manuscript, currently on loan at the rare book collection at Yale, is at least four hundred years old, was written in an unknown language by the alchemist Roger Bacon, and is reputed to hold the secret of the philosopher's stone - which, according to legend, has the power to turn lead into gold and to grant immortality. All attempts to decipher the manuscript have failed. Marcus informs Indy that the manuscript has been stolen and that the FBI have been investigating the theft. Indy heads back to his office and is visited by the FBI agents Marcus spoke of. The FBI agents ask Indy if he could lend a hand with the Voynich case due to his past "unconventional" yet successful methods. They threaten to discredit Indy if he doesn't cooperate, but Indy refuses to be intimidated and asks them to leave. Indy is called into the university chairman's office to see Chairman Harold Gruber, who tells him that Indy has been fired from his teaching at Princeton due to his violations of British Honduras laws in search of "black-market treasure." Indy goes to the American Museum of Natural History in New York to see Marcus who offers to put Indy up while he's in the city. Indy decides to get a room on his own instead and ends up going to a rare book shop which has a room for rent. Indy ends up talking the night away with the shop's owner, Roger Cadman, who tells Indy how Voynich was a competitor of his. Indy learns that Sarducci had been by asking about the manuscript. ...(not yet finished with entry)... On the trail of a missing British alchemist and an insane Renaissance scholar, Indy travels to Rome, where he learns that the stolen manuscript for which he is searching is actually a map to an ancient crypt, wherein lies the most magnificent discovery yet. (Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone - B)

[June:

Indy's cousin comes to visit him for the summer and the two sail to a tropical and very dangerous destination in search of a priceless ebony idol. Legend has it that Horror Island is cursed, and that no one has ever escaped from the tangled jungles alive. Indy and his cousin encounter countless dangers: half-starved crocodiles swim at the end of violent rapids, dense jungles hide packs of wild, razor-tusked boars, and rat-filled pits are concealed within deep, mysterious tunnels. (Indiana Jones and the Curse of Horror Island - FYFB)

Deep in the mysterious Himalayan mountains of Tibet, a journalist and his daughter, Lilah, are separated during a blinding snowstorm. He disappears without a trace. She makes it back to civilization with a terrifying tale to tell - a tale of a Silver Tower that marks the entrance to a legendary village inhabited by giants. Indy and his cousin help Lilah in her search for her father, but somewhere beyond the snow-capped peaks and sheer, slippery cliffs, hideous, monstrous creatures dwell, bent on destroying anyone who dares to enter their sacred territory. (Indiana Jones and the Giants of the Silver Tower - FYFB)]

October:

Indy is intent on recovering the crystal skull to break it's curse which he believes will cause Alecia Dunstin's death if he allows himself to fall in love with her. He learns that the crystal skull has surfaced in the black market in France. He reasons that the black market in antiquities in that area means that archaeologist Rene Belloq will be involved. He and Alecia track Belloq to Forteresse Malevil Marseilles in France, but Indy is captured by Belloq and the Daguerre brothers, Belloq's two large henchmen. As the brothers beat Indy, Belloq tells him he had hoped they would meet under better circumstances. He has followed Indy's career with interest and had even looked forward to the day they could work together. Indy tells him he came there to make him a deal; to buy the crystal skull from Belloq. Belloq tells him that the skull is no longer for sale. The buyer Belloq had already lined up arrives as a German U-boat surfaces. Belloq explains that the Nazis have launched a desperate effort to locate arcane treasures with supposed supernatural powers and the skull is high on their list. The captain of the U-boat, Wagner, signals for Franz Kroeger, a colonel in the newly formed Leibstandarte SS - Hitler's personal guard, that they have landed. Kroeger completes the deal with Belloq as Indy begins taunting Kroeger and the Nazi party. Kroeger orders Belloq to shoot Indy as he departs in the U-boat. Belloq gives the gun to one of the brothers and orders that he shoot Indy, however, as he fumbles with the safety Indy makes his escape in the water. Indy manages to grab hold of the muzzle of a gun on the deck of the departing submarine and secretly rides it out into the harbor where he then swims to shore. He meets up with Alecia on the shore as the U-boat launches two torpedoes that destroy the fortress. Alecia tells Indy that she can't stand facing death every day and has decided to leave him. (Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs - B)

November:

After returning to Princeton University, Indy is persuaded by a beautiful missionary named Joan to search for her missing father, Professor Angus Starbuck, in Mongolia. Professor Starbuck has discovered a dinosaur bone in the Gobi Desert, but unlike other discoveries, this bone is not ancient. As Indy crosses from China through a treacherous mountain pass to Outer Mongolia, he runs afoul of the region's fiercest warlords. Indy and Joan, who lied to him about being a nun in order to get him to help her, find her father living with the world's last innocent people in a Stone Age paradise poised on the brink of destruction. Indy duels wild dogs and bloodthirsty killers in a desperate effort to save the most historic discovery of the twentieth century - the last living triceratops. Indy decides to return to the states as Joan and her father stay behind in the secret paradise to look after the triceratops and its eggs. Before leaving, Indy learns from a descendant if Genghis Khan that he may actually be the reincarnation of Marco Polo. (Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs - B)

December:

With the help of coordinates supplied by Belloq, Indy tracks Wagner and Kroeger's U-boat to a spot off the coast of Denmark where it had sunk, killing the entire crew, on its way to Berlin after striking a fjord. Indy dons a diving suit and finds the U-boat perched on a shelf overlooking a five-hundred-foot drop. Indy finds the skull, but the submarine shifts and starts to go over the edge. Indy barely manages to escape in time, but doesn't manage to bring the canister containing the skull with him. Indy returns to the surface. As the submarine strikes the bottom of the gorge, its contents are freed and float to the surface. Indy watches at first hopeful and then in horror as one after another of identical canisters float to the surface. He tries to retrieve them as a score of them surface covering several acres of water, but the ones he retrieves turn out to be oil drums. The other canisters are swept away by the wind and the currents. (Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs - B)

1934

[June:

Indy's cousin is visiting him again for the summer and the two travel to Cairo, Egypt when two priceless mummies are stolen from the National Museum. An ancient cult has come back to life after a thousand years, but with a modern twist: laboratory cats are being trained to be vicious killers. The mysterious pyramids hold many other terrors. Deep within the maze of secret chambers and underground chasms, scorpions and snakes abound. Something else lurks in the shadows, as mummies emerge from age-old tombs to walk the earth. (Indiana Jones and the Cult of the Mummy's Crypt - FYFB)]

1935

Indy is in the South Pacific near the Marquesas Islands, searching for the underwater Shrine of the Sea Devil. He finds the Shrine, filled with statues inlaid with pearl, but loses the treasure when a giant octopus destroys his ship. (Indiana Jones and the Shrine of the Sea Devil - CB)

Later the same year, Indy recovers the ashes of Nurhachi for a family of Chinese gangsters in exchange for a rare jewel. Unfortunately, the gangsters wish to keep both prizes, so they poison Indy. After a gunfight in a Shanghai nightclub, Indy recovers the antidote and escapes along with Willie Scott, an American nightclub performer, and Short Round, Indy's young sidekick. Lao Che (the gangster) heads Indy off at the pass and sabotages Indy's charter plan, which crashes somewhere in India. While traveling to Delhi, Indy comes across a poverty-stricken village which has lost its sacred, protective Sankara Stone. The villagers convince Indy to follow the trail of the thieves (who have also stolen the village's children), which he does. A short while later, he comes across the palace of the 13-year old Maharajah and a cult of Kali worshippers. He manages to defeat Mola Ram, the high priest of the cult, recover one of the three Sankara Stones and save the village's children. (INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM - M; B; CB)

When Indy returns from Asia, he visits an old school buddy in Maine and they set off in search of the missing headband from a Celtic crown. They go to London, where Indy and his friends have several adventures. (Indiana Jones and the Avalon Inheritance - EB)

1936

Early:

Indy Travels through the jungles of Peru to recover a golden idol from the temple of the Chachapoyan warriors. An old rival, Belloq, shows up at the end of the adventure and steals the idol from Indy by lying to the local Hovito tribesmen. (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK - M; B; CB)

Late:

Government agents intercept a communique from Cairo to Berlin believed to be sent by Abner Ravenwood. Indy is consulted, since he has had past dealings with Ravenwood, and is asked to investigate the Nazi dig. He learns that they are looking for the headpiece to the Staff of Ra so that they can locate the Well of Souls, the resting place of the lost Ark of the Covenant. Indy beats the Nazis, both to the headpiece and to the Well of Souls. Ravenwood's daughter, Marion, becomes Indy's partner in the adventure and together they find the Ark. Belloq shows up again to steal the Ark for the Nazis (he is their lead archaeologist) but is killed when he opens the Ark to get the tablets containing the Ten Commandments. The Ark is placed into storage in a secret government warehouse somewhere in Washington. (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK - M; B; CB)

1937

Indy gets a new job at Barnett College in New York, but losses the Archaeology 101 course to Francesca, a Peruvian woman who studied at Harvard, Yale and Sorbonne. She shows Indiana a package that she received from her brother which contains a sacred Incan artifact, the Finger of Gold. Together, Indy and Francesca head off to locate the Golden Arms, which are also part of the same mummification case used by the Incas. (Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold - CB)

[August:

The legends say that whoever possesses the crystal Eye has the power to see and even change the future, In the wreck of an ancient ship off the coast of Greece, Indy finds pieces of Perseus' golden shield which contains clues to the location of this mysterious Eye. Unfortunately, reporters reveal his astonishing discovery. The son of a museum curator friend of Indy's accompanies him on his desperate mission to find the Eye and keep it from falling into the wrong hands. They travel from Mount Olympus to distant Japan searching for the artifact and are constantly in jeopardy as they are pursued by ruthless villains eager to exploit the power of the Eye. (Indiana Jones and the Eye of the Fates - FYFB)]

1938

Indiana Jones finally recovers the Cross of Coronado from the man who "acquired" it back in 1912. Afterwards, he returns to his job at Barnett College and is contacted by a collector of antiquities, Walter Donovan. He informs Indy that his father, Henry Jones Sr., disappeared during a search for the Holy Grail. Indiana travels to Italy and joins forces with another archaeologist, Elsa Schneider. Together, they find several other clues concerning the Grail and eventually determine its actual resting place. Elsa and Donovan are revealed to be Nazi spies when Indy finally locates his father. They steal the Grail diary and leave the father and son team captive. The Joneses escape, retrieve the diary literally from the hands of Adolph Hitler, and barely catch up to the Nazis in the hunt for the Grail. Unfortunately, the Grail is lost when Elsa attempts to take it beyond the seal of the cave where they found it. (INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE - M; B)

Indiana's next adventure takes him on a dig in China, near the site of an ancient monastery. He unearths a stone tablet inscribed in an ancient language, but he cannot decipher it. from the monks, he learns that the tablet tells of a covenant left by Buddha himself, perhaps the one true key to the state of Nirvana. He also learns that the Japanese are after the tablet so that they can control the destiny of the world. Indy's search for the tablets takes him through India, Tibet, China and to Shangri-La. (Indiana Jones: Thunder In the Orient - CB)

[Dr. Roger Ballentyne has found what appears to be a map to the fabulous, long-lost treasure of the Queen of Sheba. Dr. Ballentyne's latest project, a new diamond laser capable of cutting through the hardest materials in a fraction of a second, has attracted the attention of the Fascist forces occupying Ethiopia. They kidnap him in an attempt to possess the treasure and the laser. Indy and Ballentyne's son, George, journey to Ethiopia to rescue the doctor and find the lost treasure. (Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasure of Sheba - FYFB)]

1939

A mysterious stranger arrives at Barnett College with an ancient key and Indiana looks up a former colleague, Sophia Hapgood. Together, they determine that the key is part of a dig that unearthed treasures from the lost continent of Atlantis. Continuing that quest, they travel around the world, adventuring in Mayan ruins and the labyrinth of the Minotaur before finding all of the pieces of the key to Atlantis. Just as they do, the Nazis arrive, intent on plundering Atlantis for their own gains. They nearly succeed, but ancient magics kill the Nazis and place Atlantis out of reach once more. (Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - CB)

After leaving Crete, Indy finds himself in the Sargasso Sea, the legendary "ship graveyard" in the Atlantic. Once there, Indy discovers a community of stranded survivors and descendants who have based their lifestyle on the pirates of history. Indy finds relics from nearly every known sea-going culture, but spends most of his time just trying to escape. (Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates - CB)

[July:

Archaeologist Billie Simpson was leading a dig for Malaysian artifacts on Howling Island off the coast of Eastern China when her expedition was raided by a crazed scientist who threatens to kill them all. Barely escaping with her life, Billie desperately wants to return to the island to find her brother. Indy and his young cousin run into Billie on a seaplane heading to a tropical island known as the Marianas. Billie asks for Indy's help and he agrees to accompany her. On Howling Island they encounter double crosses, vicious attack dogs, a nation of brainwashed six-hundred-pound gorillas and a dangerous, demonic man with wicked ideas for some very hideous experiments. (Indiana Jones and the Ape Slaves of Howling Island - FYFB)]

Indy is hired by the US Government to lead an expedition to an iceberg near Greenland to uncover an ice-encased Viking longship. The Germans are also interested in the ice wall, since it contains a strange disc of unearthly origin. The disc is freed, revealing itself to be a spaceship which destroys the Nazi submarine before disappearing into space. The US rescue team arrives barely in time to save Indy's group from the longship, which sinks back beneath the surface of the water. (Indiana Jones and the Longship of the Gods - EB)

When he returns to the states, Indiana rescues a colleague, Petryk, from Chicago mobsters and then goes to Utah to check on some seemingly contradictory information about the Anasazi culture. After a few adventures wit the mobsters, Indy meets with some of the supposedly extinct Indians and finally returns to Barnett College. (Indiana Jones and the Lost People - EB)

1940

Indy has a dance with death on an island in the Indian Ocean. During an observation of native worshippers, many of them become ill with an outbreak of the plague. The source of the plague is the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse, who is releasing his evils upon the world. Indy fights some zombies and barely escapes an earthquake which hits the area, killing the Horseman. (Indiana Jones: The Dance of Death - CB)

1941

Early:

Indy returns to Greece again, this time near Mycenae. He begins work at a British site, but a German invasion of the area causes the British to abandon the dig, leaving Indy alone. On his own, he discovers an artifact which verifies the existence of the legendary Golden Fleece. There is a scuffle with the Germans and they steal the artifact. Indy still manages to find the location of the Fleece and fights a life-or-death battle with its guardian serpent. (Indiana Jones and the Golden Fleece - CB)

Summer:

At a reception at the Russian Embassy in Washington, Indy prevents a bomb attack which was set up by Japanese agents and saves the life of a commissar, Tamara Jaglova, who happens to be looking for someone to lead an expedition to examine the grave of Genghis Khan. After several dangerous encounters with the Japanese, they recover Genghis Khan's sword. Unfortunately, the sword is cursed and its power prevents Indy from parting with it. At a critical moment, Indy manages to toss it into the air and an enemy grabs the sword, then plunges into the abyss. (Indiana Jones and Genghis Khan's Sword - EB)

Late:

Following the outbreak of World War II, the German Navy sets up a network of U-boat bases in the South Seas. An American secret agent, Jonah, obtains a sketchy map detailing their locations and it eventually reaches Washington. Soon after, the government calls in Indiana to solve the mystery of the map. He does, but Jonah is killed before the secret base on the Easter islands is destroyed. (Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Easter Islands - EB)

1945

In a last ditch effort, Hitler sends agents to Britain and Ireland in search of the spear which pierced the side of Christ on Good Friday. It is believed that the spear would make the army that wielded it invincible if they find the tree rooted from the original thorn. However, one of the agents has his own plans for the spear, and when he is defeated by Indiana and the "True King of Ireland," Hitler loses his prize. (Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny - CB)

1946

[Indiana Jones goes to Russia at the request of the Soviet government to evaluate ancient artifacts. He unearths the Key of King Solomon which tells of the design of the Philosophers' Stone containing the secret for turning base metal into gold and bringing inanimate objects to life. Indy sets off to the three churches which are said to hold the three pieces of the stone. He obtains the first piece from a coven of witches in Ireland and heads to Tibet after the second piece. (Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix - CB) ]

1951

Indy and an old American Indian friend named Grey Cloud are speeding down a snow covered road in Wyoming, being chased by another car full of men firing guns at them. They have just retrieved a pipe that was stolen from Grey Cloud's tribe and the pursuers are anxious to hav eit back. The pursuers' car skids out of control and crashes as does Indy's truck a little further up the road. Indy and Grey Cloud set out on foot, hoping that the coming snow storm will cover their tracks in the snow. After a while, they come across an abandoned cabin. Inside, they start a fire to keep warm. Indy finds an old soprano saxophone which brings back memories of his college days at the University of Chicago during the spring of 1920. He tells Grey Cloud the story of how he learned to play the Blues on the sax. As Indy finishes his tale, their prusuers burst into the cabin and take the pipe from Grey Cloud at gun point. The crooks are leaving when Indy uses the sax to blow a high note which causes a large amount of snow on the overhang of the cabin to fall on the thugs. Indy and Grey Cloud recover the pipe and escape. (YIJC - "Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues" (framing story) - TV)

1992

Indiana Jones is now living in New York with his daughter and her family, sporting an eyepatch and a scar and seeking any opportunity to recant his past adventures to anyone who will listen.

Visiting the Museum of Natural History in New York, Indy catches two youths who have snuck away from their class claiming that the museum is full of boring junk. Indy says some of the most exciting adventures of his life are in this museum. He tells them he was born in New Jersey on July 1, 1899. He tells them how he was raised in Princeton where his father was Professor of Medieval Studies, but he himself wasn't crazy about school. He preferred playing with his dog Indiana and playing baseball. Indy tells them about the tour throughout Europe and Asia that he and his parents went on and excites their interest by telling them of when he was in Egypt in 1908 exploring a recently uncovered Egyptian tomb. After telling them of how the golden jackal head they found was stolen, the two boys demand to know if he ever got it back. Indy tells them that he went back to Cairo with Miss Seymour, met up with his parents and continued on their journey. Indy begins walking away claiming he has to get home and feed his cat Henry. They beg for him to finish and he finally relents. Indy proceeds to tell them of when, eight years later, he was on spring break in 1916 in Mexico and managed to finally retrieve the gold jackal after first becoming involved in the Mexican Revolution. He tells them how he and Remy set out to Europe to enlist in the Great War. They ask what happened to the jackal and Indy shows them the display it is part of in that very museum. Feeling young and adventurous once more after telling the story, Indy makes his exit by sliding down the banister alongside the stairs. (YIJC - "Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal" - TV)

Indy is having lunch with his accountant to go over his taxes (Indy has been getting threats from the IRS because of his excessive expenses without any receipts to substantiate them) when he hears a voice that reminds him of Vicki Prentiss. After telling his accountant the story of how he met Vicki in London in 1916, he tells him how he never saw her again. He still carries the train ticket from the day he left her. Indy is happily surprised to find out that the voice he heard was actually Vicki. The two embrace in a long-overdue reunion. (YIJC - "London - May 1916" - TV)

Indy attends the Annual Celebrity Tennis Shoe Auction and Dinner at the Metropolitan Foundation For Educational Quality and is seated at a table with a group of strangers. Two of the women argue about wearing furs. The one woman talks about redressing the balance with nature that mankind has destroyed. The woman with the fur coat orders veal for dinner which infuriates the other woman. Indy tells them that their discussion about the balance of nature reminds him of when he once went on safari with Teddy Roosevelt in Africa in 1909. He tells them the story and then leaves after dinner. The rest of the people at the table are left wondering what the point of his story was. (YIJC - "British East Africa - September 1909" - TV)

While flying on an airline Indy finds himself seated next to the new owner of the airline who is known in the business world as "The Pirate of Wall Street" due to his history of buying up business, breaking them apart and then selling the individual pieces. Indy tries to persuade the man not to break up the airline, but the man has no regard for the employees. Indy tells him he reminds him of a general commanding the French army at Verdun in 1916 who sent his troops to their deaths in the trenches without any regard for their lives. Indy tells how the French finally retook Fort Douaumont, but with 20,000 fatalities. General Petain became a politician after the war and had a hard time living up to his own moral code. Nivelle, he says, resigned and died a bitter old man who never understood the consequences of his actions on the little guy. His story falls on deaf ears, however, as the man had fallen asleep shortly into Indy's recounting. (YIJC - "Verdun - September 1916")

Indy is at a hospital with a swollen foot from a bee sting when he witnesses a young girl who was the victim of a gunshot wound being brought into ER. Indy says how sad it is to see that happen and the man seated next to him who remarks that she's just a street kid who will probably never amount to anything anyway. Outraged, Indy tells him of when he and his troop found a young orphaned boy in Africa in 1916 who later turned out to be Barthelemy Boganda, the first president of the Central African Republic. Indy says he wrote to the boy when he was old enough to tell him about how they brought him to the missionary where he was raised. When a doctor asks if anyone who has the same blood type as the girl would donate blood. The man next to Indy realizes that he is the only one with her blood type and reluctantly volunteers. As he walks away he tells Indy that he's sorry he ever met him and Indy replies that he has that effect on people. (YIJC - "German East Africa - December 1916" - TV)

While waiting, Indy talks to the doctor who gave the young girl the blood transfusion. The doctor laments about the innocent bystanders like the girl who get hurt or killed due to the numerous gang wars. He says he tries to do everything he can to help, but sometimes it seems like it's not enough. Indy tells him that he reminds him of a doctor he once met and tells him how he met Albert Schweitzer in early 1917. He says that Schweitzer returned to Africa after the war and found the hospital was reclaimed by the jungle. Schweitzer built another hospital bigger and better. A nurse tells the doctor that the little girl is going to make it. The doctor tells Indy it was a great pleasure to meet him and goes to talk to the girl's parents. (YIJC - "Congo - January 1917" - TV)

1993

A mailwoman comes by to pick up the mail from a mailbox and finds Indy trying to retrieve his hamburger which he accidentally dropped in the mailbox instead of his package. She tells him that once he drops something in the mailbox it becomes the property of the U.S. Government until delivery. He says he hasn't had so much trouble delivering a package since when he was a spy in World War I. Indy tells her the story of how he was assigned to get a letter negotiating a separate peace between Austria and the Allies secretly delivered to Emperor Karl in Austria in 1917. He tells her how even though they were successful, the Kaiser eventually learned of the plan and pressured Emperor Karl into reneging on his word. The war went on for an additional year with a few million more lives lost. Emperor Karl ended up being the last emperor of Austria. She opens the mailbox and trades Indy the hamburger for the package. As he walks away, Indy tells her he always had a thing for ladies in uniform. (YIJC - "Austria - March 1917)

Indy witnesses a clerk at a doughnut shop being extremely rude to an elderly lady and pins his neck to the counter with his cane while he admonishes him. He orders the clerk to apologize to the lady. The frightened clerk says Indy doesn't understand the pressure he's under with his job. Indy tells him about fighting in the trenches in the Somme in 1916 in order to describe what real pressure is. The police arrive and take Indy away for his assault on the teenager. (YIJC - "Somme - Early August 1916" - TV)

Indy is brought to his holding cell screaming that there's no prison that can hold him. He asks the other inmates if anyone has tried escaping and tells them about how he escaped from a German prison in 1916. The inmates, who have been trying to shut Indy up throughout his story, begin yelling for the guards to remove Indy from the cell. As the guards take him to another room to wait for his lawyer, Indy shouts back at them that he told them he'd be out of there within an hour. (YIJC - "Germany - Mid-August 1916" - TV)

Indy arrives at a school to give a lecture to the Pennsylvania History Society. After knocking over the podium and dropping the mike, he tells the story of when he was a spy in Barcelona in 1917 trying to influence Spain to join with the Allies. He says that all of their actions were for naught as Spain never entered the war. When he finishes, the class applauds, however, he finds out that the class he gave the lecture to was American Congress of Neurology. (YIJC - "Barcelona - May 1917" - TV)

Indy is fed up with the noise his grandson Spike and his band are creating as they try to rehearse. He tells him that it doesn't matter how many songs Spike can play on the guitar if he can't play any of them well. Spike tells him that they don't need to be good to be famous, but Indy tells him that in music, music comes first. Much to Spike's dismay, Indy tells him the story of how he was putting himself through the University of Chicago in 1920 after returning from the war when he learned to play the soprano sax from Sidney Bechet. He tells them that he only ever played the one song he learned, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," but he got to "jazz" with some of the best. (YIJC - "Chicago - April 1920" (First half of "Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues") - TV)

The neighbors come banging on Indy's door to complain about the noise from Spike's band which is practicing in the garage. Indy removes the fuse and cuts their power. Spike tells him that they are pushing the envelope with their music. Indy then proceeds to tell everyone of how he had friends in Chicago in 1920 who were doing the same with the Blues. He refuses to give back the fuse to Spike, however, which allows the neighbors to finally get some peace and quiet. (YIJC - "Chicago - May 1920" (2nd half of "Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues") - TV)

Indy is at a gas station when a man in a jacked-up truck with ridiculously huge tires pulls up. Indy asks him why he needs such big wheels. The man tells him that ever since he was a teenager he wanted to drive the hottest car in town. Indy tells the man how he once drove an early racecar designed by Thomas Edison when he was a teenager in 1916. Afterwards, the man lets Indy take his truck for a spin. (YIJC - "Princeton - February 1916" - TV)

Indy is at a photography exhibit when a man comes by to tell him that the exhibit is closing. Indy tells him that the picture he is standing in front of is labeled wrong, it is not a picture of the Bolshevik revolution in October, but an earlier march in July. The man argues with him claiming their research department has done extensive studies on the photographs. Indy tells him about when he was a spy in Russia in 1917 and that four hundred people died the day that photo was taken before the people realized that the revolution wasn't happening yet. Indy points out that he knows this for a fact because his own blurred image can be seen in the photograph. (YIJC - "Petrograd - July 1917" - TV)

Indy is stuck in a cab on his way to a play in New York. The cab driver starts yelling at other drivers, especially the men. Indy asks if she hates men. She says that all men are scum. He says that maybe she is looking for perfection and tells her how he was trying to date three women at the same time while working as a stage hand at a play in the summer of 1920. The cab driver asks him what happened with the three girls, but they've arrived at the theater and Indy leaves. She yells after him that men are all the same. (YIJC - "Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920" ("New York - June 1920" section) - TV)

Indy takes his seat at the theater and finds he is seated next to a play critic who is writing his review panning the play before it even opened. Indy asks him if he's a critic or a gossip. Indy tells him how he has seen critics do this before when he was a stagehand at a play in 1920. After the play, the critic says how Indy was right and the play was amazing. Indy is shocked saying that he thought the play stunk. The critic asks what about all of the young people who put so much work into the play. Indy leaves saying they should be ashamed and quit. (YIJC - "Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920" ("New York - July 1920" section) - TV)

Indy's children are questioning his ability to look after himself after an incident where they found him stuck in a tree after trying to rescue his cat. Indy is goes to a psychiatrist to prove to them that he is not crazy. Indy demands that the psychiatrist test him to determine if he is crazy. She asks him if there is any history of mental illness in his family to which Indy replies that is a matter of opinion, but no one was ever diagnosed as mentally unstable. She asks if he has ever undergone psychoanalysis before and he tells her he had a problem once, but he received help from Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler. At first she thinks he is delusional, but he tells her the story of when he was in Vienna in 1908 and fell in love with Princess Sophie. Once the story is over, he tells her that he never received any letters from Sophie and never knew if she received his. She determines that he is neither crazy or senile and says she will right him a letter saying so. As he leaves, she asks if he ever saw her again. He said he did, but that was another story. (YIJC - "Vienna - November 1908" - TV)

Indy is trying to find a parking spot in a crowded parking lot. At the same time two other men are attempting to do the same. The two men are heading down the same aisle towards each other when they spot a space halfway between them. They both race to the spot, but crash into each other. They yell at each other and back up. As they race back to the spot, Indy arrives and manages to park in it as the two men crash into each other again. They both yell at Indy and begin fighting with each other again. Indy tells them a story of when he was in Italy in 1918 and had a similar fight with Ernest Hemmingway over a girl. Indy tells them that after he recovered from his injuries he was shipped out to Rome. He tells them it doesn't pay to fight over something when you lose sight of what you are fighting for. Indy walks away as they continue to yell at him to come back and move his car. (YIJC - "Northern Italy - June 1918" - TV)

Indy's daughter turns off the soap opera that Indy is enthralled in saying that it's time to leave for the grandparents' tea at his granddaughter Lucy's school. Indy wants to wait until the soap is over. His daughter tells him that soaps are trash, but Indy says its pure theater. She says that it's not real. Indy says that there are times when life is just like theater and tells her the story of when he was in Ireland in 1916 during the Easter Rebellion. Indy tells her that Sean Lamass was not shot and went on to become Prime Minister of Ireland. O'Casey didn't stay, but wrote some great plays. Indy's daughter says it's time to go. Indy still wants to see the end of the soap, but his daughter tells him that it finished ages ago. he asks why she didn't stop him, but she says no one has ever been able to do that. (YIJC - "Ireland - April 1916" - TV)

Indy is at an art auction and sees a "Degas" being auctioned off. He tells the woman next to him how he was there when the painting was done. He the story of how Picasso tricked Degas into signing one of his own paintings in 1908. Indy says he thinks that Degas knew what was going on the whole time. The painting is purchased by a Japanese man who thinks he is buying a Degas. Indy tells him it is a good buy and the man says that one day he hopes to be rich enough to buy a Picasso. (YIJC - "Paris - September 1908" - TV)

Indy is having Thanksgiving dinner with his daughter and her family when he is reminded about another dinner of thanks giving he had when he was young. He tells them about his adventure in Peking in 1910. Indy says that he thinks that that was the best Thanksgiving feast he ever attended. His granddaughter Lucy asks what that has to do with cranberry sauce. He says not a lot and then tells his grandson Harry to try it; he may find out he hates it as much as Indy does. (YIJC - "Peking - March 1910" - TV)

Indy is at a coffee shop when a disgruntled man sits down next to him at the counter. The man yells at the waitress and Indy asks why he's so rude. The man tells him how the world is against him. He transferred his job, sold his house and then got laid off. he doesn't think he can get any lower. Indy tells him about, Krishnamurti, the most extraordinary person he ever met when he was in Benares in 1910. Indy tells him that in 1929 Krishnamurti renounced his membership in the Theosophist Society and spent the next fifty years traveling the world and telling people that God is in all of us and that we should be kind to each other. He leaves the man to think about what he said. (YIJC - "Benares - January 1910" - TV)

Indy is in the check out line at the grocery store when he spots a trashy gossip magazine. He asks who in the world reads this stuff and the lady next to him says people like him read them. She wonders if anybody believes it. Indy says that he's found that sometimes the truth is more fantastic than what you read in those magazines and tells her about when he was on leave in Paris in 1916 and had an affair with Mata Hari. Indy says that less than a year after he left her, Mata Hari was executed for being a spy. The woman asks Indy if she was really a spy. He says that he doesn't know. No one knew for sure and he thinks she didn't even know. None of her friends in high places ever came to her rescue, although he'll always be sorry that it couldn't have been him. (YIJC - "Paris - October 1916" - TV)

Indy is challenged to a high stakes game of pool in a pool hall. After impressing everyone with one trick shot after the other, he tells them that it's all comes from having a good understanding of the laws of Physics. He tells his opponents how he learned Physics in Italy in 1908. One of the girls asks him if his mother ever saw Puccini again, but Indy doesn't think so. He tells her how Puccini went on to write an opera about an American woman of the old west who gives up her home and friends for the man she loves. (YIJC - "Florence - May 1908" - TV)

Three trick-or-treaters cautiously approach Indy's house on Halloween (they don't want to get stuck listening to him tell a story). After unsuccessfully scaring them by throwing a sheet over his head and pretending to be ghost, Indy asks them if they believe in ghosts. They say that they do not, so Indy tells them how he didn't either until he was sent on a mission to Transylvania in 1918 and came up against the vampire Vlad Tepes. The children are still unwayed, but run screaming from the house when Indy turns around with fake fangs and blood dripping from his mouth. (YIJC - "Transylvania - January 1918" - TV)