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This is a rough transcript of the bookends of the 2-part
airing of the "Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of
the Blues" shown in the U.K. The U.K. station's explanation
for showing these bookends was they just aired what the distributors,
Paramount Television, supplied them.
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PART 1: Chicago, April 1920
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Beginning bookend:
Scene showing Old Indy at table reading newspaper and
eating. Music playing loudly. Flower pots shake, cup on table
shakes and a pot on mantle piece falls to ground, breaking.
Old Indy goes upstairs and opens a door to a room where teenagers
are playing music.
| Indy: |
SPIKE! music stops |
| Spike: |
Grandpa, I'm practicing. Let's talk later. |
| Indy: |
You've been practicing for 2 years. Do'ya feel that
there's been any progress? |
| Spike: |
2 years ago I knew 3 songs, now I know 30. |
| Indy: |
Quantity's not what I'm talking about. You
may know 30 songs but you play them all equally badly.
I hate to tell you this kid but you sound like bunch of
cats on a hot tin roof! |
| Spike: |
You don't have to be good to be famous.
All we want to do is be famous. |
| Indy: |
Now wait a minute! In music, the music comes
first. When I was going to college the... |
| Spike: |
Grandpa, not another story. |
| Indy: |
Well I've been listening to you, now you
listen to me. |
Scene fades to Chicago University and then a restaurant.
| Indy: |
I was just home from the war putting myself through
the University of Chicago, waiting on tables which is
an art in case you don't know. You don't start at the
top. You break in where you can learn the ropes. Perfect
your style until you're at the top like Colosimo's restaurant.
The best food, the best service, like dixieland jazz...
I was crazy about jazz. |
Ending bookend:
Scene showing Young Indy being applauded after playing
the jazz version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".
Fades to present time...
| Indy: |
I kept it quiet. I only played that one song but I was
jazzing with some of the best. |
| Spike: |
So what are you trying to tell me, Grandpa? |
| Indy: |
Well, heh, I guess I'm saying keep on going. You may
never get famous or play with any real geniuses but the
journey along the way is bound to be interesting. |
| Spike: |
Alright, I'll get on with it. |
| Indy: |
Go ahead. |
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PART 2: Chicago, May 1920
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| PART 2: Chicago, May 1920
Beginning bookend:
Scene opens with music playing and knocking on door.
Indy goes to door and opens it. Neighbours there all talking
at once, complaining to Indy.
| Indy: |
Alright, alright... |
Everyone follows Indy round the back of the house to
a garage. Music gets louder. Indy walks to fuse box,opens
it and pulls out a fuse. You can hear a voice from behind
the garage door. Garage door opens to show Spike and his friends.
| Spike: |
What's going on? Grandpa, what are you doing? |
| Indy: |
The neighbours are complaining. |
| Neighbour: |
If you don't stop I'm going to call the police. |
| Spike: |
You don't understand what we're trying to do. Grandpa,
we're pushing the envelope. |
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You're pushing us! |
| Indy: |
I know, I know. Don't think I don't understand.
I had some friends in Chicago, 1920 who were licking the
gum off envelopes too. |
| Spike: |
Grandpa, not now please. |
| Indy: |
I was at the University of Chicago studying
archaeology, and I was waiting tables at night at Colosimo's
restaurant. |
Scene fades to Indy at Colosimo's restaurant.
Ending bookend:
Scene showing Young Indy playing the blues. Fades to
present time.
| Indy: |
Taurio and Caboo took over Colosimo's operation and
the bootleg wars really began in Chicago, and Taurio became
one of the richest bootleggers. Al Capone became the richest
one ever. And I guess a few policemen didn't do so badly
either. |
| Spike: |
Yeah. Hey, we're doing the same thing Grandpa, expressing
our discontent with society through our music. Give me
the fuse. |
| Indy: |
Nope. |
| Spike: |
Why? |
| Indy: |
Because there's a difference between what
you're doing and what the blues were doing in 1920. |
| Spike: |
What? |
| Indy: |
Well for one thing they didn't have synthesizers,
electric guitars, microphones and amps. |
| Spike: |
So? |
| Indy: |
So you didn't need a fuse to play the blues
- let's go! |
| Spike: |
Grandpa! |
| Neighbour: |
We'll have peace at last! |
Indy walks off back to the house.
This is basically what happened in the bookends for the airing
of "Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues"
shown in the U.S. and Finland. The ending has been left out
so as not to spoil it.
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