History Recap / YoungIndianaJonesAndTheCurseOfTheJackal

** Also, a murder mystery at an archaeological dig in Egypt may put some viewers in mind of Creator/AgathaChristie, whose second husband was a noted archaeologist and who set a few of her novels in the Middle East (''Literature/DeathOnTheNile'', ''Murder in Mesopotamia'', etc).

** Same goes for how Indy lost an eye; this has not been explained anywhere in the Indyverse, and it is ambiguous as to whether it was later {{Retconned}} out by the late-1990s re-editing of this series, which saw the Old Indy scenes get dropped.

* WhatTheHellHero: When Lawrence ''really'' gets into telling Indy stories of ghosts and cursed tombs, Helen Seymour invokes this trope in a non-verbal way. He doesn't pick up on it, and only realises he went too far after Rashid is murdered and Indy seems to seriously believe that the curse had something to do with it.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Jos&eacute befriends Indy shortly after his capture (having previously tried to shoot Indy and the other prisoners, only to be ordered not to by Villa!) but dies of the wounds he sustains in the attack on Ciudad Guerro; Indy and Remy comfort him in his final moments. He is never referred to by name, and was actually listed as "Francois" in the credits, although later media names him as Jos&eacute.

* AncientEgypt: As depicted from an early twentieth-century archaeological perspective. The Pyramids are visited (and one of them climbed), and Howard Carter excavates a tomb (from which an artefact is stolen).

* BlatantLies: Anything Indy and Frank say about their plans to go camping, although they go end up spending a night under the stars.

* StuffBlowingUp: That flatbed full of explosives does plenty of damage to the walls of Ciudad Guerro. The American biplane follows this up by dropping a few bombs on the place. Later on, Demetrios learns the hard way that storing explosives in your house and trying to deal with intruders by attempting to set fire to them is probably not the smartest move.

* CoolOldGuy: Old Indy, who is keen to teach the young kids about the importance of studying history. And, despite his age (92 [[note]] the bookend part of this episode is set in March 1992 and Indy states that he was born on 1st July 1899 [[/note]], he is not averse to a little fun, like sliding down the bannister.

* ChekhovsGun: Just about every weapon that gets brandished gets used at some point, with the exception of Lawrence's pistol.

* CoolOldGuy: Old Indy, who is keen to teach the young kids about the importance of studying history. And, despite his age (92 [[note]] the bookend part of this episode is set in March 1992 and Indy states that he was born on 1st June 1899 [[/note]], he is not averse to a little fun, like sliding down the bannister.

On a visit to a museum, an elderly Indiana Jones meets two truant boys and regales them with stories from his early life.

* CoolOldGuy: Old Indy, who is keen to teach the young kids about the importance of studying history.

In 1908, Indy — travelling around the world with his parents — meets Helen Seymour, who is hired to be his tutor. In UsefulNotes/{{Egypt}}, Indy and Helen visit the Pyramids, where they meet UsefulNotes/TELawrence, who invites Indy to an archaeological dig. There, he meets and befriends Rashid, an Egyptian who is helping Howard Carter. The next day, Rashid is found murdered and a valuable jackal headpiece stolen. Demetrios, the chief blaster of the excavation, is revealed to be behind this, but he escapes.

* AlmostDeadGuy: José gets shot trying to change the points at Ciudad Guerro, but is still alive by the time Indy reaches him. He begs Indy not to leave him, and Indy keeps his promise— he and Remy take him with them when Villa retreats, and José eventually dies in a cave with his friends at his side.

** Also, much of the 1916 sequence is in Spanish with English subtitles, both from the Mexican characters and Indy himself. This contrasts with the subsequent episodes, which relied on TranslationConvention for the most part.
* EyepatchOfPower: Old Indy sports one of these over his right eye, complete with a nasty facial scar trailing out from beneath. Because of the large time gap between the present-day (well, 1990s) ''Chronicles'' framing segments and the 1930s period films, this is also an EyepatchAfterTimeSkip; since Indy still has both eyes in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'', which is set in 1969, this injury must have occurred after that date.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Jos&eacute befriends Indy shortly after his capture, but dies of the wounds he sustains in the attack on Ciudad Guerro. He is never referred to by name, and was actually listed as "Francois" in the credits, although later media names him as Jos&eacute.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Jos&eacute befriends Indy shortly after his capture, but dies of the wounds he sustains in the attack on Ciudad Guerro. He is never actually referred to by name.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The show starts as it means to go on. The young Indiana Jones encounters UsefulNotes/TELawrence, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter Howard Carter]], [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa Pancho Villa]] and a young UsefulNotes/GeorgeSPatton.

* YoungFutureFamousPeople: Of the RealLife people Indy encounters, T.E. Lawrence (shown working as an archaeologist in Egypt six years prior to UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne) and George Patton (depicted as a junior officer serving on [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa_Expedition Pershing's campaign against Pancho Villa]]) count as this.

** Lawrence admits to being prone to exaggeration, something his detractors would often accuse him of doing.

** In 1916, Indy reads about the fighting on the Western Front in a newspaper. It won't be long before he gets to experience that for himself.
** One of the girlie pictures Indy and Frank look at is of Mata Hari.

* Indy and Remy riding off towards the rising sun is reminiscent of Indy, Henry Snr., Sallah and Marcus riding off into the sunset at the end of ''Last Crusade''.
** Another, more subtle one to ''Last Crusade''; this is not the last time that Indy recovers a MacGuffin after a TimeSkip, and ensures that it ends up where it belongs — in a museum.

* TheDeterminator: Indy, and it gets him into more trouble than he bargained for. By attempting to recover ''all'' of the robbed woman's clothes that the bandit steals, he ends up in Mexico — and a prisoner of Pancho Villa. He quite possibly gets this from Lawrence, who chased Demetrios from the Valley of the Kings to Port Said — a distance of around 500 miles. Speaking of whom, Indy will not leave Mexico until he's dealt with Demetrios and recovered the jackal headpiece.

* StuffBlowingUp: That flatbed full of explosives does plenty of damage to the walls of Ciudad Guerro. The American biplane follows this up by dropping a few bombs on the place.

* TheDeterminator: Indy, and it gets him into more trouble than he bargained for. By attempting to recover ''all'' of the robbed woman's clothes that the bandit steals, he ends up in Mexico — and a prisoner of Pancho Villa. He quite possibly gets this from Lawrence, who chased Demetrios from the Valley of the Kings to Port Said — a distance of around 500 miles.