Bright College Days
- Indy goes back to his day job: teaching archaeology at a hoity-toity East Coast college.
- His classes are all filled with adoring young women for some reason.
- After class, his friend Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliot) arrives to commiserate on the loss of the idol and to introduce him to some fun new friends from Army Intelligence.
- The Army guys found the name of Indy's old mentor, Abner Ravenwood, in a secret Nazi cable.
- The cable also mentions the words "Tanis" and "Headpiece to the Staff of Ra," which has them a little baffled.
- Indy and Marcus explain that the Ark of the Covenant may be hidden in the ancient city of Tanis, and that the Headpiece to the Staff of Ra can show exactly where it is on a miniature map of the city. The Nazis are apparently looking into it.
- Later that night, Marcus tells Indy that the U.S. government wants him to beat the Nazis to the Ark.
- Indy heads off to find Abner, speculating on whether his daughter, Marion (Karen Allen), is still with him.
- Marcus doesn't know, and delicately suggests that Indy has bigger fish to fry.
- Indy blows him off with a pistol tossed casually into his suitcase, then boards a plane for parts unknown.
- A sinister guy follows him, peering from behind the safety of a Life magazine.