Deaf Anthology: Deaf Anthology #60: "Indiana Jones And The Secrets of Martha's Vineyard"

Barnett College, Fairfield, New York

Indiana: "Is Amy here, Amy?" (raising voice in crowded roomful of hopeful interns, flicking light switch, pointing to Amy, signing "You, Deaf?")

Amy: "Yes, me Deaf..."

Indiana: "You in my office, everyone else leave, job slot taken."

Ricky: "You picked the most beautiful from the crowd..

Amy: "Here's my resume, love your collection of artifacts in the office."

Indiana: "This is Ricky, your ASL interpreter, my project assistant, I see you graduated from Gallaudet College, majoring in history, read your essays on the theory that the Deaf has its own culture based on language, that's something we are investigating as we unearthed the tomb of a Deaf Pharaoh in Cairo while searching for the Ark, Ricky here noticed that the Egyptians pointed upward toward the heavens, in their hieroglyphics, a mystery of our origin, if its not the cradle of civilization, why the signs, was it universal since Mesopotamia, here's your flight ticket, we're going to Halifax tomorrow."

Ricky: "Rest comfortably tonight, let the adventure begins!"

Atlanta Ocean, off the coast of Nova Scotia

Ricky: "I heard something out there."

Indiana: "It's probably just a whale."

Amy: "What's that heading toward us?"

Indiana: "Aim the harpoon."

Ricky: "Torpedo!" (explosion, the Gloucester sunk)

Indiana: "Hold on to anything to keep afloat" (Searchlight from the Soviet sub search for survivors, crews assist in the rescue effort, throwing net overboard)

Dmitri: "Welcome aboard the K-3, the Leninsky Komsmol, Indiana Jones, you are just in time to observe a historic event."

Amy: "Where's Ricky?"

Indiana: "This is Amy, she's Deaf, a student intern, and Ricky, her interpreter, probably drowned as he can't swim."
Dmitri: "Rickey, your interpreter was picked up literally, he's stuck on the periscope, we'll get him down."

Indiana: "Didn't we met before during the Hungarian uprising last year."

Dmitri: "Yes, we had to deport you as you were trying to smuggle treasures to the West."

Indiana: "I disagreed, the Smithsonian had send me to coordinate with the Budapest government to have a special exhibition of the Hapsburg Empire in the states."

Dmitri: "You're very stubborn, on my nerves."

Indiana: "Your Turan tanks awaken from my sleep at the Andrassy Hotel, the convoys were stopped on its way to the airport."

Dmitri: "This is our commander Lev Zviltsov, he'll be your host, keep your eyes open at the Polaris in the Ursa Minor."

Lev: "Imperin Vodka, sir." (a streak of metallic object flashes across the October night sky)

Indiana: "What was that?"

Dmitri: "You have just witness the Sputnik, a satellite, we are going beyond world dominance, into space." (Amy releases a life raft, crews clicked on their AK-47)

Lev: "Hold fire, we are taking them into custody."

Dmitri: "No, Lev, I am taking them to shore, and will execute them, you be on standby until I return." (Dmitri held pistol, ordered them blindfolded except for Amy, leaves the sub for shore)

Ricky: "I don't want to die,..."

Dmitri: "Don't even think about it." (sight of sharks changes Amy's mind, CCG patrol boats appears on the horizon, flares lighted the skies, Leninsky Komsomol submerged to avoid detection to the safety of international waters, rather than risk depth charges lopped at them, the lift raft occupants was taken aboard for debriefings)

Ricky: "This KGB was going to have us executed."

Indiana: "Dmitri, a former Soviet archaeologist, and I are friends, he's former Soviet archaeologist, we were involved in a joint effort to preserved Macedonian sites from destruction of the Greek civil war."

Amy: "Why didn't you..."

Indiana: "He's a double agent, on a dangerous mission working for our CIA..."

Dmitri: "Finally, mission accomplished, stolen the encryption devices, the Soviet fleet have been compromised, biggest coup since the Enigma from the Nazis."

Ricky: "You had us..."

Indiana: "Your family have defected to West Berlin, we'll airlifted them out of the country, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will escort you to the United States Embassy in Ottawa where you can apply for political asylum, hopefully we'll meet again at an international archaeological conference next year in Brussels."

Halifax Airport

Ricky: "You didn't succeed in Budapest, unable to airlifted the treasures of the Hapsburg Empire."

Indiana: "Actually, Dmitri rerouted the convoys to Vienna, the treasures are now within the archives of the Smithsonian until the democratic government is restored in Hungary."

Ricky: "I could use a beer..."

Indiana: "That's on hold, we're heading to Martha's Vineyard now!" (PA-25 Pawnee Piper aircraft takes off)

Smokey here interrupting, we hope you all enjoyed the adventures so far, we'll return to Deafread soon with the second segment of the Indiana Jones and the Secrets of Martha's Vineyard trilogy, I'll let you all speculate the outcome!"

Revised 5/13/08