Sophia Hapgood



Sophia Hapgood is a fictional character introduced in the game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and appeared in its follow-up Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. As of April 2006 the character is being rumored to appear in the film series with Indiana Jones 4 in 2008.

She was a rich girl that rebelled against her family. She had a simple affair with Indiana Jones and followed him in the Jastro Expedition in Iceland. However she later began selling his artifacts.

A strange medallion of the Atlantean king Nur-Ab-Sal fell in her possession which somehow controlled her will. She became a psychic interested in Atlantis and made seminars about this subject.

In the game she helped Indy find Atlantis, racing against the Nazis who also were after its secrets. The relation of the pair is intense, often scolding one another or boasting for achieving things better than the other. Indiana also is always skeptical about her powers, and it is revealed that some were just tricks.

However cooperation among them is critical for the solution of some riddles. For example some people will talk only with Sophia instead of Indy and during these times, Indy might make use of the situation while others are busy talking with her.

Sophia often provides Indy/the player with hints whenever he talks with her. In some very few circumstances, the player has control of Sophia. Sophia accompanies Indy in most of his travel, if the player chooses the Team Path.

In the process it is revealed that the medallion somehow guided her in order for it to reach Atlantis again, so that Nur-Ab-Sal reclaims his power. Indy freed her from the affection of the medallion and after the case, they restored their relations... but not for long, as with all of Indy's affairs.

After WWII, Sophia landed a job with the CIA and caught up with Indiana Jones in the American Southwest in 1948. She showed up at various times during Indy's search for the tower of Babel (Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine), and their relationship was somewhat rekindled (in the end love scene, she calls him a "bastard," and then kisses him). It is she who first informs Indy about the soviets investigating a Babylonian ruin, and she appears several times elsewhere either to save or be saved by Indy. In the end, she is double-crossed by her boss Simon Turner and sent into the Aetherium, wherein the game's main antoganist, Marduk, possesses her again like with the necklace, and creates the game's endboss, a bizzare, glowing, harpy-like creature. Indy, of coure, is able to break the spell however, and the two of them embrace, and then escape from the collapsing Aetherium.

Portrayals

 * Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: Jane Jacobs
 * Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine: Tasia Valenza

NOTE: In the original version of the Lucasart's PC Game, Indiana Jones and the Fate Atlantis, there were no voices (in the first 1992 release). Voices were added in a CD-ROM re-release version in 1993.