Mike

"A kid like that grows up - what is she going to amount to?"

- Mike

Mike was an American man living in New York City in the early 1990s. In 1992, he went to the urgent care section of a hospital in Staten Island, after a bowling accident. While he was waiting, he told his story to an elderly patient, Indiana Jones. As Jones was about to be examined by Dr. Jeffers, several paramedics entered, bringing in two gunshot victims, one of which was a little girl who was an innocent bystander. As Jones sat back down, concerned for the girl, Mike shrugged it off as an everyday occurrence. When Jones was appalled by Mike's lack of concern, Mike explained how he saw it - welfare recipients blowing each other away, and no chance to get out of the situation. Jones got angry and told Mike a story about another child he knew, who started in a tough situation. After the story, Mike asked what the point was, and Jones revealed that the orphan ended up becoming Barthélemy Boganda, leader of his country.

Jeffers stepped out of the operating room to ask those in the waiting room for a donation of AB- blood to save the girl's life, since the hospital was out of stock. Mike, moved by Jones' story and having the rare blood type, volunteered. As he was being led away to give blood despite his hate of needles and having once passed out during his Army physical, he told Jones that he regretted having ever met him.

Behind the scenes
David Lenthall played Mike in the bookends of one episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: "German East Africa, December 1916".

Appearances

 * The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
 * "German East Africa, December 1916" (bookends)