Margaret Grace "Maggie" O'Malley was a spy working for British intelligence that Indiana Jones met while searching for the Staff of Kings.
Biography[]
Margaret Grace "Maggie" O'Malley[2] was an Irish spy working on behalf of British Intelligence. At some point, O'Malley learned how to ride elephants in Kenya, Africa.[1]
In 1939, Maggie O'Malley's mission was to collect the Staff of Kings, or at least prevent it from falling under Nazi control, having been made aware of the German archaeologist Magnus Völler being after the relic. She traveled to Panama, where she had the cover of being a photojournalist and hired a Boat Captain to take her upriver, where she planned to seek out the trail of Professor Charles Jacob Kingston. At the boat dock, she met the American archaeologist Indiana Jones, also seeking to go upriver, and she insisted that the boat was already hers, but the boat captain agreed to take them both. Reaching their destination, the two separated, though O'Malley helped Jones escape from some pillagers by pushing some boulders on them. Later she caught up with Jones after he found Kingston's Journal.[1]
The two went to Istanbul, Turkey, where she said (covering up her true reasons) that she was there to cover the social event at the new museum in the Topkapi Palace. It was there that she ran into Magnus Völler, who revealed to her that he knew that she was a spy after offering her a glass of champagne. She escaped from him thanks due to bumping into a waiter and escaped with Jones on an elephant. From Istanbul, she and Jones went to Nepal where they set up camp in a cave. While Jones slept, she ran off in the cold to the local village and tried to enter the staff temple but was stopped by the Nepalese guards.[1]
After Jones found his way into the temple and recovered the staff, she appeared and claimed the staff for her own. Believing her to be a Nazi, Jones confronted her, and she revealed that she was not a Nazi agent, but rather working for British intelligence. Magnus Völler and his gunmen appeared and kidnapped O'Malley and took the staff, trapping Jones in the temple. She was taken aboard the Nazi zeppelin the Odin, where she was kept prisoner in a cell in the mess hall. Jones sneaked aboard and freed her. The two reached Völler and Kingston. As Völler attempted to shoot Jones, Kingston jumped into the way and was shot. While Jones tended to his dying mentor, Völler escaped, and O'Malley and Jones went after him.[1]
Indy and Maggie embrace by the Bay of Bengal.
Arriving on the sea floor with the waters parted by Völler and the Staff of Kings, O'Malley helped Jones race in a motorcycle with a sidecar after the Nazi archaeologist. Eventually, they caught up to Völler and reclaimed the staff and drove to the shore. After the staff restored the sea, O'Malley asserted her claim to the staff, though Jones put himself romantically in the way. The staff transformed into a serpent and slithered away, leaving O'Malley in Jones' embrace.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
Margaret Grace O'Malley was voiced by Irish actress Orla Brady in Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings.[1]
One inspiration for Maggie in the game, according to the design document for "Indiana Jones 2007",[3] an early version of the Staff of Kings story by LucasArts,[4] was the late American photographer Margaret Bourke-White.[3] Although Staff of Kings ends up revealing that Maggie's job as a photographer was a cover for her true role as a British Intelligence officer,[1] the design document for "Indiana Jones 2007" ommitted any mentions of her journalistic job being a ruse, instead describing her as an intrepid photographer assigned to Central America by National Geographic.[3]
Continuity[]
In Rob MacGregor's unpublished novelization of the game, O'Malley's background is expanded upon.[5]
From Dublin, O'Malley was born in poverty around 1905, the only girl of her parents' six children, but became an orphan when her parents were killed in a fire when she was six years old. At age 15, she took a position as an au pair for an American diplomat's family whose travels allowed her to see the world and her interest in photography was fostered when she was entrusted with a camera to record the family's journeys. The ambassador and his wife recognized and encouraged her talents which led to O'Malley securing an internship in New York City, New York about ten years later upon the diplomat's return to the US.[5]
Appearances[]
- Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings novel (Cancelled)
- Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
- Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings Scavenger Hunt (Avatar)
Sources[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings PSP credits
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Indy 2007 Design Document
- ↑ The story of the cancelled Indiana Jones And The Staff Of Kings at Film Stories
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings novel