- "The airline works for me."
- ―Pirate of Wall Street[src]
The Pirate of Wall Street was a middle-age[3] American businessman in the 1990s.
Biography[]
Born between 1928 and 1947,[2] the businessman known as the "Pirate of Wall Street" was given his nickname by the media, who featured the tycoon in cover stories[1] of several high-finance magazines.[3] As an acquisition specialist, he bought up an inefficient airline company, hoping to break it up and sell it piecemeal.[1]
While flying[1] in first-class[3] aboard that airline in 1992, he started a conversation with the elderly passenger sitting next to him, retired American archaeologist Indiana Jones, after the stewardess requested that Jones buckle up. Upon mentioning that the airline worked for him, Jones recognized him as the Pirate of Wall Street. When the acquisition specialist told Jones his plan for the airline, Jones asked about the fate of the employees, so the businessman responded that he wasn't running an employment agency. Jones began to tell a story of another time when he had encountered those who had similarly only been interested in figures and not in the people's lives - at the Battle of Verdun.[1]
Finishing his tale of how he had spared the lives of 10,000 French soldiers, Jones mentioned the fates of Robert Nivelle and Henri Philippe Pétain, hoping that the acquisition specialist had learned the problem of not seeing how consequences play out for the little guy. Unfortunately for Jones, the businessman had fallen asleep sometime during the story.[1] Indiana realized that the businessman was just like the generals from World War I and that some people would never listen to common sense.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
The Pirate of Wall Street, credited as "Businessman on Plane", was portrayed by the late J. Michael Hunter in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode "Verdun, September 1916".[1] His scenes were removed from the episode's edit for Demons of Deception.[4]
Appearances[]
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Verdun, September 1916" (Bookends)
- Verdun, September 1916 comic
- The Day of Destiny
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Verdun, September 1916"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Day of Destiny described the Pirate of Wall Street as middle-aged which, according to National Institutes of Health, would place his birth to be between 45 and 64, thus setting the Pirate's birth between 1928 and 1947.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 The Day of Destiny
- ↑ The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones – Demons of Deception