Zyke

CHARACTER
Zyke
Gender	Male
Death	November 1918 Batavia, Java
Nationality	German
Profession(s)	Soldier
Allegiance(s)	Self

Zyke was a German fortune hunter who sought the Peacock's Eye at the end of World War I.

Cruel, ruthless and efficient, he was a dangerous adversary for Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin who was quick to make alliances and broke them just as easily.

Biography

Acting on behalf of French Intelligence, Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin first encountered Zyke during the closing minutes of World War I. On the trail of Rajendra Sing, a corporal suspected of exchanging munitions information with the Germans, Jones and Baudouin found him in no man's land having a heated argument with Zyke, an enemy combatant. The German soldier shot Sing but was chased off by the spies before he could be identified or retrieve a map hidden on the corporal to the Peacock's Eye, a precious stone dating back to antiquity.

Zyke had enough of the trail to eventually make it to the reconstructed tombstone of Lycomedes in Alexandria in search of more clues. Posing as a sketch artist, he was caught up to at the museum by Jones and Baudouin, who had taken up the hunt for the diamond themselves. Afterwards, Zyke, suspicious of the supposed archaeology students' interest, had two men attack the pair in their hotel room and retrieved the map from them. Jones and Baudouin followed Zyke aboard a ship bound for Java. On board, Zyke deciphered the map and uncovered the Peacock's Eye's location before he burned the map.

While searching for the diamond in Java, he was unaware that Jones and Baudouin were in pursuit. When Indy and Remy found a box at the site believed to hold the diamond, Zyke attacked them and left with the container but Indy and Remy had its key. At Zyke's hotel, however, they found Zyke shot dead in his room and the box gone, and later discovered that a woman called Lily was his killer and yet another lured in by the promise of riches.

Personality and traits

Zyke's right eye was missing and he took to wearing an eyepatch after World War I.

Behind the scenes

Zyke was played by Adrian Edmondson in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

The Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye teleplay indicates that his name was scripted with the more Germanic-sounding "Zeich", and on one occasion a character does indeed pronounce it as such on-screen, but the subtitles for the home release use Zyke.

Appearances

• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye" → Treasure of the Peacock's Eye
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hunting for Treasure

Sources

•  Young Indy on DVD: A Tour of Volume 3; Disc 3 on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
•  Chapter 18: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Media Kit