Musgrove
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- "Now, we've got some information here, but we can't make anything out of it, and maybe you can. Tanis development proceeding. Acquire headpiece, Staff of Ra. Abner Ravenwood. U.S."
- ―Musgrove[src]
Colonel Musgrove was an intelligence agent for the United States government, in US Army Intelligence.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] The Ark of the Covenant
In 1936, after Army Intelligence's European section had intercepted a Nazi communique that had mentioned Abner Ravenwood and the Staff of Ra, Musgrove and Major Eaton sought out Indiana Jones at Marshall College to learn more information about Tanis, the staff of Ra, and Ravenwood. After Jones and Marcus Brody made the connection to the Ark of the Covenant and mentioned the Biblical powers ascribed to it, Musgrove was distressed over Hitler's interest in recovering it. He and Eaton decided to hire Jones to recover the Ark of the Covenant for the United States before the Nazis found it. As part of the deal, the Ark would go to Brody's museum after it was recovered.
After Jones survived the opening of the Ark on the secret Nazi island in the Mediterranean, Eaton and Musgrove met with Jones and Brody again, this time in Washington DC. Musgrove thanked Jones and Brody for their service to the United States. While Jones and Brody argued that the Ark needed to be studied, Musgrove remained quiet while Eaton told them that "top men" would be handling the further research into the Ark's powers. In fact, the Ark was put into an army intelligence warehouse as crate #9906753.
[edit] The Hall of Records
In 1941, Musgrove was contacted by Sir Reginald Brooksbank, who had discovered the Akashic Hall of Records on the Bahamian island of Bimini, and was seeking US help in keeping it safe from the Nazis. Musgrove worked with Brooksbank, and had Nichols assigned to protect the British explorer. Unfortunately, Brooksbank was killed when Nazi agents sabotaged his car, despite Nichols' protection. Brooksbank, before his death, recorded a film instructing that his friend Indiana Jones to find the new location of the Hall of Records.
Musgrove tracked Jones to Peru, but was unable to find his site. Musgrove used wanted posters, using the name of the fake Peruvian Museum Council to have Jones eventually captured by Peruvian forces. Musgrove met up with General Delgado in the Peruvian-occupied city of Puerto Bolivar to arrange for Jones' release, but Jones had already escaped Peruvian military custody and discovered Musgrove with the general. Though Jones distrusted him, Musgrove eventually convinced the archaeologist to help him by mentioning Brooksbank's recent death. With Nichols, Musgrove flew Jones to a US military base in Panama, and showed Jones the film from Brooksbank and a mysterious sphere, which convinced Jones that the Akashic Hall of Records could be real. However, at the Rio Hato air base, Jones was attacked by a Nazi assassin. Musgrove agreed to Jones' plan to pretend to be dead, and then assume the role of an army sergeant serving as Musgrove's driver to get off base. At the town of Santa Clara, Musgrove learned of Jones' suspicion that Nichols was the Nazi spy, but then discovered that Jones had played him into letting him escape. After working with Nichols to piece together Jones' probable flight to Costa Rica, Musgrove began a plan to catch up with Jones when he was shot by Nichols.
Musgrove survived the shooting, but was unable to prevent Nichols from taking American soldiers to Palmar Sur where they nearly apprehended Jones and his pilot, Bert Brodowski, who escaped and reached the Hall of Records at the Pyramid of the Sorcerer in Uxmal. By the time Musgrove was well enough to travel, he met up with Jones in Merida after Nichols had been defeated at the pyramid, and the Hall of Records had moved again. Musgrove apologized for dragging Jones into the Nichols fiasco, but offered to keep Jones on the job of tracking down the Hall of Records before the Nazis could find it again.
[edit] Behind the scenes
Don Fellows played Musgrove in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
[edit] Appearances
- Raiders of the Lost Ark novel (First appearance)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Raiders of the Lost Ark comic
- LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (Non-canonical appearance)
- Indiana Jones and the Pyramid of the Sorcerer
- Indiana Jones and the Mystery of Mount Sinai
