Young Indiana Jones Chronicles/Adventures Scene Comparison - Lawrence Rides Off

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So, to anyone wondering, the importance of the differences here is that the original was focused on his crime as a murderer (which he answered for later in The Curse of the Jackal [pilot episode], when Indy finally finds Demetrios again in the second segment when he's 16 [a resolution pushed to much later in the chronological Adventures of Young Indiana Jones]), where in the DVD/digital "Adventures" version of events, the later-filmed connective (to the next segment in the re-edited mini-movies format of "Adventures") scene with Demetrios getting caught rather than completely escaping, they somehow reframed what everyone cared about to be primarily about the treasure, not about justice for the murder (which JUST happened). When 16 year old Indy "finally" finds Demetrios, he doesn't yet know he still has the jackal, and focuses on the murder... If we go off of the reedit, the murder problem has already likely been legally addressed, and there's only the treasure left to worry about. In the end, there were a lot of later-filmed (or saved from the editing room floor) connective scenes that were actually good and added a lot of value to things overall, but THIS change was a needlessly cheap bridge scene that negatively impacted the existing narrative (I have to guess it was easier to just film some fighting in the sand and yelling about treasure than to film a whole coastal near-miss [and what on Earth is up with Indy's single spoken line in the new scene being cockney/British?]), rather than having a plot thread linger a bit longer than originally intended... But they had plenty of things that weren't quickly resolved in the rest of the series, like when kid Indy got a locket from his first love and it catches a bullet much, much later, in the war... But anyway, there are good changes and bad changes, this is one of the bad ones, so be aware of why there is a discrepancy later in the series, and contextualize it correctly when they switch to older-young-Indy, as they're still chasing the killer, rather than ONLY hunting the stolen treasure. Otherwise, he'd come off kind of petty for punishing a guy twice for the same crime (but this time in possession of something he wanted). Anyway, seriously enjoy some Young Indy, I'll put out the full* original airing (*and a couple of verifiably accurate reconstructions, too) before long.