| Year |
Event |
| 1905 |
Duncan visits his friend greengrocer Giuseppe in New York City, New York. Giuseppe refuses to pay protection to the Mano Nero organization. After Giuseppe agrees to go to police the next day, he is killed by Mano Nero henchmen under Duncan's eyes ("Revenge of the Sword"). |
| 1917 |
Duncan is a paramedic of the British Red Cross. Along with his mortal friend Stan, they try to avoid bombings on the Western Front, but they are killed by a poison gas bomb when the truck bringing the soldiers' pay approaches. The thief is Immortal Xavier St. Cloud, who finds Duncan but fails to kill him as soldiers come to recover the money ("For Tomorrow We Die"). |
| 1919 |
Duncan visits Annie and Kerry Devlin in Dublin, Ireland. Kerry is killed and Duncan and Annie are forced to flee. Annie stays in Ireland to avenge Kerry; Duncan refuses to join her and leaves ("Eye For An Eye"). |
| 1920 |
Duncan visits Jesse Collins who secretly works as a miner in his father's Pennsylvanian coal mine. When the striking miners decide to fight the Pinkerton agents Mr. Collins hired to protect him, Jesse is killed in the riot ("The Zone"). |
| 1921 |
Duncan visits his friend Immortal Michael Moore at the insane asylum where Moore is a doctor. Immortal Quenten Barnes kills Jeanette, Moore's wife and Duncan comes too late. Neither Duncan nor Moore realize that Barnes is the same person as Moore ("Turnabout"). |
| 1923 |
On December 31, Duncan is celebrating New Year's Eve with his lover, flapper Nora Fontaine. The police breaks into the alcohol-drenched party, but Duncan and Nora barely escape by hiding into the janitor's room. Nora asks Duncan to marry her, but Duncan tells her he cannot have children ("Bless the Child"). |
| 1925 |
In Seacouver, Immortal Marcus Korolus kills blond women because his former lover, Lenora, revealed his immortality and had him burnt at the stake three hundred years ago. Duncan meets him at Orpheum Theatre and realizes his madness is beyond healing. He fights him and beheads him ("See No Evil"). |
| 1926 |
Duncan and Amanda are circus artists in a circus of the American West Coast. Duncan is called "The Great MacLeod" for his knife throwing abilities ("The Lady and the Tiger"). On his way to New Orleans, Louisiana, Duncan comes across a lynching and frees the three black victims by running over the gallows with his car. One of the victims is Immortal Carl Robinson. Duncan is killed by the lynchers, but revives in time to permit Carl to escape on his truck ("Run For Your Life"). |
| 1936 |
In Berlin, Germany, Amanda steals a money printing plate and must escape German agent Rutger. In the meanwhile Duncan tries to smuggle a scientist out of the country with the help of Werner Geist, who turns out to be a traitor. Duncan only escapes arrest because of Amanda's intervention. She flies the scientist to England while Duncan escapes on a gully ("The Return of Amanda"). |
| 1938 |
In Stalinian Russia, Duncan helps people to flee to the West. Immortal Alexei Voshin allowed them to use his ship, the Sea Witch, because Duncan didn't take his head. But Voshin did betray them to the KGB. They put everyone under arrest, including Duncan's friend Niva. Duncan manages to escape by diving into the sea and gets shot at while underwater ("The Sea Witch"). In Seacouver, after rescuing a kid from a burning house, Duncan is photographed by reporter Linda Plager. He tells him that she has a choice as to what she shows in her pictures ("Studies in Light"). |
| 1939 |
Linda Plager leaves Duncan because she wants to pursue her career in photography ("Studies in Light"). |
| 1954 |
Duncan drops by at a baseball game in which Carl Robinson is playing. They go to a diner afterwards, but don't notice the place is for whites only. The local sheriff orders them to leave, but Duncan knocks him unconscious before doing so. Once out, a newspaper shows them that segregation is declared unconstitutional ("Run For Your Life"). |
| 1980 |
Duncan has been caught without his sword by Kuyler and is forced to flee. He stumbles on Agent Lebrun's car, jumps over the parapet of the Quai de la Tournelle and eventually reaches the boat where Tessa Noël is showing Paris to a tourist group. It's the beginning of their story ("For Evil's Sake"). |
| 1988 |
On December 31, Duncan fights Immortal Walter Reinhardt on the roof of a Seacouver building. Reinhardt accidentally falls off the roof and into the river, while Duncan hides his saber and his own katana before joining Tessa during the countdown to New Year ("Revenge is Sweet"). |
