Highlander FAQ (Sections 7 and 8)
Debra Douglass
*7.0) Series Flashback Timeline*
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By Velia Tanner and Julie Beamer
Duncan MacLeod (basic chronology)
1592-c.1630 Scotland (Family Tree)
[was born in the Highlands and lived there until his
Immortality became known (Family Tree);
encountered Hyde (Prodigal Son); left Scotland
sometime later]
1630's Travelling in Europe
[Met Ursa (Beast Below); met Amanda (Legacy); was a
bodyguard in Italy w/ Fitzcairn]
circa 1660 France? (Saving Grace)
[again traveling, appeared to be in a type of uniform,
met Grace who was delivering a baby]
circa 1670 Scotland (Unholy Alliance, pt.1)
[was Weapons Master and military tutor for a chief's
son]
circa 1680 China (Road not Taken)
[mentioned in dialog]
circa 1700 Paris (Prodigal Son)
circa 1728 London-Dover Road (Revenge is sweet)
[traveling from London to Dover; claimed to be a
merchant and used a common accent with the people in
the coach and reverted to his Scots accent during the
encounter with Walter Reinhart]
1730 English Forest/Inn (Counterfeit I)
[got in trouble for poaching]
circa 1740 Constantinople (Lady and the Tiger)
[mentioned in dialog]
circa 1780 China (Road not Taken)
[Duncan returned to visit Kiem Sun who had perfected
his mind control drug--except it killed the subjects]
circa 1783 Paris (For Evil's Sake)
[Duncan was guarding a French Baron during peace talks
with the English]
1799-1816 Napoleonic/Empire period--Duncan boozed and caroused
with Gabriel (Eye of the Beholder)-1799, had an
affair with a Duchess in England and fought Gabriel
(Eye of the Beholder)-1803, lived with Amanda in a
Bavarian Inn (Lady and the Tiger)-1804, in the British
Army [a highlander reg.] in the early Napoleonic Wars
(Unholy Alliance, pt.2), and in a standard fusilier
reg. for the later wars meeting Darius and leaving him
about a year later to go to America (Band of Brothers)
circa 1835 London (the Gathering)
[mentioned in dialog]
circa 1840 Paris (Saving Grace)
[Duncan sees Grace off to the Amazon with Sendaro with
a warning about him--he was right]
1840 Paris (The Vampire)
[Duncan's looking for business investments and his
partners are killed by Immortal Nicholas Ward]
circa 1842 Europe (a gypsy camp) (The Darkness)
[a gypsy lover of Duncan's, curses him when she sees
in his palm he will never marry anyone, even though he
said he would marry her]
1861-1865 American Civil War (Innocent Man)
[Duncan is hung as a spy when he is caught helping
slaves escape without his uniform. Lucas Desiree, an
Immortal, is a witness to the hanging and digs him up]
1866 Annapolis, MD (Epitaph for Tommy)
[Duncan is challenged to a duel by the fiance of Bess,
whom he was rolling in the hay with (literally). Bess
is killed by accident.]
circa 1867 ? Pacific Northwest (Mountain Men)
[Duncan meets Carl the hermit who teaches him to track]
(Conflicting opinion puts this one either in 1867
(before The Gathering FB) or the 1870's (after the
Indian FB))
circa 1869 Pacific Northwest (The Gathering)
[the Indian tribe Duncan married into is massacred when
he wasn't there]
1880's Pacific Northwest
[Duncan tries to protect a young man from an Immortal
bounty hunter (Under Color of Authority); Duncan and
Gregor try to help in a cholera epidemic (Studies in
Light).]
late 1890's Pacific Northwest City (The Fighter)
[Duncan fights in an illegal bare knuckle bout for his
Immortal friend Thomas Sullivan]
1905 New York Italian Neighborhood (Revenge of the
Sword)
[Duncan tries to help a grocer fight the Black Hand.
The grocer is shot for not paying protection.]
1914-1918 World War I--France, Red Cross (For Tomorrow We Die)
[Duncan is an ambulance driver for the Red Cross.
Xavier St. Cloud steals the army payroll by gassing
everyone, but fails to kill Duncan.]
1918 Russia (Warmonger)
[Duncan rescues a countess and her family from the
firing squad by promising an Immortal (Drake) that he
won't ever come after him.]
1919 outside Dublin (Eye for an Eye)
[Annie tries to convince Duncan to join the Irish
[Annie tries to convince Duncan to join the Irish
revolution. He refuses and Annie's husband is killed.
Annie refuses to escape with him]
1920 Coal Mine Strike, Pennsylvania (The Zone)
[Duncan tries to talk a friend out of joining a strike.
The friend is killed by Pinkerton agents hired by his
own father]
1921 Seattle, WA
[Michael's wife Jeanette is killed by "Quenten Barnes"
(Turnabout); Immortal Marcus is 'The Scalper' (See No
Evil).]
1924 East Coast City (Bless the Child)
[a new years party is raided for liquor and Duncan
tells his girlfriend he can never father children]
1926 Louisiana (Run for your life)
[helps Carl, another immortal, evade a lynch party]
1926 Southwest US [Barnum and Bailey Tour] (Lady and the
Tiger)
[mentioned in dialog]
circa 1930 New Orleans (Pharaoh's Daughter)
[mentioned in dialog]
1936 Berlin (The Return of Amanda)
[Duncan helps a physicist escape the Nazis while
Amanda steals plates for US dollars. He lets Amanda
escape in the airplane in his place]
circa 1938 Russia (The Sea Witch)
[tries to get people out of Russia with girlfriend
Niva. Is betrayed by Alexei Voshin who wants to kill
him]
circa 1938 Seattle, WA (?) (Studies in Light)
[meets and has relationship with Linda Plager, a
photographer. He tells her to look for the good in
her work. She tells him to leave because his love is
a distraction to her work]
1939-1945 World War II--French Resistance (For Tomorrow We Die)
[mentioned in dialog]
1954 Southern City (Run for your life)
[Carl, an Immortal and baseball player, whom Duncan is
visiting when segregation is declared unconstitutional]
1960 Seattle, WA (Turnabout)
[inferred: he knew Quentin Barnes had been executed]
1980 Paris (For Evil's Sake)
[Duncan meets Tessa]
1992-94 Seattle, WA & Paris, France
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*8.0) ADMINISTRIVIA*
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8.1) Who Contributed?
The FAQ is maintained by Debbie Douglass.
A lot of the information has been gratuitously plagiarized from the
'Net. Following are the names of the people I *do* have. Many thanks
to all of them. Sorry to those who have been inadvertently excluded.
Sorted more or less alphabetically, they are: Catherine Beckstead,
Trevor Boyce, Lady Johanna Constantine, William Dieterichm, Janet A
Dornhoff, Katherine Emblom, Stacey Epstein, Sean Eric Fagan, Josh
Geurink, J Bruce Howie, Stevens Jason, Dan Johnson, Susan Johnson,
Rick Jones, Joe Kiniry, Jimmy Kung, Kathy Madison, William G Martin,
Lab Master, Heath W McCarthy, Selma McCrory, Margaret Newman, Morpheus
Nosferatu, Doug Oke, JJ Pierson, Christine Reynolds, Jeff Rupley,
Phillip D Russell, Rick Savoia, Jeff Schneiter, Cherie Slasor, Ross
Smith, Paul Tyma, Jeff Vavasour, Michael Vilain, Robert W Welham,
Howard Wilson, Jonathan Young, Akane, Jeff, Kane, Karhu, 01fortec,
cate3, IO20746, Lezlie Shell, ma_saunders, ST34675, sandman, G.E.
Rule, Lab Master, Mike Andersson, Bill Reeves, Obie Slotterbeck,
Roderick Lee (also known as Profess'nal Agitator), Jonathan Blum, Dave
Romas, Lee Whiteside, Jeff Hansen, Julie Beamer, Christopher Lau,
Velia Tanner, Krystmas Tarr (director of the fanclub), and numerous
others.
Additional information gratuitously plagiarized from USENET and
HIGHLA-L,
8.2) Where can I get another copy of the FAQ?
For the time being, just ask me, Debbie Douglass <dd...@DL5000.bc.edu>.
I'll try to post this on the USENET newsgroups rec.arts.sf.tv,
rec.arts.sf.movies, and alt-cult-movies with some semblance of
regularity.
If you don't have access to USENET or you just want a copy in-between
postings you can request a copy by sending email to me at
<dd...@DL5000.bc.edu>. If you include 'Send HL FAQ' in the Subject
line your request will be handled automatically.
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