Duncan: "Fifty years ago, Daimler was a murderer. If he still is, I have to stop him."
Anne: "Why? Is it your job?"
This was a mortal story, as opposed to an immortal story. More accurately, about the problem of running into someone you knew fifty years ago, and still looking the same. I guess it's an occupational hazard for immortals who insist on hanging out in Paris instead of carefully changing continents every twenty years.
Father Bernard was a semi-interesting character. Courageous enough even as a little boy to risk his life to defy the Nazis, to stab Daimler with a pitchfork, to toss him, trussed up and chained, into the river. To stay quiet about seeing Duncan resurrect. To grow up and become a priest, and keep it all a secret for fifty years. If only he had listened to Duncan and stayed on holy ground, huh?
Duncan and Anne went from minor spats to breaking up, and it wasn't just a surge of pregnancy hormones. Duncan can play house and be a father to Anne's baby, but it won't change the eternal problem of evil immortals with swords showing up every now and then. This time Anne did indeed get in the way, and nearly lost her life and/or her baby because of Duncan. She got to see her first beheading and quickening, too.
So much for Anne. Go back to Seacouver, Anne.
Flashbacks:
-- 1943 Paris. Duncan in the French Resistance with his friend Georges and little Bernard.
-- Lots of clips. Duncan telling Nora he couldn't have kids in "Bless the Child" and Tessa sad about not having children in "The Sea Witch".
Bits and pieces:
-- Daimler wasn't just evil; he was actually a Nazi. Forty years in chains at the bottom of the Seine, and he was still a Nazi. (Sort of not a surprise.) He used the same chains to kill Georges, right after Duncan reunited with him. That was sad.
-- Duncan's friend Georges Dalou was also in "For Tomorrow We Die." He thought then that Duncan was his own grandson.
-- Daimler, German accent, called Duncan, "Duncan MacLaut."
Three stars,
Billie
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