Amanda This time-line is based on flashbacks which occurred in both Highlander: The Series and Highlander: The Raven, with additional information from The New Watchers Chronicles CD-ROM. Amanda appeared in the following episodes of the original series: The Lady and the Tiger, The Return of Amanda, Legacy, The Cross of St. Antoine, Rite of Passage, Finale, part 1, Finale, part 2, Double Eagle, Reunion, The Colonel, Methuselah's Gift, The Immortal Cimoli, Dramatic License, Money No Object, The Stone of Scone, Forgive Us Our Trespasses, To Be, and Not To Be.

• ca 820 c.e.--Amanda is born.

• 850--Street thief Amanda steals bread to eat from a house marked as one where victims have died of the plague. She is clubbed to death and awakens on a pile of bodies about to be burned. Sensing a strange power from nearby, she looks up to see the noblewoman Rebecca Horne who realizes that Amanda is a newly born immortal and has her taken to the Abbey of Ste. Anne. While there, Amanda learns about immortality and her unique heritage. Unused to Rebecca's kindness, she attempts to steal a crystal that Rebecca has hidden in a trunk but Rebecca catches her, and forgives her, asking her to remain and learn.

• 853--Fully trained, Amanda receives from Rebecca a shard of the crystal and leaves to begin her life as an immortal. However, she soon returns with an immortal close behind. Rebecca insists that Amanda must face her challenger or she will be running all of her life. "Choose your ground... and face what is to come," the older woman says. Amanda defeats Hengist the Saxon  by taking her first head and experiences her first quickening.

• 1182--In England, Amanda happens across a farm where the inhabitants have been killed and finds the awakening Kenneth, a ten-year-old Saxon boy. She becomes his teacher and assures him that although he's not big enough or strong enough to wield a sword… he is clever and can learn to adapt the game for his survival. She shows him his most valuable asset in a mirror: his innocence and his youth.

• 1183-- Still traveling together in England and thieving, Amanda is caught by Norman soldiers while Kenneth hides in the bushes. To prevent her own rape, Amanda strikes out at the men forcing them to hang her immediately. Kenneth, not believing that she will return to him, runs away. When she recovers, she searches for him, but fails to find him.

• 1554--In England, Amanda hooks up with charming con-man and thief, Jeremy Dexter. Together, they rob a lord's estate.

• 1565--While in Bourgogne, France, Amanda has a run-in with immortal Vladimir Rankov.

• 1610--In the Netherlands, Amanda is teacher and guide to young immortal Evan Peyton. But Peyton also wants his mortal inheritance. Against Amanda's wishes, he poisons his adoptive father and younger adoptive brother in order to inherit their estate.

• 1635--In Florence, Italy, Amanda is visiting her teacher Rebecca Horne when they cross paths with a new immortal, Duncan MacLeod who is clearly flustered at their male dress and their confident demeanor. Amanda steals MacLeod's purse. When he discovers it missing, Duncan tracks the ladies and suggests they all have a drink together.

• 1643--In the Black Forest of Germany, Amanda has a run-in with evil immortal Dr. Julian Heller. he escapes, but Amanda vows to kill him the next time.

• 1720--Amanda travels to the New World and becomes involved with a slave family during the uprising on Haiti. She promises that she will ensure that they and their descendants have their heritage. While aboard the Maria Rose, enroute from Haiti, she drowns with all aboard when the ship is sunk in a hurricane. A locket, which contains the birthright of the family, is lost.

• 1753--Returning to the Old World, Amanda attempts to learn to be a harem dancer as a cover for stealing the sultan's treasure. She is caught and nearly loses her hands. The visiting Duncan MacLeod intervenes and rescues her but is shot by an arrow. Amanda offers to kiss the wound and make it better.

• 1776--Once more in the New World, Amanda works behind the lines as a camp follower-healer and makes the acquaintance of immortal Liam Riley, a young soldier in His Majesty's service. When Liam accidentally shoots a woman attempting to protect her adopted son Sean, who happens to be a pre-immortal, the young immortal is guilt-ridden. Raised in a religious household, Liam swears that if the woman lives, he will dedicate his life to God. Amanda, who is working on the woman, is able to save her life. Liam, after tossing away his rifle, leaves believing his prayers have been answered. But Sean, who is killed and revives, swears revenge when his mother later dies of her wounds. Amanda does not tell Liam of the woman's death, feeling that his transformation into a holy man is for the best and fearing that the truth will shatter him.

• 1792--Having returned to France in the middle of its revolution, Amanda is saved from the guillotine by immortal revolutionary Talia Bauer. She swears to one day return the favor.

• 1804--While in Bavaria living with Duncan MacLeod, Amanda steals the Baron Holstein's treasure and leaves him to deal with the Baron's men while she escapes with new partner… Zachary Blaine.

• 1867--In Manchester, England, Amanda marries immortal Derek Markham who says that way, if caught, they cannot be forced to testify against one another. When Markham kills a kidnap victim, Amanda decides to turn him in to the police.

• 1888--Amanda shows up in San Francisco, pretending to be French, at the Double Eagle, the saloon of Kit O'Brady. She wins the saloon from him and re-names it The Queen of Spades. She and Duncan MacLeod renew their personal relationship.

• 1889--The Queen of Spades burns to the ground in a mysterious fire and Amanda vows vengeance on Kit O'Brady whom she believes is the culprit.

• December 1903--The Wright brothers successfully manage motorized and controlled airflight. Sometime between this and 1936, Amanda learns to fly a plane.

• 1921--Duncan and Amanda begin to tour the American southwest as part of a circus act. This is the last time they are together… or so he later assures Tessa.

• 1926--Upon leaving their circus jobs over a pay dispute, Amanda and Duncan meet immortal bank robber and self-styled Robin Hood, the charming Cory Raines. Amanda decides to join Cory in a "Bonnie & Clyde"-styled series of robberies with Duncan along to dig them up whenever they are shot down in a hail of bullets. With this episode, Amanda evidently steps on Duncan's last nerve.

• 1936--Posing as a torch singer, Amanda is in Berlin attempting to steal a set of perfectly forged U.S. currency plates. She manages to get the plates, but when the Gestapo become involved, she approaches Duncan MacLeod about getting him to help her. He's involved with smuggling scientists out of Germany and refuses. Amanda doesn't take "No" for an answer and ends up flying the plane and the scientist out of Germany while Duncan holds off the German Army.

• 1950--While traveling with Duncan MacLeod, Amanda and he meet up with Hugh Fitzcairn for a golf match in Scotland. When the two men discover that Fitz cheated during a previous match that involved whether to steal the Stone of Scone or blow up the King's Armory in 1735, Duncan insists they go after the stone. Amanda misunderstands and thinks the "stone" is a fabulous diamond. She approaches immortal Lord Bernard Crimmons, a former fence, about bankrolling their attempt and promises him a share of the loot. Alas, Amanda discovers the "Stone" is merely a stone. Duncan escapes with it, but when she is caught, she implicates Fitz. Duncan arranges for his friends' release and for the return of the "Stone" with a reasonable cover story using his WWII contacts, and the three immortals return to Scotland for another golf game.

For time-line events involving Amanda in the 1990's, please see the Episode Guides at this time. This is a work in progress.