MacLeod (Mac) Timeline and Summary

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• Mac meets Jim for the first time when Nilson brings the new recruit to the Party flophouse. He sets Jim up with a job and welcomes him in.
• Mac and Jim catch a train to Torgas Valley to foment a strike among the disgruntled fruit pickers there. Mac chats up Al and finds out that Al's dad has a small farm.
• At the orchard, Mac offers his (fake) medical services to London's pregnant daughter-in-law. He pulls it off and wins London's friendship.
• Mac works in the orchard with London and convinces him to bring his men into the strike. London introduces Mac to Dakin. They convince him to join the strike with his men.
• Mac promises an eager Jim that he'll use him a lot for this job. Then he gets busy collecting materials, summoning help, and talking to Al about the farm.
• Mac visits Anderson and convinces him to let the workers use his empty field to set up camp for the strike.
• Mac stands with London as the superintendent of the orchard tells them that they'll have to get off the grounds if they aren't going to work. Mac threatens him.
• Mac thinks he can win over the police that surround the camp. It's a bad idea, and he and Jim find themselves the objects of a lynch mob. They manage to escape.
• Mac and London lead a group of men to the train depot to confront the scabs. Joy appears and gets himself killed, and Mac tries to make the most of the situation.
• After Al's lunch wagon is burned down, Mac appears at the Anderson farm to check on him. Anderson loses his temper, but Mac reassures him of their support.
• Mac gets London to organize a group of picketers, of which Jim is one. Jim returns with a gunshot wound, and Mac blames himself for sending Jim out.
• Mac, Jim, and Doc go out to visit with Al and find that the guards are not doing their duty. Mac gives them hell before returning to the camp.
• When Joy's coffin arrives at the camp, Mac opens it to see if he should do an open coffin for the funeral, but he determines that Joy looks too contented.
• Mac has to step up and give a proper eulogy for Joy when London bungles the opportunity to rile the men.
• Mac sits with London when Bolter arrives to "negotiate." He tells Bolter that although the workers are outgunned, they have their resources.
• Mac arrives at Anderson's barn as it is burning and realizes that nothing can be done to save the crop. When he returns to camp, he encourages Sam to retaliate.
• Later that night, the camp guards bring a high school-aged sniper to Mac. Mac beats the snot out of him as an example.
• Mac senses that things are falling apart and writes a desperate letter to Harry Nilson for aid. He sneaks into town to mail the letter and find out any news.
• When the men return from the bungled barricade run, Mac is disgusted by their lack of spirit and calls them "yellow." He says that the men need to see blood.
• After the mob beats the cops at the barricades, they come for Mac because he'd called them "yellow." He barely escapes lynching. Again.
• Mac encounters an angry Anderson up at the house when he goes to visit Al. He learns that Anderson has summoned the sheriff to evict the workers.
• After the sheriff arrives and threatens the workers, Mac tries to convince London to get the men to stay and fight.
• Mac and Jim run out into the night because a boy says that Doc is injured in a field nearby.
• Jim is shot and killed; Mac carries his body back to camp and displays it on the platform while he launches into his usual speech to rile the men.