George Thomas was a banker, and a friend of Duncan MacLeod's. He had retired and passed his days playing bocce and didn't like it, "One day you're changing your grandson's diapers, and the next thing you know he's managing your bank." He had a lot of time on his hands and he began thinking and reading, wondering if it were only good deeds that define a man's soul. After a game of bocce with MacLeod one morning, he was killed by a car bomb, and MacLeod discovered that he'd been being watched by Alex Raven.