by augmentedfourth » Thu Oct 16, '14, 3:10 am
In the first episode, there's a bit with the main character, Dr. Morgan, tending to a slave on a slave ship, and the captain or whoever thinks the slave is too sick to be worth anything and just wants to throw him overboard. Dr. Morgan stands up for the slave...and then they both get thrown overboard. Somehow (and this wasn't really explained fully, because I guess there still has to be some mystery), this doesn't kill him and he wakes up the next day. And then realizes he can't die. In the present-day, he's actually "died" a couple times so far, but he always reappears (naked and in a body of water) the following morning.
So basically, he's immortal and he hasn't quite figured out why or how to "cure" it. Works well enough for me!