Jack Spice was seen only in a flashback sequence, he was depicted as a man who worked as a trapper in the Dakota Territory in 1868. He had at some point bought a slave, a Sioux youth called Chaske.He was an impatient and violent master, often beating or whipping the boy for errors. Duncan MacLeod witnessed the abuse one day and rode to Chaske's defense. Duncan took Chaske to a nearby town, McKewansville, and the doctor,agreed to tend to his wounds.