Why did Ben act the way he did in the episode 'Victoria's Secret'? Why did he forsake every thing of value to him for a woman who could not know the meaning of love? Why was he willing to throw everything that mattered to him away and go with her? Maybe he was trying to recapture a love he once knew. Maybe he was using his feelings for Victoria to stifle his feelings for another woman--another love. Maybe he couldn't face the prospect of a life without the love he once knew and was willing to sacrifice everything for even this remote chance of love with Victoria.
This then is the story of that earlier love. Meet a young Mountie and a graduate student and witness the love that blossomed between them--a love destined to die at the hands of Victoria. Meet a young Benton Fraser and Phil McKenzie and experience a love that couldn't last.