Just as he is about to rape her at knifepoint, Jamie appears in the window. Claire nearly talks her way out of being interrogated by Randall, but he turns the tables on her. But Claire is captured by English troops before she can reach the stones, and a despondent Frank leaves as she is taken to Fort William. She hears Frank calling, and he hears her as well.
In the past, Claire finds herself nearby to the stones and runs for them. In 1946, Frank is losing hope of finding Claire, but goes to the standing stones one last time. They realise their feelings for each other, but Claire is still torn thinking about Frank. They leave, and Dougal tells Claire he does not have to turn her in if she marries Jamie and as a consequence becomes Scottish.Ĭlaire and Jamie marry to protect her from Randall, and try to get to know each other better afterwards to make the consummation less awkward. Dougal comes to take her away, but Randall insists that he has to deliver Claire to Fort William the following day. She concocts a story and he describes in detail his vicious whipping of young Jamie. When the General leaves, Randall tries to discover why she is in Scotland. The redcoats take Claire to meet General Lord Thomas, who promises her safe passage to Inverness in the company of Black Jack Randall. The episode ends with the young red coat returning with more of his kin to retrieve young Claire from the Highlanders. Knowing from history that their cause is doomed, she tries to warn them off. Later, she realises that they are collecting funds for the prospective Jacobite army, an army they would use to achieve Scotland's independence from England. A young man, who would turn out to be a red coat, tries to "free" her from the Scots, unsuccessfully.
Claire earns Dougal's respect while tending a dying man on a boar hunt, and he decides to take her with him on his rent-collecting tour.Ĭlaire clashes with Dougal and his men on the rent-collecting journey, especially when Dougal uses Jamie's scars to collect more money from the villagers. Escorting her back, he finds himself in a dangerous position with Colum that he had been trying to avoid, but manages to make an oath of loyalty while manoeuvering himself out of trouble with his kinsman.
After she and Jamie collude to help a youth punished for stealing, Claire is given renewed hope of being able to travel home when she hears a folk tale about a time-traveller and the standing stones.Ĭlaire plots her escape during a clan gathering at Leoch, but Jamie convinces her that she would fail. Fitzgibbons's nephew from poisoning, which the fanatical Father Bain had declared as demonic possession, Claire makes a new enemy, and even though she earns some trust from the MacKenzies she is called a miracle-worker and is therefore presumed too valuable to let go. As Claire plans to return to Inverness and the standing stones, Colum decides it is best to keep her at Leoch, against her will, as healer to the clan.Ĭlaire hopes that her medical skills will earn her the trust of the MacKenzies, and her eventual freedom, but manages only to make herself indispensable. She meets Geillis Duncan, and witnesses Jamie doing a kindness for Laoghaire, the pretty young granddaughter of Mrs. After a while, she realises she is suspected of being an English spy. Claire is brought to Castle Leoch, and realizes that she has somehow traveled back in time.Ĭlaire is presented to Colum MacKenzie, laird of Castle Leoch, where she learns she has landed in 1743. As they flee, she sets his dislocated arm and later treats his bullet wound. A Scotsman rescues Claire and she meets Jamie Fraser. Soon she is in the middle of a skirmish between English redcoats and rebel Highlanders, and comes face to face with Frank's double, Randall, who is captain of the Dragoons. The morning after observing a modern Druid ritual at the standing stones on the hill of Craigh na Dun, Claire touches one of the stones, and wakes up lying on the ground. Frank is researching his family history, in particular his 18th Century ancestor Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall. In 1945, Claire Randall is a former WWII combat nurse visiting Inverness, Scotland, with her husband Frank, getting to know each other again after their wartime separation.
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