Previously on Outlander: Claire interfered in the relationship between Mary and Alex Randall but was then able to save Mary from the clutches of the Duke of Sandringham, so I guess they’re moving towards being even.

We’re just a few days from the Battle of Culloden (and, we later learn, Black Jack’s death, so, sad yay?). While Jamie’s rushing around trying to 1) prevent the battle (since the men are starving and dispirited) and, when that doesn’t work, 2) gathering as much intelligence on the British as he can in order to try and turn the tide at the last moment, Claire’s being tasked with easing a couple of people out of this world.

Continue reading “Outlander: The Hail Mary”

Previously on Outlander: Claire set about making sure Frank would exist someday, which involved breaking up Mary and Alex and preventing Jamie from duelling with Randall, who showed up in France to help support his brother, who was fired from his job because of Claire’s thoughtless idiocy. Also: Jamie put the word around that his wife’s a witch and got involved in a wine transaction with Charles and St Germain.

Jamie sits pensively at his desk. Murtagh comes in and announces Randall’s been released from the Bastille, so he’ll go arrange the duel that day. Jamie tells him there’ll be no duel. Murtagh demands to know why not but Jamie won’t explain himself. Murtagh stomps out.

Claire distracts herself by spending the day at the hospital. She’s suddenly really hugely pregnant. The executioner asks her to take over with a dead patient, as he’s been called away to execute someone accused of black magic. This gives the man a chance to describe in gruesome detail the sort of execution these people face—drawing and quartering, lovely! But the way he describes it it requires quite a bit of skill on the part of the executioner, so I guess it’s good he takes pride in his work? Before he goes, he suggests she go to see ‘their friend’ Master Raymond.

Continue reading “Outlander: Best Laid Schemes”

Previously on Outlander: Claire and Mary were attacked on their way home from the hospital, but the attackers unexpectedly ran off when they recognised Claire. Claire and Jamie planned a dinner party that ended in a brawl that, frankly, seemed too ridiculous for words and may have mostly served to throw Prince Charles together with St Germain, so nice going there, guys.

Servants clean up the wreckage of the party while Claire VOs that the gens d’armes came and arrested pretty much everybody, including Jamie. Jamie makes it home just after daybreak and tells Claire that Duverney came down to the Bastille and got everyone but Alex Randall out, because Alex is still suspected of rape and it may take a good word from Mary herself to get him off the hook. Like that’s really what that poor, poor girl needs right now. Claire asks if Sandringham will vouch for Alex, which just makes me laugh at her continuing naivete. I mean, really, Claire, I know this man as well as you do and I know immediately that not only will Sandringham not stick his neck out for his disgraced employee, he’ll cut him loose immediately. And, indeed, that’s just what he’s done. So, now Alex is in prison and unemployed. And it’s pretty much all thanks to Claire, really, for plunking him down alone at the bedside of a just-raped young woman. Well done, Claire.

Claire apparently has no time to feel badly about any of that, or about Alex’s terrible predicament, because she’s too single-minded for that and starts talking about Charles. Jamie thinks that Sandringham sees Charles for the idiot he is, but Claire reminds him that Charles left with St Germain, so they’re not out of the woods yet. Jamie agrees to send Murtagh to follow St Germain and see what he can find out.

Continue reading “Outlander: Untimely Resurrection”

Previously on Outlander: Claire and Jamie set out to sink the Jacobite rebellion, which you’d think would be easy, considering what an unstable idiot Prince Charles is. Unfortunately, it seems he has some powerful backers under the charge of the Duke of Sandringham, which is enough to get the interest of the French court. Jamie continued to have serious issues with his trauma (understandably), Claire’s deep boredom lead her to start volunteering at a charity hospital, and the Comte St Germain slithered back onto the scene.

In the titlecard scene, we see someone messing about with a carriage wheel.

Claire has accompanied Jamie to Versailles for his chess game with Duverney. Duverney conversationally asks if she and Jamie have considered names for the incoming kid and Claire proposes Lambert, after her uncle. Jamie hates that name as much as, well, anyone with halfway decent taste in names, but since his counter-suggestion is Dalhousie (after the Scottish castle, for God’s sake), it’s not like he can really judge.

Continue reading “Outlander: La Dame Blanche”