Episodes 01

“Through a Glass, Darkly”

Claire awakes at Craigh Na Dun in 1948. Grieving over Jamie’s assumed death in battle, she is reunited with Frank, who cannot understand her reappearance but is desperate to reconcile. Claire explains where and when she has been, including her marriage with Jamie and that she is carrying his child. Initially furious and heartbroken, Frank promises that they will raise the child together and resume married life. She later recalls her arrival with Jamie to France, where they make contact with Jamie’s Jacobite cousin Jared Fraser, and make an enemy of the Comte St. Germain.

Episodes 02

“Not in Scotland Anymore”

In 1744, Claire and Jamie have settled in Paris, ostensibly working for Jared but actually seeking to foil the Jacobite rebellion. Jared arranges for Jamie to meet with Prince Charles Stuart himself, but Jamie cannot deter him from planning to seize the English throne for his father. Claire secures an invitation to the Palace of Versailles, where she hopes to meet King Louis XV of France and thwart his funding of the Stuart cause. The Frasers make an impression, and are reunited with the Duke of Sandringham. Claire is shocked to learn that Randall is still alive, and is not sure if she should tell Jamie.

Episodes 03

“Useful Occupations and Deceptions”

While Jamie continues to try and sour the financing of Prince Charles’s rebellion, Claire makes herself useful at L’Hôpital des Anges, a charity hospital run by the imperious Mother Hildegarde. Jamie meets a 10-year-old boy at a brothel, hires him to pick messages from pockets, adopts him, and names him Fergus. Claire and Jamie discover that Sandringham is helping Charles secure funds from English nobles, which Jamie hopes to thwart. Though spending time with Sandringham will surely reveal to Jamie that Randall is alive, Claire cannot bear to tell Jamie herself.

Episodes 04

“La Dame Blanche“

Claire finally tells Jamie about Randall, and the potential for vengeance reinvigorates Jamie. Claire suspects the Comte St. Germain when an attempt is made on her life, and she and Jamie plan a dinner party to paint Charles and his cause in a bad light to Sandringham. Murtagh, Claire and the young Mary Hawkins are attacked on their way to the party, and Mary is raped. Back at the house, the party goes as planned until a misunderstanding sparks a brawl.

Episodes 05

“Untimely Resurrection”

The disastrous dinner party has discouraged Charles’s investors, but the prince finds a new one in Jamie’s enemy, St. Germain. Charles puts Jamie and St. Germain into business together, to their concern. Trying to preserve Frank’s lineage, Claire sabotages the blossoming relationship between Mary Hawkins and Alex Randall. Black Jack Randall appears at Versailles, and Jamie challenges him to a duel. Jamie is angry when Claire forces him to swear that he will not harm Randall until he has conceived a child with Mary.

Episodes 06

“Best Laid Schemes…”

Jamie tells Murtagh the truth about Claire’s past. Claire uses her medical knowledge to give St. Germain‘s men symptoms that resemble those of smallpox. Jamie and Murtagh then steal the Comte‘s wine shipment, seemingly dashing Charles’s hopes. Fate brings Jamie and Randall face to face, and Claire arrives just in time to see them duelling. As Jamie stabs Randall and gendarmes arrive to arrest them, a pregnant Claire collapses, bleeding.

Episodes 07

“Faith”

Claire and Jamie’s daughter is stillborn, and a devastated Claire nearly dies from fever. With Jamie in the Bastille, Claire discovers that he duelled with Randall because he had discovered the English captain raping Fergus. Claire seeks mercy for Jamie from the king, who forces her to decide the fates of suspected “sorcerers” Master Raymond and St. Germain. She contrives to save them, but Raymond poisons St. Germain. Claire submits sexually to the king in exchange for Jamie’s freedom. She and Jamie reconcile, and they visit their daughter Faith’s grave before leaving Paris for Scotland.

Episodes 08

“The Fox’s Lair”

In Scotland, Jamie finds himself compelled to support the Jacobite rebellion. He and Claire seek military assistance from his grandfather, Lord Lovat, and are reunited with Colum and Laoghaire. Colum hopes to discourage the rebellion, which he is certain will fail. Laoghaire begs Claire’s forgiveness, and later agrees to help Claire and Jamie manipulate Lovat. Playing both sides, Lovat promises peace to Colum, but also sends Jamie some troops as reinforcements.

Episodes 09

“Je Suis Prest“

Claire and Jamie are reunited with Angus, Rupert and Dougal. As Jamie and Murtagh attempt to train Lovat’s men, the camps remind Claire of her traumatic experiences in World War II. She and Jamie later coerce young English scout William Grey to reveal vital information about the English army that is nearby.

Episodes 10

“Prestonpans”

Jamie and the Jacobite army undertake their first battle against the English at Prestonpans. Surprising them in the fog, the Highlanders are victorious, but Angus later dies of his injuries.

Episodes 11

“Vengeance is Mine”

When Claire, Jamie and their party are surrounded by redcoats, Claire pretends to be an English hostage so Dougal can negotiate the Highlanders’ safe passage. Taken to ‘safety’, Claire finds herself face to face with the Duke of Sandringham and his goddaughter Mary Hawkins. She also recognises Sandringham’s valet, Danton, as the man who had raped Mary. Sandringham intends to lure “Red Jamie” to save Claire, and then turn them both over to the redcoats. Forewarned, Jamie and Murtagh slip into the castle. Mary kills Danton, and Murtagh beheads Sandringham to fulfill his promise to Claire and Mary to avenge their attack in Paris.

Episodes 12

“The Hail Mary”

Jamie tries to avoid the Battle of Culloden with a preemptive strike against the English while they are celebrating the Duke of Cumberland’s birthday, but the Prince gets lost in the dark. Claire finds herself trying to convince Randall to marry Mary, who is pregnant with a dying Alex’s child. A dying Colum asks Claire to help him end his life painlessly. Before she does, he tells her that Geillis was not burned at the stake until after her child with Dougal was born, and that the child was adopted into the MacKenzie clan.

Episodes 13

“Dragonfly in Amber”

In 1968, fifty-year-old Claire is reunited with Reverend Wakefield’s adopted son, Roger, in Inverness. Her twenty-year-old daughter, Brianna, discovers that she is not Frank’s biological daughter, but refuses to believe her mother’s tale of time travel. Meanwhile, Brianna meets Scottish Independence activist Gillian Edgars, whom Claire later recognises is Geillis Duncan. Before the battle of Culloden in 1746, Jamie and Claire are forced to kill Dougal when he overhears their last-ditch plot to kill the Prince. Jamie insists that Claire save herself and their unborn child by travelling back through the stones, and she is utterly heartbroken at the thought of leaving him. They arrive at the stones as the battle begins, and bid each other an emotional farewell. Back in 1968, Claire realises Roger is a descendant of Geillis and Dougal. To prevent Gillian’s death, they try to stop her from travelling back through time. They arrive too late, but seeing Gillian disappear into the stone convinces Brianna that her mother is telling the truth. Roger reveals to Claire that Jamie did not die at Culloden.