It would take more strength than I have” – one of the favorite lines from the book. He is seeing his sister go through so much and says, “I can bear pain myself, but I canna bear yours.
It is a blow for Jamie, but ever the understanding man he says it might be for the best. Claire admits that she and Frank tried before she came through the stones, without success. She tells him that she doesn’t think she can have children. Claire tells Jamie that it is really she that has let him down. He feels he let her down in having to give away the future he thought he could secure for her and their children. Jamie doesn’t want to do it, and is relaying all this to Claire later. Ian tells Jamie to use money they had put away, the estate’s savings, to buy his silence. He tells Ian about Horrocks and how he knows that Jamie has the price on his head. Jamie and Ian are fixing a wagon outside, the one partially burned thanks to that idiot Watchman. The Scots have such a way to explain things. To take her mind off things, Claire has Jenny tell her what being pregnant feels like. Claire and Jenny have a much more cordial relationship now, instead of two predators circling the prize…Jamie…as it was in the last episode. They go inside and Claire discovers that the baby is breach, not head down as it should be. As a baby will do, they come when they want to, so just then Jenny’s water breaks and her labor begins. Caitriona Balfe, Laura Donnelly, and Aaron Wright in ‘Outlander’Ĭlaire and Jenny are outside doing the wash, talking about Jamie and Ian being thick as brothers when they were growing up. This is also a substantial deviation from the book. Gotta love the ethics of a British deserter. Horrocks tries to extort money from Jamie to keep silent about the price on his head. And then, enter Horrocks (Lochlann O’Mearain)! This is not good at all. Jamie, Ian, and MacQuarrie bond a bit over French war stories. That the leader is a good guy all things considered, and is not unreasonable in his request as well as in the protection he provides. He even pays Jamie for the hay that was burnt, but later on in the episode.Īs Jamie and MacQuarrie get to know one another, they kind of get to the same understanding Ian was trying to tell Jamie about. The leader, Taran MacQuarrie (Douglas Henshall), who appears to be a good fella, calms them all down and extinguishes the situation. It comes around to Jamie holding a pistol to one of their heads before it is said and done. He also gets a few licks in on a few of the others. While Jamie is trying to shoe his horse, the damned fool puts a wagon of hay on fire with his pipe…ON PURPOSE! Our strapping, aptly redheaded, hero kicks his butt in fine fashion for that. Rightly so, he is an arse of the highest order. There is one of their number in particular who seems to send Jamie’s ire into orbit. Sound familiar in anyone else’s house? Jamie is boiling mad the entire time The Watch is around. Claire and Ian (Steven Cree) always have to bring these two hot-heads to reason. Jamie follows, mad as a hornet, and of course they start fussing. The guys of The Watch ask for dinner, so Jenny runs down to the kitchen to get it started. And now we are back to Jamie McTavish as a name. Jenny (Laura Donnelly) enters and tells the man to put down the gun, that Jamie is her cousin.
Does he know how to rub people the wrong way or what?! Musket still pointed within inches of Jamie’s face. That is exactly where we pick up this episode. Jamie mentioned it to Claire ( Caitriona Balfe) when he woke her up while drunk in episode 12, “Lallybroch.” We ended the previous episode with a musket in Jamie’s face. They did end up with Jamie ( Sam Heughan) after he gave the child-abusing Scott an attitude adjustment. The Watch didn’t inhabit Lallybroch in the book. Outlander‘s 13th episode of season one (“The Watch”) is one that greatly deviated from the book, so I won’t spend too much time on differences. Sam Heughan and Douglas Russell in ‘Outlander’ (Photo © 2014 Sony Pictures Television Inc.