Claire didn't heed Jamie's warning of staying away from Geillis and found herself in hot water again. The warden took the witch craft claims very seriously, and he treats the women very roughly. Claire warned Geillis to leave. Geillis wonders if Claire didn't keep her secrets as she has hers, that Claire may have even lead the Warden to her. Claire kept her secrets. She doesn't think Geillis is a witch, but she certainly is a murderer. Claire knows she killed her husband after Dougal's wife died. Geillis doesn't even deny it. She admits that she started with white arsenic months ago, hoping for it to happen before the baby showed. One of the guards drops down some bread, and Claire calls to him, telling him that she's James Fraser's wife, nephew of the Laird. He doesn't believe her though. Geillis isn't worried. She's sure that Dougal will come for her soon. Claire breaks the news to her. Dougal was sent away, and Jamie too, there is no one coming. Geillis realizes the trouble their in, and offers to split the bread with Claire. She doesn't want any. They'll have to wait until the trial. Geillis asks her to lay next to her, to keep warm for the night, but Claire refuses.

Claire wakes to the witch burning chants. It's to begin. Claire climbs first from the hole, then Geillis. Both women are roughly handled as they're matched to the square. Poles are erected in the square for their bondfire, and they're brought into the hall. Claire Fraser and Geillis Duncan are brought up on the charges of witch craft. Claire knows no one in the crowd, and she knows that few accused are allowed to walk free. Ned tries to gain entry, and Claire is glad to see him. He calls the trial illegal, as the Witch Craft act has been appealled. The judges do not abide by English law, which Ned is glad for. Since they are abiding by Scotish law, Ned offers his services as lawyer. Geillis's housekeeper is brought forward for testimony. She speaks for an hour a case, building the case against them. Even Geillis's singing is considered witchcraft to Jeannie. Ned points out that Jeannie was unhappy with her employment, and she tried to get a job at Castle Leoch speaking ill of her employers. Her testimony is tossed aside.

Another woman is brought forward. She talks about her baby, her changeling baby. She placed it in the tree, and waited for the fairies to bring her baby back. The baby laid there all night, and in the morning they saw Claire take the baby from the tree. She spoke words over the baby, and the changeling died. She never got her baby back. Claire says that she could not let a baby die, she is a healer. Ned pleads with her to let him do his job. Ned addresses the mother. If she was there, why did she not stop Claire? She feared her, she did so in silence, and allowed her to contaminate the baird so that when the fairies came they could not complete the switch. Ned tells her to take comfort in the knowledge that the changeling child died, and her child lives on forever with the fairies. Ned thinks that they should thank Claire rather than condemn her. She too is dismissed. Ned was very skilled, but Claire saw that the people wanted them to burn regardless of the truth. A man comes out with charges against Geillis alone, about her flying about like a great winged bat. Claire calls the accusation preposterous. The judges decide to carry on in the morning. Ned thinks they have a good chance if the women survive the night. Collum didn't send him, he doesn't know he's there at all. He slips Claire a flask to help keep her warm through the night.

Claire drinks from the flask. Geillis takes a drink. She finds Ned a strange man. Ned may be optimistic, but Geillis isn't so much. She knows that they mean to kill them. Claire asks if she was after Dougal for his position or money. Geillis had plenty of money. She took loads of it from her husband, funneling it away over the year to fund a Stuart King back on the throne. Geillis is a Jacobite, politics brought her and Dougal together. He was the only man who she saw as her proper match. He wouldn't be faithful, but Geillis doesn't mind. She loves him, he's fighting for all of Scotland, not just his clan. Collum ordered Dougal away, and he left. Claire is sorry, but Geillis is not. Whatever happens with the examiners, but she would do it all over again. Claire's only regret is that she has only one life to give for her country. Geillis asks if Claire loves Jamie. She cries his name out in her sleep, but she does not answer.

Claire wakes to a quiet morning, no witch chants, only birds chirping. Claire rattles bars with no luck. She tells Geillis if she is a witch, now would be the time to use her powers. Geillis feels the same. Claire notices that the birds are starlings, and talks about happy memories, and their swooping patterns. They do it to protect each other. They're not exactly a flock, but they're there for eachother. The time to continue their trial has come.

Another day, another time getting dragged through the street. There's a quiet murmuring in the courtroom. The retched Laoghaire has come to give her testimony. When they first met, Claire was not Mrs. Fraser, but Mrs. Beecham. She went to her for a potion, to open Jamie Fraser's heart to her. She tells them that it is painful to speak about. She was the one that Jamie was meant to marry, but Claire took the potion herself. Claire did not make an actual potion she says. Laoghaire says that Claire hexed her and stole Jamie. Ned points out that she's clearly a jealous lass with a broken heart. Laoghaire doesn't even try to deny it. She says that when she confronted Claire she struck her. Claire did strike her after Laoghaire put an ill wish under her bed, and tried to seduce her husband. Jamie was the love of Laoghaire's life. Claire makes her own accusations. Laoghaire is the reason that she is there. She fabricated a note from Geillis, knowing that the wardens were coming to arrest Geillis, and planting evidence against her. The examiner silences Claire, calling her an embarrassment.

The next witness is called forward. The priest with a bone to pick against Claire. He knew when he first saw Claire that she was the whore of Babylon. Ned asks if this is a trial or sermon. He tells them all that he prayed that God would curse her body and soul, and God answered his prayers. He told him that he had made a prestigious mistake. When Thomas was under siege by the devil he abandoned hope and administered last rites. He was blinded by vanity and hubris, he rebuked Claire. Claire was the one that saw that the boy was ill from ingesting flora. She did what he could not and saved the boy's life. He falls to his knees and confesses to all of the people that he failed Thomas and God. He is no longer worthy of serving the community and asks that they let him go. Everyone in the room is silenced by his confession. One man stands up, saying that it takes a real witch to turn a man of God away. Claire yells that she has done nothing. The father is forbidden from leaving. Ned asks for a short recess, and he is granted it.

Ned takes the women to a room. The climate has turned, and there is no turning back. One of them has to be sacrificed. Geillis has plied her trade for a long time, and only her husband stood in the way of her burning. With him gone, there is no one to protect her, and it was only a matter of time. Ned suggests that Claire say that Geillis bewitched her, and that she renounce her. It is the only way. He gives them a moment to consider it. Geillis is frantic now. She asks Claire why she is there. Claire was arrested to. Geillis wants the truth. She wants to know why Claire is in Scotland. If Geillis is going to die she needs to know the truth, and all of it. Ned tells them that they must hurry, the crowd won't wait much longer. Claire confesses that it was an accident. She's not there for any reason. She came and it was by accident. She doesn't want to change anything or do anything at all. Claire just wants to go home, she's unsure if it is really possible. Geillis realizes that its all for nothing. Their time is up, and Geillis is not pleased.

Ned announces that Claire would like to address the court. All eyes turn to Claire. Claire looks around. She announces that Ned is mistaken, she has nothing to say. Geillis thinks she is mad. The examiners find them both guilty and sentence them to death. Ned pulls out his pistol, halting the proceedings. Geillis tells her that she does think that it is possible to go back. 1968 she says. Ned fires his pistol as he's dragged away. Claire tells them that they will burn in hell for this. The Examiners have Claire dragged forward. Laoghaire tells her that she will dance on her ashes. Claire is whipped while Geillis and the other watch. The crowd cheers with each lash. Jamie arrives, and brutalizes his way forward. The examiners call for him to stop. He swore before God to protect her, and they are not above God. With his swords drawn he warns that the first man forward will be the first man down. The room is at a standstill on edge. Geillis confesses that Claire is no witch, but she is. She killed her husband with witch craft. She took advantage of Claire, bewitching her. Jamie grabs his wife, as the people turn to Geillis. She tells them that Claire didn't have any idea of her dealings nor does she serve her master. Oh, Geillis. Geillis exposes her arm, saying that it is the mark of the devil. It is really a small pox vaccination scar. Claire realizes that Geillis was from the future, from 1968. Geillis tells them to run, and Jamie drags her away as Geillis exposes her pregnant belly, telling them that she will have the child of Satan, and it will damn them all. Geillis is carried out into the square. Jamie convinces Claire that they must go.

Claire is shaken, her back marred. Jamie tends to her wounds. The cuts aren't deep. She won't be scarred like he is. He knows she has things that she does not want to tell him, but he asks that when she does tell him things, that it be the truth. He has to ask her a question for both of their safety. He asks if she is a witch. She asks if he is serious. Claire has the same mark on her arm that Geillis had, and he has to know. Claire confesses that she is not a witch. She tells him that after he hears the truth he may think otherwise. She's never had small pox, and she never will. She can nurse the sick, but the sickness cannot touch her. The mark on her arm is a vaccine, which he's never heard of, that none of them has, but it prevents her from contracting the disease. She knows about Jack Randall, because she was told about him. She knows the day he was born and the day he will die. She knows that he works for the Duke because her husband told her about him. She knows about the bonny Prince, the Jacobites, and the doomed cause, she knows what will happen to the Scots. She knows all of this because she is from the future. She was born October 20, 1918, some 200 years from now. Jamie lets it all sink in, in silence. She asks if he thinks her raving mad, but he doesn't. He believes her he says simply. He doesn't understand it, not yet, but he trusts her word, her heart, and the truth between them. Whatever she tells him, he will believe. He asks for more. She tells him that she was a combat nurse. She tells him everything. It came pouring out of her. He listened, he didn't understand it all, but he listened.

He goes back to the time that he left her alone in the Glade, and she ran away, realizing that she was trying to get back to the Stones, to get back to her time, to her husband. She admits that it was true, and he beat her for it. He sits down. He's very very sorry. Claire begins to cry, telling him not to be, he couldn't have known. He holds her in his arms, telling her to rest now, he's there. She can't believe that he really believes her. He does, though he admits it would have been easier if she had been a witch.

They rode hard for the next few days, wanting to leave the trial and the questions far behind. Jamie spoke of Lallybroch, of the life they would have together, the life he had always imagined. She tried to listen, tried to invest in the dream of Lallybroch, but she felt adrift.

In the darkness, as she sleeps, he kisses her hand, traces the lines of her face. He kisses her mouth tenderly, caressing her thighs. He pleasures her awake. He brings her close to orgasm, and she begs to have more than just his fingers inside her, but he wants to watch her face. He kisses her passionately as she finishes.

Jamie watches her by the brook. He asks her if she is ready to go home, and seeing her husband she is. She kisses him, and he tells her to take a look up the hill. Claire heads up, and he's taken her to the stones. She wanted to return to her time, and he's giving it to her. He offers his hand, and Claire hesitates for a moment. He leads her the final distance to the rocks. He asks her which brought her, finding the main one. That's the one. He asks what she did. There was a buzzing sound, she tells him and then she just touched the stone. Jamie grabs her before she can make contact. He's sorry for startling her, he wasn't ready. There's no use in waiting. He's sending her back, back to her home, back to her husband. He tells her that there is nothing for her on this side, only violence and danger. He will stay at that camp until nightfall to make sure that she is safe. He tells her goodbye, and walks away without turning back. She wears both wedding rings upon her fingers, tracing the bands. She looks back at Jamie's fire, and forward at the stones that brought her here. Claire proceeds forward.

Jamie's fire burns, and he sleeps next to it. Claire wakes him. She tells him to take her home to Lallybroch. Jamie is overjoyed to hear her words. She drops into his lap with a passionate kiss. Claire finally did something right, and chose Jamie. 

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Claire gets a pleasant wake up, with Jamie's face between her legs pleasuring her. There's a rapping at the door, and both are reluctant to answer it with Claire so close to orgasm, but the person is persistent. Jamie leaves his wife satisfied, and goes to see what Murtagh is so intent on telling him. The Duke of Sandringham has come for a visit. Jamie sees it as his chance. The Duke has always been partial to him, and he has the power to lift the price on his head. Claire doesn't think that Sandringham isn't one to be trusted. Jamie thinks otherwise. Claire tells him that the Duke is a close ally of Black Jack Randall. Murtagh asks how she knows that. She doesn't want to say, but insists that a friend of Randall's cannot be a friend of his. Murtagh thinks that if they should want to get close to the Duke, they should consult Ned, to see what he knows and thinks. Jamie agrees. He tells Claire that she must realize what it means. He can finally clear his name and take his rightful place as Laird. He knows they would be happy there.

Jamie meets with Ned, he makes it clear that it would be Jamie's word against Randall's. Even with the Duke's backing he may not get his pardon from a British judge. Truth and lies have little to do with the law. Jamie feels like there is nothing to be done. Ned thinks that they may have something to work with. If the Duke does have close ties to Randall, then they may be able to make him rethink that friendship. He can draw up papers, about Randall's crimes against the Scottish, Jamie's wife included. If Jamie can convince the Duke to deliver the papers, it can be a court marshals for Randall, or atleast a reassignment. With Randall in disgrace, Ned could take Jamie's case to court and win him a general pardon.

Claire heads down tot he kitchen. Mrs. Fitz is gushing over a gift from Laoghaire, its lovely, but Claire has some serious business with the girl. Mrs. Fitz offers assistance, but Claire can handle it on her own. She makes herself scarce, and takes the rest of the women with her to give them some privacy. Claire confronts Laoghaire about the cursed bundle she found under her bed, but Laoghaire claims innocence. Claire knows otherwise, just as she knows that the girl has a thing for her husband. She also understands why her jealousy would be directed towards her, but she never intended to steal Jamie, nor was he ever Laoghaire's. She pipes up, claiming that it is a lie. Jamie is hers, and Claire stole him. She feels that Jamie is trapped in a loveless marriage. She tells Claire that Jamie must have to get drunk before he has to plow her cold field. Claire slaps her. She shouldn't have, but Laoghaire deserved it. She admits that she did plant that beneath Claire's bed, hoping it would make Jamie hate her as she does, and furthermore she thinks she's wrong about Jamie, and her friend Geillis. She sold her the curse. Claire warns her to stay away from her and her husband.

Claire goes to see her friend Geillis, but she isn't home. Her husband is busy rummaging through her potions. She's never there when he needs her. His stomach is acting up again. Claire gives him some fennel to give him temporary relief. Her maid tells Claire that it will be a full moon tonight, and to seek Geillis in the woods before dawn.

Under the light of the full moon, Claire goes in search of Geillis. She blows out her lantern, and heads towards the sound of Geillis's voice. She's communing with the goddess, in the same way that the women did that opened the portal that brought Claire. Claire watches her from the distance as she dances around with fire. Geillis ends, laying on the ground. She tells Claire that she can come out, knowing that she was watching. She thought she heard a rustling in the bushes, but the English are prudish. Claire notices that Geillis is pregnant, and she congratulates her. Its been a secret that she's been keeping for a while now, her husband doesn't even know, having never seen her unclothed body, and definitely not in daylight. Claire thought that they weren't having relations, they aren't. She has a lover. Geillis tells her that it is Dougal's baby. She knows what Claire is thinking, she's married to another man. Plenty of time for the summoning is completed. She wants freedom for herself and Dougal. She asks Claire to keep her secret, as she knew she would. She and Claire put out the fires.

Geillis swears that she did not know the curse was for her. If Claire wanted she could do much worse to her with what she knows. Claire doesn't want to though, Geillis is her only friend. Geillis feels the same about Claire. Dougal gave her a gift from the Duke, one that would have been wasted on his own wife. She's a shut-in, preferring their country estate over civilization. She's completely homey. Claire is confused, she thought the Duke came to see Colum. He met with Colum, but the Duke is fond of Dougal. Claire had no clue things were so complicated, but then she remembered something from her time. Randall had to have someone high up protecting him, and Frank thought that the Duke was a Jacobite as well. Odd but well to keep in mind. Claire hears a noise, she thinks its a baby, but Geillis stops her. She tells her that is no baby, its a changeling. She tells her that if you leave a changeling out overnight the wee folks will take it back and return the baby. Claire doesn't believe her, knowing that it is just a sick child. She goes to help the baby, but Geillis refuses to help. Claire searches for the crying baby, and eventually finds it in a tree. The poor baby is blue with cold. Claire was unable to get to it in time. She holds the dead baby in her arms, hugging it close when a rider approaches. He dismounts. It's Jamie. She tells him its too late, the baby was already dead, left out to die. He knows. She has a kind heart, but has no clue what she's dealing with. He takes the baby from her, placing it back in the tree. He's been looking all over for her, he saw Geillis on the road and she told him where to find her. He warns her that it is dangerous out in the woods. She asks if he believes in the wee folks, and such. It doesn't matter what he thinks, but most people in the area never leave, and they believe all the stories. It's easier for them to think that their child is safe and beautiful with the fae rather than dead. She's ready to go home.

Jamie and Claire look over Ned's account. It's good, and Claire still has her doubts. He doesn't questions her doubts about the Duke, but he still has to try for them. Claire signs the document.

The Duke looks over his estate, it'll do. Claire is there about the petition of complaint. He thinks its poppycock. He's told that Captain Randall is a pillar, a Captain of great note in the British military. The Duke asks to see the complaint, but Claire tells him that Jamie will be presenting it later. He thinks that Jamie sent her along early to soften him up, knowing his soft spot for the weaker sex. Claire assures him that Jamie does not know that she is there, nor would he approve. The Duke notes that Jamie has chosen a feisty wife, which is exactly what he would have expected. He is very fond of Jamie, but he cannot accept this ridiculous proposal. Claire understands how hard it would be to go against a friend. The Duke does not deny his friendship exactly. But he continues on with his book writing, and complementary means while dismissing Claire. She has one last question. How much Jacobite gold did Dougal give him. The Duke has his writer drop his quill. He wonders her motives, if she is trying to make him her enemy. She needs his friendship, and thinks he would prefer it over meeting a traitor's noose. He compliments her neck, thinking it would be a shame to see it parted from her pretty face. He motions for the recorder to pick up his quill once more. He doesn't want to be over hasty about Jamie, he is a good man and he deserves to have his petition heard. He toasts Claire and Jamie.

Rufus and Angus come rushing down. Rufus has a cut on his head. Dougal is in a rage, his wife died suddenly, and Colum wants his brother sedated. Claire has something, but she needs a way to administer it. Angus goes after a bottle. Dougal blames himself for his wife's death. He thinks her mistake was marrying him. Dougal stops Angus, but he claims that he was just after a drink. Claire pours her portion inside, and its up to Angus to get him to drink. Dougal slashes about like a raging animal. Angus offers him a drink, and Dougal takes it. His wife deserved better than a man like him. Dougal collapses on the ground. Once down, Claire goes to check on him. Colum orders him to be lifted off the floor, and he'll deal with him once he awakens.

Geillis visits the market, when she sees Claire. She asks Claire if she's heard the good news about Dougal's wife. It's not such good news to Claire. Geillis admits that its a tragedy, but also that her prayers were answered. She's unsure if it was her ritual, but she'll take it. She's free to be with Dougal now. Claire thinks that her husband may have something to say about that, but Geillis is confident.

Jamie heads for his visit to the Duke, wondering why the MacDonalds would be visiting the Duke as well. He reads over Jamie's petition. He had no clue that his acquaintanceship with Captain Randall was such common knowledge. Randall talks big and Murtagh is sure its whispered about at court by now. The Duke dismisses his recorder. Helping Randall escape from his misdeeds is a full time job. He must damn Randall now without damning himself. Murtagh tells him that it can be done, but Jamie must do him some favors as well. He's been challenged to a duel by the MacDonalds about some unpaid debt. Shots will be exchanged, but he's told that no one would be hurt. He will be in the line as fire, all he requires from Jamie, would be that he is his second. His servants are chosen for their beauty, not their competency, luckily Jamie is the perfect mix of both.

Murtagh thinks that Jamie needs to stay out of MacDonald matters. Jamie points out that it was Murtagh's idea that he approach the Duke at all. He cannot let his chance to return home as a free man pass him by. Murtagh tells him that there will be other chances, but he cannot guarantee it.

There's a grand fest in the great hall for the duke. Colum gives the Duke his dagger to make the first cut on the peacock. Everyone stands for Colum's toast to the Duke. Claire notes that Dougal, Colum and the Duke are quite the trio. Dougal takes a seat, and Jamie and Claire approach. Jamie introduces the Duke to his wife. They get acquainted while Jamie gets drinks. Claire confronts the Duke about enlisting Jamie for his duel. He wanted his pound of flesh and he got it. Claire warns him that nothing had better happen to Jamie. The Duke reminds her that if anything happens to him, then Jamie's petition will never reach London. Geillis's husband begins to choke at dinner, and Claire is unable to save him. She searched the crowd for Geillis,but what she found was anything than a grieving widow. Colum notices the look between Geillis and Dougal as well. Claire notices the smell of Cynide. Geillis poisoned her husband. She takes on the guise of a distraught wife after a huge delay.

The day of the duel. The paces are counted out, and the gunmen in position. The shots are fired, and neither men are injured. The Duke offers his apology, and MacDonald accepts. The Duke offers him a drink and he accepts as the younger MacDonalds get mouthy. Jamie trades barbs with them while the Duke and elder MacDonald try to control them. One takes offense to Jamie's mother rutting joke and attacks. The Duke skirts out of the way, while Jamie defends himself. He fights off one, and they all charge him one by one. Jamie takes them all down, but doesn't escape his own injuries. The Duke apologizes, and begs Jamie to tell Claire that it was not his fault. The Duke rushes off. A duel is one think, but a common brawl something else entirely. He takes from Jamie's pouch his petition, he will have it done.

Claire cleans and stitches Jamie's wound. He tells her its just another scar, one of many. But the good thing is that the Duke took his petition. Claire wordlessly stitches, and Jamie isn't use to her quiet, but finds the silent anger as effective, as her rough stitching. The Laird sends for him. Jamie arrives as Colum tells Dougal that he will be confined to his country home until further notice. Dougal does not like the sound of exile, alone. Colum is not asking, but ordering. He will not spur Geillis. Her husband could have said the same, and yet look where it got him. Dougal points out that her husband has been dying for years. Colum sees that Dougal either actually loves her or he's stupider than he thought. Dougal does love her, and she's carrying his child. Colum corrects him, it is her husband's child. He will go to his keep, and take Angus, Rufus, Ned and Jamie. Jamie tries to protest, but Colum will have none of it. After the funeral he can do as he likes, but not on Colum's grounds. Dougal remains stony. Colum turns on Jamie next, how dare Jamie shed MacDonald blood without his permission. Jamie did not seek a fight. He tells him that the Duke required him to accompany him for payment to deliver his petition. Colum isn't interested in the reasons. Jamie didn't wish him any dishonor. If he thinks so poorly of him, he will be relieved to know that he plans to leave soon back to his home. For now he wants him to keep an eye on his brother, and to make sure that he does as he wishes he orders Jamie to leave his wife behind.

Claire hates that Jamie is traveling with an open wound without her. She's packed him plenty of bandages, he's sure he'll be fine. He warns Claire off Geillis while he's gone. Claire wonders if Colum will punish her. Jamie is sure that his wrath will go in her direction. Not to mention that there will be no one left protect her from her reputation, and Colum's ire. Dougal tells Jamie to say goodbye to his wife. He's in a hurry to put some miles between himself and his brother. Jamie warns that these are troubled times, and to be careful. Jamie kisses his wife, and she tells him to come back to her. He plans to as soon as he can. He mounts his horse, and they're off.

In the kitchen, Claire tends to Mrs. Fitz. She's sorry to bother her, but Claire just wishes that she was more careful. Mrs. Fitz sees the worry on Claire's face, and she assures her that Jamie will be back in no time. Claire recieves a letter from Geillis asking her to hurry.

Claire rushes to Geillis's side, and finds that Geillis was not expecting her. She tells her maid to set the table for two. Claire is upset. She has no time for dinner, she tells Geillis to leave, and do so quickly. Geillis has no intentions on leaving. Claire doesn't care where she goes, but knows she must. Claire knows that Geillis poisoned her husband, and she's not the only one. Geillis feigns innocence. Claire presses, if she is at all concerned for her baby, she should leave. Geillis finds Claire's concern misplaced. Claire smells a potion on Geillis's table. Her concern was not misplaced. The warden beats at the front door. Her maid calls up to Geillis. Claire tells her to flee, and she will see to her packing. Geillis will not flee from her own house like a thief. She thinks that Dougal will protect her. She calls for Jenny to let them in. Dougal made her a promise, he loves her to death. The warden charges Geillis with witchcraft, and arrests Claire as well. Claire asks what she has done, and he tells her that she will hear all about it at the trial. Claire fights the warden, but she and Geillis are placed in the truck all the same. As they're taken away she sees Laoghaire's stupid smirky face.

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Outlander has been on break for several long months, and now its finally back for the second half of season 1! Last time we saw Claire she was in peril at the hands of Black Jack Randall, the spitting image of her current day husband, she'd married the handsome Jamie Fraser to save herself and him, and although she was falling for her husband when given the chance to make a run back to her time she took it, which lead to her capture. And it looks like we're changing narrators with Jamie taking over!

Jamie had lived a life that he was not expecting. He was living a life of choices, like everyone else. Some of the choices he took he realized became his life. The day he realized that was the day he became a man. Jamie isn't sure that he trusts what a traveller tells him. He claims that he's put himself in danger to warn him, and that Captain Jack Randall is the one who shot his own man. Jamie isn't happy with the news, but Dougal lets him go. Claire's guard comes back without her, and with dire news that she was taken by the red coats.

The intro music is just as lovely as ever. I didn't realize how much I missed it until now.

Darkness falls and the Scots creep in, taking out the guards at Randall's keep. They ask about Claire, but he claims not to know. With a little pressing, he gives up her location. Jamie gives the signal, as he heads up. He takes out one guard on top of the wall, and with the cover of darkness, moves to save his wife. He uses a rope to climb down the wall, when he hears Claire's scream for help. With pistol in hand, he barges in through the window. Randall has Claire bent over a table, and he looks at Jamie with glee, asking how his handiwork looks. Claire tells Jamie to just shoot Randall, but he pulls her up by her hair, holding her as a shield. He can't shoot Randall without harming Claire, and Randall knows Jamie doesn't want an audience. Randall suggests that he put the pistol down, slide it to him, and enjoy the evening events. Claire tells Jamie to just leave, to not give into Randall, but Jamie doesn't he does as Randall asks. Randall taunts Claire and Jamie both. Telling her to beg to have them both, or thinking maybe Jamie would rather just watch them. He flings Claire aside to take a shot at Jamie with his own pistol, but the weapon doesn't fire. Jamie punches him and knocks him out. He doesn't kill him though, Jamie has more honor than to kill an unarmed, helpless man. He and Claire get out of there in a hurry, but they're stopped on the steps by some red coats. They head back up, and even with an explosive cover, there's no place to go. The pair leap into the water bellow.

Claire rides with Jamie on his horse. They stop to water the horses. Jamie takes Claire aside, and he's upset that she doesn't even try to apologize. He ordered her to stay put, and she didn't. Claire doesn't think that she has any reason to apologize. She didn't mean to get kidnapped, if he had listened to her and let her go with him it wouldn't have happened. He thinks that she was trying to punish him because of what happened in The Glade. Both of their tempers hit the boiling points. Claire isn't happy that she had to married to Jamie, that she is powerless in this society. Jamie isn't happy that his wife is so willful and stubborn. The argument gets out of hand and Jamie says things that he doesn't mean. He walks away from her, sitting down on nearby rocks. The whole ordeal scared him. He went in with an unloaded weapon cause Dougal had ordered no bloodshed, and he heard her screaming and feared he wouldn't be able to protect her. Claire softens, realizing just how scared Jamie was. She falls to her knees asking him to forgive her, and he does the same. They forgive each other. Claire asked forgivness and he gave it. He forgave her for everything she had done, that she would do because he was falling in love.

The men return to Dougal and the others. He sets a few more placings, and they get to their nightly tales around the fire. Claire tries to speak up, but they all but ignore her. Angus gets a little testy, but Dougal shuts it down. Claire tries to thank them for what they did, but not one of them acknowledge her. She leaves. Murtagh asks Jamie if she understands what she nearly costs them, but she doesn't. He's going to let her know though. He watches her go to their bed, and he follows her up. The men barely speak to her again, which he acknowledges, but they will. Claire asks him to come to bed, but he tells her that they still have a score to settle. If she were a man who had put them in danger as she did, she would be flogged or killed. Claire tells him that she didn't know. That excuse wears thin, and he did tell her to stay hidden. She knows that Randall will be looking for him, now that he knows he's here. It's personal. There's nothing that they can do about it now. Jamie plans to punish her, he removes his belt, and tells her to get into position, but she doesn't go for that. She will listen, and follow his orders, but she will not take the punishment. He chases her around the bed. If it were just him that were in danger, then that would be different. Claire throws the contents of their room at Jamie, but he still manages to catch her. She screams and scratches, and even lands a few blows before he manages to give her the spanking she deserves. The men below hear much of the exchange, and most seems forgiven. In the morning Dougal asks how she's faring after her punishment, noting that Jamie has more than a few marks of her own. Claire doesn't take the men's ribbing well, and chooses to take her breakfast away from them all.

Jamie had little experience as a husband, and returning to Castle Leoch would cause more strain to their marriage, that would affect them for years to come. The entire group gets a pretty warm welcome to the castle. Colum even gives his blessings, but it sounds far more dire than it should be.

Laoghaire is besides herself when she confronts Jamie about his marriage. She waited for him, and he came back with a wife. He tells her that he wasn't expecting to do so, that it was an arrangement that he had no choice in, and that he would speak to her about it later, but Colum was waiting. Laoghaire looks entirely too hopeful.

Jamie makes his meeting with Colum, who's been expecting him. He calls Dougal, Ned and Jamie all weasels for their plotting, and asks for an explanation. Ned begins, and Colum asks about the money that they collected on the side. It silences them all, and he lifts one of the bags of money asking if it was for the Jacobites. He asks about their loyalty, and notes that Jamie looks guilty. Jamie tells him that he has no guilt. Dougal admits that they did use the welts on Jamie's back for their cause, that they have never hidden the fact that they wish to restore the rightful king to his throne, which is a cause more important than any clan or man. Colum tells him that their clan remains under his power, and he gets to choose which causes they support. Dougal reminds him that he's shown his loyalties, conducted his raids, protected his persons, even assured his bloodline. Ooh, Dougal, that was too far in front of others. Colum tells him to get out of his sight. Ned looks for an out as well, and Jamie too, but Jamie he asks to stay. He opened his home to Jamie, gave his shelter and protection, even after he didn't pledge his fealty to him, and this is the way that he repaid him. Jamie meant no such betrayal. Colum tells him to get out too.

Claire knew it the first time she saw Dougal and Haymitch playing she tells him as she readies for bed. Jamie admits that they had suspected it too, but it was the first time that he had proclaimed it out loud. Claire thinks that it will all blow over in the morning, and Jamie hopes that is the case. Jamie starts to undress to get ready for bed, but Claire tells him that it is so not happening.

Rufus and Angus have the man that they think has been in Colum's ear, poisoning him to them. He claims that he was told what to do. Jamie is sure that if any of them had been asked they would have done the same thing. Rufus thinks that he should have come to them for council. He tells Jamie to stay out of MacKenzie business. Dougal rides up, and breaks up the little scuffle before it begins, by reminding them that they're suppose to be hunting stags.

Murtagh thinks that its getting too uncomfortable, that it isn't their fight. He thinks that Jamie should grab Claire and make a run for it, to live off the land. Jamie doesn't want that for Claire. There is a war coming Murtagh reminds him.

Colum is upset about Jamie's talk of peace. He doesn't think that there can be peace with his brother defying him so openly. Jamie tells him that this rift between them will tear apart the clan, that he should allow Dougal to openly support the Jacobites. Colum furiously points out the treason in that action. It's all a facade. Jamie tells him to remove the conflict, and it will appease everyone. Say that Dougal does it in open, while Colum sits quietly in wait to see how things will turn. Dougal may be the war chief, but only Colum can signal the war. Colum sees the logic in his thinking. Dougal and Ned are called before Colum, and Dougal is as testy as ever as he waits. Colum warns that one day he will talk his head off his shoulders. Only a month ago he swore fealty. He asks what a man's oath is worth. Dougal has not broken his oath, and he will not. Colum gives Dougal the bag of coins that he collected, telling to go on and be the rebel. Dougal thanks his brother. Colum tells Ned to invite the Duke. Ned scolds Dougal to keep quiet, but Colum isn't ready to completely forgive them yet, and tells them all to get out of their sights.

Jamie should be happy that the MacKenzie clan was no longer going to rip itself apart, but his rift with Claire was still weighing on his soul. He knew he had to do something to repair it. As he tossed stones into the nearby river, and tried to do some thinking Laoghaire finds him. She tells him that she knew he would be in his secret spot. It's not a secret though. She came to find him because he said that they could speak. She admits that she remembers the first time that she saw him when she was seven, and her heart leaped at that moment. She was over the moon for him even then, when he didn't notice her and she was no more than a child. Jamie reminds her that he's married now, arranged or not. She doesn't think that he looks happy. He tries to stop Laoghaire, but she goes on. He took a beating for her, and she was sure he felt the same, and then that day in the alcove when he kissed her. Claire was married before, but Laoghaire has been with no one, and she wants Jamie. She removes her cloak, exposing her corset. She places his hand on her breast. She wants him to be her one and only. She moves to kiss him, but he doesn't allow her to. He made a vow, and he will not break it. He tells her he's sorry, and she takes her things and runs away.

That night he heads to see his wife. For the first time since he was a lad he feels uncertain, all he knows is that he has to move forward. He tells Claire that he's come to mend fences. He lives in a world where custom reigns. Today he saw peace put ahead of custom. They live in a world where husbands punish wives, but thinks that maybe they have to be different. Jamie drops to his knees and with his dagger he pledges Claire his fealty, promising to never raise a hand to her again. Claire says nothing just looking at him for a moment. She accepts him. And Jamie's eyes fall to her ring. He tells her how it was fashioned from a key. It means a lot to both of them, and Jamie was happy to give it to her, because she is his home. He kisses her, and Claire returns it. He asks her if she will have him, and she will. They desperately undress as they move to take pleasure in each other. Claire rides Jamie hard, pulling his blade on him in warning, if he ever raises his hand to her again she will cut his heart out. He acknowledges her threat, promising to never do it. He flips her over, and means to brand her soul. He adores his wife, and claims her. They orgasm together. He is her master, and she his. She has claimed his soul. Jamie and Claire lay on the floor in an after glow. He asks her what fucking means. She laughs and explains. He asks what a sadist is, and is almost flattered with her colorful descriptions. Jamie is sore from Claire's attention, but it doesn't make him any less ravenous for her. Jamie heads to the kitchen to get some food before continuing. As he dresses Claire notices a bundle under their bed. She grabs it, and Jamie recognizes what it is. Its used to bring pain, harm or death. Jamie tosses it aside with a scowl.   

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