In the series' earlier seasons, viewers saw Claire, a World War II veteran nurse visiting Scotland just after the war, mysteriously travel 200 years into the past. She later journeyed with her new husband,
Tom's actions mean Claire is able to travel back to Fraser's Ridge where she is reunited with her family and can recover from another horrifying ordeal.
13. Claire & Frank (Season 2, Episode 1) After two years spent gallivanting in the 18th century, Claire returns to the 1940s in order to escape possible death on the Culloden battlefield.
A: Claire does not force herself to time travel. It was simply an artistic choice by the show to transition back to Claire's life with Jamie before she returned to the 20th century. Think of the scenes with Frank as a flash forward, a peek at what happens after Claire spends two more years with Jamie in the past.
Before Culloden, Jamie tells Claire to go back to her own time where she and their unborn child will be safe. Claire chooses Frank for 20 years until his death and then she finds out Jamie survived Culloden. She heads back to the past to choose Jamie for a second time.
“He's about 25,” Gabaldon said. It's an interesting response. If you're up to date on the series, then you know that Jamie is not dead at the age of 25.
At its heart, Outlander is just a really long romance story, and all romances need a happy ending. Insofar as wombs are original homes, this installment in the series ends with Jamie and Claire coming home to each other.
Luckily, she has Jamie to make her ordeal a bit easier. In a strange turn of events, Claire ends up married to Jamie to keep her from falling into the hands of the evil Captain Randall.
Not only has Jamie never traveled to the future yet, he won't travel to the future. No, the ghost doesn't count. That's something completely different. Of course, many fans would love to see Jamie travel to the future.
Given how close Lord John is with the Frasers, it seems likely at some point he will finally accept Claire and Brianna are time travellers even if he doesn't truly understand it. Aside from Lord John, Young Ian (John Bell) knows his aunt Claire is a time traveller, acutely aware she is not from this time.
After decades apart, Jamie and Claire finally reunite and rekindle their emotional and physical bonds. But Jamie's new business dealings jeopardize the couples' hopes for a simple life together.
Claire realises that she had fled because she was afraid that Jamie wouldn't choose her, but she now knows that her future is with Jamie and she will stay. Jamie awakens but thinks that Claire is part of a fever dream until she touches him and he realises she is real.
So, she opted for the next best thing: the 20-year time jump. Claire is an adventurous person by nature and also by calling. I wanted her to be able to follow Jamie on the battlefields, to be putting people back together, things like that.
Did you guess Lord John Grey? Because yes, Claire and Lord John end up married in book seven, and yes, they drunkenly (and full of grief for the loss of Jamie, whom they both love with all of their heart) consummate that marriage. And then Jamie shows up alive and well!
The pandemic delays had already caused problems, and then the series had to work around Caitriona Balfe's pregnancy. Instead of constantly trying to hid Balfe's baby bump and then around her maternity leave, the series decided to cut things short for the season.
The following day, Claire returns to the stones to investigate a plant for her botanical healing interests. This is when she stumbles through the stones and time-travels 200 years into the past.
During his time apart from Claire, Jamie slept with several women, including Mary McNab (Emma Campbell-Jones) and Geneva Dunsany (Hannah James). And of course, there was Laoghaire MacKenzie (Nell Hudson) as well who had her sights on Jamie since season one.
Truth is, I already forgive you long before today for this and anything else you could ever do.” “There is something else,” Claire says. She tells Jamie she slept with the king to buy his freedom. Jamie reconciles this by telling Claire she did it to save his life, just as he gave himself to Randall to save her.
During this time, Jamie was left close to death and bereft without his wife. However, after some convincing from his sister Jenny Murray (Laura Donnelly), Jamie married Laoghaire.
Claire and Jamie only have two biological children together: Faith and Brianna. Faith was the stillborn baby in France. Mother Hildegarde baptized the child despite it being against the law, and Jamie never got to see her.
One night, Claire and John sleep together; afterwards, they both acknowledge: they only had sex as a way to be closer to Jamie. But Jamie isn't dead, and he eventually shows up to find his best friend and the love of his life are married.
Claire and Jamie's love has withstood time, distance, and life in the turbulent 18th century. They were always meant to find each other. Fans of the hit Starz show Outlander know that Claire and Jamie Fraser have gone through many adversities in their 200-year love story.
"He fell in love when she broke down and wept in his arms and let him comfort her," the author says. Jamie falling first was inevitable since he didn't have the complications of having a secret double life and spouse in the future like Claire.