This was part of the reason Dougal himself didn't marry
Although Claire was disgusted by Dougal's proposition, she knew being a widow put her in a precarious position with no one to protect her against Black Jack. Claire reluctantly agreed to marry Dougal only if Jamie was already dead and her mission to rescue him from Wentworth Prison ultimately failed.
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.
Aislin McGuckin has been cast as Letitia MacKenzie, the wife of Clan MacKenzie's Laird Colum MacKenzie and mother to Hamish. As the spouse of the most powerful member of the clan, Letitia plays the role of both matriarch and caring mother.
With the impending arrival of the Duke of Sandringham, Dougal returns to Leoch with Jamie and Claire. Not long after they arrive, Dougal gets word that his wife Maura has passed away of a fever at their estate of Beannachd.
Convinced she was hiding something, he put a warrant out for her arrest, which left her stuck with very few options. As a result, Dougal made the decision Claire had to be married off to Jamie to allow her to be free in a political loophole.
He seems surprised when Claire tells him Jamie knows – they share everything. Seems Dougal is not a fan of transparency. Not only does Claire not intercede on his behalf, she proceeds to put him in his place and tell him from a place of equality what she really thinks of him.
William Buccleigh was born in December 1743 to Geillis Duncan, an accused witch and murderer. As she was condemned to die, William was taken to be raised by another family who had recently lost an infant, and they gave him the dead child's name, a common practice at the time.
The hour was a big one for Dougal (Graham McTavish), whose pregnant lover Geillis (Lotte Verbeek) “summoned” Mother Nature to strike Dougal's wife with a fatal fever and then poisoned her husband in the hopes that she and Dougal could be together.
Murtagh is godfather to Jamie Fraser, the son of his second cousin, Brian Fraser.
“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.
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!
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. There's no way Claire and Jamie will choose someone other than themselves after this. They are endgame, and it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.
Dougal kept a close eye on the two women during their time at Castle Leoch. On whether he thought Claire and Geillis were time travellers, actor Graham, 61, explained: “Yes, I do.”
So, technically, Claire has three husbands in the Outlander books.
The sex they have next is passionate, intense, and incredibly erotic. Claire obtains an orgasm, which surprises Jamie, and proves the two have crazy chemistry. (I mean, they go at it again before the episode is through.)
The Plot To Murder Charles Stuart
In both versions, Dougal's death comes after he overhears Claire suggesting that she and Jamie murder Charles Stuart. Knowing the Jacobites will be defeated at Culloden, she proposes they murder Bonnie Prince Charlie so there will be no reason for the Scottish soldiers to fight.
When he died, I mean—Dougal.” …. “Sister's son or no—I would that I had killed you, that day on the hill. For I knew from the beginning that it would be you or me.” He spoke calm and low-voiced, and the very emotionlessness of the words made the shudder pass again, this time from me to him.”
Instead, the events played out the same, but Jamie managed to kill Dougal himself without any aid. He concluded the murder with an emotional comment as he said: "I'm so sorry, uncle."
Geillis' Duncan's Death in the Books
Of course, Claire doesn't know that yet (in the books or the series). Instead, she simply gets a vague feeling of being connected to the bones, and that the woman didn't want to die when she did.
Finally we discover how she survived: Because she was pregnant, they didn't burn her straight away. Dougal, bless his foolish soul, came to get the baby and helped her escape.
He was the illegitimate son of Dougal MacKenzie and Geillis Duncan.
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.
In Scotland in 1968, Claire tells Roger Wakefield that Geillis Duncan was his ancestor and that she was burned as a witch in 1743.
Nonetheless, Jamie did have sexual relations with Laoghaire in a bid to make the marriage work but ultimately failed and so the couple separated. Additionally, it seems Jamie was acting of out duty to his new wife however past trauma meant Laoghaire was unable to reciprocate.