For some unknown reason, we start with Jamie pulling a snake from the privy.
You have manifested my worst fears with an opening shot that honestly doesn’t need to be there.
Thanks, guys…..And now back to our regularly scheduled programming sans snakes in toilets.
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And he’s brought Willie, who now prefers William, with him.
Murtagh has to return to his forge to pay his taxes though.
He’s sent men from the regulator camp to petition the governor for lower taxes.
When Jamie is introduced to him, he doesn’t show any sign of recognition.
Also, Isobel, John’s wife, has died while crossing from England to Jamaica.
John is the only family William has left now.
Or so he thinks.
Jamie invites them to stay for a while.
Later at dinner, Lord John sings the praises of Governor Tryon and his new “palace.”
John calls the regulators an angry mob, while Murtagh insists the stories are exaggerated.
Claire and Jamie are stoking a fire outside.
He promises Claire a moment alone with her as soon as they’re free of all their houseguests.
The next morning, Jamie wistfully watches Willie tend the horses, brushing them the way he taught him.
She tells Jamie to take William and stay away for at least six days since the disease is infectious.
She’ll be fine because she’s been inoculated.
Jamie finally manages to convince him, and they set off.
Willie has a lot of ignorant questions about the Indians and why they can’t just take their land.
But Jamie distracts him with the breathtaking view from the top of the Ridge.
Back at the cabin, Claire tends to John and they have a serious heart-to-heart.
Moreover, she’s jealous he’s raising Jamie’s only son.
She knows he came to see Jamie, not to give Jamie a chance to see his son.
“So was I,” he responds.
Back on Jamie and Willie’s episode ofNaked and Afraid,they are trying to rustle up some dinner.
They eat around the campfire later, and Willie is overcome by emotion worrying about his father.
Claire is struggling to bring his temperature down and he makes a confession, fearing he will die.
He felt nothing when Isobel died.
He came to see Jamie to discover if he was still capable of feeling anything.
It’s so hard for him to watch Jamie with Claire.
“Why has he come to torture himself when he can never have Jamie?”
The next morning, Jamie awakens to find William is gone.
The Cherokee approach, looking pretty pissed off at this turn of events.
In desperation, Jamie cries out that the boy is his son and they should take his blood instead.
He urges William to follow the stream back to the house.
In an act of mercy, the men merely cut Willie’s hand with a tomahawk.
Jamie says they were spared because of Willie’s courage.
Claire admits she knows what he’s talking aboutbecause of Frank.
She also admits she is envious of the time the two of them shared.
Jamie and William ride back to the cabin.
William wants to know why Jamie did not look back at him the day he left Helwater.
They return to find John has recovered and is no longer contagious.
John gives Jamie his chess set as a parting gift, and they all bid farewell.
And if you’re not crying at this moment, what kind of soulless monster are you?!!
At last, Jamie and Claire can get some of the alone time they’ve been craving.
It has an inscription in Latin that reads “Give me a thousand kisses.”
