They seem to have settled into life there nicely and established a fragile peace with the local native tribes.
He saw it in a dream and kissed his daughter there.
The words fill Claire with emotion, having forgotten about the mark often covered by Bree’s hair.
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Speaking of Bree, back in 1971 Inverness, Roger is desperate to track her down.
Roger visits the bed and breakfast where Bree stayed, and the woman insists Bree left nothing behind.
The men ultimately had no choice but to give up the land when they couldn’t pay.
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Claire successfully delivers Petronella’s baby, a girl.
Gerhard calls them “savages” and rushes to load his musket.
Claire tries to intervene, explaining that no one owns the water.
Mueller stands off with the tribe, muskets versus arrows, but Claire desperately tries to prevent bloodshed.
Claire returns home alone, utterly exhausted.
Ian and Jamie are heading home after three meetings and not a single settler to show for it.
We, the audience, know this blacksmith is alsoMurtagh, Jamie’s godfather, and one-time constant companion.
But Ian doesn’t yet.
Jamie tries the silversmith again but still finds only the lady of the house trying to seduce him inside.
Murtagh and Jamie reunite for the first time since they were imprisoned together at Ardsmuir.
It’s a reunion almost as touching as Claire and Jamie’s last season.
The old friends touch each other to ensure the moment is real, and their eyes well with tears.
Jamie explains to Ian who Murtagh is and tells Murtagh that they’ve been trying to recruit settlers.
Herr Mueller believes that Claire let the Indians curse their water when they made the blessing.
The pastor fears he will come after Claire and urges her to go to safety elsewhere.
She stays, but she loads her rifle and keeps it by her at all times.
Jamie and Murtagh are catching up over some ale and whiskey after so many years apart.
Murtagh came to America as an indentured servant and worked for 12 years.
His master’s widow agreed to sell Murtagh the smithy.
Jamie sends Ian for more drinks (first Murtagh has to return some of their coins!)
and explains to Murtagh that Claire came back to him after 20 years.
Their daughter Brianna is also safe at university in Boston in the year 1971.
He wants Jamie to come to a meeting with him.
At that meeting, Murtagh is the spokesperson.
He drinks to the tax collectors who stole their land.
“What’s stolen from one of us is stolen from all of us,” Murtagh pledges.
He wants them to be ready to march, rifles in hand.
Murtagh, as it turns out, is stoking the fires of the American Revolution.
After the meeting, he collects signatures for his cause.
Murtagh explains to Ian he is not a leader, simply an old man who’s seen some st. At first it’s just the wind, but eventually, Herr Mueller is there banging down the door.
He tells her he was worried the measles would have taken her too.
She tries to explain that the measles are very fast and spread easily between people.
But Mueller doesn’t believe the measles killed Petronella and the babythey died too quickly.
It had to have been the curse because the “savages” hate them and want their land.
As individuals who believe in God, they should live and the Indians should die of the pox.
Claire is stunned by his rant, but Mueller eventually calms and says he took care of it.
Recognizing the hair, she realizes the scalp belongs to her friend Adawehi.
Back at the Mueller’s cabin, the Cherokee have come to take their revenge.
They shoot flaming arrows into the house, and it quickly catches fire.
Frau Mueller stumbles out the front door and collapses, a burning arrow in her back.
Mueller arrives home to this fiery scene, and he is quickly dispatched with some arrows as well.
At last, Jamie and Ian return home.
Claire has barely slept and is a wreck in her nightshift.
She runs to Jamie when she hears him, and he knows something is wrong.
But she doesn’t tell him her story, she simply asks for him to hold her.
Can I get some of that the next time I have a bad day, c’mon?
Sometime after Murtagh comes to Fraser’s Ridge.
He surprises Claire while she stacks wood, whistling the tune to “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.”
They embrace in warm reunion, and she invites him inside.
She tells him that if he’s reading it, she didn’t make it back.
