Would we expect anything less?
Jamie advises Fergus to find as many Highlanders to settle as he can, particularly men from Ardsmuir.
Claire, Jamie, and Ian begin to stake out the boundary line of Frasers Ridge.
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Jamie begins to carve the letters F.R.
They are interrupted by a menacing visit from the local Cherokee.
Jamie makes a show of dropping his knife and trying to demonstrate he is there in peace.
The natives turn to go.
We return toBree and Rogers timeline, now at Oxford in 1971.
Roger calls Bree to speak to her for the first time since his botched proposal.
Claire, Jamie, and Ian discuss their path in their makeshift shelter.
Jamie resolves to speak to John Quincy Myers for advice on making a gesture of goodwill.
Later that same night, they are awakened by the sound of Rollos barking.
Claire practices her shooting just in case the bear returns.
Once again, the Fraser clan wakes up to the sound of Rollo whining.
This is shown concurrently with the Cherokee readying their torches.
They go out to face the bear and find Myers wounded near their shelter.
He has been mauled, so Claire and Ian attempt to tend his wounds.
Jamie heads into the woods with his torch and his gun to face down the bear.
The next morning, Jamie loads the man onto a makeshift stretcher and drags him into the Cherokee camp.
They are impressed that Jamie killed the man, one theyve deemed a monster.
The Cherokee knew all along the bear was not a bear, but a man.
He once belonged to their tribe, but he was exiled after laying with his woman against her will.
Two women, the wise woman Adawehi and the chiefs wife Giduhwa, introduce themselves to Claire.
Adawehi is the chiefs grandmother and a healer.
She knows that Claire is a time traveler and went back through the stones to find Jamie Fraser.
Fionas grandmother was a caller at the stones and knows the legend of their power.
The date is smudged so Roger is uncertain when in the 1770s they met their fiery end.
He resolves not to tell Brianna, fearing the news will just break her heart all over again.
She declares it perfect.
Roger decides to stop waiting for Bree to reach out to him and gives her another call.
But her roommate Gayle answers and reveals that Brianna isnt home shes gone to Scotland to visit her mother.
She had assumed Roger and Bree wouldve met up by now.
But Bree going to visit her mother can only mean one thing….
What do you think Sassenachs?
Were you, like me, nearly moved to tears by Bree and Rogers over-the-phone longing?
Do you think the representation of the Cherokee was a little too stereotyped or was it more even-handed?
For book readers what did you think about the rather blatant change to the bear?
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