This season on Outlander, Jamie and Claire are spending all of their time apart (so far) as they live their lives 200 years apart — and both in less-than-ideal circumstances. Jamie’s years of living in the cave at Lallybroch might just be the worst span of either of their respective times apart.
He’s isolated and frustrated at his inability to help his family for fear of putting them in the Redcoats’ crosshairs, which is why after seven years of living like a hermit, Jamie decides the best course of action is to sacrifice his freedom for his family’s well-being so they can stop living in constant fear and he can stop living such a lonely life.Since there is a price on Jamie’s head, he, his sister Jenny, and his brother-in-law Ian concoct a scheme wherein she “turns him in” to the British, as he is wanted for the crime of treason for the part he had played in Bonnie Prince Charlie’s attempted Scottish uprising. The money Jenny receives for selling her brother out will go toward keeping the people of Lallybroch alive.
Jenny doesn’t want to go along with the plan initially, horrified at the idea of turning Jamie in and worried that he’ll be hung for treason. But the British aren’t really hanging Jacobite fighters anymore at this point, they’re only imprisoning them, so he thinks he’ll be all right, and at least it’s better than living as a fugitive forever.
After a lovely send-off from Mary McNab where she shaves off his unruly beard and cuts his hair, then offers…
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