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Directed by: Metin Hüseyin Written by: Matthew B. Roberts First aired on May 14, 2016 The story opens with men winding rope around a long stick to make a torch, then lighting it. Jamie (Sam Heughan) sitting at his desk looking very serious. In walks Murtagh (Duncan Lacroix) to tell him that he's made plans to meet with Randall's second this afternoon to set up the terms of the duel. The duel will be in two days time, at dawn. Murtagh tells him, "Dinna fash lad, Magnus tells me that the woods West of the city are safe. Gen d'armes dinna patrol there." Jamie seems distracted. Murtagh tells him he needs to concentrate, and he'll fetch the broadswords so they can practice in the courtyard to hone his skills. Jamie says he can't. So Murtagh says they can practice before supper; he'd rather not wait until tomorrow. Jamie needs to work that bad hand. But Jamie says emphatically, "I'm not dueling with Randall. I've already sent word withdrawing my challenge." Murtagh is dumbstruck and demands to know why. Jamie tells him it's complicated. "I ken I'm a simple man, but STRIVE for an explaination!" "I canna!" "Your mind changes like a woman in flux." Jamie assures him, "Trust I have a sound reason." Murtagh's not buying it and storms out as Magnus (Robbie McIntosh) comes in with a tray of breakfast items. He says, "Good morning Master Murtagh." And Murtagh grumbles nastily, "Says you." Magnus counters in French under his breath, "Too damn bad." Then putting the tray on a table he addresses Jamie, "Milady has instructed that you have a proper meal to start your day." Jamie asks Magnus where Milady is, and he tells him that she's gone to the hopital. "Of course she has." And then he thanks Magnus as he walks away. The next scene opens up with Claire (Caitriona Balfe) working at the Hopital. She's frowning and looking very pregnant and run down, clutching her baby bump. As she walks past him, Monsieur Florez(Naill Greig Fulton) asks her if she'd be so kind to help him by preparing a patient for burial. She says, "Certainly. You're going somewhere?" He replies that he's been summoned by His Majesty to perform his usual duties. Claire asks him what crime the person is being executed for. He informs her that it is to be several persons — practitioners of the dark arts. And those who associate with them," (meaningfully directing his gaze at her). Claire asks him when it is to happey, and he says once they're gathered, he supposes. He thought they should be hanged, but the King's pleasure is for them to be drawn and quartered, so he must be at the ready. "Pleasure is not the word that comes to mind." Then he goes into great detail bragging about his great skill at his job. First, the man, or woman, must be hanged but with judgement so that the neck is not broken. As death approaches, he must reach inside the cavity and grab the beating heart. The main difficulty is in severing the large vessles above quickly so that the heart can be pulled with great force while it is still beating. Smiling at her discomfort, he says, "You wish to please the crowd, hum? The rest is mere butchery. Once life is extinct, there is no further need for skill. I have made you pale with this hideous conversation. Perhaps our friend, Master Raymond, would be better company. Au revoir, Madame Fraser." Claire watches him leave with a very worried look on her face. Claire makes a bee line to tell Master Raymond (Dominique Pinon) that he needs to leave the city at once, as the king is on a crusade to root out practitioners of the black arts from Paris. Master Raymond seems nonplussed saying, "Yes, yes, this has happened before. It is of no concern. King Louis' great grandfather, Louis the 14th did much the same decades ago, plucking heretics from the city as one might remove weeds from the garden. Twas a veiled manifestation of his piousness. Afterwards they were all freed after a mere renunciation of satan, as penance." Claire fears that this time is different. She thinks the King is out for actual blood rather than Hail Marys. She tells him that Monsieur Florez confided in her that he's preparing for multiple executions. She bluntly warns him that he's in danger. He tells her that if it is as she says, she shouldn't have come there as she's put herself at grave risk. He's touched by her concern for his welfare. She tells him that is what friends do for one another. "Mi cher ami, I will heed your warning and flee the city at once. Don't worry, no matter how often one removes weeds, they have a habit of reappearing. We will meet again, Madonna, in this life, or another." She hopes so, and asks him to please be careful, and then leaves. Claire has her feet on Jamie's lap and he's rubbing them. She asks, "How did you know that's exactly what I needed right now?" He says he remembered how much Jenny said it helped when she was with child. He looks pensive, "Ive been thinking. Remember how you said I owed you a life because you've saved mine. Well, I've saved yours as well, at least as often. It seems to me we're even. ... I did na give you Randall's life as payment of a debt. I owe Frank nothing. You had a free choice between us and you chose me. The fact you did should na entitle him to any particular consideration." Claire pulls her feet off his lap and says, "But Frank's innocent in all of this." "What Randall did to me was worse than death. What lies between him and me can only be settled when one of us is dead." Claire asks him why he promised her that he'd let Randall live. "Because of Charles Stuart. The Prince is a canny, slippery man, yet, there's a light in his eye can can fool good men into believing he's God's chosen one, destined to make the dream of a Stuart restoration a reality. We've thwarted him all we can, Claire, but we may find ourselves staring into the mist at the bottom of Culloden Moore, so if anything should happen to me..." Claire tells him not to talk like that. " I want there to be a place for you...someone to care for your...our bairn. I want it to be a man that loves you. So, now it is my turn to ask you for a promise. Promise me that if the time should come, you will go back through the stones. Back to Frank." He nods his head, and she nods hers and promises. He kisses her and the baby bump, and lays his head in her lap while she cradles him with a very sad expression on her face. Claire is grinding some herbs with Fergus (Romann Berrux) fiddling with things in her box and generally getting in the way. Jamie is taking off his jacket while Murtagh, disgrunted as ever, wonders why they are trying to fake smallpox. Jamie fills in the answer, "Because the Princes financiers are waiting to see if his wine venture is successful. If it works, they'll be lining up to donate money to the Jacobite cause." Claire adds, "But if we can get the Harbor Master at Le Havre to destroy St. Germain's warehouse and inventory, like he did with the Patagonia..." Jamie continues, "Charles will lose his wine investment..." Claire, still crushing herbs in a mortar and pestle, continues, "and he'll go running back to Rome with his tail between his legs." Murtagh has a better idea, "Or we could slit the Italian fox's throat and be done with it." Claire reasons, "Killing Charles Stuart will only make him a martyr throughout Scotland." Claire is teaching Fergus about what she's making as she adds ingredients to a bowl: "Essance of rosemary, bitter cascara." She hands the bowl to Jamie nodding that he should drink it, which he does. Murtagh makes a face like he can't believe Jamie is doing it. And Jamie makes a face informing us that it tastes really bad. Next Claire is rubbing a cloth on his chest and informing everyone it is "Mash of Nettles." Jamie says, "If you must." Fergus is touching everything and playing with a rolled up bandage, unrolling it and wrapping it over his eyes. Claire admonishes him to stop playing around and pay attention. He says he is, but she counters that he's not. Jamie tells her that he doesn't feel anything and she assures him that he will, in a minute. She hands Jamie another vial, saying "Rose Madder. With luck the combination will cause severe stomach pain and vomiting." Murtagh assures Jamie he is in for a pleasant evening. He drinks it down. Claire asks, "Do you think you can get St. Germain's men to drink it?" He replies, "Aye, we'll break the corks of a few bottles. Can't sell damaged product. St. Germain's men will not let it go to waste. Trust me." "Well, once his men drink the spiked wine they should get flushed with fever. The nettles juice on the skin will cause blistering, and the rose madder should produce blood in the urine, all tell-tell symptoms" Jamie is starting to feel sick and exposes his reddening chest. Looking very pleased with herself, "Et voila! I give you smallpox!" Murtagh grumbles, "Masquerades and games. What's next? A rousing game of charades?" Fergus jumps into the conversation informing them that the ladies at Madame Elise's play charades without any clothes on." Murtagh storms out Jamie tells Fergus to be quiet, and Fergus defends himself saying that he was being quiet. Then he storms out. Claire rubs some cream on Jamie's chest. He's looking quite sick now. She observes that Murtagh is angry, and Jamie says he doesn't blame him. They both come to the conclusion that it's time to tell him, everything. Murtagh is pacing in the courtyard and Jamie, still looking quite peaked, goes up to Murtagh and reveals everything they've been holding back about Claire's knowledge of what's to come. Claire watches the conversation from the window. After a while we zoom in on Jamie talking in Gaelic. Murtagh addresses him, "If you believe your wife to be a witch, then who am I to contradict you?" He strolls up to Jamie and punches him in the jaw, then says emphatically, "You should have trusted me with that knowledge from the beginning!" Murtagh rubs his hand and Jamie rubs his jaw and they smile as they're walking to the door to come back inside. A while later in the courtyard two horses are saddled, Fergus is mounted and Claire is telling Jamie to be careful as he mounts his horse. She tells Fergus in French, "And you, don't do anything dim-witted." "Moi?" "Yes, you." "Oui, milady, I will watch over milord as well." Claire walks over to Jamie and he bends down to kiss her. "You're in good hands." "See you in a few days." They ride off. Murtagh is inside sitting at a desk writing numbers on a sheet of paper. Claire comes into the room and looks at the numbers as he moves the sheet closer to her. We can see they listed sequentially from 1918 through 1945. "You lived through all these years." "Yes, this is the year I was born (pointing to 1918), and this is the year I became a nurse (pointing to 1939), a healer, during the world war." Murtagh asks her, "Ye ken what happens to the Jacobites?" "Yes, I know when the rising begins." "And you know how it ends too, and it doesn't end well." "No, unless we stop it from happening altogether." "But ye ken all the dates, when things will happen, when people will die." She nods her head and says, "I don't know about you, or Jamie, about any of us." Murtagh concludes, "Even knowing what Jamie says you do, I wouldn't want to bear that burden." He puts his hand on hers which are clasped over her belly bump, and gives her his sympathy. Jamie and Fergus are galloping side by side toward Le Havre. Once there, Fergus sneaks into St. Germain's warehouse, avoiding the people inside, and steals two corked bottles, then delivers them to Jamie who's waiting outside. Jamie breaks the necks off both bottles, pours out some of the contents, and replaces it with liquid from a flask (remember, it contains essence of rosemary, bitter cascara, and rose madder). He gives the bottles back to Fergus and instructs him to place them where the men are sure to find them. Then he hands him a shaving brush and a small metal pitcher and tells him to brush the insides of their coats with the liquid (remember, it is nettle juice), being careful not to get it on his hands. Fergus runs off to do as he was told. They finish their objective and ride away together. Jamie comes home late at night and Claire wakes up as he comes into their bedroom. She asks if it was a success, and he tells her he didn't linger to find out, but they'll find out soon enough. Claire tells him that it MUST work; Charles can't get his hands on that money. Jamie reassures her, "Dinna fash, mo nighean donn, noone can deliver pestilence and disease, it's us." He kisses her a few times, crawls into bed and she wraps her arms around him as he falls asleep almost immediately. Jamie climes the stairs to Maison d'Madame Elise. As he enters the foyer, Prince Charles (Andrew Gower) motions to him to come to him and says, "Finally, you're here. I have been anxiously waiting." Jamie assures him, "I came as soon as I received your message." Then St. Germain (Stanley Weber) says in French, "That was hours ago. It's a very absurd choice. We cannot rely on him." Jamie reassures him in English that he came straight away, then Prince Charles tells St. Germain in French, "I would trust Lord Broch Tuarach with my life." St. Germain snickers, and Jamie asks how he can be of service. Charles tells him that there's been a catastrophe in Le Havre at the Comte's warehouse." St. Germain says, in French again, "Some of my men have been stricken down by --" and Charles finishes for him, "a mysterious illness which noone has been able to diagnose." Jamie looks concerned, "This illness, is it contagious?" and the Comte sneers, "Perhaps." Charles chimes in, "One should not openly speculate about the contagion of this malady." The Comte supplies in French, "We have the affected men hidden away for now, but they will soon be missed." Jamie asks, "How about the Harbor Master, has he been paid off? Is that not how you normally handle these things?" The Comte answers, again in French, "The man's too scrupulous for that." Prince Charles says, "This is why I sent for you James. We require you to transport the wine at once." Jamie argues, "This endeavor could jeopardize my cousin Jared's business." The Comte is furious! "I warned you that he would try to gouge us for an exorbitant fee!" Charles calms him down saying, "James knows this is no time for negotiation." The Comte scowls, "Be that as it may, I don't trust him. He has ruined me once before." Charles, cojolingly says, "James, you know this is not merely for financial gain. MARK ME. The profits of this endeavor will be the seed to expel the Hanovarian usurpers to my father's throne. This is to regain your soil, and to restore your blessed king." Jamie answers, "Of course, Your Royal Highness. I have yet to secure buyers, but I'll leave for Le Havre and arrange transport to my warehouse straight away." Prince Charles puts his hands on either side of Jamie's face and tells him, "You're a loyal and true patriot James. God speed." Then he holds out his hand for Jamie to kiss it. As Jamie tries to walk away, St. Germain blocks his path with a cane and scowls in French, "I will, of course, accompany you on the journey...along with The Almighty...to watch over my investment." Jamie smiles at him and Prince Charlie and says, "The road to Le Havre is a lonely one. Your conversation will provide a pleasant diversion." St. Germain scowls some more but lets him pass. Suzette (Adrienne-Marie Zitt) is helping Murtagh get into a very fine vest and coat while he's scowling, "These hinder my movements." "You'll get used to it." "I don't want to get used to it. Playing the jester is bad enough, but playing it in this outfit is unbearable." Jamie comes into the room carrying a very fine coat and says, "We'll make a proper courtier out of you yet." A grinning Suzette says, "Indeed." "Another bleat like that and I'll see to it that and I'll see to the other side of yer jaw." Claire breaks in with, "Perhaps we can think of another alternative. Do you even trust these men that you found?" Murtagh answers, "Money can buy anything if you ken where to look." "Fine. Do these highwaymen even have the proper attire to look the part?" Murtagh says, "Let's just say it will be a risky affair for a nobleman to be strolling along the Rue St. Honoré tonight." Jamie tells Claire they don't have time for an alternative. She asks, "Well what if you get caught. Have either of you thought of that contingency?" Jamie says he has but they won't get caught. She says this whole thing is dangerous and he agrees, "Tis" She looks at him funny and says, "Every now and then it is okay for you to lie to me, you know. Just to put my mind at ease." "I'll remember that next time." Suzette is finished buttoning up Murtagh's beautifully embroidered vest and giggles and steps away to get his coat. Claire says that she doesn't feel good about the situation, that it is needlessly risky. Perhaps they haven't throught it through enough. What about St. Germain? As Suzette slides the coat on Murtagh he informs Claire that they do have a plan for him. Jamie reassures her, "I have thought it through and it will serve, Sassenach. But I'm not the one you should be concerned about. I'm simply a merchant transporting his goods. If you feel obliged saying your prayers for Murtagh FitzGibbons, he'll be the one in the line of fire." He does look very fine indeed, but says, "If I do get caught, would you be so kind as to kill me. I refuse to be hanged in this rig-out." Suzette walks up to Murtagh and says, "So let me get you undressed right away." She bows and drags Murtagh (not so reluctantly) with her. Jamie and Claire are lying in bed together. He's rubbing with her belly. She confides, "I'm sorry about earlier. It's just that bad things tend to happen when we're apart." Jamie says, "We always find a way back to each other." They're both grinning, then Jamie is surprised and says, "What's that?... Did he?..." Claire says, "Yes, she did. She's been doing it a lot more recently." Jamie asks her, "Can he hear me? Ma dudh, wee un, it's your father. I canna wait to meet you." They look at each other tenderly and begin kissing. "Can we... with the bairn?" Claire assures him it's all right, he won't hurt them. Then she straddles him. Louise (Claire Sermonne) and several of her lady friends including Claire and Toinette (Scarlett Mack) saunter into a room drinking, giggling, and gossiping about sex. Claire looks disgusted and uncomfortable, clearly out of her elemenet. Several loaded wagons are making their way down a road on a dark night. We see very well dressed and armed highwaymen with scarves waiting. St. Germain is in the first wagon sitting next to the driver. He has a large pistol. Murtagh and the others secure scarves over their nose and lower faces. Men rush toward the wagons and St. Germain becomes suspicious. Then someone yells in French, "Come on, hurry. Don't move! Drop this at once!" St. Germain orders the driver not to stop. Someone yells, "Drop your weapons" and St. Germain says to keep moving. "We want that cargo! Hurry, hurry!" Murtagh, in disguise but we know it's him, raises his pistol and points it at St. Germain as he continues to order the driver to keep moving. Murtagh fires over St. Germain's head and he stands up and aims a gun at Murtagh. Jamie holds his hands in the air surrendering. Another masked man says in French, "Drop your weapons! Do as we say, and you'll not be harmed. Your lives...are not worth a consignment. Get down!" St. Germain, still pointing his pistol at Murtagh says in French, "You will be hunted and hanged." Murtagh counters, "Not likely. Get down. Get down!" "Never! NEVER!" Jamie sneaks up behind the Comte and knocks him down as Murtagh shoots over their heads. Murtagh grabs Jamie and pretends to knock him out while the Comte watches. The other highwaymen drag the Comte off, yelling, "Do you have any idea from whom you are stealing? Let go of me!" Back at Louise's parlour, the ladies are all gossiping about who's sleeping with whom, and Claire finally has enough and burst out with, "Doesn't it distress any of you how this city treats its poor and underpriviledged? Surely you must see the staggering numbers of them as you travel through the city. Just yesterday I saw a woman and her child, dead, in the middle of the road. It was absolutely horrible. Surely we must do something to change the situation." Toinette agrees, "Madame Fraser, You are so very right. We should do something about these people. It is far too upsetting. We should have our husbands protest to The King." Louise agrees too, "Yes, yes, yes. I completely agree. Les gen d'armes should remove them to the less desirable parts of the city." The other ladies agree. Claire jumps up and storms out. Louise asks Claire if it's time. Claire says, "It's not the baby, it's just that, I'm sorry Louise, forgive me." Toinette says, "She's rather sensitive." And they go back to their gossiping about the cook and giggling. At Hôpital d'Agnes Claire is nursing the sick and Fergus is playing with Bouton (played by Scamp). Claire is clearly very tired and having a hard time standing. Mother Hildegarde (Frances de la Tour) rushes up to her, worried. "Claire, you must sit. Rest." "Mother, yes, I will, I just have to attend to a few more patients." "If you do not want to become one yourself, you'll do as I say." She nods and lays down. Mother Hildegard notices some blood on her stockings near her hem, and lifts it up her skirt. She says, "You are bleeding, my dear. It is nothing to be concerned with. As you know, it is common to leak a bit at this stage. is taking a new position, but, the hour is late, you will stay here tonight." Claire says she can't, but Mother interrupts her and says sternly, "That was not a suggestion." Claire tells her she should send home word with Fergus. Her husband will worry. Mother agrees and says she'll see to that, and orders her to sleep. Now. Mother Hildegarde turns away looking very worried. The next morning Jamie, the Comte, and the Prince are sitting around a table at Madame Elise's commiserating. The Prince says, "I shall be persona non grata with the bankers of Paris. An outcast, at the worst." Jamie tries to cheer him by saying, "I'm sure there will always be those who honor the Stuart name." Charles, chuckling, says that the French honor money only." The Comte, frustrated as usual, says in French, "It boggles... The thieves knew our route." Jamie counters with, "It's the most common route taken from Le Havre to Paris." "True, but their timing was impeccable." The Princesays in French, "An ambush is to lie in wait? A Les Disciple practice, no?" St. Germain won't let it go, "But that road, at that precise time, with our cargo? Hey you (addressing Jamie). Hey you! Yes you! You allege mere coincidence?" Jamie tells him, "False accusations can lead to dire consequences, Monsieur St. Germain." St. Germain jumps up and Jamie does to. "I remind you, I am of noble blood." Charles tries to calm them down. "Comte, by your own account, Lord Broch Tuarach saved you from injury or even death. Why should he risk himself? ... This discord, it will not recover my wine. Now King and God have been let down. All the sacrifices I've made these last months in France, lowering myself to a commoner, begging for money, have amounted to naught. So where will the House of Stuart stand if our cause fails? I will be forced to return home to Rome where even the Pope's good will for my father begins to run dry. Or worse, MARK ME, I will take my own life if I am forced to live in God-forsaken Poland." He starts to weep. Jamie returns home, picks up a plate at the side-board, and starts to fill it. Fergus comes in and says, "Good morning, milord." "Where is my lady?" And Fergus informs him that she stayed the night at the hospital. Jamie is very worried, but Fergus reassures him that the hour was late so the Mother thought it would be best if the lady remains so not to travel the streets at night. I allowed it!" Jamie praises him, "Wow, I was wise to leave my wife in your charge." Fergus nods feeling proud of himself. Jamie asks him if he's hungry and Fergus says, "Always." Jamie nods to the food and says, "Come on." Fergus starts filling his plate and asks Jamie, "When will Murtagh be home?" Jamie informs him that he's gone to Portugal to sell the wine. It could be a month or two before he returns. "I will miss his happy face." "It's best he's not seen here for a time." "Milady says, 'Out of sight, out of mind'." Jamie's never heard her say that, but Fergus tells him she says it to him everyday. Suzette comes in and interrupts them telling Jamie that Prince Charles has got himself in some trouble, at the salon. He's run up a substantial debt and refused to pay. Madame Elise has threatened to call for the gen d'armes unless restitution is made immediately. Jamie says, "No peace for the wicked." Fergus offers to go as proxy so Jamie can finish his meal and rest, but Jamie declines his offer. He says he must go himself so the gen d'armes won't make inquiries into their business affairs. Today of all days! Fergus decides that he will come with him to guard Jamie's right. Jamie tells him he'll be honored, and they leave. At Madame Elise's establishment Jamie tells Fergus to wait for him while he takes care of business. But Fergus wanders around looking for some mischief to get into. Unfortunately, he wanders through an open doorway where there's a bright red British uniform hanging up. Fergus picks up a bottle and sniffs it (Lavendar I bet), and tucks it into his pocket. The door closes and Fergus turns around looking guilty, and scared. Claire returns home from the hospital in a carriage looking very tired. She greets Magnus and he's looking very sheepish. Suzette asks her if she'd like a bath or something to eat. She asks where milord is, and Suzette turns away. She notes Jamies brace lying on the bed. Obviously he's back from Le Havre. Suzette bravely turns around and tells her that he's gone to the Bois de Boulogne. "Why would he go to the woods?" Suzette tells her that milord was called to Maison d'Elise, Prince Charles needed his help. After he arrived, milord got into a fight with an English officer. Claire demands to know which English officer but Suzette tells her she wasn't there, she heard it from Marie at the market earlier. Claire demands she tell her what happened. "The English soldier came darting out of a doorway, smashing into the walls, then milord appeared looking like the vengeance of God. It is just as Marie conveyed it." Claire spots a note that says simiply, "I'm sorry. I must. J." and her heart breaks! "But you promised." She storms down the stairs and orders Magnus to get the carriage, she is going to the Bois de Boulogne. He tells her that milord wouldn't want her to. She can't go by herself, so she says he can come with her, but she's going. They head out at a break-neck speed with the carriage wheels sliding as they take the corner too fast. Claire is in bad shape already, and this frantic ride isn't helping. Plus she's scared to death, and mad as hell! "Damn you, you promised me. You promised me!" They reach the woods and she jumps out. Magnus helps her as they hurry quickly toward sounds of sword fighting. VO: I came through the fading light to find this. To stop them. Having found them, I could not intervene for fear of causing fatal interruption. All I could do was wait and see which of my husbands would die. Jamie or Frank. Jamie and Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies) are fighting for their lives with all they've got. Black Jack says, "How did she forgive you?" They struggle, Black Jack bites him, and Jamie is knocked down. Claire calls out and we she she's bleeding profusely onto her stockings and shoes, and onto the ground. Back to the fighting, Jamie stabs Black Jack in the crotch and he falls down, bleeding profusely. The gen d'armes show up on horseback and one of them yells, "Drop your swords immediately! Do not move! You are under arrest!" Jamie sees Claire laying on the ground in agony, but he can't go to her as they yell at him to drop his sword. He does. Magnus tells Claire they have to get her home, but she tells him to take her to the hospital, Mother Hildegarde. Jamie yells to Claire as he sees her laying on the ground in agony, but he can't go to her as they yell at him to drop his sword. He does. Jamie yells "Claire", and she weakly calls out "Jamie." Flash to Black Jack laying on the ground. Closing his eyes. Flash to Jamie, yelling, furious, helpless. Flash to Claire again as her eyes close. Credits roll... What an amazing episode! Take the Episode Quiz Recap by Mary Girven