Before he can act, Hugh stops him with a harsh truth: "You’ve a child, lad. Or don’t you remember?"
That night, in a makeshift prison wagon, fortune intervenes. A young British soldier recognizes Jamie as "Red Jamie" and, feeling a pang of mercy (and hoping for a reward from the Highlanders), loosens Jamie's ropes. The next morning, as Jack Randall is about to begin his cruel march, chaos erupts: the wagon overturns during a skirmish. Jamie, near death, is left for dead in a ditch. He is not dead. A farmer finds him and sells him to a group of passing Highlanders who are collecting wounded Jacobites. outlander s03e01 libvpx
Jamie freezes. He remembers Claire, her hand on her belly. His child— their child—is alive in the future. For that child, he must survive. Before he can act, Hugh stops him with
But Hugh corrects him: "No, lad. Not a prisoner. The captain’s alive and well. In fact, he’s just been promoted." The next morning, as Jack Randall is about
The episode ends in the present. Claire, now a surgical resident in Boston, is scrubbing out of an operation. A nurse hands her a newspaper. The headline reads: "Princeton Graduate to Wed Miss Louise de Rohan in Paris." Above the story is a photograph of a dashing, sophisticated man with red hair and Jamie’s unmistakable cat-like eyes.