Previously...
Colum doesna travel, so visiting the tenants and tacksmen
that can't come to the gathering, that falls to me.
Have you seen any of your Scottish companions
raise funds for the rebellion?
- Let's get on with it. - Why would Dougal MacKenzie
rather adopt you as one of his own than allow me to question you?
I was wondering if you had a potion
that might open a lad's heart to a lassie.
What's his name?
Horrocks.
There's a chance to get the price lifted from my head.
A Redcoat deserter. Claims he was there,
saw who actually killed the Sergeant.
I knew where we were going without having to ask,
the province of a man I unfortunately knew all too well.
I'll thank ye to take your hands off my wife.
Strange, the things you remember.
The people, the places,
the moments in time burned into your heart forever,
while others fade in the mist.
I've always known I've lived a life different from other men.
And when I was a lad, I saw no path before me.
I simply took a step and then another.
Ever forward, ever onward,
rushing toward someplace, I knew not where.
And one day, I turned around and looked back
and saw that each step I'd taken
was a choice to go left, to go right,
to go forward or even not go at all.
Every day, every man has a choice
between right and wrong.
Between love and hate.
Sometimes between life and death.
And the sum of those choices becomes your life.
The day I realized that
is the day I became a man.
Where's your mind, lad?
Horrocks is waiting.
Give him the gold.
I trust his word.
The British Army trusted him, too.
Perhaps today's not such a good day for business after all.
Whether you deserted is no concern of ours, Mr. Horrocks.
We commend ye for it.
I've come a long way,
at considerable danger to myself,
eluding Redcoat patrols...
The man who shot the Sergeant
was Captain Jonathan Randall himself.
Ye expect us to believe that a captain,
even one as vile as Black Jack,
would shoot his own man?
You know Randall.
I suppose he can answer that.
I canna use Randall's name to clear my own.
You bargained for a name. A name is what you received.
Good day, lads.
Let him go.
Jamie!
Claire.
I was minding her, I swear.
- I went for a piss and... - Where is she?
She must've wandered off, and when I caught up,
the Redcoats had her.
She was fighting and thrashing about,
but they took her. They were headed south.
Where is the Englishwoman?
I don't know who you mean.
My friend here isna a bit pleased with yer answer.
Pray, I don't know.
Pray that you do.
Or your next words'll be in a lassie's voice.
The commander's office.
In the tower.
Thank you.
Murtagh, don't ye wait too long.
Help!
I'll thank ye to take your hands off my wife.
Good God.
Dougal MacKenzie neglected to mention
that you married the stripe-backed thief.
How's my handiwork looking these days?
Very well,
despite your efforts.
I don't suppose you'd show me?
Be the last thing you ever saw.
Oh.
Only risk brings the possibility of reward, hmm?
Just shoot this bastard, Jamie.
Do. Shoot me. Shoot us both.
And alarm the entire fort of your presence.
Oh.
It appears we're to have an audience, madam.
I think we should endeavor to enjoy ourselves.
I certainly shall.
Now, put that pistol on the table
and let us commence with the evening's entertainment.
Do it.
Slowly.
I will slit her throat, I swear to God.
Slowly.
That wasn't too hard.
Back you go.
Do it!
Get out of here, Jamie.
Just go. Go!
Everyone, keep calm.
Easy does it.
Oh, first she orders you to fire,
now she orders you to flee.
Who is the man in this marriage, Fraser?
I will cut off your balls, I swear.
You are a foul-mouthed scold.
For the life of me,
I cannot understand why any man would pledge himself
to a woman.
Especially such a mendacious slut as this one.
Would you like your husband to join us maybe?
What do you say, Fraser, hmm?
Huh?
Or would you prefer to watch?
You bluffed your way in here with an empty pistol.
Ned said not to kill anyone,
so I had all the weapons unloaded.
This way.
Wait.
Sometimes I wonder why I chose not to take his life.
But at that moment,
I only thought to make certain he wasn't about to raise the alarm.
It never occurred to me to kill a helpless man,
even one such as Randall.
Alert!
Alert the alarm!
Get ready!
Forward!
Set!
Up.
Up here.
You are sure there's water down there, aren't you?
Aye.
I think so.
Still a couple hours' ride from the drover.
We should water the horses.
Aye.
Give him a drink of water, will ye?
Aye.
Are you all right?
Randall, he didn't hurt you?
No.
He didn't have time, thanks to you.
I'm waiting for you to say something.
Anything that approaches an apology.
An apology?
I was taken hostage by Jack Randall.
Are you trying to say that's somehow my fault?
Well, it is your fault.
Had you stayed put where I ordered you to stay,
none of this would have happened.
Yeah, but no. Ye won't listen to me,
why mind me, I am none but yer husband.
Ye take it into yer mind to do as ye damn please
and next I ken, I find ye flat on yer back with yer skirts up,
and the worst scum of the land between your legs,
about to take you before my very eyes.
I begged you to take me with you.
And I told you there was no danger in me going along.
Would you listen to me? No.
No, I'm only a woman.
No, why should you pay any attention to what I have to say?
Women are only fit to do as they're told and obey orders.
If ye'd done that, we wouldn't be on the run now
with a hundred Redcoats on our tail.
Try that again and I'll slap you until yer ears ring.
You're a brute and a fool!
Do you think I went and got
captured by the English on purpose?
Aye! I do think ye did it on purpose
to get back at me for what happened at the glade.
At the glade?
With the British deserters?
You think, to punish you,
I went for a walk in the woods
on the chance that some British soldiers would be going by?
Christ, Jamie, I went for a walk!
I ordered you to stay put!
I don't have to do what you tell me to.
Aye, you do.
You are my wife.
Oh, your wife?
Your wife.
You think I'm your property, don't you?
You think I belong to you and you can't stand
for someone to have something else that belongs to you.
You do belong to me and you are my wife, whether you like it or not.
Well, I don't like it!
I don't like it one bit!
That doesn't matter to you either, does it?
And as long as I'm there to warm your bed,
you don't care what I think or how I feel!
That's all a wife is to you.
Something to stick your cock into whenever you feel the urge.
Let go of me, you fucking bastard!
You foul-mouthed bitch!
You'll not speak to me that way!
I went to you at Fort William
armed with an empty pistol and my bare hands.
When you screamed...
You're tearing my guts out, Claire.
I'm sorry.
Jamie,
forgive me.
Forgiven.
I'm sorry, too.
I'll ask your pardon for what I said.
I was sore and I said more than I meant.
Will ye forgive me, too?
Forgiven.
She asked forgiveness and I gave it.
But the truth is, I'd forgiven everything she'd done
and everything she could do, long before that day.
For me, that was no choice.
That was falling in love.
Looks like we'll be needing a few more plates, then.
So, while Murtagh
setting the fuses on the gunpowder,
I sent three of the bloody jessies to meet the Almighty.
I am not hearing this.
When I heard the explosion,
I thought the walls of the fort would come down.
Did ye use yer breath or yer farts to subdue them?
Are you calling me a liar?
Aye, because ye are lying.
Ye killed nobody.
Oh, oh.
For God's sake, Angus!
Sit down and stop flapping yer gums,
use it for something useful for a change.
I'm not gonna tell anything if you're taking that tone.
I don't believe I've properly thanked all of you.
For what you did last night.
Ned, have ye got any wine down there?
Yeah, well, they do actually have some rhenish.
Quite nice, if I may say.
It's been a long day.
I'll go upstairs.
She doesna understand what she nearly cost us.
Aye.
And she needs to.
Think they'll ever speak to me again?
Aye.
They will.
Come to bed, Jamie.
I'm afraid we've a matter
still to settle between us
before we sleep tonight.
What is it?
If a man among us had put the rest in danger,
as you did,
he would have likely had his ears cropped, or been flogged,
if not killed outright.
I didn't know.
Well, I ken you're not yet familiar with our ways,
and that's some excuse.
Still, I did tell ye to stay hid.
And if ye'd done so, none of this would have happened.
Now, the British will be looking high and low for us.
As for Captain Randall...
Well, that's something else again.
He'll be looking for you,
especially now that he knows you're here.
Aye.
He...
It's personal for him.
I am so sorry, Jamie.
If it were just me ye'd hurt by it,
I wouldna say more about it.
But your actions put all the men in jeopardy.
Right, best get on with it.
Ye've done considerable damage disobeying my orders,
and I'm gonna punish ye for it.
What do you mean?
Oh, you know fine well what I mean.
Now, get down by the bed and lift yer shift, lass.
I'll do no such thing.
Now, Claire...
I have said I'm sorry. And I am.
And I will never do such a thing again.
That's just the point. You might.
Ye come from a place where things are easier, I think.
Where it's not a matter of life and death
if you disobey orders or take matters into your own hands.
But it's the hard truth in places and times like these that
a light action can have very serious consequences.
All right.
You're right, of course.
I will obey your orders, even if I don't agree with them.
Good.
Now then, get off the bed and we'll get this over with.
What?
I said I would follow your orders.
There's a difference between understanding something in yer mind
and really knowing it, deep down.
I can tell ye from my own experience
that a good hiding makes ye understand things
in a more serious light.
But as I said, if it was just me you put in danger...
But it wasn't.
There's such a thing as justice, Claire.
You've done wrong to all the men,
and you must suffer for it.
I'm yer husband.
It's my duty to attend to it.
- I will not let you beat me. - You won't?
I doubt you'll have much to say about it.
Ow!
The lad's getting on with it.
Seems so.
That is his duty.
You're my wife, like it or not.
I'll scream!
Well, likely, if not before,
certainly during!
No!
I expect they'll hear ye in the next village.
Ye've got good lungs.
This'll go faster if ye just yield, woman.
- I'm gonna make you suffer! - Oh!
Well, ye already are.
You're taking pleasure in this, you barbarian!
Sounds like holy hell up there.
I'm not sure who's punishing who.
I'll never forgive you!
If I can forgive ye for what you did,
you can forgive me, too,
as soon as ye can sit down again.
You sadist!
I dinna ken, what's a sadist?
As for my pleasure, I said I was gonna punish you.
No!
I didna say I wasna gonna enjoy it.
I hope that Jamie wasn't too harsh on ye last night?
A skelped arse never did anyone permanent damage.
Looks like she gave as good as she got.
Ah, well, it might not be permanent, but it hurts like hell.
- She'll not make that mistake again. - Indeed. Yes.
Come and have a seat here next to me, lassie.
No, thank you, I'll stand.
Over there.
Ooh!
Justice done, problem solved.
And I thought the page had turned on an unpleasant chapter.
But I had precious little experience as a husband,
or I would never have had such naive expectations.
If anything, returning to Castle Leoch
only heightened the tensions and strains on my newfound marriage
and presented me with more choices
that would affect our lives for years still to come.
Hooray!
Welcome home, my dears.
Well done.
Congratulations to you both.
I look forward to hearing all about yer nuptials.
It's been some time since we've had a wedding here.
My profound good wishes
for a long and happy marriage,
Lady Broch Tuarach.
Why?
Why did you do it?
I waited for you, Jamie.
I was counting the days till you'd return.
I had no notion about yerself and...
It wasna something I planned.
Then why?
Why did ye do it?
'Twas Dougal's arrangement, ye see.
It's no simple story, I can tell ye that much.
But an explanation will have to wait.
Colum summons me. I must go.
Aye.
Ye canna keep a MacKenzie waiting.
But we'll speak again.
Aye, you have my word.
Ah.
'Tis the bridegroom.
Aye.
Now that I have all three of you weasels gathered together,
who would like to explain Fort William?
Is Clan MacKenzie going to have to answer for yer little raid, hmm?
No.
Any repercussions will land solely on me.
Captain Randall will make sure of that.
Fine.
Now, back to the rents.
As I say, it has been a lean year for some of the tenants.
But we have much of the stock still to sell off,
which should help to tip the scales.
What about the other money you collected?
The money for the Bonnie Stuart Prince
across the water, hmm?
'Tis for the Jacobites, is it not?
Did ye not think that one among the rent party
would remain loyal to his laird?
Or at least, young Jamie, here,
he does me the honor of looking fittingly guilty.
You mistake concern for guilt.
My conscience is clear.
I owe no loyalty to Charlie or James.
He speaks truth, brother.
We merely used the welts on his back
to illustrate British justice.
We raised that gold honorably.
We never concealed the fact from anybody
that we were raising money to restore the rightful king to his throne.
That, I might remind ye,
is a cause more important than any clan or man.
Is that so?
Well, this clan remains under the charge of this man.
It is still my pleasure
to choose what causes are supported.
And the Clan MacKenzie's welfare
comes before any king or country.
I've proved my loyalty to you time and again.
I've collected your rents,
I've fought your battles,
I've protected yer person, for the love of Christ,
I've even assured your bloodline!
Now, I think that such fealty is worth a mere bag of gold,
don't you?
Leave my sight.
I shall try to calm his distemper.
Either that or I will calm it for him.
Perhaps you'd rather chastise me at a later time?
Stay.
I opened my home to you as sanctuary from the British.
I gave my food, I gave my hospitality.
Even when you refused to pledge fealty to me,
I continued to grant ye quarter and protection.
And how am I recompensed?
You marry a Sassenach,
knowing well enough that none in the clan
will support ye now as my successor.
I meant no such betrayal, uncle.
Get out.
I knew it.
That first time I saw Dougal and Hamish
playing together in the courtyard.
Aye.
Many have gossiped about it in whispers,
and every one of us in the room already kent it well.
But that's the first time I've ever heard
Dougal proclaim he's Hamish's father.
Thought Colum was going to run him through right there.
That would solve a few problems.
Aye, if the storm canna be calmed between the brothers,
I'll be the one to pay the price.
It's hardly the first time he and Dougal
have been at odds, God knows.
I'm sure it'll be fine in the morning.
Aye.
What are you doing?
I thought...
Think again.
Dougal tells ye something, it's as if it's law.
You will do well to memorize!
Cut the Devil, man. He's just a lad.
His mouth has been in Colum's ear
and his lips half up his arse!
He gave Colum the moneys collected for the Jacobites.
And it wasna his to give.
It wasna Colum's to take.
The MacKenzie ordered me to do it!
I was just serving my oath to himself as given!
Or would you have me lie to the laird?
If the MacKenzie asked you the same,
you'd do it, would you not?
Not after what he did to Dougal, no.
And what about you, Jamie?
Where does your loyalty lie
between the Chief and the War Chief?
Now, there is but one laird of the clan, is there not?
Enough of this blather.
The issue needs no debate.
The lad shoulda come to us
for counsel afore taking action.
For his disobedience,
he's getting the due course of punishment.
Besides, this is MacKenzie business.
You Frasers should mind to yer own.
Now, stand aside and let us get back to ours.
Hey.
What's all this, then?
I thought we were hunting stag?
Aye.
Who's with me?
It's getting a wee bit uncomfortable
around here for my taste.
Rupert's right.
This is not our fight.
I'll saddle the horses.
Ye take hold of Claire
and we'll be away from here this very night.
And how would we live?
Horrocks was my best chance,
and now, I may be even an outlaw for good.
We'll live off the land.
Or has castle life made ye soft?
Would ye have me sleeping under a tree
come winter with my wife?
Leave her, then.
We can send for the lass when we find safe beds.
Aye, spoken like the unwed man ye are.
For pity's sake, Jamie,
it's either up tail and away, or we stay and pick a side.
It's not like Colum's gonna give Dougal back the gold.
Not that I see that it matters much either way.
The Bonnie Prince isna sailing from Italy anytime soon.
No,
he isna, is he?
Peace, you say? Peace?
You come here and tell me
that clansman brawls with clansman!
That my own brother defies me.
How can there be peace until such disloyalty is punished?
Well, chastising the guilty might sooth yer anger,
but I doubt it will accomplish anything more.
The bad blood will only fester,
leading to more violence,
until the clan explodes into open warfare.
What would you have me do?
Make yer brother a gift of the Jacobite gold.
You'd have me commit treason to the crown?
Sanction a Stuart restoration to the throne?
A Stuart restoration is but an airy hope, my Laird.
There is no Jacobite army.
The Highland clans are too busy reiving each other's cattle
to even consider uniting.
While Bonnie Prince Charlie lounges idly,
being pampered by the Pope.
Aye. Aye, all that is true.
Meanwhile, my own clan teeters on the brink of civil war.
Then remove the source of the immediate conflict.
Give Dougal back the gold
and ye pacify him and his companions.
Let yer brother play the rebel,
as long as he does it quietly.
Let him whisper of a free Scotland for now,
while you bide your time
and wait to see how events transpire.
If Bonnie Prince Charlie ever returns with a call to arms,
you can decide then which side to back.
Dougal may be War Chief,
but he knows only you can cry for war.
Bring my brother and Ned Gowan here.
Are we to stand here all day,
or is there a purpose to this summons?
One day, brother,
you'll talk your head off your shoulders
and right onto a pike.
A month ago,
you swore an oath to me on this dirk.
Ye recall?
Aye.
So tell me, brother,
what's a man's word worth these days?
A bag of gold, perhaps?
My oath to you is an oath to Scotland.
I've not broken it, nor will I ever.
We'll see.
Go on, then.
Play the rebel.
See where it leads ye.
I thank you, brother.
Ned, send a missive to the Duke of Sandringham,
inviting him to a banquet in his honor.
Best warn the men of the household
to keep their arses out of his reach.
Sweet Christ, man,
can ye not keep that tongue of yers
from wagging?
Very wise, Laird,
to get the measure of the Jacobite cause
from an Englishman's perspective.
It will take more than yer approval
to get back in my good graces, Ned Gowan.
Get out of my sight, all three of you.
I should have been happy
that the MacKenzie clan wasna about to tear itself apart.
And that I'd repaired my relationship with Colum and Dougal.
But I wasn't.
The rift with Claire was an open wound that would not heal.
I needed to do something, make a decision.
Choose a course of action.
But what?
- I - kent I'd find ye here.
This has been yer secret place since ye were a lad.
Not so secret if ye found me so easily.
Ye promised we would speak.
Aye.
I remember the first time I saw you, James Fraser,
coming through the gates at Leoch.
I was only seven years old, still a child.
You didn't notice back then
how my heart leapt when you were near.
And you went away all those years, I never forgot ye.
I'm wed now.
And 'twas a gallant thing ye did.
Marrying the Sassenach to spare her from the British.
'Tis true the marriage was Dougal's arrangement, but...
You dinna look very happy.
Ye look like ye're carrying the world on yer back.
Laoghaire.
When you returned,
when you took the beating for me in the great hall,
I knew I wasn't wrong.
That you felt the same.
And then, that day in the alcove,
the way you kissed me.
She was married before.
But I've lain with no one.
I want ye
to be the first
and only one to have me.
No.
I made a vow and I'll not break it.
Even for a lass as bonnie as you.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry!
For the first time since I was a lad, I felt uncertain about my next step.
All I knew was I had to find a way forward,
one step at a time.
Colum and Dougal have mended fences.
Our lives in the Highlands are steeped in tradition,
custom and ritual.
So I've seen.
And Colum chose to risk looking weak,
publicly changing his position,
because peace was more important than custom.
I saw a rigid man bend.
It made me mindful.
About what?
Wives obey their husbands.
Husbands discipline them when they don't.
Well, that's how it was with my father,
and his father and on and on and on back.
But maybe, for you and me, it has to go a different way.
I swear on the cross of my Lord Jesus,
and by the holy iron which I hold
that I give you my fealty and pledge you my loyalty.
If ever my hand is raised
in rebellion against you again,
then I ask that this holy iron
might pierce my heart.
Is it not enough, Claire?
Do you not want me anymore?
Do you wish to live separately?
Well, that's what I should want...
But I don't.
The key to Lallybroch.
What?
Yer ring.
I had the blacksmith
fashion your ring from my key.
Why didn't you tell me that before,
when you gave it to me?
I wanted to wait until I took ye back to Lallybroch.
So ye'd know the place was as much yours as mine.
But now, I dinna ken when, if ever, we'll get back there.
- Jamie, I... - And that...
That thought does not pain me
as much as it once might have.
You are my home now.
I want you, Claire.
I want ye so much, I can scarcely breathe.
Will ye have me?
Yes. Yes, I'll have you.
Listen to me.
If you ever raise a hand to me again, James Fraser,
I will cut your heart out and have it for breakfast.
Do you understand me?
Do you?
You have my word.
You're mine. Mo nighean donn.
Mine, now and forever.
And I mean to make you call me master.
I am your master and you're mine.
Seems
I canna possess your soul without losing my own.
Sassenach?
Yes, master?
What does "fucking" mean?
What?
"Fucking."
Well, after Fort William, you called me a fucking bastard.
Um...
Well, that means what we just did.
Ah.
What about "sadist"?
Ye called me that as well.
Well, that means someone
who takes sexual pleasure in hurting someone.
Oh, well.
Ye dinna flatter me overmuch,
but I canna fault yer observations.
Um...
Oh.
Was I too rough on you?
Well,
if you bed a vixen, you have to expect to get bit.
Come here and bite me some more.
- I'm ravenous. - Hmm.
So am I.
You meant food.
Mmm-hmm.
I'll go to the kitchen, fetch us something to eat.
What on earth is this?
Where'd ye get that?
It was just there.
What's wrong? What is it?
It's an ill-wish.
Which is?
It's meant to bring pain or harm
or even death.
Who would put such a thing under our bed?
Jamie?
Laoghaire.