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To say that Outlander has taken us on a journey is quite the understatement. Over the course of eight seasons and one spinoff — to say nothing of the Diana Gabaldon novels on which the Ronald D. Moore–created series is based — Outlander has taken viewers across continents, oceans, and centuries, all in the name of a love that transcends time and space. What started off as a story about a World War II combat nurse named Claire who falls through time via a stone circle at Craigh na Dun and lands in 1743 where she meets the love of her life, Scottish Highlander Jamie, has since taken us on an epic adventure that spans Scotland to the American Colonies and many points in between and has us time-hopping all over the 18th and 20th centuries. Then, in 2025, the spinoff prequel Blood of My Blood, about both Claire and Jamie’s parents, stretched the timeline — and the romance — even further.
All of which is to say the Outlander universe takes up a lot of space emotionally but also, let’s be honest, mentally. We have a lot of times and locations to keep track of on top of all the love and death and sex and war. So as the original series concludes, let us revisit Claire and Jamie Fraser’s saga in chronological order, tracking everywhere and everywhen Outlander has taken us and, most importantly, how hot the romance was there. Hey, we have our priorities.
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➼ What happens?: Red Jacob, the head of Clan MacKenzie, dies and throws the entire clan into tumult while deciding which of his sons, Colum or Dougal, will rule in his stead. There are lots of clan politics, and with Dougal steeped in the Jacobite uprising of 1715, the rivalry between the brothers grows significantly. They use their sister Ellen MacKenzie as a pawn, betrothing her to Malcolm Grant — but joke’s on them: She’s in love with Brian Fraser, Lord Lovat’s bastard son. On her wedding day, they sneak her out, and Brian kills Malcolm in the process. (It’s self-defense, I swear!)
➼ Is there time travel?: Yes! Henry and Julia Beauchamp land here when they fall through the stones in 1923 but, sadly, at separate times. A pregnant Julia winds up a servant at the repugnant Lord Lovat’s Castle Leathers, and when he makes his intentions clear, she uses them to her advantage by pretending he impregnated her. He forces her to marry him when she gives birth to a son, whom she secretly names William. She soon learns that Henry is a bladier for the Grant family, and the two reunite at Castle Leoch and make a plan to escape back to their time. But can William time-travel? No one knows!! [Meet Henry and Julia before their lives are upended by time travel in 1923.]
➼ Is there romance?: HEAPS OF IT. Henry and Julia’s search for each other! Brian and Ellen falling in love at first sight and risking it all to be together! We come to this time to swoon!
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➼ What happens?: Roger and Buck MacKenzie surprisingly wind up here when they travel through the stones in search of Jemmy, who has been kidnapped in 1980. Roger meets Jamie’s dad Brian and his sister Jenny, and he is witness to Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie’s first eye-fuck. Oh, and he bumps into his dad, Jerry, who apparently didn’t die in World War II but instead traveled through the stones. Bree, Jemmy, and Mandy show up to reunite with Roger.
➼ Is there time travel?: This section reinforces the tenuous rules of time travel on Outlander by showing us that the stones are going to take you where you need to go. Roger was thinking about Jem, sure, but also about his own father — lo and behold, he is able to rescue his dad from a confusing war experience. [Travel to 1980 to find out why Roger went through the stones in the first place.]
➼ Is there romance?: Well, Brian Fraser is there, so it’s at least a little bit swoony. If you’re looking to metaphorically get run over by a truck of emotions, go watch the conversation he has with Bree, who he doesn’t know is his granddaughter, in which he talks about how he can never move on from the loss of Ellen.
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➼ What happens?: This is where the magic happens. Claire Randall falls through the stones at Inverness and, after escaping the clutches of series-best villain Black Jack Randall, links up with those Highlanders and spends time at Castle Leoch and Lallybroch. She and Jamie Fraser fall in love, get married, and have an incredible number of orgasms. We learn a lot about the Jacobite uprising. Claire and Murtagh bring “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” to the 18th century. Claire almost dies in a witch trial. Claire learns Geillis Duncan is a time traveler, too. Claire tells Jamie the truth about where she came from. Claire rescues Jamie from the clutches of Black Jack at Wentworth Prison.
➼ Is there time travel?: Yes, of course! And we are all the better and all the more traumatized for it. [Travel to Claire’s starting point in 1945.]
➼ Is there romance?: Oh, you mean the time period when Claire and Jamie get married and have the best sex anyone’s ever had in history? The time period when Jamie tells Claire he’s loved her since the first moment he saw her? The time when he says, “Yer tearing my guts out, Claire”??? Uh, yeah, I’d say it’s pretty swoony.
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➼ What happens?: Jamie heals from his assault. Claire gets pregnant, and Murtagh gets his mind blown when Jamie and Claire explain time travel. Claire meets strange apothecary Master Raymond, who dubs her La Dame Blanche. Jamie befriends brothel pickpocket Fergus. Claire meets Frank’s ancestors. Jamie promises not to kill Black Jack but then catches him raping Fergus and so challenges him to an illegal duel that Claire tries to stop, believing killing Black Jack will mean Frank will cease to exist. The stress sends her into labor, but her baby, Faith, is stillborn, and when Claire finally physically heals, she gets Jamie out of prison sleeping with King Louis XV and then they get out of Paris for good. By Season 8, however, we learn that Master Raymond brought baby Faith back to life and handed her off to a lacemaker in the city — but not before teaching that woman what will become a very important lullaby.
➼ Is there time travel?: No, just good old-fashioned drama from one’s own timeline.
➼ Is there romance?: Everyone is broken here; stay away.
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➼ What happens?: Pre-Culloden, Jamie and Claire hang out with Lord Lovat (he sucks in every time period); they meet a young Lord John Grey, who is caught spying for the English and hoping to turn over Red Jamie (because they allow him to live, he owes Jamie a debt, which comes into play later); Claire helps Colum MacKenzie die peacefully; and Claire and Jamie kill Dougal when he hears their (unsuccessful) plans to murder Charles Stuart. Jamie, knowing he’s likely to die in the battle, takes Claire to Craigh na Dun to send her back to Frank, where she’ll be safe. Actual Culloden is as horrible as Claire tells Jamie it will be, but Jamie does finally kill Black Jack Randall. Post-Culloden, Jamie goes into hiding, Fergus gets his hand cut off, Jamie has very sad sex in a cave with the widow Mary MacNab, and he eventually turns himself over to the British to protect Jenny and her family.
➼ Is there time travel?: One of the saddest bits of it, actually! Jamie knows he needs to get the pregnant Claire safely out of this time, so he takes her to Craigh na Dun, they dance a little, and they have sex one last time, as is tradition; he helps her press her hand to the stone, and she is gone. [Claire travels to 1948, and you can, too.]
➼ Is there romance?: Well, Pre-Culloden is romantic. Post-Culloden is bleak as hell. Remember that long wig they made Sam Heughan wear?!
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➼ What happens?: These are the Helwater years. Jamie bonds with Lord John, who arranged for his parole at the estate of Lord Dunsany. Dunsany’s daughter Geneva blackmails Jamie into sex; she gets pregnant and has Jamie’s son William. When she and her husband Lord Ellesmere die, Jamie asks John (and Geneva’s sister Isobel) to raise Willie. He leaves Helwater when Willie is around 6 years old.
➼ Is there time travel?: Zero.
➼ Is there romance?: Never stick a sad Scot in England; it only makes things worse.
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➼ What happens?: CLAIRE COMES BACK!!
➼ Is there time travel?: I just told you, Claire comes back! The most important time travel in all of the space-time continuum!! [Jump to 1968 so you can relive it over and over again.]
➼ Is there romance?: Claire and Jamie’s reunion after 20 years is about as perfect as it gets. And it includes Claire killing a guy, so you know that romance is romancing.
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➼ What happens?: When Jamie’s beloved nephew Young Ian, son of his sister Jenny and Ian Murray, is kidnapped and held on a ship sailing to Jamaica, Claire and Jamie chase after him by hitching a ride on the Artemis. Fergus joins the crew, too, and insists on bringing the woman he’s secretly handfast to, who also happens to be Laoghaire’s older daughter, Marsali. Jamie gets acupuncture. Claire gets pulled on to the Porpoise to aid a crew of sick men and escapes by jumping ship when she learns the captain wants the fugitive Red Jamie arrested. Claire goes all Cast Away while stuck on Hispaniola until she meets Father Fogden. He is weird, but he does keep her alive. Fergus and Marsali officially get married (and Jamie gives Fergus his last name!). Claire makes a case for sex with a raging fever.
➼ Is there time travel?: Isn’t all this drama at sea enough?
➼ Is there romance?: Surprisingly swoony for having so many men graphically die of typhoid fever! Does it get any more romantic than Jamie and Claire running into each other’s arms when they reunite on that beach?
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➼ What happens?: Claire and Geillis — who is now going as the Bakra and keeping Young Ian as a sex slave with human-sacrifice potential — have their final face-off, which ends with Claire decapitating Geillis, and that feels good and right. Lord John, now governor of Jamaica, puts the latest bounty on Jamie’s head to bed.
➼ Is there time travel?: Geillis almost makes it through that newly discovered tide-pool portal.
➼ Is there romance?: Sadly, Jamie and Claire are mostly focused on rescuing Young Ian. Though watching Claire get jealous when she sees the bond between Jamie and Lord John is delightful.
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➼ What happens?: Okay, this is but a blip on the timeline, but it is Claire and Jamie’s first step in the American Colonies. Well, I guess it’s less a “first step” and more a “dumped on the beach after a shipwreck,” but still!
➼ Is there time travel?: Travel by hurricane only!
➼ Is there romance?: The only way to know if a man truly loves you is if he jumps off a boat during a hurricane into the depths of the ocean to save you from drowning, and that’s just science.
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➼ What happens?: The Frasers make a real splash in the Colonies, don’t they? Most importantly: Ian finds and adopts Rollo, the greatest wolf dog who ever lived. Fine, I’ll go on: The Frasers get attacked and robbed by Stephen Bonnet, a psychopath Jamie helped escape from British authorities. Jamie is reunited with his Aunt Jocasta at River Run. Jamie is given 10,000 acres of land in the North Carolina backcountry from the king — they name it Fraser’s Ridge and get to homesteading. Claire meets Cherokee healer Adawehi, who dreams of Claire becoming a white raven with magical powers. Jamie finds Murtagh! Alive! Some of us have never recovered.
➼ Is there time travel?: Oh, yes, some of the more consequential time travel, to be honest. Bree comes through the stones at Inverness, and after a short stop at Lallybroch, she crosses the sea to warn her parents that they are going to die in a fire sometime in the 1770s. Roger follows her through the stones; they connect in Wilmington and then they really connect in some shed, but immediately following their handfast ceremony, they get into a huge fight and are split up. Bree is raped by Stephen Bonnet. Bree runs into Jamie in Wilmington. They cry! We all cry! Bree realizes she is pregnant and tells her parents the whole story, and in a truly horrible case of mistaken identity (I blame Lizzie Wemyss), Jamie believes Roger is the one who assaulted Bree and almost kills him with his fists. Ian sells a bloodied Roger to the Mohawk. [Why did these people decide to time travel again? Visit 1971 to find out.]
➼ Is there romance?: I will never tire of seeing Claire and Jamie hold each other as they look out over Fraser’s Ridge. Also, that move Jamie does when he lifts Claire out of the bath that one time? So smooth, so swoony.
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➼ What happens?: Claire, Jamie, and Young Ian travel up to New York to find Roger. (Murtagh takes a pregnant Bree to River Run, where she befriends Lord John!) Claire learns about another time traveler named Otter Tooth. Ian trades himself for Roger and begins a life among the Mohawk. (He will eventually marry and then divorce a Mohawk woman who secretly has Ian’s son Swiftest of Lizards, it’s a whole thing.) Jamie lets Roger beat the shit out of him as some sort of alpha-male repayment plan. Honestly, it’s very hot. On Jamie’s part, not Roger’s.
➼ Is there time travel?: No, but Roger does find another stone circle out in the woods.
➼ Is there romance?: Sorry, not at all. Everyone is working through some thick layers of grief, anger, and guilt.
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➼ What happens?: Bree has her baby at River Run and Roger decides he’s cool with it possibly being Bonnet’s, which is so kind and brave of him, isn’t it? They get married even though Jamie continues to neg the hell out of that guy, and it’s just one more reason we’ll always love Jamie, even when he murders people. Which he does! He has to pretend to want to catch the Regulators who are rebelling against the crown, which grows more complicated because Murtagh is, like, the top Regulator in the backcountry. Claire enlists Marsali as her surgical assistant. Claire makes penicillin!! Murtagh dies in Jamie’s arms at the Battle of Alamance. Roger is hanged by his ancestor Buck MacKenzie but lives. Bree kills Bonnet. They realize Jeremiah can time-travel and is Roger’s biological son. Ian returns! The Committee of Safety, led by the Brown brothers, has it out for the Frasers. Lionel Brown especially despises Claire, a woman, spreading her progressive medical advice, and so he and his thugs kidnap and sexually assault her. Jamie and his crew arrive, kill almost everyone, and bring Lionel back to Fraser’s Ridge to interrogate him. Marsali, who is supposed to be tending to him, kills that piece of shit with water hemlock because Marsali rules.
➼ Is there time travel?: No, but there is another time traveler: Claire meets Wendigo Donner, and we hate him.
➼ Is there romance?: Even with the horrors that await the Frasers in this time period, yes. First of all, nothing beats Murtagh Fitzgibbons telling Jocasta on the eve of her wedding to Duncan Innes, “I love you, Jocasta MacKenzie. This world may change, but that will never change.” And then he leaves (she won’t marry a rebel), and then he dies! It’s been six years, and I’m still not over it. And because tragedy begets romance on this show, this is where we get one of Jamie’s absolute bangers: “When the day shall come that we do part, if my last words are not ‘I love you,’ ye’ll ken it was because I didna have time.”
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➼ What happens?: As if Claire needs more trauma heaped on her, this is when Tom, Malva, and Allan Christie move to the Ridge with all their incestuous drama. Claire gets accused of killing Malva and her unborn child (who is Allan’s, yikes). She gets arrested by Robert Brown, because of course, and is going to be executed, probably? Jamie goes to save Claire — ultimate wife-guy move — but it’s Tom Christie who sacrifices himself to save her, confessing to Malva’s murder. (He eventually is pardoned.) Claire learns it was actually Allan who killed Malva. Ian kills him. Claire makes ether, which is cool, but she loves hitting up her own stash, which is not cool. Wendigo Donner shows up on Fraser’s Ridge looking for gems to help him get through the stones and accidentally blows the place up. This is bad because, well, Claire and Jamie lose their home, but it’s good because it means that the obituary Roger and Bree found was incorrect. Ian kills Mrs. Bug over some Jacobite gold shenanigans, and Arch Bug vows revenge. Jamie gets conscripted into the Continental Army and sent to Fort Ticonderoga.
➼ Is there time travel?: Bree has baby Mandy, but Claire diagnoses her with a heart condition that can only be treated in the 20th century; they have to go back! So they do, and it’s sad. [Travel to 1978 to see where they land.]
➼ Is there romance?: The trauma and the domestic drama Claire and Jamie have to carry in these later years inherently make them less swoony than the good ol’ days. But it might be worth visiting this time solely for the scene before Bree and Roger leave, when Jamie gives Claire a gem and tells her she can return to her own time, too, if she wants, and she throws it out the window. She would never leave him. That’s romantic enough, but Jamie’s teary-eyed sigh of relief? His response that he isn’t brave enough to live without her? I’ll never quit you, Outlander!
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➼ What happens?: William is sent on a spy-adjacent mission by Captain Ezekiel Richardson that takes him through Great Dismal Swamp on the North Carolina–Virginia border, where he promptly gets lost and seriously injured until Ian, who is working as a liaison with the Native tribes, comes upon him. Ian gets William to Denzell and Rachel Hunter’s place, where the brother and sister Quakers save William’s life and infected arm.
➼ Is there time travel?: Just travel by horse.
➼ Is there romance?: Ew, no. Sure, Ian and Rachel are making eyes at each other, but mostly, there is pus coming out of a dude’s arm.
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➼ What happens?: Jamie tries to stop the siege at Fort Ticonderoga, but no one will listen to him, probably because he’s too handsome. Claire is captured by the British Army and meets adult William. Ian cashes in his debt of honor with William to free Claire, and boy, is William not a fan of Ian anymore. Claire and Denzell Hunter become surgeon buddies, and it’s pretty cute (minus the blood and guts). Jamie joins Daniel Morgan’s Rifle Corps and fights in the Battle of Saratoga. Claire meets Benedict Arnold and cannot get him to change his mind about being a traitor! William watches his BFF get shot in the head and isn’t so jazzed about war anymore. Jamie’s cousin Simon Fraser is a Redcoat General, and when he dies at Saratoga, they ask Jamie (and Claire) to escort his body back to Scotland, which is sort of a twofer, since he had always promised Jenny he’d bring back Young Ian at some point.
➼ Is there time travel?: Just travel by legs.
➼ Is there romance?: A general feeling that anyone could die at any time looms over this section of Outlander, and there’s lots of intense, emotional talking in tents, but that’s not how I get my romance kicks.
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➼ What happens?: Laoghaire calls Claire a whore. Claire tells Jenny and Ian Sr. that she is from the future. (They take it well!) Claire gets called back to the colonies by Lord John, desperate for her to help save his injured nephew. Jamie helps Joanie join a convent and cuts ties with Laoghaire for good. Claire and Young Ian leave knowing they will never see Ian Sr. again. He dies surrounded by Jamie and Jenny. Laoghaire calls Claire a whore again, probably, knowing her.
➼ Is there time travel?: No, but Jamie and Claire (and Young Ian) do cross an ocean.
➼ Is there romance?: It’s nice to see the Laird and Lady of Lallybroch back, but Ian slowly dying before our eyes really kills the vibe. How dare he, actually?
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➼ What happens?: Claire and Denny operate on Lord John’s nephew Hal. Claire becomes a spy for the Continental Army for, like, one hot second. Arch Bug tries to kill Rachel and then Ian, but William saves them. Claire and Lord John are told Jamie’s ship bringing him back to the Colonies sunk and he died. Those two lose their shit. John offers to marry Claire to protect her when the British Army wants to arrest her for spying. She, with no other options, agrees. One night, she almost kills herself and John gets rip-roaring drunk, and the two of them have sex. Ezekiel Richardson outs himself as a spy for the Continental Army to Claire. Surprise! Jamie was on a different boat — he lives! Lord John delivers the greatest line in all of Outlander’s eight seasons: “We were both fucking you!” Jamie gets so angry John railed his wife that he nearly knocks John’s eyeball out of his skull and then hands him over to the Continental Army. Jamie and Claire have sex on Lord John’s table because I guess they don’t care about that guy anymore. Not like he saved Claire’s life or anything!! William, who overhears John calling him Jamie’s son, deals with his identity-crisis issues by visiting a sex worker named Jane. Rachel and Ian get married. When a British officer wants to assault Jane’s little sister Frances, Jane kills him. Captain Richardson creates a trap to have William captured by Hessians, and John and Ian save him. The Marquis de Lafayette loves sending Claire cheese! Philadelphia was wild, man.
➼ Is there time travel?: Nope.
➼ Is there romance?: You’d think Jamie coming back from the dead would be swoon city, but he acts like too much of a complete asshat for that. I’ve never been so mad at that guy, and, again, he has murdered before.
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➼ What happens?: General brigadier James Fraser leads his men in the Battle of Monmouth. Claire gets shot and Denny saves her. When General Lee demands Jamie report for duty and leave Claire behind, Jamie resigns from the army by way of a blood note. Doesn’t Lee know our guy only pledges allegiance to his wife? Lord John comes to check on Claire, and she thanks him for saving her life. Jamie still does not apologize! William asks Jamie to help him break Jane out of prison, but by the time they get there, she has slit her wrists. He asks Jamie and Claire to take care of her sister Frances but also tells Jamie he will never, ever call him “father,” and it’s really sending some mixed messages. Claire learns that Fanny and Jane’s mother was named Faith … and she taught them “I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside,” the same song Claire sang to baby Faith before they took her away. Did Faith not actually die in Paris? Is Fanny’s mother Claire’s daughter? Wild if true.
➼ Is there time travel?: Well, Claire does dream/hallucinate a visit from Master Raymond, who asks her for forgiveness, which is sort of like time travel.
➼ Is there romance?: A top-five Outlander romantic moment occurs when Jamie does not hesitate to hold an injured Claire while she pees. Talk about swoony!!
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➼ What happens?: Both the Greys and the Fergus/Marsali contingent of the Frasers set up shop in Savannah, and, apologies to that city, no one is having a good time. A perpetually brooding William spirals because everyone in his life has lied to him, but when Lord John is kidnapped by Captain Richardson, he, Jamie, and Claire mount a rescue mission, and he remembers how much he loves his dad. Jamie and Lord John finally make amends, too, after Jamie almost murdered his ass for grief-fucking Claire. It’s nice. Elsewhere, our sweet Frenchie Fergus dies while saving his sons from a fire. Everyone is incredibly traumatized by it, most especially the audience.
➼ Is there time travel? Surprise, surprise: Chaos-bringing kidnapping aficionado Captain Richardson is a time traveler who has come to this era — perhaps from 1980? — to ensure the English win the Revolutionary War so that they can bring abolition to the Colonies faster. A noble mission, but, woof, this guy needed a second draft of a plan. John shoots him in the head once he’s rescued.
➼ Is there romance? Uhh, they killed off Fergus. Will we ever know love again?
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➼ What happens?: Claire and Jamie bring Fanny home to Fraser’s Ridge and thanks to discovering some of Jane’s last words, they have enough info to conclude that yes, Fanny and Jane’s mother Faith was Claire and Jamie’s daughter. [Return to Paris in 1744 for further explanation.] More family joins the Frasers on the Ridge when Ian and Rachel have their first son (and make a quick sojourn to New York to bring home Ian’s other son, Swiftest of Lizards). Jamie and Claire have to deal with Loyalists cropping up on Fraser’s Ridge, a bear eats a woman, and oh yeah, Claire… brings a baby back to life with blue light magical powers that Master Raymond also had. Nothing to see here!
➼ Is there time travel?: Yes! Bree, Roger, Jemmy, and Mandy return from their pit stop in 1739 and bring books they brought with them from 1980, including Goodnight Moon, The Lord of the Rings, and Frank’s book about Scots during the Revolutionary War. Not only does Jamie have to grapple with knowing that Frank looked exactly like Black Jack, but Frank writes that James Fraser dies during a battle in the backcountry a year from now. He’s being haunted from the future. [Travel back to 1739 if you need a refresher on the shenanigans that forced the MacKenzies to time hop again.] Buck also joins the Frasers and MacKenzies on the Ridge, wanting to be with his family again. [Visit Buck in 1980 to learn what his final 20th century task was.]
➼ Is there romance?: Well, when the Battle at Kings Mountain comes to pass just as Frank wrote it would and Jamie Fraser freaking dies, Claire sort of dies too, until that blue light magic power brings them both back to life, but not before the spirit of Jamie gazes upon Claire in 1945 Inverness and then goes to Craigh na Dun to touch the stone and leave the blue flowers that will eventually bring Claire to Jamie’s time. He brings her to him and she brings him back to life. What is that if not punch ya in the gut, defying space and time romance?
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➼ What happens?: Henry Beauchamp, stationed on the Western Front, writes a letter about the horrors of war and lost hope that ends up on the desk of Julia Moriston, working at the London War Office. She writes back in an effort to bring a little light back into his world. Hope springs eternal, after all. They fall in love through their continued writing that, yes, does include Julia’s love for the Scottish Highlands. They marry, they have their daughter Claire. Everything seems pretty lovely, all things considered.
➼ Is there time travel?: Not yet.
➼ Is there romance?: Falling in love over letters?! These two are boiling over with romance.
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➼ What happens?: Whoopsie, you think you’re going away for a short vacation to Edinburgh and Inverness and your entire world flips upside down. Julia and Henry, who have recently learned they’re about to have their second child, leave little Claire with Uncle Lamb and head to Scotland … where they promptly have sex on the hillside and then get in a car accident, are thrown into a fast-moving river, and, lo and behold, land near Craigh na Dun.
➼ Is there time travel?: You bet. Julia goes up to the top of the stone-circle hill to figure out where they are and, with a scream, is gone in an instant. Henry hears her and runs up to the stones, and, well, what’s a guy to do? [Travel to 1714 to find out the Beauchamps’ fate.]
➼ Is there romance?: We are only here for a blip, but it’s clear these two have it bad for each other.
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➼ What happens?: We get some scenes of Claire and Frank during the war, including when Claire has to leave Frank at the train station to join the front lines as a nurse, Claire spending time with two U.S. paratroopers following D-Day, and Claire on VE day. In 1945, Claire and Frank finally take a real honeymoon in Inverness, where Claire basically binges info on Scottish Highlander history and the Battle of Culloden thanks to Frank nerding out. No, seriously, she will thank him. And do not forget that mysterious Highlander Frank finds staring up at Claire through a window who seemingly disappears into thin air when Frank approaches him. Certainly one of the first clues that something strange is going on here.
➼ Is there time travel? BABE, YES. Claire goes to the Craigh na Dun stone circles alone to look at some forget-me-nots she thought she spotted when she and Frank visited the site, she touches that buzzing stone, and, suddenly, she’s gone. She travels to 1743, where her story — where our story — really begins, technically speaking.
➼ Is there romance? I feel bad for Frank, and a historian who wants to go down on you inside an archeological site automatically gets some points, but I wouldn’t say the romance is overwhelming.
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➼ What happens?: Claire returns to the 20th century and tells Frank everything about Jamie and that she’s pregnant. He isn’t thrilled about it, but he does want to try and make it work.
➼ Is there time travel?: Jamie walks Claire up to the Craigh na Dun stones in 1746 and she falls out here. It’s a, um, rough transition back to 20th-century life.
➼ Is there romance?: Frank really does still love Claire and is devastated by her story, but wow, she is a human husk here. So, no. No romance for anyone.
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➼ What happens?: While Claire and Frank never fully repair their marriage — she just can’t quit Jamie — Frank loves Brianna, born not long after they move to Boston, with all his heart. Claire goes to medical school, where she befriends Joe Abernathy. Frank asks for a divorce after Brianna turns 18 and wants to move back to England with her. Claire dares him to try — and then he dies in a car accident.
➼ Is there time travel?: This is Claire’s time-travel desert.
➼ Is there romance?: Claire keeping that metaphorical light on for Jamie for 20 years is pretty freaking romantic, even if things between her and Frank are rough to watch.
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➼ What happens?: When Claire hears of Reverend Wakefield’s passing, she and Bree make their way to Inverness to pay their respects to his adopted son, Roger. Obviously, being back there brings up a lot of feelings for Claire, and, eventually, the truth about Claire’s time-traveling and Brianna’s real father all comes out. Surprisingly, it works out that Geillis freaking Duncan — at that time Gillian Edgars — bumps into Roger and Bree as she fights for Scottish independence, and Claire, Roger, and Bree are at Craigh na Dun when she goes through the stones and lands in the 1730s. They begin to search for records of what happened to Jamie after Culloden. They learn he survived, but not much else. Bree and Roger make out. Having your entire concept of the space-time continuum blown up will do that to a person.
➼ Is there time travel?: Geillis, on her quest to install Bonnie Prince Charlie on the throne, murders her husband as a blood sacrifice and walks through the stones. Oh, Geillis, our little time-traveling psychopath.
➼ Is there romance?: Roger is clearly down bad for Brianna, but it’s going to take a little more convincing for me to buy into this.
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➼ What happens?: Roger hasn’t given up on Jamie or on his shot with Bree, so he arrives in Boston around Christmas with some big news for Claire: He found a pamphlet printed by an Alexander Malcolm of Edinburgh in 1765, and it includes lines from a Robert Burns poem that Claire said she would quote to Jamie. Robert Burns is just a child in 1756 — it has to be Jamie. It would be 1766 if she were to travel through the stones (she’s operating on a 202-year time difference, although time-travel rules mean very little in Outlander), and so she decides to go for it.
➼ Is there time travel?: Claire packs a kit of medicine — penicillin in the 1760s? Incredible! — sews a tech-forward but era-appropriate dress, says good-bye to her dear Bree, and jumps through the stones at Inverness to find her man in 1766. [Take that jump with her.]
➼ Is there romance?: There is the hope of romance, which is almost as good.
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➼ What happens?: Roger and Bree go to a Scottish festival in North Carolina in which Roger proceeds to slut-shame Bree for wanting to have sex with him but not wanting to marry him right away. Oh, and Bree gives Roger a book on Scottish settlers in Colonial America, which does become important.
➼ Is there time travel?: IF ONLY. Never have I wanted to throw myself through a stone more than when Roger tries to make his “I love you all or not at all” stance romantic.
➼ Is there romance?: Read the room!! (The room is the rest of this blurb.)
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➼ What happens?: Thanks to that book Bree gave Roger, he discovers Fraser’s Ridge and confirms that Claire made it back to Jamie. Later, thanks to Roger’s housekeeper Fiona and the papers her grandmother Mrs. Graham (Reverend Wakefield’s housekeeper) saved, he finds a newspaper clipping with an obituary for James Fraser and his wife, who supposedly died in a house fire on Fraser’s Ridge. The date is smudged out, but they know it happens sometime in the 1770s. Roger calls Bree in Boston to warn her, but she’s already gone to Scotland to “visit her mom,” her roommate tells him. She already knows about the obit, he reasons. Roger, of course, follows her into the past.
➼ Is there time travel?: Bree preps herself — with a few PB&Js, of course— and goes through at Inverness to warn her mother of her imminent death. A few weeks later, Roger dons his best Colonial garb and heads for 1769, baby. [Travel to 1769 with them, if you dare.]
➼ Is there romance?: Fine! It’s very romantic that Roger doesn’t hesitate to go after Brianna. Very romantic or very dumb. One of those things.
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➼ What happens?: The MacKenzies come through the stones at Ocracoke, head across the ocean to Scotland, and move into Lallybroch. Bree gets an engineering job at the hydroelectric plant, where she meets a man named Rob Cameron. Eventually, Rob befriends Bree and Roger and reads some of Roger’s writing on time travel. He learns from Jamie’s letters that Jemmy knows the location of the mysterious Jacobite gold and kidnaps Jemmy. Roger and Brianna believe he took their son through the stones to get the gold, but once Roger takes off through the stones to save Jemmy, Rob shows up at Lallybroch and reveals it was a ruse to get rid of Roger so he could force Bree to take him and Jemmy to retrieve the gold. Bree and the kids escape his clutches — and those of a familiar-looking man who may have terrorized the Greys for a while during the Revolutionary War — and she decides the best thing to do is go find her husband, who is looking for their son in all the wrong places times.
➼ Is there time travel?: In both directions! Guess who pops up out of time at Lallybroch? Roger’s ancestor and the guy who hanged him that one time, Buck MacKenzie. He was at Craigh na Dun in 1778 and heard the buzzing, and then suddenly was in 1980. He has a lot of explaining to do, but I guess Roger has moved past almost dying because soon enough, Buck is part of the family. He does come in handy when Roger decides to go through the stones to chase after Rob and Jemmy — Buck offers to come along. Now this is what I’m talking about! A family race through time to rescue one of their own? Get it, Outlander. Of course, it winds up being a fake-out and Roger and Buck land in 1739 for other reasons, but the conceit is fun while it lasts. [Travel to 1739 to find out why.] Buck also proves his worth once Roger and Bree return to Fraser’s Ridge, and he goes and murders Rob Cameron so that he can never hurt the MacKenzies again. Kind of sweet, minus the premeditated murder stuff! [Then Buck joins the fam in 1779, and you can, too.]
➼ Is there romance?: I don’t know; there is that one Bree-Roger sex scene set to Phil Collins’s “In the Air Tonight,” and that’s not nothing. And Roger being all, I won’t come back until I rescue our boy! isn’t half-bad either.
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