{"id":8166,"date":"2026-05-15T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjbarrett.redirectme.net\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:38:00","slug":"everywhere-and-everywhen-outlander-has-taken-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjbarrett.redirectme.net\/?p=8166","title":{"rendered":"Everywhere and Everywhen Outlander Has Taken Us"},"content":{"rendered":"


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To say that Outlander<\/em> has taken us on a journey is quite the understatement. Over the course of eight seasons and one spinoff \u2014 to say nothing of the Diana Gabaldon novels on which the Ronald D. Moore\u2013created series is based \u2014 Outlander<\/em> 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<\/em>, about both Claire and Jamie\u2019s parents, stretched the timeline \u2014 and the romance \u2014 even further.<\/p>\n

All of which is to say the Outlander <\/em>universe takes up a lot of space emotionally but also, let\u2019s 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\u2019s saga in chronological order, tracking everywhere and everywhen Outlander<\/em> has taken us and, most importantly, how hot the romance was there. Hey, we have our priorities.<\/p>\n

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\u27bc What happens?:<\/strong> 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 \u2014 but joke\u2019s on them: She\u2019s in love with Brian Fraser, Lord Lovat\u2019s bastard son. On her wedding day, they sneak her out, and Brian kills Malcolm in the process. (It\u2019s self-defense, I swear!)<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?: <\/strong>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\u2019s 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.]<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there romance?: <\/strong>HEAPS OF IT. Henry and Julia\u2019s 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!<\/p>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>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\u2019s dad Brian and his sister Jenny, and he is witness to Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie\u2019s first eye-fuck. Oh, and he bumps into his<\/em> dad, Jerry, who apparently didn\u2019t die in World War II but instead traveled through the stones. Bree, Jemmy, and Mandy show up to reunite with Roger.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?:<\/strong> This section reinforces the tenuous rules of time travel on Outlander<\/em> 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 \u2014 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.]<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> Well, Brian Fraser is there, so it\u2019s at least a little bit swoony. If you\u2019re looking to metaphorically get run over by a truck of emotions, go watch the conversation he has with Bree, who he doesn\u2019t know is his granddaughter, in which he talks about how he can never move on from the loss of Ellen.<\/p>\n

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\u27bc What happens?:<\/strong> 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 \u201cBoogie Woogie Bugle Boy\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?:<\/strong> Yes, of course! And we are all the better and all the more traumatized for it. [Travel to Claire\u2019s starting point in 1945.]<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> Oh, you mean the time period when Claire and Jamie get married and have the best sex anyone\u2019s ever had in history? The time period when Jamie tells Claire he\u2019s loved her since the first moment he saw her? The time when he says, \u201cYer tearing my guts out, Claire\u201d??? Uh, yeah, I\u2019d say it\u2019s pretty swoony.<\/p>\n

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\u27bc What happens?:<\/strong> 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\u2019s 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 \u2014 but not before teaching that woman what will become a very important lullaby.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?:<\/strong> No, just good old-fashioned drama from one\u2019s own timeline.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?: <\/strong>Everyone is broken here; stay away.<\/p>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>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\u2019s likely to die in the battle, takes Claire to Craigh na Dun to send her back to Frank, where she\u2019ll 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.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?:<\/strong> 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.]<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?: <\/strong>Well, Pre-Culloden is romantic. Post-Culloden is bleak as hell. Remember that long wig they made Sam Heughan wear?!<\/p>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>These are the Helwater years. Jamie bonds with Lord John, who arranged for his parole at the estate of Lord Dunsany. Dunsany\u2019s daughter Geneva blackmails Jamie into sex; she gets pregnant and has Jamie\u2019s son William. When she and her husband Lord Ellesmere die, Jamie asks John (and Geneva\u2019s sister Isobel) to raise Willie. He leaves Helwater when Willie is around 6 years old.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?: <\/strong>Zero.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> Never stick a sad Scot in England; it only makes things worse.<\/p>\n

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\u27bc What happens?:<\/strong> CLAIRE COMES BACK!!<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?:<\/strong> 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.]<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> Claire and Jamie\u2019s 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<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?:<\/strong> When Jamie\u2019s 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<\/em>. Fergus joins the crew, too, and insists on bringing the woman he\u2019s secretly handfast to, who also happens to be Laoghaire\u2019s older daughter, Marsali. Jamie gets acupuncture. Claire gets pulled on to the Porpoise<\/em> 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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?:<\/strong> Isn\u2019t all this drama at sea enough?<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> 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\u2019s arms when they reunite on that beach?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?:<\/strong> Claire and Geillis \u2014 who is now going as the Bakra and keeping Young Ian as a sex slave with human-sacrifice potential \u2014 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\u2019s head to bed.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?:<\/strong> Geillis almost<\/em> makes it through that newly discovered tide-pool portal.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>Okay, this is but a blip on the timeline, but it is Claire and Jamie\u2019s first step in the American Colonies. Well, I guess it\u2019s less a \u201cfirst step\u201d and more a \u201cdumped on the beach after a shipwreck,\u201d but still!<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?: <\/strong>Travel by hurricane only!<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?: <\/strong>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\u2019s just science.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>The Frasers make a real splash in the Colonies, don\u2019t they? Most importantly: Ian finds and adopts Rollo, the greatest wolf dog who ever lived. Fine, I\u2019ll 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 \u2014 they name it Fraser\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?: <\/strong>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 <\/em>connect <\/em>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.]<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> I will never tire of seeing Claire and Jamie hold each other as they look out over Fraser\u2019s Ridge. Also, that move Jamie does when he lifts Claire out of the bath that one time? So smooth, so swoony.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>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\u2019s son Swiftest of Lizards, it\u2019s a whole thing.) Jamie lets Roger beat the shit out of him as some sort of alpha-male repayment plan. Honestly, it\u2019s very hot. On Jamie\u2019s part, not Roger\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?:<\/strong> No, but Roger does find another stone circle out in the woods.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> Sorry, not at all. Everyone is working through some thick layers of grief, anger, and guilt.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>Bree has her baby at River Run and Roger decides he\u2019s cool with it possibly being Bonnet\u2019s, which is so kind and brave<\/em> of him, isn\u2019t it? They get married even though Jamie continues to neg the hell out of that guy, and it\u2019s just one more reason we\u2019ll 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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<\/em>, 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\u2019s Ridge to interrogate him. Marsali, who is supposed to be tending to him, kills that piece of shit with water hemlock because Marsali rules.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?:<\/strong> No, but there is another time traveler: Claire meets Wendigo Donner, and we hate him.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?: <\/strong>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, \u201cI love you, Jocasta MacKenzie. This world may change, but that will never change.\u201d And then he leaves (she won\u2019t marry a rebel), and then he dies! It\u2019s been six years, and I\u2019m still not over it. And because tragedy begets romance on this show, this is where we get one of Jamie\u2019s absolute bangers: \u201cWhen the day shall come that we do part, if my last words are not \u2018I love you,\u2019 ye\u2019ll ken it was because I didna have time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>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\u2019s, yikes). She gets arrested by Robert Brown, because of course, and is going to be executed, probably? Jamie goes to save Claire \u2014 ultimate wife-guy move \u2014 but it\u2019s Tom Christie who sacrifices himself to save her, confessing to Malva\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?: <\/strong>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\u2019s sad. [Travel to 1978 to see where they land.]<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> 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\u2019 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\u2019s romantic enough, but Jamie\u2019s teary-eyed sigh of relief? His response that he isn\u2019t brave enough to live without her? I\u2019ll never quit you, Outlander<\/em>!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>William is sent on a spy-adjacent mission by Captain Ezekiel Richardson that takes him through Great Dismal Swamp on the North Carolina\u2013Virginia 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\u2019s place, where the brother and sister Quakers save William\u2019s life and infected arm.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?:<\/strong> Just travel by horse.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> Ew, no. Sure, Ian and Rachel are making eyes at each other, but mostly, there is pus coming out of a dude\u2019s arm.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>Jamie tries to stop the siege at Fort Ticonderoga, but no one will listen to him, probably because he\u2019s 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\u2019s pretty cute (minus the blood and guts). Jamie joins Daniel Morgan\u2019s 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\u2019t so jazzed about war anymore. Jamie\u2019s 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\u2019d bring back Young Ian at some point.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?:<\/strong> Just travel by legs.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> A general feeling that anyone could die at any time looms over this section of Outlander<\/em>, and there\u2019s lots of intense, emotional talking in tents, but that\u2019s not how I get my romance kicks.<\/p>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?: <\/strong>No, but Jamie and Claire (and Young Ian) do cross an ocean.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> It\u2019s 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?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>Claire and Denny operate on Lord John\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 \u2014 he lives! Lord John delivers the greatest line in all of Outlander<\/em>\u2019s eight seasons: \u201cWe were both fucking you!\u201d Jamie gets so angry John railed his wife that he nearly knocks John\u2019s eyeball out of his skull and then hands him over to the Continental Army. Jamie and Claire have sex on Lord John\u2019s table because I guess they don\u2019t care about that guy anymore. Not like he saved Claire\u2019s life or anything!! William, who overhears John calling him Jamie\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?: <\/strong>Nope.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> You\u2019d think Jamie coming back from the dead would be swoon city, but he acts like too much of a complete asshat for that. I\u2019ve never been so mad at that guy, and, again, he has murdered before.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>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\u2019t 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 \u201cfather,\u201d and it\u2019s really sending some mixed messages. Claire learns that Fanny and Jane\u2019s mother was named Faith \u2026 and she taught them \u201cI Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside,\u201d the same song Claire sang to baby Faith before they took her away. Did Faith not actually die in Paris? Is Fanny\u2019s mother Claire\u2019s daughter? Wild if true.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?:<\/strong> Well, Claire does dream\/hallucinate a visit from Master Raymond, who asks her for forgiveness, which is sort of like time travel.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> A top-five Outlander<\/em> romantic moment occurs when Jamie does not hesitate to hold an injured Claire while she pees. Talk about swoony!!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>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\u2019s nice. Elsewhere, our sweet Frenchie Fergus dies while saving his sons from a fire. Everyone is incredibly traumatized by it, most especially the audience.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?<\/strong> Surprise, surprise: Chaos-bringing kidnapping aficionado Captain Richardson is a time traveler who has come to this era \u2014 perhaps from 1980? \u2014 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\u2019s rescued.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there romance?<\/strong> Uhh, they killed off Fergus. Will we ever know love again?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>Claire and Jamie bring Fanny home to Fraser\u2019s Ridge and thanks to discovering some of Jane\u2019s last words, they have enough info to conclude that yes, Fanny and Jane\u2019s mother Faith was Claire and Jamie\u2019s 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\u2019s other son, Swiftest of Lizards). Jamie and Claire have to deal with Loyalists cropping up on Fraser\u2019s Ridge, a bear eats a woman, and oh yeah, Claire\u2026 brings a baby back to life with blue light magical powers that Master Raymond also had. Nothing to see here!<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?: <\/strong>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<\/em>, The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, and Frank\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.]<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there romance?: <\/strong>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\u2019s 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 <\/em>romance?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>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\u2019s love for the Scottish Highlands. They marry, they have their daughter Claire. Everything seems pretty lovely, all things considered.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?:<\/strong> Not yet.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> Falling in love over letters?! These two are boiling over with romance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>Whoopsie, you think you\u2019re 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\u2019re about to have their second child, leave little Claire with Uncle Lamb and head to Scotland \u2026 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.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?:<\/strong> 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\u2019s a guy to do? [Travel to 1714 to find out the Beauchamps\u2019 fate.]<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?: <\/strong>We are only here for a blip, but it\u2019s clear these two have it bad for each other.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?<\/strong> 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\u2019s gone. She travels to 1743, where her story \u2014 where our story \u2014 really begins, technically speaking.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance? <\/strong>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\u2019t say the romance is overwhelming.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>Claire returns to the 20th century and tells Frank everything about Jamie and that she\u2019s pregnant. He isn\u2019t thrilled about it, but he does want to try and make it work.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?: <\/strong>Jamie walks Claire up to the Craigh na Dun stones in 1746 and she falls out here. It\u2019s a, um, rough transition back to 20th-century life.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>While Claire and Frank never fully repair their marriage \u2014 she just can\u2019t quit Jamie \u2014 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 \u2014 and then he dies in a car accident.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?: <\/strong>This is Claire\u2019s time-travel desert.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>When Claire hears of Reverend Wakefield\u2019s 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\u2019s time-traveling and Brianna\u2019s real father all comes out. Surprisingly, it works out that Geillis freaking Duncan \u2014 at that time Gillian Edgars \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?: <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?: <\/strong>Roger is clearly down bad for Brianna, but it\u2019s going to take a little more convincing for me to buy into this.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>Roger hasn\u2019t 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 \u2014 it has to be Jamie. It would be 1766 if she were to travel through the stones (she\u2019s operating on a 202-year time difference, although time-travel rules mean very little in Outlander<\/em>), and so she decides to go for it.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?: <\/strong>Claire packs a kit of medicine \u2014 penicillin in the 1760s? Incredible! \u2014 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.]<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?: <\/strong>There is the hope of romance, which is almost as good.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there time travel?: <\/strong>IF ONLY. Never have I wanted to throw myself through a stone more than when Roger tries to make his \u201cI love you all or not at all\u201d stance romantic.<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?: <\/strong>Read the room!! (The room is the rest of this blurb.)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>Thanks to that book Bree gave Roger, he discovers Fraser\u2019s Ridge and confirms that Claire made it back to Jamie. Later, thanks to Roger\u2019s housekeeper Fiona and the papers her grandmother Mrs. Graham (Reverend Wakefield\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s already gone to Scotland to \u201cvisit her mom,\u201d her roommate tells him. She already knows about the obit, he reasons. Roger, of course, follows her into the past.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?: <\/strong>Bree preps herself \u2014 with a few PB&Js, of course\u2014 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.]<\/p>\n

\u27bc <\/strong>Is there romance?: <\/strong>Fine! It\u2019s very romantic that Roger doesn\u2019t hesitate to go after Brianna. Very romantic or very dumb. One of those things.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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\u27bc What happens?: <\/strong>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\u00a0man named Rob Cameron. Eventually, Rob befriends Bree and Roger and reads some of Roger\u2019s writing on time travel. He learns from Jamie\u2019s 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\u00a0to retrieve the gold. Bree and the kids escape his clutches \u2014 and those of a familiar-looking man who may have terrorized the Greys for a while during the Revolutionary War \u2014 and she decides the best thing to do is go find her husband, who is looking for their son in all the wrong places<\/s> times.<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there time travel?: <\/strong>In both directions! Guess who pops up out of time at Lallybroch? Roger\u2019s 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 \u2014 Buck offers to come along. Now this is what I\u2019m talking about! A family race through time to rescue one of their own? Get it, Outlander<\/em>. 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\u2019s 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.]<\/p>\n

\u27bc Is there romance?:<\/strong> I don\u2019t know; there is that one Bree-Roger sex scene set to Phil Collins\u2019s \u201cIn the Air Tonight,\u201d and that\u2019s not nothing. And Roger being all, I won\u2019t come back until I rescue our boy! <\/em>isn\u2019t half-bad either.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n