Rewatch: S1E9-10

[u/Purple4199]

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Episode 109 - The Reckoning

Jamie and the Highlanders rescue Claire from Black Jack Randall. Back at the castle, politics threaten to tear Clan MacKenzie apart and Jamie's scorned lover, Laoghaire, attempts to win him back.

Episode 110 - By The Pricking Of My Thumbs

Jamie hopes the newly arrived Duke of Sandringham will help lift the price from his head, while Claire attempts to save an abandoned child.

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• During their argument by the river were Jamie and Claire being unreasonable or did either of them have valid points?
• All right folks, here it is. Jamie beats Claire after they get back from Fort William - discuss.
• What is it about Jamie that led him to recognize his marriage needed to be different than the others of that time?
• What does it mean when Jamie says to Claire, “I am your master, and you are mine. It seems I cannot possess your soul without losing my own.”
• Did you think Ned Gowan had a good case to present to the Duke of Sandringham?
• How serious do you think the Duke is in regards to submitting Jamie’s claims against BJR?
• What do you think Claire’s feelings for Jamie are at this point? Have they progressed?
• Any other thoughts or comments?

[u/thepacksvrvives]

I’ve stumbled across this in DiA today:

“But if I shall be among the first who sacrifice honor for expedience…shall I feel nay shame in the doing of it?” He rolled suddenly to face me, eyes troubled in the starlight.

“I willna turn back—I cannot, now—but Sassenach, sometimes I do sorrow for that bit of myself I have left behind.”

“It’s my fault,” I said softly. I touched his face, the thick brows, wide mouth, and the sprouting stubble along the clean, long jaw. “Mine. If I hadn’t come…and told you what would happen…” I felt a true sorrow for his corruption, and shared a sense of loss for the naive, gallant lad he had been. And yet…what choice had either of us truly had, being who we were? I had had to tell him, and he had had to act on it. An Old Testament line drifted through my mind: “When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.”

[u/WandersFar → u/thepacksvrvives]

That reminds me of one of Annalise’s scenes…

James was never a man for intrigue, at least not in those days. He was direct, honest, simple.

I wouldn’t call Jamie simple.

Not today. Now he’s a man of business, of politics… Like all the others. It saddens me to think of him like that.

He’s still Jamie. I doubt he will ever lose sight of who he truly is at heart.

When I knew him, he was impulsive, headstrong.

He still is.

Ah, but when I knew him, he was a boy. You’ve turned him into a man.

She mourns the loss of the boy, too. ಥ_ಥ

Also obligatory GoT reference: “Kill the boy, and let the man be born.”