He balls his fist up as she stares back at him. It’s then, that Claire reveals something that hits him hard – she is pregnant… with Jamie’s child. He’s so forgiving, telling her he loves her unconditionally. “Truly, all that matters it that you’re back,” he adds.
But, it is one that I’m prepared to make as well,” he tells her in the morning after she finishes her story. That night, Claire tells Frank everything. The woman accepts what Claire is telling her about her journey to the past, but suggests she needs to stop “chasing a ghost” and focus on her life now, in 1948, with a man (Frank) who clearly loves her. “I need to know if he really did die on that battlefield,” she tells Mrs. Through history book pages, looking for any information on Culloden or Jamie. Graham, who was also part of the druid ritual Claire and Frank secretly watched (in Season 1), is still working for him and a a little later the two women meet in the Reverend’s garden. Graham, the woman who worked for Reverend MacKenzie back when she and Frank were on their post-World War II second honeymoon (the one during which she disappeared), is still in his employment. When he moves in close though, she shudders as she has a flashback to the ancestor he looks like – the sadistic Jonathan “Black Jack” Randall (also played by Menzies), who tortured and raped her husband, Jamie.Ĭlaire quickly shakes the horrific memory off and the two talk. He’s elated to see her (and a bit nervous), and he smiles slightly when she recognizes him at the door. WATCH: Caitriona Balfe & Sam Heughan Gear Up For ‘Outlander’ Season 2Īt a hospital sometime later, Claire is staring out the window when her 1940s husband – Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies) – arrives. And when she hears his words – “the British” – she collapses into a puddle on the ground, thinking of her husband, Jamie Fraser. She begs him to tell her who won the battle of Culloden. The news comes courtesy of a kindly motorist, who finds her in her 18 th century woolen dress, walking down the paved road.
It takes a few minutes for her to confirm she’s in 1948 (more than two years after she first left in Season 1). Here’s our recap of “Outlander” Season 2, Episode 1 – “Through A Glass, Darkly”: (Starz)Īn utterly devastated Claire Fraser wakes up on the grass in front of those mystical, ancient stones at Craigh na Dun at the start of Season 2, back in her own time. “Outlander” returned to Starz on Saturday night with the premiere of its second season, and things began with a heartbreaking twist.Īlthough Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) ended Season 1 on a ship to France in the 1740s, determined to change history, Season 2 began in a very, very different place and time.