Malva is pregnant, and she says it’s Jamie’s baby. Of course, it’s all a trap, because nothing can ever be too good on this show before it blows up!! Just as Jamie is packing up to head to the Provincial Congress to declare independence from the crown and select delegates to go to the first Continental Congress - Hot Nerd Roger is tagging along and is so pumped about it - the Christies pull up to the big house, and they have something they need to discuss. It’s all so sweet and will give you those good Jamie and Claire butterflies. They tell each other that how faithful they are to one another after all this time is important and lovely. Jamie, who really feared he would lose Claire to her sickness, tells her softly that without her “the sun would no longer come up or go down.” We get a whole scene of them lying in bed together, talking about that time she stepped on him when he slept outside her door, joking about how Jamie thinks Claire’s most endearing quality is that she thinks he’s funny. This episode does seem to take extra care to give us some quiet but swoony Jamie and Claire moments. Alas, the mystery of why she and Tom both somehow became sick with the same thing without having seen each other in a while will not be solved today. Tom seems simultaneously interested in, bemused, and angered by Claire. But, at the very least, he does walk her back home. You can imagine how well this request goes over with ol’ Tom. She gathers enough strength to go see Tom and ask him for a sample of his shit so she can be sure. And from what she hears, she thinks Tom had the same thing she did. She knows she didn’t have dysentery her illness was something else entirely. But something isn’t sitting right with Dr.
Claire and Tom Christie were sort of the last to fall ill. He cried! I don’t know, man Claire’s hair was great, but it’ll grow back, and dozens of people are legit dying from an intestinal infection, so grow up!!Īlthough a few more people died while Claire was sick, Jamie figured out that there was a dead elk in the stream where people were getting their water, and since then, the sickness has stopped spreading. Also, Roger tells her that Jamie already saw her and he cried. Now let’s be clear, Caitríona Balfe could pull off any haircut, but it’s still shocking for her to see, and they’re living in the 1770s - I don’t think the pixie cut has caught on just yet. Bug and Malva thought that the way to heal someone with a bad fever is to cut their hair off, and with no supervision (and what I suspect are some ulterior motives on Malva’s part), they just cut off all of Claire’s gorgeous curls. Unfortunately, she has to hear from Roger that Mrs.
(On Malva’s part, not Jamie’s, bless him.)Ībout one week and a fever dream about her own beating heart and a snake in the house later, Claire wakes up. Because what’s happening is suspect, guys. She does not have the strength to say what the fuck is happening, but I do. At one point in a fever-induced haze, Claire looks over at Jamie chugging whiskey from a bottle at the window and sees Malva gently caressing his back. She refuses to leave Claire’s side she brings Jamie some tea and tells him that while other people may think Claire is a witch, Malva just thinks she’s amazing and wants to be just like her. Not surprisingly, Malva Christie is all over this shit. But he’s not alone in tending to Claire during her sickness. Jamie looks terrified as he watches over her. She’s got a fever and chills and headaches and hallucinations. Claire tells everyone that a contaminated water source most likely caused it, but after funeral upon funeral - the body count is high! - no one can seem to figure it out. This is not just some broken wagon axle, babes. Anyway, if you grew up playing the Oregon Trail, you know how serious this is. There’s a dysentery outbreak among the settlers of the Ridge! They call it “the bloody flux,” but that’s just a little too graphic for me, so I’m sticking with dysentery. I mean, Claire almost dies and is healed and gets a haircut that seemingly devastates all of Fraser’s Ridge, and that’s like maybe 20 minutes into this 70-minute monster. Roosevelt Christ, a lot goes down in this episode of Outlander.
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