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[Claire] Previously...

It's her heart.

-Can you fix it? -[Claire] No, I can't.

But I know somebody who can.

I went through the stones once to save my baby.

We took an instant liking to each other

did we no, Adso?

Hello, cat.

[Jocasta] Hector had stolen a case of gold.

The king of France's mark on it.

Must be intended for Charles Stuart.

Hector.

-[Jamie] News of our death. -[Claire] January.

We die in a fire.

[Wendigo] Search the house. You find anything?

[Mrs. Bug] Give that gold back.

[both speaking Gaelic] Where did that come from?

It's no concern of yers.

It's gemstones I'm after.

Maybe she hid them in there.

-[cabinets rattle] -[glass shatters]

What's that smell?

Ether. Don't breathe in the fumes.

[thug] It's too damn dark.

No! No, don't do that!

[match rasps]

[dramatic music plays]

[spirited Celtic folk music plays]

♪ ♪

[engine rumbling]

♪ ♪

[doorbell rings]

[singer] ♪ Sing me a song ♪

♪ Of a lass that is gone ♪

♪ Say, could that lass ♪

♪ Be I? ♪

♪ Merry of soul ♪

♪ She sailed on a day ♪

♪ Over the sea ♪

♪ To Skye ♪

♪ Billow and breeze ♪

♪ Islands and seas ♪

♪ Mountains of rain and sun ♪

♪ All that was good ♪

♪ All that was fair ♪

♪ All that was me ♪

♪ Is gone ♪

♪ Sing me a song ♪

♪ Of a lass that is gone ♪

♪ Say, could that lass ♪

♪ Be I? ♪

♪ Merry of soul ♪

♪ She sailed on a day ♪

♪ Over the sea ♪

♪ To Skye ♪

[dramatic music plays]

♪ ♪

♪ Sing me a song ♪

♪ Of a lass that is gone ♪

♪ Say, could that lass ♪

♪ Be I? ♪

[children giggling]

[Fiona] We've been keeping it safe,

but I've been dying to know what's inside.

The bank said it's been in their vault

for 200 years.

[soft apprehensive music plays]

♪ ♪

Uh, maybe I should check on the kids.

They're outside in the garden with Ernie and the girls.

I'll check on them for you.

Thank you.

[Fiona] I'm glad Mandy's doing so well.

And so glad you've come back.

[sighs]

[Brianna sighs]

♪ ♪

[lid creaks]

[Roger] Huh. A musket ball?

Hmm.

♪ ♪

[Jamie] "My dear daughter, as you will see

"if you ever receive this,

we are alive."

[Claire] No! The ether!

Wendigo, blow that out.

[tense music plays]

♪ ♪

[Jamie] Arch! Murdina! Get out!

Claire!

♪ ♪

"Both your mother and I are safe and well.

"And we will always have a home

as long as we have each other."

-[flames crackling] -[Claire panting]

♪ ♪

-[Claire grunts] -[glass shattering]

-[Young Ian] Uncle! -[Lizzie] Mistress!

[Young Ian] What's happened?

Run for help. We need water!

♪ ♪

[water splashing]

Come on, men, come on!

Let me. Argh!

-Here. -[Young Ian] Move back!

[mournful music plays]

♪ ♪

[glass shatters]

Enough.

Enough!

[flames crackling]

It canna be saved.

Thank you all, but...

there's nothing more we can do.

♪ ♪

Well, it's not January.

Aye.

And we're no' dead.

So much for our obituary.

♪ ♪

Bloody newspapers.

Never get anything right.

[fire roaring]

♪ ♪

You and your bloody matches.

You burned the house down.

[scoffs] What?

No, it was Mama's ether.

Come on, any kind of spark

could have caused that explosion.

But it wasn't any kind of spark.

It--

Wendigo lit one of your matches.

[laughing] You and your mother...

the 18th century's lucky to have survived you.

Me? Why are you saying that?

[Roger] 'Cause, Brianna, it was you.

You caused a fire that they survived.

A different fire. Look at the date.

The fire from the obituary didn't happen.

[chuckles] It couldn't happen.

There was nothing left to burn.

So we actually did it. We saved them.

We changed history.

[melancholy music plays]

♪ ♪

[cabinet creaks]

[beam thuds]

[pans clanging]

[trunk creaks]

♪ ♪

[Jamie] Your hair smells of smoke, Sassenach.

[Claire] Everything smells of smoke.

[Jamie] When ye're called to the aid

of a dying man...

...why is it that you never say no?

Ever?

Though you ken the case is hopeless?

Because I can't--

Because I--

I cannot admit there is anything to do

but go on.

♪ ♪

Nor will I.

I'm going to go and wash the soot out of these.

♪ ♪

I found this.

Thought you might like it back.

'Tis Willie. Lord John's lad, no?

Aye.

I recognize his face

from when he was here at the Ridge.

Glad to have it back. Thank ye.

It's a shame they never returned.

Aye.

But I did see him again.

In Wilmington.

Just before we saw your cousins away.

He's grown.

A soldier.

Goes by William now.

You must be proud.

[pensive music plays]

♪ ♪

How did you ken?

When he was here, I saw you lookin' at him

the same way you were lookin' at that portrait.

That and from what I remember, he was a stubborn lad.

Wasna afraid to speak his mind, either.

Reminded me of my mother.

And you.

He's a Fraser sure enough.

Does he ken?

He can never know he's my son.

[Young Ian] Dinna fash, Uncle.

Ye need Fraser blood to see it in him.

I will never speak of it to a soul.

♪ ♪

[horse neighs]

[Lizzie] We've brought you some parsnip soup, mistress.

The fisherfolk have sent blankets for ye.

And....I-I thought you might be needin'

a spare blouse and a shawl maybe?

Lizzie...

Please. 'Tis the least I can do.

And if you'd like to change now,

I can help you to wash the soot from the one you're wearin'.

Thank you.

Is there anything we can help you with, mistress?

Me and Kezzie could carry what you've salvaged

up to Roger and Brianna's old cabin.

That would be nice.

[horse neighs]

Is there something else?

Adso.

We looked everywhere for your wee cheetie...

in the woods, near the river,

but we havena found him.

I'm sure he'll turn up somewhere.

Of course he will.

[mournful music plays]

♪ ♪

I guess you'll be wantin' to explain this, Mr. Bug.

I dinna owe ye an explanation about anything.

[Jamie] There's a mark of the fleur-de-lis.

'Twas meant for Charles Stuart was it no'?

[Arch] Aye, 'twas.

And do you ken how it came to be

in your wife's possession?

[thunder rumbles]

Thieves burnt down my house.

I willna have any more on the Ridge.

I'm no thief.

Neither is my wife.

It's your own blood that's done the taking.

Jocasta Cameron

and that bastard of a husband of hers, Hector,

they're the thieves you speak of.

How so?

There were three of us

when the gold came ashore from France.

Dougal MacKenzie took one-third and Hector Cameron another.

I was the third man, tacksman to Malcolm Grant,

who sent me.

[tense music plays]

[Jamie] The French gold...

the lost Jacobite gold...

it's here in America?

Aye. It is.

But it came too late to make a difference to the cause.

So Grant used it for the good of the clan.

I dinna know what Dougal did with his,

but Hector Cameron, he fled. He was a traitor.

And his wife wi' him.

I only had to set eyes on River Run

to see where the gold had been spent.

But not all of it.

What I'm wondering...

is how the devil you found what was left of it

and got it away?

Each time I went to River Run,

I searched every cupboard, every closet.

Then it came to me.

Hector Cameron was no' a man to part wi' anything

only for reason of bein' dead.

'Twas in his crypt with him.

So whenever I went to River Run,

piece by piece, I took back

what the coward stole from Scotland.

A man who takes from a thief is made a thief himself.

[Arch] I only wished to take it back

from the Camerons.

I am a man of my word,

Seaumais mac Brian.

I swore an oath to my chief.

And I kept it till he died.

I swore an oath to the king across the water.

And I kept that too.

I swore loyalty to George of England

when I came upon this shore.

So tell me now, where does my duty lie?

You swore an oath to me too.

I am thinking now

that the oath that matters most

is the one I made to my wife.

Where is the rest of it?

Somewhere you'll never find it.

You are free of your oath to me.

Take your life from my hand. Take this.

Take your wife and go. Do not return.

♪ ♪

It's all been for nothing, Murdina.

He's sending us away.

What?

I was chief tacksman once. A man of worth.

And in my eyes, that's what you'll always be.

There's no shame in what we've done.

I'm no' beggin' him to let us stay here.

No, sir.

We've spent years on our knees

scrubbin' their floors, washin' their clothes--

we've slaughtered their pigs.

We've served them their meals.

We've seen things

and yet we look the other way.

We've earned this, Archie.

This is our time.

[pensive music plays]

♪ ♪

[crickets chirping]

Aye, it's him.

[Young Ian] You think he hid the gold there?

He's hid it somewhere we'd never find it

right under our noses.

Let him find what he's lookin' for first.

Ye go behind him. If he runs, stop him.

[tense music plays]

♪ ♪

[shovel thuds]

Mr. Bug?

Arch Bug. Come outta there.

I would speak with you.

[gunshot]

♪ ♪

Mrs. Bug?

I need Arch.

Archie.

[gasps]

[Young Ian] No.

I th--thought she was...

The--the coat.

The hat... [gasps]

[melancholy music playing]

♪ ♪

I...didna ken.

I d--I didna ken it was you.

[box thuds]

[lid rattles]

♪ ♪

She was always kind to me.

She took care of me.

Of all of us.

And I--

And you were protecting Jamie.

Aye.

But she protected me.

She kept our secret, Auntie.

Why did I do it?

The shot only grazed Uncle Jamie.

She's lyin' in there.

And I canna take it back or undo it.

And yet...

...I keep lookin' for some way that I can.

Somethin' I can do to make it right.

♪ ♪

Are you breathing, Ian?

Aye.

I think so.

That's all you have to do for now.

After talking to Ian, I had to take my own advice--

put on a brave face, be strong,

and keep breathing.

♪ ♪

Any sign of Arch?

No. I called out for him after. There was no answer.

I looked around too.

Why would he hide the gold under our home?

Didn't he worry that we'd find it?

[Jamie] We never did.

Why did I not let her take it?

What did it matter?

[sighs]

Murdina,

wife of Archibald,

you'll be missed.

Amen.

I hate that she's going to her grave

and things weren't right between us.

♪ ♪

[Lizzie] Mrs. Bug will be the guardian now,

will she no', Mistress Fraser?

It suits her.

-[Claire] The guardian? -[Jamie] Aye.

The last person to lie in a graveyard

becomes its guardian.

Must stand and guard

until the next person dies and comes to take their place.

Only then can they rest.

What is a guardian of the graveyard guarding?

And from whom?

Vandals.

Desecraters, charmers.

Even the dead may need defending.

Who better to do that than a ghost?

I wonder who the guardian was before.

Well, if it was the last person to be buried here...

...that would be Malva Christie.

Well, Mrs. Bug is in charge now.

Malva can go home to heaven.

Mr. Bug?

[tense music plays]

I trust you wouldna turn an old man away

from his wife's funeral.

[Jamie] Of course not.

I'd have her taken to her rest

with the proper observances.

Will you sing, Mistress Fraser?

I, uh...

Yes, Arch.

♪ Ave Maria ♪

♪ Gratia plena ♪

♪ Maria gratia plena ♪

♪ Maria ♪

♪ Gratia plena ♪

♪ Ave ♪

♪ Ave Dominus ♪

♪ Dominus tecum ♪

[melancholy music plays]

♪ ♪

[Archie sobbing softly]

[Jamie] "Death, be not proud...

"...Though some have called thee mighty and dreadful,

"For thou art not so.

"Poor Death,

"one short sleep past,

"we wake eternally,

"and Death shall be no more.

Death, thou shalt die."

[crow cawing]

♪ ♪

Mr. Bug?

It was by my hand

that this woman of great worth has died.

I didna take her life by malice

or-or of a purpose.

And it is a sorrow to me.

I swear by my iron, a life for a life.

Too easy, lad.

[ominous music plays]

♪ ♪

Will you give me your hound to kill?

No.

It was my crime, not his.

Aye.

You see then?

He's naught but a flea-ridden beast.

Not a wife.

When you've something worth taking,

you'll see me again.

That I promise ye.

♪ ♪

[Claire] In the days that followed,

we tried to lay our sorrows to rest.

Arch Bug did not return,

and so we looked towards the future.

[soft heartwarming music plays]

♪ ♪

This place never ceases to amaze.

Hmm.

So, uh, I was thinking, maybe--

you see that clearing there?

[Claire] What, right over there?

[Jamie] Aye.

I was thinking maybe that will be

where the new house will stand.

If you think it's suitable.

I didn't realize you'd already thought of a spot.

[chuckles]

Started thinkin' about it last year.

Kent that if anythin' should happen,

I'd be happier having considered

what might become of us.

It's good to plan ahead, I suppose.

[sighs] This is our home no matter what.

I sincerely hope

I'm not the one that has to do it.

But should the question ever arise,

would you like to be buried here

or taken back to Scotland?

I should be lucky to be buried at all, Sassenach.

Much more likely I'll be drowned, burnt,

or left to rot on some battlefield.

Dinna fash.

If you have to dispose of my carcass,

leave it out for the crows.

[chuckles softly]

-I'll bear that in mind. -Hmm.

You haven't asked what I want done with my body.

No. And I never will.

No, I canna think of you dead, Claire.

Anything else, but not that.

When do you think we should start building?

Well, that's something

I've been meanin' to speak with you about.

Keep thinkin'...

about Lallybroch.

You want to go back to Scotland?

Aye.

Something I must do.

♪ ♪

I made a promise to my sister long ago.

I swore I'd bring Young Ian back to her.

This I mean to do.

Although the man I bring back to her

is not the lad who left.

God alone knows what they'll make of each other.

Ian and Lallybroch?

God has a most peculiar sense of humor, but...

[sighs] With the war,

if he is to go back,

it must be now.

I think that's a great idea.

That's settled then.

We'll leave in a few months' time,

once our affairs are in order.

I'll speak with Ian and write to Jenny.

There is another reason to go, a--

another promise, ye might say.

[Claire] What's that?

Made a promise to myself

I would never face my son

across the barrel of a gun.

♪ ♪

God, guide me with thy wisdom.

God, chastise me with thy justice.

God, help me with thy mercy.

God, protect me with thy strength.

And, God, please...

Let me be enough.

Amen.

♪ ♪

[Claire sighs]

Did you manage to get some sleep?

Aye. I did.

Finally.

[both grunt]

I had another dream of your time.

[Claire] Mm-hmm? Was I in it?

No. 'Twas our lassie and the bairns.

Tell me what happened.

I saw them walk up to the front door of a house.

Your Roger Mac was wi' them.

And they knocked and...

a wee brown-haired woman opened it.

[chuckles] She laughed with joy to see them

and brought them in.

They went down the hallway.

And Mandy was a wee bit older.

She was well.

Did any of them call this woman by name?

Aye.

They did.

Roger Mac called her Fiona.

[gasps, sighs]

Were they happy?

Aye.

Oh, just at the last,

just before I woke,

wee Jem was messin' about,

pickin' things up and puttin' them down as he does.

[chuckles]

[Jamie] There was a thing on-on the table.

Didna ken what it was. I'd never seen the like.

It was about this wide and just a bit longer.

Something like a box, maybe, only humped.

-Humped? -Aye.

It-it had a-a thing on top

like a-a wee club.

Only wi' a-a knob on each end.

And it was tied to the box wi' a cord

curled up on itself like a piglet's tail.

Uh, Jem reached out to pick it up...

and said, "I wanna speak to Grandda."

[Claire] It's a telephone.

Telephone.

You can talk to other people through it

across long distances.

♪ ♪

I wish we could call them.

But...

...our letters will have to do for now.

[sighs]

[forge sizzling]

♪ ♪

[Jamie] This is the last of the gold I'm gonna melt.

We'll hide the rest.

Now...

...you willna forget which bag to load from, aye?

Dinna fash, Uncle,

I promise not to use solid gold when we're huntin'.

Thinkin' what you'll say to your ma when you see her?

[sighs] Aye.

Tryin' not to think too much.

Get a queer feeling in my wame when I think of Lallybroch.

Why is that?

Brianna told me about this book she read in school

that said once ye'd left home, canna go back again.

I think maybe 'tis true.

I think you'll find your parents

much as you left them.

You may come as a greater shock to them.

I'm not that much taller, am I?

[both chuckle]

Personally, I prefer Robert Frost.

"Home is the place where when you have to go there,

they have to take you in."

No wonder you're fond of her, Uncle.

She must be a rare comfort to you.

Yeah. She keeps takin' me in.

-[grunts] -[bullets clatter]

So...

I suppose you must be home. [chuckles softly]

♪ ♪

No one on the Ridge kens of this gold's existence.

We canna let them find out.

If there's even a rumor of it,

everyone here will be in danger.

How did you find this place?

Uh, Jem and I came upon it when we were huntin' one day.

'Twas a secret between us.

We agreed to tell no one, not even his parents.

What, nor me?

A wee lad and his grandda need at least one secret.

So why do you call it the Spaniard's Cave?

On account of the current occupant.

[soft eerie music plays]

♪ ♪

Oh.

[Jamie] We found nothin' wi' him save his armor.

And this. [grunts]

♪ ♪

"Nuestra Señora de los Angeles."

-Certainly Spanish. -Aye.

Was Jem scared?

No.

I was.

We had no lantern wi' us.

I almost stepped on this fellow.

[chuckles] Thought he was alive.

The shock of it was like to stop my heart.

The wee lad had a good laugh.

Wonder how he came to be here.

Hmm. Murdered most likely.

[grunts] There's a...

another wee cave over here.

[Claire] Perfect place for hiding treasure.

[Jamie] Ah.

[Claire] You and Jem weren't worried

about being haunted by him?

No--we said the proper prayer

for the repose of his soul when I sealed the cave.

[Claire chuckles softly]

You really do know the proper prayer

for every occasion, don't you?

[Jamie chuckles]

There's always a prayer, a nighean,

even if it's only,

"A Dhia, cuidich mi."

-Oh, God, help me. -[Claire chuckles softly]

[pensive music playing]

♪ ♪

[Claire] "Dear Bree, we've decided

"to leave the Ridge and go to Scotland.

"Your father would like to keep his word to his sister

"and bring Ian home.

"He fears the forces of history

"may deprive him of a later opportunity.

"But he trusts his Ardsmuir men will take good care

"of the settlers till we return.

"We've asked the Beardsleys

"to look after the site of the new house.

"And I am teaching Lizzie how to treat ailments

"with herbs and medicines in my absence.

-[Lizzie] Yes. -Chamomile.

"Your father has insinuated that I've selfishly

"kept you all to myself,

"so I will reluctantly allow him

"the honor of closing this letter.

Until the next time, my love."

[Jamie] "My dearest daughter, it seems strange to ask you

"to pray for the safety of a voyage

"which will have been long completed

"by the time that you learn of it,

"but I ask it nonetheless.

I think God takes no account of time."

♪ ♪

"I wish to tell you of the disposition

"of some property

"that was once held in trust by the Camerons

for an Italian gentlemen."

"It is unwise to carry all of it with us...

"And therefore I've left it in a place of safety.

"Jem knows the place.

"If you should at some time have need of this property,

"tell him, 'The Spaniard guards it.'

He will know what it means."

"If you retrieve it,

"be sure to have it blessed by a priest.

There is blood upon it."

So an Italian gentlemen and the Camerons.

He must mean my Aunt Jocasta, right?

And Charles Stuart maybe.

He was born and raised in Italy.

Ended up dyin' in Rome.

If he does mean the Bonnie Prince,

then the property...

There are stories in Scotland.

My people talk about the lost Jacobite gold.

Some say it was divvied up between clans.

Others say that it was buried.

And if Hector Cameron took some

and took it to America,

I guess that would explain how they managed

to build their plantation.

And Jem knows where it's hidden?

No, that's not exactly what Da said.

Yeah, you're right.

Jamie would never burden anyone with dangerous information,

let alone his grandson.

No, Jem likely doesn't know anything about the gold,

just about this Spaniard, whoever that might be.

He's never mentioned anything like this to you?

Mm-mm. No.

We won't ask him, will we?

No.

But I--the-the letter says, "If you should have need."

Right.

There's no need.

-I am a little curious, though. -[chuckles] Aye. Me too.

This is the stuff of legend in Scotland.

But no. Our family's safe.

This Spaniard, whoever he was,

can keep his Jacobite gold.

I mean, you know it's supposed to be cursed.

Well, then he can keep the curse too.

[chuckles]

Wait, wait, wait.

I-I don't want to read them all at once.

It's like once we've read them,

Mama and Da will be really gone.

[solemn music plays]

We'll ration 'em out when we get back to Boston.

We'll read each letter

when you feel the time is right.

[Brianna] Before we leave,

there's a place I'd like you to see.

[liquid pouring]

[Jamie] Have you, uh, got a penny, a nighean?

Well, any sort of coin will do.

Uh...

Ah.

You must always give money for a new blade

so it kens you for its owner.

-[Claire] Its owner? -And it willna turn on you.

Hmm. Thank you.

The last one I gave you was lost in the fire.

You'll need one for the journey.

And you'll feel safer if you have it by you.

It's beautiful.

Dai Jones has a-a wee smithy

down near the fisherfolk village.

I had him forge and hone the blade.

Fashioned the handle myself.

Fits my hand.

Oh, one more thing.

You must always blood a blade so it kens its purpose.

[soft heartfelt music plays]

♪ ♪

Blood of my blood.

♪ ♪

[engine rumbles]

♪ ♪

[chain rattles]

[Brianna] Roger, what are you doing?

[Roger] Just havin' a wee look.

-[pigeons cooing] -[Brianna gasps]

[Roger] Oh, Jesus.

-[chuckles] -[Brianna] Are you okay?

♪ ♪

[Roger] I wish I could have seen it in its heyday.

You would have loved it.

[Kezzie] There we go.

Oh, he's doin' it.

Oh, boy.

[Lizzie] This morning he grabbed hold of my skirts

and pulled himself to standin'.

[Jamie] He's a braw wee lad.

Just like his parents.

Oh, I'm sure he'll be thrilled

to have a new playmate in the next few months.

[baby coos]

[Lizzie] I'm sorry, mistress.

First Mr. and Mrs. MacKenzie,

and now you and Mr. Fraser.

That is too many goodbyes.

We will come back, Lizzie.

I, uh, dinna ken when exactly,

but we will.

[baby coos]

Now, you all look after each other.

Especially you.

[Kezzie] Aye, mistress.

Lizzie and the bairns will want for nothin'.

-[coos] -[sighs]

[Josiah] And we'll be sure there's skins and meat enough

for anyone in the Ridge who may find themself in need.

[Jamie] Thank you, Josiah.

We best get going, Sassenach.

Young Ian's waitin' with the horses.

♪ ♪

Bye, Lizzie.

[chuckles softly]

Maybe if the bairn's a girl I'll name her Claire

to keep me from missing you too much.

♪ ♪

Looking for someone?

Yeah.

You were hoping you'd see them.

I know it's silly.

Definitely not silly

to long for the company of ghosts.

I'm really happy we're here

and that Mandy's healthy,

but I can't help missing them.

I want to see them too.

All right, well, I could stay here all day,

but we should probably relieve Fiona.

It's almost Mandy's witching hour.

[engine rumbles]

Ooh, definitely time to go.

Afternoon.

We were just, um...

Apologies. We'll be on our way.

Are you interested?

Excuse me?

Bloody wind.

Must have knocked it down.

♪ ♪

[chuckles]

[Rollo barks]

[birds chirping]

[cat mewls]

[Claire] Stop! Wait!

[Jamie] What is it, Sassenach?

[soft meowing]

-There you are. -[cat meows]

Shh, shh, shh, shh.

Adso.

[Adso meows]

[gasps]

Oh, you're all right.

[sighs, sniffles]

There's lots of birds and squirrels

here for you in the woods.

And Lizzie'll see you right with milk...

...and a warm spot by the fire.

[somber music plays]

♪ ♪

-[sniffles] -[Adso meows]

Go now.

Go home.

[meows]

♪ ♪

-[Claire weeps] -I'm sorry, Claire.

I'm not--[sighs]

Don't worry, I'm...

-It's just a cat. -[Jamie] Aye.

Aye, I know.

[Clair sobs]

[sniffles]

[grunts]

Now this will be a sign to all who pass

that they're entering Fraser's Ridge.

[heartfelt music plays]

♪ ♪

[sniffles]

We will make it back here one day, won't we?

I never thought I'd see bonny Scotland again.

'Tis where we're bound.

So...aye.

We will.

♪ ♪

Jamie...

...you will always be enough.

♪ ♪

[sniffles]

♪ ♪