Series like Dark made it clear: even a tiny different detail in the past can cause great swings in the future. One of the most important is that changing the past involves high risks. Stories about time travel can be very different, but they share some rules. So, as she changed her life, she starts thinking that maybe she can also change what has been. As she knows perfectly well, the Highlander’s culture won’t survive. As time goes by, Claire knows the most violent phase of the Jacobite rebellion is approaching. In Outlander, years pass simultaneously in different ages: one year in the 1900s is the same as one year in the 1700s. Her choice has an impact on the present time, though: Frank keeps looking for her and doesn’t surrender. Despite the obliged marriage, her sense of guilt, and all the difficulties, she can’t imagine her life without Jamie. You can change your life, but you can’t change what has beenĬlaire can come back to her age, her epoch, to Frank, but she refuses. What she can’t guess, however, is the deep feelings that will grow between her and Jamie, and how deeply it will affect what she has always believed in. So she is aware of the defeat Highlanders will meet on Culloden battlefield in just a few years. She feels guilty about Frank but knows she has no choice. To stay safe, Claire has to marry Jamie Fraser ( Sam Heughan), a young rebel wanted by the English army. So they decide to keep her as a healer.Īncient Scotland isn’t a place for a lone woman, though. As the group arrives at the Jacobite refuge, Claire catches their attention thanks to her medical talents. Moreover, she discovers that Jonathan Randal, besides being sadistic and deeply evil, is also an ancestor of Frank. Even though it seems absurd, Claire understands she slipped into 1743, right in the middle of the Jacobite Rebellion. So, they decide to take her with them to interrogate her. Since the government troops and their terrible captain Jonathan Randal ( Tobias Menzies) are pursuing them, the Highlanders suspect Claire of being a spy, as she’s English. Still by the stones at Craigh-na-Dun, Claire meets some men from the Clan MacKenzie, led by Dougal MacKenzie ( Graham McTavish).
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