![]() ![]() The Christies roll up to the big house and demand to speak to Jamie. As they are packing up to go to the meeting to select delegates to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, the real shock of war on the Ridge begins. These measures mean the war is drawing closer. In the meantime, Jamie and Roger are attending the meetings about boycotting British trade. Once the outbreak ends, there’s a time pass to the following spring. Jamie discovers a dead elk upstream from the MacNeils contaminated the water causing the dysentery outbreak. Claire asks him for a stool sample to confirm what illness he had. Tom Christie was also sick but he had the same symptoms as her which were unrelated to dysentery. Unfortunately, time is the only thing that cures the fever. Bug cut Claire’s hair in an attempt to stop the fever. To add to Claire’s confusion, Malva and Mrs. This confuses her as she tells Jamie later on when she was ill in Paris she saw a blue heron in her dreams as a sign of healing. One night in a dream/vision, Claire sees her own heart, the body of a snake, and Jamie sitting next to the window with Malva touching his back. Roger, Bree, Lizzie, and Jamie take turns monitoring her illness. Before Claire fainted, Malva was doing her usual apprentice work and insisted on staying after Alan called her home. Claire faints which means she’s too ill to treat anyone else sick from dysentery.Ĭlaire spends over a week in bed in and out of consciousness due to headaches, chills, and a fever. Bree notices that they haven’t seen the Sin-Eater in weeks, if not months, which isn’t like him as there are several funerals. Claire is running on little sleep and food leaving herself vulnerable to illness. Watching this episode during the Covid-19 pandemic certainly gives this plotline an extra punch that reading A Breath Of Snow And Ashes didn’t deliver before now. Several more residents died of the infection. ![]() The Ridge residents call it “the flux” and are encouraged to boil water until they can figure out the source of the contamination. Under the microscope, Claire discovers the amoeba that causes dysentery. Claire curses her inability to save them but forgets her medical assistants are 18th Century folks who are convinced something’s wrong with her. MacNeil and one of the children dies of dehydration. Claire, Brianna, Lizzie, and Malva go to their cabin for what we call today a wellness check and it turns out the entire family is severely ill. Roger finishes another Sunday sermon at the meetinghouse but realizes the MacNeil family is missing. The dysentery outbreak in the first half is seamlessly linked to the shocking cliff-hanger ending through Claire’s hallucinations, but sorry history nerds: the Hamiltonsong lyric episode title is more about the shocking cliff-hanger than the war! Strong performances from the entire cast supported a script that streamlined many book chapters into an hour and 10 minutes. This week’s Outlander feels like two episodes in one. ![]()
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