#Frank Randall Outlander Season 4

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Brian’s Note: The following story originally appeared in April 2015. Most recent update is December 2020.

The Gorgeous Determination of Caitríona Balfe

Caitríona Balfe is on the move. That's been true most of her adult life— especially the 10 years she was modeling for Victoria's Secret, Dolce & Gabbana, and others—but as she sits on the rooftop patio of a West Hollywood hotel in mid-March, she mentions that she's pulling up stakes from Los Angeles.

"It just feels silly to have an empty place for 10 months until I figure out what I'm doing with my life," the Irish-born actor says. "I've rented the same place for the last four years and now I have to give it up." Her apartment is being razed to put in condos, but her departure from L.A. is extra poignant considering this is the city where Balfe journeyed when she decided to put aside that successful modeling career and focus on the vocation she'd always wanted: acting.

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"I've moved so much since I was 18," she says. "I mean, l've lived so many places. New York, I lived in for almost eight years [while modeling], and that's been the longest of anywhere since I left Ireland. But L.A. is where I came and said, 'OK, this is what I wanna do with my life.' "

She refuses to think of her move as a permanent one, though. "I'll be back," she declares, "but it feels really sad. My little apartment, it's got so many memories."

Balfe's sadness is no doubt mitigated by the fact that part of her need to move is due to the precipitous rise in her fortunes. She'll soon be flying to Scotland to shoot the second season of "Outlander," which returns to Starz April 4 to conclude Season 1.

When last we saw Balfe's Claire, the resourceful British nurse who comes home after World War |I only to be inexplicably teleported into the 18th-century Highlands, she was half-naked with a knife to her breast. Don't worry: Claire will get out of that scrape, but more perils await-to say nothing of the emerging multi-era romantic triangle developing between her, the Scottish warrior Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), and her 20th-century husband, Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies), who wonders where she's gone.

Based on the much-beloved Diana Gabaldon novels and developed for television by "Battlestar Galactica" rebooter Ronald D. Moore, "Outlander" is an ostensibly lush period-piece-within-a-period-piece drama that's consistently richer and thornier than its romance-novel trappings suggest. And much of the credit goes to Balfe, who had managed small parts in films such as “Super 8” and “Now You See Me” before landing the central role in this adaptation.

In person, Balfe is far less imposing than the steely Claire, who has to weather the dangers of being a woman in sexist, violent Scotland in the 1740s. Cast late in the preproduction of “Outlander”—Moore has mentioned in interviews how hard it was to find the right Claire—she didn’t have time to consider what the role would do to her life. “I’m so bad on social media," she confesses on this warm afternoon, nestled underneath a cabana. "I had set up an account on Twitter maybe a year or so before I got this job and had, I thought, a lot of followers — 250 or something, and most of them are my friends. Within about a month or two, it was thousands of people — and my phone, I didn't know how to turn off the alerts, so it was just going all the time. That was the beginning of the awareness."

Growing up in the small Irish community of Monaghan, Balfe had considered acting from an early age. ("I was devastated that I wasn't a child actor," she says, smiling. But after traveling to Dublin to study theater, she changed course once she received an offer to model. It wasn't a secret passion of hers, but who turns down a trip to Paris? "My parents felt that I should finish college," Balfe recalls, "but l'm slightly headstrong, so l took their advice and I completely ignored it."

Over the next decade, she lived in France, Italy, Germany, and Japan, her modeling inexperience hardly a detriment. "You'd be amazed how little information or training goes into it," she says. "When I first arrived in Paris, I was told to take a bus to the office. I left my suitcase — I barely spoke any French — and someone took me across the street, helped me buy a Carte Orange. They printed out five addresses that I had to go to that day, and then they sent me off." She still remembers at 18 riding the subway alongside 16-year-old aspiring Russian models, who knew no French or English, homesick and sobbing their eyes out. "That was just the way it was," says Balfe. "You become pretty tough. When I went to Japan, it was similar: They would drive you to their castings, but the minute you got a job, it would be like, 'Here's an address, here's a map. Good luck.' They don't have signposts in English in Japan, so the map and the address are not always very helpful."

Hear Balfe recount her early misadventures in modeling and you can't help but think of Claire, who's equally thrown to the wolves once she arrives in the 18th century amid people wary of the English in general and assertive women in particular. "Honestly, l've been in so many situations in my life where you just are completely displaced," Balfe says. “You have to adapt very quickly and figure it out. I definitely think that informs Claire a lot. It helped me understand her."

Did moving to Paris at such a young age teach Balfe that she can cope in any circumstance? "I think I didn't really realize that until many years later," she replies. "I have a great knack of not thinking about things and just going for it. You learn the hard way sometimes that you're able to get through, but sometimes it's quite tough when you're in a situation where you don't know anyone and you're trying to find your way around cities. But if an opportunity presents itself and it seems like a good idea, l'm just like, 'OK, let's do it, then I'll figure it out.'”

The decision to reconnect with her acting ambitions was conducted just as boldly. Ready to quit modeling, she moved to Los Angeles because a writer she was dating lived there. He was the only person she knew, but she had read a Vanity Fair interview with Amy Adams in which she said she trained with Warner Loughlin. "I could walk to that place from my ex-boyfriend's house," she says, "so l was like, 'Well, I'm gonna go there because I can't really drive. I started from scratch. I didn't have any managers, I didn't know any agents, I hadn't acted in almost a decade." But she just kept taking classes, moving from Loughlin to the studios of Sanford Meisner and Judith Weston. "I think when I first got here, I had a nice little air of delusion: 'It's gonna work out,'" she says with a laugh. “You just don't know how."

And then came "Outlander." By email, Moore admits that he didn't know Balfe's work until her audition tape came unsolicited to his office from her agent. Once she was chosen for Claire, he made it clear how demanding the job would be. “I told her in our first meeting that this was going to be an even bigger responsibility and workload than the normal TV lead," he writes. "Because the story was being told from Claire's point of view, Cait was going to be in every scene, every day for months, which is an extraordinary amount of work, far beyond what most actors are ever asked to do."

Moore's warning didn't faze Balfe. Writes Moore, "After she met with the president of Starz... and it was clear that she was going to land the role, I walked her to the elevator and just before the doors closed on her, I said 'Your life is about to change forever,' and she gave me a grin that was both thrilled and slightly nervous. I never saw her hesitate after that."

She's never hesitated before. As Balfe prepares to say goodbye to L.A. (for now, she thinks back to her early days in the city, trying to convince casting directors that she was more than just a model. "I went on many, many, many, many auditions that were Hot Girl No. 2 — you wanna shoot yourself," she says, laughing. "But, you know, I'm very lucky that l was even getting those auditions in the beginning. And it toughens you up. At least for me, to have that fuel to prove people wrong—it definitely spurs me on and makes me wanna work harder." Then she smiles conspiratorially. "And shove it to them."

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Remember… I told her in our first meeting that this was going to be an even bigger responsibility and workload than the normal TV lead. — Ronald D Moore

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It is annoying 🤯 to insist on this question. It appears Tobias is not interested in back to the series, is better to let him go his way such insistence could even destroy good professional participation memories in Outlander seasons 1 and 2. Let's remember he doesn't live around Outlander like others. His life as an actor goes in another direction after winning an Emmy, he is doing very well and that counts for him.

But..What role would he play if both’s characters already died in the series? Why Outlander’s obsession to bring the dead back to the series? 🙄

Outlander season 7 despite dying in Season 2. Graham McTavish will reprise his role. Lotte Verbeek as Geillis Duncan, Claire hacked Geillis’ head off in Season 3, but Season 7 will feature the actress’ return to the role introduced in Season 1. Andrew Whipp as Brian Fraser, Appearing briefly in two episodes during Season 1, will return for Season 7 as Jamie’s father Brian Fraser. now a nod to Tobias Menzies to play back his roles any day of the week. Just follow the books and no more drama.

Indeed, Starz could work with Tobias, he's a very good actor, but Tobias already backed season 4 as Frank Randall, a father figure who figured prominently in Bree's dreams and memories. 1st season was so good.

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rewatching outlander and i need everyone to know i would fuck the shit out of Frank Randall no questions asked

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Dear, Whisky, I haven't read the books and I don't understand why everybody is so excited for Bree to meet Jamie. Is he a good father like Frank was? I mean he wasn't there when she needed him, Frank was. Please, don't tell Jamie beats her like he beat Claire, I can't take that 😔

Dear Nonnie,

I don’t think you need to read the books to be excited about Bree meeting Jamie for the first time. Why wouldn’t someone be thrilled for that moment? Why aren’t you excited?

Jamie was a great father to Bree – to the extend he could. First of all, he sacrificed the most important thing in his life for her – he sent Claire back. Bree is essentially the reason Claire accepted to travel through the stones and back to her own time, because if she wasn’t pregnant, she would stay and fight in the battle of Culloden. Jamie tried to die that day, because he lost them. In the books, Jamie prayed for Claire and Bree every single day. When Claire went back to him, Jamie came to know Bree through the stories Claire shared with him, and he kept Bree’s pictures on him all the time. One of the reasons they stayed in the colonies is because he wanted a chance to make Bree’s country better. To sum up, Jamie loves Bree, even though he has never met her. He would be there for Bree, if he could, so I think it’s not fair to say “he wasn’t there when she needed him.” And he is there for her when she goes back to find him and Claire.

The moment Jamie and Bree finally meet is a moment of great impact (even though, personally, I would divert from the book concerning a few details of the meeting).

As for “the strapping” Jamie has done it once, before he realized what it meant to Claire. For him, it was the way husbands disciplined their wives, and he says so. He is a man raised in the 18th century, and this was considered normal back then. As he says in ABOSAA, it is a man’s responsibility to “Draw up lines, and fight other folk who come over them.” He believed that he ought to do it, he even told her that he would never punish her if it was only himself she put in danger, and he never did it again. Jamie is a bloody man, as Claire says, but he is not that kind of man. In season 3 he even stopped Ian from taking the strap on young Ian when they returned at Lallybroch. So I don’t know why you would ever think that 20-something years later from the incident with Claire, Jamie would thrash his daughter whom he has just met.

Now, about Frank. Frank was an amazing father to Bree. She admired him, respected him, looked up to him. She wanted to become a historian because of him. Bree always remembers him with love, even though she knows that his marriage to Claire wasn’t a happy one. And Frank really, really loved Bree and always did what was best for her (he even prepared her in case she ended up in the past).

But that doesn’t take away Jamie’s love for his daughter and the prospect of a beautiful relationship between them. That’s the good thing with love! Loving someone doesn’t mean that you have to love another person less! And to have this family reunited is a beautiful moment in Drums and it’s expected that everyone will look forward to watching it on screen.

Take care! 

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The way the writers wrote Bree this season just indicates that she is, indeed, Frank Randall's daughter and the way they, shockingly, wrote Claire this season is like she's still Frank Randall's wife.

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Beautiful ending to a great episode.

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My reaction to Outlander S4 ep 7, “Down the Rabbit Hole”

When it dawns on me that I will now have to put up with a week of irate Frank Haters until the next ep

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New Outlander plushies: Frank, Roger & Ian

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S03E03 All Debts Paid • 24 September 2017 Official Script

Outlander Rewatch 2023 Countdown To Season 7

Favourite Word

So ye’ve seen the new governor, then? Is it what the neep-heids are blathering about, is he the Devil ye know? — Murtagh

Different scene… he’s off camera for neep-heids

Favourite Line

That amount of time doesn’t exist. — Claire

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Favourite Image

Frank goes to the phone to make a call. Joe, who has taken the liberty of mixing TWO MARTINIS, notices the tension and distracts Claire.

Calling Doctor Randall. — Joe (handing her a drink)

Dr. Joe’s salvation elixir. - Joe

Claire, grateful for his intervention, lets it all wash off her as she takes the cold glass.

Is this your prescription for everything? — Claire

Nothing a cold martini won’t cure. — Joe

You’re going to be a horrible doctor. — Claire

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Remember… I think perhaps the greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help. Not in having no one for whom to care. That is emptiness. But no great burden. — Jamie Fraser

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When you‘re having the worst day in history and then briefly come online only to see that fucking FRANK of all people will be part of season 4.

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Five Favorite Episodes of "OUTLANDER" Season Three (2017)

Below is a list of my favorite episodes from Season Three of "OUTLANDER", STARZ's adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's 1993 novel, "Voyager".  Developed by Ronald D. Moore, the series stars Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan:

FIVE FAVORITE EPISODES OF "OUTLANDER" SEASON THREE (2017)

1.  (3.03) “All Debts Paid” - Now a prisoner of the British, former Scottish landowner Jamie Fraser discovers that an old foe has become his warden at  Ardsmuir Prison - and now has the power to make his life a living hell.  Back in her own timeline, Claire Randall aka Fraser and her husband Frank Randall try to share a harmonious marriage, but an uninvited guest shatters their illusions.

2.  (3.11) “Uncharted” - Back in the 18th century, Claire washes up on a seemingly deserted island in the Caribbean, where survival is her only option. Navigating treacherous waters has crippled the S.S. Artemis, so Jamie devises a joyful moment for his crew in the midst of devastating setbacks.

3.  (3.01) “The Battle Joined” - Jamie's past provides his only hope of survival following the Battle of Culloden.  A pregnant Claire attempts to adjust to life in 1940s Boston with Frank.

4.  (3.04) “Of Lost Things” - While serving as groomsman at the English estate of Helwater, Jamie becomes reluctantly pulled into the intrigue of a noble family. In 1968 Scotland; Claire, her daughter Brianna Randall and historian Roger Mackenzie struggle to trace Jamie's whereabouts in history.

5.  (3.08) “First Wife” - Reunited after 20 years, Claire returns to the Fraser estate Lallybroch with Jamie, where she does not receive quite the reception she was expecting.  The choices Jamie had made during their time apart comes back to haunt them.

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An Exclusive First Look at Brianna and Roger’s Huge Outlander Wedding

(Warning: Contains mild spoilers for Outlander, episode 1, season 5)

TV loves a wedding, and after almost a year of a what-felt-like-forever Droughtlander, Starz’s hit series Outlander is back with a bang on February 16, and the entire Fraser family is celebrating Brianna and Roger’s nuptials in a big way at their newly built homestead on Fraser’s Ridge. Fear not, Outlander faithful—the first episode of season 5 delivers everything the fandom has been anticipating, complete with Jamie playing the touching role of father of the bride and Claire getting sentimental before watching her daughter walk down the aisle.

“The wedding is such a beautiful episode,” Caitriona Balfe, who plays the show’s lead Claire Randall Fraser, told Vogue on set outside of Glasgow while shooting season 5. “First of all, I think Claire goes through a very emotional process because, having left Brianna back in the 20th century, this is something she thought she’d never get to experience. She felt like she had sacrificed all of these moments to spend her time with Jamie. She loves Roger and thinks she and Brianna are a great match. Jamie [on the other hand] is still on the Roger-fence. But it’s a really special moment [for Claire] to see Brianna happy—especially after what happened to her last season—to see her and Roger reconcile and be ready to start this new life together.”

In the event you’re not one of the converted, or if you’re in need of a quick refresher, the epic Outlander saga, based on the book series by Diana Gabaldon, begins with combat nurse Claire visiting Inverness, Scotland, with her husband Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies, a.k.a. the new Prince Philip on The Crown), hoping to reignite their romance after a long separation courtesy of World War II. While in Scotland, Claire is transported back in time to 1743, where she meets James “Jamie” Fraser (Sam Heughan).

Upon first glance, this strapping Scottish man seems like nothing more than a lad with a kilt and a killer bod, but she quickly realizes he’s more than just a pretty face. Thanks to the tides of history, Claire is caught up in the Jacobite risings—the attempt by the Charles Edward Stuart (a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Charlie) to regain the British throne—and along the way falls truly, madly, deeply in love with Jamie, a match-up which, for Outlander’s many fans, constitutes the hottest couple on television.

Five seasons in, the Frasers have been to hell and back, but they’ve still got it. The list of atrocities they’ve endured runs long, and their multi-decade, Gone with the Wind-esque family saga has taken them from 18th-century Scotland to Paris to Jamaica, and now to 1770s North Carolina. It’s there where, at the end of season 4, Jamie and Claire have made a deal with the devil by accepting a land grant from redcoat leader Governor Tryon and settling Fraser’s Ridge in the back-country.

Their daughter Brianna (Sophie Skelton), has joined them, having traveled back in time from the ’60s to warn them about their untimely deaths. Her significant other, historian Roger (Richard Rankin), follows after her, and is embroiled in the the doings of pirate Stephen Bonnet, the series’ latest supervillain—who, after terrorizing the Frasers, sexually assaulted Brianna. In a Shakespearean-level mixup, Jamie believes Roger was the one who had attacked Brianna, and sells him to the Mohawk; only after a major search-and-rescue operation is everyone able to return to Fraser’s Ridge and reunite with Brianna and her new baby (whose paternity is unclear). Just as it seems like the Carolina dust has finally settled, Governor Tryon orders Jamie to squelch the fervor of a group of liberty-seeking insurgents who call themselves the Regulators, and are led by his godfather, Murtagh Fitzgibbons.

Season 4, while packed with action and soap opera–esque twists, wasn’t exactly full of the tender Jamie-and-Claire moments that had originally enchanted so many viewers. Fans wanted more intimate J&C screen time—and also for this family to finally catch a break. Shortly after the finale, Heughan and Balfe were named producers, and they, along with executive producer Maril Davis, assured the Outlander clan in various interviews that there would be more of what they were hoping for in season 5.

Episode 1 delivers on that promise. On the big day, Claire helps Brianna into a cream wedding dress embroidered with orange blossoms, a subtle nod to the bohemian-ness of the ’60s and ’70s. “We make a point of showing that this is one of Jocasta’s dresses that has been reconfigured for the wedding,” Skelton notes. “It’s a hand-me-down, which is quite sweet. We tried to get a little bit of the ’60s and ’70s vibe in there, too. It’s not your conventional wedding dress. There’s the fichu [collar], which we often wear when we have a corset on in the past. And then later for the dancing and party time, that comes off, and it feels a little bit more free.”

Costume designer Trisha Biggar (who is new this season and oversees all of the handwork and sourcing for the fashion and jewelry on set) is the woman behind the wedding dress. “It’s a cotton and silk gauze over a very fine silk taffeta. I used a variety of different photos for inspiration,” she explains. “[The bride also wears] the family pearls—they’ve come from Scotland and been passed down. Unfortunately, we don’t have a 1960s wedding [this season], but it is great to have the two periods to explore and to see characters in both times and try and give them a similar feel, albeit a very different look.”

The series’ 1700s/1960s mashup is apparent on the wedding night, when Roger serenades Brianna with Nat King Cole’s “L-O-V-E.” As for those intimate moments fans have been craving, a montage of each couple’s bedroom antics that evening ensues. “The wedding was a very anticipated moment both in the books and for us,” Rankin observes. “Obviously, Sophie and I have been playing the relationship for a while, and Brianna and Roger have gone on quite a journey through time and through a lot of trials they’ve been separated. They’ve had a lot of drama and conflict. So to see them have this day [and night] is really nice—them finally coming together properly in that union is something I think the audience will really enjoy. It’s also a platform for their relationship and a catalyst for us now because they’re very, very together.”

It’s not unusual for movies and TV shows to end with a wedding as a way to neatly tie up a season. Outlander fans know all too well, though, that in this show a wedding is often just the beginning of the drama. Season 1’s episode “The Wedding” set the stage for Jamie and Claire’s entire relationship, while simultaneously defying typical portrayals of sex on TV and kicking off all of the action. Episode 1 of season 5 flashes back to that first wedding and continues in this tradition, showing raw, real intimacy, but also serving as a jumping-off point for everything that is to come—after the marriage is consummated, there’s a gathering right there on the Ridge that essentially sets the stage for the American Revolution.

This season, we see Jamie and Claire grow even more—they’re now grandparents, in-laws, and the leaders of Fraser’s Ridge. But we also get back to basics when it comes to their connection. “Jamie and Claire’s love story is what drew us to the story [in the first place],” Heughan says, standing, fully costumed, in the center of the show’s Wilmington set. “It’s the rock of everything else that goes around them. They have this extended family now, but always at the heart of it, Jamie and Claire are deeply in love. There’s finally no more wondering, When will they be together? They’ve aged gracefully together, and they still have a great love for each other, and I don’t think that’s ever going to end.” With this unforgettable occasion, Brianna and Roger MacKenzie further the family tree, but things come full circle for Mr. and Mrs. James Malcom Alexander MacKenzie Fraser too—and isn’t that what we’ve been waiting for?

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OUTLANDER PROMPT EXCHANGE: ONE-SHOTS

Welcome to the Outlander Prompt Exchange: One-Shot Challenge, a fandom event designed to be quick, simple and something new(ish) to help get us through another month of Droughtlander. The rules are simple: be kind and patient with both yourself and others... and get creative! ♥

1 - 7 SEPTEMBER 2020: PROMPT EXCHANGE

SUBMIT A CLAIM: From the 1st of September readers and writers alike are invited to submit a prompt via the blog’s inbox. This month’s theme, one-shots, is quite broad and it only follows that prompts can be too! This means any character, relationship, scenario, location, quote, etc. are eligible so long as they are (or can be) Outlander-related. Submit a prompt now! 

CLAIM A PROMPT: Prompts are available to be claimed from the Prompt Masterlist below at any time. Simply send a message via the blog’s inbox with the prompt # and it’s yours! Note: each prompt can only be claimed once and will be allocated on a ‘first in first served’ basis. Claim a prompt now!

8 - 30 SEPTEMBER 2020: PUBLICATION

PUBLISH A ONE-SHOT: From the 8th of September through to the end of the month writers can publish their work at any time and in any space. Please remember to use #OutlanderPromptExchange where possible, tag @outlanderpromptexchange​ and/or send through a link so that we may also share your work.  

Do you still have questions? FAQ available here!

PROMPT MASTERLIST

1.  Jamie and Claire are hippies who met at Woodstock.

2.  Student Exchange - High school student Claire comes to stay with the Fraser family for 6 weeks while Jenny goes to stay with the Beauchamp family in Oxford.

3. Fake Relationship AU: Jamie Fraser wants to formally adopt his foster son Fergus but his application isn’t likely to get approved... unless he’s married and/or in a committed relationship. Enter one Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp (Randall?).  claimed by @underthewingsofthblackeagle​

4. The first time Fergus and Marsali meet

5. I’m Concerned for her brother’s welfare Jenny pushes Jamie to leave Lallybroch\Scotland after Culloden. Where does Jamie (and Fergus?) go? What do they do?

6. Imagine Claire only promised to return to the 20th century and to see their baby safe. What if Claire refused to promise to go back to Frank? What if Claire successfully argued that she couldn’t promise to return to Frank because she has no way of knowing Frank’s circumstance after 3 years or if he will even take her back. Will Claire make different choices as a result?

7. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.

8. To the victor the spoils.

9. Haste ye back claimed by @jamiemackenziefraser​

10. Cruel is the snow that sweeps Glencoe.

11. Adso to the rescue!

12. Jemmy copies his Granda.

13. Ghost 👻

14. Physician, heal thyself.

15. Tall tale.

16. Karma’s a bitch.

17. Imagine BJR does not travel to Paris. There is no duel. There is no pardon.

18. What if Simon MacKimmie had survived prison?

19. Brianna Ellen Beauchamp 

20. In A. Malcolm, Jamie was surprised to find out he had a daughter named Brianna... imagine if Claire had actually given birth to twins.

21. Upon returning to the 20th century and searching frantically for evidence that Jamie survived, what if Claire begged Mrs Graham to read her palm/tea leaves again. What does Mrs Graham see?

22. A pickpocket named Claudel. Imagine Fergus writes a book of his adventures.

23. In 1x01 Jamie’s ghost is looking up at Claire through the window. What was Jamie thinking as he stood there?

24. ‘We thought you were dead until we received your chest from castle Leoch’ -- Lallybroch, Season One. Imagine Jenny’s reaction to discovering her brother is still alive.

25. Kid Fic! Claire goes through the stones as a young child (or teenager).

26. More of Jamie POV pre, during and/or post wedding.

27. Coffee, tea or me?

28. Courage under fire.

29. Whilst in Paris Claire tells Jamie, Fergus and Murtagh the story of The Three Musketeers.

30. Murtagh hates the thought of Jocasta marrying anyone but him. A sudden proposal leads to Jamie and Claire witnessing a secret and romantic handfasting. 💕

31. Imagine an AU where Frank only tolerates Brianna. He’s not cruel just indifferent and emotionally unavailable. Will Claire stay? Go? Overcompensate?

32. Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening....

33. Penance

34. Sixth sense: Brianna has ‘the sight’ and knows much more than Claire and Frank realise. What if Brianna is asked to give Claire a message? What is the message and who sends it?

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Saorsa, Chapter 6

A/N  @holdhertightandsayhername said my Blackjack Randall is creepy, and I take that as the highest compliment.   A short chapter today, so I’ll post more of Jamie’s story tomorrow to make up for it.

Meanwhile, back at Lallybroch...

For those just joining the broadcast already in session, here are Chapter 1 , Chapter 2 , Chapter 3  Chapter 4, and Chapter 5.   Or you can head over to my AO3 page and binge read the whole thing.  I won’t complain!

Thanks as always to my Outlander fanfic publicist, @gotham-ruaidh.  And to all of you liking, reblogging and commenting!

The radio murmured peacefully in the background as Claire sat in front of the enormous open fireplace, large enough to roast a stag inside.  A merry fire popped and hissed, chasing away the damp of the afternoon’s storm.

There were things she should be doing.  Mending the frayed tablecloth or composing a list for Saturday’s market in the village.  Trying once again to make sense of the medieval ledger book or disinfecting her medical supplies, which she’d used earlier to remove a particularly vicious splinter from under the thumbnail of Cook’s oldest son.  Instead she stared into the flames, allowing their undulating dance to mesmerize her into thoughtlessness.

Mrs. Fitz bustled into the room, interrupting her rare moment of peace.

“Cook is wondering wha’ she ought tae serve t’morra for yer lunch wi’ the Duke o’ Sandringham, milady” she launched in without preamble.

“Is that tomorrow?  I’d completely forgotten.”

“Aye, and as ‘tis a Friday, she has her mind on a baked perch, perhaps wi’ some morels and wild garlic?”

“Yes, of course.  Whatever Cook thinks is best,” Claire responded, distracted by the re-occurrence of a persistent headache.

“Weel, we’d be needin’ tae send one o’ the stable lads tae the lochan in the morn’, if ‘tis alright wi’ ye, milady.”

“Perfectly alright.   And please, Mrs. Fitz, call me Claire.  Or at least Mrs. Randall.  You know I don’t have much time for this “my lady” nonsense,” she explained for what must be the hundredth time.

“As ye say, milady,” the housekeeper replied, as always.  She curtsied and left Claire to her solitude once again.

Her mind wandered to the Duke’s seasonal visit.  Through feudal intricacies that Frank had never fully explained, the Duke held some form of administrative guardianship over Lallybroch, though the estate belonged to the Randall family.  Twice every year the Duke visited his Scottish fiefdom, performed a cursory inspection of the property and received a customary fee of one hundred pounds for his trouble.  Having entertained him in the spring, Claire saw these visits as a mere pretext by the Duke to eat a series of fine meals and to amass local gossip.  As the senior civilian representative of the Home Guard for all of Scotland and Northern England, there was hardly anyone in the county with whom the Duke was not acquainted.   If nothing else, he was a good man to know and, she suspected, a poor one to cross.

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Season 4 Ep 7

I thought Brianna’ time travel outfit is bad. Roger! He looks like an 18th Century Milhouse. Corduroy coulouttes??? Stupid little neckerchief. Nothing is tailored. What a Charlie Brown-looking asshole.

Brianna should have packed more pb&j. She is in for a long walk.

Brianna gets to Laoghaire’s house after contracting a near fatal case of ouchy ankle.

Her plan was to hitch hike to the port?? Girl, please think.

Laoghaire replaces Brianna’s sad clothes with her own daughter’s dress, like she doesn’t have another growing daughter at home. People are so free with their garments, just giving them away all the time to these Randall ladies.

Flashback to Brianna in her dad’s office. Frank is absolutely blasted in the nicest university office I have ever seen. He is feeling sorry for himself and thinking he might just find a new life at the bottom of this whiskey glass. Just this actress (Brianna) trying to go toe to toe with Tobias Menzies....Everyone on set must have been embarrassed to watch this. I am embarrassed watching this. Outlander has such uneven casting sometimes. The girl is completely out of her depth.

Back to Brianna’s residence at chez Laoghaire. Some nice little banter about how much each other’s company is enjoyed. Many smiles from the usually sour Loaghaire plus tender moments in the garden. Brianna completely wins over Laoghaire’s young daughter. Is this the start of a Brianna and Laoghaire lesbian escapade?

Roger tries to get hired on a ship going to America. Roger gets told! “You’re hands are better suited to writing letters than sailing.” He winces. It’s true.

-But wait Captain, Look at me I can carry a small barrel.

-Alright get aboard my ship then.

That is a hard no on the Brianna/ Laoghaire lesbian escapade. Laoghaire swallows a toad when she learns she has taken in Claire’s daughter. So she goes for, at first, subtly nuclear emotional warfare i.e. your father doesn’t want you. She starts to gain some traction there, but then goes full crazy mode. Right back to witchcraft.

I wonder if other highlanders also find Laoghaire to be insane or if they think of her as a fairly normal, if excitable lady about town.

Anyways, Laoghaire locks Brianna in the bedroom and threatens some sort of retribution for being a witch. Loaghaire skitters off, presumably to summon whoever is in charge of witch prosecution these days. They kindly inform her offscreen that it is the 1770s madam and we don’t hold witch trials anymore and even if we were doing that, we don’t execute people for merely being daughters of witches.

Joanie comes to the rescue though, unlocking the door and producing a fully hitched horse and cart. Very impressive for an 11 year old!

Roger must touch every child on this boat. This is meant to make us like him again. These pathetic attempts to redeem him do not move me. Look, he’s not afraid to touch a baby. Whoop de do!

Joanie is so nice! She brings Brianna to Lollybroch. Ian, I have brought you a niece! Ian Sr. is so easily convinced. Oh, sure, Jamie’s daughter whom Jamie has never told us about. Here is all our money! And another chest of Claire’s clothes! We’ve got like a dozen of theses in the attic. Claire bought so many dresses in Paris! I have not a single question about this. It’s probably a good thing Jennie wasn’t there. She would have asked A LOT of questions. The first of which would be, why did neither of your parents ever mention your existence to their closest living relatives?

Uncle Ian is far too kind. “You have Jamie’s fire!” Uttered like that’s the lab result from the paternity test. I’ve pissed on fires stronger than whatever is in this girl.

Uncle Ian transports Brianna to the port for a transatlantic voyage. Also why not have your uncle broker your passage for you when he offers? That is an easy yes. Please handle unfamiliar bureaucracy. Also I can’t recognize different denominations of money in this timeline.

Brianna in matter of 20 seconds buys transatlantic passage for an indentured servant whose dad is very concerned about her current gig and its potential for moral calamity. Oh shit. Is Brianna’s servant girl going to become young Ian’s made to order girlfriend ?