
At Ardsmuir prison, he befriends the governor, Lord John Grey, who later paroles him to work at an English estate. Jamie kills Randall at Culloden and is gravely injured, but spared execution. Claire discovers that Jamie did not die at Culloden and vows to return to him. Claire takes her 20-year-old daughter Brianna to Scotland. Twenty years later, Frank has died in a car accident. He asks her to forget Jamie, and let him raise her child as his own. Back in her own century, Claire tells Frank about her time travel. Jamie decides to die fighting at Culloden with his clan. Jamie and Claire also adopt a young french boy named Claudel, who Jamie re-names Fergus.īefore the Battle of Culloden, Jamie convinces Claire, pregnant again, to return to the 20th century. The Jacobites win the Battle of Prestonpans. Claire and Jamie's daughter Faith, is stillborn and she and her 18th century husband return to Scotland. She achieves this by convincing Randall to marry Mary Hawkins. Randall reappears in Paris, but Claire makes Jamie swear to keep him alive until Frank's descent is assured. Jamie becomes the confidant of Charles Stuart, but the Frasers fail to prevent the risings.

In 18th century Paris, Claire and Jamie try to thwart the Jacobites by subverting the funds that King Louis XV of France is likely to provide. Claire tells Jamie that she is pregnant and they set sail for the Kingdom of France. Her husband Jamie is captured, tortured, and raped by the sadistic Randall, but Claire and his clansmen rescue him. Knowing that the Jacobite cause is doomed to fail, she tries to warn them against rebellion. Clan MacKenzie suspect her of being a spy, but retain her as a healer, which prevents her from attempting to return to her own time. Out of necessity Claire marries a Highlander, Jamie Fraser, but they quickly fall in love. Randall turns out to be Frank's ancestor. She falls in with a group of rebel Highlanders from Clan MacKenzie (a fictionalization of the real Clan MacKenzie), who are being pursued by British redcoats led by Captain Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall. In 1945, Claire Randall, who had formerly served as a nurse in the British Army during the Second World War, and her husband Frank are visiting Inverness, Scotland, when she is carried back in time to 1743 by the standing stones at Craigh na Dun (a fictitious place see Clava cairn). Main article: List of Outlander episodes Season The sixth season is scheduled to premiere on March 6, 2022.
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The series has been renewed for an 8-episode sixth season and a 16-episode seventh season to be based on A Breath of Snow and Ashes and An Echo in the Bone, respectively. The fifth season of 12 episodes, based on The Fiery Cross, aired from February to May 2020. The 13-episode fourth season, based on Drums of Autumn, aired from November 2018 to January 2019. The 13-episode third season, based on Voyager, aired from September to December 2017. The second season of 13 episodes, based on Dragonfly in Amber, aired from April to July 2016. The 16-episode first season of the television series (released as two half-seasons) is based on the first novel in the series, Outlander (known as Cross Stitch in the United Kingdom).

There she encounters, and falls in love with, the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser ( Sam Heughan), a member of Gabaldon's fictionalized version of Clan Fraser of Lovat, and becomes embroiled in the Jacobite rising.


It stars Caitríona Balfe as Claire Randall, a married former Second World War military nurse in Scotland who, in 1945, finds herself transported back in time to 1743. Moore, the show premiered on August 9, 2014, on Starz. Outlander is a historical drama television series based on the ongoing novel series of the same name by Diana Gabaldon.
