Outlander Season Six Premiere: Your Burning Questions, Answered
07.03.2022 - 06:43
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Outlander season 6 is here! —based on the sixth book of the series, A Breath of Snow and Ashes—premiered with an 80 minute super-sized episode in which the Christie family moved to Fraser's Ridge, Lionel Brown's brother, Richard, made a very imposing appearance, and the American Revolutionary War loomed in the not-too-distant future. Most important, we reunited with Claire and Jamie and Brianna and Roger.
Friends, it had been too long. The episode starts by going back even further in time, to 1753 at Ardsmuir Prison where Jamie is sporting his chin-length reddish hair and keeping the hope alive for a possible reunion with Claire. There, we meet Tom Christie, who clearly has an obsession with Jamie and not the good kind.
He's not the worst villain by any means, but there's animosity between the two men. Later, when a fellow prisoner is killed and an old man places a tartan cloth over his body, Jamie takes ownership of the act so as not to get the old man in trouble. The result, tragically, is that Jamie is subject to another whipping on his already deeply scarred body.
While Tom Christie actually seems to feel some sort of emotion for Jamie's pain, Jamie is only focused on an angel-like image of Claire that he's conjured up in his mind as a coping mechanism. In the days that follow, Jamie gathers his fellow prisoners and says it doesn't matter if they are Catholics or Protestants, as all of them are Scots, and from now on they will be free masons. Talk of politics or religion is forbidden, he says, before adding, “Who will join me?” As various men walk up to join Jamie's cause, the governor summons him for lunch; he leaves, but not before taking one last look at Tom Christie. It is then that we flash forward to North
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