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* FriendlyRival: John and Jamie continue their tradition of playing several games of chess.

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* MissingChild: Jamie is terrified when he wakes to find Willie missing. Then he realize Willie has ignored his warning and crossed into Cherokee territory. When the Cherokee appear demanding recompense for the trespass, the normally stoic Jamie is visibly shaking with fear as he tries to protect the boy.



* MissingChild: Jamie is terrified when he wakes to find Willie missing. Then he realize Willie has ignored his warning and crossed into Cherokee territory. When the Cherokee appear demanding recompense for the trespass, the normally stoic Jamie is visibly shaking with fear as he tries to protect the boy.

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* AdultFear: Jamie is terrified when he wakes to find Willie missing. The terror increases when he realizes Willie has ignored his warning and crossed into Cherokee territory. When the Cherokee appear demanding recompense for the trespass, the normally stoic Jamie is visibly shaking with fear as he tries to protect the boy.


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* MissingChild: Jamie is terrified when he wakes to find Willie missing. Then he realize Willie has ignored his warning and crossed into Cherokee territory. When the Cherokee appear demanding recompense for the trespass, the normally stoic Jamie is visibly shaking with fear as he tries to protect the boy.
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* CommonalityConnection: After days of butting heads over their respective relationships with Jamie, John and Claire find common ground in having been in a relationship with someone they loved but could never truly make happy because they weren't that person's soulmate. John is referring to both Jamie and Isobel, while Claire is thinking of Frank.

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* CommonalityConnection: After days of butting heads over their respective relationships with Jamie, John and Claire find common ground in having been in a relationship with someone they loved but could never truly make happy because they weren't that person's soulmate. John is referring to both Jamie and Isobel, while Claire is thinking of Frank.



* IncompatibleOrientation: Claire and Lord John discuss John's feelings towards Jamie and Isobel. Lord John bemoans the unending frustration of being unable to be with someone he truly loves simply because he was born the wrong person for them. Even before Claire returned, Jamie and John could never be more than friends because Jamie identifies as heterosexual. On the other hand, he was able to marry Isobel and even have sex with her, but didn't see her as his true love because he prefers men.

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* IncompatibleOrientation: Claire and Lord John discuss John's feelings towards Jamie and Isobel. Lord John bemoans the unending frustration of being unable to be with someone he truly loves simply because he was born the wrong person for them. Even before Claire returned, Jamie and John could never be more than friends because Jamie identifies as heterosexual. On the other hand, he was able to marry Isobel and even have sex with her, but didn't see her as his true love find the relationship fully satisfying because he prefers men.
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* AsYouKnow: Claire helpfully reminds Jamie and the audience that she, Jamie, and Murtagh are all immune to the measles as the measles struck Lallybroch when Jamie was a child and Claire is immunized against it. That makes it safe for her to stay with John and Jamie to go with Willie who may have been exposed. Additionally, it answers the question as to whether Murtagh is [[TyphoidMary unknowingly spreading measles around town.]]

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* AsYouKnow: Claire helpfully reminds Jamie and the audience that she, Jamie, and Murtagh are all immune to the measles as the measles struck Lallybroch when Jamie was a child and Claire is immunized against it.measles. That makes it safe for her to stay with John and Jamie to go with Willie who may have been exposed. Additionally, it answers the question as to whether Murtagh is [[TyphoidMary unknowingly spreading measles around town.]]
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* FriendshipMoment: As he is preparing to leave, Claire tells John not to lose hope because he deserves to find someone who can make him as happy as Jamie makes her.
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* MeaningfulLook: As William and Lord John leave Fraser's Ridge, William looks back at Jamie.

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* MeaningfulLook: As they're riding back towards the cabin, William asks why Jamie didn't look back at him when he was leaving Hellwater. Jamie says he didn't want to give the boy false hope, since he didn't believe he'd ever see William again. When William and Lord John leave Fraser's Ridge, William looks back at Jamie.Jamie, indicating that he believes they will meet again some day.
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* CommonalityConnections: After days of butting heads over their respective relationships with Jamie, John and Claire find common ground in having been in a relationship with someone they loved but could never truly make happy because they weren't that person's soulmate. John is referring to both Jamie and Isobel, while Claire is thinking of Frank.

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* CommonalityConnections: CommonalityConnection: After days of butting heads over their respective relationships with Jamie, John and Claire find common ground in having been in a relationship with someone they loved but could never truly make happy because they weren't that person's soulmate. John is referring to both Jamie and Isobel, while Claire is thinking of Frank.
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* AdultFear: Jamie is terrified when he wakes to find Willie missing. The terror increases when he realizes Willie has ignored his warning and crossed into Cherokee territory. When the Cherokee appear demanding recompense for the trespass, the normally stoic Jamie is visibly shaking with fear as he tries to protect the boy.


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** Claire asks why John continues to torture himself by visiting Jamie, knowing that he can never have him.
-->'''John:''' Oh, I could have had him.
-->'''Claire:''' (visibly startled) What?
-->'''John:''' In exchange for my commitment to serve as William's father, Jamie offered himself to me. Of course, I refused. I would never take him on those terms.
-->'''Claire:''' You should stop talking.


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* CommonalityConnections: After days of butting heads over their respective relationships with Jamie, John and Claire find common ground in having been in a relationship with someone they loved but could never truly make happy because they weren't that person's soulmate. John is referring to both Jamie and Isobel, while Claire is thinking of Frank.


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* SecurityCling: After surviving their encounter with the Cherokee's, William hugs Jamie and doesn't seem incline to let go.
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* SicknessEqualsRedness: The normally porcelain-skinned Lord John is a splotchy red all over. Justified in that the most prevalent symptoms of the measles is a rash and fever.
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* MiseryTrigger: Although he'd been having a good time most of the day, William begins crying when Jamie talks of his own father. He insists he wants to return to Lord John immediately. When told that's not possible because it's too dangerous to cross the ridge at night, he has a meltdown, blaming Jamie, pointing out that John wouldn't be sick if he hadn't come to visit Jamie.

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* CitySlicker: William is very obviously not used to being in the back country. He hates the bugs and is appalled that the Frasers have an outhouse rather than chamber pots that a servant empties (much the way a modern day viewer might react to an outhouse instead of indoor plumbing).

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* CitySlicker: William is very obviously not used to being in the back country. He hates the bugs and is appalled that the Frasers have an outhouse rather than chamber pots that a servant empties (much the way a modern day viewer might react to an outhouse instead of indoor plumbing). Additionally, he's visibly ill when Jamie expects him to dress his own kill, accustomed to having a servant do the dirty work.


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* ReversePsychology: When William balks at having to dress his own kill, Jamie comments that it's understandable that William doesn't want to do something so gory given his young age. This makes William determined to do it himself to prove he's man enough.

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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Obviously still angry about being imprisoned and then sold into indentured servitude, Murtagh snipes when Lord John asks him not to tell William where he, Jamie, and Murtagh met. Jamie reminds Murtagh that Lord John is his friend and John's kindness saved Murtagh's life in Ardsmuir. Chastened, Murtagh agrees to John's request.

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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Obviously ArmorPiercingQuestion: After they've engaged in a bit of oneupmanship about who has done more for Jamie, Claire questions why John is even in North Carolina.
-->'''Claire:''' Let me ask you, what if your son takes a good look at Jamie's face and see his own? If he did learn that he'd been lied to his entire life, he'd be devastated. So, I can't understand for the life of me your motivation for coming here.
-->'''Lord John:''' The obvious. To allow Jamie to see the boy.
-->'''Claire:''' Or the other obvious? To allow ''you'' to see ''Jamie?''
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still angry about being imprisoned and then sold into indentured servitude, Murtagh snipes when Lord John asks him not to tell William where he, Jamie, and Murtagh met. Jamie reminds Murtagh that Lord John is his friend and John's kindness saved Murtagh's life in Ardsmuir. Chastened, Murtagh agrees to John's request.request.
**When Lord John asks if she's jealous that he's raising Jamie's son, Claire tells him about the daughter she and Jamie share. Surprised, John apologizes saying he meant no offense. But Claire points out that he ''did'' mean to imply that he and Jamie share something that she and Jamie never will.



* InternalReveal: Murtagh learns that Jamie and Lord John are friends and that the child Lord John is raising is Jamie's biological son.

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* InternalReveal: Murtagh InternalReveal:
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learns that Jamie and Lord John are friends and that the child Lord John is raising is Jamie's biological son.son.
**Lord John learns that Jamie and Claire have a daughter together. Since Brianna lives in the 20th century, Jamie has never mentioned her to John.
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* RunningGag: John assures Claire that he was an adequate husband to Isobel ''in all ways'', much like he had to previously assure Jamie, and as he will have to assure [[spoiler: Brianna when she questions his ability to sleep with women.]]
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* FriendlyAddressPrivileges: Claire gives John permission to call her by her first name rather than "Mistress Fraser."

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