Recap of Outlander
Season 1, Episode 12:
Lallybroch
Jamie takes Claire to his ancestral home, but unresolved family tensions cast a cloud over their arrival. Once at Lallybroch, Claire is not sure she likes the way being Laird of Lallybroch changes Jamie's behavior.
Tropes
- Apron Matron: Jenny Murray is a force of nature, headstrong and charismatic like her brother. As the older sibling, she would be head of the household if not for the fact she is a woman. Still, she ran the estate for four years in Jamies' absence and does not let his biological birthright keep her from voicing her opinions when she thinks he's not taking the right tack.
- Big Little Brother: Jamie towers over his older sister, Jenny.
- Big Sister Bully: Jenny initially comes off this way until you realize that her reactions to Jamie are really Anger Born of Worry.
- Blaming the Victim: Jenny admits that she initially blamed Jamie for their father's death, believing that Jamie must have done something to make Randall mad enough to beat him so viciously.
- Fan Disservice: While Captain Randall is a decent looking man who displays a rare occasion of Male Frontal Nudity, it is to horrifying effect as he is both attempting to rape Jenny Fraser and failing to rise to the occasion despite his best efforts and worst intentions.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Brian Fraser's grave:Brian Dubh, Brian Robert David Fraser Born in inverness shire Scotland, 1691, and died in the 49th year of his age at Fort William, 1740.
- Gone Horribly Right: Normally, the Redcoats are in full rape, pillage, and burn mode. The first time a Redcoat comes through and only tries to be polite and helpful by repairing the water mill, his unwanted assistance nearly gets Jamie killed as Jamie is forced to hold his breath and hide underwater until the men go away.
- Grave-Marking Scene: Jamie finally goes to visit his father's grave, after Claire helps him get his head back on straight.
- Groin Attack: When Jamie won't let her get a word in edgewise, Jenny threatens to grab him by the balls to force him to shut up and be still as she used to do when they were children.
- In the books, she actually follows through on her threat, grabbing him and refusing to let go until he agrees to listen to her.
- Hand-or-Object Underwear: Since the Redcoats unintentionally took off with Jamie's shift, he has no covering but his hands when he emerges from where he'd been hiding underwater. Jenny reads him the riot act while he awkwardly covers himself with his hands.
- It's All About Me: Jamie falls into a short stint of this until Claire literally yanks him out of bed and gives him a minor "The Reason You Suck" Speech pointing out the damage he's doing by throwing his weight around as Laird.
- It's All My Fault: Jamie and Jenny both hold themselves responsible for their father's death. Jamie believes he should have submitted to Randall's demand, which would've kept his father from seeing him whipped so viciously. Jenny believes that if she hadn't laughed at Randall's failure to perform, Jamie wouldn't have been imprisoned and beaten and their father wouldn't have been in the distress that caused his heart failure.
- It's Personal: Jamie explains that Randall is obsessed with him because he's never been able to break Jamie's will and he takes that as a personal challenge.
- The Loins Sleep Tonight: Captain Randall intends to rape Jenny but can't get himself aroused, made only worse when she begins laughing at his troubles.
- Mr. Fanservice: Jamie Fraser emerging from the stream, soaking wet and as bare as the day he was born.
- "Near and Dear" Baby Naming: Jenny has named her first born son after Jamie
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jamie is excited to be back home, but his eagerness to dive back in and assert his authority as Laird is actually disrupting the delicate balance of the community, causing more problems than he's solving.
- "No Peeking!" Request: Jamie is stuck in the pond when a British patrol stops by as he is repairing the water wheel. When they finally leave, Jenny and Claire rush over, worried he'd drowned, only for Jamie to be more embarrassed by being naked in front of Jenny and his sister (especially because the water is very cold) and he clutches his privates while imploring them to turn around so he can climb out of the water.
- One Thing Led to Another: Invoked by Ian when he's trying to explain how he ended up married to Jenny. She approached him in a field saying they were going to marry. He claims that as he was trying to explain why they shouldn't he found himself in front of a priest swearing his matrimonial vows.
- Posthumous Character: Jamie's father died while Jamie was imprisoned in Fort Williams.
- Sadistic Choice: Randall forces Jamie to choose between receiving 100 lashes mere days after already nearly being whipped to death or submitting to having sex with Randall. The former sounds unbearable, but given that Jamie is both a virgin and heterosexual, the latter sounds equally terrible. Still, he considers it, reasoning that the sexual assault likely won't last long, but eventually chooses to be flogged because he knows Randall only wants to have sex with him so that he can feel he's dominated Jamie, body and soul.
- Slippery Swimsuit: Jamie's shift gets ripped off by the watermill, leaving him without any covering.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: Jamie's father, Brian, is distraught over how his son is being tortured, but seems okay physically. However, when Jamie passes out from the pain of being viciously flogged, Brian wrongly assumes that his son has been beaten to death. The overwhelming, sudden grief triggers a fatal heart attack.
- Wrong Assumption: Jamie heard rumors that Jenny became pregnant as a result of being assaulted by Captain Randall. When he sees a young boy about the right age and Jenny obviously pregnant again, he begins ranting about her shaming the family by being so loose, only to discover that Jenny has since married and her children both belong to her husband.
