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6 details you might have missed in the latest episode of 'Outlander'
Eve Crosbie
- Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "Outlander" season seven, episode two.
- Jamie's description of seeing Claire in her "proper time" evokes a moment from the show's pilot.
The episode's title is borrowed from the books. "The happiest place on Earth" is how Brianna describes Disneyland to her father before she returns to the 20th century.
In chapter 52 of "A Breath of Snow and Ashes," the sixth novel in the "Outlander" series by Diana Gabaldon, Brianna (Sophie Skelton) tries her best to describe what Disneyland is like to Jamie (Sam Heughan).
"When you're there, the real world sort of disappears; nothing bad can happen there. They call it 'The Happiest Place on Earth'—and for a little while, it really seems that way," she tells her father.
It's a scene that audiences get to see play out on screen — including Jamie's deadpan, "A giant rat?" after Brianna attempts to describe Mickey Mouse to him.
The announcement of Brianna and Roger's daughter features in the newspaper above a reference to a powerful British army officer.
After the arrival of Roger (Richard Rankin) and Brianna's daughter, Fergus Fraser (César Domboy) places an announcement about the happy news in his newspaper, the New Bern Onion.
Right below the birth announcement is another sharing the news that a ship led by an officer by the name of William Gooch has arrived in North Carolina, bearing a general assortment of valuable imported goods such as diamonds, window glass, and spices.
While Gooch isn't a character who we predict will appear in the show, he is another real-life historical figure, just like Major Donald McDonald (Robin Laing) and Governor Josiah Martin (Eugene O'Hare).
Jamie's dream about watching Claire in her "proper time" may provide answers to the mystery of how he appeared as a ghost in the pilot episode of the show.
"I've dreamt of you in your proper time," Jamie tells Claire, before describing the scene and why he believes he was witnessing Claire in the 20th century.
"You were sitting at a desk, maybe writing. There was light all around you, shining on your face, your hair. But it wasn't a candlelight nor firelight. I recall thinking to myself as I saw you, 'Huh, now that must be what electric light is like,'" he said.
What Jamie describes will remind audiences of the moment in the premiere episode when Claire's first husband Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies) stumbles across what he describes as the "ghost" of a kilt-wearing Scotsman standing in the street and watching Claire brush her hair through a second-story window.
Author Diana Gabaldon, who wrote the book series on which the Starz show is based, has confirmed that it is Jamie's ghost in the scene, but has also repeatedly stated that Jamie cannot travel forward in time, leaving fans scratching their heads over how he possibly appears in the 20th century.
So could this explain it? Is Jamie able to astrally project to other times and places? With the final book yet to be written, it's unlikely that we'll get answers this season, but it is interesting that Jamie's dreams are making their way into the television adaptation, as they could be directing us toward the answer.
The "clever man" Brianna quotes while trying to discourage her half-brother William from taking part in the war is Abraham Lincoln, who hasn't been born yet in 1776.
When Brianna (Sophie Skelton) and William (Charles Vandervaart) meet for the first time in Wilmington, Brianna is delighted to finally see her half-brother in the flesh.
However, she can't help but express disapproval over his support of the British army in a war that she knows will not end well for them and cause unnecessary bloodshed.
After William zealously says he is looking forward to engaging the enemy in combat, she tells him: "You know a clever man once said, 'The best way to defeat an enemy is to make him a friend.'"
The "clever man" Brianna is thinking of but does not name is Abraham Lincoln, the 16th present of the United States, who won't be born for another 33 years.
Brianna may have chosen to quote Lincoln as he led America through a political struggle that also divided the country — the American civil war — less than a hundred years after the Revolutionary War.
When Jamie and Claire head back to Fraser's Ridge, they are seen riding past Murtagh's burial spot.
The traditional Scottish cairn made out of a stack of stones, which is seen to the left of the shot of Jamie and Claire riding back to Fraser's Ridge after accompanying Brianna, Roger, and their grandchildren to Ocracoke, is the burial spot of Jamie's beloved godfather, Murtagh Fraser (Duncan Lacroix), who died back in season five.
It's actually the second time Murtagh is referenced in the episode.
Jamie also invokes his godfather's death when he explains to Lord John why he won't fight for the British Army.
When explaining to Lord John Grey (David Berry) his decision to side with the Sons of Liberty in the Revolutionary War, Jamie recalls how his previous allyship with the British army resulted in the death of his godfather.
"The day I carried my godfather from the battlefield at Alamance, I swore I would never fight alongside the British army again," Jamie says.
As viewers may remember, Murtagh died doing what he promised Jamie's mother he would do upon her deathbed: protect her son.
While the two of them found themselves on opposite sides of the battle of the Regulator Movement, Murtagh killed one of his own in order to save Jamie's life. Before Jamie could even take in his godfather's sacrifice, Murtagh was fatally shot by Jamie's own men.
It was a heartbreaking moment and it's not surprising that it's at the forefront of Jamie's mind while discussing the Revolutionary War, which may force him to fight against loved ones once again.
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