When Outlander Season 6 comes back from its Easter/Spring Break break, fans will get some answers about Malva’s tragic death. Even though Claire was very low on our list of possible suspects for Malva’s murder, the people who live in the Ridge are sure she did it because she had the motive, the means, and the chance. As long as nasty rumors and speculation are spread about Claire and Jamie, it’s up to their family to stick together and help them.
Throughout the season, we’ve seen Claire have many dreams about Lionel Brown. In this episode, her visions of Lionel often involve witchcraft, selfishness, or the anger and betrayal she felt when Malva falsely accused Jamie.
This season, Caitriona Balfe has done a great job of making Claire fight against her own thoughts, and this episode is no different. Dougal, Geillis, and Frank even teased her in one of the hallucinations. The only thing that seems to stop these hallucinations is the ether, and it’s hard for her to stop taking it.
The Christies are sure that Claire is a witch because she had to have an emergency cesarean section and was the first person to find the body. Tom wants Malva to be buried in the middle of nowhere because she was single and expecting a child. Jamie is adamant that Malva and her baby boy be buried as Christians. Many people in Ridge think that Claire killed Malva out of jealousy or because she was a witch. Fanfiction and conspiracy theories are made worse by Hiram Crombie, the Bugs, and Obadiah Henderson.
Still, Fraser’s Ridge doesn’t have a minister. Roger agrees to be the person in charge of Malva’s funeral, but he isn’t sure if he is the right person for the job. Jamie tells him that Roger’s killing of the man in Brownsville was not murder and that he shouldn’t feel bad about it. He is also worried about how his feelings as a father conflict with what the church says about whether or not unborn children go to heaven.
At the end of the episode, he realizes that he is meant to be a minister. He tells Bree that he has found something that makes him feel just as good as when he taught in the 20th century. Before Bree’s due date, Roger has enough time to train at the Presbytery in Edenton. The Ridge will just have to deal with a Presbyterian minister who is married to a Catholic.
Malva’s funeral starts out sad, but Alan won’t let Jamie carry the coffin because he thinks Jamie is too young. Instead, Ian steps in. Claire offers to carry the baby’s casket, but Alan takes it from her. He thinks it’s the Frasers’ fault that they have great lives while he’s in trouble. This is the most Alan has done so far this season. Everyone sees his anger as that of a brother who is sad, so Jamie and Claire decide to leave to stop the situation from getting worse.
Lizzie has been spending all of her time with the Beardsley twins for a long time. It’s clear that they both like Lizzie, but she’s never been able to decide which brother she should date. Ian is looking for clues in the woods about who killed Malva, and the fact that the Beardsley’s have gone missing is strange. During Claire’s ether practice in Episode 5, there is no proof that Josiah and Keziah did anything other than talk to Malva, but they might have seen someone or something strange.
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Lizzie finally tells Ian and then Claire that the brothers have gone missing because they are afraid of getting in trouble. Lizzie couldn’t decide which brother to date, so when she got malaria earlier in the season, she started sleeping with both of them. Malva’s claims that Jamie is the father of her baby were hard enough for the Ridge to deal with, so they are not ready to understand that Lizzie and the Beardsleys are like a polygamous triad in the 18th century. The episode doesn’t answer the question of whether Josiah and Keziah like each other, but Lizzie’s description suggests that she has more than one lover.
Claire is from the 1960s, so her main worry is whether or not Lizzie is being hurt or forced in any way. Jamie has learned a lot about the future from Claire, but his reaction brings back the 18th-century Jamie in full force. He wants Lizzie to use straws to choose which brother she will marry. Jamie ties Keziah’s hands with his own and tells Josiah to leave the Ridge. Jamie’s plan almost works, but in the end, Lizzie asks Roger to do the handfast ceremony with Josiah. When Jamie finds out this, he jokes that this is an “unholy trinity.”
Lizzie’s confession might shock fans who haven’t read the book, but the script does a great job of showing how Lizzie really feels about Josiah and Keziah. She feels bad about her relationship because it goes against what society thinks is right. This plot feels less shocking than it did in the book because seasons 5 and 6 of Outlander gave small hints that Lizzie liked the Beardsley twins just as much as she liked Jamie.
Claire is surprised that Lizzie didn’t tell her she was pregnant right away. Lizzie says she tried to talk to her on the day Malva died, but the surgery door was locked. Claire heard those knocks in her dream before she found Malva’s dead body. This should change the way she thinks, but then Lionel walks into the surgery.
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This time, Jamie sees Claire being scared. She has to finally tell someone about the nightmares that wake her up and go away only when she takes ether. Jamie tells her that their children and grandchildren are happy because she chose to stay in the past with him. More importantly, Claire has Jamie with her to help her face the darkness. All of the ether scenes led to a logical conclusion: it’s okay for people who are emotionally strong to admit they need help. Even though this part of the story wasn’t in the book, it was a good way to show how Claire had moved on from what happened last season.
