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The TV show makes it kind of ambiguous as to whether Frank really hears Claire, or if his desperation is making him hear things (i.e. distant birds sounding like a person's voice).

For what it's worth, Frank at the stone circle was not in the books (nor any shouting of names heard through the stones, by any characters). What we do know (again, from the books) is that the ability to time travel is genetically inherited, and Frank does not have the ability. I don't remember how much time travel theory has been included in the TV show.

@JN58 That was in Voyager, chapter 56.

There is no date for Frank and Claire's wedding shown on the TV show (at least nowhere that I could think to look for it), but in the books Claire says she married Frank when she was 18 (most likely in 1937). So, I suppose anything could have happened to Frank's parents from 1937 to 1948, when Claire came back pregnant.

@RedRos3s37 The scenes in the recap before Season 3 episode 4 are from Season 2 episode 13.

He says greylag in the book, so that's probably what he says in the show. But it's been a while since I watched the episode.

Jamie’s eyes sought me, resting on my face with a thoughtful expression. “All right,” he said, after a pause. “Well, then. Ye’ll ken that the greylag mate for life? If ye kill a grown goose, hunting, ye must always wait, for the mate will come to mourn. Then ye must try to kill the second, too, for otherwise it will grieve itself to death, calling through the skies for the lost one.”

—Voyager, chapter 38

@L D Jackson That only happened in the show, not the book.

@Khaleesi emeline l If you want to talk about events/details that happen in the books, but have not yet been revealed on the TV show, please use the category "Spoilers".

@JN58 said: "Now in season 6 in TV Claire is sent to trial for suspicion of murder,but the man she shot dies on the way to Wilmington and nobody seems to care that much."

In many (most? I'm not an expert) places today, there is a distinction between criminal and non-criminal homicide. I think Claire shooting the man from Brown's Committee of Safety, and his subsequent death, would be considered some form of justifiable homicide, whereas the killing of Malva Christie would appear to have been unlawful and without justification, i.e. murder. I don't know the specifics of how it would have worked in the 18th century, but I think it's quite possible that, while the man's death certainly won't help Claire's case, it doesn't have the same implications as Malva's death.

@Wbglynn Only in the book (Voyager, chapter 59). If you read the previous replies, your other question has already been addressed.

Yes - chapter 109.

@Mimi334 The citation template needs to be updated. I haven't finished the book yet, though, so I am trying not to look too closely at edits on the wiki until I do.

For the Main template, the article titles are case sensitive. For BEES, it should be Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone.

The Character infobox template also needs to be updated, but generally speaking I was not planning to do any heavy editing to add new info from BEES for at least a month – to give folks a chance to finish reading, aye? Though we could possibly add a special spoilers tophat template, warning that there may be BEES info in the article. I'll log in on my laptop tomorrow and see what I can do.

The last we saw of Bree, Roger, and the kids (before the end of MOHB), they were in Scotland in 1739. Their reappearance at Fraser's Ridge at the end of the book in 1779 - including how they got there - is not explained. Gotta read the new book for that. :)

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@Presley36! Roger can go to any time that his physical body has not already been. So the only times that excludes are whatever day he was born thru 1971 (the first time he went back), 1769-1776, ca. 1978-1980, and now those months he spent in 1739. We don't yet know what happens if you go to a time near to when you were born, and stay through your actual birth - a question that came up for Buck, since he and Roger went to 1739, about four years before Buck was born.

I mean, I'm not surprised she hasn't made the connection, given the brevity of Frank's description:

“Big chap,” said Frank, frowning in recollection. “And a Scot, in complete Highland rig-out, complete to sporran and the most beautiful running-stag brooch on his plaid.”

—Outlander, chapter 1

That could be any of the MacKenzie men... (FWIW, the brooch is only mentioned one other time, that I could find. No idea how common a motif it was in 18th-century jewelry.) I guess there's always a chance Claire will remember in a future book, though.

@Presley36! Claire didn't know that the ghost was Jamie - that was something Diana confirmed online.

I don't think Roger telling Claire about the letter, and thus the gravestone, occurs "on the page". Jamie just says "Aye, tell her" in response to Roger asking if he should tell Claire, so I trust that's what he does.

The only place I remember Claire thinking about the fake gravestone is in An Echo in the Bone, chapter 4, when she and Jamie are discussing their return to Scotland:

I was thinking of a granite marriage stone in the graveyard at St. Kilda, with his name on it, and mine, too. The bloody thing had nearly given me heart failure when I saw it, and I wasn’t sure I had forgiven Frank for it, even though it had accomplished what he’d meant it to.

I took that line as something the writers put in to be clever - part of the ongoing theme of Claire being a fish out of water, and winking at the audience about this whenever possible. At any rate, IIRC Ned doesn't say anything like that in the book, and there's no story-related reason to make him a time traveler for the show.

@Fraser4ever Yep, and nothing wrong with that - I just added clarification for anyone that might read this.