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* UnfocusedDuringIntimacy: More than once Claire is shown to be closing her eyes while having sex with Frank, something he said she never did before her time away. During their last time together, Frank stops mid-act when she refuses to open her eyes, knowing that she is mentally imagining being with Jamie.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Claire quietly masturbates while thinking about Jamie even as she lies in bed next to her sleeping husband, Frank. Made HarsherInHindsight when it's revealed that Frank and Claire are devolving into a SexlessMarriage.
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* CareerEndingInjury: Once Fergus' hand is cut off, he can no longer work as a pickpocket. In addition to making it too difficult to do the sleight of hand required, a missing hand is the commonly known punishment of a thief who has been caught, which would make people pay more attention to what Fergus is doing.
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* GraveMarkingScene: Before they leave France to return to Scotland, Jamie and Claire visit baby Faith's grave. Particularly poignant as Jamie was imprisoned in the weeks surrounding Faith's birth, so he never got to see or hold his daughter. Since they will have to leave her body in France, Jamie leaves a St. Andrew's spoon at her grave so she'll always have a bit of Scotland with her.
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* [[ComfortingTheWidow Comforting The Widower]]: It's an unspoken fact at Lallybroch that Jamie has not been with another woman since being separated from Claire. While Jamie knows that Claire is still alive and he's simply keeping to his vows, everyone else believes she's dead and attempts to pair him with women who might be able to provide him physical comfort. Mary [=McNabb=] finally convinces him to have sex as an act of physical comfort and connection before turning himself in to the Redcoats to be imprisoned, possibly for the rest of his life.
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* GraveMarkingScene: Before they leave France to return to Scotland, Jamie and Claire visit baby Faith's grave. Particularly poignant as Jamie was imprisoned in the weeks surrounding Faith's birth, so he never got to see or hold his daughter. Since they will have to leave her body in France, Jamie leaves a St. Andrew's spoon at her grave so she'll always have a bit of Scotland with her.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Despite their unending love for one another, Claire and Jamie are separated by two hundred years and the fact that Claire is unaware that Jamie survived Culloden. It will be [[spoiler: twenty years before they are able to reunite.]]
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* EndOfAnAge: The era of the Highlander Clans has come to an end. Following Culloden, outward displays of Highland culture are outlawed and most of the warriors have been killed. Those who have not are either exiled or imprisoned.

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** Frank demands that Claire open her eyes and actually look at him while they're having sex. Her refusal puts an end to their activities as Frank does not want to have sex with Claire, knowing full well that she's imagining it to be with Jamie.
** Jamie choses to close his eyes while with Mary [=MacNab=]

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** Frank **Frank demands that Claire open her eyes and actually look at him while they're having sex. Her refusal puts an end to their activities as Frank does not want to have sex with Claire, knowing full well that she's imagining it to be with Jamie.
** Jamie **Jamie choses to close his eyes while with Mary [=MacNab=]


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* WhamShot: The camera pans to reveal that while Claire and Frank still share a bedroom, they now sleep in separate twin beds, signifying that their physical relationship is completely dead.

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* EyesNeverLie: Frank demands that Claire open her eyes and actually look at him while they're having sex. Her refusal puts an end to their activities as Frank does not want to have sex with Claire, knowing full well that she's imagining it to be with Jamie.

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* EyesNeverLie: Frank EyesNeverLie:
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demands that Claire open her eyes and actually look at him while they're having sex. Her refusal puts an end to their activities as Frank does not want to have sex with Claire, knowing full well that she's imagining it to be with Jamie.Jamie.
**Jamie choses to close his eyes while with Mary [=MacNab=]
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* CommonalityConnection: Ian discusses what life will be like for Fergus without his hand, using his own missing leg as a point of reference. He comments that Jamie probably understands the concept of phantom limb, even though his loss is not physical, but rather emotional having lost Claire, his heart.

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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Frank and Claire rarely have sex. When they do, Claire is slow to allow kisses and keeps her eyes closed the entire time. Finally, Frank asks her to open her eyes, stopping when she refuses to do so. [[spoiler: It's the last time they attempt to have sex.]]
-->'''Frank:''' Why can't you look at me?
-->'''Claire:''' Christ, Frank. If you're not in the mood, you just had to say.
-->'''Frank:''' Claire, when I'm with you... I'm with ''you''... but you're with ''him.''



* ExcessiveMourning: Following Claire's retreat through the rocks, Jamie is nearly crippled with grief, rejecting any and all attempts to make him feel better. It is not until Fergus is maimed that he finally snaps out of it and remembers that he still has family that loves him and cares for him and needs his protection.


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* ExcessiveMourning: Following Claire's retreat through the rocks, Jamie is nearly crippled with grief, rejecting any and all attempts to make him feel better. It is not until Fergus is maimed that he finally snaps out of it and remembers that he still has family that loves him and cares for him and needs his protection.
* EyesNeverLie: Frank demands that Claire open her eyes and actually look at him while they're having sex. Her refusal puts an end to their activities as Frank does not want to have sex with Claire, knowing full well that she's imagining it to be with Jamie.
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* ExactWords: Frank is surprised when Claire initiates intimate contact. Claire explains by saying "I miss my husband". But her behavior throughout the episode makes it clear to the viewer that she's referring to Jamie, with whom she had a ''verra'' healthy sex life, rather than Frank.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Jamie makes his family "betray him" and have him arrested by the English so that Lallybroch will be safe from the redcoats.


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* HeroicSacrifice: Jamie makes his family "betray him" and have him arrested by the English so that Lallybroch will be safe from the redcoats.
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* {{Jerkass}}: When told that Jenny's baby was stillborn, Corporal [=MacGregor=] says that's a good thing as it's one less Highlander for them to deal with. He's being such a jerk, even the British Captain, who's not exactly a nice guy, tells him to rein it in. [=MacGregor=] is visibly disappointed that he's not allowed to arrest Jenny or the Midwife and drag them to jail mere hours after giving birth.
* MiseryTrigger: Although sad, Jamie seems to be enjoying spending time with his new nephew. However, when Jenny begins to suggest that he should remarry and that it's a high shame that he's never had the chance to bring a child into the world. Jamie sharply shuts down the conversation and walks away, knowing that he's actually fathered ''two'' children, one that was born stillborn and one that is living with Claire in the distant future.
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* CelibateHero: Jamie has not slept with anyone since Claire went back through the stones six years prior.


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* ExcessiveMourning: Following Claire's retreat through the rocks, Jamie is nearly crippled with grief, rejecting any and all attempts to make him feel better. It is not until Fergus is maimed that he finally snaps out of it and remembers that he still has family that loves him and cares for him and needs his protection.


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* EarlyBirdCameo: This episodes features the birth of [[spoiler: Young Ian]], Jamie's nephew who will become a part of the regular cast as an adult after Season 3's TimeSkip is complete.
* ElectiveMute: Jamie has become very withdrawn with little to say to anyone. Most of his scenes are people talking at him with little to no response.
* FearlessFool: Despite having witnessed the horrors of war first hand, Fergus is anxious to throw himself into the rebellion. He's particularly enamored with the idea of shooting guns, which are outlawed in the Highlands, and calling out the one Scottish redcoat officer. His reckless behavior brings the redcoats down on Lallybroch after he shoots a gun, his teasing ends with his hand being cut off, and Jamie allows himself to be captured in order to keep things from escalating any further.


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* TheMourningAfter: Jamie is in a perpetual state of grief over being separated from Claire and their unborn child.


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* RefusalOfTheSecondCall: Jamie absolutely refuses to entertain Fergus' starry eyed notions of the "Next Rebellion." [[spoiler: This is even more prominent in the Lord John Grey books where Jamie is repeatedly offered chances to escape to France and be part of an Irish Jacobite plot. Free Jacobites are very willing to take risks for the chance to have Red Jamie back in play.]]
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Claire quietly masturbates while thinking about Jamie even as she lies in bed next to her sleeping husband, Frank. Made HarsherInHindsight when it's revealed that Frank and Claire are devolving into a SexlessMarriage.
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* BusCameBack: Minor characters, but Fergus, Rabbie [=McNabb=], and Wee Jamie were all featured in early season plots, Fergus as Jamie's accomplice in France, Rabbie [=McNabb=] in Jamie's disastrous attempts to be Laird, and Wee Jamie as a source of contention between Jamie and Jenny when Jamie thought the boy the bastard son of Black Jack Randall.

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* BusCameBack: TheBusCameBack: Minor characters, but Fergus, Rabbie [=McNabb=], and Wee Jamie were all featured in early season plots, Fergus as Jamie's accomplice in France, Rabbie [=McNabb=] in Jamie's disastrous attempts to be Laird, and Wee Jamie as a source of contention between Jamie and Jenny when Jamie thought the boy the bastard son of Black Jack Randall.

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%%* CallBack* BusCameBack: Minor characters, but Fergus, Rabbie [=McNabb=], and Wee Jamie were all featured in early season plots, Fergus as Jamie's accomplice in France, Rabbie [=McNabb=] in Jamie's disastrous attempts to be Laird, and Wee Jamie as a source of contention between Jamie and Jenny when Jamie thought the boy the bastard son of Black Jack Randall.
* CallBack: Fergus talks with the boys about fighting at Prestonpans. Of course, he makes himself sound more like a courageous berserker, savaging the enemy lines, than a young boy nearly mute with shock after having to kill a man to save his own life.
* CategoryTraitor: The Scottish redcoat, [=MacGregor=] is the most vicious of the soldiers. He kicks Young Jamie, threatens to hang the women and children, sneers that he's glad of it when told that Jenny's baby was born stillborn, and cuts off Fergus' hand when Fergus tells him the English will never consider [=MacGregor=] their equal. Jenny even points out that some of [=MacGregor's=] family fought in the previous uprising, making them no better than the rest of the Highlanders even if they had switched to King George's for the most recent clash.


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* PoliceBrutality: The Redcoats are relentless and brutal in their harassment, manhandling Ian who has difficulty walking with a peg leg, repeatedly arresting him simply because they can, threatening to hang the children, harassing Jenny who has clearly just given birth, and eventually maiming Fergus out of frustration of being unable to locate Jamie.

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Hiding in an isolated cave, Jamie leads a lonely life until Lallybroch is threatened by redcoats pursuing the elusive Jacobite traitor known as "Red Jamie." Back in Boston, Claire and Frank struggle to coexist in a marriage haunted by the ghost of Jamie's love.

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'''[[Recap/{{Outlander}} Recap]] of ''Series/{{Outlander}}'''''\\
'''Season 3, Episode 2:'''
!Surrender

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Six years after the terrible events of Culloden,
Jamie leads has resigned himself to a lonely life life, refuging in a hidden cave on his family's land to avoid capture, until the threat to Lallybroch is threatened by redcoats Redcoats pursuing the elusive Jacobite traitor known as "Red Jamie." Jamie" reaches a breaking point. Back in Boston, Claire tries to make good on her promise of a fresh start, but she and Frank struggle to coexist in a marriage haunted by the ghost of Jamie's love.



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%%* BrokenAce* BrokenAce: Once the proud Laird of Lallybroch, a husband, an expectant father, and the revered and feared commander of a fighting unit, Jamie is forced into exile, an unkempt and lonely fugitive who can barely make contact with civilization for fear of capture. Not that he wants to socialize, nearly crippled with grief for the wife he'll never see again and the unborn child he'll never meet.



* HeroicSacrifice: Jamie lets himself be betrayed by his own family and arrested by the English so that Lallybroch will be safe from the redcoats.

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* HeroicSacrifice: Jamie lets himself be betrayed by makes his own family "betray him" and have him arrested by the English so that Lallybroch will be safe from the redcoats.



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%%* FreezeFrameBonus* FreezeFrameBonus: The wanted poster for Dunbonnet (Jamie)
--> Wanted by the Lords Justices, Offering a reward to any person who shall seize and secure the infamous outlaw known in these parts as the Dunbonnet
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* AnArmAndALeg: Fergus loses an arm when he gets into a fight with Scottish soldiers of the Crown.

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* AnArmAndALeg: Fergus loses an arm his left hand at the wrist when he gets into a fight with Scottish soldiers of the Crown.



* DisproportionateRetribution: [=MacGregor=] chops off Fergus' arm because Fergus insulted him.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: [=MacGregor=] chops off Fergus' arm hand because Fergus insulted him.



* WouldHurtAChild: [=MacGregor=] doesn't hesitate to slice off Fergus's arm with his sword after Fergus insults him. He also doesn't have any moral qualms about hurting anyone at Lallybroch, including the women and children, if they are suspected of hiding Red Jamie.

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* WouldHurtAChild: [=MacGregor=] doesn't hesitate to slice off Fergus's arm hand with his sword after Fergus insults him. He also doesn't have any moral qualms about hurting anyone at Lallybroch, including the women and children, if they are suspected of hiding Red Jamie.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: MacGregor chops off Fergus' arm because Fergus insulted him.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: MacGregor [=MacGregor=] chops off Fergus' arm because Fergus insulted him.



* SexForSolace: Jamie and Mary MacNab engage in this, to bolster themselves in the midst of the bleakness and suffering they are enduring.

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* SexForSolace: Jamie and Mary MacNab [=MacNab=] engage in this, to bolster themselves in the midst of the bleakness and suffering they are enduring.



* WouldHurtAChild: MacGregor doesn't hesitate to slice off Fergus's arm with his sword after Fergus insults him. He also doesn't have any moral qualms about hurting anyone at Lallybroch, including the women and children, if they are suspected of hiding Red Jamie.

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* WouldHurtAChild: MacGregor [=MacGregor=] doesn't hesitate to slice off Fergus's arm with his sword after Fergus insults him. He also doesn't have any moral qualms about hurting anyone at Lallybroch, including the women and children, if they are suspected of hiding Red Jamie.
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* ChekhovsGun: The gun Fergus finds in the beginning of the episode is later used to shoot down a raven, which leads to the English soldiers invaded Lallybroch.

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* ChekhovsGun: The gun Fergus finds in the beginning of the episode is later used to shoot down a raven, which leads to the English soldiers invaded invading Lallybroch.



* AFriendInNeed: Mary offers Jamie SexForSolace to give him something to hold onto during his years as a prisoner. In return, Mary gets some

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* AFriendInNeed: Mary offers Jamie SexForSolace to give him them both something to hold onto during his years as a prisoner. In return, Mary gets some the bleak times ahead of them.

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%%* AnArmAndALeg: Fergus loses an arm when he gets into a fight with Scottish soldiers of the Crown.
%%* BittersweetEnding

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%%* * AnArmAndALeg: Fergus loses an arm when he gets into a fight with Scottish soldiers of the Crown.
%%* BittersweetEnding* BittersweetEnding: For Jamie. While his actions protect Lallybroch from the redcoats, he is sent to prison in shackles, with a deadened look in his eyes.



%%* ChekhovsGun: The gun Fergus finds in the beginning of the episode is later used to shoot down a raven, which leads to the English soldiers invaded Lallybroch.
%%* HeroicSacrifice: Jamie lets himself be betrayed by his own family and arrested by the English so that

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%%* * ChekhovsGun: The gun Fergus finds in the beginning of the episode is later used to shoot down a raven, which leads to the English soldiers invaded Lallybroch.
%%* * HeroicSacrifice: Jamie lets himself be betrayed by his own family and arrested by the English so that Lallybroch will be safe from the redcoats.



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%%* TimeSkip: Jamie's plot in this episode takes place six years after the previous one; Claire's takes place only a few months.
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%%* WhamLine: "Jamie Fraser hasna been here for a long time."
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AFriendInNeed: Mary offers Jamie SexForSolace to give him something to hold onto during his years as a prisoner. In return, Mary gets some
* HeroicBSOD: Jamie has been
in this one for nearly seven years by the time the episode takes place six years after starts. He refuses to talk to Jenny and is so numb that he doesn't appear to care about anything.
* SexForSolace: Jamie and Mary MacNab engage in this, to bolster themselves in
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* SingleTear: Jamie silently cries when Mary speaks of Claire just before their dalliance.
* StepfordSmiler: Claire puts on a brave face when interacting with Frank or strangers, but in her more private moments it's clear that it's just a facade and she is still grieving for Jamie and the life they had together.
* TimeSkip: Jamie's plot in this episode takes place six years after the previous one; Claire's takes place after only a few months.
* TraumaCongaLine: This episode continues Jamie's.
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WhamLine: "Jamie Fraser hasna been here for a long time."
%%* WouldHurtAChild* WouldHurtAChild: MacGregor doesn't hesitate to slice off Fergus's arm with his sword after Fergus insults him. He also doesn't have any moral qualms about hurting anyone at Lallybroch, including the women and children, if they are suspected of hiding Red Jamie.

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%%* AnArmAndALeg: Fergus loses an arm when he gets into a fight with Scottish soldiers of the Crown.
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%%* BrokenAce
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%%* ChekhovsGun: The gun Fergus finds in the beginning of the episode is later used to shoot down a raven, which leads to the English soldiers invaded Lallybroch.
%%* HeroicSacrifice: Jamie lets himself be betrayed by his own family and arrested by the English so that
* DisproportionateRetribution: MacGregor chops off Fergus' arm because Fergus insulted him.
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%%* HeroicBSOD
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%%* TimeSkip: Jamie's plot in this episode takes place six years after the previous one; Claire's takes place only a few months.
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%%* WhamLine: "Jamie Fraser hasna been here for a long time."
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Hiding in an isolated cave, Jamie leads a lonely life until Lallybroch is threatened by redcoats pursuing the elusive Jacobite traitor known as "Red Jamie." Back in Boston, Claire and Frank struggle to coexist in a marriage haunted by the ghost of Jamie's love.

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