She laments that she misses her daughter, but fortunately her husband is there with his strong arms and rock hard chest to console her. One night, they are blissfully alone on the deck, looking up at the moon, and Claire talks about reading Goodnight Moon to Brianna as a baby. The men become convinced that someone didn’t touch the horseshoe at the beginning of the voyage.Ĭlaire and Jamie, though, continue finding their way back to each other, and their interactions are the one thing that hold this episode together. Days turn into weeks of just sitting on the water, with no land in sight. Claire asks if she can hear his story, but he says he cannot until he's ready to let it go.Īs everyone on the ship falls into a routine, things seem to be going well-until the winds disappear and all hell breaks loose. In a quiet moment, Claire finds Willoughby writing a poem on the ship’s deck, and he shares that he’s writing his life story.
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Almost every week there are these grating reminders that Jamie is kind of a misogynist-a sexy misogynist, to be sure, but full of old-fashioned ideas about women that he should be disabused of, given his thoroughly modern wife and, of course, common sense. It becomes even more bewildering later in the episode, when Fergus tells Marsali his romantic history and Jamie still refuses to relent despite Claire’s entreaties. It’s kind of a strange request because, if, as Fergus claims, he has been faithful to Marsali since they began courting, who cares about his previous assignations? Jamie’s resistance to Marsali and Fergus’s relationship makes absolutely no sense. Fergus and Jamie also have a conversation about honesty, and Jamie refuses to give the young couple his blessing until Fergus comes clean about all the women he's been with.
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This scene’s highlight is when the captain tells Claire that she and Marsali should be walking around with their breasts free to the open air because, as he explains, “A woman’s bare breasts calm an angry sea.” Of course they do.Īs they ready for bed, Claire and Marsali have a minor word scuffle that ends with Marsali declaring that she still thinks Claire is a whore.
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Turns out, Willoughby knows acupuncture and uses it on Jamie, who has been hiding it so as not to wound his Harvard-educated, accomplished surgeon wife’s pride.ĭuring a dinner with the captain, one Jamie is too sick to attend, the captain tries to impart to Claire the importance of gaining the men’s trust by believing their superstitions. She mends minor wounds and makes tea for Jamie to get over his seasickness, which he does, but not because of the tea.
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Claire is the ship’s surgeon, of course, and will be looking after the men as needed.