Outlander (2014) s07e08 Episode Script
Turning Points
1
- [CLAIRE] Previously
- [BOWSTRING SNAPS]
- [JAMIE] Mrs. Bug?
- I dinna ken it was you.
When you've something worth taking,
you'll see me again.
My brother wished to lend
his support to the army.
I suppose I'll be seein' more of ye.
I suppose so.
I was gonna take Bobby
to the pictures tomorrow night.
I don't know if Jemmy
would like to join us?
[MANDY] Jemmy is gone!
That bad man took him.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
[JAMIE] Simon Fraser's one
of Burgoyne's brigadiers.
Simon Fraser?
A second cousin.
I canna fault you your courage.
You'll be needing it
if ye're to stay and fight,
if that's what you really want.
[GUNSHOT, FLESH SQUELCHES]
Get up.
You're a different man now.
Come back to me.
And if you don't,
I'll come looking for you.
[MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[CHILD] I got his hat, Mum.
I'm keepin' it.
♪
[JAMIE COUGHS]
[CHILD] He's still alive, Mum.
[COUGHS]
Cut his throat, the treasoner.
- [CLAIRE] Stand back!
- [CHILD GRUNTS]
Or I will choke him to death, I swear.
You can have your pick of the others.
My pick? Do you think I'm a
I've got mouths to feed.
I'm takin' this one.
"This one" is my husband.
[CHILD] Hold her off, Mum.
- I'll take care of him.
- [CLAIRE] Don't!
I will kill you.
Just fucking try me!
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[SPITS]
♪
That tickles, Sassenach.
[CLAIRE CHUCKLES WEAKLY]
Lie still.
There's blood on your shirt.
I'm checking for wounds.
I think it's from your hand.
[GROANS] Think yer right.
- [BOTH GRUNT]
- [SIGHS]
What took ye so long?
Been looking for you all night,
if you must know.
[SIGHS] What happened anyway?
Why are you asking me?
How should I know?
You went and got yourself butchered
like a sodding hog.
Trying to be a hero again
is what it looks like.
[JAMIE GROANS]
[BOTH GRUNT]
[JAMIE] No, what happened
in the battle, I mean.
[PANTS] I ken what happened to me,
roughly.
Why did you enter the fray?
You're a rifleman.
You're supposed to be fighting
from a distance,
not hand-to-hand bloody
Oh, you vainglorious,
pigheaded, grandstanding Scot.
"Grandstanding"?
Yes. You could have been killed.
[JAMIE CHUCKLES] Thought I was,
when the dragoon came down
on me wi' his sword.
I scairt his horse,
and it reared up,
got me in the head and
Stop trying to change the subject.
Is not the subject I'm not killed?
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[CLAIRE] The subject
is your stupid hero complex.
You think I have nothing better to do
than to trot around after you,
sticking pieces back on?
♪
[SCOFFS]
Here.
We were supposed to be in Scotland.
I'm sorry.
I know you couldn't say no,
but you scared me, Jamie.
For now, mo nighean donn,
I thank you for my life.
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
♪
[CLAIRE GRUNTING]
♪
Ah, ye've the tongue
of a venomous shrew, Sassenach.
Ye're a bonnie wee swordsman.
[GROANS]
[SINGER] Sing me a song ♪
Of a lass that is gone ♪
Say, could that lass ♪
Be I? ♪
Merry of soul ♪
She sailed on a day ♪
Over the sea ♪
To Skye ♪
Billow and breeze ♪
Islands and seas ♪
Mountains of rain and sun ♪
All that was good ♪
All that was fair ♪
All that was me ♪
Is gone ♪
Sing me a song ♪
Of a lass that is gone ♪
Say, could that lass ♪
Be I? ♪
Merry of soul ♪
She sailed on a day ♪
Over the sea ♪
To Skye ♪
Sing me a song ♪
Of a lass that is gone ♪
Say, could that lass ♪
Be I? ♪
[JAMIE GROANING SOFTLY]
Ian?
Came back unharmed.
At least he came back.
[WINCES] You must have caught
it near the hilt.
Otherwise it would have split
your hand in two.
[JAMIE GRUNTS]
Shame I didn't have a targe.
[CORK POPS]
This'll have to do for now.
[JAMIE GROANING, SEETHING]
You won't die. I promise.
[JAMIE GROANS]
But I do have other patients that might.
Who won?
[CLAIRE] British are claiming they did.
But only because they held the field
and we retreated back to the camp.
That's only because night fell,
or so I'm told.
Sensible plan.
Reports are they suffered
nearly twice the casualties we did.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
Just because William was at Ticonderoga
doesn't mean he's here.
♪
The garrison's a fort.
He might have stayed.
Aye.
I ken.
[CLAIRE SIGHS]
Go to yer patients, Claire.
I'll I'll sleep if I can.
♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [CLAIRE SMOOCHES]
- Mm. [SIGHS]
♪
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [PERSON COUGHING]
[GROANING]
♪
In all my life, I have lost
four patients on my table.
And now in one day,
that number has increased tenfold.
Thee has done this before, thee said.
How does thee go on?
By knowing that without me,
the number would be even greater.
Think of those that you've saved.
That number has increased today as well.
- Perhaps.
- [INSECTS BUZZING]
Or perhaps I should have chosen
a more peaceable profession.
All this violence is difficult
for a man like me.
- A human being?
- [PERSON COUGHS]
I-I meant a Quaker.
Forgive me, Claire.
- [CLAIRE] For what?
- [SIGHS] For
presuming that this is harder
for me than for thee.
How is Rachel coping?
She is a great help to me.
And she bears it remarkably well.
But the suffering of others
cannot help but take its toll.
Can it be worth it, all this death?
I-I do not doubt our cause, but I
I've asked myself
that question many times.
And I've not always been
confident of the answer
but, yes
I believe it will be.
♪
Excuse me, I
must go tend to my husband.
Of course.
♪
[PERSON] Feel better, Colonel.
♪
[MATCH SCRATCHES]
♪
Hmm.
[INHALES DEEPLY, GROANS]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[OBJECT CLINKS]
Will you have to cut anything off?
- I'll allow it, if you do.
- [LIQUID POURING]
Oh, you will, will you?
[JAMIE] Mm.
[SIGHS] Laudanum.
Sip it and drink every drop.
It's all I have left.
Whatever happens, I'll try my best
to leave you with a working hand,
no infection
and, once it heals,
no pain.
You're not sipping.
It'll make me sick.
[CLAIRE] It'll help mask the pain.
[SCOFFS]
Gives me terrible dreams.
Well, as long as you're not twitching
like Rollo dreaming of chasing rabbits,
I think we'll be all right.
[JAMIE GROANS SOFTLY]
[GRUNTS, WINCES]
- I did tell you to sip it.
- Hmm.
[CLAIRE] Now, let's leave
that for a minute
while we wait for the laudanum
to take effect.
Who was your visitor earlier?
A colonel Johnson.
Micah Johnson, his name was.
I saw him leave. What did he want?
Well, it seems when I'd
and a few others
of Morgan's company, mind
when we entered the fray,
we broke the British charge.
Scattered 'em, it seems.
And Johnson's company
was behind us in the fight.
[CORK POPS]
If the charge had gone through,
he'd have surely lost
the company, he said.
So you saved them.
Not me alone.
That's 50 men in a company.
And not all of them would've
been killed, of course.
[SIGHS]
No, not all of them.
[JAMIE] Eh, it's like the Bible.
That bit where the Abraham
bargains with the Lord
for the cities of the plain.
"Wilt Thou not destroy the city
for the sake of 50 just men?"
And did He
spare the city
for the sake of 50 just men?
Aye. And Abraham kens
he won't find 50,
so he argues the Lord down from 50 to 40
and then 30 and 20
and ten.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
Ten good men
[SIGHS SOFTLY]
would be worth a finger, Sassenach.
Hmm. Or five.
Or [BREATHES DEEPLY]
even one.
♪
You bloody man.
I knew you'd make me cry.
♪
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
♪
Sweet dreams, my love.
You may chase those rabbits now.
♪
[SMOOCHES]
♪
[VEHICLE ENGINE RUMBLES,
CAR DOOR CLOSES]
[GASPS SOFTLY]
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
He did it.
Rob took Jem through the stones.
We found this.
[GASPS]
Oh, my God.
I can't work out why.
Why why would he do this?
♪
It's the gold.
You said someone got
into the letters, so I looked,
and the musket ball is missing
from the box,
and so is one of the letters.
It's the one about the Spaniard's gold.
[SNIFFLES]
[ROGER] God damn him!
[SHOUTS ANGRILY]
[BRIANNA] Roger
[SNIFFLES] What do we do?
What do we do? We can't call the police.
♪
Roger.
- What are you doing?
- I'm goin' after him.
Through the stones?
I have to, Bree.
If you're right,
Rob'll be headed to Inverness
for a ship to America.
I have to go tonight, now.
♪
You stay with Mandy.
[BUCK] What're ye sayin'?
This bastards goin' after Spanish gold?
[ROGER] No. French gold.
King Louis' gold that was meant
for the Jacobites.
Some of it ended up in North Carolina.
[TRUNK SLAMS]
And Jemmy knows the spot
where it's hidden.
And Cameron wants Jem to take him there?
[ROGER] He won't hurt Jem. He needs him.
I'm comin' wi' ye.
It's my time
we'll be goin' to, is it no'?
And
you were gonna send me there anyway.
Only if you wanted to.
♪
I want to help.
You're kin.
Do you still have your old clothes?
[BUCK] Aye.
You'll need this, too.
[ROGER] Where'd this come from?
[BRIANNA] An antique store in town.
I figured we might need it someday.
♪
[HORSE NEIGHS, SNORTS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
[CLAIRE] Well, it is looking
very good for just two weeks,
- even if I say so myself.
- [JAMIE] Hmm.
[CLAIRE] Any pain?
Well, I'll not be gettin'
in any fisticuffs soon,
but, uh, no.
I think I will go take a pish.
Are ye no' happy
with Uncle Jamie's progress?
It means he will fight again.
Mm.
There's going to be
another battle, isn't there?
I think so.
There has to be
something decisive enough
to draw the French into the war
another battle that changes everything.
I'd hoped that Jamie
would stay away from it.
But maybe he's supposed to be there.
Maybe he always was.
[SIGHS] I don't I don't know.
You don't know when?
[CLAIRE] Did you hear anything
while you were on your scout?
Um, Burgoyne is waiting
for Clinton to send aid
or divide us by attacking elsewhere.
But he canna wait forever.
Neither can we.
Some of our generals want to attack,
but Granny Gates says no.
Oh, that's what they call him
commander
because he's
Old. I gathered that.
- [YOUNG IAN CHUCKLES]
- [CLAIRE] Though he is
younger than I am, if anyone's counting.
Oh, Rollo, for goodness' sake,
my goose grease.
I was supposed to give it to Denzell.
He has a patient with an injured rectum,
and he's having trouble
with his movements.
I'll get ye some goose grease, Auntie.
Some Oneida have arrived.
They'll have some, I wager.
Great.
Uh, could you take it to Denzell after?
Or, um, to his sister?
I'd be happy to.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Thank you.
[YOUNG IAN] Rollo, come. [CLICKS TONGUE]
♪
[RACHEL CHUCKLES]
- Rollo.
- [ROLLO WHINES SOFTLY]
And I see thee has brought
thy friend along, too.
Miss Hunter.
[RACHEL] It's nice to see
thee again, Ian Murray.
I brought some goose grease.
My aunt said your brother
needed it for someone's
arsehole, I-I think.
Oh. He'll be pleased.
I thank thee.
He's been so busy
with the sick and injured.
- [CHUCKLES]
- [JAR THUDS]
Sorry, it's slippery. [CHUCKLES]
Uh, the man I got it from said
it was greasier than grease.
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[GRUNTS]
Thee must know better.
[SPEAKING GAELIC AND MOHAWK]
What does thee say?
I'm sorry.
♪
Yes.
I we
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
♪
Thee must not.
We must not.
♪
No. Of course.
Of course we mustn't.
It's no' safe.
Does thee know
how I feel?
I'm not worried
about whether you love me.
I'm worried about whether
you might die because of it.
"Die because of it"?
Thee has cheek.
I didn't say I loved thee.
It's a great deal better you dinna.
♪
I think it's best if ye
dinna touch me.
Because if you do, then I'll
I'll take ye here and now.
And then it's too late for us both.
♪
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER]
- [PESTLE SCRAPING]
- [PERSON] Are you Mrs. Fraser?
I am.
May I help you?
Uh, yes, I was in hopes
we might transact a little business.
I'm told you possess
a stock of cinchona bark.
Is that so?
Yes. Do you suffer from malaria?
No, not I, but I have a gentleman
in my command who does, very badly.
I'd hoped you might be induced
to make a trade.
I used to run a store, you see
a great deal of apothecary stuff
and luxury dry goods in general.
Laudanum?
I was not sure what might best suit you.
I learned it's best to always
give a lady a choice.
- Do you have more of this?
- Indeed. Back at my camp.
Do you require it regularly?
W I don't use it myself,
if that's what you mean.
Though I have.
I took a musket ball
in my left leg some time ago.
Shattered the bone. Great deal of pain.
But I have since weaned myself.
Do you, um, require it regularly?
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] The relief of pain is
one of the more important
things I can give people
who come to see me.
Lord knows
that I can't offer many a cure.
Well, that's
a rather remarkable statement.
Most in your profession
seem to promise cure
to nearly everyone. [CHUCKLES]
Well, I mightn't admit it to my patient,
but it's as well to know one's limits.
[PERSON] Do you think so?
Do you not think that
the admission of such limits
might, in fact, prevent one
from accomplishing
all that is possible
because one assumes
something is not possible?
You know, it might.
[PERSON CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[CLAIRE] I supposed if we didn't believe
that we could accomplish things
beyond reasonable expectation,
well, then [CHUCKLES]
I'm not sure any of us would be here.
[BOTH LAUGH]
[JAMIE] Sassenach.
- Sir.
- Colonel.
Your wife and I
have just been discussing
the philosophy of endeavor.
What do you say?
Does a wise man know his limits
or a bold one deny them?
Well, I've heard it said
that a man's reach
must exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?
[PERSON CHUCKLES]
Well, that is splendid.
[CHUCKLES] Do you recall
where you heard it?
Eh a poet
I believe.
That's right.
Though, um, I can't seem
to recall his name.
[CHUCKLES] It is a perfectly
expressed sentiment.
Well, in any event cinchona bark.
Thank you for the trade, Mr
I'm sorry, I-I don't know your rank.
Oh, no, my apologies, Mrs. Fraser.
What must you think of a man
who bursts into your presence
and fails to introduce himself?
Major General Benedict Arnold.
Your servant, ma'am.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
Sir.
♪
I ken I shouldn't have quoted a poem
that's not yet been written.
♪
Are ye well, Claire?
You look like yer about to fall over.
[SIGHS SOFTLY] I might.
♪
[RACHEL] Will thee pray for me, brother?
I fear I'm in great danger.
Indeed thee is.
Though I am in doubt
that prayer will aid thee much.
What, does thee have no faith
left in God?
Oh, endless faith in God.
In thee? Not quite so much.
Even less in Ian Murray.
How did thee know?
I saw him leave earlier.
And he saw me, though pretended not to.
What did he say to thee?
Nothing.
Not much.
He said
he said that I was in love with him.
And is thee?
How could I be in love with such a man?
If thee were not
I do not think thee would be
asking me to pray.
I will tell him
never to speak to thee again
if thee wishes it.
Or if thee prefers,
I can assure him thy affection
is only that of a friend.
Are those the only alternatives
thee sees?
I have been put out of meeting,
sissy, thee has not.
But to marry such a man as Ian Murray
no meeting would accept it.
♪
He's an American through and through
and a brilliant soldier.
[JAMIE] Well, everyone
likes him, save Granny Gates.
There's bad blood between them.
Over what, I dinna ken,
but the men would follow him anywhere.
[CLAIRE] At some point,
he'll become disillusioned
and decide to switch sides.
He'll start making overtures
to the British.
For an American general
to turn his coat,
it's unthinkable.
His name will become synonymous
with being a traitor.
Two hundred years from now,
if somebody betrays you,
you call them a Benedict Arnold.
It's all he'll ever be remembered for.
We must let it happen?
All I know is he does this
and we win.
And if he doesn't
When?
When will he do it?
That's the problem. I have no idea.
♪
[DANIEL] Tonight we have good news.
[MEN MURMURING HAPPILY]
"Well, what news, Daniel Morgan?"
- [MEN CHUCKLE]
- Well, I will tell you.
[CLEARS THROAT]
From Major General Gates
"Today we have learned
of a great righting of wrongs.
Colonel John Brown
has retaken Sugar Loaf"
- [MEN MURMURING]
- "which the British
now call Mount Defiance."
[LAUGHTER]
"A poor choice of name,
as they were unable to defy
our advances."
[SCATTERED CHUCKLING]
"Though he did not recapture
Ticonderoga itself,
Colonel Brown apprehended
a dozen British officers
and 140 British infantry.
And freed
119 of our own from captivity."
[ALL CHEERING]
And why,
oh, why do we hate
the British, friends?
I can guess what's comin'.
I heard it a week ago. Saw it, too.
[CLAIRE] Saw what?
[CROWD GROANS]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
The British army did that.
To one of their own, mind you.
My crime?
An officer struck me
and I fought back!
[CROWD CHEERING]
See, they don't like that
fighting back.
Gave me 499 lashes.
I counted.
Supposed to give me 500,
but he missed one.
- [LAUGHTER]
- I didn't inform him of it.
[LAUGHTER]
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
Does he know?
♪
I think he can sense
in me a kindred spirit.
But, no.
No, he doesna ken
we're kindred of flesh as well.
♪
[LAUGHTER]
♪
[RHYTHMIC DRUMMING PLAYING]
♪
- [CANNON FIRE, SOLDIERS SHOUT]
- [SOLDIER] Halt!
- [GUNSHOT]
- [SOLDIER GROANS]
[DANIEL] That's it!
Make 'em fear for their skulls.
[GUN COCKS]
♪
[GUNSHOT]
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING, GUNSHOTS]
♪
[BENEDICT] Shoot the generals, boys.
Don't you see who that is?
It's Simon Fraser.
Shoot him!
God's blood. Cousin.
[GENERAL FRASER] For King and country!
- [HORSE NEIGHS]
- King and country!
[DANIEL] General Arnold is right.
I admire and respect General Fraser,
but it is necessary that he should die.
♪
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING, GUNSHOTS]
♪
Damn your eyes for a crew of blind men!
Colonel!
Shoot him, why don't you?
♪
[SIMON] Fire!
[HORSE NEIGHS]
♪
[SIMON] Fire.
♪
I got him!
[SOLDIERS CHEERING]
♪
[SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]
[SOLDIERS CHEERING]
Follow me, boys! To the redoubt!
[SOLDIER] Pull back!
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING]
♪
[SOLDIER] Pull back!
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING]
♪
Follow that goddamn fool.
He'll win us this battle,
if he survives it.
[DISTANT SHOUTING]
♪
[SOLDIER] To the redoubt!
To the redoubt!
♪
[BULLETS WHIZZING, RICOCHETING]
♪
With me!
♪
[GUNSHOT]
[EXPLOSIONS]
♪
[WEAPONS CLANG]
[SCREAMING]
♪
[JAMIE] William!
[TIM] Colonel!
[YOUNG IAN YELLS]
[WAR CRIES ECHO]
♪
Aah!
[GUNSHOTS, EXPLOSIONS]
♪
[BENEDICT WHIMPERING]
[BENEDICT GROANS]
I've set your leg as best I can.
The carriage will take you
to the general hospital in Albany.
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
It's the same leg
where I was hit before.
[SWALLOWS HARD]
I wish it had been my heart.
Here, take some more laudanum.
[GROANS]
I'd be a martyr, then.
I'd be remembered.
You will be remembered.
As it is
Gates will tell the story of the battle,
and he will leave me out of it
as he has always done.
It's a conscious omission
of merit, of fact.
He robs me
of honor and promotion.
Can I be blamed for hating the man?
Mistress Fraser
I do not know you well,
but I ask you
am I wrong to begrudge him this offense?
♪
[SIGHS]
No.
No, you're not wrong.
[SCOFFS]
♪
[JAMIE] You answered him true.
He's as brave a leader as any I've seen.
I hope it wasn't a huge mistake.
Jamie.
I saw him, Claire.
I saw my son.
And?
I nearly shot him.
He was unharmed
when last I laid eyes upon him.
Well, the fighting's over now.
How long till the British
surrender is finalized?
Days
certainly.
The terms must be negotiated.
And I will sleep
and not get up until they are.
[GRUNTING SOFTLY]
[SOLDIER] Colonel Fraser, may I enter?
Aye. Enter.
♪
I am here under a flag of truce.
Speak freely.
You are requested
in the British camp, sir.
General Simon Fraser
has learned of your presence
and wishes to see you
before it is too late.
Will you come?
Aye.
My wife and I will come.
Thank you.
I will accompany you.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[PERSON GASPS]
Your kinsman has arrived, sir.
♪
[SIMON GRUNTS, COUGHS]
He hasn't long.
I'm so sorry, Jamie.
♪
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[SPEAKING GAELIC]
[SPEAKING GAELIC]
I must have eaten something
that disagreed with me.
[CHUCKLES WEAKLY]
'Tis gladness to see you once more
on this earth.
Ah
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
[COUGHS]
When last I saw you,
- we were lads
- [SIMON GRUNTS]
running after the older boys
with shinty sticks
taller than ourselves.
Ah. [CHUCKLES WEAKLY]
Aye.
[COUGHING]
Sorry it must come to this
away from kin
away from Scotland.
I have kin with me now.
And I am content
to die
among my comrades.
♪
[WILLIAM] Mistress Fraser.
[CLAIRE] William.
Lieutenant Lord Ellesmere.
I'm glad to find you well.
[CLAIRE] And you.
Are you going in?
I have said my goodbyes.
Your husband is here, I presume,
the brigadier's cousin?
To see him before
[CLAIRE] Yes.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Thank you.
♪
Or did you mean the battle?
War is a terrible business, William
no matter who wins.
That's the part no one tells you about.
I am beginning to see that.
♪
I gather you've seen
a great deal of war, then,
Mistress Fraser.
More than might seem possible.
♪
He's gone.
♪
William's here.
♪
[GRANT] Where is your hat, Ellesmere?
[WILLIAM] Apologies, sir.
Some rebel whoreson shot if off my head.
[GRANT] Good God, man.
Lucky you weren't killed.
I, uh
♪
believe I owe you a hat
sir.
♪
[WILLIAM BREATHES SHAKILY]
♪
[GRANT] Evidently that was
the rebel whoreson
who deprived you of your hat.
Very decent of him.
♪
Why did you do that?
Because, Claire
for the second time in his life,
I've come within an inch
of shooting my son.
The first was the night of his birth.
And I thought all at once,
"What if I dinna miss a third time?"
I thought I must at least
try to speak to him once
as a man
in case it was my only chance.
[GRANT] Well, put it on, then, Captain.
We must show a good example
to the men, you know?
Captain?
General Fraser wanted you made
captain after the first battle.
Should have been done then, but
Well, General Burgoyne
signed the order this evening.
♪
Did he know?
That it'd been done?
Yes, I told him.
[INHALES DEEPLY] God, it's cold.
♪
No, don't.
The donor of your hat, James Fraser,
said we must leave it open
some Highland fancy about
the soul requiring an exit.
Impressive gentleman,
the brigadier's kinsman.
Indeed.
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Burgoyne's men
are to ground their weapons
on the banks of the Hudson,
sail for England.
The only condition of the surrender
is that they must never fight
in this war again.
So William's safe.
Aye.
Colonel Fraser.
General Gates, sir.
A word with you, Colonel.
Of course.
I require a favor of you.
With pleasure, sir.
[GATES] I gather you've heard
that terms of surrender
have been reached
generous terms, I think you will agree.
Very generous indeed, sir.
[GATES] There is one additional
request from Burgoyne
before he will agree
to sign the capitulation.
They tell me you are a cousin
to General Simon Fraser.
Aye.
[GATES] The general had
at one time expressed
that should he die abroad
that he wished
to be taken back to Scotland,
that he might lie at peace there.
You want me to take
Simon's body to Scotland?
Yes.
It is Burgoyne's last stipulation.
He says the general
was much beloved by his men,
and knowing his wish is fulfilled
will reconcile them to leaving the war,
as they will not feel
they are abandoning him.
Has any provision been made
for my returning to Scotland, sir?
There is a blockade.
You will be transported
with your wife
on one of His Majesty's ships.
Have I your agreement, Colonel Fraser?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[ANIMAL BLEATS]
We're leavin' the war.
It's only a year
later than we hoped, but
we're getting our wish, Sassenach.
We're going to Scotland.
[BRIGHT MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
[RACHEL] Scotland?
Aye.
[ROLLO WHINES]
It's so far away.
[SERIOUS MUSIC PLAYS]
The voyage will be long
and difficult, I imagine.
[YOUNG IAN] Aye.
But go I must
to honor a promise I made long ago.
We must indeed honor our promises.
I've one to ask of you as well.
♪
Will you watch over Rollo for me?
♪
Of course I will.
Not only because I adore him
but because it means thee will return.
♪
The army is marching south.
Thee may find me
at Valley Forge, I am told.
♪
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[STONES DRONING]
Take this.
He'll be cold.
♪
I love you.
I will find him, Bree.
I'll bring him home.
♪
Go.
♪
Bye, Daddy.
♪
[STONES DRONING]
[STONES WHOOSHING]
[CRIES SOFTLY]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[ROLLO PANTING, BARKING]
Good day to thee.
♪
Ye have a handsome hound.
[CHUCKLES] I thank thee,
but he's not mine.
His master has gone abroad.
I'm only looking after him
until he returns.
- [ROLLO PANTS, WHINES]
- [CHUCKLES]
He likes thee.
He doesn't do that with everyone.
Yer friend must love you very much
to entrust you with his dog.
I hope he'll return to you soon.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
[CAT MEOWS]
[DISTANT SHOUTING]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
I miss my dog.
I'm sure he's much happier
on dry land with Rachel.
Hmm. I'd sell my soul to be on dry land.
Do you want to try the needles again?
We are the representation
of the dignity
[GRUNTS] of the American cause
on this ship.
I'll not walk around
lookin' like a porcupine.
Was it the dignity of the American cause
I saw earlier puking his hardtack
- into the Irish Sea?
- [JAMIE GRUNTS]
It was, aye.
[CHUCKLES]
[BELL CLANGING]
[BRIGHT MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
Is that what I think it is?
[PERSON] Land ho!
♪
[SIGHS CONTENTEDLY]
[SINGER SINGING IN GAELIC]
♪
Scotland.
♪
- [CLAIRE] Previously
- [BOWSTRING SNAPS]
- [JAMIE] Mrs. Bug?
- I dinna ken it was you.
When you've something worth taking,
you'll see me again.
My brother wished to lend
his support to the army.
I suppose I'll be seein' more of ye.
I suppose so.
I was gonna take Bobby
to the pictures tomorrow night.
I don't know if Jemmy
would like to join us?
[MANDY] Jemmy is gone!
That bad man took him.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
[JAMIE] Simon Fraser's one
of Burgoyne's brigadiers.
Simon Fraser?
A second cousin.
I canna fault you your courage.
You'll be needing it
if ye're to stay and fight,
if that's what you really want.
[GUNSHOT, FLESH SQUELCHES]
Get up.
You're a different man now.
Come back to me.
And if you don't,
I'll come looking for you.
[MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[CHILD] I got his hat, Mum.
I'm keepin' it.
♪
[JAMIE COUGHS]
[CHILD] He's still alive, Mum.
[COUGHS]
Cut his throat, the treasoner.
- [CLAIRE] Stand back!
- [CHILD GRUNTS]
Or I will choke him to death, I swear.
You can have your pick of the others.
My pick? Do you think I'm a
I've got mouths to feed.
I'm takin' this one.
"This one" is my husband.
[CHILD] Hold her off, Mum.
- I'll take care of him.
- [CLAIRE] Don't!
I will kill you.
Just fucking try me!
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[SPITS]
♪
That tickles, Sassenach.
[CLAIRE CHUCKLES WEAKLY]
Lie still.
There's blood on your shirt.
I'm checking for wounds.
I think it's from your hand.
[GROANS] Think yer right.
- [BOTH GRUNT]
- [SIGHS]
What took ye so long?
Been looking for you all night,
if you must know.
[SIGHS] What happened anyway?
Why are you asking me?
How should I know?
You went and got yourself butchered
like a sodding hog.
Trying to be a hero again
is what it looks like.
[JAMIE GROANS]
[BOTH GRUNT]
[JAMIE] No, what happened
in the battle, I mean.
[PANTS] I ken what happened to me,
roughly.
Why did you enter the fray?
You're a rifleman.
You're supposed to be fighting
from a distance,
not hand-to-hand bloody
Oh, you vainglorious,
pigheaded, grandstanding Scot.
"Grandstanding"?
Yes. You could have been killed.
[JAMIE CHUCKLES] Thought I was,
when the dragoon came down
on me wi' his sword.
I scairt his horse,
and it reared up,
got me in the head and
Stop trying to change the subject.
Is not the subject I'm not killed?
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[CLAIRE] The subject
is your stupid hero complex.
You think I have nothing better to do
than to trot around after you,
sticking pieces back on?
♪
[SCOFFS]
Here.
We were supposed to be in Scotland.
I'm sorry.
I know you couldn't say no,
but you scared me, Jamie.
For now, mo nighean donn,
I thank you for my life.
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
♪
[CLAIRE GRUNTING]
♪
Ah, ye've the tongue
of a venomous shrew, Sassenach.
Ye're a bonnie wee swordsman.
[GROANS]
[SINGER] Sing me a song ♪
Of a lass that is gone ♪
Say, could that lass ♪
Be I? ♪
Merry of soul ♪
She sailed on a day ♪
Over the sea ♪
To Skye ♪
Billow and breeze ♪
Islands and seas ♪
Mountains of rain and sun ♪
All that was good ♪
All that was fair ♪
All that was me ♪
Is gone ♪
Sing me a song ♪
Of a lass that is gone ♪
Say, could that lass ♪
Be I? ♪
Merry of soul ♪
She sailed on a day ♪
Over the sea ♪
To Skye ♪
Sing me a song ♪
Of a lass that is gone ♪
Say, could that lass ♪
Be I? ♪
[JAMIE GROANING SOFTLY]
Ian?
Came back unharmed.
At least he came back.
[WINCES] You must have caught
it near the hilt.
Otherwise it would have split
your hand in two.
[JAMIE GRUNTS]
Shame I didn't have a targe.
[CORK POPS]
This'll have to do for now.
[JAMIE GROANING, SEETHING]
You won't die. I promise.
[JAMIE GROANS]
But I do have other patients that might.
Who won?
[CLAIRE] British are claiming they did.
But only because they held the field
and we retreated back to the camp.
That's only because night fell,
or so I'm told.
Sensible plan.
Reports are they suffered
nearly twice the casualties we did.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
Just because William was at Ticonderoga
doesn't mean he's here.
♪
The garrison's a fort.
He might have stayed.
Aye.
I ken.
[CLAIRE SIGHS]
Go to yer patients, Claire.
I'll I'll sleep if I can.
♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [CLAIRE SMOOCHES]
- Mm. [SIGHS]
♪
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [PERSON COUGHING]
[GROANING]
♪
In all my life, I have lost
four patients on my table.
And now in one day,
that number has increased tenfold.
Thee has done this before, thee said.
How does thee go on?
By knowing that without me,
the number would be even greater.
Think of those that you've saved.
That number has increased today as well.
- Perhaps.
- [INSECTS BUZZING]
Or perhaps I should have chosen
a more peaceable profession.
All this violence is difficult
for a man like me.
- A human being?
- [PERSON COUGHS]
I-I meant a Quaker.
Forgive me, Claire.
- [CLAIRE] For what?
- [SIGHS] For
presuming that this is harder
for me than for thee.
How is Rachel coping?
She is a great help to me.
And she bears it remarkably well.
But the suffering of others
cannot help but take its toll.
Can it be worth it, all this death?
I-I do not doubt our cause, but I
I've asked myself
that question many times.
And I've not always been
confident of the answer
but, yes
I believe it will be.
♪
Excuse me, I
must go tend to my husband.
Of course.
♪
[PERSON] Feel better, Colonel.
♪
[MATCH SCRATCHES]
♪
Hmm.
[INHALES DEEPLY, GROANS]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[OBJECT CLINKS]
Will you have to cut anything off?
- I'll allow it, if you do.
- [LIQUID POURING]
Oh, you will, will you?
[JAMIE] Mm.
[SIGHS] Laudanum.
Sip it and drink every drop.
It's all I have left.
Whatever happens, I'll try my best
to leave you with a working hand,
no infection
and, once it heals,
no pain.
You're not sipping.
It'll make me sick.
[CLAIRE] It'll help mask the pain.
[SCOFFS]
Gives me terrible dreams.
Well, as long as you're not twitching
like Rollo dreaming of chasing rabbits,
I think we'll be all right.
[JAMIE GROANS SOFTLY]
[GRUNTS, WINCES]
- I did tell you to sip it.
- Hmm.
[CLAIRE] Now, let's leave
that for a minute
while we wait for the laudanum
to take effect.
Who was your visitor earlier?
A colonel Johnson.
Micah Johnson, his name was.
I saw him leave. What did he want?
Well, it seems when I'd
and a few others
of Morgan's company, mind
when we entered the fray,
we broke the British charge.
Scattered 'em, it seems.
And Johnson's company
was behind us in the fight.
[CORK POPS]
If the charge had gone through,
he'd have surely lost
the company, he said.
So you saved them.
Not me alone.
That's 50 men in a company.
And not all of them would've
been killed, of course.
[SIGHS]
No, not all of them.
[JAMIE] Eh, it's like the Bible.
That bit where the Abraham
bargains with the Lord
for the cities of the plain.
"Wilt Thou not destroy the city
for the sake of 50 just men?"
And did He
spare the city
for the sake of 50 just men?
Aye. And Abraham kens
he won't find 50,
so he argues the Lord down from 50 to 40
and then 30 and 20
and ten.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
Ten good men
[SIGHS SOFTLY]
would be worth a finger, Sassenach.
Hmm. Or five.
Or [BREATHES DEEPLY]
even one.
♪
You bloody man.
I knew you'd make me cry.
♪
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
♪
Sweet dreams, my love.
You may chase those rabbits now.
♪
[SMOOCHES]
♪
[VEHICLE ENGINE RUMBLES,
CAR DOOR CLOSES]
[GASPS SOFTLY]
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
He did it.
Rob took Jem through the stones.
We found this.
[GASPS]
Oh, my God.
I can't work out why.
Why why would he do this?
♪
It's the gold.
You said someone got
into the letters, so I looked,
and the musket ball is missing
from the box,
and so is one of the letters.
It's the one about the Spaniard's gold.
[SNIFFLES]
[ROGER] God damn him!
[SHOUTS ANGRILY]
[BRIANNA] Roger
[SNIFFLES] What do we do?
What do we do? We can't call the police.
♪
Roger.
- What are you doing?
- I'm goin' after him.
Through the stones?
I have to, Bree.
If you're right,
Rob'll be headed to Inverness
for a ship to America.
I have to go tonight, now.
♪
You stay with Mandy.
[BUCK] What're ye sayin'?
This bastards goin' after Spanish gold?
[ROGER] No. French gold.
King Louis' gold that was meant
for the Jacobites.
Some of it ended up in North Carolina.
[TRUNK SLAMS]
And Jemmy knows the spot
where it's hidden.
And Cameron wants Jem to take him there?
[ROGER] He won't hurt Jem. He needs him.
I'm comin' wi' ye.
It's my time
we'll be goin' to, is it no'?
And
you were gonna send me there anyway.
Only if you wanted to.
♪
I want to help.
You're kin.
Do you still have your old clothes?
[BUCK] Aye.
You'll need this, too.
[ROGER] Where'd this come from?
[BRIANNA] An antique store in town.
I figured we might need it someday.
♪
[HORSE NEIGHS, SNORTS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
[CLAIRE] Well, it is looking
very good for just two weeks,
- even if I say so myself.
- [JAMIE] Hmm.
[CLAIRE] Any pain?
Well, I'll not be gettin'
in any fisticuffs soon,
but, uh, no.
I think I will go take a pish.
Are ye no' happy
with Uncle Jamie's progress?
It means he will fight again.
Mm.
There's going to be
another battle, isn't there?
I think so.
There has to be
something decisive enough
to draw the French into the war
another battle that changes everything.
I'd hoped that Jamie
would stay away from it.
But maybe he's supposed to be there.
Maybe he always was.
[SIGHS] I don't I don't know.
You don't know when?
[CLAIRE] Did you hear anything
while you were on your scout?
Um, Burgoyne is waiting
for Clinton to send aid
or divide us by attacking elsewhere.
But he canna wait forever.
Neither can we.
Some of our generals want to attack,
but Granny Gates says no.
Oh, that's what they call him
commander
because he's
Old. I gathered that.
- [YOUNG IAN CHUCKLES]
- [CLAIRE] Though he is
younger than I am, if anyone's counting.
Oh, Rollo, for goodness' sake,
my goose grease.
I was supposed to give it to Denzell.
He has a patient with an injured rectum,
and he's having trouble
with his movements.
I'll get ye some goose grease, Auntie.
Some Oneida have arrived.
They'll have some, I wager.
Great.
Uh, could you take it to Denzell after?
Or, um, to his sister?
I'd be happy to.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Thank you.
[YOUNG IAN] Rollo, come. [CLICKS TONGUE]
♪
[RACHEL CHUCKLES]
- Rollo.
- [ROLLO WHINES SOFTLY]
And I see thee has brought
thy friend along, too.
Miss Hunter.
[RACHEL] It's nice to see
thee again, Ian Murray.
I brought some goose grease.
My aunt said your brother
needed it for someone's
arsehole, I-I think.
Oh. He'll be pleased.
I thank thee.
He's been so busy
with the sick and injured.
- [CHUCKLES]
- [JAR THUDS]
Sorry, it's slippery. [CHUCKLES]
Uh, the man I got it from said
it was greasier than grease.
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[GRUNTS]
Thee must know better.
[SPEAKING GAELIC AND MOHAWK]
What does thee say?
I'm sorry.
♪
Yes.
I we
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
♪
Thee must not.
We must not.
♪
No. Of course.
Of course we mustn't.
It's no' safe.
Does thee know
how I feel?
I'm not worried
about whether you love me.
I'm worried about whether
you might die because of it.
"Die because of it"?
Thee has cheek.
I didn't say I loved thee.
It's a great deal better you dinna.
♪
I think it's best if ye
dinna touch me.
Because if you do, then I'll
I'll take ye here and now.
And then it's too late for us both.
♪
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER]
- [PESTLE SCRAPING]
- [PERSON] Are you Mrs. Fraser?
I am.
May I help you?
Uh, yes, I was in hopes
we might transact a little business.
I'm told you possess
a stock of cinchona bark.
Is that so?
Yes. Do you suffer from malaria?
No, not I, but I have a gentleman
in my command who does, very badly.
I'd hoped you might be induced
to make a trade.
I used to run a store, you see
a great deal of apothecary stuff
and luxury dry goods in general.
Laudanum?
I was not sure what might best suit you.
I learned it's best to always
give a lady a choice.
- Do you have more of this?
- Indeed. Back at my camp.
Do you require it regularly?
W I don't use it myself,
if that's what you mean.
Though I have.
I took a musket ball
in my left leg some time ago.
Shattered the bone. Great deal of pain.
But I have since weaned myself.
Do you, um, require it regularly?
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] The relief of pain is
one of the more important
things I can give people
who come to see me.
Lord knows
that I can't offer many a cure.
Well, that's
a rather remarkable statement.
Most in your profession
seem to promise cure
to nearly everyone. [CHUCKLES]
Well, I mightn't admit it to my patient,
but it's as well to know one's limits.
[PERSON] Do you think so?
Do you not think that
the admission of such limits
might, in fact, prevent one
from accomplishing
all that is possible
because one assumes
something is not possible?
You know, it might.
[PERSON CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[CLAIRE] I supposed if we didn't believe
that we could accomplish things
beyond reasonable expectation,
well, then [CHUCKLES]
I'm not sure any of us would be here.
[BOTH LAUGH]
[JAMIE] Sassenach.
- Sir.
- Colonel.
Your wife and I
have just been discussing
the philosophy of endeavor.
What do you say?
Does a wise man know his limits
or a bold one deny them?
Well, I've heard it said
that a man's reach
must exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?
[PERSON CHUCKLES]
Well, that is splendid.
[CHUCKLES] Do you recall
where you heard it?
Eh a poet
I believe.
That's right.
Though, um, I can't seem
to recall his name.
[CHUCKLES] It is a perfectly
expressed sentiment.
Well, in any event cinchona bark.
Thank you for the trade, Mr
I'm sorry, I-I don't know your rank.
Oh, no, my apologies, Mrs. Fraser.
What must you think of a man
who bursts into your presence
and fails to introduce himself?
Major General Benedict Arnold.
Your servant, ma'am.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
Sir.
♪
I ken I shouldn't have quoted a poem
that's not yet been written.
♪
Are ye well, Claire?
You look like yer about to fall over.
[SIGHS SOFTLY] I might.
♪
[RACHEL] Will thee pray for me, brother?
I fear I'm in great danger.
Indeed thee is.
Though I am in doubt
that prayer will aid thee much.
What, does thee have no faith
left in God?
Oh, endless faith in God.
In thee? Not quite so much.
Even less in Ian Murray.
How did thee know?
I saw him leave earlier.
And he saw me, though pretended not to.
What did he say to thee?
Nothing.
Not much.
He said
he said that I was in love with him.
And is thee?
How could I be in love with such a man?
If thee were not
I do not think thee would be
asking me to pray.
I will tell him
never to speak to thee again
if thee wishes it.
Or if thee prefers,
I can assure him thy affection
is only that of a friend.
Are those the only alternatives
thee sees?
I have been put out of meeting,
sissy, thee has not.
But to marry such a man as Ian Murray
no meeting would accept it.
♪
He's an American through and through
and a brilliant soldier.
[JAMIE] Well, everyone
likes him, save Granny Gates.
There's bad blood between them.
Over what, I dinna ken,
but the men would follow him anywhere.
[CLAIRE] At some point,
he'll become disillusioned
and decide to switch sides.
He'll start making overtures
to the British.
For an American general
to turn his coat,
it's unthinkable.
His name will become synonymous
with being a traitor.
Two hundred years from now,
if somebody betrays you,
you call them a Benedict Arnold.
It's all he'll ever be remembered for.
We must let it happen?
All I know is he does this
and we win.
And if he doesn't
When?
When will he do it?
That's the problem. I have no idea.
♪
[DANIEL] Tonight we have good news.
[MEN MURMURING HAPPILY]
"Well, what news, Daniel Morgan?"
- [MEN CHUCKLE]
- Well, I will tell you.
[CLEARS THROAT]
From Major General Gates
"Today we have learned
of a great righting of wrongs.
Colonel John Brown
has retaken Sugar Loaf"
- [MEN MURMURING]
- "which the British
now call Mount Defiance."
[LAUGHTER]
"A poor choice of name,
as they were unable to defy
our advances."
[SCATTERED CHUCKLING]
"Though he did not recapture
Ticonderoga itself,
Colonel Brown apprehended
a dozen British officers
and 140 British infantry.
And freed
119 of our own from captivity."
[ALL CHEERING]
And why,
oh, why do we hate
the British, friends?
I can guess what's comin'.
I heard it a week ago. Saw it, too.
[CLAIRE] Saw what?
[CROWD GROANS]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
The British army did that.
To one of their own, mind you.
My crime?
An officer struck me
and I fought back!
[CROWD CHEERING]
See, they don't like that
fighting back.
Gave me 499 lashes.
I counted.
Supposed to give me 500,
but he missed one.
- [LAUGHTER]
- I didn't inform him of it.
[LAUGHTER]
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
Does he know?
♪
I think he can sense
in me a kindred spirit.
But, no.
No, he doesna ken
we're kindred of flesh as well.
♪
[LAUGHTER]
♪
[RHYTHMIC DRUMMING PLAYING]
♪
- [CANNON FIRE, SOLDIERS SHOUT]
- [SOLDIER] Halt!
- [GUNSHOT]
- [SOLDIER GROANS]
[DANIEL] That's it!
Make 'em fear for their skulls.
[GUN COCKS]
♪
[GUNSHOT]
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING, GUNSHOTS]
♪
[BENEDICT] Shoot the generals, boys.
Don't you see who that is?
It's Simon Fraser.
Shoot him!
God's blood. Cousin.
[GENERAL FRASER] For King and country!
- [HORSE NEIGHS]
- King and country!
[DANIEL] General Arnold is right.
I admire and respect General Fraser,
but it is necessary that he should die.
♪
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING, GUNSHOTS]
♪
Damn your eyes for a crew of blind men!
Colonel!
Shoot him, why don't you?
♪
[SIMON] Fire!
[HORSE NEIGHS]
♪
[SIMON] Fire.
♪
I got him!
[SOLDIERS CHEERING]
♪
[SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]
[SOLDIERS CHEERING]
Follow me, boys! To the redoubt!
[SOLDIER] Pull back!
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING]
♪
[SOLDIER] Pull back!
[SOLDIERS SHOUTING]
♪
Follow that goddamn fool.
He'll win us this battle,
if he survives it.
[DISTANT SHOUTING]
♪
[SOLDIER] To the redoubt!
To the redoubt!
♪
[BULLETS WHIZZING, RICOCHETING]
♪
With me!
♪
[GUNSHOT]
[EXPLOSIONS]
♪
[WEAPONS CLANG]
[SCREAMING]
♪
[JAMIE] William!
[TIM] Colonel!
[YOUNG IAN YELLS]
[WAR CRIES ECHO]
♪
Aah!
[GUNSHOTS, EXPLOSIONS]
♪
[BENEDICT WHIMPERING]
[BENEDICT GROANS]
I've set your leg as best I can.
The carriage will take you
to the general hospital in Albany.
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
It's the same leg
where I was hit before.
[SWALLOWS HARD]
I wish it had been my heart.
Here, take some more laudanum.
[GROANS]
I'd be a martyr, then.
I'd be remembered.
You will be remembered.
As it is
Gates will tell the story of the battle,
and he will leave me out of it
as he has always done.
It's a conscious omission
of merit, of fact.
He robs me
of honor and promotion.
Can I be blamed for hating the man?
Mistress Fraser
I do not know you well,
but I ask you
am I wrong to begrudge him this offense?
♪
[SIGHS]
No.
No, you're not wrong.
[SCOFFS]
♪
[JAMIE] You answered him true.
He's as brave a leader as any I've seen.
I hope it wasn't a huge mistake.
Jamie.
I saw him, Claire.
I saw my son.
And?
I nearly shot him.
He was unharmed
when last I laid eyes upon him.
Well, the fighting's over now.
How long till the British
surrender is finalized?
Days
certainly.
The terms must be negotiated.
And I will sleep
and not get up until they are.
[GRUNTING SOFTLY]
[SOLDIER] Colonel Fraser, may I enter?
Aye. Enter.
♪
I am here under a flag of truce.
Speak freely.
You are requested
in the British camp, sir.
General Simon Fraser
has learned of your presence
and wishes to see you
before it is too late.
Will you come?
Aye.
My wife and I will come.
Thank you.
I will accompany you.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[PERSON GASPS]
Your kinsman has arrived, sir.
♪
[SIMON GRUNTS, COUGHS]
He hasn't long.
I'm so sorry, Jamie.
♪
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[SPEAKING GAELIC]
[SPEAKING GAELIC]
I must have eaten something
that disagreed with me.
[CHUCKLES WEAKLY]
'Tis gladness to see you once more
on this earth.
Ah
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
[COUGHS]
When last I saw you,
- we were lads
- [SIMON GRUNTS]
running after the older boys
with shinty sticks
taller than ourselves.
Ah. [CHUCKLES WEAKLY]
Aye.
[COUGHING]
Sorry it must come to this
away from kin
away from Scotland.
I have kin with me now.
And I am content
to die
among my comrades.
♪
[WILLIAM] Mistress Fraser.
[CLAIRE] William.
Lieutenant Lord Ellesmere.
I'm glad to find you well.
[CLAIRE] And you.
Are you going in?
I have said my goodbyes.
Your husband is here, I presume,
the brigadier's cousin?
To see him before
[CLAIRE] Yes.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Thank you.
♪
Or did you mean the battle?
War is a terrible business, William
no matter who wins.
That's the part no one tells you about.
I am beginning to see that.
♪
I gather you've seen
a great deal of war, then,
Mistress Fraser.
More than might seem possible.
♪
He's gone.
♪
William's here.
♪
[GRANT] Where is your hat, Ellesmere?
[WILLIAM] Apologies, sir.
Some rebel whoreson shot if off my head.
[GRANT] Good God, man.
Lucky you weren't killed.
I, uh
♪
believe I owe you a hat
sir.
♪
[WILLIAM BREATHES SHAKILY]
♪
[GRANT] Evidently that was
the rebel whoreson
who deprived you of your hat.
Very decent of him.
♪
Why did you do that?
Because, Claire
for the second time in his life,
I've come within an inch
of shooting my son.
The first was the night of his birth.
And I thought all at once,
"What if I dinna miss a third time?"
I thought I must at least
try to speak to him once
as a man
in case it was my only chance.
[GRANT] Well, put it on, then, Captain.
We must show a good example
to the men, you know?
Captain?
General Fraser wanted you made
captain after the first battle.
Should have been done then, but
Well, General Burgoyne
signed the order this evening.
♪
Did he know?
That it'd been done?
Yes, I told him.
[INHALES DEEPLY] God, it's cold.
♪
No, don't.
The donor of your hat, James Fraser,
said we must leave it open
some Highland fancy about
the soul requiring an exit.
Impressive gentleman,
the brigadier's kinsman.
Indeed.
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Burgoyne's men
are to ground their weapons
on the banks of the Hudson,
sail for England.
The only condition of the surrender
is that they must never fight
in this war again.
So William's safe.
Aye.
Colonel Fraser.
General Gates, sir.
A word with you, Colonel.
Of course.
I require a favor of you.
With pleasure, sir.
[GATES] I gather you've heard
that terms of surrender
have been reached
generous terms, I think you will agree.
Very generous indeed, sir.
[GATES] There is one additional
request from Burgoyne
before he will agree
to sign the capitulation.
They tell me you are a cousin
to General Simon Fraser.
Aye.
[GATES] The general had
at one time expressed
that should he die abroad
that he wished
to be taken back to Scotland,
that he might lie at peace there.
You want me to take
Simon's body to Scotland?
Yes.
It is Burgoyne's last stipulation.
He says the general
was much beloved by his men,
and knowing his wish is fulfilled
will reconcile them to leaving the war,
as they will not feel
they are abandoning him.
Has any provision been made
for my returning to Scotland, sir?
There is a blockade.
You will be transported
with your wife
on one of His Majesty's ships.
Have I your agreement, Colonel Fraser?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[ANIMAL BLEATS]
We're leavin' the war.
It's only a year
later than we hoped, but
we're getting our wish, Sassenach.
We're going to Scotland.
[BRIGHT MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
[RACHEL] Scotland?
Aye.
[ROLLO WHINES]
It's so far away.
[SERIOUS MUSIC PLAYS]
The voyage will be long
and difficult, I imagine.
[YOUNG IAN] Aye.
But go I must
to honor a promise I made long ago.
We must indeed honor our promises.
I've one to ask of you as well.
♪
Will you watch over Rollo for me?
♪
Of course I will.
Not only because I adore him
but because it means thee will return.
♪
The army is marching south.
Thee may find me
at Valley Forge, I am told.
♪
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[STONES DRONING]
Take this.
He'll be cold.
♪
I love you.
I will find him, Bree.
I'll bring him home.
♪
Go.
♪
Bye, Daddy.
♪
[STONES DRONING]
[STONES WHOOSHING]
[CRIES SOFTLY]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[ROLLO PANTING, BARKING]
Good day to thee.
♪
Ye have a handsome hound.
[CHUCKLES] I thank thee,
but he's not mine.
His master has gone abroad.
I'm only looking after him
until he returns.
- [ROLLO PANTS, WHINES]
- [CHUCKLES]
He likes thee.
He doesn't do that with everyone.
Yer friend must love you very much
to entrust you with his dog.
I hope he'll return to you soon.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
[CAT MEOWS]
[DISTANT SHOUTING]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
I miss my dog.
I'm sure he's much happier
on dry land with Rachel.
Hmm. I'd sell my soul to be on dry land.
Do you want to try the needles again?
We are the representation
of the dignity
[GRUNTS] of the American cause
on this ship.
I'll not walk around
lookin' like a porcupine.
Was it the dignity of the American cause
I saw earlier puking his hardtack
- into the Irish Sea?
- [JAMIE GRUNTS]
It was, aye.
[CHUCKLES]
[BELL CLANGING]
[BRIGHT MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
Is that what I think it is?
[PERSON] Land ho!
♪
[SIGHS CONTENTEDLY]
[SINGER SINGING IN GAELIC]
♪
Scotland.
♪