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Poor, poor Mary Hawkins.
In tonight's episode of Outlander, Claire (Caitriona Balfe) finally realized why Louise's young friend's name is so familiar to her, and it was not a happy realization.
In 1746, Mary (Rosie Day) would marry Jack
Randall, and would continue the Randall family line that eventually
leads to Frank. As if that fate weren't sad enough, Claire connected the
dots just after learning that Mary didn't even understand what sex was
or why anyone would ever partake in such an activity. While the idea of
this future/past/present marriage is truly disturbing, Claire had to put
it out of her mind for most of the episode as she struggled with
whether or not to tell Jamie (Sam Heughan) that his greatest enemy is still alive.
The more luck he had with his political dealings, the less
Claire wanted to ruin his good mood, and Jamie was in quite the good
mood by the end of the night.
During another day spent with Charles in the brothel, Jamie
came across a young thief named Claudel. He promptly hired him, renamed
him Fergus, and sent him on a mission to steal Jacobite-related mail,
much of which was in code. One letter included piece of sheet music that
required some Da Vinci Code-like deciphering to read, and it
ended up confirming suspicions of a conspiracy theory in which the
English were helping to fund the Jacobite movement.
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Of course, the issue with that is that if Jamie meets with the duke, he will surely find out that Black Jack is still alive, which is going to put quite the damper on his feeling of accomplishment.
Meanwhile, Claire took a little too well to her duties as
lady of the house before she realized being the lady of the house was
not what she wanted her purpose here to be. After nearly yelling at
Murtagh and her maid, Suzette, for having sex instead of mending
Claire's clothes and doing whatever it is Murtagh is supposed to be
doing, Claire headed to the hospital to seek out a more productive way
to spend her time.
At L'Hopital Des Anges, Claire met Mother Hildegarde (Frances de la Tour) and her small dog, Bouton, and was able to prove her medical skills (and potential future as a Woman vs. Wild)
by tasting a woman's urine and diagnosing her with diabetes/"sugar
sickness." Hildegarde turned out to be helpful in more ways than one
when she was able to explain how to decode the sheet music (with help
from stories of her friend, Johann Sebastian Bach).
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Because Jamie is Jamie, he could not have been less happy
to hear that Claire was happy in her new job. "But what about me!" he
basically said, along with, "What about the baby?" He was pissed at her
for endangering their child and for daring to find her own thing to do
instead of sitting at home and waiting to help him with the thing he was
doing. It was one of those rare reminders that despite all that is
great about him, Jamie is still a man raised at a time when women served
their husbands and ran their households and drank tea, and didn't do
much more than that.
Because Claire is Claire, she refused to listen to Jamie, so she's not giving up her new duties at the hospital any time soon.
And finally, will anyone ever be able to unsee the
masked woman who painted a butt on her front and breasts on her back? We
sure won't. She will haunt us in our nightmares forever, accompanied
closely by the madam and her magnifying glass, but at least this year's
nightmares are better than the one we were having last season...
Outlander airs Saturdays at 9 p.m. on Starz.
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