These other people may come in, and they may, in some way, claim ownership or whatever that might be, but it doesn’t make Claire insecure,” Balfe told Vulture. “What I love is that Claire’s not insecure about her love for Jamie or Jamie’s love for her. Eventually, Jamie reveals why he’d given Murtagh one of his mother’s candlesticks last episode: He’d asked him to fashion a new wedding ring for Claire, with an inscription that translates to “Give me a thousand kisses,” a reference to their special poem.įor Balfe, that scene was especially poignant because it came after those intense yet ultimately uplifting conversations with Lord John.
It makes me jealous of the rain itself,” he says). While Jamie takes young William on a tour of the land, Claire nurses John back to health and the two confess their jealousies: She’s envious of the time he spent with Jamie after she’d gone back through the stones he wishes he could have the look of satisfaction she wears being with a man she loves.Īfter John and William leave, Claire relaxes in a bath as Jamie pours warm water over her back (“So often I’ve burned for you. The hour finds Claire spending days alone in the cabin with Lord John Grey (David Berry), who’d journeyed to Fraser’s Ridge and promptly comes down with the measles. In Sunday’s episode, “ Blood of My Blood,” we finally learn why. She answered with one emoji: the bathtub.
Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan in Outlander.īack in September, when Caitriona Balfe did a Twitter Q&A to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the day Starz announced that she’d been cast as Outlander’s Claire Fraser, a fan asked her to pick her favorite scene she’d filmed for the show’s fourth season.