After the Druids leave, the curious couple decide to explore the area when Claire spots a patch of blue flowers. (Try saying that three times fast.) Hiding behind a bush, they watch a group of women perform a strange dancing ritual to welcome the rising sun.
The next day, Frank takes Claire to a “witches’ gathering” up at a set of standing stones on Craigh na Dun. The sex is plentiful and hot, so why did they have to go and ruin everything with marriage?Ĭredit: Starz Claire and Frank Randall: Paranormal investigators Even if we didn’t see his face, WE KNOW IT’S HIM.)Ĭlaire and Frank (Tobias Menzies) are on honeymoon in Scotland to rekindle their love. Frank attempts to approach the Peeping Tom, but there’s a flash of lightning and the Highlander is gone! Poof! Magically disappeared! (And the audience lets out a collective sigh, because we all know it’s our first glimpse of Jamie Fraser. Later on in the evening, as Frank is returning after what we’re sure was a THRILLING night of genealogy research, he comes across a young man decked head to toe in Scottish Highlander gear, standing outside of Claire’s window and watching her inside. Graham is confused by what she finds in Claire’s future (two marriages, but at the same time, WHAT COULD IT MEAN?!), and Claire, spooked, heads home early. Claire obviously finds all of this really boring (I would too) and agrees to have her future read by the Reverend’s housekeeper, Mrs.
Likes: History, talking more about history, wearing fancy hatsįrank has a keen interest in his own genealogy and enlists the help of the local Reverend Wakefield to help trace his lineage back to a 1700s English army captain, “Black Jack” Jonathan Randall. That’s definitely a breath of fresh air for television. Claire is a female character who isn’t afraid of her sexuality, but who is also not defined by it. She’s on her second honeymoon after having been separated from her husband Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies, most recently seen in “Game of Thrones”) during the war and this trip to Inverness is their way of attempting to get their relationship back on track. She’s the kind of character you want to root for - the kind who chugs champagne straight from the bottle and who doesn’t wear any underwear during a tour through historical ruins. Likes: Sex in strange places, cursing liberally, vasesĬlaire is progressive even in her own era, and we learn as much in the first half of the first episode. Repercussions occur!Ĭredit: Starz Meet Claire: Bad-ass WWII nurse “Sassenach” (a not-very-nice way of saying “English person” in Scots) opens with a slow panning shot of an unmistakably moody Scottish heath, and Claire foreshadowing her own mysterious disappearance from 1945 Inverness via voice-over.Ĭlaire does what any smart, strong-willed woman would and ventures out without her husband to a witches’ playground. Helmed by “Battlestar Galactica” genius Ron Moore, fans of the books have very little to worry about, as the pilot is as every bit as sumptuous, visceral and delightful as a bottle of well-aged whiskey.