The date was incorrect in the show's timeline, they arrive in France in April/May 1744. The original airing of the episode displayed the caption "Le Havre, France 1745" for the scene when Claire and Jamie arrive in France.The episode title comes from 1 Corinthians 13:12: For now we see through a glass, darkly but then face to face: now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known.Caitriona Balfe as Claire Randall Fraser.Germain declares he will have his revenge.
Germain, Jared's business rival, when Claire insists that his ship be burnt following an outbreak of smallpox among the crew – an act for which St. Jared offers to help them by giving them run of his home and business while he is away. As Claire steps off the airplane to start her new life in Boston, her mind takes her back to the day she arrived at Le Havre with Jamie.Ĭlaire and Jamie having chosen their path to try and alter the future, find their way into Prince Charles Stuart's favor via Jamie's wealthy wine merchant cousin Jared Fraser. To escape the tabloids, Frank proposes that they get as far from Scotland – and hopefully Claire's memories of this 'Jamie' – and move to Boston, where he has been offered a position at Harvard University.
Claire tries to make him leave her, but Frank refuses, even after she tells him the whole story of where she'd been, about loving and marrying Jamie, and more importantly about being pregnant with Jamie's child. Following a meeting with a motorist, Claire comes face to face with her estranged husband Frank Randall in a hospital. Shifting back to 18th century, Jamie, Claire and Murtagh arrive in France, but learn that Paris presents its own challenges.Ĭlaire 'wakes' at Craigh na Dun in anguish over everything she's left behind, as she has returned to her own time. This episode originally aired on Sam Heughan's 36th birthday.Returning to her own time, Claire must reconcile her future with the life she left behind.Set designers used the mock-heroic poem The Dispensary by Samuel Garth as inspiration for Master Raymond's apothecary.His character is based on a real hangman who worked in Paris at roughly the time of the novel. Monsieur Forez, who appears in this episode, was first introduced in Chapter 14, "Meditations on the Flesh" in Dragonfly in Amber."La Dame Blanche" is the title of Chapter 20 of Dragonfly in Amber, though the events of the episode actually occur in the preceding three chapters: Chapter 16, "The Nature of Sulfur" Chapter 17, "Possession" and Chapter 18, "A Rape in Paris".Herbert Forthuber as Général D'Arbanville.Frances de La Tour as Mother Hildegarde.However, the recovering Mary reacts badly to her lover Alexander's attempts to console her, making him look guilty. It is rudely interrupted after Claire has saved Mary Hawkins from being raped by bandits, who flee at Claire's presence, calling her La Dame Blanche. Claire is also surprised by Jamie's reaction to her news regarding Black Jack whilst, learning of Charles's indiscretion with the married Louise Claire and Jamie hope to compromise him into aborting his invasion and throw a dinner party, also inviting the Duke of Sandringham. Germain but her apothecary friend Master Raymond cannot identify the poison's purchaser. Meanwhile, Claire's revelation that Jack Randall is alive sparks Jamie in an unexpected way as he and Claire struggle to regain their physical intimacy.Ĭlaire survives being poisoned and suspects St. Claire and Jamie throw an elaborate dinner party intended to derail investors in Prince Charles' war effort.