![]() This season thus far has put all of its energy into Jamie being forced to hunt Murtagh. What should be propelling the pace and driving the action - Jamie’s reunion with Lieutenant Knox - is instead buried under Claire’s voiceover and writing that hits us over the head with its metaphor. This structurally works just fine, I suppose, and it’s fun to see Sixties Claire again, but it takes up a large portion of the episode, dominating the action and slowing the pace way down. (Connection, see?) More than the medical, though, Outlander wants to connect Claire’s future past with her past present by showing us that, even when she was away from Jamie, fate conspired to make her remember him, in the form of a friendly Scottish man in need of gallbladder surgery. This sets up an odd flashback (flash forward?) to the ’60s, during which Claire is treating a Scottish patient for a gallstone infection with Penicillin.
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