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“Dragonfly in Amber” (Season 2, Episode 13)

What happens: As the fateful Battle of Culloden draws closer, Jamie sees the writing on the wall and, knowing the rebellion will fail, sends Claire back through the standing stones. The episode goes back and forth between scenes of Jamie and (a pregnant once more) Claire’s last few hours together and ones of Claire in 1968, as she’s visiting Scotland with her red-haired, 20-year-old daughter, Brianna.

Bree finds out Jamie, not Frank, is her father, while Claire discovers Jamie did not die at Culloden. Along with new character Roger, they witness Gillian Edgars, aka Geillis, go through the stones. Claire decides then and there to return to Jamie.

Why it’s important: Bree and Roger, who apparently are major characters in the Outlander books, are here, so yay, I guess? They’re not my favorite characters, but they’re here to stay as of “Dragonfly in Amber,” the second season finale.

For the most part, this episode serves as a set-up for season 3 as a whole. The tension that’s been building all season towards Culloden is diffused right away, when we see Claire attending Reverend Wakefield’s funeral in 1968. We know she didn’t die at Culloden, and, since Outlander does not end with this episode, we know Jamie won’t either.

So the purpose of “Dragonfly in Amber” is to further build Outlander’s world and whet the audience’s interest in how exactly Claire and Jamie will find their way back to each other. It’s not a question of if, but when.

The best part: Claire letting out her long-simmering resentments about Charles Stuart as she looks at a mannequin of his likeness at a Highlands museum in 1968. Grudges, like love, can transcend time, too, apparently.