Murtagh reminded Claire that Sandringham’s secretary is the brother of Black Jack Randall and any meeting with them is bound to expose the truth about Randall’s survival.
Two episodes back, fans the world over were actually caught by surprise when instead of picking up from the Season 1 finale where Jamie and Claire were already onboard a boat heading to France to escape the likely persecution they will get from the English, the first episode of Season 2 opened in the unlikeliest of setting – Scotland in 1948.
The first episode of the second season of “Outlander” had the title “Through a Glass, Darkly,” began by showing a distraught Claire reuniting with her first husband Frank Randall, played by Tobias Menzies.
But instead of telling him how she missed him after being away for so long, her immediate concern was to know what the outcome of the infamous Battle of Culloden was and find out whether she and Jamie had succeeded in changing the course of history.
Quite interestingly, more than half of the first episode of Season 1 featured Frank and Claire’s attempts to reconcile what had happened to Claire in the past even as they look towards an uncertain future together since the heart is no longer there for Claire.