Episode 714: "Ye Dinna Get Used To It" (SPOILERS!)

Here are my reactions to Episode 714 of the OUTLANDER TV series, titled "Ye Dinna Get Used To It". This episode was written by Diana Gabaldon, and I really enjoyed it!

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The episode opens in London in 1775, before the events of Season 7. This scene between Lord John and his brother Hal, Duke of Pardloe, is not in the book, but I thought it was helpful, especially as a way to explain Hal's political leanings.

As in the books, Hal is suffering from gout. "The quacks have ordered me not to travel," he says.

I liked that. A simple, reasonable explanation for why Hal hasn't appeared in this season until now.

Hal wants John to travel to America in his stead. "I can issue you a new warrant of commission this instant," he says, and begins to write John's full name on the paper in front of him. "John William Bertram Armstrong--" I thought that was an effective way to let the TV-only viewers know that John's alias in the previous episode, "Bertram Armstrong", was not chosen at random; it's actually two of his own middle names.

John refuses the offer of a commission, and the conversation turns to their sons. William hasn't yet received his commission in the Army, but his cousin Henry is now serving as a Lieutenant. Lord John is reluctant to have William join the army now, because he believes (as most people in Britain did at the time) that the conflict in the Colonies would be a short-lived one.

"Peace. Reconciliation with Mother England. It is still possible."

I thought this exchange was particularly interesting:

Hal: "America is a son who has dishonored his father. Let that behavior go unpunished, and what becomes of our other colonies, hmm?"
John: "If my son had done something that I felt dishonored me, I wouldn't harm or kill him in consequence."
Hal: "Well, you only have one. I've certainly wanted to kill one or another of mine on occasion."

Given what we know from BEES about what Hal's eldest son, Ben, will do, that strikes me as ominous!

Hal asks John to give his word "that you will never accept the notion of American independency," and John agrees, "Never!"

Well, as Jamie likes to say, "circumstances alter cases". In the next scene, which comes straight from the book, we're back in 1778, somewhere in the woods outside Philadelphia.

And as the sun set on the third day since he had left his home, Lord John William Bertram Armstrong Grey found himself once more a free man, with a full belly, a swimming head, a badly mended musket, and severely chafed wrists, standing before the Reverend Peleg Woodsworth, right hand uplifted, reciting as prompted:

“I, Bertram Armstrong, swear to be true to the United States of America, and to serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies and opposers whatsoever, and to observe and obey the orders of the Continental Congress and the orders of the generals and officers set over me by them.”

Bloody hell, he thought. What next?

(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 25, "Give Me Liberty..." Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

The irony of Lord John, that most Loyalist of men, swearing allegiance to the American army, always makes me laugh. But it's a great example of a storytelling technique Diana Gabaldon has described (paraphrasing) as, "Think of the one thing that your character would never, ever do in a million years, and then figure out why they have to do it."

The title card for this episode shows a woman, presumably Betsy Ross, sewing stars onto an American flag.

The next scene is not in the book. Jamie is in Lord John's house, putting up a new chandelier to replace the fancy one that William destroyed in Episode 712, when a Continental Army officer knocks on the door. He enters the house without bothering to introduce himself, infuriating Mrs. Figg, the black housekeeper. The officer is looking for a suitable place to hold a dinner for General Washington and his senior officers, and the dining room in Lord John's house will do nicely.

Sorry, but every time I look at that dining table, I'm reminded of Jamie and Claire having sex there in Episode 712, "Carnal Knowledge". I just can't get that image out of my head, and I'm sure I'm not alone!

The lieutenant informs Jamie and Mrs. Figg that the dinner will take place that evening. I thought Mrs. Figg's reaction was pretty calm, under the circumstances. So she's expected to prepare a formal dinner for Washington and his generals, in a matter of hours, all by herself, without any warning at all? That's ridiculous and contrived, IMHO.

The scene in which Claire meets the Marquis de La Fayette comes straight from the book:

“Have I the, um, honor of addressing--” Bloody hell, what was his actual title? Assuming that he really was--

“Pardon, madame!” he exclaimed, and, seizing my hand, bowed low over it and kissed it. “Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, à votre service!”

I managed to pick “La Fayette” out of this torrent of Gallic syllables and felt the odd little thump of excitement that happened whenever I met someone I knew of from historical accounts--though cold sober realism told me that these people were usually no more remarkable than the people who were cautious or lucky enough not to end up decorating historical accounts with their blood and entrails.

(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 54, "In Which I Meet a Turnip". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

I love Claire's reaction when she realizes who he is. La Fayette looks and sounds very much as I imagined from the book. Very young, of course. He was born in 1757, so he's only 21 here, a little older than William.

At the dinner party, General Washington comments that "Gilbert [the Marquis de La Fayette] is as a son to me." The dialogue in this scene is mostly not from the book. One of the generals, Charles Lee (a real historical figure), criticizes General Washington in front of the others, but Jamie puts an end to the incipient argument by announcing that Ian has located the British General Clinton's camp, and the enemy is much closer than they had thought.

Claire's attention is distracted at this point when La Fayette introduces his aide, Percival Beauchamp. Finally, we get our first look at Percy! The dialogue here comes from ECHO. Claire is startled, recognizing his French pronunciation of her maiden name, Beauchamp. Could he possibly be an ancestor of hers?

Don’t be silly, I scolded myself. It isn’t an uncommon name. Likely he hasn’t anything at all to do with your family! And yet--a French-English connection. I knew my father’s family had come from France to England sometime in the eighteenth century--but that was all I knew about them. I stared at him in fascination. Was there anything familiar about his face, anything I could match with my faint recollections of my parents, the stronger ones of my uncle?

(From AN ECHO IN THE BONE by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 18, "Pulling Teeth". Copyright © 2009 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

But Monsieur Beauchamp quickly dashes Claire's hopes, saying, "My people are from La Manche", not Compiègne, where (as we learned in Season 1) Claire's French ancestors lived.

The question of Percy's possible relationship to Claire's family has generated a lot of speculation in the fandom over the years, but if Percy is telling the truth here, it appears they're going to skip over that whole subplot in the show, in the interest of condensing things.

The rest of this scene is not in the book. General Washington presents Jamie and Claire with "a small keepsake" in thanks for their hospitality: an American flag sewn by the famous Betsy Ross.

"A nation without a flag is like a furnace without a fire." Good line, and a pretty eloquent statement coming from Claire, who doesn't often speak in metaphorical terms like that. However, I didn't care for the rest of that discussion about the symbolism of the flag. [UPDATE 12/29/24: Diana Gabaldon has confirmed on TheLitForum that she didn't write that part. When I asked if she'd written it, she said simply, "Nope."]

As the guests depart, General Lee and Jamie go off for a private discussion of war strategy. The Marquis de La Fayette gives Claire a Roquefort cheese. (Pay attention to that cheese. It will be important later!)

Meanwhile, back in 1980, Bree returns to Lallybroch at night (without the kids) to discover that the locksmith has left a note on the door: "Sorry I missed you. Will reschedule." Bree doesn't react outwardly, but in the book, we know what she's thinking:

She crumpled the note and stuffed it into her jacket pocket, muttering under her breath. Bloody kidnapping rapist bastards walking in and out of her house like it was the public highway and this wasn’t an emergency?

(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 36, "The Scent of a Stranger". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

The next scene, with Ian and Rachel, is not in the book. It's sweet, I like the bantering between them, but it seems designed specifically so that there would be a sex scene in this episode, and I thought it wasn't really necessary.

Meanwhile, Jamie returns from his meeting with General Charles Lee. This scene isn't in the book. Claire and Jamie discuss the two historical figures, General Lee and the Marquis de La Fayette. Claire is munching on bits of the Roquefort cheese La Fayette gave her. Jamie tells her that he's been given command of ten companies of militia -- three hundred men!

"That's impressive!" Claire says, and I agree. "You'll have to be careful, or Brianna will find you in the history books."
"It's not always a good thing to be found in the history books," Jamie says.

I liked that exchange. Jamie learned that the hard way in BEES!

Jamie is worried about the upcoming battle, and for good reason.

Three hundred men. Jamie stepped into the darkness beyond the 16th New Jersey’s campfire and paused for a moment to let his eyes adjust. Three hundred bloody men. He’d never led a band of more than fifty. And never had much in the way of subalterns, no more than one or two men under him.

Now he had ten militia companies, each with its own captain and a few informally appointed lieutenants, and Lee had given him a staff of his own: two aides-de-camp, a secretary--now, that he could get used to, he thought, flexing the fingers of his maimed right hand--three captains, one of whom was striding along at his shoulder, trying not to look worrit, ten of his own lieutenants, who would serve as liaison between him and the companies under his command, a cook, an assistant cook--and, of course, he had a surgeon already.

(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 64, "Three Hundred and One". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

"But all I need just now is you, Sassenach." Awwwww!!

In the next scene, William arrives at the British army camp, and is immediately dressed down by the camp's commander, for his sloppy dress and lack of an officer's gorget. "You look like a groom from one of my father's estates," the officer says.

Ouch! Of course that's a painful reminder for William of just who his biological father is.

William returns to his tent to brush the dirt from his uniform coat and change his clothes. "Stercus", he mutters. I smiled at that, because William shares his Uncle Hal's habit of swearing in Latin. (According to the Acknowledgements in WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD, "stercus" means "shit" in Latin.)

Hearing a noise behind him, William turns to find Jane (the prostitute we met in Episode 712) and a young girl he's never seen before, who turns out to be Jane's sister, Frances (aka Fanny). This scene comes straight from the book.

Fanny, a very lovely young girl with dark curls peeping out under her cap--what was she, eleven, twelve?--bobbed him a sweet curtsy, blue-and-red-calico petticoats outspread, and dropped long lashes modestly over the big, soft eyes of a young doe.

“Your most humble servant, mademoiselle,” he said, bowing with as much grace as possible, which, judging from the expressions on the girls’ faces, was probably a mistake. Fanny clapped a hand over her mouth and went much redder from the effort not to laugh.

“I am charmed to meet your sister,” he said to Jane, rather coldly. “But I fear you take me at something of a disadvantage, madam.”

(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 64, "Three Hundred and One". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

Silvia Presente does a wonderful job as Jane! She really embodies the character we know from the book, IMHO, and it's a pleasure to watch her.

Jane gives William back his officer's gorget. In return, she asks for William's protection, for herself and her sister, because Captain Harkness (the obnoxious officer we met in the brothel in Episode 712) may be somewhere nearby.

Back at Lallybroch in 1980, Bree gets her shotgun out of the trunk of her car and settles down to watch the house. This scene is a condensed version of MOHB chapter 41, "In Which Things Converge", which Diana Gabaldon refers to as the "Shootout at the OK Corral". Bree sees a man approach the door of the house, walk in and turn on the lights, as brazenly as though he owned the place. (How infuriating!!) Then she takes a closer look. There are two of them!

Suddenly she hears a vehicle approaching. It's Ernie and Fiona, in Ernie's van, and Jem and Mandy are inside.

“Bloody hell,” she said. “Bloody, bloody hell!”

The truck’s door opened and Jem tumbled out, then turned round to help Mandy, who was no more than a short dark blot in the recesses of the truck.

“GET BACK IN THE TRUCK!” Brianna bellowed, leaping down the slope, skittering on rolling stones and bending her ankles in spongy patches of heather. “JEMMY! GET BACK!”

She saw Jem turn, his face white in the glare of the light, but it was too late. The front door flew open and two dark figures rushed out, running for the truck.

She wasted no more breath but ran for all she was worth. A shotgun was useless at any distance--or maybe not. She skidded to a halt, shouldered the gun, and fired. Buckshot flew into the gorse with a whizzing sound like tiny arrows, but the bang had halted the intruders in their tracks.

(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 41, "In Which Things Converge". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

In the midst of the confusion that follows, the two intruders flee the house, someone smashes a rifle butt against the windshield of Ernie's van, and Bree orders the kids to stay down, hide as best they can in the back of the vehicle. Ernie struggles to get the van started, and suddenly Bree sees Rob Cameron's vehicle coming up the driveway. Rob is clearly in cahoots with these intruders.

Just as Ernie finally gets the van started, Rob Cameron yells, "Callahan!" and we get a good look at the face of one of the intruders. He looks remarkably like Captain Richardson. (Or does he??) In the book, Bree identifies this man as Michael Callahan, an archaeologist who had visited Lallybroch shortly before Jem was kidnapped.

The question of whether Richardson and Callahan are indeed one and the same has been debated ever since GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE came out in 2021. Personally I think it's unlikely, but it's not impossible. We just don't know for sure.

Back in the British army camp, William tells Jane and Frances that he's arranged for them to join the "camp-followers", women who travel with the army to take care of laundry and other daily chores. This scene comes straight from the book. Jane says she doesn't know how to do laundry, and William tries to give her money to buy what she needs, but that only makes her more upset.

“I’ve never had any money!” she snapped, and threw the guinea on the ground at his feet. “I know the names of the coins, but I don’t know what you can buy with them, except--except--what you can buy in a brothel! My cunt is worth six shillings, all right? My mouth is three. And my arse is a pound. But if someone gave me three shillings, I wouldn’t know if I could buy a loaf of bread or a horse with them! I’ve never bought anything! [....] I’ve never had a penny to my name, let alone spent one. And now you hand me ... that”--she stamped her foot on the guinea, driving it into the ground--“and tell me to buy a kettle?!? Where? How? From whom?!”

Her voice shook and her face was a deal redder than the setting sun could make it. She was furious, but also very near to tears. He wanted to take her in his arms and soothe her, but thought that might be a good way to lose a finger.

(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 58, "Castrametation". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

That has to be quite a shock for William, but then again, it's good for him to see a little of the way poor people live. Not everyone's born an earl, after all!

Meanwhile, in the American camp, there's snow on the ground, but the troops are busy drilling, practicing everything from marching to firing artillery. Jamie inspects one company, and notices that one of the men has no musket. (Frankly, I'm amazed that all of these men have proper uniforms and footwear!) He has one of his aides find a musket for the private and tries to set him at ease, but overall the mood is very serious, and no wonder!

Years ago I saw re-enactors doing a musket-firing demonstration at an 18th-century historical site. The man giving the lecture said, "The British Army was the most highly trained, technologically advanced army in the world at the time of the Revolutionary War. Imagine you're one of these American militiamen, poorly equipped, with very little training, facing those professional soldiers. It would be like coming face to face with the 82nd Airborne, bearing down on you."

Meanwhile, Claire is examining the soldiers to see which of them are unfit for duty. Suddenly she sees a familiar face: Lord John Grey, aka Bertram Armstrong, still wearing his eye patch. This scene comes from the book. Lord John surrenders to Jamie personally, and is taken back to his house in Philadelphia, so that Claire can examine his injured eye. She diagnoses the problem as a fracture of the orbit, trapping a tiny muscle and preventing him from moving the eye. She's not sure she can fix it, but she wants to try.

I like this exchange between Jamie and Lord John, which is not in the book:

"I should send him to General Washington to be questioned, but Washington may well end up hanging him for a spy." [turns to John] "What the devil were you thinking?"
"You left me in the hands of an American militia! I escaped only to be discovered again by another American militia. I had to swear an oath of allegiance to the United States of America to avoid being hanged on the spot! So, here we are."

That takes Jamie aback a bit. I don't think he had really given much thought to what John might be going through.

"If we're lucky, at least it will be quick," Claire says, preparing to treat John's eye. In the book (MOHB chapter 61, "A Viscous Three-Way"), it took Claire five attempts to grasp and rotate his eyeball into the proper position. Poor John! But she did manage it in the end.

The next scene comes straight from the book. Jane slips into William's tent, late at night, and straddles him. In the book, William is mortified because there are other soldiers sleeping in the same tent. Here, he's alone, but he still resists.

“What the devil do you think you’re doing? Here, put that on!” He thrust the shift unceremoniously into her arms and hastily pulled his shirt on. They were not in full view of anyone, but might be at any moment.

Her head emerged from the shift like a flower popping out of a snowbank. A rather angry flower. “Well, what do you think I was doing?” she said. She pulled her hair free of the shift and fluffed it violently. “I was trying to do you a kindness!”

“A—what?”

“You’re going to fight tomorrow, aren’t you?” There was enough light to see the shine of her eyes as she glared at him. “Soldiers always want to fuck before a fight! They need it.”

(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 67, "Reaching for Things That Aren't There". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

I'm reminded of the scene with Jamie and the two naked Indian girls in his bed, from Episode 602, "Allegiance". William is only twenty years old here, but he has considerable will-power, just like his father. He's attracted to Jane, no doubt about that, but he manages to persuade her to leave.

I liked the next scene, with Ian and Rachel, very much. In the middle of the night, Ian feels the presence of his late father, Ian the Elder. He worries that it means he might die in the coming battle.

"My uncle says the dead stand at your back when you go into battle." I like that thought.

Rachel sits beside Ian by the fire, watching as he takes out his war paint. I was surprised that he would do this by firelight. Why not in daylight, when he can see the colors more clearly? But I think it's a very sweet moment, just as it is in the book.

“Ye always carry your women wi’ ye into battle, Ian Òg. They’re the root of your strength, man.”

“Oh, aye?” That made sense--and was a relief to him. Still ... “I was thinkin’ it maybe wasna right to think of Rachel in such a place, though. Her being Quaker and all.”

Jamie dipped his middle finger into the deer fat, then delicately into the white clay powder, and drew a wide, swooping “V” near the crest of Ian’s right shoulder. Even in the dark, it showed vividly.

“White dove,” he said with a nod. He sounded pleased. “There’s Rachel for ye.”

(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 66, "War Paint". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

I think it's very appropriate that Ian would put this symbol of his love for Rachel on the left side of his chest, over his heart.

Meanwhile, back in 1980, Ernie's van has developed engine trouble again. They're forced to stop while Bree tinkers with the car. Fiona tells Bree she should call the police, but Bree rejects the idea.

"It's time for a new plan," she says. Clearly, Lallybroch isn't safe anymore. Ernie had suggested that they leave town for a while. "Ernie's right. I think it's time for me and the kids to go to Roger."

Good idea, but there's a problem with that plan. They don't know when (in time) Roger is, or even whether he arrived successfully in the past.

In the next scene, we're back in the British army camp. Jane takes a basket of clean laundry and shoves it into William's arms. "Your laundry, sir. We're going." She has clearly had enough of staying in the camp. She intends to take Frances and travel to New York, right away. William is baffled, and asks if this has anything to do with Captain Harkness.

"You'd best tell him, Janie," Frances says.

The story Jane tells william here is straight from the book. Harkness was determined to take Frances's virginity, and willing to pay well for it. Jane was equally determined to stop him, no matter what it took.

She’d plunged the knife into Harkness’s throat and wrenched it free, intending to stab again. But that hadn’t been necessary. “There was blood everywhere.” She’d gone pale in the telling, her hands wrapped in her apron.

[....]

“You were going to leave anyway. Why not just escape before he came?”

Jane raised her head and turned it, looking him directly in the eye.

“I wanted to kill him,” she said, in a perfectly reasonable voice that chilled him despite the warmth of the day.

(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 89, "One Day, Cock of the Walk -- Next Day, a Feather Duster". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

William stares, realizing that he's sitting next to a murderess. But then he makes a decision, telling her that he won't turn her over to the magistrate. In thanks, Frances kisses him on the hand.

We get a brief look at the American camp, where the soldiers are still drilling. Then the scene shifts to Richardson's tent, where William is receiving new orders. He is to deliver a message to Oberst von Schnell, a Hessian ally of the British. (Presumably he's named in honor of Barbara Schnell, Diana's German translator and longtime friend.) This scene is not in the book.

"It's vital that he receive it," Richardson says. "Our success in the coming battle depends upon it."

Hmmm, wasn't that the same tactic he used to send William into the Great Dismal? Never mind. William clearly sees this mission as a "do-over" of sorts, a chance to redeem himself in Richardson's eyes, so he agrees at once, saying, "I will not fail you again."

Back in Philadelphia, Claire is examining Lord John's eye, which appears to be healing well. She tells him that she and Jamie will be leaving soon, to join the army, but John must stay here, under guard, because he is a prisoner.

Suddenly Mrs. Figg comes in, announcing a visitor: Percival Beauchamp!

John reacts to Percival Beauchamp's appearance as though he's seen a ghost, but one he never wanted to see again. "He's my stepbrother. Or was," he tells Claire. John, of course, knew him as Percy Wainwright. (For much more on Lord John's relationship with Percy, I highly recommend LORD JOHN AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLADE.)

The scene that follows is mostly from the book, and I loved it! Alone with John, Percy drops the French accent. "Do you know a British captain named Richardson?"

“Put as bluntly as possible, he’s tried more than once to lure your son into a position where he might appear to have sympathies with the Rebels. I gather that last year he sent him into the Great Dismal in Virginia, with the intention that he should be captured by a nest of Rebels who have a bastion there--presumably they would let it be known that he had deserted and joined their forces, while actually holding him prisoner.”

“What for?” Grey demanded.

[....]

“Presumably to discredit your family--Pardloe was making rather inflammatory speeches in the House of Lords at the time, about the conduct of the war.”

(From WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART'S BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 73, "Peculiar Behavior of a Tent". Copyright © 2014 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)

Notice how this ties back to the scene at the very beginning of this episode, where Lord John and Hal are talking about that very subject.

Percy explains, "William will be carrying a cipher that will instruct these Hessians to take him and hold him captive. Richardson is not bothering with politics. This is simple abduction, possibly torture, with the intent of demanding your and Hal's cooperation as the price of the boy's life."

"Why are you helping me?" John wants to know.
Percy's answer comes straight from the book. "Pour vos beaux yeux." For your beautiful eyes. (They were, after all, lovers, twenty years ago.)

Percy tries to caress his cheek, but John grabs hs hand and stops him. That part of his life is over and done now, forever, and he doesn't wish to revisit it. Seeing this, Percy says goodbye.

In the next scene, which is not in the book, Lord John, Jamie, and Claire gather in the formal dining room to discuss what John has learned from Percy. (Why the dining room again? The house has other rooms more suited to this sort of discussion. Surely there's a parlor, or the room where John had his chessboard set up in Episode 711?)

Claire explains that Richardson told her he is a spy for the Americans. Lord John wants to know why she didn't tell him, but before they get too far into an argument, Jamie interrupts. He points out that he has 300 men under his command and the battle is about to begin.

"I canna abandon 300 souls for the sake of one, even if that one is my own son." Knowing what's going to happen pretty soon, I couldn't help thinking, "You might change your mind about that before this season is over!"

John suggests that Jamie could parole him, and set him free, the implication being that John would then go in search of William. Jamie puts John in Ian's custody for the journey, with fetters on his wrists.

"I'm becoming quite used to wearing irons," John says.
"Ye dinna get used to it, believe me," Jamie replies, very seriously -- a reminder to all of us that he spent more than a year in irons while he was at Ardsmuir Prison. And at last we have the meaning of the episode title, "Ye Dinna Get Used To It". I love that!

"Go," Jamie says. "Save our son." Our son. Wow. Very appropriate!

In the final scene, William arrives at the Hessians' camp and delivers his message. The Hessian officer only smiles at William and invites him to stay for supper. (And possibly a lot longer than that!) And with that, the episode ends.
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