Both Ian and Jenny’s determination to help Claire find Jamie was stirring, given that Ian was badly injured and missing his wooden leg and that Jenny had just endured a difficult birthing. The fact that Claire couldn’t convince Jenny not to go with her and ultimately knew she needed her help to find him was also very compelling to watch. Claire’s voiceover helped viewers understand what Claire was thinking.
The scenes showing Jenny tracking the soldiers showed her vigilance in finding Jamie. Seeing Jenny’s bare breast as she expressed milk I didn’t think was needed. When Claire tells Jenny her plan to avoid Randall by bargaining with his superior for Jamie’s release, showed her thinking “outside the box.”
Jenny’s torturing of the Redcoat courier showed that she would do whatever it took to find Jamie, including physical torture. That Claire couldn’t stomach Jenny torturing him showed her compassion, despite all the Redcoats had put her and Jamie through. Jenny’s stone cold expression while she burned the Redcoat’s foot with the branding poker was perfect. Also, her ice cold look when she told Claire that the Redcoat courier couldn’t be allowed to live after they read his sealed dispatch showed what great emotion and facial expressions actress Laura Donnelly can elicit. When Claire tells Jenny that if Murtagh hadn’t come along and killed the Redcoat courier, she would have done it, displayed the lengths she would go to find Jamie, despite being a nurse and a healer.
Jenny and Claire talking about how Jenny learned to track, viewers could see how they have started to bond. When Jenny leaves after Murtagh comes and she hugs and kisses Claire and says how she knows that Claire will do everything humanly possible to find Jamie, her sheer belief in Claire really came through.
As Murtagh and Jenny ride from town to town, viewers can see how they bond over their mutual need to find Jamie. When Claire realizes that it was Murtagh who gave Jamie’s mother the tusk bracelets as a wedding gift, like Jenny told her, she sees that he wants to find Jamie as much as she does and loves him too.
Claire’s singing and Murtagh’s dancing lent some levity to a grim situation and was enjoyable to watch. Claire’s dealing with Ward, the gypsy, conveyed how she was willing to sacrifice the money she was given by Jenny, which she might need later, in order to get him to stop singing her song, which could confuse Jamie as to which song to follow.
Caitriona, through body language and facial expression, illustrated Claire’s sheer contempt for Dougal. It was sweet how Murtagh didn’t want to leave Claire alone with Dougal, now that they bonded. How Claire winced and pulled her hands away from Dougal’s when he held them, like she had been burned, showed further her dislike of him. When he suggested she marry him, the absolute repulsiveness of the idea was portrayed by Caitriona splendidly. Yet, when she said that she would marry him if Jamie was dead, in order to protect Lallybroch and herself from Randall was heartbreaking because you could see how strongly she didn’t want to say it or even contemplate doing it.
Claire’s stirring speech trying to compel Dougal’s men to help her break into Wentworth prison and free Jamie was enthralling. It was sweet how William said that he would go since Jamie had always been good to him. I think if the other men weren’t around, Claire would have hugged him.
At the end, it was unnerving when Claire, William, Angus and Rupert, look at Wentworth prison looming in front of them, knowing what Jamie endures there after reading the books.