![]() He's not used to having a bed that grand, he tells Jamie. In the morning, Jamie finds Ian outside on the ground. Standing in front of the bed, he's been offered unsure what to do. Similarly, Ian cannot shake his recent past, either. Roger tries to sing while playing the ukelele but images of his hanging proliferate his mind. ![]() Jamie wonders if Ian will accompany Roger to mark out the land in the same way he helped Jamie plot Fraser's Ridge. Jamie wonders what Bree and Roger have decided about the land. ![]() Marsali and Fergus want to know everything, but he's not eager to share. He's looking around warily as if he barely remembers his life before. When they pray before dinner, Ian doesn't participate. Well, a barrel.īree begs Roger to return to her, but he just sits there. Roger gets angry, pushing the cards off of the table and recalling again the bucket getting kicked out from under him. Once again, the first card is the hangman. She pulls the cards back and does it again. The first card she turns over is the hangman. He's clearly a changed man not at all at home in the surroundings despite the request that he make himself so. Ian killed the boar he'll do the butchering. Of Jamie and Claire's home, Ian says it's big. Roger struggles again to speak leaving Ian even more confused. Roger nods at the young man and embraces him. Ian is hesitant but accompanies them to see Bree and Roger. He prepares to knife it when an arrow penetrated the animal. He begins to cry.Ĭlaire and Jamie are playing hide and seek with Jemmy. His shoulders soften.īut the more she sings, the angrier he seems to get. As she sings Clementine, Roger listens with a small smile on his face. When Jemmy reaches for the hot kettle, Roger springs into action screaming, "Don't!" Brianna is thrilled, but Roger cannot repeat the action.īrianna has a beautiful singing voice. Jamie has a sweet Gaelic name he calls Jemmy meaning My Blood. It's time for laundry and tallow again on Fraser's Ridge.Ĭlaire and Jamie visit Bree and Roger to find Roger creating stairs for the loft they're building. She almost gets the time right but is off by five minutes. Lord John has brought a astrolang (?) that is used to find your position on land or sea and can even tell the time. Still, he's wounded more emotionally than he was physically. He kept his hand to his neck in an attempt to ward off death, and he was successful. The fear in his eyes is palpable as he watches the proceedings through the canvas. ![]() Roger is triggered by all kinds of things, including the feel of burlap on his fingertips. He's granted Roger 5,000 acres in the backcountry in an attempt to make amends for the terrible error.īrianna is not impressed, but Lord John is. Jamie reads a letter from Governor Tryon. He and Murtagh weren't father and son, either, but it doesn't make the pain any easier to bear. She wishes he could have had a headstone for him, but she and Murtagh were not husband and wife. Has she buried Murtagh? Jamie approaches. It's like he's drowning in silence with the same thousand-yard stare in his eyes.Ĭlaire wants her to have faith that she'll find him no matter how lost he is. Claire said it was shell shock.īrianna wonders if Roger has the same. Even after a year, he was still unable to function. The soldiers picked three at random to hang and leave hanging as a lesson to all.īrianna shares with Claire that her roommate from MIT had a boyfriend who went to Viet Nam. Instead, he's playing the events leading to his hanging in black and white. When Lord John arrives, the ladies leave, and Roger struggles to speak. They can pretend they're in one of the silent movies they used to love since 70% of communication is non-verbal. When he refused to talk, Brianna teases him that she'll teach Jemmy sweater and aluminum instead of jumper and aluminium. His throat is healing nicely, and his scars have faded, but he has yet to talk. Three months later, Roger is getting a checkup from Claire. There is a film rolling after the credits with silent-movie credits for the main producers of the movie so that we witness Roger taken down from the tree in black and white.Ĭlaire cuts a tracheotomy and Roger's eyes open. He's teaching a class in which he's urging his students to imagine the last words they would utter before death.īrianna saw the end of his class as she's there to pick him up to go to a silent movie marathon. Oxford, 1969: Roger is teaching at university.
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