[Outlander Summary] S01E05: Rent.

On the road, Claire making friend with Dougal's lawyer, Ned Gowan. They share favorite in poetry, education view, and Claire treat him for his cough.

Claire Randall Monologue #1:

Absence.
Absence, hear thou my protestation against thy strength, distance, and length.
Do what thou canst for alteration...
For hearts for truest mettle.

Absence doth still and time doth settle.

Claire Randall Monologue #2:

Also known as Jimsonweed.
The herb had medicinal properties that would relieve the symptoms of asthma.

Although this newfound kinship with Ned would make life on the road more tolerable, I could not allow it to distract me from my quest to get back to the standing stones at Craigh Nu Dun and return to my own 20th-century life.

I wasn't offended by the lewdness of their jokes or squeamish over the fact that my dinner looked like a shriveled Easter rabbit, nor was I too dainty to sleep on a pillow made of stone.

What troubled me was that they were clearly using Gaelic to exclude me.

I just had to remember my time with them would be over soon.
Being on the road was my chance to escape.

Being the only woman and secretly from the future, Claire feel uncomfortable around these highlanders jokes. Jamie tell Claire not to worry about it. They arrive at the first village and starting collecting rents. Doing nothing and feel bored, Claire wandering the land. She join a group of women who waulking wool and ask them if Craigh Na Dun is close to their village.

Out of his sight, Angus got mad when he found Claire. Knowing there's a baby who needs milk, Claire release one of the goat and get into argument with Rupert and Dougal. A British soldier suddenly step in and ask Claire if she's alright.

When they gather for a drinks that night, Dougal give a patriotic speech in Gaelic, tear off Jamie shirt to show his scars, and collecting money from the villagers. he next morning, Claire confront Ned about what Dougal. She assume Dougal stealing money from Colum.

Claire Randall Monologue #3:

It felt as if Dougal could read my mind like he was daring me to run.

He had brought me along on this trip because I earned his respect as a healer, and at least some measure of trust.

But now I could see that small trust slipping away, and with it, my dream of escape.

The days passed ablur, turning into weeks.
We visited village after village, my feeling of helplessness growing. Even amongst the vast and beautiful landscape, I felt trapped, as if I were back in the stone walls of Castle Leoch.

Would I have to reconcile myself to live the rest of my
life amongst strangers, 200 years in the past?.

Continue their journey, they see the watch burn people houses. In one of Dougal "performance", Claire soon realize the money raise is to fund Jacobite Army.

Claire Randall Monologue #4:

Events followed a familiar pattern, but for my sympathies for Jamie, I had little interest in Dougal's self-serving performance.

The language as alien as ever, but the sentiment clear. "Give us your money, and we will protect you from the English, from the sassenachs."

But then my ears sparked to a name I'd heard somewhere before.

"Long live the Stuart."

I was beginning to realize the activities Dougal and his men were
involved in weren't criminal. They were political.
He was using the shocking display of Jamie's scars not to frighten his audience, but to stir outrage against the British.

Dougal was raising money for a Jacobite army.

Jamie told Dougal he can't use him to raise the money anymore, but Dougal remind Jamie about his obedience oath to Clan MacKenzie. Claire feeling sympathy about what Jamie going through and also the fact that Jacobite Army will loose the war.

Claire Randall Monologue #5:

The next morning as I watched them pack, I saw the men in a different light.

Not criminals, but rebels.
I wished I could tell them that they were on the losing side of history, that it was all a pipe dream.

The Stuarts would never unseat the protestant King George II, but how could I tell them that, these proud, passionate men who lived and breathed for a flag of blue and white?.

On they next destination, they found the victims of redcoats and gave them a proper christian funeral.

Claire Randall Monologue #6:

Even I knew that this was not the work of the watch but of the redcoats.

At the Inn, Claire almost hit Jamie who sleep on the ground outside her room, trying to protect her from drunken townsmen. Claire give Jamie the blanket of her bed. At breakfast, the townsmen starting talking bad things about Claire in Gaelic. Dougal's men didn't like it and fight them. Since then, Claire try to get along with them and their jokes.

Claire Randall Monologue #7:

Culloden Moor.

1746, three years from now.
And what of these Mackenzie men?.
How many of them were doomed to die on that wretched battlefield?.

On one of their stop, Claire go to the river to wash. Dougal take this as an opportunity to make Claire reveal her true background. Dougal has his suspicious on Claire since the beginning. They start to argue but then a group of redcoats appear asking Claire, an English lady in their eyes, if she's alright.

Music on Outlander S01E05: Rent.

To the Begging I Will Go by Bear McCreary.
Dougal and his men collecting rents from the first village they visit.

Wool Waulking Songs.
Claire and the women sing while waulking wool.

The Losing Side of History by Bear McCreary.
Claire catch the "Long Live the Stuart" phrase, realize Dougal raising money for Jacobite army instead. A proper funeral for the Scottish, the redcoats kill. Dougal give another speech to raise money.

High Road To Linton by Scottish Bagpipe Ensemble.
Dougal and his men fight the townsmen to defend Claire's honor.