[Outlander Summary] S01E08: Both Sides Now.

Back in to 20th century, Frank is in police station expecting news about his missing wife. The detective who working on the case say they don't have any clue about his wife. The detective only theory is Claire wasn't taken against her will. Together with Reverend Wakefield, Frank work on every possibility about what happened to Claire.

A woman approach Frank at the bar tell him she recognize the highlander on pamphlet. Turn out she's a fraud and just want the reward. Frank become violent when he's found out he's been lied to. Reverend Wakefield suggest he go back to Oxford and start a new life.

When Jamie and Claire on the picnic, Jamie's friend Hugh Munro show up and give him news that there's a witness who can prove his innocence. When Dougal & his men camp at night, they were attack by the grants. Angus teach Claire how to use a knife so she can defend herself if there are another attack.

Mrs. Graham finally told Frank her theory about Claire disappearance, that Claire possibly travel through stones to different time and can be return. Frank doesn't believe her explanation. On his way back to Oxford, Frank stop by to Craigh Na Dun.

2 redcoats caught Jamie and Claire and this time Claire has to use the knife to protect herself. Dougal think it's probably Horrocks (the witness) who setting a trap for Jamie through Munro. Dougal suggest they go to see him immediately, and just leave Claire with Willie alone.

Claire Fraser Monologue #1:

My mind jumped and danced from thought to thought,
like a stone skipping across a pond.
My parents, men I'd seen die,
the smell of uncle Lamb's cigarettes.
Errol Flynn swinging on a rope,
the feeling of my dagger tip puncturing the kidney.

I knew he was worried about me,
knew he wanted to talk about what had happened,
but I knew if I did, if I started giving rein to my feelings,
things would pour out of me that I wanted to keep locked away forever.

Claire Fraser Monologue #2:

I don't remember getting on my horse.
I don't remember riding away, or even how long we rode.
All I can recall of that pivotal moment in my life was that I was angry, and I didn't know why.

In that moment, the reason for my bitterness became clear to me.
I wasn't angry at Jamie or the redcoat deserters.
I was angry at myself for forgetting about my plan to make
my way back to the stones at Craigh Na Dun,
my plan to return to my own time, to my husband, Frank.

Claire start wandering the woods when Willie leave her to take care a personal business. And then suddenly she look straight to Craigh Na Dun. Separate by 2 different time, finally Frank and Claire are in the same place, try to find answer and reconnect. Before Claire touch the stone, she was captured by the redcoats.

Claire Fraser Monologue #3:

I tried to avoid thinking about the incident in the meadow,
but my mind kept returning to it, again, and again,
picking at a festering sore best left untouched.
And suddenly, there it was...
Craigh Na Dun.

My mind had been so clouded and confused,
I didn't recognize the road when we rode in.
There was no mistaking it.
I was back to the place where it had all begun.

So much had happened. So much had changed.
Last I was here, I was Claire Randall,
then Claire Beauchamp, then Claire Fraser.
The question was... who did I want to be?.

Claire is taken to Fort William and unfortunately meet Jonathan Randall again. Randall swear he will discover all the secret Claire hold and Claire strike back by mention the Duke of Sandringham. Black Jack eventually know Claire is lying with her story being Duke of Sandringham agent. .

Claire Fraser Monologue #4:

I knew where we were going without having to ask: Fort William.
The site of Jamie's incarceration and flogging four years ago,
and now, still the province of a man I unfortunately knew all too well.

He would have no advance notice of my capture.
No time to plan his interrogation.
I, on the other hand, had the entire jolting journey in the back of the wagon to think.
It was my one advantage.
I prayed it would be enough.

Claire Fraser Monologue #5:

A dangerous gambit to be sure, but his reaction told me that Frank and the Reverend were right in their speculation.

Music on Outlander Summary S01E08: Both Sides Now.

The Veil of Time & Fallen Through Time by Bear McCreary.
Seperated by diffrent time, Frank and Claire run to Craigh Na Dun desperate to reunite.

Fort William Rescue by Bear McCreary.
The end of episode. Jamie break the window to save Claire.