And, when Claire finds him, she realizes that he’s the same milky-eyed man who was poking around Jamie’s Edinburgh print shop the night that it burned. The man who recognized Jamie is Harry Tompkins. And that man told the captain, who is now planning to use Claire as bait to lure Jamie in once they reach Jamaica, where Redcoats will arrest him for treason (and the acting captain is likely to get his own ship as a reward for finding such a high profile criminal). So she starts poking around in the captain’s quarters, and I’m going to really shorthand all of this, so get ready: The ship wasn’t Ian’s, but there is a man aboard the Porpoise who recognized Jamie when the British ship sidled up to the Artemis. Turns out the Porpoise boarded a Portuguese frigate before it reached the Artemis, and Claire wants to know whether it was the ship on which Young Ian is being held. The woman speaks very little English but is very grateful to Claire for her help Claire, meanwhile, is distracted by the Portuguese flag she sees in the cargo area. GET YOUR GOAT | Claire is called belowdecks to attend to the husband of the woman who tends the ship’s goats the man has been drinking the pure alcohol that’s supposed to be for medicinal purposes, and though he’s got alcohol poisoning, he’ll be OK. After she has a brief run-in with the ship’s suspicious and testy cook, Pound gives her the rabbit’s foot his mother gave him before he left home, saying that if there’s any luck that she needs to accompany her skill as a doctor, maybe the talisman will help. Along with Elias Pound, the 14-year-old officer who’s her new right-hand man, she gets to the bottom of how the illness is spreading (patient zero works in the galley) and then has that man - who’s asymptomatic - detained for everyone’s safety.Ĭlaire is in Rambo mode, right down to the cloth tied around her head, but she’s affected by the funeral service at which Pound’s friend, who was sick but has since died, and several others are buried at sea. Certain Death, shall we? She quickly implements a handwashing protocol and gets the crew to cleaning and swabbing, all in the efforts of curbing the fever that’s ripping through the crew. Isn’t the King of Men supposed to be a little better than this, even under severe duress?ĪT EASE, SAILOR | Let’s check in with Claire over on the S.S. “What good are you, you damn fool?” Jamie says nastily, saying that if Fergus knew was true love was, “you would move heaven and earth, you would risk arrest and death, even hell.” I do feel for JAMMF here, because he’s near tears as he worries that he’s losing Claire again about two milliseconds after he got her back, but this whole section - including when Jamie declares that his blessing on Fergus and Marsali’s wedding depends on whether or not Fergus helps him break outta boat jail - seems really un-Jamie-like. Fergus (correctly) points out that this is the dumbest plan in the history of plans, and that it would never work, which earns him his surrogate father’s wrath. Then, he reasons, they can take over the ship and follow Claire’s British kidnappers. In between bouts of heaving, he demands that Fergus use his dormant pickpocket skills to nab the keys that will spring Jamie free. In the brig, Jamie’s seasickness returns.
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