Jamie denies having slept with her, but the damage to his and to Claire's reputation is done—and the bond between the Frasers and Malva is severed, until just a few weeks later, when Claire finds Malva murdered in the garden. “It's like the peak of the tragedy, and it's so visceral.
The idea of Jamie having an affair seems ludicrous. Claire eventually realizes that Malva is lying because she knows her husband well enough. Tom seems to question Malva's story. You can see it in his face that he's trying to figure out if this story is true.
Jamie does admit he's slept with someone else, telling her about his one-night tryst with Mary MacNab (Emma Campbell-Jones) before he turned himself in to authorities following the Battle of Culloden nearly 20 years prior.
The young Malva then later claimed Jamie was the father of her baby, and was eventually found dead in the Fraser's vegetable patch. In a particularly harrowing scene, Claire tries to save the unborn baby but is tragically unable to.
Malva developed a sexual relationship with Ian Murray during the time frame that she was trying to find someone to place blame upon for her pregnancy. Ian knew that he was not the only man she was sleeping with, after he showed late for one of their meetings he found her having sex with Bobby Higgins instead.
Director Brendan Maher told Vulture that while both Menzies and Heughan had stunt doubles for the physically demanding sequence, neither used them much. “We had people for safety, just in case, but the nature of the work is that you want the actors to do as much as they possibly can,” Maher said.
Malva Christie might have only been introduced in Outlander Season 6, but she has a central role in the drama. The daughter of Tom Christie, she is both naive and sinister, and many Outlander fans have struggled to work out her true intentions.
The haircutting was part of the process. Malva wanted to make Claire undesirable. She wanted to make Jamie turn to her instead of to his wife. We can get a sense of that from the way Claire worried about Jamie seeing her with the short, jagged hair.
Jamie doesn't really help matters by choosing this moment to confess that he has cheated – but not with Malva. Instead, he spent one night with someone else before going to prison, long ago (and when separated from Claire by 200 years).
Claire Saves Jamie's Life by Giving Him a [NSFW] in Outlander Season 5, Episode 9. Forget CPR! So, this entire episode of Outlander basically revolved around an evil snake (Lord Voldemort, is that you?) biting Jamie's thigh, and it was all extremely dramatic and angsty so let's get right to it.
In Outlander season 3, once Claire and Jamie are reunited back in the past, Jamie soon thereafter confesses his tryst with Geneva, explaining that he's produced a son out of the encounter, and yet, throughout his story, Claire remains reserved and understanding.
Allan's father Tom later took the fall and falsely confessed to killing Malva in the hopes of ending Claire's trial.
Back with the Frasers, Young Ian has miraculously found his aunt and uncle and promises to search for help. It won't arrive soon enough, however, as Claire and Jamie have become separated on the orders of the treacherous Richard Brown.
In A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Malva accuses Jamie of being the father of her unborn child. The accusation has weight thanks to her knowledge of his scars.
This is dysentery. Claire tells everyone that a contaminated water source most likely caused it, but after funeral upon funeral — the body count is high! — no one can seem to figure it out. And then Claire falls ill.
However, Young Ian turned to Claire with a confession. The baby could be his. It turns out Ian and Malva did sleep together.
At the end of episode 7, Claire is arrested for Malva's murder, with many of the accusing residents citing jealousy or witchcraft as her motives, while the fact the young woman's body was found in Claire's garden didn't help her case.
Claire shares how Tom says he tried to save Malva's soul by doing things like "beat the wickedness out of her" — as Claire once witnessed. Tom explains that he beat her that time cause he caught Malva trying to cast a love spell with human bones on Jamie.
"The ghost is Jamie–but as for how it fits into the story, All Will Be Explained—in the last book," Gabaldon writes in the FAQ section of her website. She's also revealed that the Outlander series will likely have ten books total, and the ninth, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, debuted in 2021.
Jamie: "Claire, it was you. It's always been you, and it always will be. Get into bed and put the candle out.
It began in the form of a bad haircut, after Malva and housekeeper Mrs Bug cut Claire's hair off to ease the fever. Poor Claire.
Because yes, Claire and Lord John end up married in book seven, and yes, they drunkenly (and full of grief for the loss of Jamie, whom they both love with all of their heart) consummate that marriage.
Season 1 Episode 7, “The Wedding”
The first is a bit bumbling, as virgin Jamie thinks people have sex the way horses do (from behind), and then ends up nearly crushing Claire under his body weight.
When Claire returns to Scotland in the 17th century, she eventually becomes stepmother to Jamie's son by Geneva Dunsany, William Ransom, and his stepdaughter, Marsali MacKimmie Fraser, from his marriage to Laoghaire MacKenzie. She is later married to Lord John Grey.