It started to change when Claire developed feelings for
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.
However, Claire knows the truth deep down. Jamie didn't cheat on her.
6. Claire sleeps with King Louis XV to free Jamie from the Bastille. When Jamie goes to jail for illegally dueling Black Jack Randall in Paris, he's imprisoned in the Bastille. Claire, who miscarried their daughter Faith, goes to meet the king and plead for him to free Jamie so they can return to Scotland.
In a shocking turn of events, Outlander season 6, episode 6 saw Claire's apprentice Malva accuse Jamie of infidelity, claiming her unborn child is Jamie's, but the aftermath forgets one critical detail from Outlander season 3.
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).
It won't arrive soon enough, however, as Claire and Jamie have become separated on the orders of the treacherous Richard Brown. Tom promises Claire her husband is safe and would be going home but he is taking Brown's word on the matter which isn't worth very much.
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.
Did you guess Lord John Grey? 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.
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.
Jamie: "Claire, it was you. It's always been you, and it always will be. Get into bed and put the candle out.
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.
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.
It helps to remember the whole timeline, which is easier when you read the books. When Jamie met /married Claire, he was a 23 year old virgin, and they were together three years before she went back through the stones pregnant with Brianna in 1746.
Season 1 Episode 7, “The Wedding”
Viewers had to wait more than six long episodes before Jamie and Claire finally go to bed (“To bed? Or to sleep?” as Jamie asks Claire in this episode)—but it was worth the wait.
After he's interrogated, John asks Jamie to assure him that Claire will be safe, at which point Jamie reveals that Claire is his wife. Jamie ostensibly still plans to kill John, but an angry Claire argues that there's no evidence that John is a spy.
It happens toward the end of the seventh book and into the eighth. I've seen a lot of people get to An Echo in the Bone recently, and they're shocked to find out that Claire and Lord John Grey marry. Those who haven't got there but like to know the spoilers are also shocked.
Despite Claire not telling him in the previous chapter, Jamie knows that Claire slept with the King.
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. And then there are the reactions at the funeral when Allan refuses to let Claire carry the baby's coffin out.
When Jamie's negotiations with the governor for Claire's freedom fail, Tom Christie confesses to Malva's murder. In November 1776, Allan comes to Malva's grave and confesses to Claire about raping his sister, that he was the father of Malva's child, and that he killed her because she was going to tell the truth.
As readers of Diana Gabaldon's books know, Jamie is not the father of the baby and it was all a ploy on Malva's part to hide the identity of the baby's real father. Malva was also sleeping with a number of other men on Fraser's Ridge to deflect attention from the real father of the child.
Stay tuned for more on Season 7 as it continues to take shape at Starz, and settle in for the next Droughtlander, which will thankfully pass quicker than Claire and Jamie's 20-year separation through time.
6. Claire sleeps with King Louis XV to free Jamie from the Bastille. When Jamie goes to jail for illegally dueling Black Jack Randall in Paris, he's imprisoned in the Bastille. Claire, who miscarried their daughter Faith, goes to meet the king and plead for him to free Jamie so they can return to Scotland.
This storyline is taken from the books. In A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Claire and Tom come down with the same sickness around the same time dysentery is traveling around the Ridge. Claire knows that she didn't have the same thing, but she can't get to the bottom of the cause. It's Tom who eventually finds out.