Tom Christie admits to having feelings for
As Claire prepared to be put on trial, Tom Christie (Mark Lewis Jones) gallantly lied and confessed to the murder of his own daughter, clear in the knowledge Claire was innocent and taking the fall for her.
When Jamie's negotiations with the governor for Claire's freedom fail, Tom Christie confesses to Malva's murder. He also tells Claire that he has been in love with her. Claire and Jamie leave, thinking that Tom will likely be hanged.
Allan's father Tom later took the fall and falsely confessed to killing Malva in the hopes of ending Claire's trial.
Tom genuinely wants justice. He wants to make sure that Claire receives a fair trial, and he knows that Richard Brown is not going to offer that. In fact, he sees what Richard is doing with his own eyes during the journey to Wilmington. There is a chance that Tom doesn't think that Claire is guilty.
Tom does state emphatically that he loves Daisy, but he certainly doesn't act like he does. “And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.”
It's Tom who eventually finds out. Malva, before her death, tells him that she made them sick. She'd collected parts of the dead Sin Eater and poisoned Claire and Tom. She wanted to get to Jamie, and getting Claire out of the way was the only way to do that.
“He's about 25,” Gabaldon said. It's an interesting response. If you're up to date on the series, then you know that Jamie is not dead at the age of 25.
Later, after Claire has returned to the Ridge, she is confessor to Allan Christie, who explains that he was the one that fathered Malva's child, and then murdered her.
Tom sees him as a protector, and he potentially sees Jamie as a good man. Tom is jealous of Jamie, and that's where some of the issues between them lie. The idea of Jamie having an affair seems ludicrous. Claire eventually realizes that Malva is lying because she knows her husband well enough.
Tom turns up again in An Echo in the Bone. He wasn't hanged for Malva's murder, and he was the one who put out the obituary when he heard about the fire at Fraser's Ridge. He didn't even know if Claire and Jamie had survived, but it suggests that he believed them dead. And he was grieving.
While on a second honeymoon in Scotland with her husband, Frank Randall, Claire inadvertently travels two hundred years into the past, where she meets and eventually marries Jamie Fraser.
The novel that launched the series, Outlander takes Claire back to 18th-century Scotland for the first time. On her time-traveling adventure, she meets Jamie. They marry each other in an attempt to save her from the clutches of Captain Randall, and fall deeply in love.
The man outside Claire's window is Jamie's ghost, Gabaldon has confirmed.
Claire asks Lord John if he believes she (and Brianna and Roger) are from the future, to which he says that he doesn't, but that he will behave for all appearances as though he does.
She previously told one fan, who hoped for Jamie to time travel in the 10th and final novel: “Sorry, not happening.” Nonetheless, Jamie does have some powers after he was able to project himself into the future and appeared in Inverness with Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies) spotting him.
Allan began molesting his half-sister Malva from the time she was a young child and eventually, gets her pregnant.
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.
It turns out Ian and Malva did sleep together. It was only the once, but we all know how these things work. Just look at Brianna and Roger.
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. And then Jamie shows up alive and well!
“I curse you. I curse you with knowledge, Jack Randall. I give you the hour of your death. Jonathan Wolverton Randall, Born Sept 3rd, 1705, dies…” she whispers in his ear, and suddenly he knows that she's telling him the truth.
Author Diana Gabaldon, who wrote the book series upon which the Starz TV show is based, has confirmed that it is Jamie's ghost that Frank saw, but she's also stated repeatedly that Jamie cannot travel forward in time.
Following her broken engagement Lizzie suffered a rather bad attack of malaria while Claire was away.
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.
Claire becomes deathly ill with dysentery (this is clearly not her year). While she's passed out, Mrs. Bug and Malva Christie (more on her later) shave her head to lower her fever.