While he did help Jocasta and Murtagh meet in secret earlier in Outlander Season 5, Ulysses will always put Jocasta first. He loves Jocasta, as we later learn in the season, and he will do anything to make her happy.
Jocasta is Ellen's sister and has loved Murtagh from afar for decades, knowing that he was always in love with another. In the final episode of season four the pair came together, uniting a couple that were never united in the books and setting the television show on a brand new path.
Despite hardship, family conflicts, and extended separation during two American wars, Ulysses and Julia Grant's love for each other remained constant.
In Outlander Season 5, Ulysses killed Forbes to save Jocasta and then had to leave. He had been a free man all this time, but he chose to stay with Jocasta because he loved her. There was no indication of her returning that love in the series. In the end, Ulysses left with Lord John Grey to England.
Second Marriage
After the death of her first husband Jocasta remarried to her second Cameron husband, Hugh Cameron, who was John's cousin. They had one daughter, Seonag, before he died during a hunting trip, leaving Jocasta widowed again. Her second daughter went on to marry the Master of Garth and they had one child.
The character died a heartwrenching death in season 5 but there were other rather saddening things about him as well. From never getting to marry the woman he loved to fulfilling his oath to dying tragically himself, Murtagh was quite the tragic hero of sorts.
He was in love with Jamie's mother, Ellen, and tried to win her hand in marriage, but she wed Jamie's father. Afterwards, he swore an oath to her that he would always follow Jamie, do his bidding, and guard his back when he became a man and needed service.
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.
Grey's first lover is Hector, a twenty-year-old lieutenant in his regiment. Grey is still with the 46th Regiment at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, but is prevented from fighting by his brother Lord Melton.
Fergus apparently knows Claire is a time traveler in Outlander. Diana Gabaldon mentions now and then on social media that Fergus knows Claire is a time traveler. This is something that happens off-book in the series. Fergus and Marsali have both learned the truth, which is important for later books.
Penelope is married to the main character, the king of Ithaca, Odysseus (Ulysses in Roman mythology), and daughter of Icarius of Sparta and Periboea (or Polycaste). She only has one son with Odysseus, Telemachus, who was born just before Odysseus was called to fight in the Trojan War.
Although Molly Bloom's affair with Blazes Boylan is central to the plot, Bloom knows about it and doesn't try to stop them. Moreover, when Molly speaks in the novel's final episode, she makes it clear that she has no serious feelings for Boylan, but she ends up passionately proclaiming her love for her husband.
Calypso forces Odysseus to sleep with her against his will. These lines encourage us to condemn the powerful goddess's abuse of the powerless Odysseus.
in psychoanalytic theory, an abnormally close or incestuous attachment of a mother to her son. It is named for Jocasta, the mother and wife of Oedipus in Greek mythology. Compare Oedipus complex.
Jocasta and Laius, her first husband, receive a prophecy that their son will grow up to kill Laius. In an effort to avoid this prophecy, they abandon their son to die on a mountain.
At the end of the play, after the truth finally comes to light, Jocasta hangs herself while Oedipus, horrified at his patricide and incest, proceeds to gouge out his own eyes in despair.
However, Jamie also saw that John was not like Jack Randell, but a loving, selfless person willing to raise his boy. That touched Jamie's heart in an unexpected way. He kissed John to say “Thank you, I love you, and here's a little something of what you need.”
Grey loves Jamie but would never abuse or transgress his friendship with Jamie for his own selfish purposes.”
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.
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.
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.
Jamie also has two stepdaughters, Marsali MacKimmie Fraser and Joan MacKimmie, from his marriage to his second wife, Laoghaire MacKenzie.
Jamie rushes over to his godfather and in his upset reminds him that he had released Murtagh from his promise to Jamie's mother, meaning he shouldn't have tried to protect him. Murtagh dies, saying, "I would never betray your mother no matter who asked."
Surprise! Jamie also has two step-daughters, Marsali MacKimmie Fraser and Joan MacKimmie. They became his step-daughters when he married their mother, Laoghaire MacKenzie. If that name sounds familiar, it's because Laoghaire is the same woman who orchestrates Claire being put on trial for witchcraft.