Wilder things have happened on this show, and people have been saved under more impossible circumstances! But instead, Claire and
After Rufus was dead, Jamie took him out of the house to the angry mob waiting outside. Not dissuaded by his death, the men lynched his corpse, hauling his body high up into a tree and leaving him there. Jocasta, Jamie, Claire, Ulysses, and many other slaves had to watch as the awful thing happened.
In season 5, Jacosta marries Duncan Innes, and the entire family joins in the wedding celebration at River Run. While they are there, Jacosta names Brianna and Roger's baby Jemmy as the heir to her land. So at this point, River Run is like a second home for the Fraser family.
In tears, Claire agrees, giving Rufus a tea laced with aconite, then talking quietly with him and holding his hands as he dies. As the clock strikes midnight, Jamie carries Rufus's body outside, where the angry mob drags him through the dirt and strings him up from a tree. Welcome to the South, Claire.
See, before her wedding, Jocasta signed over ownership of River Run to baby Jemmy so that Duncan Innes wouldn't have any claim to it; Jocasta was the estate's guardian until Jemmy came of age. Mr. Arbuckle was privy to this information, and he informed Bonnet that his son was now the owner of River Run.
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."
In December 1776, one of Donner's men finds a gold ingot in Mrs. Bug's work basket, revealing that Arch was the one who had stolen Jocasta's gold hoard.
Dana visits Rufus, at his request. He tells her he sympathized with Sarah when his father sold off her sons. He asks Dana to read Robinson Crusoe to him, and she does. Rufus tells her that the books in the house belonged to his father's first wife, Miss Hannah.
Weeks later, the Comte makes good on his threats when he poisons Claire with bitter cascara, making her very sick and terrified that she is losing her baby. Later, the Comte is a guest at a dinner party hosted by Claire and Jamie Fraser.
Rufus starts leafing through a book that Dana brought back in time with her. It's a history book that talks all about the end of slavery in America. Rufus can't believe what he's reading. He tells Dana to throw the book in the fire because she'll be whipped if she's caught with it.
Claire surmises that glaucoma, a degenerative condition that damages the optic nerve, is the likeliest culprit. It takes about a decade to lose one's sight completely, though in modern times there are treatments that can prevent serious vision loss.
She tells him the story of how she lost her daughters – how after Culloden her youngest was murdered in a fight with dragoons for French gold. Her two eldest daughters died in fires set by the Brits after Culloden.
Diana Gabaldon has confirmed there is no possibility that Jamie Fraser will time-travel into the future and live out his life at Lallybroch.
But instead, Claire and Jamie decide to kill Rufus with poison prior to giving his body to the mob in order to "save his soul" and help him avoid an even more brutal death.
A week after Dodge's death, Rufus is finally reunited with his mother who has managed to escape from the Black Door.
Rufus is a dog that appears in AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. He was Emile LaRoux's pet. After his death at the hands of Morgan Jones, Rufus was his pet until he was taken away by Emile's twin brother Josiah.
For now, though, it appears both Fergus and Marsali aren't time travellers with actors Lyle and Domboy addressing this in an Instagram live Q&A from earlier this year.
How does Master Raymond know Claire is his descendant? His descendants–a few of whom he meets now and then in his travels–have the blue light about them, too; in large degree or small, depending on their talents. So he knows Claire, when he sees her, as one of his great-great, etc. grand-daughters.
In early 1779, pregnant Marsali, Fergus and their daughters Joan and Félicité settle in Wilmington. Their eldest son, Germain, returns to Fraser's Ridge with his grandparents, Jamie and Claire, as Fergus and Marsali think that it is dangerous for a boy Germain's age to live in a large city in time of war.
Dana reflects that Rufus loves her because she cares about him. She wonders why she does not hate him, as Alice does, and why she keeps forgiving him. Despite her fondness for Rufus, she thinks she would kill him if he tried to rape her.
Rufus first appears drowning in a river. Dana saves him by giving him mouth-to-mouth. The next time we see Rufus, he lights his bedroom curtains on fire. Dana travels back in time to save him again.
He says his last name is Weylin and confirms that he has a young black friend, a free woman, named Alice Greenwood. When Dana hears these names, she realizes that Rufus is her ancestor.
Jocasta's third marriage (to a third Cameron) was to Hector mor Cameron, and as in her previous marriages they had one daughter, Morna Cameron, in 1730.
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.
Jocasta is dead, by suicide. She locked herself in her bedroom, crying for Laius and weeping for her monstrous fate.