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.
To be more specific, it is amoebic dysentery, which Claire (Caitriona Balfe) confirms with her makeshift microscope. The disease can be spread through contaminated food or water, and Jamie (Sam Heughan) eventually learns that it was a dead elk lying in the water that the fisherfolk use that caused the disease.
Claire asks him for a stool sample to confirm what illness he had. Jamie discovers a dead elk upstream from the MacNeils contaminated the water causing the dysentery outbreak.
It all began with an epidemic of sickness on the Ridge, which Claire diagnoses as amoebic dysentery. Before long she's fallen ill herself, and, while in a feverish state, she – and us viewers – glimpse Malva comforting a devastated Jamie.
After attending to Claire 24 hours a day for almost a week, Malva and housekeeper Mrs Bug (Sarah Collier) decided to cut her hair off, thinking it would help reduce Claire's temperature.
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.
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.
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. 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.
Jamie: "Claire, it was you. It's always been you, and it always will be. Get into bed and put the candle out.
If we're looking for the straight answer, it's two. Claire and Jamie only have two biological children together: Faith and Brianna. Faith was the stillborn baby in France.
Some think Jamie's spirit (but not his body) traveled to through time to guide Claire to him; others suggest Jamie had a near-death experience after the Battle of Culloden, and that's why his ghost is 25 when he appears to Frank.
In the latest episode of the time travelling saga starring Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser, Caitriona's character Claire Fraser becomes mysteriously ill. She is told by Roger that Mrs. Bug and Malva say the way to heal someone with a bad fever is to cut their hair off.
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.
Fans discuss Claire's addiction
By the end of episode 7, Claire took her first steps to realising the damage her addiction was causing, to which this fan said: “Is it weird that I'm really happy that Claire is chugging whisky right now instead of huffing ether?
There's no doubt that Black Jack Randall is an Outlander character to hate. However, whether he's a psychopath or a sociopath has been something fans have debated for quite some time. Diana Gabaldon confirms what he is. It turns out that he's a sociopath.
Just as she begins to worry that Jamie might be capable of lying to her, Jamie quells her fear by revealing to her his indiscretion with Mary MacNab, a woman who worked at Lallybroch, while Claire was back in 1968 with Frank and Brianna. This confession soothes Claire, and the two find themselves realigned once again.
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.
Claire obtains an orgasm, which surprises Jamie, and proves the two have crazy chemistry. (I mean, they go at it again before the episode is through.) It also feels like this is the true first time. Their marriage's earlier consummation was a perfunctory act designed to solidify a legal contract.
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.
The hubbub surrounding the impending arrival of Malva Christie on Fraser's Ridge has been rather ominous, but I'm here to tell you, despite everything that might go down in Season 6, Malva Christie is not a villain.
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.
Additionally, Allan confirmed he took Malva's life because she was going to reveal the truth and he didn't want this. Allan planned to take his life with Claire trying to dissuade him but Young Ian (John Bell) killed him with an arrow.
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.
So, at the very end of the episode, it's likely that Malva was ready to confess it all. She wanted to make sure Claire knew the truth, but Claire didn't let her into the house. Instead, her attacker—likely the real father of her baby—turned up and killed her before she could say anything to Claire.
Fans of the novels by Diana Gabaldon will know Jamie is not the father of Malva's baby but it's someone much closer to home. Allan (Alexander Vlahos) is the father of Malva's child and had been abusing his sibling for many months and when she felt guilty about her lies, he decides to silence her.