Libvpx: Outlander S03e01

In Scotland, 1746, Jamie awakens in a cave, his leg savagely infected. A gruff, hunted man named Hugh MacKenzie (the "Old Fox" and Jamie’s great-uncle) tends to him. Hugh brings news: the Duke of Cumberland is offering a pardon to any Jacobite who surrenders. Jamie refuses. Then Hugh mentions another prisoner, being held at the notorious Fort William: Claire’s would-be rapist, Black Jack Randall.

She has kept her promise to Frank for twenty years. But now, she knows: somehow, impossibly, Jamie Fraser is alive. That’s the story of S3E01: a tale of two survivors—Jamie, crushed but unbroken in the 18th century, and Claire, trapped in a silent marriage in the 20th—both clinging to the ghost of each other, until one photograph reopens the door between their worlds.

But Hugh corrects him: "No, lad. Not a prisoner. The captain’s alive and well. In fact, he’s just been promoted."

That night, in a makeshift prison wagon, fortune intervenes. A young British soldier recognizes Jamie as "Red Jamie" and, feeling a pang of mercy (and hoping for a reward from the Highlanders), loosens Jamie's ropes. The next morning, as Jack Randall is about to begin his cruel march, chaos erupts: the wagon overturns during a skirmish. Jamie, near death, is left for dead in a ditch. He is not dead. A farmer finds him and sells him to a group of passing Highlanders who are collecting wounded Jacobites.