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[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the series finale of Outlander, “And the World Was All Around Us.”]
Try as the universe might to keep them apart, Claire (Caitríona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) were always destined to end up together on Outlander. But right up until the final moments of Starz’s long-running fantasy historical romantic drama, devoted viewers feared that their beloved 20th-century English combat nurse and 18th-century Scottish highland warrior were not going to get their happy ending after all.
In the May 15 series finale, as Claire’s first husband Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies) foretold in his 20th-century book about the history of Scots who settled in North Carolina, Jamie is tragically killed at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. After spending almost the entire final season fearing that the book’s prophecy about Jamie would come true, Claire is unable to remove herself from her husband’s side on the battlefield, spending the rest of that day and night pouring all of her love and grief into his lifeless body.
Once she has resigned herself to the fact that she has lost the love of her life for good, Claire, whose hair has now turned grey, lies down beside Jamie and cradles his corpse. But shortly before the screen cuts to black one last time, the lovers can be seen and heard gasping for breath, suggesting that Claire has used her special healing abilities to save Jamie. The ending aligns with author Diana Gabaldon’s ninth Outlander book, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, in which Claire seemingly uses her “blue light” — a mystical, supernatural healing power associated with certain time travelers — to save Jamie after he gets shot.
