5 best moments from Outlander Season 3, Episode 3

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Outlander’s All Debts Paid was Tobias Menzies’ last Outlander episode. While it wasn’t a best moment, there was certainly something good to come out of it.

There were so many heartbreaking, exciting, and emotional moments throughout Outlander Season 3, Episode 3. “All Debts Paid” wasn’t just Menzies’ last episode, but also seemingly the end of the flashbacks over the last 20 years for Claire and Jamie. Here’s a look at the moments that drew me and many fans in the most.

While the best moments aren’t always the happiest or funniest moments, they’re often the most prominent and necessary moments. There’s always a reason for even the saddest scenes to stand out.

#1. Tobias Menzies…yes, everything about him

Being Menzies’ last episode of Outlander, it made sense to focus on his character as much as possible. We got to see how Frank had dealt with Claire’s career and lack of intimacy in their marriage. Trying to be discreet, he started seeing other women but continued to be a good father to Brianna.

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Unfortunately, there were some moments missing. We didn’t get to see the bond between Brianna and Frank form. Considering this is Menzies’ last episode, it’s unlikely that we’ll get to see flashbacks of that (unless Outlander wants to make us extremely happy), so we’ll only hear about how Brianna connected more with her father than her mother.

However, the episode did give us plenty of passion and hatred. Yes, hatred. Frank in the end despised everything that he had to pretend to do. While he didn’t hate Brianna, he hated the way he had been replaced by Jamie and how Claire could never move on from him. He hated how it seemed like Claire had never loved him.

This moves me to the next best moment.

#2. Claire’s Final Goodbye

It was a car crash that took Frank from us. While the book goes into more details about this crash, we don’t need to fully know the details for the final moments of the episode. All we need is Claire’s goodbye.

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While Frank’s body lays in the morgue, Claire hopes that she’s not too late to let his spirit find some sort of peace. With a kiss, she tells him that she did love him. It wasn’t a case of “once” loved him, but that there was still part of her that loved him. Unfortunately, it just wasn’t the love that she had for Jamie. There wasn’t the intensity that could keep the two together without Brianna there to help.

They always say you don’t know how much you love someone until they’re gone. That’s exactly what this scene gave us. And it’s a feeling that fans have. We’ve loved Menzies throughout the series, whether as scholar Frank or the sadistic Black Jack Randall. Nobody can replace him in the series.

#3. The surprise survival

Be honest; we all knew after the scenes at Culloden that Murtagh was going to survive. The major deviation from the books made it clear that the show wasn’t going to write him out. It took until Outlander Season 3, Episode 3 for us to find out just where Murtagh was.

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We heard his voice before we saw him. My husband and I heard him and instantly knew that he was going to be behind that pillar. What made his surprise survival better was that he was clinging onto a patch of tartan. It may have been MacKenzie tartan, but it was tartan nonetheless. The MacKenzie tartan sort of had a little extra meaning, since he always loved Ellen MacKenzie (and she is brought up in the episode).

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There was a moment I thought we were going to lose him just as he was brought back to us. I feared that he would die in the prison, but it just happens that he was saved and taken to the colonies. Hopefully it won’t be too long until we see him again!

#4. Jamie’s emotions hearing about the White Witch

When Duncan mentions the White Witch, Jamie’s face lighting up is so sweet. He has some hope that his wife is still somewhere in the past. There’s life put back into that drained soul, as he forges a plan to find out whether his own White Lady is somewhere out there. Those who haven’t read the book may have even wondered if something happened with the stones to take Claire to this point in time rather than 20 years after the Battle of Culloden.

Instead, we learn that there was nothing on the island except a sapphire. There’s no White Witch and that means no Claire. Jamie returns defeated and ready once more to die.

We get such a mix of emotions, but Outlander Season 3, Episode 3 gave us that first hint of life in Jamie since Claire left. We almost got our Scotsman back for just a few moments.

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#5. Jamie Threatening Lord John Grey

There were certainly a few times that Jamie threatened his new commander of the prison, but it was the moment close to the end of the episode that was one of the best. After John tells Jamie about the lover he lost at Culloden, the two look like they could become friends. Despite all the odds, they have so much in common.

However, John ruins it all with a rub of the thumb on Jamie’s hands. John lost himself in Jamie’s eyes (and who wouldn’t), but it brought back some terrible memories for Jamie with British officers in prisons.

Within just seconds, we saw the softness leave Jamie’s eyes. They turned dark and with a low voice, he threatened John’s life. We know he’s go through with the threat too. After 10 years, those memories of everything Black Jack did to him likely live fresh in his mind. Someone doesn’t just get over that, and just a hint of it happening again made Jamie put his defenses up. Like earlier in the episode, we saw the man that we once knew come through.

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