Claire insinuates that the Duke would refuse the petition because he is friends with Black Jack, though the Duke called them 'libelous falsities' and refutes her claim. She goes to visit the Duke of Sandringham, unknown to Jamie. Claire is unhappy, but Jamie convinces her to sign the petition so they could reach Lallybroch. Jamie tells Claire what Ned told him - Black Jack assaulting an Englishwoman such as herself is a black mark of which he could never rid himself. She arrives to find the baby dead, and Jamie tells her to leave it be - the parents will assume that the Changeling died and that their child will grow up happy with the faeries. Claire hears a baby crying, and Geillis warns her not to find it, as it's a Changeling, though she goes anyway. From her conversations with Frank, Claire remembers that the Duke was a suspected Jacobite sympathizer.

Geillis shows Claire a gift from Dougal, which he got from the Duke of Sandringham. She realizes Geillis is pregnant, and learns that she has been having an affair with Dougal MacKenzie, who is married. Claire finds Geillis dancing naked in the woods, doing a pagan ritual eerily similar to the one the women did at Craigh na Dun. Claire slaps Laoghaire, who retorts that she got the ill wish from Geillis. Meanwhile, Claire confronts Laoghaire, who says that Jamie Fraser is hers and always will be. Claire, who knows that the Duke is Black Jack's patron, warns Jamie against it, but rather than heeding her advice, he goes instead to see Ned Gowan, who informs him that should he bring up a petition against Black Jack Randall, the court might pardon him. Murtagh announces that the Duke of Sandringham is coming to the castle, getting Jamie's hopes up, as he knew the Duke of Sandringham and believes he might lift the price off his head. He enters to speak to Jamie, humiliated as he realizes what he interrupted.

They cease as Murtagh pounds on the door repeatedly. The episode begins with Claire and Jamie enjoying a passionate morning.

Jamie hopes the newly arrived Duke of Sandringham will help lift the price from his head, while Claire attempts to save an abandoned child.

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