In season five of Outlander, Briana and Roger are officially married. But the celebrations
are short-lived for the Fraser family, as Jamie is officially called on by Governor Tryon to
join the English Army and lead a militia to hunt and kill Murtagh and the Regulators.
Jamie rallies a Scottish militia and appoints Roger as his captain,
all the while urging Murtagh to flee for safety. But Murtagh is an idealistic man, who continues to
rally his Regulator forces against the British. Murtagh also tries to convince Jocasta to marry
him, but despite her love for Murtagh, she marries a more suitable match instead.
The tension reaches a boiling point when Jamie’s militia is forced to join together
with the British army to fight the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance. Briana remembers
this battle from history and warns Jamie that the entire Regulator army would be
killed. Roger sneaks off behind enemy lines to warn Murtagh to turn back.
While in the Regulator camp, Roger is attacked by his ancestor, Buck MacKenzie,
son of Dougal and Geillis, over a misunderstanding involving Roger and Buck’s wife, Morag.
Despite his best efforts, Jamie is forced to lead his men into battle, donned in full
redcoat attire. During their victory over the Regulators, Jamie desperately hopes that
Murtagh is not amongst the casualties. On the battlefield, Jamie is attacked by a Regulator,
but saved by Murtagh. Unfortunately, one of Jamie’s loyal militia shoots Murtagh, unaware
of Jamie’s relationship with him. Jamie rushes to his godfather’s side and Murtagh dies in his arms.
With the battle over and the Regulators defeated, a bitter Jamie informs Governor Tryon that his
duties had been fulfilled. And now that the battle was over, the Fraser family realized
that Roger had never returned from the Regulator camp. They find that Roger had been mistaken for
a Regulator by the British troops and hung with the other Regulator survivors. Fortunately,
the Frasers find Roger in time to save his life, but the ordeal greatly traumatizes him.
As Jamie, Claire and their family settle back down in Fraser’s Ridge, they soon discover that
Stephen Bonnet was still alive and was working with Aunt Jocasta’s shady lawyer Gerald Forbes
to claim Jemmy as his own. And since Jocasta plans on giving Jemmy the deed to River Run in her will,
this would make Bonnet and Forbes very rich. When Forbes attacks Jocasta for giving away
too much of her fortune to the Frasers before he can get his hands on it, Jocasta’s loyal servant
Ulysses kills him. And when Bonnet kidnaps Briana in an attempt to take Jemmy as his own,
the Frasers arrive and have him arrested. Bonnet is sentenced to death by drowning,
which was his greatest fear. Before he drowns, Briana arrives and shoots him in the head,
leading Roger to ask if the act was done for vengeance or mercy.
All season long, Claire has been trying to bring medical practices from her time to the 1700s.
She successfully develops penicillin, has modern needles and syringes crafted,
and trains Marsali on how to be a doctor. Claire begins to write medical advice under
the pseudonym Dr. Rawlings that goes against the common practices of the time. Eventually,
Claire’s medical advice accidentally spreads to the local newspapers.
Young Ian returns home to Fraser’s Ridge, having left the Mohawk tribe after losing
his wife. The Frasers reveal to him that Claire, Briana, and Roger were from the
future. Now that Jemmy was old enough for his parents to confirm his ability to time travel,
Briana and Roger say their goodbyes to Fraser’s Ridge and head off to a nearby
group of standing stones. When Roger, Briana, and Jemmy attempt to pass through the stones,
they fail. Roger and Briana take this as a sign that they were meant to remain in the 1700s.
When they return to Fraser’s Ridge, they discover that Claire had been kidnapped.
A local man named Lionel Brown had gathered his men to kidnap Claire after discovering that she
was the mysterious Dr. Rawlings. They strongly opposed the anachronistic advice which went
against their beliefs and gave autonomy to women. Amongst Lionel’s group is a man named Wendigo
Donner, who was amongst the group of Native Americans that had traveled back in time with
Otter-Tooth. Claire begs for Wendigo to save her, but he refuses out of fear for his own safety.
Lionel’s men viciously gangrape Claire before Jamie arrives with the men of Fraser’s Ridge
to save her. They slaughter Lionel’s men and take the leader back to Fraser’s Ridge for questioning.
While there, Marsali uses the medical knowledge taught to her by Claire to kill the villain.
Jamie takes Lionel’s body to his brother Richard,
the Mayor of Brownsville. While Richard acknowledges that Lionel got what he deserved,
he also makes a veiled threat that Jamie would also suffer the consequences for his actions.