Historical fantasy drama Outlander has come to an end after eight seasons.
It was there she fell into the arms of hunky Highlander Jamie (Sam Heughan), setting into motion a time-travelling romance that had our steamy lovers survive wars, separation and more than a couple of fittings for the hangman’s noose before setting up home in North Carolina in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War.
There were hints, however, as at the beginning of the season Jamie read – in a history book written by Claire’s 20th century husband, Frank (Tobias Menzies) – that a James Fraser would die at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780.
So did Jamie die in the final episode? Read on for everything you need to know about the ending of Outlander on MGM+
Outlander ending explained: What happens to Jamie and Claire Fraser?
Jamie wrote his will, knowing of Frank’s prediction that he would die in battle, and then told Claire that if he did not survive, he hoped that he would return as a ghost so he could see her again.
After they set up camp, Jamie and his men marched off, leaving Claire and Roger to prepare a medical tent for any wounded. However, it wasn’t long before Claire packed her bags with some bandages and a gun and headed off with poor Roger in tow, right into the heart of the battle to be by her husband’s side.
Jamie raised his own and knocked Ferguson from his horse, and the captured major was then taken to a hill with the other prisoners of war. However, as Jamie and his fellow Patriots celebrated their victory, Ferguson drew a gun he had hidden in his coat and shot Jamie in the chest.
What happens after the battle and what does the ending mean?
While Claire sobbed by her husband’s body, which appeared to be laying on a stone like the time-travelling ones from her past and future, there was a flashback to the first ever episode of Outlander, when a figure in Highland clothing watched Claire at her hotel room window in Inverness in 1945.
Jamie was then shown at the time-travelling stones of Craigh na Dun, where he touched the stones and then walked away. As he left, blue forget-me-not flowers magically appeared in the grass. These were the flowers that had originally drawn Claire to the stones that sent her hurtling back through time to meet Jamie, so it seems the circle of their story has been completed, making Claire’s journey to the past to find Jamie inevitable.
There were then more flashbacks of the pair’s love story, before we were shown Claire still lying by Jamie’s side on Kings Mountain as the sun rose. However, her hair was now white, just like La Dame Blanche, the magical woman that French healer Master Raymond had prophesised she would become.
This could mean that Claire’s magical powers have resurrected her husband (such an event does happen in Gabaldon’s ninth Outlander book, Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone), or she has died with him during the night and they are now in the afterlife together.
(We can only hear Claire’s breath in that final moment, but check it out and see what you think).
Even Sam Heughan isn’t sure. “I do want to leave it up to the viewer but it depends on the day,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “Some days I’m like, ‘You know what? They live and they go back to Fraser’s Ridge and they live happily ever after.’ But part of me also is suspicious. I think that they are together, but they’re somewhere else. They’re perhaps in the afterlife, and that might be implied by the standing stone [they are lying on], but they’re happy and they’re together. I think that’s all that matters.”
View Green Video on the source websiteFans are lined up to meet Diana Gabaldon, and one woman asks the Outlander author about a battered leather book by her side, which is the journal Claire was writing the story of her and Jamie’s life in during the penultimate episode.
He added: “It's our love letter and a thank you to all the crew that had been there from day one. Everybody in the bookstore is someone who had been on the show from day one.”
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