In a scene from season 6 of Outlander, which just ended on Netflix, the hero couple discuss all the times Jamie almost died. A sequence that could be linked to a popular theory about the character.
A ghost that keeps talking! In the very first episode of Outlander, which aired in 2014, before Claire (Caitriona Balfe) travels back in time and meets Jamie (Sam Heughan), she is on honeymoon with Frank (Tobias Menzies) in Scotland and one night , as she brushes her hair in front of a window, a man in a kilt is shown watching her from the street.
When Frank, who is outside at the time, approaches the mysterious figure, he disappears. A scene that has given rise to many theories and on which Diana Gabaldon, the author of the literary series from which the show is adapted, has already spoken : the individual is indeed Jamie or at least his ghost, then 25 years old.
So the question is: how did the specter of the Highlander end up outside this window in 1945? And the beginning of an answer could be found in the last episode of season 6, available since last Monday on Netflix.
You are a cat!
Indeed, during a moment of lull in the confrontation between the star couple of the series and the men of Richard Brown (Chris Larkin), Claire and Jamie list all the times the Scotsman came close to dying and the latter remembers a Parisian fortune teller who had seen “the number 9” and “the death” written in the palm of his hand and compared it to a cat.
Would Jamie have 9 lives like cats according to a famous legend? This could confirm the theory that the hero lives in a time loop but it could also mean that he has indeed already died several times but has always “resurrected” and that after his ninth life he will become the ghost seen in the first episode. Unless each time he dies, he comes to visit Claire in 1945?
Starz Jamie’s ghost in 1945.
However, it will be necessary to wait a while before having the definitive answer – and many others – since season 7 of Outlander started filming recently and should not arrive on the screens before 2023.