Certainty of Future

At Lodge, Cunningham shares a strange story that his dead son came to him and told him he’d live another seven years, which is why he knew he wouldn’t die killing the bear that killed Amy McCallum because he has 5 years left. Jamie knows something about being told the future and is suspicious of Cunningham and his intentions.

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Henry Beauchamp

Henry Beauchamp is on his honeymoon in Scotland with his new wife Julia when they are in a car accident and nearly swept away. The two manage to get to safety but find themselves and Craigh na Dun. Julia disappears first. When Henry attempts to look for her; he inadvertently touches the stones and is also transported back in time. Henry searches the area around the stones for Julia but has no luck. He leaves the message S.W.A.K. or Sealed with a Kiss for her on a rock.

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Julia Beauchamp

Julia Beauchamp is on her honeymoon in Scotland with her new husband Henry when they are in a car accident and nearly swept away. The two manage to get to safety but find themselves and Craigh na Dun. Julia disappears first, awakening in the past. When she attempts to find Henry she meets up with some locals who kidnap her and take her to Lord Lovat to be sold into servitude.

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Raymond Visits Claire

After Claire is shot during the Battle on Monmouth, she is recovering at the Tennent Church and believes she wakes up to find Master Raymond next to her bed. "I came to ask forgiveness," he says. "For what?" Claire asks. "Someday you will know." He then disappears and Claire later wakes wondering if it happened. What could Master Raymond need forgiveness for? Source: A Hundred Thousand Angels

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Did saving Jerry MacKenzie change anything?

Roger's original story of the tube station collapse was that his mother threw him to someone to save him. It isn't until Roger experiences a near miss with a cannon that he realizes the person who caught him was his father. Did Roger change who caught him by sending his father home? According to Roger, after he remembers his father's presence in the tube station, they were always part of history. Roger believes in all their attempts to change things or the times they were they and has some influence... it was always true. As in because they are time travelers they has already been part of the event without even knowing it.

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Jerry MacKenzie

After being shot down, Jerry took a leave to recover from bullet wounds and was recruited by Intelligence Officer Frank Randall. Jerry and three other pilots are tasked with flying low over concentration camps to take phones with cameras mounted on their wings. Before the mission, Jerry is flying in Northumberland when his plane suffers engine failure and he goes down. He's thrown from the wreck near Craigh na Dun. When he comes to he leans on one of the stones for support and is transported into the past.

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Buck MacKenzie

Roger finally discovers who the Nucklavee is when he finds William Buccleigh “Buck” MacKenzie lurking around Lallybroch in the 1980s. Buck heard Craigh na Dun buzzing sound while passing and went to check out the noise only to be sent forward in time. After arriving he saw Roger and Brianna and followed them back to Lallybroch where he's been getting the children to give him food. Roger and Brianna aren't that happy with Buck because he is reason Roger was hanged. Buck is confused by what happened to him and Roger and Brianna explain they are all time travelers and that Roger his he many times over grandson. Buck's attitude seems to change and he is invested in what happens to the MacKenzies.

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Loch Errochty Dam Time Portal

When Brianna is locked inside the dam's tunnels, she encounters what appears to be a time portal. She is forced to run through it but doesn't travel out of her current time. Later, Brianna and Roger discuss what she discovered and believe that when ley lines cross a time portal is present. Source: Singapore, Where the Waters Meet

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Jamie and Claire’s Obituary

After the fire at the Big House, Jamie and Claire believe the newspaper got everything wrong about the fire. However, when Claire comes across Tom Christie in Wilmington; he tells her he was the one who put the obituary in the newspaper. He'd heard about the fire and believed them dead. He couldn't let her death pass without being acknowledged. He was surprised to find out both Jamie and Claire survived.

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Jeremiah’s Box

The first letter Brianna and Roger read is about the fire at the Big House. Roger comes to the conclusion that Brianna is the reason for the fire. She went back in time and made matches which is what Donner used to accidentally ignite the ether. They believe they changed history and that the fire that killed Jamie and Claire can not happen because the house is already gone.

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Fire on the Ridge

The Frasers have tried to prevent the fire at the Ridge that is supposed to kill both Jamie and Claire. Wendigo Donner shows up and is angry that Roger's response to his please for help was to "pray for him." Donner had a gemstone and tried to go through the stones as Ocracoke but failed. He ended up in the same place only now without a gemstone. He wants Jamie and Claire to give him one and brought brigands to assist him in getting what he wants. Did the knowledge of the fire change history? Source: The Happiest Place on Earth

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Reappearance of the Frenchman’s Gold

While being held up for gemstones by Donner; his crew finds a bar of gold in Mrs. Bug's sewing basket. Jamie immediately recognizes it as the Frenchman's Gold. Jamie is outraged and asks Arch Bug where it came from. Arch tells him it is not his concern but Jamie disagrees. They don't have much time to discuss it because Donner accidentally blows up the Big House. Source: The Happiest Place on Earth

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Ocracoke

Wendigo Donner traveled back in time with Robert Springer (Otter Tooth) via the standing stones at Ocracoke. Roger and Brianna decided to use this stones when they travel back to the future after learning baby Amanda has a heart condition that can be corrected with modern medicine in the future. Source: The Happiest Place on Earth

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Roger Finds a Time Traveler

While ministering to soldiers, Roger tells a man who asks for advice, "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." A man among the conscripted says, "Ali," as he recognizes the quote from the future. Roger is stunned to find a time traveler. Wendigo Donner introduces himself and asks Roger for help. He has a gemstone and just wants to go back to his own time, but needs help escaping. Roger talks with Brianna about this and ultimately decides he can not help Donner escape. Source: A Life Well Lost

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Man in Jail

Who is the man in the jail? He stole one of Flora MacDonald's emeralds from her necklace which suggests he was actually after the stone and not the necklace. As we know, gem stones are needed for steering and protection through the stones. Claire hears him whistling “Colonel Bogey March” which was a song that came about in 1914 but became the anthem of WWII. This proves the man isn't from the 18th century. Source: Give Me Liberty

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Trail of Tears

“Some sixty years from this time, yer people will be taken from their lands, from the bones of their ancestors, and removed to a new place, far from here. Many will die on this journey, so that the path they tread will be called… the trail where they wept.” Did Jamie change anything? With the knowledge does Chief Bird pass the information down making his tribe the 800 who were not removed during the Trail of Tears? Source: Hour of the Wolf

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Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773 by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights.

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Wendigo Donner

Claire encounters Wendigo Donner while in the captivity of Lionel Brown and his men. After confirming she’s from the future he says he traveled back in time with a group of American Indians in 1968. She tells Donner of Otter Tooth’s (Robert ‘Bob’ Springer) fate but Donner is confused because they came back to save their people. Donner wishes to go back to the future and Claire promises to help him for helping her but he doesn’t. Source: Never My Love

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Signs of a Traveler: Gem Stones

A new detail about the time travel rules is gemstones appear to be warm to the touch to a traveler while non-travelers do not feel the warmth. Claire, Roger, and Brianna feel the warmth of Otter Tooth's opal. Jemmy believes the gem is hot which Brianna believes is because he's the product of two travelers. Source: Journeycake

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Otter Tooth aka Robert Singer

The Mohawk tell Jamie, Claire and Ian about Otter Tooth (the previous owner of Claire's stone). He appeared to know the future. He told the Mohawk of the future. He tried to convince them to war on the white man going so far as to scalp some nearby. He angered the elders who sent him away but he was always nearby ranting and raving. They thought him possessed and chased him for days until they caught up to him and killed him. They continued to hear his words even after taking his head and so buried his head far away, under a tree where Claire eventually found his skull and satchel with the opal inside.

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American Standing Stones

After Roger is sold to the Mohawk by Young Ian, he comes across a buzzing in the woods and finds a clearing with a standing stones much like Craigh na Dun. When he is freed from the Mohawk’s Roger returns to the stones but can’t bring himself to go through without Brianna. When Roger and Bree decides to return to the future, they go to the stones Roger came across when traveling with the Mohawk. Something goes wrong and the trio is left in the past. Source: Journeycake, The Deep Heart's Core

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Time Travel is Hereditary

Brianna is the daughter of Claire a time traveler and can travel. Roger is the descendant of Geillis Duncan who is a time traveler and can travel. Jemmy is able to hear the gem stones. Gem stones which are typically warm to travelers appear hot to him suggesting is ability is stronger. This makes it likely he is the product of two travelers: Brianna and Roger. One of Claire’s parents had to be a traveler. One of Roger’s parents had to be a traveler. Source: Journeycake, Between Two Fires, Man of Worth

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French Gold: Hector Cameron

While fleeing from Scotland after Culloden, Hector and Jocasta Cameron appear to be in the custody of a trunk of the Frenchmen’s Gold. Jocasta seems surprised by it’s presence and it is believe Hector uses this gold to finance River Run after they come to the Colonies. If Hector and Jocasta took a trunk of the French gold to the Colonies after Culloden then what was the trunk on the Selkie Island? Is there more than one trunk of gold? Source: Better to Marry Than Burn

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