Claire is poised to be hanged. But it’s a dream because she sees Richard Brown in the crowd. Jamie is imagining it. He feels in his bones that she’s alive, and he will find her.

Claire is in jail. She’s bunked with a woman who is excited to hear she got some money. She says they should call for someone to get some goodies. Claire is like, what?

They decide on a bottle of gin, and the woman who attends to them offers to get Claire some food even though dinner service is over. Sadie wonders if she’s the murderess. Sadie is in for forgery.

Sadie has been in for 29 days. They haven’t tried anyone in months. Apparently, the rebels have made it hell.

Claire struggles with sharing what she knows, which is that the war will be long, and they will languish for the duration.

Roger and Brianna chat about his new role in ministering the soldiers. They have chosen to fight, the minister says, but they will be in need of much prayer.

The soldiers don’t meet them with much excitement, but when Roger opens with float like a butterfly stink like a bee, he finds a fellow time traveler who recognizes the quote. It’s Wendigo Donner. He came back to help the Indian nations, but the plan got all screwed up. He and five others came through the stones but got split up. Wendigo never even got to where he was supposed to go. He wants Roger’s help going home.

A couple of men come in, with one asking after the healer. Sadie says she’s the murderess, so they aren’t afraid to take Claire. Jamie and Ian arrive in town, check in with Tom, and wind up talking to Sadie inside.

As it turns out, forgery is a capital crime, but you can plead out murder. Jamie asks Mrs. Toliver, who is the wife of the man who took Claire away. She’s got little of value to share.

Claire has been taken to a pregnant woman who is not impressed that she’s got a midwife plucked out of jail. Claire’s story has spread far and wide, and Mrs. Martin is worried Claire will kill her baby like she did Jamie’s mistresses.

Claire wins her over, and Mrs. Martin says she won’t say anything about the charge.

Brianna finds Roger’s pockets full and wonders what’s going on. Then she realizes it’s for Wendigo. Brianna isn’t happy that he’s helping someone who stood back and allowed Claire to get raped, but Roger feels for him, reminding her that he once worked on Bonnet’s crew.

Brianna says Roger would have never allowed someone to hurt a woman like others did, but Roger admits to watching Bonnet toss a child overboard and a mother go after her and doing nothing. He was frozen and unable to help because he was outnumbered and hoping to get back to Brianna. She walks away.

Claire listens to Governor Martin and Cade, the soldier who brought her. Claire interrupts, asking if she can get some extra supplies for Mrs. Martin. She learns that she will be sailing with the ship to keep an eye on Mrs. Martin. A major interrupts. He knows Claire, but she gets him to stop from revealing who she is, but it doesn’t last for long.

He is quite a mouthy fellow who also tosses Jamie under the bus. When Claire asks how he dares, Governor Martin sends the major away. Cade takes the list to Tom, who now knows where Claire is being kept. Tom is torn about what to do.

Claire pleads her innocence to the governor. He’s not immediately amenable, but Claire works her magic, assuring him that she knows what it’s like to lose a child. Governor isn’t an easy mark, and he holds no kindness for treasonous individuals.

Tom takes the note to Jamie. “My husband” is on the list of things she wants to be brought aboard the ship.

Claire is on the deck when Jamie makes his way to the ship, which, again, seems like a dream. But it’s not. He’s really there and makes a case to the governor. The governor has claimed martial law in North Carolina, so he alone is the law, Jamie points out.

Jamie offers a bond for his wife to appear in court, but the governor laughs. He wants Jamie to conscript 200 men and report to Major McDonald. Jamie agrees. He tells Claire not to despair and he’ll see her in the morning.

Roger tells Brianna that he hasn’t helped Wendigo escape, but he does want to do something for him. He’ll pray for him. He prays to God to help Wendigo help himself.

Jamie won’t be recruiting men, but he will be going back to the ship. Jamie finds Tom with a whiskey in his hand. He’s wrestled with his demons, but it’s always Jamie. Jamie is the answer to his prayers. He needs his help.

Tom offers to go to the ship to confess. Jamie says he will honor the promise he made to protect Claire on his own, but Tom persists. He has no clan of his own. He needs to do this. Jamie can say nothing to dissuade him. Tom remembers what Claire said she would have said about Malva at her funeral, and Tom wonders what Jamie might have said about him at his. Jamie shares a very nice eulogy with him.

The next boat to approach the ship is Tom’s, and Claire is surprised to see him. He’s come to confess to the murder of his daughter, and Claire says he couldn’t have. She doesn’t understand. He once asked Claire if she was a witch. She wasn’t one, but Malva and her mother were. Malva wasn’t his daughter, but his brother Edward’s girl. When Tom left for battle, Edward looked after Mona and Allan a little too well.

Tom doesn’t think it wrong to keep another witch from coming into the world, and he reveals that Malva tried killing Claire and Tom both. Claire wonders whose baby Malva was pregnant with, and he skirts the issue. Claire says she doesn’t believe him. All his life, Tom had been searching for a love that doesn’t exist. Now he knows that he loves Claire. He has a copy of his confession that he has already given to the newspaper.

He has spent all of his life giving love to people who don’t deserve it and wants to give his life for someone who is. He knows that his life has value because if it did not, this wouldn’t matter.

Claire makes her way back to Jamie. They discuss why Tom decided to confess even if they know he didn’t kill Malva. It’s plain to see that Tom loves Claire, and Tom did the same thing for her that Jamie would do himself.

Richard Brown finds Jamie in his room. Brown offers him a drink, but Jamie prefers to wait until after. Brown says his family would hunt down Jamie if he touched a hair on his head. But Ian is already paying them a visit.