Claire writes to Bree of meeting William and missing her, while Roger introduces Brianna to William Buckley MacKenzie. At your service, madam, William says.

William Buccleigh shares his tale of time travel. He heard the strange sound, the bees, as they walked through Craigh ne Dun. He's at Lallybroch because he saw Roger in Inverness. He thought they might be able to help explain to him why he's here. After all, he saved Roger.

The British Army is near Stillwater, New York. The officers have gathered, toasting with champagne. The officers discuss Hessians deserting the army, and William mumbles under his breath, "Cowards."

William's officers are so sure they will prevail with one last push, and Willam seems to agree, judging from the smirk-like smile on his face. The receive a message from General Howell and send the men out. William and Sandy chit-chat afterward, with William showing his prowess with a knife.

General Howell will take Philadelphia instead. William will be acting as another guy's second. There will be an attack in three days time, and William won't miss it.

Lots of apple eating going on in this episode. Must have been paid by the apple growers association. Buccleigh is a noisy eater.

Buccleigh gets his first taste of peanut butter and jelly and enjoys it a lot. Roger rolls his eyes while listening to Buccleigh, who is still angry that Roger spoke with his wife. Then Roger explains who they are to each other.

Brianna shares who her father is while Roger is off getting the family documents. He sets Jamie and Claire's box on the desk, covering the family tree that shows him dying in 1778.

Buccleigh wonders if Brianna is one, too. When Roger returns saying that he didn't find the family tree. He's confused, wondering what year he came through. Before they get a chance to discuss it, Rob Cameron arrives for dinner.

Roger says he did say he'd invite him to dinner, but he didn't call first. He just showed up. They hide Buccleigh, and Roger goes out to greet Rob.

They talk about who does the cooking and the house being a mess and all that jazz. Rob wants to see some of Roger's dad's hymnals. He's thrilled to see them, but Roger leaves him alone for a while, which seems unwise.

The kids come home. Jemmy is a member of the Tufty Club, just like Roger was at his age.

Dinner seems to go well. Brianna wonders if nobody but her eats in the cafeteria. They talk work, and it seems like he's too nice for the world we know in Outlander. I do not trust him.

He wants another wee dram before leaving, which is my favorite saying ever.

Jamie has a present for Claire. He found a book on the edge of the creek. She pulls her head away, trying to look at it, and Jamie drops the bad news on her. She needs spectacles. She says they'll be blind as bats before the war is over, hoping that Jamie can still see well enough to shoot.

General Fraser has inspirational speeches for his soldiers, but William wants to know why he's relegated to carrying dispatches and not standing side by side with his fellow soldiers. He makes the request to do so. General Fraser obliges, but not without grave concern on William's behalf.

Rob tells Roger about his unsuccessful marriage. He's had a wonderful evening and thanks them. Perhaps he can take Jemmy to the movies with his son, Bobby, tomorrow night. Sure!

When they look for Buccleigh in the coat closet, he's gone. He's watching TV with the kids, totally awestruck. He told the kids they're cousins, and they say he's not really that scary, mummy. Brianna wonders how he already lured the kids to his side. Roger feels for the guy and wants to give him the benefit of the doubt.

He's cousin Buc, not the enemy Roger know before. He's forgiven him. They'll watch after him until Roger can take him back to the stones over the weekend.

At the dam, Buc says nothing has changed, but everything has changed. All the people are gone. All of them. Bree wonders why, once he realized what happened, he didn't go back through the circle. But Buc didn't understand what happened. He knew it was something terrible because of the stones, and he was afraid of them. She wonders what he was thinking about when he walked through. He gets flustered, and she wants to know why he's here.

Bree introduces Buc to Rob, and Buc didn't find how Rob touched her to be very good. He said he was smiling in too many directions, which Bree calls kindness. Maybe he can try it.

Roger is preparing to leave for his class when he sees the open door to the caravan. Buc is inside, looking at a toy airplane. He says how much his son would love it. Then he tells Roger what he's observed about Rob.

Roger tells Buc what he saw on the family tree. It could mean that it never makes it back to his own time. Or, he does make it back and dies anyway. Not the best news.

Bree says at the dam, she got the idea he doesn't want to go back.

Phil Collins Hold On is playing when Roger brings up Buc's assessment of Rob. That leads to some sexy time and sex itself. I bet they made a baby!

It's already 1991, then.

Ian and his fellow scouts found a British deserter who is willing to share secrets. They're moving out, and Jamie and Claire say goodbye.

This is going to put Jamie and William on the same battlefield.

The first battle of Saratoga, September 19, 1777.

William and his friends discuss women's bosoms just before the battle begins. They're super excited, but before William gets to tell Hammond who he likes, Hammond is the first guy gunned down. Now, it's not so fun anymore. William can't bring himself up off the ground.

They are terrible fighters, waiting in line for the General to call shoot. General Fraser is now demanding William go with his men, and, with tears in his eyes, he raises his sword and joins the rest. He kills many men with that sword. They don't stand a chance. And when his sword is knocked away, he strangles someone with his bare hands.

Roger wakes up and heads into his office. He notices that there is a piece of paper sticking out of the trunk. Before he can discover what's going on, he hears a scream. Mandy is inconsolable. Jemmy isn't here with her anymore, in her head. Jemmy went close to the stones, and that bad man took Jemmy with him.

Roger goes to check on Buc, who is in the room. There was no movie, no sleepover. It was Rob. Roger and Buc head to the stones, Roger lamenting that when he read his journal by accident, Rob played it off like he thought it was sci-fi but knew all along what it was.

Geillis comes to mind and her belief she needed a blood sacrifice to travel. The stones are humming when they arrive, but nobody is there. they find Jemmhy's scarf with the pin.

William still can't get over Sandy's death. The soldiers think the trench is deep enough, and William disagrees. These men died bravely and he won't see them buried in shallow graves to be taken out and eaten in the dark of night.

Back at camp, they're toasting themselves again with rousing speeches. Weathering the storm is apparently enough these days. It's weighing hard on him. General Fraser has a quote about battle and how men change within it.

Jamie is down on the battlefield, his head bloodied.