- Murtagh Fraser: Hey, if you're teasing the lad about Laoghaire, if her father or Colum comes to know about it, young Jamie could get more than a bloodied nose.
- Claire Randall: Like a wife?
- Murtagh Fraser: Maybe. That's not the wife he should have.
- Claire Randall: No?
- Murtagh Fraser: No. He needs a woman, not a lassie. And Laoghaire will be a girl until she's fifty. I've been around long enough to ken the difference very well. And so do you, mistress.
- Colum MacKenzie: What, you don't have demons in Oxfordshire, mistress?
- Claire Randall: We do, but we call them Scots.
- Claire Randall: Are you implying that I'm intoxicated?
- Jamie Fraser: I'd be impressed if you weren't.
- Claire Randall: You don't want Alec to know you've been flogged?
- Jamie Fraser: No. No. Old Alec knows I've been flogged, but he's no seen it. To know something like that is, well, it's not the same as seeing it with your own eyes. It's a bit... personal, mebbe, is what I mean. I think if Alec were to see the scars, he couldn't see me without thinking o' my back.
- Claire Randall: You don't mind me seeing your back?
- Jamie Fraser: I don't. You seem to have a knack for letting me know you feel sorry for it without making me feel pitiful about it.
- Jamie Fraser: Now then, novelli, got yourself in a right swivet, have you no? Yon's no job to be makin' heavy weather of! A wee jouk of the head and it's over. Here, shall I help you?
- Tanner's Lad: No, no.
- Jamie Fraser: [as Claire creates a diversion so Jamie can free the boy from the pillory] Away home.
- Claire Randall: I'm glad I could be of service.
- Dougal MacKenzie: Aye. Seems that the feral cat we picked up on the road is trying to pull in her claws.
- Jamie Fraser: [translating as Gwyllyn the bard sings] Now this one is about a man out late on a fairy hill on the eve of Samhain. who hears the sound of a woman singing sad and plaintive from the very rocks of the hill. "I am a woman of Balnain. The folk have stolen me over again," the stones seemed to say. "I stood upon the hill and wind did rise, and the sound of thunder rolled across the land. I placed my hands upon the tallest stone and traveled to a far, distant land where I lived for a time among strangers who became lovers and friends. But one day, I saw the moon came out and the wind rose once more. So I touched the stones and traveled back to my own land and took up again with the man I had left behind."
- Claire Randall: [stunned] She came back through the stones?
- Jamie Fraser: Aye, she did. They always do.
- Mrs. Fitzgibbons: Why are you two drunkards still takin' up space in my kitchen? If you're not workin' here, be gone wi' ye!
- Rupert MacKenzie: [raising his mug and nodding at Claire] We're just following orders, keeping an eye on this one.
- Mrs. Fitzgibbons: [smiling] Oh, and has she been hiding at the bottom of your mug for th' past two hours?
- Claire Randall: Mrs. Fitz, can I tell you something?
- Mrs. Fitzgibbons: Of course you can.
- Claire Randall: It's about my husband. He's not dead.
- Mrs. Fitzgibbons: Have you run away from him? Is he no a good man?
- Claire Randall: No, he's wonderful. It's just... he hasn't been born yet.
- Geillis Duncan: Do you not believe in demonic possession, Claire?
- Claire Randall: Do you?
- Geillis Duncan: I believe there are powers beyond our ken... beyond what we can see and hear and touch. Demon, fairy, devil, it doesn't matter what name we put on them. But you believe in the powers of magic, do you not?
- Claire Randall: Haven't really thought much about it.
- Geillis Duncan: Have you never found yourself in a situation with no earthly explanation?
- Claire Randall: Sometimes I feel very much the stranger in a strange land.
- Geillis Duncan: It can't be easy, being a Sassenach in the Highlands... assuming that's what you mean.
- Jamie Fraser: But I am also a Highlander, born and bred, and I dinna believe in tempting fate by making light of Old Nick in his very own kirkyard.
- Frank Randall: [to Claire] Woe betide the man that stands between you and what you set your mind to.
- Frank Randall: Claire Beauchamp Randall, promise that you'll return to me.
- Claire Randall: I will, Frank Randall. I promise.
- Angus Mhor: Colum will not like you interfering with the workings of the spirits. It's not your place.
- [Claire pauses]
- Angus Mhor: I thought that might change your mind.
- Claire Randall: A priest once told me my healing skills were a gift from God.
- [Angus crosses himself]
- Claire Randall: I must escape Castle Leoch and get back to the stones as soon as possible, or die trying.