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Outlander: Castle Leoch (1×02)
Synopsis: Claire is presented to Colum MacKenzie, laird of the castle, and soon realizes that she is under suspicion of being an English spy. She meets the mysterious Geillis Duncan, and witnesses Jamie doing a kindness for the granddaughter of Mrs Fitzgibbons.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
While the pilot gave us a taste of 1940’s and 1740’s, episode 2 gives us an intimate look at the “headquarters” of Outlander, Castle Leoch. We get to meet the laird of the castle and of the clan, Colum MacKenzie, a man suffering from Toulouse-Lautrec syndrome. Colum quickly proves that despite being physically lacking his mind is as sharp as a tack. The people in the Clan respect him and his decisions as the laird. He interrogates Claire easily, plying her with a lot of wine and food, and arriving at the conclusion that she is lying about who she is.
Claire’s closest encounter, however, is not with Colum or even young Jamie. It is with Mrs. Fitzgibbons, the head housekeeper of Castle Leoch. In spite of her initial suspicions of Claire, she takes care of her, feeding her and dressing her, giving her a taste of the 18th century. We see Claire growing closer to the woman who seems to run the entire castle from morning to night.
![Yay! New friends! [outlander.wikia.com]](http://nerdophiles.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/outlander.jpg?w=470)
Although she’s made some new friends in Mrs. Fitz and Geillis, her close and intimate interactions appear only to be with Jamie. We learn early on in the episode that Jamie has some major battle scars from an encounter with Black Jack Randall that left not only him with some scars but his sister as well. Jamie is a great offset in a world that seems to be not only dangerous but frightfully unfamiliar for Claire. Smiles and niceties quickly dissolve with ulterior motives. Colum and Dougal are all cloaks and daggers, but Jamie’s honesty shines with his openness.
![[outlander.wikia.com]](http://nerdophiles.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/outlander21.jpg?w=470)
Claire learns early on in the episode that there is a man who comes through to Castle Leoch on his way to Inverness, and Colum allows her to leave on that day with him to return to Inverness and therefore return to Craigh na Dun. However, at the last moment, Colum and Dougal quickly decide that Claire will be staying in Castle Leoch as their healer while the two decide if Claire is or is not an English spy since neither believes her story.
![God damn it Claire, Spy 101 don't drink around people you don't know! [outlander.wikia.com]](http://nerdophiles.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/outlander31.jpg?w=470)
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