I never thought I'd see the day I'd be ashamed of you, uncle. I do see how courageous my father was and is. I admired you so much, I ran away to Edinboro to be with you. You know, there were times I felt guilty when I was younger for watching you and my father. If Roger came face to face with Bonnet knowing all that he did to his family and wife, Roger might not see the fear in Bonnet's eyes at all.Įverything about the conversations between Jamie and Roger was on point, and I welcomed seeing the two connect in a way they never had the opportunity before.īut something that Jamie didn't think was even remotely funny was the potential loss of his leg to save his life. : Jocasta bequeathed River Run to your son.He'll have witnesses from a tavern that Bree was willing to leave with him for a silver ring. Those that come after us, wee Jamie, have reason to believe that Bonnet will try to claim your son as his own. Jamie: Jocasta bequeathed River Run to your son. It's a dangerous path to go down vengeance. Roger: Nonsense, we don't have to worry about any of this because you're going to live. Jamie: If I'm to die tonight, Roger Mac, promise me you'll look after Claire and the Ridge. But what this hour also showed is that theorizing and doing are entirely different things. Roger knows now that there is a plan in motion to kill Stephen Bonnet, but Roger isn't sure he could be the one to do it. Jamie was unloading his soul to his son-in-law and laying upon his feet a burden he had hoped to address before his dying day. And you're a university professor, or so everyone keeps tellin' me.įrom drawing the venom out of Jamie's leg (which he could have done more than once, maybe, if not for Jamie's fussing) to using his weapons to navigate to creating a stretcher to drag Jamie through the forest, Roger never lost his head during a very intense situation.Īnd he didn't have it easy. And you're a university professor, or so everyone keeps tellin' me. Roger: It's a hell of a time to get philosophical. Jamie: Perhaps this is my penance, and unfortunately for you, the son must pay for the sins of the father. He murdered my friend, attacked my wife, and Bree. Jamie: Bonnet stood before me once, and I saved him from his rightful fate at the gallows. When a man is standin' there before you, flesh and blood, with fear in his eyes. Claire's told me your father, Jeremiah, fought in the second great war. Roger: I don't know if I could take another man's life, even one who has done what Bonnet has done. If Bonnet agrees to a meetin', Lord John can with the particulars. Jamie: There's a man, Philip Whaley, indebted to me, he's arranged for Bonnet to smuggle my whiskey. Brianna heard you and Lord John talkin' at the wedding. Jamie: Roger? You must kill Stephen Bonnet. īeing a learned man, something his father-in-law never allows Roger to forget as he speaks about his profession with a bit of disdain, Roger had a small arsenal of tools at his disposal to help get Jamie to safety. Roger: They'd inject you with something called anti-venom. Jamie: What would they do in your time for snakebite? She's a very resourceful young woman, and I'm sure Jamie would have been alright, but we would have been robbed of the bonding between Jamie and Roger, which was long overdue. I'm not sure how Jamie would have fared if she had been the one with Jamie when he got bitten. Between Jamie and Roger in the woods and Marsali on the verge of giving birth, it felt like too many were waiting in the wings for their turn on the gallows.
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