Season 6’s shocking ending meant that Starz’s season 7 needed to reunite Jamie and Claire after Richard Brown’s machinations separated them, and the secret message Claire sent Tom Christie, "," was instrumental in that. The fantasy drama always included different languages throughout its seven seasons, not only because of Jamie’s language being Gaelic originally but also because of the trips Jamie and Claire were on through the years in . Still, the coded message within the list of equipment Claire needed to care for Mrs. Martins was instrumental in getting Tom Christie’s attention to her whereabouts and what Claire wanted.
Jamie usually tended to call Claire in endearing ways, and ’s own pilot bore the title “Sassenach,” which was how Jamie initially called Claire because of her English background. However, through the years also came “” and “,” which meant brown-haired woman and my heart, respectively, and which Jamie solely used in relation to Claire. The nature of having to pass a coded message put Claire in the situation of having to refer to Jamie in another, less conspicuous way, and that eventually led her to use “” to let Christie know that she wanted to contact Jamie and let him know where she was.
“” in Claire’s list of equipment in the premiere literally translates to “” The locution tended to be used primarily to mean a man in relation to a woman, thus meaning husband, even if “” could have also just meant man. Using Latin was especially clever of Claire, as she had to make sure Tom Christie would have understood whom he needed to call without being discovered by Governor Martin.
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