But Randall then denying him his request to be killed quickly was the final crushing blow to his spirit. It was enough to see Jamie lying like a corpse next to Randall, his eyes dead from the trauma he had experienced. The season’s penultimate episode was largely constructed around Jamie’s imprisonment and torture at the hands of Black Jack, but “To Ransom a Man’s Soul” took us back and fleshed out, literally, what most viewers could have just imagined. There are many things to unpack about “To Ransom a Man’s Soul,” but let’s start with the choice to revisit further what happened between Black Jack Randall and Jamie. Outlander’s first season ended with, to quote a friend, “50 minutes of torture, and 5 minutes of happiness” (more or less).
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