![]() Roger escorts Brianna around the battle site, explaining various things and giving her a history of the place. He says his last name is MacKenzie and that quite a few of his relatives lie under the clan stone on Culloden Field. He tells her that the reverend was his mother's uncle and adopted him when his parents were killed in the war. She asks Roger if Roger is Scottish, saying that Wakefield doesn't sound Scottish. Roger tells her the Duke was called Butcher Billy, and the people of the Highlands are not very fond of him. Roger takes Brianna to the Culloden visitor center where she remarks that a mannequin of the Duke of Cumberland has a little piggy face. Claire says she does, though they didn't always get along. Brianna asks Claire if she misses her father, Frank Randall. While shopping in Inverness, Claire and Brianna see Roger's car in the train station's parking lot. She asks him not to mention Jamie Fraser to Brianna. She tells him Jamie Fraser died at Battle of Culloden. When Roger asks about the list of men she gave him to research, he tells her he noticed that their leader Jamie Fraser wasn't on the list. When Bree excuses herself, Claire asks Roger to promise her he will not take her daughter to the stones at Craigh na Dun. When Claire asks Roger to do a bit of research for her, he helpfully explains to Bree that Culloden was where Bonnie Prince Charlie was defeated by the Duke of Cumberland.īrianna agrees to go with Roger to some of the battle sites of the '45 rebellion. In 1968 Scotland, Claire Randall brings her daughter to the town of Inverness and introduces her to Roger Wakefield, home from Oxford to settle the belongings of his adopted father Reverend Reginald Wakefield, recently passed away. She completed her degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the spring of 1971. Brianna returned to Boston and changed her major to mechanical engineering. At Brianna's urging, Claire traveled back to the 18th century to be with Jamie. With a little time and some first-hand experience with the stone circle at Craigh na Dun, Brianna came to accept her mother's incredible story as true. Claire revealed the truth to Brianna: that her biological father was an 18th-century Scottish Highlander named Jamie Fraser. However, soon she found out that Claire had ulterior reasons for bringing her there. In spring of 1968, Brianna's mother took her to Scotland, ostensibly for a sight-seeing tour. In the fall, after having taking history courses at the university while in high school, she enrolled as a history major. Shortly after her seventeenth birthday, just months before she would graduate from high school, her father was killed in a car accident. He continued to take her to practice shooting, with a pistol, rifle and shotgun well into her teens. 22 gauge rifle when she was thirteen, and a shotgun for her fifteenth birthday. When she was about twelve, Frank taught Brianna to shoot a gun. Frank persuaded her not to, and offered to have Brianna come to his university office after school. She was hit by a slow-moving car, and Claire decided to quit her program so she could care for Brianna full-time. The babysitter left Brianna alone, and Brianna ventured outside to look for Claire. One day when Brianna was seven, Claire was late coming home to relieve the babysitter. When Brianna reached school age, her mother started medical school. Frank was a professor of history at Harvard University, and Claire was a homemaker during Brianna's early years.īrianna attended a private Catholic school. Brianna was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, to English expatriate parents Claire and Frank Randall. ![]()
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