Outlander on Netflix: Has Season 6 finally confirmed this theory about Jamie?

A ghost that keeps talking! In the very first episode of Outlander, which aired in 2014, before Claire (Caitriona Balf) travels in time and meets James (Sam Hughes), she spends her honeymoon with Frank (Tobias Mens) in Scotland and one night when she brushes. Her hair in front of the window, depicts a man watching her from the street.

When Frank, who is outside at this time, approaches a mysterious figure, he disappears. A scene that has given rise to many theories and on which Diana Gabaldon, author of the literary series from which the show is adapted, Already spoken : The individual is really Jamie or at least his ghost, then 25 years old.

So the question is: how did the ghost of the mountaineer end up behind this window in 1945? And the beginning of the answer can be found in the final episode of Season 6, which has been available on Netflix since last Monday.

You are a cat!

Indeed, during the showdown between the star couple of the series and the men of Richard Brown (Chris Larkin), Claire and Jamie list the moments when the Scotsman was close to death, and the latter remembers the Parisian divination he had seen. “Number 9“And”Death– wrote in the palm of his hand and compared it to a cat.

Would James have 9 lives like cats according to a famous legend? This may confirm the theory that the protagonist lives in a time loop, but it may also mean that he has indeed died several times but always “risen” and that after the ninth life he will become the ghost seen in the first episode. If he does not die every time, will he visit Claire in 1945?

However, it will be necessary to wait a while for the final answer – and many more – as the filming of Season 7 of Outlander has just begun and should not be released until 2023.