What Really Happened To Faith Fraser? Outlander Season 8 Answers Explained

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Sign in to your ScreenRant account Content Warning: This article contains mention of miscarriage, infant loss, and sexual assault. Warning! Spoilers for Outlander season 8 ahead!

Outlander season 8 did the work of uncovering the truth about Faith Fraser. For five seasons, we had no reason to believe that the version of the story Outlander initially showed us wasn't true. We all watched Claire hold the deceased infant in season 2 after her tragic miscarriage in France.

We then saw Jamie and Claire visit little Faith's grave, saying their last goodbyes to the daughter they couldn't raise. Then Outlander season 7 dropped the bombshell that the baby had somehow survived to adulthood. In the finale of Outlander season 7, Claire learned that Fanny Pocock's mother had been named Faith.

This naturally reminded her of the infant she lost so long ago, but it was considered nothing more than a coincidence. However, when Claire overheard Fanny singing the 20th-century children's song "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside," which Claire sang to her stillborn child, she began to connect the dots. The final piece of the puzzle was Master Raymond's mysterious visit and Claire's vision of blue wings.

Master Raymond apologized to Claire for something she would soon discover, and Outlander season 8 confirms that he meant the truth about Faith. This big twist ending of Outlander season 7 is original to the show, so even fans of author Diana Gabaldon's books had no idea how this would all shake out. We could all only wait for Outlander season 8 to provide answers.

Now that this final installment of the romantasy has come and gone, the truth is out. Not every mystery surrounding Faith was solved, but Jamie and Claire were ultimately content with what they came to know. Faith Grew Up And Married A Ship Captain Before Being Murdered By Pirates Outlander season 8, episode 1, "Soul of a Rebel," wasted no time getting to business in the way of the big Faith mystery.

The very first scene sees Jamie and Claire preparing to meet with a man we quickly learn is a pirate and smuggler. Through their conversation, it's revealed that the Frasers had found this man through Mrs. Abbott, the madame at the brothel where Jane and Fanny Pocock had grown up.

At some point between Outlander seasons 7 and 8, they must have met with the woman to discover how she had come to have these girls in her employ. Mrs. Abbott told Jamie and Claire that Jane and Fanny had been trafficked by a man to settle his debts at the brothel, and this clandestine meeting in Outlander season 8 was their attempt to trick the man into revealing where he had found the young girls and what had become of their parents.

Jamie pretended that he was interested in getting into the same disgusting line of work as the smuggler, and the man spilled everything. The pirate reveals that he had attempted to commandeer a ship from a Captain Pocock, who had brought his wife and two daughters aboard. He admitted to cutting Pocock's throat before raping Jane.

The girl's mother, whom we know to be Faith, made a desperate attempt to save her children and was thrown overboard. All of this happened when Fanny was only about 5, so approximately five to eight years before the events of Outlander season 8. This only adds to the tragedy that Jamie and Claire only found out Faith had survived infancy after her death as an adult.

Faith Was Raised By A Lace Maker In Paris Though Jamie and Claire learned that Faith Pocock died around the early 1770s when thrown overboard from her husband's ship, they didn't have any definitive confirmation that Fanny's mother was their daughter. This changed in Outlander season 8, episode 7, when Fanny told Claire that her grandmother had been a lace maker in Paris. Around that same time, Ian Murray, while on his travels, sent word that he had met the man who had interviewed Jane before her death and sent over some of what he had recorded.

During Jane's interview, she explained that when pirates murdered her parents, their family had been on the way to the Americas to find the Lady Broch Tuarach in North Carolina. The lace maker who raised Faith had told her that this mysterious woman was her biological mother. So, it seems that Claire's daughter had been searching for answers.

Of course, this adds even further to the bitterness that Faith died so soon before Claire learned her child had survived infancy. How Faith Knew The Song "I Do