It’s a less confident person we meet, and that feels good. In a way, I think that’s true of all of the stuff we see of Jack in this season is he’s always not quite in a place of control. Also, the simpler thing of him being at the French court and out of his comfort zone.
'The fallout from the injuries with the cattle and what happened in Wentworth, the marks are left on him. 'I was keen for him to be much less confident than who we’ve met before,' said Menzies. But when it came time to actually reintroduce Jonathan Randall into the story, Menzies knew he wanted the events of Wentworth to affect the character. For Jamie, there’s a long walk down through the garden and he sees this Red Coat, and it was such a huge moment for me to see this red coat.' Tobias Menzies appeared earlier in Season 2 as Frank Randall acting opposite Caitriona Balfe's Claire, and viewers did get a couple brief glimpses of Black Jack haunting Jamie. Explained Heughan, 'That scene got cut quite a lot just due to the fact that the episode was so long. The event needed to happen to explain why Claire would forgive Jamie for his behavior against Black Jack Randall and why Claire would also trade her body for an audience with the king in order to.
Initially, the build up to Jamie and Black Jack coming face-to-face was much longer. black-jack-randall-tobias-menziesjpg-0d27a71280w Im also endlessly curious about an alternate reality in which Captain Jack Randall had raped Claire instead of Jamie.
