“He does not die here. But he will. Again. Unless—”

They never spoke of it again. But every time Roger ran ffmpeg after that—for weddings, for old home movies, for anything—he half-expected to see Jamie Fraser wave at him from inside a corrupted frame, asking for help crossing a different kind of stone.

Brianna sat up. “That’s not in the original episode.”

“No,” Roger said slowly. “That’s next season. Or... another timeline.”

The command ran. The screen flickered.

“I can’t,” Roger whispered, staring at the pixelated mess of Outlander S07E14. The episode had crashed mid-battle, leaving Jamie frozen mid-fall, Claire’s scream looping like a cursed vinyl.