Nevertheless, if Claire hadn’t uttered Adawehi’s name after realizing that the German patriarch had handed her Adawehi’s scalp, I wouldn’t have known who it belonged to.
I cared, but I wasn’t as gutted as I would have been if Outlander had spent more time fleshing out characters, as it did back in Season 1 when Claire first arrived as Castle Leoch.
While that interaction was sweet and allowed viewers to see that motherhood is something that transcends languages, as Claire and Adawehi were able to understand each other despite neither speaking the other’s tongue.