And laid bare there is what hurts most: the shame. “Did you fight back, against Jack Randall?” Brianna asks. If you did he would have killed you.” The scene doesn’t end there. “Do you think yourself a coward because you couldn’t fight off a wolf with your bare hands?” Jamie says. It’s enough to enrage Brianna, who tries to strike him, until Jamie grabs her by the neck and viscerally shows how she couldn’t have stopped Bonnet and survived. Maybe you took a liking to the lad, and made the story up after…. “I’m thinking you’re maybe playing with the truth a bit, lass. Unless of course you wanted it,” he says.

I could have tried harder.” Jamie, in turn, gives voice to the words that make every survivor hesitate to come forward.

This week, in a heart-to-heart with her father, Brianna suggests she could have prevented the attack: “I could have fought.

“You have my hand here, and my ear if you need it,” Brianna’s maid, Lizzie, says immediately after the assault.