"If time would only allow them to be together! Then we’d probably explore this more. It is Outlander and some pretty terrible things happen," Heughan hedges. "I think you see a new sensitivity and intimacy between Jamie and Claire that’s not what you think it’s going to be. But glimpses like this will become more common now that Jamie and Claire's family (and extended family, and tenants at Fraser's Ridge) are cutting into their alone time. A substitute for season one's wedding scene? Not necessarily. It’s hard to find a new way of showing that and expressing that, and that’s certainly what Caitriona and I pushed for in those scenes." "But it’s not them having sex, it’s something deeper than that. "For me, that’s probably the most intimate moment we’ve had for quite a long time," he says. “Roger had been through so much this season, and Brianna too, that we wanted them to have some happiness.Jamie and Claire's bond is so powerful in these scenes, Heughan argues the couple's lifesaving moment goes where their steamiest sex scenes haven't. “Then the more we thought about it, Droughtlander tends to be long, and we didn’t want to leave people that long wondering was Roger really that much of a jerk that he wasn’t going to come back to her.” She laughs. Let’s have them come back without Roger, and let’s have Brianna say, ‘Where’s Roger?,’ and cut to black,” she recalls. “We’re like, OK… let’s do a real cliffhanger. In one iteration of her outline for the episode, Jamie’s militia mandate wasn’t there, so Roger’s whereabouts provided the hour’s ambiguous ending. WAS ROGER ALWAYS GOING TO COME BACK TO BRIANNA? | Yes, but not necessarily by the end of the season, Graphia says.
“Everyone’s on some rescue mission, and we wanted to follow more their emotional arcs than the plot arcs,” Graphia says. WHO, EXACTLY, IS THE ‘MAN OF WORTH’ IN THE EPISODE’S TITLE? | That one’s easy: just about every male character in the hour, from Ian taking Roger’s place with the Mohawk to Murtagh standing in as Jamie’s surrogate while Brianna labors at River Run. “That would be unfair to the character of Murtagh.”
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Given that Murtagh doesn’t survive Culloden in the novels, and that the show hasn’t yet introduced Duncan, might the Jocasta-Murtagh hookup we witness in the season finale be evidence that the series is giving Murtagh Duncan’s storyline? “That wasn’t the way the storyline was intended, as a replacement for anyone,” Graphia says. He winds up marrying Jocasta in Book 5, The Fiery Cross. An easy drive from Edinburgh and Dundee, this is a stunningly beautiful place contains all the Inverness locations we remember being used in episode 1. IS MURTAGH OFFICIALLY THE NEW DUNCAN INNES? | In the books, there’s a character named Duncan Innes who is one of Jamie’s fellow prisoners at Ardsmuir and who winds up accompanying the Frasers to the Colonies.
So, to play that out on screen, we had to distill things down.” “On TV, if we had Ian come and go, ‘Hey guess what? I traded myself to the Mohawks,’ it wouldn’t work. The death of Father Ferigault and his love, for instance, “is a story that is relayed by Jamie and Claire to Roger,” Graphia notes, as is Ian’s trading himself to the Mohawk. The EP points out that some of what happens during Roger’s time at the camp takes place off-screen, for lack of a better term.
WHY DID THE SHOW SEPARATE FATHER ALEXANDRE’S DEATH AND THE FRASERS’ VISIT TO THE CAMP? | The short answer? “It was mainly an attempt to simplify those last chapters in the book,” Graphia says. Read on to find out how things changed and to hear the EP’s answers to a few more finale-related queries.
But Graphia adds that an earlier version of the story outline didn’t end that way at all.