[Warning: The below and video above contain MAJOR spoilers for Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Season 1 Episode 8, “A Virtuous Woman.”]
Outlander: Blood of My Blood introduced most of its characters crashing collectively within the newest installment, “A Virtuous Lady,” as Ellen (Harriet Slater) was pressured to partake in a take a look at to verify her advantage was intact after Lord Lovat (Tony Curran) alleged she had been ruined.
Viewers know that she and Brian (Jamie Roy) have been handfast and in the end consummated their relationship in Episode 5 this season, however her betrothal to Malcolm Grant (Jhon Lumsden) was nonetheless intact, and so as to preserve it, she needed to move this take a look at, or face penalties as extreme as loss of life.
When Brian heard phrase of the take a look at she confronted, he got down to Citadel Leoch, with Julia (Hermione Corfield) in tow, to save lots of Ellen from hazard. Julia ended up making a treatment that would assist Ellen move as a virgin and even opted to observe by with the mission in lieu of instantly working to her husband, Henry (Jeremy Irvine), who she now knew was with the Grants.
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And that ended up being the fitting alternative for her and Henry, the latter of whom had resigned himself to stopping his seek for her and making a possible return residence to his personal time, with Ned Gowan’s (Conor MacNeill) assist. Because the take a look at proceeded, although, and Ellen managed to move, she was angered at her brothers over their complicity within the predicament, however grateful to Julia, who went on to make her escape out of Citadel Leoch, not earlier than she bumped into an awestruck Henry.
After months of separation and uncertainty, they have been secure in one another’s arms as soon as extra, however their reunion was temporary as she needed to return with Brian, who was hiding within the basement, again to Citadel Leathers to keep away from hassle. Henry departed Citadel Leoch with a shining smile that was then changed with shock after a letter was delivered asserting the loss of life of Malcolm’s father, Isaac (Brian McCardie).
Whereas the stakes couldn’t be increased, hope stays, no less than that’s what showrunner Matthew B. Roberts teases in our newest Outlander: Blood of My Blood Aftershow. As for what made this episode the fitting time to reunite Julia and Henry, he says, “It’s properly earned.” As he was engaged on the scene in post-production, Roberts provides, “All of the folks… who work on it, they reply each time to that second.”
As for that aforementioned hope, Roberts shares, “Will they see one another once more? I’m not gonna lie, completely, and it’ll play out. It’s properly earned. These characters on this story aren’t as simply put collectively as they’re in Outlander.” Roberts factors out that it doesn’t take lengthy for Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) to get collectively within the unique sequence. “Discovering one another, being collectively is the story on Blood of My Blood, and we’ll have our moments and definitely, as we go forth… clearly they’re going to be close to one another,” he provides of Henry and Julia who’ve basically been separated because the pilot.
See what else Roberts has to say about Ellen’s massive take a look at on this episode, the lengths Julia went to assist her, and rather more within the full aftershow interview above.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Season 1, Fridays, 8/7c, Starz