[Warning: The below and video above contain MAJOR spoilers for Outlander, Season 7, Episode 9, “Unfinished Business.”]
Outlander has lastly returned, and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) make their method again to Scotland with nephew Younger Ian (John Bell) within the Season 7, Half 2 premiere, “Unfinished Enterprise.”
However as they return to Jamie’s ancestral Fraser dwelling, Lallybroch, they’re met with the tough actuality that’s the passage of time. Within the years since their relocation to America, the well being of Jamie’s brother-in-law Ian (Steven Cree) has steadily declined, and he’s on his deathbed by the point Jamie, Claire, and son Younger Ian make it again dwelling.
The delicate nature of time places into perspective what’s essential to Jamie and Claire, with them deciding to lastly inform the Murrays about her time-traveling methods when one among Jenny (Kristin Atherton) and Ian’s sons mentions plans to proceed working in France. Collectively, Jamie and Claire sit down with the household to warn towards the approaching revolution that may quickly come to France, and Claire admits she’s capable of journey by time.
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The knowledge results in some cathartic moments of understanding and heartbreaking realizations that even fantastical skills can’t make miracles occur, notably when Jenny begs Claire to heal Ian, who’s affected by consumption. “I believe any time you have got a secret, it stops you from connecting totally with individuals,” Balfe says. “There was at all times that factor that stopped Jenny and Claire, and even Claire and Ian [from] actually understanding one another on a deeper degree.”
“It’s a really robust factor for them to grasp,” Balfe provides, noting that from Jenny’s perspective, “there’s a bit little bit of damage that she wasn’t trusted with this data earlier than.” Nonetheless, Balfe believes this reveal places Jenny and Claire on stronger footing with each other. “It kind of permits them to essentially know one another on a deeper degree, which I believe is at all times good.”
Similtaneously their inside household turmoil unfolds, Jamie is confronted with the mess he’s made involving his second spouse Laoghaire (Nell Hudson), who’s reluctant to let her youngest daughter, Joanie (Layla Burns), pursue a job within the church to take care of the property she’s acquired underneath Jamie. The state of affairs forces Jamie to set issues proper in order that Laoghaire can stay her life with out the trauma that was their difficult relationship.
“He’s not gonna go round for dinner anytime quickly,” Heughan jokes, regardless of Jamie and Laoghaire’s new authorized association, which permits her to marry one other man with out threat of shedding the property he bestowed upon her.
The episode concludes with Claire and Younger Ian’s departure from Lallybroch to help in serving to Lord John Gray’s sickly nephew in Philadelphia whereas Jamie stays behind to spend no matter time he has left with Ian. However as Balfe notes of Jamie and Claire’s separation, “nothing ever good occurs when the Frasers are separated.”
See what else Balfe and Heughan needed to say about Jamie and Claire’s journey within the premiere episode within the full video interview, above, and don’t miss Outlander as the newest episodes unfold on Starz. And ensure to return again every week for perception into a brand new episode of Outlander from the celebrities themselves.
Extra reporting by Kelli Boyle
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