[Warning: The below and video above contain MAJOR spoilers for Outlander, Season 7, Episode 10, “Brotherly Love.”]
Outlander‘s journey into a brand new timeline continues as Roger (Richard Rankin) and Buck’s (Diarmaid Murtagh) journey prior to now places them within the path of Geillis Duncan (Lotte Verbeek), years earlier than she’d meet Claire (Caitriona Balfe).
Keen to search out his son Jemmy (Blake Johnston-Miller), Roger seeks solutions a few “fairy man” he believes is Rob Cameron (Chris Fulton) who has been noticed within the space, and whereas Geillis doesn’t have the entire solutions, there’s a promising lead from an surprising supply that finally ends up being Dougal MacKenzie (Graham McTavish). As Roger tries to understand the state of affairs unfolding in entrance of his eyes, Buck is completely unaware that they’re witnessing his mother and father’ first assembly.
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Whereas Roger understands the gravity of this assembly and is aware of the figures concerned, Buck doesn’t even know that Geillis and Dougal are his organic mother and father, having not been raised by the pair. So, why doesn’t Roger clue him in? “How do you put together somebody for that?” Rankin tells TV Insider. “There’s additionally only a complete interfering with the circulation of time, which I believe Roger has to purpose out. I believe he has to attempt to have a extremely nice grasp of the potential penalties of that earlier than he would ever dream of popping out and saying that,” Rankin provides.
“Particularly the place they’re, and particularly within the circumstances that they’re in,” he continues. “I believe that might probably backfire. It comes from a spot of protectiveness and a spot of affection that he doesn’t.”
And that’s a good level as Murtagh factors out, “Issues aren’t going nicely for his or her plan. They’ve overshot their touchdown zone by a couple of many years, which they didn’t assume was doable. So yeah, there are numerous challenges which occur concurrently.”
However that isn’t the one main second for this duo discovering their approach by means of the 18th century as a brand new clue concerning the “fairy man” arises, revealing his id to presumably be that of Roger’s father who was misplaced in motion throughout World Battle II. “It’s an extremely profound second. It adjustments all the things. It adjustments the very type of concept of how they’re even there,” Rankin muses.
“I believe after they see the canine tags, it’s an entire flood of feelings and type of final revelation that, ‘Grasp on a minute, this could possibly be the rationale why we’re on this time, why we’re right here, why one thing’s form of not felt proper,’” he provides. “We’ve simply assumed that we’ve adopted Jeremiah, Mackenzie to the time that he’s been kidnapped to… He thought his father died in a airplane crash. So to see his canine tags… It simply adjustments his complete notion of what occurred to his father and the place he might need gone.”
Will they proceed to unravel that thriller? And what was it like coming nose to nose with Dougal in all his Highlander glory? Rankin and Murtagh focus on all of it and extra within the newest Inside Outlander Aftershow, above. And ensure to return again every week for perception into a brand new episode of Outlander from the celebs themselves.
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–Further reporting by Kelli Boyle