[Warning: The below and video above contain MAJOR spoilers for Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Season 1 Episode 3, “School of the Moon.”]
Outlander: Blood of My Blood upped the Clan MacKenzie stakes in Episode 3, “Faculty of the Moon,” as brothers Colum (Séamus McLean Ross) and Dougal (Sam Retford) continued to conflict over who would take over as laird, in an effort to win the clan over. In the meantime, Julia (Hermione Corfield) was confronted with a harsh actuality when Davina (Sara Vickers) started to query whether or not she was pregnant or not, as she’d not bled as soon as since arriving at Citadel Leathers.
And these are the subjects being mentioned within the newest version of our Outlander: Blood of My Blood Aftershow. As viewers see on this episode, Ellen (Harriet Slater) has found that Colum made a deal to have her betrothed to Malcolm Grant (Jhon Lumsden), however Dougal wasn’t precisely happy with the deal, and tried slicing his personal take care of Marcus MacRannoch (Dominic Fraser). It turned out that Colum and Dougal’s seize for energy with out being a united entrance stemmed from their youth, significantly when Colum was injured and was completely modified due to it.
Thrown from his horse, a flashback revealed the moments Colum was carried into Citadel Leoch by Dougal after a mission their father despatched them on went sideways. Crimson Jacob (Peter Mullan) was displeased, however he appeared even angrier that his sons couldn’t get alongside lengthy sufficient to work collectively.
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Ellen, wanting to have herself faraway from a tug-of-war between clans that have been after her hand, swayed Ned Gowan (Conor MacNeill) to persuade her brothers to separate their duties, with Colum stepping in as laird and Dougal serving as battle chieftain. The lads agreed to the deal, unaware their sister had a hand in pushing them towards settlement.
This meant that Ellen was not promised to the MacRannochs, leaving solely Malcolm Grant to be handled as she continued to pine after love Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), who appeared to her in a relatively steamy dream on the high of the episode. Brian, likewise, startled to study Ellen’s betrothal after a saddened Murtagh (Rory Alexander) informs him of the predicament, and brings it as much as his father, Lord Lovat (Tony Curran), as he advised it could possibly be unhealthy for Clan Fraser if the MacKenzies have been to align with the Grants, who’re an ally of theirs.
However Lord Lovat’s concept of breaking the betrothal concerned the thought of tarnishing Ellen’s repute, which Brian didn’t take care of. In the meantime, within the servants’ quarters at Citadel Leathers, Julia was urged by Davina to drink a concoction that would rid her of the newborn she carried, as she suggested the sassenach that the hazards of carrying one other man’s child within the presence of Lord Lovat can be harmful. Julia stood by the truth that she wasn’t pregnant, mendacity to Davina.
By the episode’s finish, Julia had resolved to guard her child’s future by making a extremely daring option to sleep with Lord Lovat in an effort to cowl up her being pregnant and attempt to cross the newborn off as his personal. Within the lead-up to that scene, although, Julia’s energy begins to take some hits, and we see her break down over the predicament she’s discovered herself in. In response to Corfield, that sequence of occasions wasn’t filmed till slightly later.
“We form of had shot it earlier than the place she’s simply nonetheless… she’s nearly simply accepted her destiny. However I believe the story-wise… it felt prefer it occurred too shortly. So we then shot extra of her making the choice and breaking down a bit earlier than going to do it,” Corfield reveals within the Aftershow, above. “I believe she will get to a degree of desperation the place she realizes that it’s going to be the newborn dying or being taken away, or doing that act. And I believe she places the newborn first, and it’s to not do along with her personal survival, it’s one hundred pc to do with the newborn’s survival.”
In the meantime, Julia’s husband Henry (Jeremy Irvine) hasn’t given up on his seek for her, asking round, and even getting Ned’s assist to process a Madame with attempting to uncover Julia’s whereabouts. Will he succeed? Solely time will inform. Take a look at what else Corfield, Curran, Retford, MacNeill, Ross, and Alexander must share about Episode 3 within the full aftershow above, and keep tuned for extra as Outlander: Blood of My Blood continues to unfold.
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—Reporting by Kate Hahn