[Warning: The below and video above contain MAJOR spoilers for Outlander, Season 7 Episode 16, “A Hundred Thousand Angels.”]
Outlander‘s penultimate season went out with fairly a bang in its closing chapter, “A Hundred Thousand Angels,” which noticed the Frasers following a collision course towards a mind-blowing household revelation, during which Jamie’s (Sam Heughan) organic son, William (Charles Vandervaart) performed an integral position.
We’re referring, in fact, to the cliffhanger which hinted Jamie and Claire’s (Caitriona Balfe) first daughter, Religion, truly survived and was the mom of their new ward, Fanny Pocock (Florrie Might Wilkinson), and her sister, Jane (Silvia Presente). As viewers will recall, in Season 2, Claire gave start to a stillborn Religion after Jamie was caught dueling Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies).
On this episode, as Claire was recovering from her high-risk surgical procedure by the hands of Denzell Hunter (Joey Phillips), she was visited by Season 2’s Grasp Raymond (Dominique Pinon), the apothecary proprietor who mysteriously healed her following Religion’s grotesque start and vowed to see her once more sometime after a fateful encounter with King Louis (Lionel Lingelser).
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When he returned to her in the midst of the night time amid her restoration, Claire’s change with Grasp Raymond was fairly mysterious as he begged for forgiveness and vowed she’d at some point perceive. The following morning when she awakens, Jamie is at her bedside and swears nobody had come into the church the place she’d been resting.
However as Claire ponders Grasp Raymond’s phrases, she wonders aloud to Jamie if, when she dies she’ll see Religion once more, and Jamie believes she’s going to. So, how do Fanny and Jane consider? William is raring to avoid wasting Jane after she’s been imprisoned for the killing of Harkness (Adam Jackson-Smith). Whereas he initially seeks Lord John Gray’s assist, poor William’s efforts are met with an excessive amount of crimson tape as he learns of the extra grotesque nature of the killing.
This leads William to hunt assist from somebody he by no means would have imagined: Jamie. “I do assume that originally, William goes to Jamie out of desperation as a result of he feels he failed Jane and it’s his accountability to avoid wasting her,” Vandervaart tells TV Insider for the Inside Outlander aftershow. “However… there’s so much happening for William nonetheless with regards to Jamie. I don’t assume he has utterly deserted his id as an English Lord, and Jamie sort of represents the antithesis of that.”
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However when it comes to constructing a bridge between this father and son, that was definitely began on this finale episode, which noticed them staff as much as jailbreak Jane, however sadly, each males have been a contact too late. The younger lady had downed a bottle of booze earlier than breaking the glass and utilizing it to slit her wrists.
It’s a tough actuality for William to swallow, however with redcoats lurking, he and Jamie are compelled to make an escape, pulling a single lock of hair from Jane’s physique to provide to little Fanny. “It was devastating for him,” Vandervaart says. “I believe that he felt like this was his second to avoid wasting himself and to show to himself that he was worthy of affection and of all of this stuff, particularly coming off the again of studying who his true dad is. And there’s plenty of turbulent emotions in William’s head.”
Whereas William trusts Jamie and Claire to take care of Jane’s youthful sister Fanny, there’s nonetheless a rigidity between the younger man and his father. As viewers see within the episode, William questions Jamie about his relationship with Geneva (Hannah James) and receives solutions he’s not solely thrilled with.
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“That dialog comes from William making an attempt to determine if he was actually cherished as a baby,” Vandervaart shares. “He wished to know if his dad and mom cherished one another… And he sort of will get the reply that it wasn’t. And that’s devastating for William to listen to, and I believe it pushes him away from Jamie.”
However as William sends Fanny off with Jamie and Claire, there’s a small piece linking them collectively, and it’s exhausting to think about him abandoning the younger lady altogether. So, perhaps at some point William will set out for Fraser’s Ridge, however that’s for viewers to attend and discover out when the eighth and closing season rolls round.
When Jamie and Claire put together to set off for Fraser’s Ridge after his defection from the military, she overhears a voice singing a well-recognized tune. It’s Fanny singing, “Oh I Do Prefer to Sing Beside the Seaside,” the music Claire had sung to her stillborn Religion. The tune is wildly old-fashioned for the 18th century, main Claire to ask the lady how she is aware of it. It seems the lady’s mom taught her. However how might which have something to do with Claire? When Fanny is introduced with Jane’s belongings, a locket belonging to her mom has the identify Religion etched into it.
In different phrases, William’s introduction of Fanny to the Frasers could have simply cracked open a centuries-spanning thriller about Jamie and Claire’s first baby. How would he really feel to know he was answerable for such a factor? Whereas Vandervaart ponders the household ties between these characters, he says, “I hope that’s not true for William’s sake.” As a result of if Fanny is Claire and Jamie’s granddaughter, that might imply Jane was William’s half-niece. Nonetheless, Vandervaart says, “There’s a aspect that’s sort of stunning, and this was all the time meant to be, and William’s struggling might have been for a motive to convey household collectively and to strengthen that household.”
Solely time will inform how the thriller will unfold within the closing season. For now, followers can sit up for Outlander‘s upcoming spinoff Blood of My Blood, which is able to debut in the summertime, and within the meantime, take a look at Vandervaart’s full interview within the Inside Outlander Aftershow, above.
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