[Warning: The below and video above contain MAJOR spoilers for Outlander, Season 7, Episode 9, “Unfinished Business.”]
Outlander‘s return has introduced with it loads of thrilling time-traveling twists as Roger (Richard Rankin) and Buck (Diarmaid Murtagh) discovered themselves displaced in time to a interval at Lallybroch the place Brian Fraser (Andrew Whipp) remains to be Laird, overseeing his household, together with a youthful Jenny (Kristin Atherton).
As viewers will recall, they traveled by way of the standing stones at Craigh Na Dun to seek out Roger’s son Jemmy (Blake Johnston-Miller), who was kidnapped by Rob Cameron (Chris Fulton). Solely, their efforts landed them additional again in time than Roger believed potential. “I feel it’s simply shock after shock after shock, and I feel all of these items helped to develop a really kind of attention-grabbing and refreshing plot line for Buck and Roger,” Rankin tells TV Insider.
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“The stuff with Brian and Jenny is sweet as a result of I feel the followers are going to actually like these callbacks as a result of they’re all clearly very aware of these characters,” Rankin provides. “And I feel to see them again in that context… that’ll be fairly a delight for the followers to see.” After searching for help from Brian, Roger and Buck are directed towards somebody who has encountered a wayward wanderer.
Believing it to be Rob Cameron, the boys search out this particular person, solely to find it’s Geillis (Lotte Verbeek). Whereas her face is probably not recognizable to her precise son, Buck, Roger actually acknowledges the supernaturally inclined girl after witnessing her journey by way of the stones on the finish of Season 2.
Relating to the stunning reveals, Rankin notes, “To have them present up on this little journey, I feel, shall be good enjoyable.”
Murtagh particularly loved the way in which Brian Fraser made his entrance, gushing, “I feel the way in which it’s finished general, how the episodes are edited, it’s a lot enjoyable. A door will knock and we expect we all know who’s going to reply it and swiftly the axis has spun a completely totally different manner.”
A part of these character crossover introductions was Roger’s interior monologue, a primary for his character on the present. “It’s a little bit of a change, isn’t it? It’s positively a special approach. I preferred it. I believed it was good enjoyable. I believed it introduced a variety of humor into the scene,” Rankin muses.
However performing for interior dialogue means prolonged pauses. Nonetheless, Murtagh notes, “It didn’t upset the move of the scene. It was truly actually natural.”
Keep tuned to see how Roger and Buck’s journey continues as they spend time with Geillis within the subsequent episode, and tell us what you consider the time-traveling twist within the feedback part, under.
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–Extra reporting by Kelli Boyle