[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Outlander, Season 7, Episode 10, “Brotherly Love.”]
Outlander made manner for 2 main returns in its newest episode, “Brotherly Love,” as Lotte Verbeek and Graham McTavish reprised their roles as Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie.
However whereas followers might have been clued into their newest look, the context round it grew to become clear as this installment unfolded. As followers had been teased within the earlier episode, Roger (Richard Rankin) was looking for his son Jemmy (Blake Johnston-Miller) and was directed in direction of Geillis. It seems that there have been whisperings within the village a couple of “fairy man” who he thinks might be Rob Cameron (Chris Fulton).
Sending out for the lads who crossed paths with this “fairy man” a gaggle of Highlanders come knocking on Geillis’s door, amongst them is Jamie’s (Sam Heughan) uncle, and Roger’s ancestor, Dougal. However as an alternative of being acquainted with each other, it seems that that is the primary time Dougal and Geillis are assembly.
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Oddly sufficient, their grown son, Buck (Diarmaid Murtagh) occurs to be current for the entire occasion, including an additional layer of surrealness to the entire scenario. Solely Roger is the one to totally perceive what’s occurring, as Buck isn’t conscious of his connection to both Geillis or Dougal. And much like Roger, the viewers is taken on a enjoyable journey as Dougal and Geillis strike up a direct attraction to at least one one other.
“The writing is all the time so good,” Verbeek muses. “[In] Outlander, there are very prolonged scenes with lots of phrases for some scenes. After which for this one, not so much is being mentioned. It’s simply all in that second that you simply really feel like one thing’s about to occur right here,” Verbeek continues.
“It’s pretty for the viewers as a result of they carry the data that the characters themselves don’t have at that second,” McTavish chimes in. As followers will recall, Dougal perished in Season 2’s finale, “Dragonfly in Amber,” after Jamie and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) collectively drove a spear into his coronary heart.
In the meantime, it was believed that Geillis had perished by being burned on the stake for witchcraft, however she managed to flee and revealed herself to Claire many years later in Jamaica. Their reunion in Season 3 wasn’t a contented one although as Claire was pressured to kill Geillis to guard her daughter Brianna (Sophie Skelton).
So, whereas viewers might know these characters’ fates, their return onscreen for this pivotal meet-cute reminds us of the probabilities that point journey provides viewers on this world. “So, they get multi-layering of reactions that may be performed with, which is nice,” McTavish provides. “However yeah, I used to be very enthusiastic about that exact assembly. And to have your individual son on the assembly is kind of a weird second,” he notes.
As for Verbeek, she hopes the second is satisfying to followers, including, “I hope we did the second justice… it was very enjoyable to play for positive.”
Whether or not or not followers will see extra of the duo earlier than Season 7 is thru, McTavish says, “Properly, we will’t say an excessive amount of about any of that. Can we actually? That’s the issue that we’re all the time confronted with continuously having to not talk about issues.” Whether or not they return or not, it doesn’t take away from this enjoyable reunion.
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–Further reporting by Kelli Boyle