[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Outlander, Season 7, Episode 10, “Brotherly Love.”]
Outlander could have pulled Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) aside in the newest Season 7 episode, “Brotherly Love,” but it surely introduced one other pair again collectively as Younger Ian (John Bell) and Rachel (Izzy Meikle-Small) have been reunited.
After arriving in Philadelphia, Ian is greeted by his trusty canine Rollo, however Rachel is nowhere to be discovered after the pet wandered from her aspect to his. Whereas a lot of the episode sees the pair lacking one another, Ian is ultimately directed to the stables the place he finds Rachel being held up by Arch Bug (Hugh Ross), who has vowed to take her life after Ian killed his spouse.
Whereas Ian manages to get Arch away from Rachel, it’s William (Charles Vandervaart) who intervenes, capturing the outdated man to guard Ian from being axed within the head after taking a blade to the arm within the scuffle. It’s actually an thrilling reunion, and Ian and Rachel have a candid dialog after accidents are tended to: the pair declare themselves to one another.
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However Ian’s return to America isn’t taken evenly as followers noticed him bid his dad, the elder Ian (Steven Cree), farewell for the ultimate time within the earlier episode. Nonetheless, Bell tells TV Insider, “I simply love that second the place [his dad] says to him, ‘Go get the woman.’ And his mom says, ‘Life is for the residing.’ That push is what he wanted at that second.”
In the meantime, as Rachel awaits Ian’s return to the colonies after his journey to Scotland, she spends extra time with William, who has affection for her. However was Rachel conscious of that? Meikle-Small shares, “I feel that she’s simply so targeted on Ian that she will be able to’t even see that he is perhaps fighting these emotions as a result of there are moments when Rollo runs off and he or she principally cuts him off mid-sentence to run after the place she thinks Ian is perhaps.”
Whereas her actions could wound William, Meikle-Small says “[Rachel]’s a delicate type particular person. She’s not going to be doing that knowingly. So I feel that William is particular to her, however not in the way in which that Rachel is particular to him, sadly.”
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Regardless of any blended emotions William could have about Rachel and Ian, that doesn’t make him hesitate to assist once they’re threatened by Arch. “Attending to work with Hugh and Izzy and ultimately Charles to create this life-or-death state of affairs felt very Outlander,” Bell muses. “No reunion is straightforward for these characters. They’ll’t simply run up to one another in gradual movement on a seashore. No, there must be a loopy man wanting vengeance with a hatchet.”
“And I feel it goes to indicate simply how a lot Ian loves her,” Bell provides of the predicament. “Ian has a really stone-cold manner of coping with enterprise. He is aware of when to take the trash out, however this time right here he’s distracted by the love of his life being in peril, and he feels a way of duty for that.”
As Meikle-Small factors out, “That scene type of serves as a precursor for what they undergo the remainder of the season. It’s them being confronted with this violent second and reacting to it in actually other ways. Ian’s intuition is to kill [Arch], and Rachel, the pacifist is saying, ‘No, don’t kill him.’ And that’s type of the central query that they then face for the remainder of the season about their stances on violence and the place that leaves them as a pair.”
No matter Ian and Rachel’s opposing stances on violence, they’re dedicated, and that a lot was clear when Rachel calls Ian “her wolf.”
“It’s very a lot them selecting one another towards the chances,” Meikle-Small says. “They’re type of two lone wolves, they usually’ve come collectively to kind their very own pack. It’s very a lot about selecting one another. And I feel that that’s probably the most romantic issues that you are able to do.”
Keep tuned to see how their love story unfolds as Season 7 of Outlander continues on Starz.
Outlander, Season 7, Half 2, Fridays, 8/7c, Starz (Midnight on the Starz App and On Demand)
–Extra reporting by Kelli Boyle