Set in Fraser’s Ridge, North Carolina, Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) prepare for their daughter’s wedding. on Starz.The first episode of “Outlander” Season 5, titled “The Fiery Cross,” revolves around the preparations and celebrations for the wedding of Brianna (Sophie Skelton) and Roger (Richard Rankin). ![]() It was a tricky thing to do because of the three-month time jump, but the writers solved that by having Jocasta (Maria Doyle Kennedy) finally make the trip to Fraser’s Ridge to say goodbye at Murtagh’s grave, which was both a good conclusion for their romance and also a way to avoid making it feel like the show completely ignored his death in favor of Roger’s storyline. While Roger, Bree and Ian took up the lion’s share of the plot this week, there was a nice acknowledgment of Murtagh’s (Duncan Lacroix) death. When he came back, he accused Jamie and Claire of hiding things from people - which is another thing that will likely come to ahead as the season continues. That also means a year has passed since the Season 5 premiere, and it’s been more than a year since Ian left them. When she gave it to Roger, she told him, “Sometimes we have to adjust our expectations to bend and reshape ourselves.” But based on Bree’s first-anniversary gift, which was a paper airplane, it seemed like she already knew that. When they returned from surveying the land, Roger made up with Bree - though he did tell her that part of him died that day in the hangman’s rope and he will never be the same man. (That will most likely be revealed in a future episode because it was a big part of Ian’s return in Book 5.) Ian didn’t get into too many details about why he left the Mohawk and how he lost his wife, though. The two men found some commonality in how their respective traumas resulted in some profound loneliness. But here, Ian and Roger bonded over their shared trauma, and Roger actually stopped Ian from committing suicide with some hemlock root he stole from Claire’s surgery - which Claire had assumed was stolen by Roger for that very purpose. Then in a clever move, Jamie asked Ian to help Roger survey the land. Seeing Ian again clearly gave Roger a wake-up call about how he needed to lean on his family instead of pushing them away. If you’ll recall, at the end of Season 4, Ian sacrificed himself to save Roger: He voluntarily stayed with the Mohawk tribe so that Roger could return to Brianna. But this was a clever change on the part of the show’s writers because Ian was just the jolt Roger needed. There, Ian doesn’t return until the very end he is not with Roger when Roger surveys the land given to him by Governor Tryon as settlement for the Red Coats trying to execute him. In the end, what was enough was the reappearance of young Ian (John Bell).įor non-book readers, this was a change to the timeline in the fifth book. When he cried out for the first time in months because he had to stop Jemmy from touching a hot kettle, it brought everyone to tears, but Roger still wasn’t ready to deal with his pain, even though it was right there under the surface - just hearing Bree sing to Jemmy got him weeping quietly outside the cabin.Įven Bree yelling at Roger that she went through trauma too and that she, too, wanted to curl up and die wasn’t enough to jolt him out of his PTSD paralysis. ![]() ![]() So Bree soldiered on, trying to be patient with Roger. ![]() For Roger, this was very much the same thing. Claire told her that was what people refer to as “shell shock” and it’s not uncommon in people returning from war. When he came back, he was distant and had a haunted look in his eyes - that was what Bree was seeing in Roger. She even talked to Claire (Caitriona Balfe) about it, saying that Roger reminded her of her roommate’s boyfriend who fought in the Vietnam War. He was clearly struggling with PTSD, feeling alone and disconnected from his loved ones.īree bore the brunt of Roger’s isolation, desperate to have her husband back. Instead, Roger kept reliving his would-be execution as if it were a silent movie playing over and over in his head. A time jump revealed that three months later, Roger still wasn’t speaking to anyone after his near-death experience and it was taking its toll on the whole family. What happened was that Roger was clinging to life when Jamie (Sam Heughan) cut him down.
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