Outlander episodes season 57/13/2023 Donner, you see, knew that whoever wrote the Dr. She also wants to know if a Native American was found dead with the Browns - she’s asking about Wendigo Donner. During a quick stop - still wrapped up in that protective Fraser plaid - she asks Jamie first about Marsali, who is fine and whose baby is fine. They keep Lionel alive to ask him questions back at the Ridge, but, honestly, must we? Jamie takes Claire home on his own, she is still completely numb. It’s Jamie who gives out the chilling order: “Kill them all.” Fergus, too: “And I, mi’lady.” These three men who have sworn to seek vengeance on Claire’s behalf not only love her but have all also suffered sexual assault, you know, in case you were wondering about my aforementioned complaint in the opening. “It’s myself that kills for her,” he says. Myers offers Claire a chance to have her vengeance, but Jamie knows that as a doctor she’s taken an oath to do no harm. You are whole.” Ian, Fergus, and Myers inform them that a few of the men in the group are still alive. Until finally, he tells her what he told Roger after they found him hanged: “You are alive. When Jamie finally comes across Claire, tied up and covered in blood and bruises, he barely has words. Mercifully, for a show that loves to wring out the trauma, Jamie and the men of Fraser’s Ridge find Claire and the Browns. There’s so many of these carefully placed details (feel free to call them out in the comments!) you wish you could stay in this place, too. Or Jamie repeating the line, “you’re shaking so hard it’s making my teeth rattle” also from the pilot, reminding us of one of the first examples of Jamie keeping Claire safe and protected, as he covers her in his tartan. Things like the blue and white vase that Claire wishes she had a home for when we first meet her in the pilot - here, she has found a home for it. And I’m not just talking about getting to see Fergus and Marsali and Murtagh (my heart!) and Jocasta in great ’60s costumes, but of all those small easter eggs and callbacks. The insane attention to detail put into Claire’s fantasy world deserves a nod. Well, most of her family is there, because even in her safe place, Claire imagines Roger and Bree having been killed in a car accident, I mean, this is Outlander after all. She is at home in the 1960s and her family is there, safe and happy, gathering for Thanksgiving dinner. These wrenching first 15 minutes continually cut to Claire detaching herself from her assault by way of a fantasy world: It’s her safe place. I know this is obvious by now but seriously, fuck this guy. She’s been putting dangerous ideas in their heads and it needs to stop. Rawlings articles were written by Claire, claims that he’s taking Claire to Brownsville so that she can confess in front of all the women there. The first 15 minutes of this episode, in which Claire is savagely raped and beaten by Lionel Brown and his gang of men who abducted her from Fraser’s Ridge, is almost impossible to watch. They should do it again with this aspect of the series. They could surely do it again with this aspect of the series. People may argue that it’s in the source material, but the show’s deviated from the books before in ways that have made it better. It’s a brutal episode because it is yet another example of this series relying on sexual violence to build story and character. It’s a brutal episode obviously because of the subject matter. And yet it sums up the experience so clearly. To simply say that this episode of Outlander is brutal, while true, is a complete understatement.
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