Warning: This article contains spoilers about the mid-season 7 finale ofOutlander,“Turning Points.”
Sing me a song of a lass that is gone, over the sea to… Scotland.
We’ll have to wait at least half a year to find out what’s next.
John Bell, Sam Heughan, and Caitriona Balfe on ‘Outlander’.Starz Entertainment, LLC
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Jamie, Ian, and Claire are finally seeing Scottish shores again.
Is it good to be home or does more trouble await them?
MARIL DAVIS:You know that saying “you’re free to never go home again?”
Charles Vandevaart on ‘Outlander’.Starz Entertainment, LLC
That’s definitely true.
Home is never the home you knew.
It’s never going to be the same.
Izzy Meikle-Small and John Bell on ‘Outlander’.Starz Entertainment, LLC
That’s true when we come back there’s troubling things on the horizon and some painful stuff.
It’s a homecoming, but things happen that are more of a sad note.
Jamie and Claire meet Benedict Arnold in this episode.
How conflicted does Claire feel about possibly warning someone about what he will become?
For Claire, it’s like, “Okay, what do I say?
She’s very conflicted.
She obviously likes him.
He is very likable.
What does she say to him?
What does she not?
What’s her duty there and could she change things?
Because obviously him doing what he did contributed to us being where we are today.
I love that part of the head scratcher of the time travel and butterfly effect.
It’s a really interesting conflict.
Roger and Buck go through the stones to find Jem.
How easy or difficult might that task be?
It’s not going to be easy.
But I love the pairing of Roger and Buck.
It’s a little buddy dramedy, in the past.
They’re so much fun together.
Should we fully trust Buck at this point?
Because he was very much an antagonist in the past.
Buck even though we have played certainly with “What are his motives?
Why is he here?”
You just want to believe that his motives are pure.
At the end of the day, he’s family.
It’s so hard.
It’s the not knowing that’s the hardest part.
As a mother that has got to be really heartbreaking.
How emotionally complex is this whole thing for Jamie?
We’ve been building to this all season.
He’s fighting on the right side of history, for the America that his daughter will live in.
But it also means he’s fighting across enemy lines from his son.
His worst fear is facing him across the barrel of a gun.
In episode 8, we see that worst fear come true.
It' a really juicy dilemma.
How likely are their paths to cross again?
Is William getting at all suspicious yet of who Jamie really is?
It’s very likely that their paths will cross.
I don’t think William is suspicious.
He firmly believes that.
But I don’t think those suspicions are things he thinks about.
Rachel and Ian kiss for the first time.
William’s a safer choice.
Her heart knows where it belongs, but her head is conflicted.
But the heart wants what it wants.
Rachel encounters Arch Bug, who we know pledged to take something Ian loves.
How worried should we be for both Rollo and Rachel going forward?
Pretty worried, because the great thing about the Arch Bug storyline is we know that he is waiting.
He’s like, “I have time.
Now we have something that Ian loves.
Will most of the back half of this season take place in Scotland?
Some of it will, but not all of it.
A lot will be back in the New World.
We still have eight episodes remaining of season 7.
Can you tease what’s coming?
Everyone’s worst fears are realized in the back half.
There’s so much heartbreak.
Buckle in, because the back half is just insane.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
