Outlander Thwarts Another Happy Ending in “Wilmington”

Watch our full video recap of this week’s Outlander in the clip below.

For a hot minute, everything was fine!

I’m telling you, if my life was this chaotic I would lock myself in the nearest woodshed and not come out.

Jamie and Claire are in Wilmington visiting Fergus, Marsali, and the baby because they must attend a theater experience with Governor Tryon. (Fun fact: Tryon is a lovely town in North Carolina famous for equestrian events.)

Anyway, they are there, and so are Roger and Bree. Roger is roaming the streets looking for her, with the picture he had drawn at the fair. That worked out—imagine if he had brought a photograph. They would have burned him! He finds her and she runs into his arms and then they find a solitary place to make out… and more.

They are about to get it on when Bree stops him and asks if he’s changed his mind about marriage. He says he has, but then she says she’s changed her mind, too, and she wants to marry him, so they do a traditional Scottish handfasting.

Awwww, it’s so sweet!

Then there is a very long sex scene. Can I say… too long?

In Wilmington, Jamie and Claire are attending the theater with who else but George and Martha Washington. Claire explains why he’s important, but Jamie doesn’t really care because he finds out that Murtaugh is about to get into big trouble with the redcoats. Specifically, hanged.

In order to help his friend, Jamie hits the guy sitting next to him, who happens to have a hernia—forcing Claire to do surgery while he slips out, catches a ride in Washington’s carriage, and gets Fergus to warn Murtaugh, just in the nick of time.

Murtaugh wonders why his godson didn’t come himself, but he’s thankful all the same that his head and neck are safe for now.