1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,920 Hi and welcome to K Let's Talk, the podcast where we break down 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,440 storytelling across books, television and film with a 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,800 special love for book to screen adaptations. 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,840 Here we talk about craft, character arcs, structure, 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,360 dialogue, visual language, and the creative choices that shape 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,800 how a story lands. If you like thoughtful, 7 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,880 conversational, deep dives into the stories you can't stop 8 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:24,560 thinking about, you're in the right place. 9 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,640 Let's talk. Hello everyone and welcome back 10 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,560 to the podcast. On this week's episode we are 11 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:35,240 going to be breaking down Season 8 Episode 2, talking all things 12 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,360 book to screen, how it compares to the source material, some of 13 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,240 the creative choices made to showcase the emotionality of 14 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,880 scenes. And as always there will be 15 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:50,920 spoilers for the books and likely story beats that can 16 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,880 happen later on this season. So if you are looking to avoid 17 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,720 those, you have been warned. This episode is directed by 18 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:02,040 Katrina Balf and I personally thought it was a really great 19 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,560 introduction to her directing style and the pacing of this 20 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,320 episode felt really appropriate after what I felt was a little 21 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:13,440 bit of a choppy episode one. We opened the episode with this 22 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:18,520 title card stating that we're back in time in London 1775, and 23 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,960 we start with this flashback where we see Ben, Henry, and 24 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:26,440 William Gray all together, and Ben gets his reports to go to 25 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,360 Boston with General Howe. This flashback serves as a 26 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,600 narrative purpose of reintroducing us to Henry, who 27 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,440 we've already met, and introducing us to Ben, who we've 28 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,320 seen mentioned already in episode 1 of Season 8. 29 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:44,200 It's also meant to show us that William considers both Ben and 30 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:49,040 Henry brothers of his, and having us see how close they 31 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,840 were helps to better frame the journey that he goes on to 32 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,720 discover what has happened to his cousin. 33 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,920 Within this scene, we see William present Ben with a 34 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:06,040 miniature General Rowland, which is a keepsake to keep him safe 35 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,680 because for William, he states that that General has never lost 36 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:14,040 a battle and it's meant to guard him on his new mission to 37 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,960 Boston. The visual callback and 38 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:21,120 narrative callback that we see play out later on is when Ben 39 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,160 tucks this keepsake, the miniature into his uniform, and 40 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,200 that's something that we will see later on in the episode when 41 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:33,480 William goes after Ben find more information about him at the 42 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,240 American camp. It's a very quick, succinct and 43 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:41,720 effective scene that again establishes largely what 44 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:46,080 Williams storyline will be, but also reintroduces characters to 45 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,400 us that have not been on our screens for some time or have 46 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,400 been referred to only in the show so far. 47 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:55,840 And the way that it is shot again is very creative so that 48 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,320 the color grading reflects this being a memory or a moment that 49 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:00,840 is taking place in the. Past. 50 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,080 And then we get the title card for the episode and we can see 51 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:08,400 that the episode title is Prophecies and we see a bear 52 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,280 eating blueberries, which is foreshadowing to the Amy Higgins 53 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,360 storyline from the book. And then we also get to see 54 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,600 Katrina Balff's name as the director. 55 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,280 We then get another title card saying that we are back in North 56 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:27,000 Carolina in 1779, and this opens with Fanny looking at bacteria 57 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,760 under the microscope with Claire, and Claire is more or 58 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:32,480 less giving her a science lesson. 59 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,640 And this takes place in chapter 26 in the book. 60 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:36,880 Go and tell the bees that I'm gone. 61 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,320 I had said in my review of episode one that they had seemed 62 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:45,320 to kind of dull down Fanny's knowledge from the brothel, but 63 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,720 here we can see that they are giving her more of that 64 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,920 outspokenness that's in line with her characterization in the 65 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,360 book. And they have her be more candid 66 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,520 about her time in the brothel with Claire and states that she 67 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,640 wishes that Jane were with them there because Jane liked science 68 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,560 but was forbid to practice it. But the men at the brothel 69 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,760 seemed to appreciate her strangeness. 70 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,800 Claire, for her part, is very good about dealing with Fannie's 71 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:18,519 more outspoken nature, and it's used as a humorous story beat as 72 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:20,839 well. But I also really enjoyed the 73 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,120 scene where Claire pulls Fannie aside and tells her that they've 74 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,400 both seen terrible things and Claire won't be shocked by 75 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,640 anything Fanny chooses to tell her. 76 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,920 And she reassures her that she can tell her or Jamie or Bria 77 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:37,720 Roger anything at any time. But some people on the Ridge 78 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:40,760 won't understand it in the same way, and they might be shocked. 79 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,160 If she had. Told them about how she used to 80 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,240 live. Claire doesn't want people on 81 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:50,200 the Ridge to make assumptions of Fanny and she knows that they 82 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,360 are going to try and protect her from that life as best they can 83 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,880 and she can talk to them about Jane whenever she wants to. 84 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,200 But Jane was also trying to protect Fanny from that life and 85 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,200 so they want her to stay safe and Claire and Jamie will keep 86 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,520 her safe always. And I think this conversation is 87 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,080 really impactful for Fanny to hear first hand. 88 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,080 I also liked the scene because it felt like more of a return to 89 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,560 the source material where Claire's motivations for keeping 90 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,360 Fanny safe are less so about her thinking she may be her 91 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,160 granddaughter and more fall in line with their sense of duty 92 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,640 and honor to Jane and also Williams request to Jamie that 93 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:34,280 they protect Fanny. We then cut to Jamie and Roger 94 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:37,960 in the woods sawing a piece of wood, and this is the 95 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,040 conversation I had hoped we would get, which is Rodger 96 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,720 filling Jamie in about what happened in the future that led 97 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,560 him and Bri and the kids to travel back in time. 98 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,440 It is a largely condensed version of the conversation 99 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:53,840 though, and we hear Rodger talking about Buck McKenzie. 100 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:58,120 Rodger defends Buck and says that he can forgive a man who 101 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,320 made a mistake when he believes they were doing something right 102 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,600 and admits that he loves Buck for being family alone. 103 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:06,760 In the book. A lot of this conversation 104 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,520 between Roger and Jamie is spurred from Roger's fear of 105 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:15,440 Jenny finding out that Roger is there, because when Roger went 106 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,440 back in time, he met a younger version of Jenny. 107 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:23,160 In the book, Jenny had come back to America with them and Roger 108 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,800 was afraid she'd recognize him and figure out that he was a 109 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,600 time traveler. So that is omitted from the show 110 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,120 version. What we get instead is Jamie 111 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:36,400 asking Roger for advice on Franks book and the battle that 112 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,600 he is writing about. Frank had listed men named John 113 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,440 Sevier, Benjamin Cleveland, and Isaac Shelby, and Roger admits 114 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,280 he doesn't know those names from history, but admits that that's 115 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:50,280 because he did not study the Revolutionary War or North 116 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:53,480 Carolina specifically. We learned that at this point in 117 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:56,320 the story, Jamie doesn't know any of those men either, but 118 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,640 notes that if Frank knew who Jamie was, he didn't have any 119 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,360 reason to love him. Roger then offers to read the 120 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,720 book himself and Jamie tells him maybe once I'm finished. 121 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:10,200 So he is actively choosing to hide his knowledge from Roger at 122 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,720 this point. That is when Captain Cunningham 123 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,640 arrives after he was summoned by Jamie, and we learned that Roger 124 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,240 has already spoken to Cunningham. 125 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,400 Jamie is able to confirm that Cunningham is a Freemason and 126 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,680 tells him that they are hoping to organize a meeting on the 127 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:29,320 Ridge every fortnight, and when Cunningham agrees that he is a 128 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,440 Freemason that would like to attend, he offers to help them 129 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,320 with the wood. Cunningham as a character is one 130 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:39,800 that I really hoped they would cast someone who could capture 131 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,800 his sneakiness, and I'm thrilled with this casting. 132 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,480 I think this actor is doing such a phenomenal job, but I also 133 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:50,400 really love how Jamie in particular acts opposite him. 134 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,800 They're really capturing the unease between the two of them 135 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,440 and it's building and building and building and I know it's 136 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:58,160 going to have a really phenomenal payoff. 137 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:01,600 Then we travel back to Philadelphia where we get to see 138 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,840 Henry Mary Mercy Woodcock. So again, the use of that 139 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,320 flashback scene at the top of the episode helps us to 140 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,080 recognize the actor in the scene here. 141 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,320 And we get to also see that both William and Denzel Hunter are in 142 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:18,400 attendance for the wedding. Mercy mentions Mr. Bryant's 143 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:21,280 bill, which would allow for interracial marriages such as 144 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,280 theirs to take place in the colonies. 145 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,080 And William makes a very kind speech as the only Gray in 146 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:30,160 attendance. And I thought this was a really 147 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:36,200 great moment that reinforces just how much William is loyal 148 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,000 and loving of his cousins and also is a forward thinking 149 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,440 person like Jamie. I think William for the most 150 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,600 part can be very stubborn and his upbringing informs a lot of 151 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,440 his worldview. But in this season, I think 152 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,840 we're going to see a lot more of Jamie come out of him. 153 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:57,000 And even though he makes some misguided decisions, I do 154 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,560 believe that this season gives a lot of leeway for us to see more 155 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:05,120 of his Jamie Fraser side. Henry, though, since he knows 156 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,720 him so well, can tell that something's going on with 157 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:09,280 William. And so when they step away from 158 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,080 the crowd, William tells Henry that Ben is dead. 159 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:18,000 Much of William's storyline in this book surrounds this Ben 160 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,240 subplot, but also stuff going on with Lord John Gray. 161 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:25,560 So kicking it off in episode 2 is encouraging for me, because I 162 00:09:25,560 --> 00:09:27,960 think they're going to have to condense it quite a bit in order 163 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,600 to fit it all into the 10 episodes of the season. 164 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,840 But William tells Henry that he will go and discover what has 165 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,480 happened for Amaranthus and Trevor's sakes, and Henry 166 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:42,560 encourages him to go as well. And William deeply apologizes to 167 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:44,840 him for being the one who has to tell him the news. 168 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,480 I'll be very curious if we see Henry in any capacity in the 169 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,040 rest of the season. I hope that we do and that they 170 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:55,240 are able to kind of bring a full circle resolution to this 171 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:58,800 subplot that we get with Ben. Judging by the pace of how 172 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,000 everything is going, I do think we will, which is a good thing. 173 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,960 And that's when we leave the Philadelphia storyline and 174 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:10,320 William to go up to New Jersey and we head back to the Ridge 175 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,040 where we see the kids playing in the woods and hear them 176 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,320 laughing. And then we get a close up on 177 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:17,800 the berries. So instantly, if you are a book 178 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:21,920 reader, you can tell what this scene is going to be with Amy 179 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,200 Higgins and all of the women who are out in the woods picking 180 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,080 berries together, and that includes Rachel, Amy, Lizzie and 181 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,400 Bree. This scene was one that actually 182 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,160 made me tear up when I was reading the book, so I was very 183 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,880 curious how they were going to shoot it and the way that it was 184 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,360 going to be framed and contextualized, and I was 185 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,640 actually quite happy with how they did it in the show. 186 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,520 So in the. Woods After we see the kids 187 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:56,520 laughing, we drop into the conversation between Rachel, 188 00:10:56,520 --> 00:11:01,040 Amy, Lizzie and Brie and Amy reminds the viewers how she came 189 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,320 to the Ridge with two barons as a widow. 190 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,760 The character of Amy in the show version of Outlander hasn't been 191 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:12,200 fully fleshed out as much as she is in the books and the biggest 192 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,480 thing to note is that Brie and Rodger are extremely close to 193 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,280 her in the source material and also with her husband. 194 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,040 In the source material it was a different man named Bobby 195 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,280 Higgins. The show has written Bobby out 196 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,640 and has her marrying Evan Lindsay instead, but they are 197 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,000 trying to bring us up to speed with the fact that this is the 198 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,680 same woman we saw interacting with Rodger when she was 199 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:38,600 mourning the loss of her husband who had passed and trying her 200 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,680 best to raise her two sons when she arrives at Fraser's Ridge. 201 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,400 My fear when awaiting the scene was that people were not going 202 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:49,040 to be as invested in Amy as book readers were. 203 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:53,280 Because again, we spend a lot of time with Amy and her family and 204 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,720 Roger and Bree in the source material and we don't get that 205 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:00,800 build up in the show. But I do think that this scene 206 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:05,480 was fairly impactful regardless of how much back story was given 207 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,680 to Amy in the show. Because no matter how you slice 208 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:10,800 it, this is a really traumatic moment in the story for everyone 209 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,080 else who is present for this really horrific moment. 210 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:18,000 And the way it plays out in the show is fairly close to how it 211 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,200 works in the book. And mainly it's that Amy is 212 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,000 separated from the rest of the group. 213 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,760 He or she's complaining of ants and moves up the hill and we get 214 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,960 to see the baby kicking with Lizzie having her commentary 215 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:36,760 about her funny story of her delivery and Bri telling Rachel 216 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,000 not to get her hopes up for an easy delivery. 217 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,000 And all of that happens while Amy is sitting up higher on the 218 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,640 hill. This camera angle to me is a 219 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,640 really effective one at pointing out to us that something ominous 220 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,240 is going to happen because we are looking up at her. 221 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,800 And that's not a camera angle that we often see in Outlander, 222 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:59,120 unless we are trying to get really close and up close within 223 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,880 the personal, personal space of the character we're looking at. 224 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:05,760 And that's when we cut to this faraway shot where we can see 225 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,080 the bear running towards her from a distance. 226 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,360 And again, they have to work with CGI here. 227 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,680 So the way that they're going to block this is going to try and 228 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:16,720 limit the amount of CGI that we see. 229 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,200 And so I do think they did something clever here when they 230 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:26,120 actually warp the camera lens to make it seem like we are looking 231 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:31,080 through the eyes of the bear running towards Amy in her spot 232 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,200 on the hill. Thankfully, everything else that 233 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,400 happens is not shown on screen. It's very quick. 234 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:41,000 We hear the aftermath of it and the screaming. 235 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:47,240 And that is a really, I think effective way of showcasing how 236 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:50,680 quick moving everything else happens in the aftermath of 237 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:52,480 this. Because it wouldn't be as 238 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:55,640 effective if we saw Bri collecting the kids and moving 239 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,320 them out of the way into a safe place and then going back to the 240 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:02,960 house to retrieve help, and then Jamie coming to help carry Amy. 241 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,160 All of that doesn't have to be shown for the effectiveness of 242 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,360 the scene to be conveyed and felt and palpable. 243 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:13,120 And that's kudos to Katrina. Because instead she chooses to 244 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:17,600 do 2 up close shots, both on Brie, who's watching this happen 245 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,800 from a distance. And then as we hear her fire her 246 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,920 rifle, we get the same up close shot on Jamie, who hears it and 247 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,800 starts running towards it. And then very quickly we're back 248 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:29,440 at the Ridge in Claire's surgery. 249 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,840 And we can see Amy being brought into the surgery by Jamie and we 250 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,400 can already tell that something is terribly wrong. 251 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,960 The prosthetics in the scene were phenomenal because I 252 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,440 definitely got squeamish looking at it all. 253 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:47,160 And we can tell that Amy's face has been mauled by the bear. 254 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,520 But more importantly, Claire can see that her artery has been 255 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,600 severed and she knows that she won't be able to save her. 256 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:58,400 And she warns Jamie because Amy's family and her boys arrive 257 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,560 and she mainly only Claire wants to just have her hold on as long 258 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,520 as she can so that her sons and her husband can say goodbye to 259 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:07,480 her. Again, we get this camera angle 260 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,440 where we are looking up and we have up closes on both Jamie and 261 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:14,080 Claire's faces. So again, foreshadowing that 262 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,720 something bad is going to happen when we get this sort of camera 263 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,920 angle. So that continuity is really 264 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:20,760 important in establishing the tone. 265 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,640 And we've been in this scenario with Claire and Jamie before, 266 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:28,400 where Jamie can understand Claire's body language and her 267 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:33,200 facial expressions, and he knows without her having to say what 268 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,880 her diagnosis is and her prognosis on the situation. 269 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:41,840 And so Jamie then knows that his role is to go and tell everybody 270 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,960 what they need to hear. Outside when the boys arrive, 271 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,880 Bri is trying to comfort them and she doesn't want them to see 272 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,920 their mother because she knows how horrific she looks. 273 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,400 But Evan Lindsay arrives and says that they deserve to say 274 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,440 goodbye to her. And so the boys are allowed into 275 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:01,720 the room and are ushered in by Roger. 276 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,200 And This is our first glimpse into just how spooked Brie is 277 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,280 from this event. And a lot of that is aided not 278 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,680 only with her facial expression but in the lighting. 279 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,440 We can see that everything behind her is black and the 280 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:16,760 light is only shining on her face, but it's a harsh light so 281 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:18,880 there's a lot of shadows cast on her as well. 282 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,640 Then we get this up close shot of her hands and the blood on 283 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:24,240 them. And that's something that's 284 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,000 taken from the opening credits of the show as well. 285 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:31,520 In the book, all of this is happening at the same exact time 286 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,640 that Claire is talking to Fanny about mucus in her stomach and 287 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:37,320 the opening scene of the episode. 288 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:41,000 They're happening in tandem. And Chapter 26 of Go and Tell 289 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,760 the Bees that I am gone. And the shock that Brianna 290 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,320 experiences from Amy's death is something that I think will 291 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,720 probably be drawn out over the course of the season because she 292 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:52,200 struggles with it deeply. In the book. 293 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:56,080 We get the scene where Evan and the boys go in and see Amy. 294 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,520 They ask if there's anything else Claire can do and she 295 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,000 reassures them that she can't do anything to save her. 296 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:07,280 And so Evan and the boys are able to say goodbye and hold her 297 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:11,040 face, and Evan promises her that he will take care of her sons 298 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:14,280 for her. He asks Rodger if he will say a 299 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,640 prayer for her and we see that play out on screen as well. 300 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,560 Again, I didn't know how they were going to film this moment 301 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,720 or if they were ever going to venture to film this moment, but 302 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:28,200 I thought they did a really effective and beautiful job of 303 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,400 not only the timing and pacing of it, but the placement of it 304 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,320 in the episode too. It felt like a really great 305 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:38,680 positioning for it to fall in the episode because the after 306 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:42,560 effects of it do drag out for the remainder of the episode. 307 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:46,520 So we can see the after effects with Rachel Who? 308 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:50,200 Is. Being comforted by Ian, she 309 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,040 tells him how Amy had been attacked by a bear and all of a 310 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,160 sudden she was gone and it could have been anyone of them and it 311 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,000 scared them all so deeply that it happened so. 312 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,760 Quick and it wasn't something that they could have prevented, 313 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:05,520 and it could have been any number of them. 314 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:09,320 This is a show change because in the book it's just Amy, Brianna 315 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:13,280 and the children that go out hunting for wild berries, and so 316 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:17,000 having them include these other characters adds another layer to 317 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,120 the scene, especially when we see Jamie come out of the big 318 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:23,160 house and announce to all of them that Amy did not make it. 319 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,280 When we leave that scene, we cut to William arriving on horseback 320 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,720 at the camp looking for a captain to speak to because he 321 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,800 doesn't have much information about Benjamin and Will wants to 322 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,880 be able to give Trevor more information about his father. 323 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,440 We see that William's not going to be able to get any more 324 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,320 information, but then cleverly asks if Ben had left anything 325 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:48,040 behind, and the captain says he'll ask around and see if 326 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:51,200 anyone has any of his belongings, and William then 327 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,360 asks to be shown his grave. When we cut back to the big 328 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:58,560 house, Claire is tending to Amy and we see Bree come in and she 329 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,840 tells Claire what had happened and you can tell instantly that 330 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:04,840 she just needs the comfort of her mother. 331 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:08,080 She explains to Claire she had a rifle on her but it all happened 332 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:13,200 so fast and she's clearly in shock and is going to get ready 333 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,960 for the hunt for the bear to try and distract herself. 334 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:20,680 Claire can tell that Breonna needs that distraction in order 335 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:24,560 to not dwell on this and make it feel like. 336 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:28,520 It was her fault. And I think the characterization 337 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:32,000 of Brianna is so different in the show that a lot of the 338 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:36,200 acting choices and dialogue choices for Bree have to now 339 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,760 align with the show version of Bree rather than the book 340 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,920 version of Bree. And I do think that this 341 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:45,720 reaction feels more natural for the show version of Bree because 342 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,120 the book version of Bree is so much. 343 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:53,160 More of a tough. Warrior type figure and this 344 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,640 Brianna for the show is much softer and so her feeling this 345 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,480 overwhelm is very true to character in my opinion. 346 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:03,640 And she does in the book as well. 347 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,640 But it feels more out of character that she would be so 348 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:10,960 deeply affected because she does come across as much more stoic 349 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,440 in the books at times, or at least harder on the surface, 350 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,920 more akin to Jamie. When she leaves, Claire begins 351 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,160 to cut Amy's clothes off, and that is when Mrs. Cunningham 352 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,400 comes in to help her tend to the body and prepare her for burial, 353 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,120 and we get this really funny, clever scene where she just 354 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:31,400 jumps into action and Claire is quite confused by this. 355 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:35,600 The arrival of Mrs. Cunningham comes as a surprise to Claire in 356 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,840 both the book and the TV show, and the whole scene with Amy 357 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,960 Higgins actually takes place further into the book than the 358 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,480 show is having it positioned, which is earlier on in the 359 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:49,240 season. This takes place in chapter 27 360 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:53,280 in the book, and I really like the way that they've casted Mrs. 361 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:57,280 Cunningham because she's exactly how she's described in the 362 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,560 source material in the book. When she arrives at Claire's 363 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,240 surgery, Claire thinks to herself that there is a tall 364 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,680 black figure of Mrs. Cunningham, Bony and stern as the Grim 365 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,640 Reaper, with a folded cloth over one arm. 366 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,000 She hovered awkwardly in the threshold and I just as 367 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,880 awkwardly motioned her in. Anytime you get a book to screen 368 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:20,000 adaptation, the interpretation of a scene is going to be 369 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,640 different depending on the director and the writing, and 370 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,680 this is one of the few where it plays out really exactly how I 371 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,280 envisioned it in my head while reading. 372 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,160 Outside, we can see everyone who is preparing to haunt the bear, 373 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:37,600 and Jamie decides to invite the boys because they can avenge 374 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,440 their mother. And the conversation that he has 375 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,560 is much longer in the source material and in the show they 376 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,960 have. Bree questioned Jamie whether or 377 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:51,480 not he should be doing this with them given his age. 378 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:55,240 I really loved this conversation that Jamie has with Aiden, who 379 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,600 is the oldest of the boys, how he uses this as such an 380 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:02,160 important teaching moment for him given his age, given what 381 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,280 has happened. And I think Jamie also 382 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,880 identifies that this would be a very unique opportunity for them 383 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,200 to give Aiden a type of piece that he might not be able to 384 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,960 find otherwise. Having Breonna question that 385 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,760 also reaffirms to us that she is in a different headspace here. 386 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,440 She thinks he's too young to be going with them, and Jamie 387 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,200 quickly overrules her. Breonna has not been back in 388 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:29,480 this time long, but her view of things is definitely future 389 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,080 forward. And Jamie is reminding her that 390 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,800 in this time, this is how this is meant to go. 391 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,480 Back inside, we get a continuation of the scene 392 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:43,200 between Claire and Elspeth Cunningham, and we get a moment 393 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,800 right out of the source material where Claire is watching her add 394 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:51,000 salt to the water to stop her ghost from walking and send away 395 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,480 sin. Claire argues that they can 396 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,080 cover her face for the wake, but Elspeth says that they should 397 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:01,920 tidy her up and that she should be buried with her face revealed 398 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,320 so that her loved ones can have one last look upon it before she 399 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,040 is buried. It's at that point. 400 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,280 That Elspeth reveals I've. Buried 3 husbands and four 401 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,920 children myself. You always want to look upon 402 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,480 their faces one last time, no matter what has happened to 403 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,320 them. And in the book, Claire thinks 404 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:23,280 Frank immediately and that she'd looked at him and that was her 405 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:27,080 last goodbye and that she was glad that she had had the chance 406 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,000 and that is what reframes her positioning on it. 407 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,480 And she decides that she can clean up Amy's face so that her 408 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,800 family can look upon her face one last time as well. 409 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,920 And that's when Claire asks her for her Christian name and she 410 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,920 reveals that it is Elspeth. And the relationship dynamic 411 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,040 between Claire and Elspeth is one of the more interesting ones 412 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,600 in this book. So I'm really happy with who 413 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,520 they cast to play her because I think that in these early 414 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,480 scenes, I really like the back and forth between the two of 415 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:57,840 them. And that's going to be important 416 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,160 as the story goes on. Back out on the hunt, we can 417 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:05,160 hear a gunshot as all of the men and Brianna are traveling 418 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,640 through the woods looking for the bear. 419 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:13,640 And that is when we see them arrive at the bear and Captain 420 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,200 Cunningham. There's a lot that gets moved 421 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,680 around and rearranged for this entire scene with Amy and the 422 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,520 aftermath when they all go out on the hunt for the bear. 423 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,080 Interestingly, there are a whole bunch of people who are back at 424 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,080 the big house in the surgery with Claire while everyone goes 425 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:33,200 out on the hunt, including Jenny, who is in America in the 426 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,120 book but is not in these scenes in the show. 427 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,760 And when everyone is worried about Jamie going out and 428 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:43,920 hunting the bear, she actually performs a blessing for a 429 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,800 warrior going out. And that is actually the title 430 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,400 of book 10 that is currently being written by Diana Gabaldin. 431 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,480 This scene plays out very differently in the source 432 00:24:54,480 --> 00:25:00,320 material because Janie actually shoots the bear and Ian is with 433 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,160 them and shoots it with an arrow before it falls to the ground. 434 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,840 And there's a pack of dogs that has joined the hunt as well that 435 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:13,240 also aid in taking it down, including Jamie's dog Bluebell, 436 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,960 which it doesn't seem like the show is going to include. 437 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:20,440 And Aiden actually does get to go after the bear in the book 438 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,440 and Roger has to pull him off of the bear in the book. 439 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,400 The show instead has Captain Cunningham be the one to 440 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,240 evidently take down the bear all on his own, and again, it's 441 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,040 great foreshadowing for him being a nefarious character. 442 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:38,560 But it is a confusing change for people who've read the book and 443 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,640 expected a scene where Jamie reaches into the bear's mouth 444 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:47,480 and takes out a piece of Amy's bodice from his mouth to confirm 445 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,040 that it is the bear that killed Amy Higgins. 446 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,240 And by having Captain Cunningham be the one to take down the 447 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:58,680 bear, it eliminates Aiden, and in this case, Evan Lindsay, from 448 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,280 feeling a part of Amy being avenged. 449 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,840 This change is definitely on purpose for a narrative payoff 450 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,800 that I think we're going to see an episode 4. 451 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:13,840 And it definitely makes it clear for everybody who might not have 452 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,280 picked up on it yet that there's something going on with Captain 453 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,640 Cunningham, which is reaffirmed here with Jamie's facial 454 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,000 expression and how he questions how he was able to takedown the 455 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,480 bear all on his own. Jamie and the viewer are meant 456 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,920 to be suspicious of this, and I think that this was effectively 457 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,000 shot to convey that. Back with William, we see him 458 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,880 talking to Ben at his grave and saying that he cannot believe 459 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,280 that it's come to this. And we can see a little piece of 460 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,760 wood sticking up from the mud that's meant to mark his grave. 461 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,440 And then when the camera angle changes, we get confirmation of 462 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,800 that with the word Gray edged into the wood. 463 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:52,880 William starts to talk to Ben candidly about Amaranthus and 464 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,200 Trevor and Henry and he swears that his son will know his 465 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,440 father's bravery. Before we cut back to Claire and 466 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,520 we get this really beautiful scene where she is talking to 467 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,920 the bees and telling them about Amy and what has happened to her 468 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,920 in the way that she's meant to talk to the bees, akin to the 469 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,720 title of the book and as we heard it explained in episode 1. 470 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,240 She tells them all that she had accomplished while on the Ridge, 471 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,920 how she thrived, how she will be missed and how her flowers still 472 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,440 grow and we see Claire place them on top of the hive and she 473 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,360 calls out that it's Hollyhock before she turns around and 474 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:32,160 walks back to the big house. We get this really beautiful up 475 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,800 close shot of the bees buzzing around in the grass to convey 476 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:40,080 the passage of time before we cut back to Claire who is in the 477 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,880 kitchen alongside Rachel and Bree. 478 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,080 And they are trying to make sauerkraut as a remedy for 479 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,920 Rachel, who is very clearly uncomfortable by how pregnant 480 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,400 she is. And we see young Ian hovering 481 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,800 around the door keeping an eye on her and she very quickly goes 482 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,360 into labor all on her own. And again, they choose to go 483 00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:04,760 through this birth in a very quick and succinct manner. 484 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,240 So we really don't see anything except for the conversation 485 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,520 between young Ian and Claire outside of the surgery, which I 486 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,840 think was a really beautiful and poignant one between the two of 487 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:15,600 them. Where? 488 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,400 He asks Claire. To wrap the pelt around the baby 489 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,960 if everything goes okay, and Claire reassures him by saying 490 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,800 no, you will do it yourself when the baby is born. 491 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,360 Back at the American camp, William is approached by a 492 00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:32,520 soldier who claims he knew Benjamin and his condition had 493 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:37,840 much improved before he supposedly died, and he had 494 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,920 thought Benjamin had conquered his fever prior to the day he 495 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,200 was reported as dead. So William once again is 496 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,120 suspicious about what has happened to his cousin. 497 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,440 And this is when the opening sequence at the top of the 498 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,800 episode and the flashback between William, Ben and Henry 499 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,200 is really important because we see him go through his 500 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,240 belongings and in his jacket look for the toy soldier that he 501 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,800 had gifted him. William is following his 502 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,440 instincts here and a lot of things are seemingly amiss with 503 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,560 Ben's disappearance and his death and so trying to find this 504 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:15,360 toy soldier is a way for him to confirm if he might have left 505 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:19,760 the uniform and fleed and kept the toy soldier on his person. 506 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,360 So when he looks through the uniform and it's not amongst the 507 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,840 belongings, you can see that William has this spark of hope 508 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,800 within him. Back at the Ridge, we see that 509 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:34,400 Rachel has given birth to Auggie and Ian has wrapped him in a 510 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,240 pelt, and they're able to celebrate the birth all together 511 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:41,240 in the surgery, including Fanny, who originally looks quite sad. 512 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,000 And when Claire asks her what's wrong, she says no one was ever 513 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,600 happy about a baby coming in the brothel, but Claire reaffirms 514 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,240 her that this time it's different. 515 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,040 I really loved this scene. I loved how it was shot and I 516 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,600 loved the discussion around the names because that's one of the 517 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,200 running jokes in the books about how they are never able to 518 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,240 decide on a name for Auggie, and Auggie is what they had been 519 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,360 referring to him as when Rachel was pregnant. 520 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:09,280 And I really also appreciated that they mentioned Rolo again 521 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,160 because he's such a great character. 522 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,240 It's a really sweet light moment of the episode, especially just 523 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,040 how happy young Ian looks. But the scene that follows is 524 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,760 one of my favorites. And Jamie opens the scene by 525 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,160 apologizing for not being there for the birth. 526 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,400 So that implies that it was taking place during the hunt and 527 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,000 that is why Jamie was not present. 528 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,320 Jamie then asks him if Augie is the name and Ian confirms for 529 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,680 now and there's a funny joke. About how he better. 530 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,160 Work on that name. But Ian has this really 531 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,160 beautiful line about how as soon as Claire put his son in his 532 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,400 arms, everything has changed. The colors of the world changed 533 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,480 around him and he didn't have that moment with his other son, 534 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,520 swiftest of lizards. So again, the show confirms that 535 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,600 he is the father of that child and he wishes that his own 536 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,080 father could have been there to see him, even though Jamie has 537 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,320 been like a second father to him his whole life. 538 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,760 And he also hopes that his mom can meet him one day. 539 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,400 And Jamie says that she'll be thrilled to meet him. 540 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,560 So I'm still curious and optimistic that they will bring 541 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:17,400 back the character of Jenny at some point because she does go 542 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,480 to America with them in the book and has a lot of involvement in 543 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,320 the story actually later on. So I don't know what they'd be 544 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:30,960 gaining by not including her. I'm also not sure if she needs 545 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,520 to be there, but she has a lot to do if they bring her back. 546 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,760 As young Ian expresses to Jamie just how much his involvement 547 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:40,560 and role in his life has meant to him. 548 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,480 He expresses back to Ian that he's actually jealous of him 549 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,800 because Jamie didn't get to do what Ian is about to do. 550 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,800 And so even though Ian wants to ask him for advice, Jamie really 551 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,880 doesn't have any because by the time he met Brie, she was grown. 552 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:02,800 He did not know Fergus as a baby and even though he was able to 553 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,200 be in proximity to William, he had to leave when he was still 554 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,760 very young. The delivery of these lines is 555 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:13,360 so beautiful, and he says he envies Ian for getting to see 556 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,160 his son grow up. And I think as a watcher of this 557 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:21,760 show and a reader of these books, this puts words to things 558 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,160 that I think all of us who have followed Jamie in particular 559 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,440 have been feeling for him. We all revel in the fact that we 560 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,880 get to see him be a grandparent because we never got to see him 561 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,640 be a parent with his children in the timeframe when they were so 562 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,560 young. He missed all those formative 563 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,320 years. And so I think he recognizes 564 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,840 quite clearly how much of A gift that is for Ian, and he is able 565 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:50,000 to congratulate him on that and encourage him in that endeavor 566 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,640 because it's one that Jamie really wishes that he could have 567 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,640 had. I also think the framing of this 568 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,520 shot is so beautiful and the way that it ends is so nice with the 569 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,120 two of them standing together with their arms around each 570 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,200 other. We then cut to Claire, who's 571 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:09,080 outside in the grounds picking mushrooms, and she is approached 572 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,480 by a man on horseback. Some of you might recognize this 573 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,280 actor if you've watched this show, Sanditon. 574 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,680 He's a Northern Irish actor, and he is a complete departure from 575 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,600 his character of Arthur in that show. 576 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,440 Here in this role as Benjamin Cleveland, when he asks after 577 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:30,040 Jamie, Claire expresses to him that his business is her 578 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,200 business, and she's asking who he might be. 579 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,040 And she is blatantly ignored by him. 580 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,600 And so she decides to tell him that he can find Jamie in the 581 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,240 woodshed. This whole interaction is pulled 582 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,640 right from the source material, and Claire can tell right away 583 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,640 that something is amiss here. Jamie, we can see here, is 584 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:53,080 making posts for stairs inside of his home when Benjamin 585 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,120 Cleveland approaches him and introduces himself. 586 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,600 And so we already know from the scene earlier on in the episode 587 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,120 between Jamie and Rodger who Benjamin Cleveland is and that 588 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,080 this is one of the men that is mentioned in Frank's book. 589 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,480 As soon as he hears the name, Jamie registers that as well. 590 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:14,480 He starts asking Jamie about his plans to rejoin the army when 591 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,280 Jamie reassures him the answer is no. 592 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,400 And that's when Cleveland tells him about all of the men raising 593 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,280 a militia to protect their families. 594 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,880 Jamie at one point asks him about the men that were hung in 595 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,760 the trees, and Cleveland admits that he had done that. 596 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,280 I love all of the snips where we get these up close shots of 597 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,080 Jamie's hands as he's working and trying to continue. 598 00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:40,360 Can you to do that work even though Benjamin Cleveland is 599 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,400 encroaching on his personal space here? 600 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,920 Same with this shot of him looking up at him over his 601 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,480 glasses. And Cleveland is cool as a 602 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,400 cucumber when he admits that those men were Tories and he 603 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,000 hates a Tory. And that's when he warns Jamie 604 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:58,000 that he has someone on his own land named Cunningham who is 605 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,800 also one. Jamie for the most part wants to 606 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,920 keep control over Fraser's Ridge and not have anyone from outside 607 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,920 of Fraser's Ridge start to have a say in what happens on his 608 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,640 land. And we know that from previous 609 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,480 seasons and why that would be. But Cleveland tells him they're 610 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,520 over 100 strong now in his militia. 611 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,840 And Jamie double S down by saying he turned down George 612 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,240 Washington himself. What would make Cleveland 613 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,480 believe that he would change his mind for a man like him? 614 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,920 He insists that he'll handle the captain himself and anything 615 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,960 else that needs attention on his own land. 616 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,880 But you can tell that there's an unsettling feeling over Jamie 617 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,280 when he has this interaction with Cleveland and heeds his 618 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,360 warning about Captain Cunningham, which kind of 619 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,120 reaffirms Jamie's previous suspicions about him. 620 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,240 I loved this casting. I thought that Cleveland came 621 00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:53,520 across exactly how he read in the book here, and Jamie plays 622 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,240 it off in a way where you can tell there's something simmering 623 00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:59,160 under the surface here that's worrying him, and he's trying to 624 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,040 concoct a way to handle it himself without getting this 625 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,520 dangerous person involved. But he's also remembering the 626 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,160 book and that he is supposedly going to fight alongside this 627 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:14,120 person for whatever reason. When Rodger approaches Jamie, he 628 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,440 asks him was that someone Frank had mentioned? 629 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,080 And Jamie tells him yes. And so again, Jamie's trying to 630 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,240 piece together how on earth he could end up fighting alongside 631 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:28,240 Cleveland here. And so he's moving forward 632 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:32,920 through the storyline, knowing the ending, but not completely 633 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,040 understanding how and why he'd end up in that position. 634 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,560 And that's really going to bend his mind. 635 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,960 And you can see that starting to happen in this episode. 636 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,880 And I think that Sam Heuan does a great job conveying that, and 637 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,720 it does put Rodger in this really unique situation where he 638 00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:51,280 has to team up with his father-in-law. 639 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,680 Again, we've come a. Long way since season 4. 640 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,680 Back inside, we can hear Claire getting a debrief on how the 641 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:02,440 conversation went and Jamie tells her that he'd better kill 642 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,640 Cunningham because he's a danger to him and that's now been 643 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,280 confirmed. Rodger then confirms that they 644 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,600 plan to keep Lodge so that they can keep an eye on Cunningham, 645 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,120 and he asks Jamie if Cunningham is mentioned in the book, and 646 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,560 Jamie says no. The only name that Frank 647 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,960 mentions in the battle is Jamie's, and that's when Claire 648 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,160 gives Roger look so that they can be alone. 649 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,080 I love how Claire does this so subtly, and her and Roger's 650 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,760 relationship is one that I've always really enjoyed. 651 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,320 So I think this was a really nice moment to kind of 652 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,520 reacquaint us with the fact that they have a good rapport and an 653 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,480 understanding and an unspoken communication and language 654 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,680 between them. When Roger leaves, Claire asks 655 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:47,560 Jamie if he he has told Rodger that he dies in the book and 656 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:51,560 that Frank says he dies and Jamie says no, which Claire is 657 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,200 happy about. We then get the conversation I 658 00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:58,600 was hoping for, which is how Claire had never spoke of Jamie 659 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:03,240 when Frank was alive, and she never knew that Frank had been 660 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:06,000 searching for him, found him, and then choose to keep. 661 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,200 That from her. Jamie understands that it was to 662 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:14,280 keep Claire in his own time with him, and he surmises that maybe 663 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,400 Frank wasn't looking for Jamie, he was actually searching for 664 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,200 Claire to see if she'd leave him instead. 665 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,560 It's another really wonderfully adapted scene from the story 666 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,880 that I was really happy to see show up in some capacity in this 667 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,480 season. And it's another opportunity for 668 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,760 a visual call back here with another shot of the two of them 669 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,360 and Jamie kissing Claire's knuckles like we've seen him do 670 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,880 so many times over the course of these eight seasons. 671 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,440 And then as we move the plot along, Rodger had just mentioned 672 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:47,160 keeping tabs on Cunningham at Lodge, and we get to see our 673 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,360 first glimpse of the Lodge meeting here. 674 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,160 It's established that no one is allowed to bring weapons into 675 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,480 Lodge here with this shot, and we very quickly see Captain 676 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,520 Cunningham walking inside. Jamie and Rodger have been 677 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:04,360 waiting for him, and we can tell that the real purpose of this 678 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:08,320 meeting is to get a better sense of what's going on with Captain 679 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,320 Cunningham. And when Jamie introduces Lodge, 680 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,040 he makes it clear that this is a meeting space where all of the 681 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,760 men are meant to put aside their religious and political 682 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,880 differences so that they can strengthen the ties that bind 683 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,680 them together in service of the greater good at the Ridge. 684 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:28,560 This is the face of a man who is up to no good, and you can tell 685 00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:32,600 instantly in the scene that something is going on with him 686 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,840 and Jamie knows. That's why he looks. 687 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,360 Right at him as he says these very pointed lines. 688 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,120 When Jamie's asked if Cunningham actually haunted the bear and 689 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,040 killed it all by himself, he confirms it. 690 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,640 But you can tell that he doesn't mean that wholeheartedly. 691 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,920 And this is when Cunningham opens the meeting with his own 692 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,840 words and starts by offering sympathy and support to Evan 693 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,680 Lindsay and his family. So as Cunningham starts to hold 694 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:03,400 court during lodge, we can tell right away that this speech he's 695 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:07,840 giving is very pointed and calculated by first offering his 696 00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,960 sympathy and support to Evan Lindsay after the death of his 697 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,640 wife Amy. And right away we can tell that 698 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:20,200 Rodger and Jamie. Can sense that disingenuous 699 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:24,200 approach here and are curious about where this speech might be 700 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,520 going. Especially when he brings up his 701 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:31,640 son Simon and how he fought alongside him and saw him get 702 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,320 shot and caught him then felt him die in his arms. 703 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,360 And within this big rousing speech, we know that he is 704 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,880 fighting opposite Jamie in this scenario for the British and 705 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:47,000 that he is a Tory. He tells everyone that his son 706 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,840 had said he would see him again in seven years. 707 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,960 And this is to again target the heartstrings of everyone there 708 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:59,200 after teeing up this conversation of Amy Higgins and 709 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:04,720 the loss of Evan's wife and his two adopted son's mother. 710 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,720 In the book, this isn't happening in this setting. 711 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:12,880 Everyone is actually going to Captain Cunningham service where 712 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:17,600 he is expected to speak, whereas here he's choosing to speak and 713 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,840 it takes place in their meetinghouse. 714 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:24,000 And so a lot of other characters are listening to this exact 715 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,880 speech take place in that scene in the book, whereas here it's 716 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:32,000 being held at lodge and in a way that's done on purpose so that 717 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,560 it's contained within all of these men. 718 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:40,480 And how we can later see how Cunningham is leveraging that 719 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,880 room in a way that right now is not clear to everybody in the 720 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,320 book. Rodger and Bree are actually 721 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,480 going back and forth on whether or not they should attend the 722 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:53,440 service because Rodger doesn't want it to come across as him 723 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:58,040 checking out the competition as it were, because Rodger is also 724 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,600 a preacher. But Brie points out that Jamie 725 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,520 doesn't like things happening on the Ridge behind his back, so to 726 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,520 speak, so they're both curious about what he is going to say. 727 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,720 And Brie acknowledges that if they weren't to go, they would 728 00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:15,200 stick out like a sore thumb because everybody on the Ridge 729 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,280 was planning on going to Cunningham's service, including 730 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,600 Jamie and Claire. So in the book, a lot more 731 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,760 people on the Ridge are listening to these words than in 732 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:28,200 this scene in the show, including Captain Cunningham's 733 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,560 mother, Elspeth. And in that sermon he says to 734 00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,840 the congregation that two years ago he had received a call from 735 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,480 God and he's endeavoring to answer that call to the best of 736 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,360 his ability, and that he wants to tell everyone more about his 737 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,680 journey towards God and encourage everyone else to join 738 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,280 him on that. In the book, he actually sings 739 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,760 as well. And as soon as he starts to 740 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:55,160 speak to the congregation about his time on His Majesty ship, 741 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:59,880 the HMS Lennox, Roger feels instant weariness. 742 00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:03,400 And he says it spread through him and the room like low lying 743 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,840 fog because Roger knew that some of the people present were 744 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,840 likely to be secret loyalists. But a lot of the people on the 745 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:15,720 Ridge had called themselves rebels, mainly because of their 746 00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:20,320 landlord Jamie, who was sitting in the third row of this sermon 747 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,320 in the book. Another difference here is that 748 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:26,240 in the book he's referring to being in the Navy, whereas in 749 00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:30,200 the show they're talking about him being at Saratoga on land 750 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,480 against Jamie. In the show he talks about 751 00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:38,440 catching his son in his arms and having to watch him die in his 752 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,640 arms, but in the book he had been patrolling the coast of 753 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:46,040 Rhode Island when they encountered and pursued rebels 754 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,480 and his son was killed in that action. 755 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:53,720 He did still catch him in his arms after he was struck, and he 756 00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:57,440 claims he felt him die. And when he calls out that he 757 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,960 felt him die, he repeats it twice and then says some of you 758 00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,960 will know that feeling. Knowing that many of them did 759 00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:06,800 this is important because again, in the show, they're mirroring 760 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,960 that here by showing an up close shot of Evan Lindsay. 761 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,520 I think the way that this was shot is so brilliant because, 762 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:17,920 again, the actor who plays Captain Cunningham is a really 763 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,640 wonderful actor and you can see so much conveyed through his 764 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:25,040 facial expressions and his eyes because something sinister is 765 00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,200 lurking underneath the surface of this face. 766 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,640 Everything he's saying is very pointed, and he has an ulterior 767 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,520 motive here to try and sway some of the men in this room to 768 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:36,960 connect with him on a deeper level. 769 00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:40,720 And he's doing that through the loss of their loved ones. 770 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:44,200 I especially love this shot because you can just get a sense 771 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:49,280 of how he's trying to control and sway this room and these men 772 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:53,400 and how important that would be for him given his plan, which 773 00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,480 book readers already know. The message he conveys about 774 00:44:56,480 --> 00:45:01,120 seeing his son again in seven years is really important 775 00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:06,480 because Jamie picks up instantly in the subtext of that a lot of 776 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:10,160 the men in the room are believers to the point where 777 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:15,040 they will have understood that this prophecy that Cunningham is 778 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:19,160 stating happened would be real. And in the book, a lot of them 779 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,920 murmur and gasp. And Roger in the book is shocked 780 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,240 to find that he had been following Cunningham through 781 00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:29,640 every word, totally absorbed, filled with sorrow, pride, 782 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:34,840 warmth, uplifted, and then also purely emotional over aspects of 783 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,440 his sermon. And in the book, Roger actually 784 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,920 has to follow that sermon up himself with one of his own. 785 00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:46,080 Instead, we get this scene where we can see Jamie and Roger kind 786 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,280 of collecting themselves in the aftermath of listening to that. 787 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:53,800 And Jamie instantly recognizes the danger in a man who doesn't 788 00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,320 believe he can die. Jamie can understand the true 789 00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,640 nature of his words there. And again, I think this is 790 00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,520 really beautiful foreshadowing for what's to come with Captain 791 00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,360 Cunningham's character. Back with William, we see him 792 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:10,720 sleeping inside of a tent still at the camp in New Jersey, and 793 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:13,640 we watch him venture outside to the grave. 794 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,000 And he begins to dig it up. I remember reading this in the 795 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,960 book and having a very clear visual of what it looked like. 796 00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:24,360 And the way this is shot is very on par with what I had been 797 00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,880 envisioning myself. As William is sludging through 798 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:32,000 the mud, he uncovers the face of the man buried in that shallow 799 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,360 grave, and he instantly can tell that it is not Benjamin. 800 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,360 And again, because we got the scene at the very beginning of 801 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:42,280 the episode where we got to set our eyes on the actor playing 802 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,560 Benjamin, we too can see right away that this person is not 803 00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,600 him. Now William has confirmation 804 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,680 that his cousin is. Lost but still alive. 805 00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,520 And that's a very real and impactful one for him that will 806 00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:59,760 set him off on a really interesting storyline and also 807 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,800 will tee up a lot of questions for people who haven't read the 808 00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,280 books yet. Back at the Big House, we can 809 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:09,840 see that Jamie is continuing to read Frank's book and hear 810 00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:13,080 Frank's voice talking to him as he's trying to figure out what's 811 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:14,720 going on with Captain Cunningham. 812 00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,920 Frank confirms that Cunningham is not the only one who knows. 813 00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,160 The day of his death. And Jamie, understandably, is 814 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:26,320 very spooked by those words. And Claire is asleep beside him 815 00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,840 when he calls to her. And he puts this book down and 816 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,000 mulls over all of these thoughts floating around in his head, 817 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,040 trying to piece together what all of this could mean. 818 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,360 Because again, Jamie is very much convinced that Frank is 819 00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:43,280 speaking to him through this book, and he feels that way 820 00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,360 almost all the way through the entire source material. 821 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:51,000 We can see that in this moment where he feels so lost, he calls 822 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:55,520 upon Claire for connection. And the way that this is shot is 823 00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,720 nearly identical to the shot that we got in Season 5. 824 00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,640 But Jamie is very intentional here, and this moment between 825 00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:07,000 them doesn't last long. We can hear Frank's voice at the 826 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:11,520 end of this scene, and the page is open on his bedside table so 827 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:15,320 that we are able to both hear and read the line and the 828 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:19,280 chapter. And where we can see with James 829 00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,920 Fraser among the fallen referring to the battle at Kings 830 00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,040 Mountain. On this page we can see the 831 00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,240 words close quarters compat, swift and fierce. 832 00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:34,080 Battle. 190 loyalist militiamen, including a man named Ferguson. 833 00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:39,560 The rebels only suffered minimal losses, only 28, but they lost 834 00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,560 one of their senior officers, with James Fraser among the 835 00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:45,040 fallen. I really loved how this was shot 836 00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,320 and how Claire is unaware of what Jamie's going through 837 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,400 because it showcases how he's going to try and shield her from 838 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,680 a lot of that. And then we see him look over at 839 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:59,480 the book, the open page on his bedside table, just as we hear 840 00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:03,320 Frank's voice say, you're going to die, who will hold her once 841 00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,920 you're gone? And we get this really intense 842 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,880 shot of Jamie's face with his brow furrowed and Claire 843 00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:13,720 sleeping on his chest before the episode fades to black. 844 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,120 I loved the ending. I think it's great foreshadowing 845 00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,160 for what Jamie's going to be grappling with this season. 846 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:24,560 And I thought Katrina Bell did a really brilliant job directing 847 00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:26,480 this episode. I loved all of her creative 848 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,000 choices, the camera blocking, the pacing. 849 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,240 I thought this was a really well executed episode for someone who 850 00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:34,040 is making their directorial debut. 851 00:49:34,240 --> 00:49:38,040 And it Tees up episode 3 really brilliantly, which is so far my 852 00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,200 favorite of this season. So much pulled directly from the 853 00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,920 source material, some new changes and edits, but all of 854 00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:45,560 them seem. To be pushing the plot along. 855 00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,480 As always, if you've made it this far, thank you so much for 856 00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,720 listening and chatting about the show with me. 857 00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:55,160 I look forward to the next Outlander Breakdown episode 858 00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,400 where we talk about my favorite episode so far of Season 8, 859 00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:00,960 which is episode 3. We'll chat soon.