Roger (Richard Rankin) and Buck (Diarmaid Murtagh) have time-travelled to 1739, instead of 1787, as they had anticipated, in order to find Jem, Roger’s son, who was abducted by Rob Cameron (Chris Fulton), in the second episode of the second half of Season 7 of Outlander, “Brotherly Love.” Check details on Is Jamie Already Dead?
Is Jamie Already Dead?
Roger brings Buck to see a healer after learning that Buck is ill—traveling through the stones is taxing on the constitution—and they end up at Geillis Duncan’s (Lotte Verbeek) door. Roger is well aware of her identity. Although she is Buck’s mother and a murderer in contemporary society, Roger has not yet revealed his parents to Buck in the TV show.
Buck’s father, Dougal MacKenzie (Graham McTavish), arrives at Geillis’ to cure Buck’s heart condition—a little foxglove tea—because he has something he needs to show Roger and he has heard that Roger is searching for a “fairy man.” He showed Roger the World War II dog tags that belonged to his father. Jerry’s body was never located after he vanished during the Blitz. Roger now knows why.
We asked best-selling novelist Diana Gabaldon why she sent Roger to that era in our conversation with her. Time travel is known to have the potential to transport you to the location of a person you were thinking about, and Roger may have been thinking about his father while he was going through the stones with Buck.
According to this brief piece, individuals who are genetically linked may recognize one another on a molecular level, allowing them to cross paths outside of their own time. We know from another portion of the novel that Jem and Mandy can sense one other, and they are also aware of their parents and grandparents. Roger and his father Jerry are both out of their own eras, but they locate each other.
However, Jamie Fraser’s (Sam Heughan) death is the episode’s most startling element. On his way back to America from France, Jamie was on a ship that sank, and no one survived.
Gabaldon divulges. In fact, the opening line of Voyager is ‘He was dead.’ Readers and viewers may believe that they want Jamie and Claire to spend every minute of their lives together, ideally in bed, but in reality, they don’t. No story is complete without conflict, and in Outlander, the last struggle is always between life and death.
Additionally, Jamie, being the warrior that he is, represents Death in symbolism, whereas Claire the Healer represents Life. Death is real, yet it never truly prevails, according to this underlying theme that permeates the entire series.
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