Season 6’s previous episode, “Sticks and Stones,” which premiered on Sunday, April 24, found Claire ridding herself of her demons and reconnecting with Jamie, as she confesses to him the inner turmoil she’s been dealing with and that she’s been using ether to cope. Although upset, it also seems that the Christies accept Malva’s death and Claire’s innocence in killing her. We haven’t seen much of the Browns this season, so little did viewers expect that it would be them, in the guise of a “safety committee,” who would come for Claire and accuse her of murder. Get ready, Sassenachs, for what looks to be a supremely action-packed Season 6 finale, airing on Sunday, May 1. Here’s everything we learned from the promo for Outlander Season 6 finale, “I Am Not Alone.”
Is there an Outlander Season 6 episode 8 promo preview?
Yes! The trailer for “I Am Not Alone” starts where the last episode left off, with a gang of armed men led by Richard Brown (Chris Larkin) coming to arrest Claire for Malva’s murder. Jamie stands outside the Big House, alone but determined to protect her. “I didn’t expect you to just give her up, but you will, soon enough,” Richard tells him. “I ken what you’re doing,” Jamie replies. In the next scene, we see Claire wielding a rifle, shooting through a window to Brownsville men who’ve taken cover outside the house. Jamie shoots as well. “What do we do, fight to the death? Where is everyone else?” she asks him. “If they’re not here by now, Claire, then they’ll not be coming,” Jamie tells her. We then see Lizzie (Caitlin O’Ryan) and one of the Beardsley twins (Paul Gorman) by the barn, before they turn and run. Next, amid a literal torch-carrying mob—yikes!—one man yells into the darkness, “Justice for the murdered lass!” As the angry crowd grows, Jamie says to Claire, “We must go together. I dinna see another way.” The promo ends with the couple outside the house facing the mob, as Claire looks around in fright. Will they get out of this alive?
What happened on Outlander Season 6 episode 7?
Season 6, episode 7, “Sticks and Stones,” starts with a flashback to Malva telling a gathering of settlers at the meeting house all about how she was taken advantage of by someone she trusted, smearing an innocent Jamie’s name without ever uttering it. After the opening credits, we see Malva, now dead, right where last episode left off. Claire, who found Malva’s body, is now joined by Jamie, Tom Christie (Mark Lewis Jones), and Allan Christie (Alexander Vlahos)—and all things considered, it could have gone a lot worse. Although the Christies are suspicious of Claire, they seem to accept her explanation that although she thought she saw Malva coming toward the house, she didn’t see anyone else; and when she went out later to the garden with a pruning knife, she found Malva’s body and tried to save the baby. “You believe me, don’t you?” she begs earnestly. Tom looks heartbroken but does seem to believe her, and asks if her death was quick. Jamie insists mother and child both be buried in consecrated ground, and that Roger (Richard Rankin) will lead the service; Claire will tend to the body to prepare Malva for burial. In a series of creepy sequences throughout the episode, Claire attempts to attend to Malva’s body, but is interrupted by the spirit of Lionel Brown (Ned Dennehy), who seems to be reflecting all of Claire’s dark thoughts and fears about herself. She’s still not sure whether Malva actually came to her, whether Claire threatened her, or whether she could have actually killed her while under the effects of the ether she took. She is tempted by the ether again, eventually giving in and hearing voices from her past, including Black Jack Randall, Geillis Duncan, Dougal MacKenzie, and her late husband, Frank. Jamie, meanwhile, must deal with the accusations of some of the settlers that Claire murdered Malva out of jealousy because Jamie had fathered her child. Ian (John Bell) has been asking around to see if anyone knows anything, which angers Obadiah Henderson, who Roger had seen in a compromising position with Malva. But he says he hadn’t been with Malva for some time; which, if he’s telling the truth, could mean he’s not the father of her baby either. So who is? At Malva’s funeral, Jamie is not allowed to be a pall bearer, and when Claire tries to carry the baby’s coffin, Allan grabs it from her hands and blames her for their deaths. As Roger and Bree (Sophie Skelton) joke that they need Perry Mason to help them solve the case, asking who had means, motive and opportunity, Claire responds, “Me.” She begins to open up to Jamie, admitting she’s unsure what happened because she took ether. She recounts her dream of Malva coming to her, and wonders if she did kill her. But steadfast Jamie responds her mind is just playing tricks on her. Lizzie is another one who’s been acting pretty strange as Ian asks after the Beardsley twins, who she seems to be protecting. Turns out, Lizzie has been intimate with both of them at once, and is now with child. In a rather modern attitude toward her throuple, Lizzie doesn’t think they’ve done anything wrong, but Jamie insists she marry one of them. Lacking a properly ordained minister, he handfasts her to Kezzie; but the trio then tricks Roger into handfasting her to Jo. Lizzie’s a sly one, but the storyline does lend a little levity to the heavy episode. The threesome seem to be very happy in their union. Also, it turns out it was Lizzie who was knocking at the surgery door the day Malva died while Claire was taking ether—not Malva. So the conversation Claire imagined having with Malva really was a dream. She feels absolved from Malva’s murder at least—but not from her guilt at leading her astray. Claire finally lets it all out to Jamie, how she hears the voice of Lionel Brown, and how the only thing that drowns him out is taking ether. How she feels selfish and responsible for bringing Brianna and Roger to the past and the bad things that happened to them there, for ruining her marriage to Frank, for everything she feels she’s done wrong—all because she loved Jamie and wanted to be with him. This scene is some first-rate acting from Balfe. Someone give this woman an Emmy! But Jamie paints a different picture for Claire: That they all have each other because of her. He reassures her he will be there for her to face this together. In other news, Roger finally decides he wants to be a minister for real, and he, Brianna and Jemmy travel to Edenton so he can be ordained. After they leave, things seem to be going back to normal, when a huge gang of riders appears—the Browns’ safety committee, here to arrest Claire for Malva’s murder. Just when it seemed like everything might be getting better! We know the Season 6 finale will end on a cliffhanger, which means Claire might not get out of her arrest for murder. Will we find out the real killer, and the true father of Malva’s child—or will that not be resolved until Season 7? What about Claire and Tom’s mysterious illness? And what about the love spell using human fingers? There are a lot of loose threads hanging, and it’s hard to know which will be wrapped up and which we have to wait an entire Droughtlander to find out the truth about.
Are there any Outlander Season 6 episode 8 finale spoilers?
Book readers know there’s a lot of Diana Gabaldon’s sixth novel in the Outlander series, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, that we haven’t yet gotten to see (although the show writers did move up some of the book, namely the end of the Stephen Bonnet storyline, which concluded last season). We will eventually find out who fathered Malva’s child, who killed her—and who will take the blame for it. But it looks like that could be the cliffhanger we’ll have to wait until next season to be resolved. The preview seems to focus on the Browns’s old feud with the Frasers from last season—Tom Christie, this season’s Fraser nemesis, doesn’t even appear in the promo for episode 8. Yet executive producer Maril Davis told Parade that the Christies are really why things have gone amiss for Jamie and Claire this season. “[Tom and Jamie’s] conflict actually permeates the Ridge as the season progresses,” she says. “We’ll start this march to what we talked about, this idea of Jamie and Claire having to defend themselves against their home. The place they built and brought all these people to is going to start to turn against them. We’ll see that as the season progresses. Quite honestly the Christies are the inciting incident of that.” Also missing from the promo are Brianna and Roger, who had left to get Roger ordained. And viewers are still missing Fergus (César Domboy) and Marsali (Lauren Lyle), who moved to New Bern for Fergus to run a print shop a few episodes ago. Ian would surely stand with Jamie and Claire, but he’s missing from the preview as well. In fact, the only other Fraser gang we see in the promo are Lizzie and one of the Beardsleys, who look to be leaving—likely because they’re angry at Jamie forcing Lizzie to chose between the two twins. For an episode entitled “I Am Not Alone,” it sure seems that Claire and Jamie are just that—yet viewers would surely like to see some of the rest of the Fraser crew before we leave them for another Droughtlander. As for other parts of A Breath of Snow andAshes that have hardly been addressed at all due to Outlander’s shortened sixth season, well, we’ll have to wait until next season to cover that material before the show writers start on the seventh novel, An Echo in the Bone. “There is definitely story to finish," Davis told us. “We have four episodes left that we’d already crafted out… We’re definitely going to finish the stories that we wanted to tell in Season 6 in Season 7.” We’ll be looking forward to it! In the meantime, catch the season finale on Sunday, May 1 (which also happens to be the birthday of Jamie Fraser)! Next, Will There Be an Outlander Season 8? Here’s What Executive Producer Maril Davis Told Us
