It’s the second to lastOutlanderepisode this season (say it ain’t so!)
and boy is it a doozy.
Richard Rankin, you are not a dog face, I promise.
Credit: Aimee Spinks/Starz
Back in Wilmington, Fergus tells his fellow regulators that Murtagh was arrested alongside Bonnet.
They immediately fear the governor won’t grant Murtagh a fair trial and he’ll be hung.
They resolve to get him back somehow.
The news takes her off-guard, but she wants to know if rape can be added to his charges.
He’s condemned and will hang next week.
But she doesn’t want to watch Bonnet dieshe wants to talk to him.
This is all because of the letter John brought her from Jamie.
Bonnet carries the seeds of his own destruction, but he cannot die by her hand.
He wants help escaping, but she insists he needs to heal first.
Lord John and Bree make it to Wilmington for her forgiveness mission.
She’s struggling with her size and missing her mother, which it turns outso is Lord John.
“You are impossible not to like,” she tells John.
And we couldn’t agree more.
Roger accidentally offends Kaherton when he points and speaks over him, which is not Mohawk custom.
Roger is shoved into the punishment hut right on top of his bad arm.
He chews on the herbs for the pain and realizes there’s another man in there too.
The man introduces himself in French as Father Alexandre Ferigault.
They ask themselves WWCAJDwhat would Claire and Jamie do?
Back in the punishment hut, the priest tells Roger his story.
He came to the Mohawk village to spread the word of God and convert members of the tribe.
The Mohawk welcomed their union and the child, but they wanted the priest to baptize the baby.
This understandably hits Roger right in the feels.
Later that night, after plenty of screaming, the priest is returned to the punishment hut.
He is still naked and they have cut off his ear.
Roger tries to clean the man’s wound and says a prayer for him.
They have given him until the morning to change his mind or they will burn him at the stake.
The priest insists he cannot and this fate is his punishment for his sins.
Roger is incredulous that this man would consider falling in love a sin.
“You’re being an idiot,” he tells him.
“You know how I can see this?
Wow, cynical much Roger?
“I hesitated like an idiot because after all that I still loved her,” he explains.
He encourages the priest to look out for number one and turn his back on love.
If you don’t save yourself, no one will.
He reveals he’s been digging a hole to escape and asks the priest to go with him.
They dig through the entire night but need at least another hour’s work that they don’t have.
The priest decides to stay and face his fatehe has to follow his conscience.
The Mohawk come and ask him his decisionhe refuses to baptize the child and they take him away.
Roger immediately returns to digging his hole.
In Wilmington, Fergus is pouring a ring of gunpowder around the prison just as Bree and John arrive.
Governor Tryon has arranged for them to visit Bonnet.
Bree is nervous but steadfast and they bring her in as she insists she wants to visit Bonnet alone.
She walks into Bonnet’s prison cell and stares him down.
He stands and gets as close to her as he can, forcing her to lean against the bars.
He remembers, but he taunts her, saying he sold her father’s jewels for a ship.
And he gave her the ring back she was after.
Bree tells Bonnet she came to forgive him and reveals her pregnant belly to him.
But make no mistake he will be forgotten their child will never know his name or that he existed.
Bree hasn’t had an ultrasound… Fergus recognizes him and tells him they’ve only come to free Murtagh, not to harm anyone.
Fergus breaks Murtagh out and Bree even assists, while Lord John allows them to continue with their lot.
They are all rushed out and the keys are left on the ground within Bonnet’s reach.
Murtagh sees reason and leaves her in John’s hands.
Though she’s fine with Bonnet staying chained to the wall.
As they rush out, Bonnet reaches for the keys with the toe of his boot.
Marsali is waiting in a wagon, which Murtagh and Fergus hide in, and they ride off.
Back in the Mohawk village, Roger has managed to crawl out of his hole and escape.
“For once in your stupid, idiotic life, be smart,” he tells himself.
But with a gasping “fking hell,” Roger breaks down and turns around.
His compassionate nature comes through, for better or worse.
Everyone, including Roger, looks on in horror.
Kaherton picks up the baby and orders Roger back to the “idiot hut.”
If you’re not crying by the end of this sequence, I don’t even know.
