Bree is adjusting to life at River Run.
Spoiler alert: they are not positive representations.
Claire isn’t angry at either of them, but she can’t stop worrying about Bree and Roger.
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He sees a “Wanted” poster for Murtagh on the wall and tears it down.
Murtagh is holding meetings with regulators in the backroom.
He tells Murtagh about Bonnet’s expected return.
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Bree isn’t interested in meeting anyone and distracts Phaedra by getting her to sit for a portrait.
She tells Bree she’s very much like Ellen, headstrong and always following her heart.
Ellen refused to marry until after her father died and then chose the man she loved, Brian Fraser.
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Marsali purposely wakes Murtagh in the night while getting a drink of water.
Bree’s milkshake brings all the boys to the plantation.
Sorry, I mean, Gerald Forbes as portrayed byLord of the Ringsactor Billy Boyd.
Lt. Wolf is back, as well as another new suitor, Judge Alderdyce.
Girl, go for the hobbit!
Bree shocks the crowd with her revelation that she’s drawn a portrait of Phaedra.
Bree defers to Mr. Alderdyce’s mother.
Bree is happy to learn he’s an acquaintance of her parents.
Fergus says he is honored, but that his place is at home with Marsali and his baby.
She will use their answers to analyze something about them.
Judge Alderdyce was walking with Christ and encountered a squirrel from his mother’s garden.
This makes him uncomfortable enough to leave the room.
She turns next to Lord John.
The person he envisioned in the forest was Jamie.
So, now Lord John knows Bree is pregnant.
John assures Bree Jamie did not tell him.
She wanted to go, but could not because of the baby.
She explains she was only hand-fast and had no witnesses.
John passes along a letter from Jamie.
Jocasta comes in and Bree asks for a word with her alone.
She’s irritated that Jocasta is playing matchmaker, but Jocasta insists they’re her friends and acceptable suitors.
Not to mention the marriage would greatly benefit them all financially.
She says Roger is not coming back and Bree must accept that.
One cannot live on hopejust you wait, Jocasta.
She hears a noise and is shocked to discover Lord John hooking up with Judge Alderdyce in the storeroom.
Luckily, Lord John is enjoying himself too much to notice her before she sneaks out.
Yes, Lord John, good for youget yours!
You deserve some modicum of happiness and pleasure in this world.
Murtagh sends Fergus home and puts his hands up.
He turns Bonnet in, who they realize is the escaped murderer who evaded the gallows.
But unfortunately, they also recognize Murtagh from the broadsheets and arrest him too.
Damn, and here I thought he was just there for second breakfast.
Bree tells her to say she’s on her morning walk and will return in an hour.
John and Bree walk, and she asks him straight out if he’ll marry her.
At first, he laughs at the preposterous suggestion and then is horrified when he realizes she’s serious.
John is hurt, saying his life would be ruined.
She guesses at his affection for Jamie based on his envisioning them walking together during the psychological exercise.
require her to fulfill her wifely responsibilities.
They sit and talk it out.
She apologizes and admits she really would not have told anyone his secret.
He can’t marry her because of all these reasons.
She shouldn’t give up hope.
Forbes is waiting in the parlor with a ring and Bree finally arrives.
He has asked for Bree’s hand and she has accepted.
Jocasta is shocked, but pleased, while Forbes is dismayed to have lost out.
On the road, Rollo comes to Ian with a huge bone, which Claire recognizes as human.
They search the surrounding area and find nothing, hoping that means Roger is still alive.
They bury the man and say a prayer for him, while Jamie continues to stew over his mistakes.
Bree and John talk on the porch having reached an understanding.
John tells Bree about William, explaining he has a son though they do not share any blood.
He says the new world, a.k.a.
With this in mind, Bree finally opens the letter from her father.
She’s sorry she didn’t tell him the truth about Bonnet.
They kiss and have some tender make-up sex.
Sigh, remember what Claire said about depictions of the Mohawk in movies not being complimentary?
Before we close, I want to take a moment to shout-outDavid Berry as Lord John Grey.
The entireOutlandercast is wonderful, but he is truly something special.
He elevates every scene he’s in.
And wouldn’t that be a nice thing to fill in the Droughtlander with?
