Marsali killing Lionel is no different than Jamie, Fergus, and Ian killing the rest of the militia, Lyle adds. I think it’s obvious that it’s her responsibility in that moment and she knows that she can.' Of Marsali's split-second decision, Lyle says, 'She isn’t going to stand around and wait for someone else to come along and help her. So Marsali, in a stunning twist, injects Lionel with a toxic substance and kills him after Claire leaves the room. But she's bound to her oath to 'do no harm' and can't bring herself to murder him. Claire seems to consider killing her abuser. Lionel Brown, injured and now the captive, spits graphic threats at Claire and Marsali while lying on the surgery table. Her new medical knowledge comes to the fore at the finale's close. Marsali even became Claire's medical apprentice in season five. Since they met in season three, Claire and Marsali have gone from pseudo-adversaries to almost as close as mother and daughter. Just as Brianna and Claire's relationship deepens due to the finale's heartbreaking course of events, so does Marsali and Claire's. She hates that her mother has now been privy to such an awful, awful scenario as well.'

'Brianna’s just crumbling inside because she knows exactly what Claire’s going through.

'In that moment when she sees Claire, she knows what’s happened,' Skelton says. There Brianna and Claire share a quiet reunion that would have been unthinkable an episode before. All die except for Lionel, who's brought back to the Ridge for questioning (and eventual punishment). Jamie, Roger, and the men of the Ridge manage to extract Claire from her captors in a bloody standoff. That vision comes crumbling down when Brianna and Roger see that Jamie has lit the Ridge's wooden cross-a sign of war-and learn that Claire's been abducted. In a matter of moments, Brianna's gone from believing she'll never see her parents again to expecting a beautiful reunion back at Fraser's Ridge. Bree's immediate reaction: “There’s a slight fear that she’s kind of failed them because she was thinking of home, and home to her is her parents,” Sophie Skelton says. Their home is their family,' Skelton says.īrianna, Roger, and Jemmy don't make it back to the 20th century in Outlander's season-five finale. Everything really starts to come together and settle, and they start to feel that it’s their home away from home, if you like. Staying in 1772 'solidified for them that that is where they belong. 'Roger doesn’t fit in in the past as well as Brianna does, and it’s been a dangerous place for Jemmy.' When the sight of Young Ian confirms that Brianna and Roger haven't traveled at all, Skelton says Brianna has mixed feelings: 'There’s a slight fear that she’s kind of failed them because she was thinking of home, and home to her is her parents.'īrianna's fear turns into relief when Roger says he was also thinking of home when they went through the stones. 'I think she was just doing it for Roger and Jemmy,' she explains.

'It was an interesting twist that they try and go back this season, because in the books they have a child and they go back to give their child surgery.' Somehow they're still in 1772.īrianna's attempted journey is a major deviation from the books, Skelton says. Hundreds of miles away, Brianna, Roger, and Jemmy have been spit out on the other side of the standing stones to.well, not when they expected. Claire's capture and ’60s coping mechanism take us only 20 minutes into the finale.

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