![]() ![]() Claire had noticed some water hemlock missing from her stock just after the duo departed and feared that Roger had taken it. Roger finds his voice when he wakes to discover Ian missing from their little camp one morning and Rollo tied up, which is uncharacteristic. He sees her again and chooses to step away from the edge and fight for his family. Before he does, he remembers being hanged, and how it was Brianna’s face in his mind that sustained him and helped him survive. He walks to the very edge and looks over, clearly contemplating taking a final step. Roger finds his resolve at the edge of a cliff. In nature, and in the relative silence of their company, they find the perspective they lacked on the homestead and are able to choose their paths forward. They’re both free from the pressure they feel to be their old selves. Ian is free from the pressure to tell his story. ![]() Roger is free from the pressure to speak. Once they’re alone, they both relax some. (He helped Jamie do it to their land.) It’s agreed that the two should go out together to get the job done, so they take Rollo the wolf/dog and go. The land needs to be surveyed, and Young Ian knows how to do that. Tryon has granted Roger 5,000 acres of land as a “whoops!” gift because of his man having accidentally hanged him. Marsali pushes Young Ian’s buttons by chattering on to him happily about her growing family and memories of his big family back in Scotland, apparently oblivious to how dark his countenance becomes as she talks about her inner conflict at feeling a greater sense of belonging with the family she’s built in America than the one she left behind.Īt last, an opportunity presents itself to give Roger and Ian both a chance to heal. Roger’s angry response gives Brianna the opening she’s needed to confront him directly about how he’s not the only one who has known trauma in their family, and she needs to know if he’ll fight for her and Jemmy the way she did. She provokes a cathartic scene between Brianna and Roger by playing Tarot with Roger and pulling the Hanged Man for him repeatedly. Marsali ( Lauren Lyle) is excellent in this episode, pushing the buttons of both men. He took Roger’s place with the Mohawk voluntarily, but he won’t say why he’s returned. He won’t speak of what’s happened since they left him with the Mohawk, and he’s uneasy returning to the life and family he once knew. Just when it seems like all hope is lost, Young Ian ( John Bell) returns unexpectedly from the Mohawk. The closest anyone comes is wee Jemmy, whom Roger saves from a terrible kitchen accident by yelling out before his son can yank a hot kettle onto himself. More time passes, and nobody seems able to draw Roger out. Brianna thinks he’s drowning in silence, and she’s frightened that he’s lost to her for good. He disengages from his family and throws himself into building a loft onto his and Brianna’s house. He knows his voice has been permanently changed by the experience, and he’s trapped by fear of what that means for his identity. Three months later, Roger is physically healing nicely, but he refuses to try to speak. The motif is used throughout the episode to soften the intensity of our having to witness Roger’s trauma as he’s dragged back to life when Claire ( Caitriona Balfe) performs an emergency tracheotomy. ![]() The next thing we know, we’re watching Jamie ( Sam Heughan) cutting down Roger’s body from the tree on which he was hanged after the battle at Alamance Creek, in the style of a silent movie. Brianna likes seeing him in action, and when he adjourns his class so they can go on a date to see a silent film, she asks if that’s what he’d really say. Brianna ( Sophie Skelton) sneaks into his classroom to hear him lecturing an intimate group of students about how they disappointed him with their essays on “famous last words.” The students challenge him about what he would say for his last words, and he supposes it would be that history can forget his name, as long as his words and deeds live on in the hearts of those who loved him. The episode opens with a flashback to Roger ( Richard Rankin ) teaching in 1969. REL ATED: Missed last week’s episode? Catch up here! ![]() Have you ever noticed that Outlander is a show about trauma? How many times have we watched these people suffer something horrible, shut down and then claw their way back to life? “Famous Last Words” is another entry in this series, and it’s beautifully done. ![]()
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