• The penultimate episode of Outlander: Blood of My Blood season 1 pushed each of the present's central love tales to their breaking factors.
• As Julia and Henry get one other likelihood to reunite, they scramble to make an escape plan.
• Ellen, nonetheless, is introduced with an ultimatum that might imply saying goodbye to Brian ceaselessly.

This text incorporates spoilers about Outlander: Blood of My Blood season 1 episode 9, titled "Braemar."

The MacKenzies simply threw a dirk into Brian and Ellen's love story.

On penultimate episode of Outlander: Blood of My Blood season 1,Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) and Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) encountered one more impediment on the trail to their "completely satisfied" ending.

Earlier than the clans set off to Braemar for a tinchel, Ellen meets with Malcolm's Uncle, "Mac," (Simon Merrells), who warns her towards breaking Malcolm's coronary heart, lest she face his wrath. "They're making an attempt to work one another out," Slater tells Leisure Weekly. "Neither of them actually belief one another, and it's all smiles on the skin, however truly there's rather a lot happening beneath. In that final second, she seems like she's gained him over and satisfied him that she is true. After which, he actually reveals his true colours. The Grants are harmful."

With that weighing on her, Ellen and the opposite MacKenzies journey to Braemar, as do the Grants and the Frasers, together with child William. Julia (Hermione Corfield) convinces Lord Lovat (Tony Curran) to let the newborn attend as the longer term king of Scotland, reminding him of the prophecy that has Lovat satisfied of his son's regal future.

"It's a humorous steadiness for Julia as a result of she's making an attempt to maintain the kid secure by making the kid particular, and to get Lovat to do different issues that she desires, like going to see Henry at Braemar," says Corfield. "Nevertheless it's a double-edged sword. She's bought so little choices in Fort Leathers that she's clinging to no matter issues she will be able to maneuver to get her method. Nevertheless it positively will come again to chunk her."

With all the clans gathered at Braemar and the primary Jacobite revolt brewing, Colum (Seamus McLean Ross) discovers that Ellen had been carrying on with Brian behind his again. Colum warns her that he may have Brian killed and he or she makes a take care of him — he is not going to harm a hair on Brian's head, and she is going to finish issues as soon as and for all and marry Malcolm Grant (Jhon Lumsden).

In turmoil, Ellen occurs upon Julia, who talks of doing no matter you need to to guard those you like. "Shedding them ceaselessly is simply too nice a worth to pay," she warns. Ellen is aware of then what she should do.

"She leaves the tent having had that dialog with Colum and he or she says, 'You’ve my phrase,'" Slater says."However Ellen, I'm positive, has stated that earlier than and never really meant it. There's an possibility of them working away collectively. They might have simply run away in that second. She may have discovered him and stated, 'We have to go now, in any other case you're going to be killed.' However they’d've at all times been on the run."

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"When she meets with Julia within the tent and Julia talks in regards to the sacrifices we make for love, Ellen realizes that she will be able to't threat having his blood on her fingers," Slater continues. "She realizes in that second that she has to interrupt his coronary heart with a view to save his life."

In the meantime, Julia and Henry (Jeremy Irvine) are staging their very own reunion, all whereas Seema (Lauren McQueen), the intercourse employee that Henry slept with, believing her to be Julia, watches on. "We ought to be very involved," Irvine says of her presence. "Henry's bought a troublesome dialog on his fingers, which is one thing he'll want to handle in season 2. Henry was mentally unwell. There's no method that he would knowingly harm Julia and betray her. Nevertheless it's a troublesome promote saying, 'I believed it was you.'"

Holding Julia's phrases shut, Ellen goes to satisfy Brian within the churchyard as promised and he or she does all the things she will be able to to persuade him she's achieved with him, calling him "penniless" and the "bastard of probably the most vile lord within the Highlands."

Brian tries to persuade her that their hearts beat for one another, however Ellen stays dedicated to her process. "I'm not in love with you," she tells him. "Maybe I by no means was." She then storms off, breaking down in despair as soon as she's out of his sight.

"God, it's so horrible," Slater displays. "It's so heartbreaking to look at."

They made positive to actually twist the knife too, choosing the extra devastating model of the scene. Slater reveals that she shot the scene two very alternative ways. "We did a model the place Ellen reveals her heartbreak," she says. "She's actually feeling it. She's saying these items, however you may inform she doesn't imply them.

"However Ellen is excellent at hiding the way in which she truly feels," she continues. "That's how she's at all times survived. She's excellent at placing these masks on and being whoever she must be in no matter scenario she finds herself in. And it's the primary time with Brian the place she isn't her true self. She has to persuade him that she actually doesn't love him and he or she believes all these terrible issues about him. This model is a lot extra slicing and brutal, and a lot extra complicated for Brian."

Certainly, Ellen's phrases are seemingly efficient, prompting Brian to confront his father, Lord Lovat (Tony Curran), in anger. "He's solely recognized Ellen to inform the reality," says Roy, "so he wouldn't count on something aside from the reality to come back from her. He's going to imagine something that she says. He takes that to coronary heart, though he doesn't wish to imagine it. He's extra confused than something as a result of this doesn't make any sense."

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Outlander: Blood of My Blood airs new episodes at 8 p.m. on Fridays on Starz. Episodes drop the identical day to stream on the Starz app.

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