“Outlander: Blood of My Blood” stars speak Murtagh’s sense of betrayal, love for Ellen

This text comprises spoilers from Friday's episode of Outlander: Blood of my Blood, "Needfire."

• In episode 5 of Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Murtagh lastly learns the reality — that his dream woman, Ellen MacKenzie, is carrying on along with his finest buddy, Brian Fraser.
• Murtagh spies on the couple, seeing them kiss and getting his coronary heart damaged within the course of.
• Actors Jamie Roy and Rory Alexander speak about this huge betrayal and the way it will influence the chums going ahead.

Nothing stings fairly just like the betrayal of a buddy.

Murtagh Fitzgibbons (Rory Alexander) experiences that firsthand within the newest episode of Outlander: Blood of My Blood when he witnesses his finest buddy and cousin, Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), kissing the woman of his desires, Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater).

When Murtagh and Brian journey to Inverness for Beltane, Murtagh hopes it is going to lastly be his likelihood to catch Ellen's eye. Little does he know that Ellen is already head over heels in love with Brian — a reality he discovers when he watches them from behind a copse of bushes and witnesses them kissing.

"He can forgive, however he can't overlook," Alexander tells Leisure Weekly. "I don't know if anybody else has been on this scenario the place you see the individual that you want snogging another person, but it surely doesn't go away. It’s a must to prioritize whether or not it's your friendship or whether or not it's your emotions for the particular person. You may go down a kind of paths, however you continue to know that the unhappy, vengeful path nonetheless exists."

Even though Brian and Ellen need to maintain their relationship a secret (there's the minor snag that she's engaged to Malcolm Grant), Brian in all probability might have saved himself some bother by being sincere with Murtagh — and it's one thing that has been weighing on him for the reason that starting of the season.

"At his core, Brian needs to do the correct factor," says Jamie Roy. "He all the time needs to do the correct factor. Then, when he meets Ellen for the primary time and he realizes, 'Oh my God, that is the girl who my finest buddy is head over heels in love with,' it routinely creates this knot in his abdomen, which simply doesn't go away. It always will get pulled each methods. Like, do I inform him, however do I observe my coronary heart?"

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It's notably difficult as a result of Brian is never an individual to disclaim these he loves something. "Brian's all the time been very selfless," explains Roy. "However when he meets Ellen, one thing ignites inside him. He hasn't needed stuff for his complete life, however then swiftly, there's only one factor that he needs. So, when Brian is debating, ought to I do what's proper or what I need? He solely needs one factor, and that's it. He'll quit all the remainder. He makes peace with that."

Nonetheless, Roy is aware of that issues would in all probability go so much higher if Brian might solely work up the braveness to inform Murtagh the reality, as an alternative of ready for him to seek out out by chance. "It could make his life a lot simpler," Roy says with amusing. "And I'm certain Murtagh would perceive to a degree. It solely goes to worsen. After which, in fact we see that Murtagh finds out by spying on Brian and Ellenin the worst doable second. I bear in mind filming that and feeling actually dangerous. I genuinely felt, as an actor and character, like, 'Dang!'"

Roy's misgivings aren't misplaced. Alexander acknowledges that this second isn't solely a turning level for Murtagh and Brian's friendship however for the course of Murtagh's life as a complete. Provided that, does Brian want to observe his again?

"Anybody scorned is a harmful factor and never all the time appearing rationally or in the way in which that they'd prefer to," muses Alexander. "Murtagh's acquired his coronary heart in the correct place, so he would attempt to protect what him and Brian have gotten. However that doesn't imply he isn’t going to be offended and upset about it. However I'd have to essentially throw the entire clan beneath the bus to get after Brian, which could additionally go towards Murtagh's love of Ellen. If he protects Brian, he protects Ellen."

Even when he needs to protect his relationships with Brian and Ellen, harm folks harm folks — and inevitably, Murtagh hurts extra folks than simply himself. After witnessing the kiss, Murtagh drinks himself right into a stupor, finally scary a struggle and ending up alone in his tent, drunk and bleeding.

Jocasta (Sadhbh Malin) involves are inclined to him, and Murtagh confesses that his ache isn't bodily. "I simply need to be needed, ye ken?"

She does. The 2 start to kiss passionately, however Jocasta stops abruptly when Murtagh unintentionally calls her Ellen. "There's a straightforward get out of being like, 'I used to be drunk and I don't bear in mind it,'" says Alexander. "And that very a lot lets Murtagh an excessive amount of off the hook — he is aware of precisely what he's accomplished, and him and Jocasta are fairly comparable in that they're not the focus of their households. They're barely outsiders.

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"They’ve this cheeky sense of enjoyable, however are taken on this journey by the clans that they're concerned with," he continues. "She is his counterpoint. It's nearly like he's compromised one thing in himself when he lets her down as a result of they might have this story that will be an ideal pairing and his personal silly ambition is the factor that will get in the way in which."

Outlander: Blood of My Blood drops new episodes on Starz Fridays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, and is accessible to stream on the Starz app the identical day.

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