Yahoo Lifestyle The 'Outlander' Season 7 Finale Could Change Everything
Holy smokes. That Outlander finale was wild–and there's only one more season to go! Let's break down what happened between Claire, Jamie, and their whole time-traveling extended family in the Outlander season 7 finale on Starz.
Outlander season 7 combines two of Diana Galbadon's books: Written in My Own Heart's Blood and Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone. It also hints at events and big reveals to come that even book readers can't predict. Season 8 will be the final season, and Galbadon's planned tenth and final Outlander novel is not yet published. The writers of the show may be flying blind for the final season without a book to adapt. Hopefully we won't have a repeat of the last few seasons of Game of Thrones, which was and TBH still is in a similar predicament, when Outlander returns for the last time. Okay, let's break it down.
How did Claire survive her gunshot wound?
The main characters on this show have the best luck in the universe. Not only did Claire have the benefit of 1960s medical techniques via her trainee, Denzell, but she also received a fortunate gift. The Marquis de LaFayette, who Claire met in a previous episode, sent her roquefort cheese. That particular dairy product has mold that can be used as penicillin around 150 years before it was discovered.
Who did she see in her dream?
While Claire was recovering from her near death experience, she had a vision via dream of a man she knew another time she almost died: Master Raymond, a mysterious apothecary that Claire knew briefly in Paris way back in season 2. He was accused of sorcery on the show, and the books also hint that Raymond is a time traveler and an ancestor of both Claire and her nemesis Geillis.
The dream version of Master Raymond tells Claire in the finale that he came to ask for her forgiveness. He does not tell her what for. "Someday you will know," the hooded specter says mysteriously. When Claire wakes up she confirms with Jamie that Master Raymond was not there IRL. She tells Jamie that he was with her when her first child with Jamie, a daughter named Faith, was stillborn.
Did Brianna manage to find Roger?
At the end of the penultimate episode, Mandy ran through the stones ahead of Jem and their mother Brianna. Thankfully, they all ended up in the 18th century with Roger and Buck MacKenzie. Jamie's father Brian Fraser puts them up at Lallybroch, where Brianna sees a portrait of her late grandmother Ellen–who, as her grandfather Brian also notices, looks a lot like Brianna. (We'll see the love story of Jamie's parents and Claire's parents this summer in the upcoming spin-off Outlander: Blood of My Blood.)
Are Brianna and Roger's family going to try and go through the stones to another time? They're safe in 1739 now. But they shouldn't stay for long. Claire first comes through the stones and meets Jame in 1743. Brianna and Roger should probably try to avoid a Back to the Future scenario if they can.
What happened with Jane?
William asks Jamie for help breaking his friend Jane Pocock–a woman he met in a brothel who murdered a man to protect her younger sister–out of prison. Unfortunately, when they get there it's too late. Jane has died by suicide. Jamie and Claire offer to take the sister, Francis "Fanny" Pocock, to Fraser's Ridge as their ward/adopted daughter. (Jamie is done with the American Revolution and promised to take Claire back to the home they built together in North Carolina. Young Ian and his new, pregnant Quaker wife Rachel are going too.)
Has William forgiven his fathers?
More or less. Lord John Grey affirms to William that his father is a good man–lowkey the best, as far as he is concerned. Then, after Jamie helps him with Jane, William demands that Jamie tell him about the circumstances under which he was conceived. Jamie does not tell him the whole truth–that William's biological mother Geneva Dunsany coerced Jamie into sex using blackmail–but he does give WiIliam the assurance that he did not take advantage of his mother and that he does not regret William's conception.
When William starts to piece things together and suggests that people have told him his mother was arrogant and haughty, Jamie nips that in the bud. He tells him that Geneva was also bold, confident, and courageous. Not letting William vilify his mother, even though what she did in a stressful situation was wrong, is very kind of Jamie.
How did Fanny know *that* song?
At the very end of the episode, Claire overhears her new ward singing a song called "I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside." Not only is this an anachronism, because the song was written and recorded at the turn of the 20th century, but we've heard this song on the show before. Claire sang it to Faith after giving birth, because her mother used to sing it to her. She asks Fanny how she knows that song, and the girl replies that her mother used to sing it to her. Earlier in the episode, Claire learned that the girl's mother was called Faith. This leads Claire to believe that her daughter didn't die after all. Whoa!
Is this true? On one hand, Jane and Fanny have conspicuously curly hair just like Claire. They also share Claire's affinity for dragonflies. On the other hand, this is highly suspect even by Outlander standards. If Fanny and Jane's mother was indeed Faith Fraser, how did she memorize an entire song on the day she was born? It's more likely that this woman learned the song from another time traveler–like Brianna, for example, or maybe someone we don't know is a time traveler, like Claire's mother. (Maybe, walk with me here, Fanny's mother is Claire's mother. That would be a fun twist!)
If Fanny is who Claire thinks she is, that does mean that William had sex with his half-sister's daughter. Is that a bridge too far for Outlander, incest-wise? Brianna and Roger are related, after all, but distantly. I wouldn't be surprised either way. Jamie and Claire's family tree is already so complicated.
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