Outlander: Blood of My Blood (2025) s02e04 Episode Script

1
[Henry] Previously
I'm claiming Leoch.
[Ellen] I'm with child.
If mine's a lass, she'll bear yer name.
[dramatic music playing]
[Calum] MacKinney spoke one truth
before ye sent him to hell.
He said Lovat's turned his coat,
joined the Crown.
Dougal rides to ambush.
Gather the Fraser men.
We divide our forces.
"Divide"?
That weakens us.
I have known a kind man,
the bladier, Henry.
You knew the man who took me?
[Seema] Knew him intimately.
[both struggling]
[baby wailing]
[Dr. Perryman] Electricity is
a powerful therapeutic agent.
[Henry] Mrs. Graham.
[Mrs. Graham] What you said
about yer wife moved me.
One guise for now, the other for later.
[horse neighing]
Found him wanderin' the
moors near Craigh na Dun.
Fought like the devil.
The laird will hear of yer service.
Away wi' ye now.
[Henry groaning]
[Arch Bug] Thought ye'd run, did ye?
I need to find my wife, Julia.
Ye still goin' on about that?
[grunting]
[chuckling]
Bug. You're Arch Bug.
You told me Julia was dead!
My wife!
Should've finished ye at the stones.
The Stones, you followed us.
You attacked us there.
I was tryin' to knock some sense
into that English skull of yers.
But ye leave me no choice.
I told ye before, there's no
escaping what ye owe this clan!
- [Murdina] Arch, stop!
- [breathing heavily]
Look at the marks on his head, look!
He's been in a fight, woman.
He vanished at the stones speaking
of wives and bairns that are no' his,
and now he's returned.
[whispering] 'Tis the Fair
Folk that have marked him.
Not every mark on a man's
face means he's been
with the Fair Folk, Murdina.
[normal voice] After
what they took from us
our son
would you risk their curse?
Is that where ye were
wi' the faeries?
Yes.
Lightning, they put
lightning in my head.
Mother of God, that stitching
no mortal hand could do that.
I took no pleasure in lyin'
to ye about yer bairn.
That was at the late laird's behest.
God rest his soul.
Wait till Malcolm hears of this.
Young Malcolm is dead as well.
How?
Some sayin' it was a broken
heart that killed him,
after Ellen MacKenzie jilted
him on their wedding day.
I wasna there to protect him
'cause ye ran off.
Back to your work, mo chridhe.
This isna for you to worry about.
Be careful, Arch.
On yer feet.
[grunts]
The new laird will decide yer fate.
[Henry grunting]
Move!
[dramatic music playing]
Long the way ♪
O'er the bridge I crossed ♪
For my love ♪
For my love that's lost ♪
By the brae ♪
In the verdant moss ♪
Where I watch Where I wait ♪
For my love that's lost ♪
Hi a bho ♪
Hoireann eile o ♪
Hi a bho ♪
Fair a leo fair a lè ♪
Hi a bho ♪
Hoireann eile o ♪
'S tu mo run 'S tu mo ghràdh ♪
Agus m' eudail o ♪
[dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
Fraser colors.
Come.
What in God's name?
- Where's Brian?
- In his tent.
What's happened?
[Ellen] Brian.
Ellen.
[both breathing heavily]
Your father's turned his coat.
He means to ambush Dougal.
How d'ye ken this?
MacKinney attacked Leoch.
Wanted Clan MacKenzie for himself.
- Where is he now?
- Dead.
Before I put an arrow in him,
he told us everything.
The Duke of Argyll promised to
restore your father's titles and lands.
That's why he divided our forces.
Aye.
Christ,
Dougal's riding into a trap.
We have to warn him.
I need to put a stop to this.
- Murtagh, make the horses ready.
- Aye.
If I'm not back quickly,
ride for Dougal.
[distant laughter]
- On that note.
- [laughter continues]
[laughter subsides]
Leave us.
You too, Balloch.
He stays.
Tell me you haven't sold yourself
to Argyll like a common whore.
Watch your tongue, boy.
You divided our forces to
murder Dougal MacKenzie-
an ally, a man who trusted you.
I owe nothing to any MacKenzie.
They stole what was mine.
So you'll break every oath for a title?
You'll make us all foresworn?
I'll restore Clan Fraser
of Lovat to greatness.
The Duke of Argyll has the power
to return my lands, my true name.
Would you have us remain beggars while
that pretender Fraserdale sits in Beaufort?
I'd have us keep our honor.
Honor doesn't feed men or win wars.
When I take Inverness for the Crown,
we'll have enough for even
my bastard to hold a title.
Keep your titles.
I want no part of your treachery.
You swore an oath to me,
your chief, your father.
And you taught me an oath
breaker deserves no loyalty.
[scoffs]
[tense music playing]
[chuckles]
This is, uh
this is about the MacKenzie girl
isn't it?
You'd throw away
everything for a warm cunt.
I thought I'd raised a man,
not a lovesick boy led by his cock.
Oh, you know nothing of love or family.
You rut like a beast and
call your bastards legacy.
I choose Ellen
a true family,
a life built on love,
not lies.
Then you're no son of mine.
Take your foolish honor and leave,
but know this.
When I'm restored to Beaufort,
you'll have nothing
no name, no clan, no protection!
I'll have my conscience.
That's more than you can say.
The fire in him
that's mine, my blood, my making.
But that weakness
letting a woman rule his judgment
love
it'll be his ruin.
I won't have it be mine!
Ready the men.
We march within the hour.
John MacKenzie holds
Inverness for the Stuarts.
[chuckles]
We'll welcome fellow
Jacobites through his gates
before my son can spoil the surprise.
Hmm.
Where were you when
I needed my bladier
to legitimize my succession to laird,
when my nephew
was found dead
when the MacKenzies
spun a false tale?
Absent.
Do you know what that cost me?
A niece
and her dowry [chuckles]
for appearance's sake.
- M'laird, I
- Your insolence ends now.
My brother valued yer counsel.
And Young Malcolm spoke of yer,
uh, cleverness.
So, tell me
are ye clever enough to
never disappoint me again?
Yes, M'laird.
Good.
Now
there's the matter of Lovat.
He has written requesting to
deliver personal retribution
for taking his wife and son.
Of course, I canna allow that.
Ye're in my service.
But, uh, I won't have him
thinking the Grants weak.
So I'll send word that
you've been duly punished.
Twenty lashes should
be adequate, Mr. Bug.
You'll march with us
when we join Argyll's forces.
[dramatic music playing]
Away with ye.
[Arch Bug] Here'll do.
Brace yerself.
[exhales sharply]
[whip cracks]
Cry out, ye fool.
- [whip cracks]
- [Henry] Ah!
[indistinct chatter]
Since my wife believes
the Fair Folk marked ye
and I'll be damned if I harm ye,
take from us again
- [whip cracks]
- Ah!
I'll no' risk her grief!
Dinna make me regret this, Sassenach.
- [whip cracks]
- [Henry] Ah!
- [whip cracks]
- [Henry] Ah!
[dramatic music plays]
I've a letter for Simon Fraser.
His Lordship is away.
I'll see he receives it.
The lady of the house
stands before ye, boy.
"Place it in his hand."
Laird Grant gave me that
order himself, m'lady.
I won't tell if you won't.
[chuckles softly]
Thank you.
[paper crinkling]
[gasps]
[gasps] Henry's here.
He's at Bowmont.
Davina, oh, Davina, he came back.
He came back.
Oh.
[sniffles]
I'm going to my husband.
[Lovat] Pity we were unopposed.
I was looking forward to
spilling some MacKenzie blood.
[all] Aye!
Still
Inverness is ours.
We were right to follow ye, Lovat.
[all] Aye!
The Crown will be pleased.
[all agreeing]
[cheers, laughter]
Ellen?
Turn back, now.
[scoffs] Why would I?
Lovat's taken Inverness for the Crown.
You're riding into a trap.
[Dougal] Snaking Judas.
And that's why he insisted
on the loch road, eh?
Would hear no argument.
To reach Inverness before ye,
bring the lamb to slaughter.
[Ellen] There's more.
MacKinney attacked Leoch
while you were gone.
- And what of him?
- He's dead by my hand.
But his men are still with you,
waiting to strike from within.
Maybe twenty.
Do ye ken where they are?
We'll likely find them at the rear.
[sighs]
I will take Lovat's head
before he takes mine.
He'll have cannon now.
You'd pit your men
against a fortified town?
We ride south,
join Mar's forces at Perth.
A Fraser telling me
how to protect my clan?
This Fraser
aye.
Brian speaks true.
Dead men win no wars.
[sighs]
Janet's dead.
[melancholy music playing]
No.
How?
Defending our home.
And Maura?
She's unharmed
aiding Jocasta with the wake.
[breathing heavily]
South
to Perth, then.
[whistles]
Gather some men quietly.
We have MacKinneys to kill.
[dramatic music playing]
There, you'll pass.
I've sent Seema to market with Cook.
When she returns, tell her I'm ill.
She willna leave this house.
I'll see to it.
If I don't return by tomorrow night
Is this Brian's?
[Davina] Aye, from when
he was a young lad.
'Tis a smaller blade,
but it cuts the same.
Be careful.
The Na daoine sithe
hunt those who wander.
Watch over my son.
As my own.
[door opens, closes]
[upbeat music playing]
I know what you're going to say.
[Dougal] Do ye?
Then ye ken I will tie you to
that horse myself if I must.
I have lost one sister.
You leave at first light.
Aye.
Take the bridge at Dalwhinnie.
The road's clear from there.
Your father
he kens what you've done.
There's no returning.
I wouldna return, even if I could.
My sword is pledged to the Stuarts.
Ye fought well enough
against those redcoats.
That was with Fraser men at yer back.
Now ye've nothing but yer word.
Why should I trust a Fraser?
Because I chose your
sister over my clan.
That makes you a fool,
not trustworthy.
And yet, here I stand.
After this war
if we both survive
we will settle what is between us.
Why is my wife's lady's
maid so far from home?
Mistress Cameron sent me to
accompany Lady Ellen, sir.
Oh, did she?
Well, now that ye're here,
my tent needs tending to.
See to it.
Yes, sir.
Enjoying the spoils already?
- Mind yer tongue.
- [Hugh] I mind our future.
Mar is a fool.
This rising will fail.
Careful, cousin.
This camp has many ears
and even more mouths.
I'm always careful,
which is why I'm riding
home in the morning
to hang a Union flag on yer door,
unless you'd prefer to lose
everything when the Crown wins?
Aye, well
do what you must, Hugh, but quietly.
When am I not?
[soft dramatic music playing]
[Henry] "My dearest Julia",
I think of that first letter,
my desperate words thrown to the wind,
never expecting an answer.
And then miracle of miracles,
you replied.
You became my reason to
survive the trenches,
every letter a promise that
somewhere someone waited.
Now I face war again.
But this time I know your face,
your touch, your voice.
In Belgium, you were words on a page-
beautiful, impossible
words that kept me alive.
"When this war is over," you wrote,
"we shall meet at last."
We did meet, my love.
We made a life.
And now
May I assist you, sir?
[tender music playing]
[breathing shakily]
[breathing heavily]
[door closes]
What is it? Is William
No, he's all right, safe and sound.
[Henry] Oh.
- [exhales deeply]
- [Henry] Darling.
Oh.
Henry, these marks
They're from where I
went after the stones.
I saw you disappear.
I wanted to follow, but William
No, you did right.
You protected our son.
Did it take you home?
1924
they found me wandering the moors.
They put me in a lunatic
asylum in Inverness.
They thought I was mad talking about you,
about getting back.
They tried to cure me with
electricity to the brain.
Oh, Henry.
I told anyone that would listen
that my wife
was in another time.
But you found your way to London,
to Claire?
Claire?
Our daughter, you
you you went to see our
daughter in London, didn't you?
I- I don't
our daughter?
Julia, I
Henry
Claire, our little girl
she was born on the 20th of October.
S s she just turned six.
The 20th of October
20th of October, I knew that date.
I I kept telling them.
I just I couldn't
I just couldn't remember why.
It was I couldn't
reach what it meant.
- No one would listen to me. I
- She has black, curly hair
- Yes.
- y-your eyes.
We left her with your brother in London.
Oh, my God.
[dramatic music playing]
Oh, my God, Claire.
- [Claire] Daddy!
- Claire.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
What did they do to you?
The doctor said the shocks would
they'd take away the worst of it
the trenches, the screaming and the rot.
Said he'd erase my pain.
But he didn't take the war.
All that's still there
because that wasn't the worst of it.
The worst pain I've ever known
was not holding my daughter
not hearing her laugh,
not hearing her say "Dad."
That's what he took.
He took her.
I let them burn her out of me,
burn Claire out of me with their wires
and their current.
Our little girl, just gone.
There was a woman who
believed me-um, Mrs. Graham.
She's the one who helped me escape.
Sometimes I'm not even
sure what's real anymore.
I'm real.
William is real.
Claire is real.
And the rest?
The things I think I remember
but might have dreamt?
Julia?
Julia, whatever it is, you can tell me.
Please.
Does a bladier have to go to war?
This one does.
The laird demands it.
Look, please, Julia
I can tell there's something else
please.
I just-I need a moment, please.
[sighs]
Tell me about her.
Janet.
She was part of you.
I want to know all of you.
She would have liked you
[chuckles]eventually.
[chuckles] Even though I'm a Fraser?
Mm.
She had a weakness for lost causes.
[Brian chuckles]
Is that what I am, hmm?
[sighs]
A Fraser who chose a
MacKenzie over his clan?
Aye, lost.
[Brian scoffs]
Or found.
Dougal has his courage
Colum his wit
Jocasta her cunning.
[sighs]
But Janet
she had a kind heart.
And you?
I have what's needed.
You
have all and more besides.
My father would've called ye daft
throwing away titles
position.
I threw away nothing.
No?
Ye gave it all up
for a woman
for a family not yet made.
[breathes deeply]
Ellen.
Then what would you call yerself,
a man who gives up everything
for promises not yet kept?
[soft music playing]
Yours.
Mine.
Brian
That family not yet made
it's made.
Ye're
I am.
I haven't known long.
I wanted to tell you before.
But with all that's happened
Brian?
How can I be a good father
with him as all I've known?
You're not him.
His-his blood runs in me, and now
- it will run in our bairn.
- No.
You chose me over him
over everything he offered.
That's not his blood.
That's yours.
[Brian chuckles softly]
A child.
Our child.
[both laugh]
[giggles]
You've barely looked at me.
Julia, please just tell me what's wrong.
[breathes deeply]
There's a woman at Leathers,
a scullery maid.
She used to serve the Grants.
She knew things, private things
about your St. Anthony pendant
that you'd spoken of me, of Claire.
[sighs]
She said you were kind to her
that you'd spent time together.
Her name is Seema.
So you do know her.
It's not what you think.
Tell me what it is.
She worked at the brothel in town.
A whore.
I was looking for you.
Someone told me there was
an English girl there
And you thought you'd
find me in a brothel?
I was desperate.
I would've looked in hell itself.
[Julia] And did you
Were you with her?
Not in the way that you mean.
Then how?
I was told you were dead,
you and William both,
that you'd died in childbirth.
And I
[voice breaking] I just couldn't.
So I ran.
And then somehow I was in the park
near our London flat, and
and then I was there-
home.
And you were there
in our bed, alive.
And I held you, and I kissed you,
and I made love to you.
You were so real, Julia,
so real I could taste you.
I could smell you.
I could feel your
heartbeat against mine.
And then
[sobbing] And then I woke up,
and it was her.
You thought
Seema was me?
The grief, it-
it broke something in me.
And she let you believe that?
I don't know what she believed.
All I know is that when I realized,
God, it was like losing
you all over again.
[sighs]
[dramatic music playing]
Wait. No, Julia, where are you going?
- I need air.
- [Henry] You can't go outside.
- Julia, please.
- You slept with another woman.
It was you!
In my heart, in my mind, it was you.
But it wasn't, was it?
It was her body, her hands, her!
I would never,
never knowingly betray you.
Then why didn't you tell me?
At Braemar, on the road?
Because I was a coward.
I'd just gotten you back.
I couldn't bear the thought
of losing you again.
So you let me hear it from her?
You were grieving
mad with it,
not yourself.
That I can understand.
What I cannot understand
is the lie.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry, Julia.
I know you are.
Can you forgive me?
Yes.
Yes, I can forgive.
But forgetting
that will take some time.
What can I do?
The Henry I knew before the stones,
before the asylum
before all of this madness
find him again
for me
for our children.
I will.
I swear it.
[breathes deeply]
And then
then we'll forget
together
when you return.
May I?
Lady Ellen's retired for the evening.
She needs her privacy.
Brian as well.
[chuckles softly]
Mr. Cameron didna trouble ye?
He had his supper,
then his whisky.
- That wasna what I asked.
- [breathes deeply]
The night's grown cold.
Aye.
Tomorrow you march.
I do.
My mother used to say
fire was like hope.
[soft music playing]
Feed it,
and it grows.
Neglect it
and it dies.
Your mother is wise.
She was.
- I'm sorry.
- Nah.
Long time past.
My mother made flowers
out of fabric scraps
purple when she could find it.
Said purple was the color of dreams.
Hmm.
Left them on our beds.
So ye'd wake thinking of her.
Yes.
[sighs]
Here.
Oh. [breathes shakily]
I- I didna mean to
- I'm sorry. I
- Good night, Mr. Fraser.
Wait.
[all] Soldiers with swords
In hands to the walls coming ♪
Horsemen about the streets
Riding and running ♪
Sentinels on the walls Arm,
arm, a-crying ♪
Petards against the
ports Wild fire a-flying ♪
When cannons are roaring
And bullets are flying ♪
He that would honor win
Must not fear dying ♪
Trumpets On turrets high ♪
We met on the steps at Hyde Park
[people continue singing
indistinctly outside]
after all those letters.
And then there you were
[soft music playing]
real
flesh and blood.
You couldn't get my
dress off fast enough
[chuckles]
so bumbling.
And right there
in the middle of it all
- you proposed.
- [Henry chuckles softly]
Terrible timing.
You said yes anyway.
I'd already said yes
in every letter.
And we'd written so many letters
bared our souls on paper.
But that night
was the first time our
bodies could speak
what our words had said
a thousand times before.
Tomorrow you leave for war
again.
And I'm terrified
again.
I know what I said earlier.
But, Henry
I need my husband
now
tonight.
Not the man that lost himself
or the man that was frightened
to tell me the truth
my husband
the man who wrote me letters
from the trenches
who survived Passchendaele
to come back to me.
Find him
now
tonight
for me.
- He's here.
- And he is mine.
When I couldn't follow
you through the stones
I sent for a seer.
She touched me and said I
can't travel through time,
that I lack the ability.
You have traveled.
You came through before.
She's a charlatan.
I thought so, too, at first.
But she knew about Claire.
You know, Mrs. Graham
she spoke of travelers
needing different things.
Some required gemstones.
The brooch she gave me
the gem had vanished when I returned.
And my wedding ring
the stone was gone after I came through.
Arch Bug's knife-
there's a gem in the hilt.
Yes, and your-your military watch,
the-the jewel bearings.
Three stones, one for each
of us to get home to Claire.
What if the seer's right?
What if I can't travel?
You traveled once,
and you will travel again.
I'll slip away during the fighting.
The Grants will believe me dead.
Leave word.
[Henry] When I have the stones.
Sleep now, my darling.
You need your strength.
I can't sleep
not with you here.
Then just lie with me.
We have a few hours yet.
The plaid
it was too bold.
I- I shouldna-
I wasn't offended.
It was only
unexpected.
[chuckles]
Ye made this?
This morning,
from my underskirt.
[Murtagh] It's perfect.
So you'll remember there's
kindness in the world
even in war.
I'll not forget.
[tender music playing]
God keep you, Mr. Fraser.
You let me fall asleep.
You needed it.
You wrote first last time.
Now it's my turn.
Your letters kept me alive.
This one's different.
[sighs]
It's not just to keep you alive.
It's to bring you home.
[solemn music playing]
And, Henry, I want no letters in return.
You come back
yourself
whole.
That is the only message
that I will accept.
[rhythmic drumming]
[soldier] Company! Fall in!
Wait until we've gone, then slip away.
[drumming continues]
- I love you.
- And I you, my darling.
[dramatic music playing]
[exhales sharply]
No' a word.
[spirited music playing]
She'll have my head
if I dinna come back.
Best keep it attached, then.
Aye.
[Ellen] Before I left Leoch,
I made a promise to Maura
to bring Dougal home.
I know my brother's an arse.
But try not to be the one who kills him,
- if ye can manage it.
- [chuckles]
I'll do what I can.
I should be going with you
to protect you.
If I turn my back now,
I'd be as bad as my father.
I'll be safe at Leoch now.
- If I dinna return
- You will return
to us.
Swear it.
Swear to fight
like you have everything to lose.
I do.
My love will never be gone,
even if I am.
[soft music playing]
I have nothing to give ye
no token to carry.
Ye have
more than I ever thought to hold.
[suspenseful music playing]
Davina?
[breathing heavily]
Davina!
[dramatic music playing]
Davina?
He told me about you in the dark
whispered your name like a prayer.
Where is my son?
Called me by your name
Julia, Julia,
always Julia.
Where is my son?
[Seema] He thought I was you.
Held me like I was precious,
like I was his salvation.
But I wasn't you, was I?
Just a body in the dark,
just a whore he could pretend with.
Seema
I loved him
from that first night,
and he loved me back.
[lock clicks]
He just didn't know it
was me he was loving.
[dramatic music playing]
Sub extracted from file & improved
[seagulls squawking]
[children] Nailed it.