At this point, all Outlander fans should realize that when an episode begins with unnecessary shots of shirtless Jamie, something horrendous is on its way. Those rockhard Colonial Abs™ are intended to relax the blow of approaching catastrophe. Shockingly, all the Colonial Abs™ on the planet couldn’t divert us from the awfulness that goes down in “The Ballad of Roger Mac.”
In many episodes, simply observing Jamie need to think about wearing a real red coat as he battles against his Scottish siblings would be sufficiently severe (it is unnatural), yet here that is only a canapé to the annihilation. Folks, Murtagh is dead. Roger has been hanged. Nobody is alright. We haven’t had a portion of Outlander this terrible in a long while. This present one’s going to leave an imprint.
We’ve known for some time that Murtagh most likely wasn’t going to make it out of this Regulator Rebellion business alive. What’s more, with last week’s awful dismissal from Jocasta.
Dislike Jamie doesn’t attempt his hardest for an alternate result. At the point when Governor Tryon and the King’s Army move up with a genuine gun and a boatload of big guns, Jamie attempts to clarify that the Regulators are for the most part ranchers with blades and pitchforks. Tryon couldn’t mind less.
At the point when the Regulators send over a request of requests that could prompt a détente, Jamie attempts to get Tryon to think about it, yet Tryon’s simply like, LOL that is so adorable yet no chance to get in hellfire. You’d figure individuals would at any rate humour Jamie on his goddamned 50th birthday celebration, however, no. He goes from fulfilling birthday sex to being ceaselessly reminded that he’s likely going to be liable for his back up parent’s demise. There’s not in any case cake, you folks. This is a horrible birthday!
Jamie manages the entirety of this worry by cleaning up in a waterway and afterwards cutting open his hand and utilizing the blood to approach the direction of his uncle, his war boss, his homicide casualty, Dougal MacKenzie. It’s called self-care, folks. Find it. As Jamie is becoming progressively tormented by the idea of battling the Regulators, there is one final hint of something better over the horizon to end this fight before it even starts, and it shows up riding a horse: Bree.