Outlander Season 8 Episode 4 takes us to Savannah when Brianna (Sophie Skelton) and Roger (Richard Rankin) head there with a double mission. First, Lord John Grey (David Berry) has requested Bree paint a portrait of Amaranthus (Carla Woodcock) and her baby to send to his brother Hal, the Duke of Pardloe, because if Ben Grey (Alex Bhat) is actually dead, the baby is the heir to Hal’s title, and Lord John thinks receiving a portrait will cheer him up.
But the painting is just a cover to get the MacKenzies to Savannah. Their real mission in the "Muskets, Liberty, and Sauerkraut" episode is to purchase guns – the gold is smuggled to town in containers of sauerkraut -- to create a militia on Fraser’s Ridge. And they seek the advice of Fergus (César Domboy) and Marsali (Lauren Lyle), who are already active on the side of the Revolution, printing pamphlets.
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But Fergus gets an interesting proposition of his own. Lord John asked him to meet with Percy Beauchamp (Michael Lindall), who wants a favor. He shows Fergus a marriage certificate allegedly between Fergus’ mother and the Comte St. Germain, telling Fergus that the Comte was his father and Fergus can claim his estate. Percy offers to help Fergus, who was born in a brothel, establish himself as the heir in return for a favor. Part of the Comte’s estate is a parcel of land in the New World that Percy wants to create a French settlement.
But Fergus is suspicious. He tells Marsali that he doesn’t trust Percy, but also, he isn’t sure he wants to claim St. Germain as his father. He says, "I am already the son of a great man,” meaning Jamie (Sam Heughan) and he doesn’t want to deny him.
“Fergus, Percy and the Comte...OK,” Outlander creator and bestselling author Diana Gabaldon exclusively tells Parade. “Well, the Comte St. Germain (apparently) is/was a real person, but one with a really shady and msyterious past, who disappears and reappears through quite a long period of history, and turns up in a lot of different places. (FWIW, a number of writers have used him as a character, in one context or another — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro wrote a series of novels featuring him, as a vampire, which is surely no more unreasonable than his being a time-traveler. I used him in a story/novella called The Space Between. It was written for an anthology, but then collected and reprinted as part of Seven Stones To Stand Or Fall, which is a collection of seven short stories and novellas.
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“Fergus's mother was a young French prostitute, but might actually have been a young woman of good family who was abducted and sold to a brothel (we don't know). There is a marriage certificate that asserts both her identity and her marriage to the Comte St. Germain, and this is probably what Percy's got his mitts on. (Nobody knows if it's a real certificate or a forgery, and we don't find out — in good part, because Fergus doesn't want to know.)
César Domboy as Fergus Fraser and Lauren Lyle as Marsali FraserCourtesy: STARZ
“Fergus does know a lot about prostitution, poverty and crime, and he's taking no chance of his family getting anywhere near his past. From his point of view, a) he thinks Percy is a con man/liar/nogoodnik, b) even if he isn't, Fergus thinks getting anywhere near his own past is dangerous and he doesn't want his kids ever finding out anything about the rumors and speculations concerning the Comte and being tempted to meddle or get too close to very dangerous people (of whom the Comte is definitely one...).
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“So Percy grew up very poor and insecure and is always looking for a big score. Which, if Fergus's identity (as the son of the Comte, and thus heir to a large chunk of Canada) could be proven, might actually happen.
“The line ‘I am the son of a great man’ is said by Fergus to Jamie (they've been at least mentioning the stuff about the Comte, and Fergus has firmly rejected the notion of doing anything about it), as they're walking along the street. This is pretty much the only declaration by Fergus of his feelings for Jamie (though those are obvious), and Jamie is (naturally) moved by it.”
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One bit of business in Episode 804 that isn’t in the books is that William Buccleigh MacKenzie (Diarmaid Murtagh) shows up at Fraser's Ridge, and tells Jamie that Rod Cameron is dead. It remains to be seen why the show added this bit.
Gabaldon hypothesizes, “Well, Buck MacKenzie is a time-traveler, and it's perfectly possible for him to have found his way to Fraser's Ridge, as he knew that's where Roger was intending to go. Rob Cameron (per book) can't time-travel, but I don't know whether the show folk realized that. (Everyone thinks that Rob kidnapped Jemmy and took him to the past — whereas he actually kidnapped him and hid him in the passage under the Loch Errochty dam — from whence Jemmy escaped) So, I'm assuming Buck killed Rob (or saw him die) back in the future (we don't see him die in the books), before returning to the past (again).”
Caitríona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Frances Tomelty as Mrs. CunninghamCourtesy: STARZ
Back at Frasers Ridge, Mrs. Cunningham (Frances Tomelty) and Claire (Caitríona Balfe) were getting along famously with Mrs. C showing a side to herself we had never suspect as she got a little tipsy while Claire adjusted her shoulder back into place.
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But then Captain Cunningham (Kieran Bew) came to fetch his mother and things got weird. Both women noticed, but it wasn’t clear if he has his eye on Claire or if he was trying to get her to reveal why Jamie was away on business.
“The stuff about Charles Cunningham, Mrs. C and Claire isn't per book, but I imagine his motive there is that he perceives Claire as being the weak spot in Jamie's armor,” Gabaldon says. “If he can get Claire on his side (or if he can't, perhaps abduct her and use her as leverage), he may be able to get Jamie to join Ferguson's militia--or at least, not fight against them. (Mind you, in the book, Cunningham has nothing directly to do with Ferguson or the battle at Kings Mountain; he wants to kill Jamie (or take him prisoner and give him to Ferguson) and take over the Ridge (though presumably he also has Royalist motives).
Outlander will air new episodes each Friday at midnight ET on the STARZ app, all STARZ streaming and on-demand platforms; and at 8 p.m. ET/PT/7 Central on the linear network.
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