![]() ![]() Has this experience changed his mind on that front at all or is he more determined than ever to return back to his time? Roger was pretty determined to return back through the stones before this happened. How they come to that conclusion with that relationship with Ian and Roger is very interesting for me, and I thought it was a very clever way to pull them out of that hole. I really like the way that they tell that story. That's a really, really powerful motivator for them both to pick themselves back up, have that support in each other and carry themselves. They see themselves in each other and they don't like it. It's a sort of reflection of themselves and I think it's not until you're shown something, shown a quality, shown something in yourself that you go, "Oh wow, is that really how I am right now? Is that really what has to come?" They don't like it, each of them. Rankin: I think they see in each other a darkness that they don't like. What is it about him that is able to speak to Roger at this stage? Young Ian is the one to finally break Roger out of his depressive shell after everyone else has tried. So, I thought, "I have to tell such a strong story with clearly quite a lot going on with really quite complex emotions to be telling, silently." I have do this without offering a word pretty much, for the entire episode. Episode 8 is all about him and his psychological journey through this really, really sort of dark trauma. It's something that has often been talked about, but when I read Episode 8, I remember thinking, "How am I going to do this? How am I going to do this? How am I going to tell the story?" Roger is obviously the protagonist. So, obviously there was an anticipation of that particular part of the story. ![]() I just wasn't sure how it was going to be presented, what I might have to do, how I might have to take that on board and then try and deliver it to an audience. Richard Rankin: Fear and dread, I suppose, when I read the script, for a few reasons I was always aware that this part of the story was coming. What was your reaction when you first read the script for this episode? TV Guide spoke to Rankin about the game-changing episode, and what this means for Roger and the Frasers going forward. It was Outlander at its best: emotional and thought-provoking as the show allowed Roger all the space he needed to figure out what this dark chapter means for the rest of his life. And Outlander got creative, not only with flashbacks to Brianna and Roger back in the 1960s, but framing the episode around old silent movies the couple used to watch in their own time. Rankin delivers a powerful performance in the episode in which he's mostly silent. When Roger found Ian attempting to take his own life, it finally pushed him to open up about his own trauma and admit what was stopping him from talking to Brianna, even months after the fact. However, it was only young Ian ( John Bell), returning to his family after staying with the Mohawks at the end of Season 4, who was able to pull Roger back to some semblance of self after the two headed out to outline Roger and Brianna's new property together. While he was physically OK, the mental and emotional damage of the situation left him with paralyzing PTSD as Brianna ( Sophie Skelton) and the rest of the family tried to coax him back to his old self.ĭiscover your new favorite show: Watch This Now! Despite his throat and vocal chords healing after he was cut down, Roger spent most of the episode not talking. Sunday's episode of Outlander, "Famous Last Words," focused on how Roger survived the unspeakable trauma of almost dying, and the three month period after he was saved as he tried to find his way back to normal living. Thanks to some quick reflexes - and a miracle - Roger managed to slip two fingers under his noose after the British mistakenly had him hung for treason, saving him from strangulation and keeping him alive until Jamie ( Sam Heughan) and Claire ( Caitriona Balfe) arrived and cut him down from the tree we found him hanging in after the battle. After the heartbreaking death of Murtagh ( Duncan Lacroix) on Outlander, it would have been too much for the Frasers to handle if Roger ( Richard Rankin) had died in the Battle of Alamance as well. ![]()
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