Droughtlander is over! On Saturday night at 9 PM on Starz, the "Outlander" cliffhanger will finally have a resolution.
"It's a naughty thing for us to have done," Tobias Menzies (Black Jack Randall) told Access Hollywood of the 6-month wait between Season 1 Part 1 and Part 2. "But we'll take you straight back to that very moment and continue when we pick up in the second half of the season."
And there will be a twist. This time around, Sam Heughan's character, Jamie Fraser, is narrating the episode.
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"I think it's great," Caitriona Balfe (Claire Randall/Fraser) told Access of the switch-up. "I loved the way that they flipped it. It's really interesting to see it from Jamie's perspective and I think [what] we're gonna see in the second half of the season is we're gonna constantly surprise fans. I mean, you think you know the story if you've read the books and yes, we're going to stick very closely to it, but there's lots of very cool surprises."
An outlaw when he was first introduced, the second half of the season will expand the world of Sam's character Jamie.
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"You get to see his background, you get to see a lot about his family, we get to meet Jenny [his sister], we get to meet Ian [Murray, his brother-in-law], his father, what happens there and it just gets darker and darker," Sam said. "And to be honest, [Jamie and Claire's] relationship gets tested and by the end -- it's a very powerful ending."
Another relationship being put through its paces when "Outlander" returns is the one between brothers Colum and Dougal MacKenzie, played by Gary Lewis and Graham McTavish.
"We get into the politics of the time, which is the Jacobite rising, which is sort of on the horizon -- Dougal, being a very strong supporter of the Jacobite cause, which is trying to restore King James to the throne of England, and Colum, his brother, being very much against it," Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore explained. "And it was all there in the book [by Diana Gabaldon], but what we did was we kind of brought it forward and made it a little bit more present in the story, so there was a conflict between the two brothers [who] really seemed to go toe to toe in an episode, which I thought was fascinating and really fun. And also, it was great because we knew we had two tremendous actors and we knew we wanted to watch them really face off against one another."
"Outlander" Season 1, Part 2, premieres Saturday at 9 PM ET/PT on Starz.
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