Jamie and Claire’s time on TV ended with the Outlander series finale earlier this year, but their parents’ love stories continue in Blood of My Blood Season 2.
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stories → end → Season
And just like their kids, Ellen and Brian and Julia and Henry won’t have an easy go of staying together through time and war.
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Ellen → have → time
Though Season 1 ended with Henry putting Julia’s hand on the stones at Craigh na Dun, Season 2 starts with him in the future.
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Season → end → future
The 20th century looks pretty bleak for Henry Beauchamp as he wakes up in a straitjacket at the Inverness Lunatic Asylum.
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he → look → Asylum
Found on the moors with a wounded head and shoulder, he’s discombobulated and gives the attending Dr. Perryman his 1715 alias — Henry Grant.
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he → find → alias
So how did Henry end up back in the 20th century when it was supposed to be Julia?
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it → end → century
“Remembrance Day” answers immediately after the revamped credits.
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Day → revamp → credits
Henry’s attempt to get Julia through the stones failed, probably since they had no gemstones, a requirement for time travel in the Outlander TV universe.
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they → get → universe
That gave time for Arch Bug to attack Henry (why you so obsessed, Arch?!), slamming Henry’s head against the stones and stabbing him in the shoulder with his jewel-encrusted knife.
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you → give → knife
When Henry leans against the stones with Arch’s blade still in him, he time travels, leaving Julia and baby William behind.
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he → lean → Julia
Julia thinks quickly and tells Arch that Henry was deranged and thought she was his wife.
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she → think → Arch
The ruse works, but unfortunately that means Julia must return to her 18th-century husband, Lord Lovat.
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Julia → work → husband
Meanwhile, Jamie’s parents Brian and Ellen are all touchy-feely in their honeymoon hidey-hole after seeing the fiery crosses lit up, announcing the Jacobites going to war against the English.
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crosses → see → English
They have sex and dream of a simple life together after all the fighting is over, with some land and some kids.
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fighting → have → land
(Outlander fans thank you for your future son Jamie.)
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fans → thank → son
But perpetual third wheel Murtagh spots another threat in the form of the MacKenzies, who are looking for Ellen after she did her best Julia Roberts’s impression and ran away from her wedding to Malcolm Grant last season.
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she → spot → Grant
Ellen convinces Brian to let her give herself up to her clan to save him and Murtagh.
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her → convince → him
Before she departs, Brian helpfully reminds her there is “less than a year and a day before we must marry” due to the rules of handfasting.
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we → depart → handfasting
Something tells me that it’s going to be hard to save the date amid the Jacobite uprising.
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it → tell → uprising
At Castle Leoch, Uncle Mac processes Malcolm’s death with Colum, Dougal, and Ned.
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Mac → process → Colum
Since there were no witnesses, Ned Gowan tries to assert that Malcolm died by falling on his own dirk since he was drunk after Ellen jilted him.
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Ellen → be → him
Uncle Mac isn’t buying it, but with the war upon them, he decides to play nice with the MacKenzies… for now.
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he → buy → MacKenzies
When he’s alone with his newly-married-to-Dougal niece Maura, he says the MacKenzies will pay for the death of Malcolm.
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MacKenzies → ’ → Malcolm
He also needs to find the clan’s bladier to ensure his seamless appointment to laird.
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He → need → laird
Good luck with that one, Uncle Mac, as Henry is struggling in the 20th century to convince Dr. Perryman that his wife and son are in danger and he’s not just shell-shocked from his time in WWI.
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he → struggle → WWI
Julia and baby William return to Castle Leathers and are reunited with Brian’s mom, Davina (yay), and Brian’s dad, Simon (boo).
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Julia → return → mom
Lord Lovat is drunk and makes sure baby Simon (his name for the baby) is okay before promptly making moves on poor Julia again, motivated by his belief that Henry had raped her.
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Henry → make → her
This guy gets grosser by the minute.
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guy → get → minute
(Though not for nothing, Jamie had a similar instinct in the Outlander books.)
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Jamie → have → books
She distracts him by saying the impending war gets them closer to the prophecy that their son will be king and he must prepare for battle.
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he → distract → battle
Julia goes to make him a cup of tea (dosed with chaste berries, of course), and tries to tell Davina what happened to her at the stone circle.
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what → go → circle
While introducing me to my new favorite oath — “by God’s bodikins!” — Davina says she thinks Julia is a faerie.
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Julia → introduce → bodikins
Julia confesses she’s a time traveler, and thankfully Davina is down with this information.
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Davina → confess → information
But even with a confidante, Julia is heartbroken that she’s going to miss her daughter’s sixth birthday on October 20.
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she → go → October
She prays Henry is with Claire.
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Henry → pray → Claire
But her prayers go unanswered since, in the 20th century, the good doc has decided to try his latest treatment on Henry: electroconvulsive therapy.
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doc → go → Henry
Henry experiences flashbacks to WWI and moments of domestic bliss, celebrating Remembrance Day with Julia, Claire (baby Claire!), and Claire’s beloved stuffed rabbit Floppy.
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Henry → experience → Julia
But more rounds of “treatment” erase Claire and her current guardian, his brother Lamb, from his mind.
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rounds → erase → mind
It’s a little far-fetched (not to mention ECT, as it’s known today, wasn’t in use until the 1930s), but it seems this is the reason Claire will always believe her parents died in that car crash.
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parents → ’ → crash
As for Brian and Ellen, both of them return to their respective homes.
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both → return → homes
…and 15 more, not listed.
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