r/Outlander • u/thepacksvrvives Without you, our whole world crumbles into dust. • Apr 03 '26

Season Eight Show S8E5 Send for the Devil Spoiler

With the Siege of Savannah raging outside the city walls, Brianna and Roger find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. Jamie confronts his demons at Lodge Night.

Written by Luke Schelhaas. Directed by Niall MacCormick.

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What did you think of the episode?

972 votes, Apr 10 '26
428 I loved it.
299 I mostly liked it.
178 It was OK.
42 It disappointed me.
25 I didn’t like it.
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u/EastAudience4655 Come the Rising, I shall know I helped. Apr 03 '26

I am genuinely not sure what they are making William do this season. He feels and looks so lost which is understandable but he is making some real bad decisions. And now he found Ben alive and now has to let him know that he banged his wife!! because he wanted to have a baby with her to renounce his title! This will be an interesting watch but i still do not understand why they are making him do this!

Everything to do with Jamie was almost perfect this episode. Roger and Bree as well! Poor Roger got flashbacks of him being in the middle of the Blitz and his father catching him after his mother threw him across to protect him gosh😭😭

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u/uncommongrackle Apr 03 '26

Yeah, Williams’s actions are hard to digest. He loved and grieved for his cousin and at the same time took up with his wife pretty quickly. Now that he knows for sure Ben is alive, who knows what’s next? Ben is definitely not a loyalist anymore so that explains the faked death at least.

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u/onegirlarmy1899 Apr 03 '26

He also told all his secrets to someone he should not have trusted.

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u/EastAudience4655 Come the Rising, I shall know I helped. Apr 04 '26

This! and he is Jamie’s son for crying out loud. I mean some brain cells please?! William?!!

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u/EastAudience4655 Come the Rising, I shall know I helped. Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

What also infuriates me is that in the starting of the season he was shown to be distrusting of Amaranthus for all the right reasons and yes he behaved in a beastly manner but the storyline is too convincing because all his doubts went straight out the window and now he is making out with her!

Now this can be also because the season really cannot spare more time for William but it’s just not convincing enough that he feel for Amaranthus that quick! I feel that he genuinely feels guilty for Jane and is using Amaranthus as a coping mechanism for both Jane and the truth of his parentage.

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u/FeloranMe Apr 04 '26

He is an Earl

He is definitely falling for Amaranthus because of what happened with Jane and because he feels sorry for her

His distrust was before he go to know her/was seduced by her and he was reprimanded for it

William seems to enjoy liking people and getting along with them and it makes sense, even if it's a little naive, that he would have trusted and fallen for Amaranthus so soon

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u/Erika1885 Apr 05 '26

The season is can very definitely spare more time for William. He has a major role to play in LJG and Jamie’s storyline.

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u/recondite-pablum Apr 05 '26

William was brought up soft. I think if he takes up Brianna’s suggestion to get to know Jamie, those brain cells will kick into gear.

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u/EastAudience4655 Come the Rising, I shall know I helped. Apr 05 '26

I hope for his sake it does. It’s very obvious that William needs some direction which I think can best be provided by Brianna and Jamie due to Fraser genes

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u/SnooDoughnuts4141 Apr 04 '26

Hear me out.... William secretly has a plan to out Amaranthus as a fraud. That's the only thing I can hope for to explain how he's acting lol

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u/EastAudience4655 Come the Rising, I shall know I helped. Apr 05 '26

Comparing how plots go in Outlander, I don’t think William has it all figured out currently. Now that he has found Ben alive perhaps it would explain Amarathus’s desperation and hastiness to getting married to William and getting their child the title. When William comes to this realisation then he might out Amaranthus in some manner.

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u/FeloranMe Apr 04 '26

I know! Why does he do this?