10 best lines from the Outlander Season 2 premiere

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When Outlander Season 2 premiered, fans were a little confused but that opening had some of the best lines from the night.

Outlander Season 2 managed to confuse fans with the premiere. While book fans expected to jump to the 1960s, show-first fans expected to find themselves in 1740s France. Instead, viewers were taken to 1940s Scotland, with Claire uttering chilling lines that we’d only connect to with the season finale.

The episode was full of memorable, beautiful and heartbreaking lines. Here’s a look at the best ones from the premiere.

He’s dead. They were all gone.

That opening line was chilling and memorable. Claire’s narration left us fearing the future for the series. How was she at Craigh na dun? What did she mean that they were all gone? Fans would find themselves waiting until the season finale to fully understand everything she meant; to see how Claire would find herself back in the 1940s.

I’m back.

Nobody really knew what to expect for that first meeting between Claire and Frank. So much of Claire’s return to the 1940s was left to the mind’s eye, so it was always going to be interesting to see how the show would handle it. One of the best things about the Outlander Season 2 premiere was the inclusion of Tobias Menzies as Frank. This line also stood out, as that moment Claire could think of nothing more than stating the obvious.

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I just want to know I just need to know if he really did die on that battlefield.

There was part of Claire that just couldn’t believe Jamie was gone. She didn’t want to believe that he had died at Culloden, even though everything at that point in time suggested so. This would be something Claire would never know while Frank was alive.

Don’t spend the rest of your days chasing a ghost

Mrs. Graham wholeheartedly believed that Claire was telling the truth and it was a beautiful bond between them that formed. She certainly had some sound advice for Claire, too. If she continued stuck in the past, she’d miss out on everything life could bring. There was a man who loved her waiting for her and Claire owed it to her unborn baby to give happiness a chance.

When Claire told me that she was pregnant, I was I just my first feeling was was joy…It was almost hallucinatory in its intensity I just Because somehow, suddenly, in that moment, I…I thought she meant we were having a child.

When Frank learns about the pregnancy, he’s initially happy. Then he realizes the truth and he’s not sure how to deal with it. Every action from Frank at this point is understandable. It’s raw emotion that he can’t process fully and there’s a hint of Black Jack in him, just temporarily. This line from him, though, it one of the most important. It shares just why he’s so devastated but wanted to be happy at the news.

A child without a father, and, and a man without a child have been given this chance to find one another.

This time it’s Reverend Wakefield with the sound words of wisdom. He uses his own example in a beautiful way to help Frank see that there is an option here; there is the chance of happiness. While it may not be everything that Frank wanted, there is a chance for father and child to have someone they can each count on.

You must let him go.

It was a reasonable request on Frank’s part. Not an easy one for Claire, but certainly reasonable. Of course, Frank then burning everything Jamie ever gave Claire or everything that Claire came back with was a step too far (at least he didn’t force her to take off the ring). All he wanted was the ability to start afresh, with no memories of the ghost.

Reeks of frogs, just as I remember it.

While Claire and Jamie discuss seasickness back in the 1740s, it’s Murtagh who has the funniest line of the episode. He can’t help but comment about the stench of frogs. Clearly, this is not a man who wanted to come to France, but wasn’t about to leave Jamie and Claire on their own.

But it seems to me ye don’t trust me to know the true reason behind this this cloth of lies we’re about to wrap ourselves in, like a plaid woven out of guile and deception.

Poor Murtagh. After Claire and Jamie discuss their options to infiltrate the Jacobites and prevent Culloden, all they can do is give Murtagh the minor details. Understandably, he’s upset that they’ve not trusted him enough, but all in good time. Jamie does later vow to tell him the full reason, and they both stick to that vow.

Another country, another enemy. Life with you is certainly never dull, Sassenach.

To end the episode, an enemy for the season is created. Jamie has an excellent line, stating the obvious in a way that Claire does at the start of the episode. There’s almost this bookend moment between the two to round everything up for the Season 2 premiere.

Next: Outlander Season 2, Episode 1 recap

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