Outlander Season 4, Episode 3 brings us stories from two different points in time. What does Claire find in the storm? What happens between Brianna and Roger? What does Jamie think of the wilderness? Learn more in this week’s recap.
As the trailer showed us, Outlander Season 4, Episode 3 takes place in two points of time. Titled “The False Bride,” we see Jamie and Claire head out in the wilderness to build a home together, while Brianna and Roger grow closer and then further apart in 1970.
This recap is full of spoilers from the episode. Just a warning for those who haven’t see the episode just yet. It’s certainly worth a watch before reading, so I recommend checking out this sneak peek of Claire talking to Jamie about Boston if you haven’t read yet.
For those who have watched and want to read on, here’s the Outlander Season 4, Episode 3 recap. I’m splitting the two stories in two since the time periods don’t gel.
Brianna and Roger reunite
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We start off in 1970, with Fiona Graham and her (who I presume is) husband buying the manse from Roger. It’s clearly a bittersweet moment for him, handing over his childhood home, but the conversation moves onto Brianna.
The two spent another Christmas together in Boston and Brianna came over to Oxford during the summer. However, Brianna is now studying engineering at MIT and Roger has been busy with teaching at the prestigious English university. They’ve not had much time.
That’s going to change when Roger is invited to play the guitar at a Scottish gathering in none other than North Carolina. He flies to Boston first to meet with Brianna and they head south.
At first, everything works out great. The two grow closer and it looks like Brianna will give up her virginity to Roger one night. That’s when he decides to pop the question. Yes, he confesses he loves her and proposes but Brianna isn’t ready for marriage just yet. She wants to sleep with him but isn’t ready to marry him right now.
And that leads to the big argument. Roger won’t sleep with her without the promise of marriage. Sure, he’s slept with other women before but he’s never loved them. They’ve meant nothing in the way that Brianna has.
What’s the problem for Brianna? While at the big clan call and the burning of the stag effigy at the end of the gathering, Brianna explains that her mother married and then found her soulmate. Brianna isn’t sure she believes in marriage. The two clearly want different things and when Roger refuses to see a way past this, Brianna leaves him at the gathering alone.
There’s a long way to go still for these lovebirds. Is there any hope?