While Outlander: Blood of My Blood season 1, episode 7 opens with a cattle raid on Grant lands, it’s clear that this is just a small part of the story. However, there are hints that Malcolm Grant will soon become the laird of the Grants.
Caution: This post contains SPOILERS for Outlander: Blood of My Blood season 1, episode 7.
The latest episode puts focus on all four of our main characters. Secrets threaten to come out, while everyone attempts to just survive. At the same time, Ellen is trying to protect Clan MacKenzie, while fighting for the life that she desires.
Simon Fraser has ‘his’ baby baptized in Outlander: Blood of My Blood
For Simon, it’s all about legitimizing what he believes is his baby. However, before that takes place, Brian gets Julia outside to the church’s grounds and baptizes the bairn himself. William Henry Beauchaump is going to be his name, and I can’t help but think that this is going to hint at something for the future.
Inside the church, it’s not filling up in the way that Simon wanted. However, two of the women from Julia’s birthing experience are there, and they’ve certainly changed their tune. They share their congratulations with Davina now that they’ve heard Simon and Julia are married. So, it seems like the word has spread in the way that Simon wanted, but it hasn’t led to people coming to the baptism.
It’s possible that people haven’t turned up because it’s a Protestant baptism and not a Catholic one. However, Simon points out that it’s currently against the law for a Catholic to sit on the throne. He needs his son to be Protestant to be King.
The baby is baptized Simon Fraser, and now Lord Lovat can deal with the situation that he actually wants. Back at Castle Leathers, he can make sure that he is legally married to Julia.
She had worried that he would surprise her with a wedding in the church, but Davina is quick to point out that he can’t do that, as things need to look legitimate. Also, in the church, he wouldn’t have been able to forge the dates. With the wedding happening at Castle Leathers, he’s able to pay off the priest to predate his wedding to Julia to Nov. 17, 1714. The baby’s date of birth is July 5, 1715.
Julia and Davina find a way to prevent Simon from getting it up
Meanwhile, Julia and Davina are finally working together now that things have changed between them. Julia has some herbs that will prevent Simon from being able to perform in the bedroom, and naturally, Davina is more than willing to help with this matter. Not only does that protect Julia, but it will protect any other woman Simon turns his eye to.
It works like a charm. Not only does Simon love the spice that the herbs give the food, but he isn’t able to get it up in the bedroom on the wedding night. He loves the food so much that he thinks it will help him perform in the bedroom, much to Julia’s delight. How long until he decides that it has to be the spice?
I will point out that Julia hums a song to baby William. Oh yes, it’s “Oh, I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside,” which calmed Claire as a child. Is this foreshadowing something for Outlander season 8?
Henry finds himself unable to get to the stones
As we saw in the trailer, Henry does decide to head to the stones. His first stop is to the brothel, so that he can get his St. Anthony necklace back. The prostitute was hopeful that Henry would save her from the situation that she’s currently in, but he’s not interested.
Sadly, he tells her a bit too much, and she tells Arch that he’s going to Craigh na Dun. So, it’s a wasted errand to get to the stones.
Will Henry ever get back there? Maybe he won’t want to do that, as at the very end of Outlander: Blood of My Blood season 1, episode 7, Julia realizes that Henry is in the past and that he’s going by the name of Henry Grant. There’s finally a chance that she can get to him instead of the other way around. She needs to find a way to get a message to him first.
Maybe Brian can help, but Brian has his own issues.
Ellen and Brian end up at the same Jacobite meeting in Blood of My Blood
As Ellen is preparing for her wedding to Malcolm Grant, Colum learns that Dougal is being accused of stealing the cattle. It wasn’t him. It was a man named Rob Roy MacGregor, a known Jacobite. Dougal is getting involved with other Jacobites as well.
After selling some cattle, Dougal shares that he’s going to the Nairnes, as he’s heard of cattle options there. Ellen points out that the Nairnes don’t have cattle, but they are known Jacobites. Dougal is there to join in with the push for a Stuart king, which Colum is again—not only would it make them traitors, but the Grants are loyalists.
Ellen heads out to stop Dougal from spending her dowry money on the Jacobite cause. While there, Murtagh—who is angry that Brian didn’t tell him about falling for Ellen—and Brian end up at the meeting. Rob Roy is there, which Malcolm knew would happen. So, he brings the British Army with him.
This leads to the threat of everyone there being arrested for treason, so Brian manages to get a shot off to escape. It’s in this that Dougal realizes that Ellen and Brian are secretly together, although he has no idea just how far they’ve gone.
Everyone gets away, with Murtagh leaving with the MacKenzies. As Brian gets back to Castle Leathers, Simon shares that he’s heard the good news that he’s fallen for Ellen. Simon is now proud of Brian for messing up the MacKenzie plans.
Meanwhile, the Grants come to the MacKenzies with a demand. Ellen is to perform a test to prove her virtue. Had this been asked of her before Beltane, she wouldn’t be as worried as she is now. Maybe it’s time for Brian and Ellen to run away. Glenna has realized that they’re handfast, but will she help?
Outlander: Blood of My Blood airs on Fridays on STARZ.
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