We want to make that character shine, and I think they were no different,” Roberts said when Access asked him and fellow finale writer Graphia, about getting to write the adult versions of the important characters. “We kind of - with every character we have, we treat with kid gloves. Roger Wakefield & Brianna Randall’s introduction Roberts (who are also co-executive producers on “Outlander”) about some of the big moments in the episode, including introducing the grown-up versions of two characters book readers had been waiting to see for a long time on screen – Roger and Bree. WATCH: ‘Outlander’s’ Tobias Menzies & Sam Heughan Talk Early Acting GigsĪccess Hollywood spoke with Season 2 finale writers Toni Graphia and Matthew B. As Roger and Bree spent time together, Claire went on her own journey across Scotland, visiting Culloden Moor, where she said goodbye to Jamie, 200 years later, at the Fraser headstone. The mother and daughter ended up staying at Roger’s house in the episode after the wake, and Brianna and Roger got to know each other as they visited historical sites in Scotland and ran into a pre-“Outlander” Season 1 Geillis Duncan, who in 1968 was known as Gillian Edgars. The opening of Season 2 began in 1948, a moment after Jamie sent his wife through the standing circle at Craig na Dun, but the finale opened twenty years after that, as an all-grown-up Roger Wakefield distracted himself at his late uncle-turned-father’s wake, watching “The Avengers.” Viewers quickly met not just Roger (Richard Rankin), but an older Claire (Fraser) Randall and her 20-year-old daughter, Brianna Randall (Sophie Skelton). PHOTOS: ‘Outlander’: Scenes From The Season 2 Finale - ‘Dragonfly In Amber’ ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Finale Writers Discuss Those Big Moments From ‘Dragonfly In Amber’ (Starz) In order to save his wife and unborn child from an uncertain fate, Jamie Fraser made his time traveling wife go through the stones again, back to her own time. The couple had tried to change history and stop the Jacobite rebellion, but were unsuccessful. Saturday night’s finale was full of tearful, emotional moments, as Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) had to say goodbye to each other on the morning before the battle of Culloden in 1746.

(Spoiler alert: This article contains major plot details from the episode.) The cast and producers of Starz’s “Outlander” weren’t wrong when they predicted viewers would need tissues to watch the show’s Season 2 finale – “Dragonfly in Amber.”

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