The first season of Starz‘s Outlander: Blood of My Blood ends in fiery, dramatic fashion. One couple gets a bittersweet reunion that’s underscored by tragedy, while the other comes close to making their great escape.
**Spoilers for Outlander: Blood of My Blood Episode 10 “Something Borrowed,” now streaming on Starz**
The Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 1 ends with Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) reunited with his beloved Julia (Hermione Corfield) and their infant son William. The family makes their way to the Stones at Craigh na Dun, but are being chased by the villainous Arch Bug (Terence Rae).
Because Henry and Julia have realized that they don’t know how the Stones work — or if William can travel — they initially theorize that they should touch the fairy ring one after the other. However, in the heat of panic, Julia insists that Henry goes first to save his life. She reasons that Lord Lovat (Tony Curran) will buy that she was abducted, but that the Grants won’t be so kind to Henry. Henry, however, rejects this and insists on grabbing her hand. The final shot of this storyline is of Claire’s whole displaced family reaching for the Stones.
Elsewhere, Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) and Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser (Rory Alexander) defeat the Gallowglass assassins on Brian’s trail and learn Colum MacKenzie (Séamus McLean Ross) hired them. Brian hurries to Castle Leoch to declare his love for Ellen (Harriet Slater) once more before she marries Malcolm Grant (Jhon Lumsden).
By the end of Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 1, Jocasta (Sadhbh Malin) has helped Ellen and Brian reunite as an act of sisterly love and defiance. Dougal MacKenzie (Sam Retford) has been forced to marry Malcolm’s sister, Maura Grant (Bobby Rainsbury), to maintain the clans’ alliance. Oh, and a drunk and infuriated Malcolm stumbles upon Ellen and Brian during their escape and stupidly challenges the far better warrior to a fight. Brian kills Malcolm with the young laird’s own sword in self defense.
So do Henry and Julia go through the Stones? Are they separated once more, this time across history? What do those fiery crosses mean? Where will Brian and Ellen go next? Here is everything you need to know about what happens in the Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 1 finale…
Outlander: Blood of My Blood ends on a cliffhanger for the Beauchamp crew. Julia wants Henry to hurry through the Stones to safety, but he won’t leave his wife and baby behind…even if little Claire is still in the 20th century.
“I think Julia is in the worse of the two situations back in the 1700s. Yeah, it’s not a fun time to be a woman,” Jeremy Irvine said. “And I don’t think there’s any way in hell that he’s going to leave her. I don’t think that thought would ever cross his mind.”
“I think also for both of them, I think their ideal scenario is being a family unit,” Hermione Corfield said. “But the second best thing to that is one of them being with the children or at least one of them being with each of the children.
“I think getting back to Claire is also priority number one.”
Hermione Corfield
Corfield pointed out that at this point — and well into the main Outlander series — Claire doesn’t know her parents are alive. “So I think as much as trying to remain a unit, I think getting back to Claire is also priority number one.”
“To think about this decision is horrendous for these two characters,” Irvine added. “Oh god, yeah, I think for anyone who’s a parent, you can appreciate how tough that would be.”
So do they go through? Do they reunite with Claire? Obviously the Blood of My Blood stars couldn’t spill the beans, but we know they are currently filming Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2. Irvine did tease that the couple will have to deal with the fallout of a PTSD-stricken Henry’s hookup with Seema (Lauren McQueen).
“He’s got some things he needs to admit which will come up in Season 2,” Irvine said.
Then again is it possible we might get a resolution before the return of Blood of My Blood?
If you’ve seen the recent new trailer for Outlander Season 8, you’ll know it ends with a mysterious stranger with an English accent introducing himself to Claire, who, in turn, looks as though she’s seen a ghost. Could this be Henry or even William? Is that where the Beauchamps wind up after the Blood of My Blood Season 1 finale?
“I’ve heard about this theory,” Hermione Corfield said.
“I’ve been tagged in a few things,” Jeremy Irvine said, “and if it is me, I haven’t seen the check for it yet.”
“So we’ll see. I mean, I might have to be phoning up my agent and going, ‘Did I film this?'” Irvine said. “No, as far as I know, it’s not me.”
If you’re a hardcore Outlander fan, you already know that the fiery crosses are signal to the clans that it’s time to prepare for war. There really was a Jacobite Uprising in 1715. Bonnie Prince Charlie’s father, the displaced James Edward Stuart, attempted to take back his birthright as the eldest son of James II of England. We’ve seen real life historic figures like Rob Roy MacGregor pop up on Blood of My Blood this year in anticipation of this conflict.
Tragically, we know from history — and the main Outlander series — that this rebellion will fail. That still doesn’t mean that Brian Fraser can wiggle out of it.
“Back in those days when those fires do get lit, you are supposed to go to your laird in command,” Jamie Roy said.
“I love the last scene, with the two of them looking out at the crosses, and it really feels like they are a team,” Harriet Slater said. “She says something like, ‘I’m your wife, and I’ll stand by you whatever you choose, because we are one.'”
Of course, it’s unclear at this point where Brian Fraser will decide to go because he doesn’t really have a clan at the moment.
“This is the question,” Roy said. “Where does he go? Because he’s pretty much called it quits with his dad, but he’s not exactly welcome at Clan Mackenzie. So, you know, where does he go?”
“I think whatever Brian chooses to do, Ellen will support him,” Slater said, before teasing that Ellen might join the fight in her own way. “She’s Ellen Mackenzie. I don’t think she’s going to be able to stay out of anything for long.”
“So yeah, when we go into the next season, yeah, we’ll see where Brian goes,” Roy said.
Of course, Brian has other problems to deal with at the moment. He did reluctantly kill Malcolm Grant.
“I always believe Brian to be the pacifist. Violence isn’t the first answer,” Roy said. “That moment with Malcolm was really, really important because it’s the last thing [he wants to do]. He literally pleads to him like, ‘Please don’t do this. Let us pass. This can all be fine.’ Because he knows what’s going to happen if push comes to shove.”
“I don’t think he’s particularly threatened by Malcolm and ultimately he has to take his life. That’s not something that he wanted to do. It’s quite heartbreaking for him.”
When will Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2 come out on Starz? The first season of the Outlander spin-off finished production during the summer of 2024 and debuted in August 2025. Does that mean that we could see more Blood of My Blood in late 2026? Could we get two new seasons of Outlander next year?
DECIDER asked Outlander and Blood of My Blood showrunner Matthew B. Roberts if he was trying to shorten the Droughtlander for fans and he said he had nothing to do with the programming schedule.
“Yeah, that’s not in my purview. I just make the show and when they air it, they air it,” Roberts said. “That’s the same with Outlander. I want the audience to to see it as soon as I’m done making it, you know what I mean?”
“I think what people forget is that networks have other shows and they plan those out and those time slots are taken.”