Outlander: Blood of My Blood Episode 10 “Something Borrowed” has a one hour and twenty-five minute run time and it supersized for good reason. The Starz show has to reveal how Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) wiggles out of her arranged marriage to Malcolm Grant (Jhon Lumsden), how Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) wins his love back, and whether or not Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) and Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) manage to run away together. However, the Blood of My Blood Season 1 finale does more than just that with its bonus time.
There’s also a dreamy, steamy sex scene that takes its time being extra romantic.
**Spoilers for Outlander: Blood of My Blood Episode 10 “Something Borrowed,” now streaming on Starz**
Outlander: Blood of My Blood has not been stingy with its love scenes, depicting the passion that both main couples feel for each other with utter abandon. However, Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser have only enjoyed fleeting moments of happiness together this season. Even their first hookup during Beltane in Episode 5 comes with a bit of a deadline as Ellen has to be dressed up as May Queen by nightfall.
So when Brian and Ellen find themselves alone for a whole night in the bothy — i.e. an old Scottish hunting hut — they’re able to finally make love in a tender, considered way.
“We wanted a stark difference between Episode 10 and Episode 5 because there are totally two different types of love,” Outlander: Blood of My Blood star Jamie Roy told DECIDER. “Being able to take our time with Brian and Ellen in that point was really, really important. It’s all, like, the looks, getting to just look at each other, staring… Just taking our time was really, really nice, wasn’t it?”
“Yeah, definitely. I think it’s the first time they really feel safe,” Harriet Slater said. “They’re so far removed from everything, they’ve left their lives behind to run away together, and they finally feel like they have each other. I think it’s like a moment of ‘You’re mine and I’m yours.'”
Slater said that she felt that the scene was “quite earned” because it took ten whole episodes to get to the point where Brian and Ellen “actually belong to each other.”
This particular sex scene was also important because it represented an rapprochement between Brian and Murtagh (Rory Alexander).
“It was kind of like with his blessing, you know?” Roy said. “He says to Brian, ‘I’m going to be hunting for a while and I won’t be back for a bit. So, you know, the place’s yours.'”
“Quite a good wingman in the end,” Slater said, of Murtagh.
But speaking of “the place,” the bothy is a deceptively romantic setting for such a big scene. From the outside, it’s just a door dug into a hill, almost like a hobbit hole. Inside, though, it’s full of mood lighting and lovestruck Easter eggs.
“Did you notice? Maybe not for the first time, but if you go back and watch it, there’s like a little Easter egg in there. If you look at the stones in the middle of the bothy in the way that they’re laid out,” Jamie Roy said. “Because we noticed this and we’re like, ‘Was that done on purpose?’ They shape a love heart out into the middle, in front of the fire.”
“It’s so romantic,” Slater said. “I think the fire, the lighting, in there was gorgeous. With the fire, it was so cozy.”
It was so cozy, but also so hot, according to the actors. “It was so hot,” both Slater and Roy revealed.
“I was like, ‘Please, let me take my clothes off!” Roy said, prompting everyone to laugh. “They were like, ‘Well! Funny you should say that.'”
“Careful what you wish for,” Slater said, giggling.