The villains have come out in full force in Blood of My Blood Season 2, Episode 6, “Small Mercies.”
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villains → come → Season
From Lord Lovat (Tony Curran) targeting both Ellen (Harriet Slater) and Julia (Hermione Corfield) to the origins of the ultimate Outlander nemesis.
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Lovat → target → nemesis
But first, Julia and Davina Porter (Sara Vickers) are burying another Blood of My Blood foe — Seema (Lauren McQueen).
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Julia → bury → foe
Despite Seema planning to kill Julia and take William and Henry as her own, Julia has pity for the woman and reckons this death will stay with her all her life.
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death → plan → her
At Leoch, Grace (Ruby Fubara) reports to Colum (Seamus McLean Ross) and Ned (Conor MacNeill) that Ellen was abducted, but she doesn’t know by whom.
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she → report → whom
Despite his contemplation last episode, Colum is more concerned that Ellen’s death would mean the British could seize Leoch than in his sister’s actual well-being.
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British → concern → being
Ned is horrified that Colum doesn’t even consider sending anyone to look for her.
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Colum → horrify → her
If he even bothered looking, Colum would find Ellen at Leathers, where Lord Lovat is back from taking Inverness and not super convinced by Julia and Davina’s story that Seema ran away.
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Seema → bother → story
He orders them to get ready for his guest, and Maisri (Katharine O’Donnelly) is also there to celebrate the occasion with a reading and some spiced wine.
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Maisri → order → reading
Simon sits down with his daughter-in-law Ellen and claims that Balloch didn’t capture her — he rescued her from MacKinney.
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he → sit → MacKinney
Ellen says he’s a traitor and calls him out for trying to ruin her last season with the purity test.
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he → say → test
Simon digs her spunk and even apologizes, asking her to stay for a meal.
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Simon → dig → meal
As evidenced by Episode 203, when the Fox is playing nice, he’s got a nasty trick up his sleeve.
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he → evidence → sleeve
One bonus of this forced meal is that Ellen and Julia are reunited, though they try to play it cool and act as if they are only acquaintances from Braemar.
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they → reunite → Braemar
Julia also ensures Ellen meets Davina, as she is her mother-in-law.
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she → ensure → law
It’s a touching moment, except Lord Lovat keeps yapping about how everything he does, he does for his children.
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he → ’ → children
He pushes Maisri’s spiced wine and makes a toast comparing the Frasers and MacKenzies to the Montagues and Capulets.
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He → push → Montagues
Over at the Capulets — err, MacKenzies — the survivors and the dead from the Battle of Sheriffmuir return home.
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survivors → return → Sheriffmuir
Rupert’s wife and Wee Rupert (Louis O’Rourke) mourn his death while Wee Angus (Marlow Walters) asks where his dad is.
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dad → mourn → death
John Cameron (Alastair Mackenzie) returns (managing to creep out both Jocasta and Grace in one fell swoop) and delivers the news that Dougal and Angus were captured by the Redcoats.
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Dougal → return → Redcoats
Dougal (Sam Retford) is being tortured and interrogated by Captain Lord Gerard Grey (Digby Edgley) at Fort William.
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Dougal → torture → William
He refuses to give any intel… until a new Redcoat recruit gets creative by holding a burning coal to his face and groin.
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recruit → refuse → face
The new kid on the block is none other than Black Jack Randall (Finley Glasgow), who Outlander fans know all too well from his time torturing Jamie.
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fans → know → Jamie
Lord John Grey’s dad orders the sadist-in-training to stop and sends Dougal to the vault.
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dad → order → vault
Despite his brother being tortured, Colum is yet again not interested in saving his sibling, saying he’s protecting the clan by not going after Dougal.
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he → torture → Dougal
Ned looks disgusted by his laird.
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Ned → look → laird
Ellen could really use some saving right about now as she’s pale and sweaty, but continues to down the wine at Lovat’s suggestion.
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she → use → suggestion
Maisri comes in and does a reading and delivers this message to Ellen: “Life’s promise holds fast, but death’s call must be answered.”
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call → come → Ellen
Brian might be alive, but as Ellen cramps, it seems their unborn child may no longer be.
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child → cramp → ?
Locked in the vault with Angus (Ross Mann), Dougal and he talk about Rupert’s death, and Angus says their sons will have each other… which is particularly sweet considering that wee Rupert and Angus are portrayed by the real-life sons of the original Rupert and Angus actors from Outlander.
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Rupert → lock → Outlander
Dougal regrets not having sons of his own, but there’s no more time for chit-chat since the vault is tide-dependent, and the tide is coming in.
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tide → regret → chat
Lucky for them, Brian (Jamie Roy) and Murtagh (Rory Alexander) have snuck into Fort William and are a couple of badasses when it comes to killing Redcoats.
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it → sneak → Redcoats
Ellen is still slugging that wine as she continues to feel worse.
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she → slug → wine
Julia’s not looking so hot herself, and Davina asks if Maisri cursed them.
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Maisri → look → them
Julia realizes it’s the wine that’s causing their symptoms.
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that → realize → symptoms
But it’s too late; Ellen starts bleeding and reveals that she’s pregnant.
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she → ’ → ?
Julia confronts Simon, who admits that he had Maisri give them a potion to destroy both of their wombs.
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Maisri → confront → wombs
For the prophecy about young Simon/William becoming king to be true, he reasons there can be no more bairns in the Lovat line.
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he → become → line
Julia breaks the horrific news to Ellen, who is convinced she’s miscarried and insists she be taken home to Leoch.
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she → break → Leoch
Dougal and Angus are close to drowning when Brian and Murtagh find them.
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Brian → drown → them
…and 15 more, not listed.
The Aporia
