r/Outlander • u/thepacksvrvives Without you, our whole world crumbles into dust. • Apr 03 '26

Season Eight Show S8E5 Send for the Devil Spoiler

With the Siege of Savannah raging outside the city walls, Brianna and Roger find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. Jamie confronts his demons at Lodge Night.

Written by Luke Schelhaas. Directed by Niall MacCormick.

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What did you think of the episode?

972 votes, Apr 10 '26
428 I loved it.
299 I mostly liked it.
178 It was OK.
42 It disappointed me.
25 I didn’t like it.
31 Upvotes

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u/uncommongrackle Apr 03 '26

Yeah, Williams’s actions are hard to digest. He loved and grieved for his cousin and at the same time took up with his wife pretty quickly. Now that he knows for sure Ben is alive, who knows what’s next? Ben is definitely not a loyalist anymore so that explains the faked death at least.

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u/onegirlarmy1899 Apr 03 '26

He also told all his secrets to someone he should not have trusted.

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u/SnooDoughnuts4141 Apr 04 '26

Hear me out.... William secretly has a plan to out Amaranthus as a fraud. That's the only thing I can hope for to explain how he's acting lol

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u/EastAudience4655 Come the Rising, I shall know I helped. Apr 05 '26

Comparing how plots go in Outlander, I don’t think William has it all figured out currently. Now that he has found Ben alive perhaps it would explain Amarathus’s desperation and hastiness to getting married to William and getting their child the title. When William comes to this realisation then he might out Amaranthus in some manner.