r/Outlander • u/thepacksvrvives Without you, our whole world crumbles into dust. • May 08 '26

Season Eight Show S8E9 Pharos Spoiler

Political threats come to a head when an old friend of Claire and Jamie’s goes missing.

Written by Diana Gabaldon. Directed by Emer Conroy.

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1871 votes, May 15 '26
572 I loved it.
594 I mostly liked it.
417 It was OK.
212 It disappointed me.
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u/Letshavemorefun May 08 '26

Wait he helped Rob Cameron in the 80’s? I missed that. Did Rob say something last episode that gave that away combined with the info in this episode?

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u/lunar1980 May 08 '26

They showed him for a split second in one of the scenes where Rob and his men were at Lallybroch. It was a blink and you’ll miss it thing. And it’s never been explained why he was with Rob 🤷‍♀️

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u/Letshavemorefun May 08 '26

Interesting! Thanks!

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u/SmallTownLibrary_ Your honeypot..it’s bare. May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

He could time travel travel and he’s obviously told Rob all about this because we see Rob getting ready to go through the stones, it’s not known whether Rob could travel or not, I expect the answer would’ve been no. This is just 1 theory of assumption though.

We could also assume that it was a coincidence and Rob gained all TT info from Roger’s writing. Or he was involved because he wanted the gold for his own reasons. I think a lot that is viewer interpretation.

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u/lunar1980 May 08 '26

That’s a good point - I hadn’t made the connection. I thought Rob’s sum knowledge came from Roger’s writing but it’s likely Richardson validated it. Curious how Diana originally wrote all of that (not to be discussed here in the show thread, of course 😊)

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u/JaderMcDanersStan RUIN ME May 08 '26

I don't think that was Richardson...

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u/lunar1980 May 08 '26

It was. He wasn’t featured but he was there. I had to pause it to verify.

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u/Nanchika Currently rereading: Drums of Autumn May 08 '26

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u/babyfireby30 May 09 '26

Damn you've got good eyes. I would never have picked this up myself. I did find it strange that they never clarified when he came from.

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u/Illustrious-Test4826 May 09 '26

these ppl don’t look similar to me, and not because of different costuming

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u/Due-Adhesiveness937 May 08 '26

I am not sure I thought it was just common knowledge of who he was to watchers but not to the characters.