Faith

Airdate

May 21, 2016

Runtime

64 minutes

Writer

Toni Graphia

Director

Metin Hüseyin

Production Code

207

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Faith is the seventh episode of Season Two and twenty-third episode overall of the Outlander television series.

Summary[]

Claire is brought to L'Hôpital des Anges where doctors try to save her life and that of her unborn baby. King Louis asks Claire to judge two men accused of practicing the dark arts – one an enemy, one a friend.

Plot[]

Having collapsed at the duel, Claire wakes in hospital to find that her child was stillborn and Jamie was arrested for dueling. The king grants him a pardon, but only after Claire has had sex with him and helped him in the trials of Master Raymond and the Comte St. Germain, both accused of sorcery, which gives her the opportunity to save a friend and dispose of an enemy. Following their daughter's funeral, Claire and Jamie decide to return to Scotland.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Caitríona Balfe as Claire Randall Fraser
Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser
Tobias Menzies as Jonathan Randall
Dominique Pinon as Master Raymond
Stanley Weber as Comte St. Germain
Frances de La Tour as Mother Hildegarde

Guest Cast[]

Lionel Lingelser as King Louis XV
Romann Berrux as Fergus
Niall Greig Fulton as Monsieur Forez
Claire Sermonne as Louise de Rohan
Robbie McIntosh as Magnus
Adrienne Marie-Zitt as Suzette
Audrey Brisson as Sister Angelique
Ilario Calvo as Father Laurentin
Guillaume Lecomte as Gentleman of the Bedchamber
Michèle Belgrand-Hodgson as Madame Elise
Niamh Elwell as Young Brianna

Production Notes[]

Trivia[]

The episode condenses events from chapters 24 through 28 of Dragonfly in Amber.
When Claire holds Faith, she sings "I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside", a song first recorded in 1909. In the original script, the scene included a voiceover from Claire, in which she explains that having lost her mother so young, she has few memories of her; however, she does remember that her mother sang to her.^[1]
When Raymond is led away by the King's guards, Claire (in voiceover) quotes a line from The Wizard of Oz: "I'm going to miss you most of all."
The snake brought forth by the King in this episode is a Gaboon viper, the deadliest pit viper native to the African continent second only to the King Cobra.^[2]