This text incorporates spoilers about Outlander: Blood of My Blood episode 6, titled “Birthright.”

Distress loves firm — so it is solely becoming that whereas Julia (Hermione Corfield) endures a harrowing beginning, Henry (Jeremy Irvine) will face his personal trials.

In episode six of Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Henry remains to be desperately trying to find Julia — and he is devastated to find that Julia died in childbirth. After all, this is not true. Because it seems, Arch Bug (Terence Rae) employed the midwife to lie for cash as a result of Lord Grant (Brian McCardie) was weary of Henry’s fixation on discovering his lacking spouse.

However Henry does not know that — and the desperation and grief that the information triggers sends him right into a PTSD episode. He goes into the woods, vomits within the timber, and then he imagines he’s on the finish of the battle, listening to Julia’s voice in his head, telling him not to surrender.

“It simply destroys him,” Irvine tells Leisure Weekly. “It really breaks him, and it breaks his thoughts and he goes and does some issues, not essentially knowingly, however he does some issues that he would not, in a sane thoughts, do.”

These issues quantity to primarily dishonest on Julia. In his distraught state, Henry goes to satisfy with the prostitute who Ned Gowan (Conor MacNeill) beforehand hoped is perhaps Julia. Solely Henry believes that she truly is Julia, and they’ve intercourse, with him believing all of the whereas that he’s in mattress along with his spouse.

Hopefully, Henry will come again to himself the subsequent morning, however when he does, he must face the truth of what he is performed. How may he react? “Not effectively,” quips Irvine. “It’ll be very difficult. Henry and Julia are going to place the phrases ‘unconditional love’ to the take a look at. There’s going to be challenges for each of them.”

After all, Julia has her personal sins to atone for, provided that she slept with Lord Lovat (Tony Curran) out of her determined want to guard herself and her unborn baby. “They’ve each needed to do issues that they do not wish to do purely to outlive,” provides Irvine. “It is an actual take a look at of anybody’s relationship.”

For her half, Corfield thinks that what Henry does is extra unforgivable than her personal actions, notably as a result of shell-shock is just not effectively understood in her time. “It is a actually troublesome capsule to swallow,” she says of Henry’s actions. “Jeremy mentioned, ‘Yeah, however you slept with Lovat.’ And I used to be like, ‘Yeah, however it was a survival factor.’ Julia understands Henry’s struggles with PTSD, so she’s understanding of that, however she undoubtedly does really feel a degree of betrayal.”

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For collection creator Matthew B. Roberts, that is simply one other alternative to ask the questions that the world of Outlander presents greatest. “Henry’s not in his proper thoughts,” he says. “In his coronary heart, that is Julia. And Julia needed to do one thing on her finish as effectively to outlive. These are the questions that Outlander at all times requested — and we’ll preserve asking these questions in Blood of My Blood. How far would you go? What would you do to be with the particular person you like? And what do these traumas do to you as an individual?”

Outlander: Blood of My Blood airs new episodes at 8 p.m. on Fridays on Starz and releases episodes to stream the identical day on the Starz app.