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"So what was great about structuring it this way was that then you could cut from these dark horrible cells and literal darkness and metaphorical darkness and then go out into the sunlight and the beach and the open air and the ocean, and the ship literally taking you to what they hope is a brighter future and a better tomorrow. So it was the perfect way to end it, because you had gone through such a harrowing journey over the course of two episodes and it was so emotionally draining, you just wanted a moment at the end to take a breath and kind of feel good again and feel that there's hope in the universe and see our two characters back in each other's arms. She's pregnant, and they're going to go change history, and it is an arrow towards the second season in the tiniest of little strokes. You feel good at the very end, and that I thought was very important."

There's a Reason Jamie's Rehabilitation Place and Timeline Was Different From the Books. "In the books," Moore explains, "they rescue Jamie from Wentworth [prison] but then they leave, immediately and go to France, and the abbey's actually in France in the book, and Claire is helping Jamie to rehabilitate and that's where the whole story of what happens between him and Jack Randall comes out, you know, much later.

"In television terms, I felt that it would be better if the abbey remained in Scotland so you still had the tension of, ‘Are they going to get away or not?' which could still be hovering over them. And it also meant that all the events were much, much closer, that they had just happened instead of many weeks later. And then it also just provided us of a way of getting that romantic big image of being out of the ocean and ‘I'm pregnant' and all that happening at the end.