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The first family dinner between this newly-reunited family was a fun scene to write. We knew the challenge here for Sophie would be playing the duality of the joy of having found her parents and being home with them vs. the darkness of the Bonnet attack, which still hangs over her, but Sophie sparkles as she asks what Jamie was like as a boy. And our intention here is that only her mother, who knows her better than anyone else, would notice that underneath the bubbly conversation are fleeting moments where Claire reads on Brianna’s face that something is wrong.

By the way, the story that Murtagh tells about Jamie’s first kiss with one of Dougal’s daughters was something we always liked in the book, way back in Season 1, and here we found the perfect place to use it. Claire bringing up George Washington is a call-back to Episode 408 when she met the father of our country at the theater, and Brianna’s underwhelmed reaction is another clue to Claire that something is troubling her daughter.