While episode 12 of season 7 ofOutlander focused on Jamie's return to America, furious after discovering that Claire and John had slept together, having believed him dead, the rest of the series finally gives us news of Brianna, Roger and Jemmy, their son kidnapped by Rob Cameron. We therefore return to Scotland, in 1739, to Roger and his ancestor Buck. The two men still hope to find Roger's father, who also visibly passed through the stones after his plane crashed during the Second World War, and perhaps with him young Jemmy, Roger unaware that his son in fact remained in their own time. During episode 13, Roger does indeed find his father, Jeremiah, aka Jerry. A moving encounter since Roger never really knew his father, who was supposed to have died when he was very young. Roger and Buck come to his aid and Roger reveals to him that he comes from the future too. While Jerry is chased by villagers, at the end of the episode, Roger makes him cross the stones, to send him back to the future. Without having revealed to him that he is his son. A plot that poses many questions in Outlander.
Outlander season 7: Did Jerry survive? Did Roger change his own past?
First of all, we can wonder if Roger changed the past, a recurring question when we talk about time travel. By taking his father across the stones, did Roger really send him home and save his life? This is what we ask ourselves when seeing the furtive image of Roger, as a child, hugging himself next to his father, in the London Underground. Roger tells Buck that he thought he would be flooded with new memories of his father, which he probably would have been if Jerry had survived. Logically, Roger's life would have been different and his memories modified. Roger is therefore afraid that Jerry has not returned. But what is really happening in the literary saga of Diana Gabaldon, whose Outlander is suitable?
Did Jerry survive? The answer to this question can be found in the book Seven Stones To Stand Or Fall, a collection of short stories derived from the universe ofOutlander. The new story A Leaf On The Wind Of All Hallows Eve focuses on the story of Roger's parents and therefore tells us that Jerry has returned to his time thanks to Roger. Jerry returns just in time to see his wife and their son enter the subway to take shelter during a bombing. Marjorie, his wife, sees him and pushes Roger towards him, just in time to save him. Just afterwards, the roof collapses and Jerry dies, protecting his son.
Outlander season 7: why did Roger send his father back to the 20th century?
By saving his father in 1739 and sending him back to the 20th century, Roger allowed his father to then save his life during the bombardment. If Jerry had not returned, Roger would undoubtedly have died with his mother. We can wonder in the series about Roger's choice: is he really thinking of saving his father? Or does he know he can never change the future? The man seems to especially want to save him from the current situation in which he finds himself, the villagers who are chasing him, knowing that Jerry will have difficulty adapting to this time. Another question: if Roger really thinks he can save his father, doesn't that mean that he risks compromising his own existence and in particular his life with Brianna? Too many questions that risk making our little brains explode! The meeting between father and son remains in any case a very moving moment ofOutlanderespecially when Roger tells his father that he loves him when he has just passed through the stones. It remains to be seen how Roger will return to his own time, now that he has given the stone he was to use to his father and has understood that Jemmy is not in 1739.
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