Season 5 Ep 8 - famous last words
Flashback to Roger teaching at Oxford. He takes the opportunity to humiliate a young student in horn-rimmed glasses. Today’s theme is “famous last words”.
Oh, it was Roger hanging from the tree after all. But it’s ok. He is alive, not yet asphyxiated. Claire fixes him up
Roger seems very cranky though. He doesn’t want to talk because his vocal chords are damaged. I guess being hanged wouldn’t be very pleasant. Claire and Bri discuss ptsd - war neurosis
Jocasta sings a nice song over Murtagh’s grave
The gang receives a letter from the mad, bad governor apologizing for stringing Roger up a tree. “A regrettable incident.” Twas! The governor gives Roger a bunch of land as part of his “my bad” apology tour. Brianna flips the table! She doesn’t give a figging fuck about the land. She wants to tell the Gov the stick it up his pheasant hole. She doesn’t want land, she wants her husband back, whose words were always regrettable even when he did speak and who has never been useful to anybody beyond his ability to get other academics to send him their research.
Girl, don’t throw away 5000 acres. Learn how to optimize here! The governor isn’t going to be crying into his cereal 6 months from now thinking about how the Frasers boring daughter doesn’t forgive him. Get your young cousin Ian down from New York and give it to him. Give it to Fergus. Make it a retreat for itinerant basket weavers. Like do something with this free land.
Roger has more silent movie horror flashbacks
John Grey is always so nice! He has brought an astrolabe for Brianna. He tells her to be patient. Can the Frasers just ask John to move in with them. I feel like that would help spice up this season.
Weird! We are treated to a doing laundry montage, which I am here for, but then they splice in part of the candle making sequence from just a few episodes ago. Feels strange to see recycled footage. Was there no B roll from the candle shoot?
Roger screams at the baby not to touch the hot kettle. Everyone is pleased to hear him flex his vocal chords. But Roger gets all cranky again and won’t speak another word.
A very fun game of hide and seek is ruined by a wild boar. We know from season 1 that those can be very dangerous. Jamie prepared to stab it but some mystery archer slays the beast with an arrow. It’s Ian!
Hi, it’s me Ian. I heard you’ve got some land you aren’t planning on using. I’ve got a new haircut.
Claire and Jamie present Ian to Brianna and Roger. Brianna, the least you can do is run up and give Ian a hug. He sacrificed himself for your happiness! Roger trots up though to give a manly embrace. Roger’s stock gains a few points on the NASDAQ for this. He’s learned from the Scottish oath giving ceremony in the beginning of the season that it’s not good to leave a bro hanging.
Ian seems a bit out of his element. He is giving Roger a run for his money in the tight lipped category. Jamie tries to bring him right back to the family fold, but Ian is not having it. Ian having bairn trouble?
Brianna tries a paper airplane as part of her Roger speaks campaign
Claire discovers that some potentially lethal herbs are missing from her surgery. She suspects Roger. I’m sensing an olde switcheroo here and I swear if they kill off Ian with this, I will flip my own table.
Oh no.. Ian is missing from camp with all his articles nicely folded. I don’t like where this is headed. He is putting the root tea on to boil for a Socrates special. Luckily Roger turns up to kick the teapot to high heavens. Roger you’ve done something useful!
Ian calls Roger a right hypocrite, since Roger was just skipping along the edge of a cliff the day before. Ian is right, but Ian, you can be the Sully to our Dr Quinn Medicine woman. We need you on this show.
Ian has a big old heartache, the shape of which has not been fully surveyed. There is a woman at the center of it. Oh, and Roger croaks out a few phrases. Roger says that the old Roger is gone forever. I’m counting on it sir!
