The penultimate season ofOutlanderhas already delivered a lot of surprising twists and turns.

But it feels like the understatement of one (or several) centuries.

Sure enough, the now maskless man is Captain Richardson, sans 18th-century powdered wig.

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The romance series will end with its eighth season.

He’s always up to something, but for a while, his true motivations are unclear.

He figured out thatif the colonies lost the Revolutionary War, slavery would be abolished in Americaseveral decades earlier.

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(By comparison, the British Empire ended slavery in 1833.)

Sohe’s been trying to tank the war efforts all by himself.

There, she meets a dashing Highland warrior and gets drawn into an epic rebellion.

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Claire Beauchamp Randall, a nurse in World War II, mysteriously goes back in time to Scotland in 1743. There, she meets a dashing Highland warrior and gets drawn into an epic rebellion.

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