‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ Stars Have a Brutal Warning for Fans About Season 2’s Ending

Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2, Episode 4. Summary In Season 2 of 'Outlander: Blood of My Blood,' Henry returns to Julia damaged after electroshock and solo time travel leave his mind unraveling. Julia stays one step ahead of Lord Lovat, protecting William while desperate to get back to Claire. Their intimacy and trust are fragile with the discovery of Henry's betrayal, and Season 2's cliffhanger will leave fates uncertain. In the second season of the Starz series Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Henry (Jeremy Irvine) and Julia Beauchamp (Hermione Corfield) are finally reunited, but their relationship has forever changed. Although their love is as strong as ever, Henry’s mental health is on shaky ground, even more so when Julia learns that her husband was with another woman when he thought she was dead. Between the constant threat of Lord Lovat (Tony Curran) and Seema (Lauren McQueen) not wanting to let Henry go, the Beauchamps have to figure out how to get back to their own time and their daughter Claire. Collider recently got the opportunity to chat with Corfield and Irvine about the challenges Julia and Henry are facing in Season 2 and working through it all so that they can face things together. During the interview, they discussed how everything Henry experienced after traveling through the stones alone changed him, being driven to get back to Claire, why Julia has to keep the upper hand with Lord Lovat, the changing dynamic between Henry and Bug (Terence Rae), how Julia is feeling about Henry’s betrayal with Seema, and how fans will feel with Season 2 ends on another cliffhanger. COLLIDER: Jeremy, Henry is put through a lot this season, physically and emotionally. At the start of this season, he went through the stones without Julia, and then he got stuck in this state of confusion and fear. How did you even wrap your head around the early days of what he must have been experiencing with the electroshock therapy? JEREMY IRVINE: I wasn’t envisioning him being tied up in a straitjacket when I found out we were doing Season 2. There was this part of Henry that I found really interesting in Season 1, and I was really allowed to explore that. And then, this takes it up a notch. His memory starts getting altered and his grip on reality slips even more. He starts questioning if he has really lost his mind and if everything he experienced in Season 1 was just a figment of his imagination. As an actor, it’s quite fun to explore all that and get into that. Was it a weird process to figure out how that distorting of memories would change him, especially in the moments he’s struggling but doesn’t really understand why? IRVINE: He needs Julia. He describes her as his North star. Without her, his mind does have this tendency to unravel, especially when he’s being electrocuted. Henry and Julia Are Focused on Getting Home and Back to Claire in ‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ Season 2 "They're in a pretty dire space." Image via Starz This season, Julia and Henry also dig deeper into the time travel aspect of the story and what it means for them. We see Henry meet Mrs. Graham while at the same time Julia is learning more about how all of it works. How much is the fact that they don’t know if they will ever make it back to their own time as a family going to weigh on them? IRVINE: That’s probably all you think about when you separate from your children. You don’t think about anything else, really. HERMIONE CORFIELD: Because we see them with a level of hope in that first season, trying to get back to Claire and having positivity around that and a real sense that that was going to happen. And then, at the start of Season 2, we see that it doesn’t. I think they’re in a pretty dire space, with Julia being pulled back to Lovat’s house. She’s got to regroup pretty quickly to protect William and get back to strategizing how the hell they’re going to get back. Does this life feel like a never-ending game of chess for Julia? She’s always having to think several steps ahead of everyone and everything just to stay alive. How is she feeling at this point? Does she ever feel like she has the upper hand, or does she always feel like she’s too many steps behind? CORFIELD: I feel like she has to slightly have the upper hand with Lovat, otherwise he would just probably kill her. She’s always trying to find a means to maneuver around him, whether that’s through charm, or whether that’s through flattery or pure avoidance or pretending she’s got her monthly courses. She’s constantly just taking the temperature of the room and working out how to maneuver around him. That’s been built into her now. She has to be at least a fraction ahead. Henry and Bug Discover They Have More in Common Than They Realized in ‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ Season 2 "It's a strange relationship, but it builds through the season." Image via Starz Jeremy, I found it interesting that we see a different side of Bug this season, and we see Bug and Henry have some moments of friendship after Henry returns. How would you describe their relationship this season? What was that like to explore and do you have a favorite moment between your characters? IRVINE: It’s actually something that gets explored quite a bit as we go on through Season 2. They find that they’ve got a bit more in common than they first thought. They both share a loss of a child, in a way, and they both share a love for their partner, and they bond over that. It’s a strange relationship, but it builds through the season. I was actually surprised that Bug faked the lashings that he was supposed to give Henry. IRVINE: It was a very funny scene to shoot. CORFIELD: Was it? IRVINE: Yeah, because I have to be screaming and groaning next to him. We had a laugh. Hermione, we see Julia open up to Davina about where she’s really from. What have you enjoyed about the shift in the dynamic between them? What do you love about their relationship now? CORFIELD: Davina is superstitious, so it’s something that Julia probably wouldn’t have done or even thought about doing in Season 1. As much as they come to love and trust each other, anything that takes you into the fairy folk or anything that Davina would feel superstitious towards would just be a bridge too far. But I think she feels so alone that she has to turn to Davina. I think it’s sweet because obviously it makes their bond stronger. Her sharing that with Davina, Davina takes it on as a secret that she’s going to honor and hopefully help in some way and continue to try to help her to escape. Julia and Henry Are a Work in Progress in ‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ Season 2 "It's not all just sunshine and lollipops." Image via Starz I can’t imagine everything that Julia and Henry have been through. They’ve been separated twice, Julia has been forced to be a part of Lord Lovat’s life, Henry has had his brain scrambled, and now Julia knows that Henry was with another woman. How do they come back from all of this? Can they get back on the same page again? IRVINE: We’ll see. I don’t think it’s as easy as just, “All right, move on.” CORFIELD: I think it’s a work in progress, for sure. IRVINE: It’s nice. It adds another layer and another dimension to their relationship, which I think is quite nice, actually. It’s not all just sunshine and lollipops. It allows the show an opportunity to explore mental health in a way that it hasn’t had the opportunity to do before. Jeremy, what was it like to get to explore the mental health of this character in the world of this show and have him struggle with that? IRVINE: It wouldn’t be nearly as interesting just to play the stoic hero. I don’t think that’s as exciting. He is flawed. He is broken in some ways, and then very competent in others. It’s a part of the character that I enjoy playing. I just like how Julia can call him out on some of his behavior and they can address it together. IRVINE: Exactly. She’s his partner and therapist. It feels like last season, Julia was putting Claire out of her mind because it would have been just too devastating to focus on being separated from her on top of everything else she was going through. But Claire is very present in her thoughts this season and she keeps talking about getting back to her. Is that separation going to continue to be a driving force for her this season? CORFIELD: Definitely. I think it will never go away. Until she’s back with her, I think it will be at the forefront of her mind. She also has William to think about now. She has to consider his safety. I think before she would have risked it all to get back, but now she has to consider what that means for William, particularly now that he’s Lovat’s. He’s supposedly part of the prophecy to bring him back into power. The intimacy between Henry and Julia in Episode 4 is a moment between two people who obviously love each other but are also in desperate need of connection. It doesn’t solve their issues, but it is a connection that they need in that moment. How did you view that moment between them? What do you think it meant for them? IRVINE: It’s tricky. It’s not like one of our scenes before. It’s two people needing to try and find each other again. CORFIELD: They’re trying to learn each other again. We spoke about Julia being the one holding the reins at that point. She’s the one initiating, really, and leading the moment. Henry probably wants to tread tentatively because of the subject matter they’ve just been speaking about. She’s doing it for her. She wants to feel loved, and by the person that she loves rather than Lovat, who doesn’t treat her with love or respect. It’s a joining of two people to remember each other and to reconnect. Julia Is at Her Limit in ‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ Season 2 "I think she's had it. I think she's sick of it." Image via Starz I actually think it’s really interesting that we didn’t just move on from Seema after last season, but it’s also a huge conversation for Julia and Henry. Aside from the fact that Julia now has to get past the knowledge that Henry was with this other woman, Seema seems mentally unwell. We’re left with this moment at the end of Episode 4, where Julia doesn’t know where William and Davina are and Seema seems a bit delusional about Henry. What can you say about what we can continue to expect from that this season? CORFIELD: I think Julia is at her limit now. I think she’s had it. I think she’s sick of it. She’s sick of Lovat. She’s sick of her husband cheating on her. Now, she’s got a crazy woman with a knife, and she doesn’t know where her baby is. IRVINE: The perfect person to take it out on. CORFIELD: Yeah. Who are you going to go for? Seema is coming towards her in quite a violent manner and Julia will react accordingly. What is it like for her to even have to deal with this whole situation with this woman who’s right in front of her, even without the mental issues on top of that? CORFIELD: I think it’s complete torture. Before, when she went to see Henry, she was not 100% sure whether it was true or not. She knows something is up, but she’s trying to avoid her around Leathers. And then, once she has confirmed that it’s true, she comes back and sees Seema there with a knife. That’s the first time she’s seeing her with the knowledge of the fact that her husband did actually sleep with her and that she pretended to be her. That’s the first time we see her in Julia’s presence with the full understanding. ‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ Season 2 Ends With a Cliffhanger That Will Leave Fans Wanting Season 3 "They love a cliffhanger at the end of a season." Were there questions for you guys that you wanted to have answered by the end of this season, and how satisfied do you feel in the answers you got to your own questions, as far as where things end up for your characters? Do you feel satisfied about how things played out? IRVINE: We need a Season 3. CORFIELD: Season 2 is a bit of a cliffhanger for both of us. IRVINE: Yeah. They love a cliffhanger at the end of a season. You had the cliffhanger last season too. CORFIELD: Yeah, and we’ve got another one coming. I’m very unsure of Julia’s fate. I don’t know what’s coming next, to be completely honest, from where the season ends. We have no idea. It could go anywhere… We’re either hanging in the balance or being tortured. Release Date August 8, 2025 Network Starz Showrunner Matthew B. Roberts Cast Harriet Slater Ellen MacKenzie Franchise(s) Outlander Creator(s) Matthew B. Roberts Seasons 1