These Characters Won't Return For Outlander's Season 7 Part 2

The first part of Outlander Season 7 featured no shortage of fascinating characters in both the 18th and 20th centuries. The midseason finale showed us the heartbreaking return of Jamie, Claire, and Young Ian to Scotland after the terrifying Second Battle of Saratoga, while other members of the Fraser family were left behind in the New World. Will these characters be part of the season's Part 2?

Outlander executive producer Maril Davis recently answered the question.

The characters in question are Fergus Fraser and his wife Marsali, played by César Domboy and Lauren Lyle, respectively. The last time fans saw the couple and their children was in Season 6. Back then, the family decided to leave Fraser's Ridge due to prejudice against their son, Henri-Christian, who was born with dwarfism, as the residents believed the child's condition was punishment for his parents' sins.

Fearing for their children's lives, the couple (with the help of Sam Heughan's Jamie) moved to the nearby town of New Bern, where Fergus took a job at the local print shop. But there has been no word of their fate since, and the characters are not going to reappear in the upcoming episodes of Season 7, the series' producer revealed.

'No unfortunately, we'll not see Marsali and Fergus this season,' Maril Davis said.

According to the producer, Fergus and Marsali's storyline could have been continued this season, but the actors' busy schedules prevented them from participating in production.

'You know, Lauren [Lyle] was busy with a couple of other things as was César [Domboy], so you know, that was purposely in talking with those actors and where we decided to take this season, we don't see their stories unfortunately,' Davis concluded.

In Diana Gabaldon's books, Fergus and Marsali's story doesn't end in New Bern. So if the series' writers are willing to devote some of the narrative to this branch of the Fraser family, we'll probably see them again in Oulander's final season.

However, we can't rule out the possibility that the writers decide to keep them in New Bern for good, where they would live happily ever after.

Season 8 will be the last for the show while Diana Gabaldon continues to write her final novel in the Outlander cycle. This means the finales of the series and the book saga will be different, and we have yet to find out what both Gabaldon and the producers have in store for the characters.

Source: Daily Express.