Summary Outlander season 7, episode 7 sets up an explosive midseason finale as the episode ends with shocking twists and crucial developments. Buck MacKenzie's warnings about Rob Cameron's intentions are proven correct, as Cameron kidnaps Jemmy, which causes separation and conflict among the MacKenzies.

Warning! SPOILERS about Outlander season 7, episode 7, and the Outlander books ahead.Part one's penultimate episode of Outlander season 7 included many shocking twists and crucial developments that will impact the rest of the season. The reveal of the Nuckelavee's true identity only answered some questions, as Brianna and Roger clearly needed to know more about Roger's ancestor that tried to have Roger hanged.

Despite their troubled past, Buck MacKenzie wasn't the biggest threat to their peace, as Rob Cameron's treacherous actions proved at the end of Outlander season 7, episode 7. The revelation will have big implications for the MacKenzies, as the trailer for Outlander season 7, episode 8 hints at Roger traveling back in time to find Jemmy.

Claire and Jamie's story in 1777 also continued with some setbacks, as Jamie's new position as rifleman protected him to a degree, but still had him end up unconscious on the battlefield at the end of Outlander season 7, episode 7. The first battle of Saratoga also marks William's first battle, which caused him to see his friend Hammond die, thus resolving his doubts about the revolutionaries, even if it raised some about the British army after the generals treated the battle as a victory when it wasn't.

All in all, Outlander season 7, episode 7 set up an explosive midseason finale for episode 8.

William's Eagerness To Fight At Saratoga Will Almost Cost Him His Life

Captain Richardson's decision to keep William from the battlefield once the opportunity to send him to General Howe to convince him arose would have stopped him from seeing the fight, but William bargained with Simon Fraser so that he could participate in the first battle of Saratoga. The experience clearly proved life-changing, as William witnessed his friend Hammond die and saw firsthand how the British army wasn't as strong as he would have expected against the revolutionaries.

However, William's willingness to participate in the fight almost cost him his life in the second battle of Saratoga.

Despite Jamie's refusal to meet his biological son on a battlefield, Outlander's seventh book, An Echo in the Bone, has them on opposite sides of it during the second battle of Saratoga. Jamie's prowess with a rifle has long been established in Outlander, but Outlander's seventh book has him almost kill his biological son, as he narrowly misses shooting William in the head in An Echo in the Bone. Whenever the second battle of Saratoga happens in Outlander season 7, it will almost risk William's life, only because he wanted to fight when he could have easily served the same cause by delivering missives in Albany.