On May 9, 2018, Starz announced that the series would be renewed for two more seasons (season 5 and season 6). Claire: "You beast." Jack: "You can do better than that.Here's what else we know so far about season 6: Outlander season six will air in early 2022. Claire had several powerful moments in this episode, from her vomiting after talking to Sir Fletcher, to her holding on to Jamie while Jack assaulted him. That hammer made me nervous throughout the entire episode, and it's no wonder! It was really used for terrible things. "Nothing like a wife to make a man feel disquieted at his own death" - McQuarrie. I did like Jack referencing Brutus, since Tobias Menzies played him on the HBO series Rome. I can't pair stars with an episode like this. Though I trust in Murtagh's cattle plans to save Jamie, what may happen to him before that may be extremely hard to bear.Įpisode Rating: T for torture, H for horror. "Wentworth Prison" was an excruciating episode that is leading up to what looks to be a difficult finale. Hopefully it's soon, not just for Claire and Jamie's sake, but for ours. In Outlander, Black Jack Randall is the epitome and sum of all evil, but the only power Claire holds over him is her knowledge of the future, bestowing a "curse" upon him with the exactly date of his death. That, of course, is exactly how this back half of the season started: with Claire bent over a table, breasts bared, as Jack was about to rape her before Jamie came to her rescue.
Claire is the one who is mounting the offensive, while it is Jamie who is being tortured and sexually assaulted. "Wentworth Prison" is a fascinating subversion in that it is Claire who must find a group willing to form a rescue party, and who must scheme and even fight, with great physicality, to rescue her loved one. It makes the entire scene all the more horrifying and traumatic, and Jamie's countenance at the end of the episode is that of a man preparing to be completely broken by this act, which is worse than he could have imagined.
This is a fantasy he has obviously wanted for so long he's not going to rush a single thing. But Black Jack doesn't return to Jamie to assault him quickly - he draws it out by licking his scars and slowly undressing him. Jamie does just that, despite Claire's protestations, and Jack does keep his word by letting her go. By threatening to harm Claire, he knew Jamie would acquiesce to him, and offer up himself instead. When Claire enters the scene in her attempt to save Jamie, Jack was basically given a gift. It's not just torture, but manipulation as well. Jamie attacks him, and Marley nearly kills him in return, but then Jack kicks Marley in the face to get him off of Jamie so he doesn't kill him. He tells Jamie that any man can be broken, and proceeds to prove it. He lashes out with terrifyingly controlled rage, and yet, also acts as if all of this is part of an elaborate plan. His character is a man whose secret sexuality has been so deeply repressed within him that he has allowed it to turn into a twisted and dark thing. Tobias Menzies is completely terrifying as Jack. And as he said, he's only getting started. He "tests" Jamie's sincerity about letting Black Jack rape him by nailing his broken hand to a table while Claire holds him and cries. He coddles Jamie and then beats him, he shoves Jamie's hand again his penis, and then walks away. Ultimately, though, his desire is for Jamie, and it's a game he plays without being rushed. All of Black Jack's former torture of the two was brought back up in these exchanges, from the references to Jamie's scars to Jack considering letting his "dog" Marley rape Claire. The rest of "Wentworth Prison" focused on Claire's brave and clever - but foiled - plans to rescue Jamie, and Jamie's dealings with Black Jack in the dungeon.
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