

The camera cuts to a different room and we see the same young man give a eulogy to his father whom he and others refer to as “the reverend”. A mousey looking woman, Fiona, walks in and tells the young man that his guests are asking after him. And, as the camera zooms out, we see a young man watching TV with a group of children a caption informs us that this is 1968 and we are in Scotland. “Dragonfly in Amber” opens with a grainy black-and-white image of a buzzer with the name “ Emma Peel” on it. Figuratively, so much is going on in this episode that I’d best get on with … Dragonfly in Amber – My Recap Dragonfly in Amber – The Wake

Clocking in at just under an hour and a half, “Dragonfly in Amber” is the longest episode of Outlander yet. The novel Dragonfly in Amber is Gabaldon’s second book in the series but it’s not clear whether or not Season Three will cover events from the third book, Voyager.Īs an episode, “Dragonfly in Amber” was a big one both literally and figuratively. With eight books in the series and a ninth on the way (not including novellas, short stories, nor the Lord John spinoff series) there’s a great deal of material to cover. Now that Season Two is over, it seems that Outlander is casting off its cloak of preamble and getting into the meat of Diana Gabaldon’s book series.

Outlander’s second season showed viewers a bit of everything: plotting, murder, loss, grief, time travel, and potatoes.
