For Fans of the Outlander Books and Show

We binge Jamie and Claire’s love story and eagerly demand more, more, more, but rarely get a deep look at what a herculean task it is to bring their adventure to the small screen. So with the gripping finale behind us, let’s pull back the curtain on how all the latest chapter of the Frasers' story came to life.

The journey really began in the spring of 2016, when the Outlander writers’ room gathered to begin “breaking” the season — a process in which the staff plots out the narrative for the coming year as a team, starting with the big, tentpole moments from Diana Gabaldon’s books (in this case, Voyager, the third novel in her ongoing Outlander series) which shape the overall arc, then figuring out what else needs to happen to get our characters from point A to point B.

Executive producers Matt Roberts and Toni Graphia once again partnered to write the finale, as they did in Season 2, with Roberts also making his directorial debut on the episode. While scripts are usually assigned to writers during the process of breaking the season, the duo always knew that episode 313 would be theirs.