Hello and welcome to the podcast for episode 114.

I'm Ronald D. Moore, executive producer and developer of The Outlanders series, here to welcome you to the podcast for the show, and I'm joined once again by Matt Roberts.

Hello, everyone. It's good to be here.

Matt wrote this particular episode. The Search. This is one of my favorite episodes of the series, I have to say, of the whole first season.

I have a few favorites, but this is one of my favorites of the series.

I just remember sitting the first time and watching the director's cut of this episode in Scotland.

You were there, right?

Yes.

And the director met and was there.

And it was like, I remember having a really difficult week or a difficult day. And, you know, stresses and various burdens piled on for production. And it's been a long shoot and a long year. And, okay, I got to go watch this director's cut. And let's hope for the best. And by the end of it, I was smiling and happy and it touched me and it made me laugh and it just had all the components. And I remember just really feeling great that, you know, the show, I think I said something to Meton, like, you know, there's times on the show really gets you down and then you watch something like this and it just all kind of makes it worth it. And it did. It really did for me.

It did.

And that really, it moved him.

It touched him.

I remember we were talking to him after that,

and he said how moved he was when you said that.

Because this was a, oh, speaking of moments.

Oh, yeah.

We built this whole puppet box

specifically to be in the background

and we loved it so much

we decided to use it as a main title

so it could really stand out

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