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The Official Outlander Podcast

Episode 116: “To Ransom a Man's Soul”

The Official Outlander Podcast

STARZ

Tv & Film

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore and writer/producer Ira Steven Behr discuss “To Ransom a Man’s Soul,” Episode 116 of Outlander. Warning: spoilers ahead!

Come back each episode for a deep dive into the STARZ Original Series Outlander with the people who make the series happen.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the podcast for episode 116, the season finale of the first season of

0:06.7

Allander.

0:07.7

I'm Ronald D. Moore, executive producer and developer of the Allander series and I'm joined this time by my co-writer of this episode, Ira Stephen Bear.

0:16.0

Hello and it's exciting to both come to the end of what was a long season but it was also it's going to make me smile and I see our names together.

0:28.8

Yes.

0:29.8

On the writing credit.

0:30.8

That's been a while.

0:31.8

Yes, indeed.

0:33.0

Do we have a joint writing credit on the old show?

0:35.0

Well, we did stuff together, but I don't know if we...

0:38.0

Only with other people, like yesterday's Enterprise and the triple show but nothing like this. It's taken only 25

0:48.4

years to get to this moment. So yes my PTSD is going to come back while watching this being on the set and going through all of this

1:00.7

It's strange to be doing the podcast now. We are in Cumbernauld at the studios as we do this recording and we are pre-

1:07.0

We're about we're two days away from starting production on season two and now we're going back to the end of season one and

1:14.4

and during the podcast so it's a little out of space out of time for us.

1:20.0

Oh memories.

1:22.0

Yes. There you go. There is the time. There it is. Very nice. Wow. A long time coming.

1:30.0

All right. Well, structurally, this episode didn't change radically in from early story to final draft.

1:40.0

This opening sequence of the escape of the escape from what were in the first draft was

1:45.6

much longer and more extended it was easily twice as long played some more action

1:50.0

with centuries standing up on the ramparts watching the ceremony in the courtyard and we actually saw the highlenders outside and the cows and how they snuck in.

1:59.0

The whole sequence just kind of got collapsed for time and for production budget to a much more abbreviated

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