Hello and welcome to the podcast for episode 206, Best Laid Schemes.

I'm Ronald D. Moore, developer and executive producer of the Outlander television series.

I'm joined today by my friend and colleague Matt Roberts.

Hello, everybody.

Matt wrote this episode.

This is a fun one for us.

This episode, I'm trying to remember way back at the beginning.

We always knew that this was going to be the dual episode.

We did.

Actually, this was combined, if you remember, five and six were together at one point.

Yeah.

And it got so full.

Yeah. And over the course of our learning experience, we realized our scenes play out a little longer

than the normal show.

So we decided to split the episodes, but knowing full well, we would end with the duel.

Where was the split? Do you remember what the, where we split,

split them up? Well we decided to split on the, uh, the promise. So it was, where when Claire

says, promise me you won't, you won't kill Blackjack for a year and we decided that's where,

because that was in the middle of the episode. Yeah. Originally. Right.

So. Yeah, I was talking last week in the, in the previous podcast about how, there was a point where we had King James in the earlier versions at the dinner party and some of the fallout and all that kind of stuff. And I think that all, it, we rejiggered the structure a couple of times coming into this.

Now you shot, did you shoot that?

I did.

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