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Hello and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Ronald D. Moore, executive producer and developer of the Outlander Television Series.

I'm here to welcome you to the Outlander Television Series.

I'm here to welcome you to the podcast for episode 302

Surrender and joined this week by my fellow executive producers

Tony Grafia.

Hi.

And Matt Roberts.

Hello.

All right guys.

Well this is now we're definitely, we're out of the premiere into the meat of the season.

This is sort of an interesting episode where we really start

doing the aggressive kind of back and forth between the the two storylines that you'll

see dominate the first half of the season, spending time in Claire's world

with Frank and also sort of advancing the Jamie story.

I remember overall when we were looking at the board of the season it seemed kind of clear in the

Writers Room right away that the Jamie story was sort of the one that was going to provide sort of the the tempo you know the Jamie's story kind of broke down kind of quickly into discrete episodes by the nature of the way Diana had laid it out in the book.

And so it just seemed like, oh, well, this is an episode, that's an episode, that's an episode.

And then we kind of went back and said, all right right how do we develop the Claire story along the line

So where did the Claire story where did the Claire or actually as were on the Jamie story first right in the episode where do we start here? We starting in Lollybrook? the months.

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