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Hi, welcome to the Outlander Podcast.

For episode 502, I'm Tony Grafia, writer and executive

producer and I'm here with Luke Skelhaus co-executive producer and writer and

Tony and I wrote this episode together.

And we jump right in with a cold opening here

showing a tar and feathering

being done by the regulators.

And this scene actually used to be it was written as part of the

ending of episode 501 but as happens occasionally we do move scenes to different episodes.

And I believe in the case of episode 501,

it was better to end on the ending that's there which is I believe the Murataw Jamie

ending and that we would kick off this episode so we kind of stole this scene

from that so I give Matt credit on this scene. It's a great scene and I think it's

important because you know we always show the rebels who are you know the victims

and the victims of corruption and the people who are being

mistreated and rightfully you know protesting and being upset about what's

being done to them but we since we have Jamie as part of the you know working for the crown in this episode who's

supposed to be hunting them stopping them. You have to show that you know keys

you know, these guys are protesting, but they're also doing a lot of violence.

There is some collateral damage in the towns that they go in and stir up the violence.

So they're not, you know, totally, I wouldn't say blameless, but they are doing, they're not doing a peaceful protest you know there they're choosing to hurt people some people that are involved some people get hurt that maybe aren't directly involved so maybe there's a little bit of

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