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Hello everyone.

Welcome to the Outlander Podcast. I'm Matt Roberts, executive producer and writer on Outlander,

and we're here again alone in my home office and during more of the lockdown for coronavirus,

as I'm sure all of you are as well.

Social distancing is what we're calling it.

Anyway, I'm social distancing from our writing staff

as we go.

We are actually working on season six

thankfully technology has brought us to a place where we can all

communicate on a daily basis and just so you know the writers are working hard, you know,

breaking season six and getting the scripts written and moving forward as best we can

hopefully to keep a drought lander as short as possible.

Not that we have any say about what the virus does, but we're doing our part here. Here we are with episode 5. 10

Mercy Shall Follow Me. This was written by Megan Farrell Burke directed by Annie Griffin and yeah, here we are

Wilmington.

This was an episode we talked about when we were breaking.

Stephen Bonnet, who is now with us on screen. We talked about finishing the bonnet story throughout the season so far.

We have given little tidbits of what he's been doing in his life and

working behind the scenes to really, you know, get his son back that who he perceives his son. So we worked into we worked in the room trying to see where the best fit to bring the story to

a conclusion and episode 10 seemed to be the perfect spot and as you'll know the book readers as

you'll notice we brought a story from book six up into this episode. We've always kind of never shied away from finding something in a

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