Outlander: Blood of My Blood stars drop some exciting secrets about the show's most pivotal episode

Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 1 is halfway through as the sixth episode, Birthright, aired on September 5, 2025. The prequel to Starz's decade-old popular show Outlander revolves around Claire and Jamie's respective parents. Fans will learn more about Julia Moriston and Henry Beauchamp (Claire's parents), and Brian Fraser and Ellen MacKenzie's (Jamie's parents) story in Blood of My Blood.

Blood of My Blood's premiere episode shocked Outlander fans across the world when it aired a month ago on August 8, 2025. In the original series, Clarie revealed that her parents died in a car crash in 1923 when she was just five. Since then, she was adopted by her father Henry's brother, Quentin Beauchamp. But Outlander: Blood of My Blood suggests that there is more to Claire's parents' story than what the original series or the books suggested.

We learn that Henry and Julia traveled back in time, much like their daughter would end up doing in 1945. There, both Julia and Henry are separated, and Outlander: Blood of My Blood would see the isolated couple attempting to find each other. As that happens, fans would see them encounter Jamie's parents, Brian and Ellen.

Outlander: Blood of My Blood Episode sees the birth of Julia and Henry's second child

Outlander: Blood of My Blood inadvertently adds more to Claire's backstory by revealing that Julia was pregnant at the time of the crash. While she and Henry are both transported to a historical period in Scotland, they have yet to reunite. Julia makes the hard choice of working as a maidservant for Brian's father, Lord Lovat. Henry, meanwhile, takes up the position of bladier (advisor) to the Grants clan to find Julia.

The Grants are a rival to the Fraser clan, and in this season of Outlander: Blood of My Blood, its youngest member, Malcolm, is about to marry Ellen. However, we already know that this won't happen, considering Ellen does end up with Brian. However, the sixth episode of Blood of My Blood delivered a nail-biting hour for the fans on September 5, 2025, as Julia goes into labor. It opens with her monologue that goes:

“They say a man is born alone and dies alone. But whoever said that is clearly not of the female persuasion. Because it’s not true — at least, the first part isn’t. Man is born of a woman, who is with you through your birth. A mother.”

Julia seduces Lovat in a bid to save her and Henry's second child, to pass the brutal Lord as the father in a previous Outlander: Blood of My Blood episode. The prequel has positioned Lord Lovat as one of the show's most villainous characters. She even informs Brian about the child in her womb being his half-brother in a bid for protection, making them allies.

The main focus of Birthright, the sixth episode of Outlander: Blood of My Blood, is mostly on Julia in labor. She is initially supported by the midwives in Castle Leathers (Lord Lovat's abode) in the delivery of the child. However, the Castle Leathers' housekeeper and Brian's biological mother, Davina Porter, accuses Julia of seducing Lord Lovat, which turns them against her.

But Julia manages to appeal to Davina's better side and convinces her to help, which the latter ends up doing alone. Actress Hermione Corfield, who plays Julia, told The Hollywood Reporter that Davina probably saw a younger version of herself in Julia at that moment, as she was also taken advantage of by Lord Lovat:

“In that moment, Davina recognizes her younger self, but also it’s a moment of mother to mother. Julia is appealing to Davina as a mother and saying, ‘You are the person that shaped your child. [He has] nothing to do with Lord Lovat. Don’t leave my child at the mercy of Lord Lovat. Let me survive this so I can raise the child myself.’ I think it’s that appeal that really gets through to Davina.”

Meanwhile, Henry breaks down in this Outlander: Blood of My Blood episode

Henry plans to ask some midwives in the surrounding area to learn if anyone recently helped Julia give birth. The Grants' loyal servant, Arch Bug, offers to bring some of the midwives to the estate, but he has bribed one of them to lie that Julia and her child are gone and that they are buried in an unmarked grave. This revelation breaks Henry, who runs through the street laughing.

Actor Jeremy Irvine provided insight into this scene in the same The Hollywood Reporter interview:

“We’ve seen Henry and Julia and how in love they are when they’re together. Now, we’ve got to show that if he believes she’s gone, that if she’s dead, then part of him is dead. He would die for her in a second. And if that person is gone, then he needs to be completely and utterly broken,” explains Irvine. “I wanted to go from that [feeling] and then go to the exact opposite, because I thought that would be incredibly unsettling to watch — to see him go from this utter desolation and grief to elation."

Irvine continued:

“When we read it, there wasn’t any sort of laughing in the script, but I thought, ‘God, what if he starts laughing? What if he’s just suddenly incredibly happy?’ I thought we have to show how mad [or insane] he is. If we don’t show him mentally losing grip on reality, then are we going to sympathize with him when he goes and does this awful thing with Seema? I just thought it’d be really unsettling to show him going to the absolute darkest place and then coming out a few minutes later in the opposite emotion to show his fragile mental state.”

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