Outlander season 7’s finale ended with a significant mystery, and a forgotten detail from season 2 may be the answer. The last we saw of Claire in season 7, she was concluding that her stillborn daughter, Faith, had somehow survived. This is a significant surprise since audiences watched Claire hold the body of the infant for what is implied to be hours before she was taken away for burial. Outlander season 8 will come with answers, and a deeper dive into what all happened in season 2 is sure to be necessary.
Faith Fraser was born during the events of Outlander season 2, in which Claire and Jamie spent their time living in France. This was also when Claire met Master Raymond, who made his first reappearance since in the finale of Outlander season 7. The fact that both Faith and Master Raymond have again become so crucial in the romantacy series’ ending implies that more details of season 2 will come to the forefront. There may be subtle details from this early installment of Outlander that will suddenly become far more important, and more friends, like Marie Louise de La Tour, could again come into play.
Marie Louise de La Tour Was Pregnant With Charles Stuart’s Bastard In Outlander Season 2
It’s An Important Historical Detail From Several Seasons Past
Marie Louise de La Tour is another character whom Claire became friends with in Outlander season 2. Played by actor Claire Sermonne, this French aristocrat is based on a real person from history who famously engaged in an affair with Charles Stuart. Outlander fans will remember that this Bonnie Prince is the man for whom the Jacobites fought (and lost) at the Battle of Culloden. Claire and Jamie traveled to France, to begin with, in an effort to avoid this disastrous battle. Of course, they were unsuccessful, but their time in this country still had a significant impact.
During Louise and Claire’s time as friends, the French woman admitted that she was pregnant with Charles Stuart’s bastard. She initially intended to have an abortion to avoid a scandal, but Claire suggested that she sleep with her husband to pass the baby off as his. Louise ultimately carried through with this, and the last she was seen in Outlander, she was still carrying the child. Louise attended to Claire following the latter woman’s miscarriage and was ultimately the one to take the deceased infant away to be buried. While this seemed like a small detail in season 2, season 8 may reveal something different.
Marie Louise de La Tour Could Have Switched Her Baby With Claire’s In Outlander
Perhaps Louise’s Baby, Not Claire’s, Is The One That Died
The ending of Outlander season 7 revealed that Claire’s baby might have lived after all, though it’s currently unclear how this could have happened. The prominent theory is that Master Raymond used his blue-light magic to heal the infant, but this might not turn out to be true. It’s possible that Faith hadn’t died at all and was switched out for another baby before Claire awoke and held her child’s body. Since Marie Louise de La Tour was also pregnant with a significant child, this woman may have been the one to switch out the infants—she was there at the hospital, after all.
In Outlander, it’s possible that the French aristocrat passed off her own dead child for Claire’s and took her friend’s daughter as her own to fill in as Charles’ bastard.
According to history, Marie and Charles Stuard had a boy who died in infancy. In Outlander, it’s possible that the French aristocrat passed off her own dead child for Claire’s and took her friend’s daughter as her own to fill in as Charles’ bastard. Of course, this would require season 8 to adjust the real-world story significantly. There would also have to be an explanation regarding how the baby grew up to be Faith Pocock.
Surely, Master Raymond would have something to do with it all, as indicated by his appearance in Outlander season 7’s finale. The story would require some twisting and turning. Still, considering the Jacobites’ role in the overarching story of Outlander, it would make a great deal of sense that all of this would have something to do with ensuring that there was someone to serve as a Scottish heir if anything happened to Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Outlander’s Faith Twist Could Tie In With The Forgotten 200-Year-Old Baby Prophecy
Everything Comes Down To The Jacobite Mission
Marie Louise de La Tour having something to do with Faith Fraser’s twist in Outlander could also connect to another forgotten detail of the series. Geillis Duncan’s primary goal in Outlander was to change history so that a Scot would again sit on the English throne. In season 3, Geillis became invested in a prophecy that stated the Scottish heir would be revealed following the death of a 200-year-old baby. She concluded that this was Brianna since Claire’s second daughter was conceived in the 18th century but born in the 20th. This prophecy has essentially been forgotten all these seasons later.
Outlander season 8 will be the TV show’s last chance to pay off the prophecy made back in season 3. The fact that Claire was pregnant with Faith at the same time that Marie Louise de La Tour was pregnant with Charles Stuart’s bastard certainly implies that all this could be connected. Unfortunately, for any answers to come to the surface, it looks as if Brianna would have to die—certainly not something we would like to see happen in Outlander season 8. For now, only time can reveal the full picture, but it certainly seems that further details from season 2 will have to be involved in these much-needed answers.