Allow me to quote a great woman: Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ, this week’s Outlander: Blood of My Blood is hot.

Brian and Ellen meet up at a Beltane festival, where the ceremonial bonfire looks like a blow-out birthday candle in comparison to the flames coming off Jamie Fraser’s smoldering folks. Elsewhere, a fortune teller spins a prophecy about Julia’s child that has Simon seeing crowns and threatening murder.

Read on for the highlights of Episode 5, “Needfire.”

NO BELTANE FOR YOU! | Remember how Julia was planning to help Brian at the Beltane festival, in exchange for his aid in escaping Castle Leathers? That plan goes to hell when Davina intercepts them and forbids Julia to go, because a seer named Maisri is coming to the castle. “Lovat holds reading for all his bairns,” she adds

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