Every episode of Outlander season 5, ranked worst to best

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10. “The Company We Keep” Season 5, Episode 4

When I think of this episode, I think of Roger. With Jamie absent, Roger and Fergus take control of the militia, and it places Roger in a place where he truly has to make the decisions.

I’ve run hot and cold with Roger over the course of the series, but in this episode, I realized that he has had the odds stacked against him, and he prevailed. He’s a 20th-century guy living in an 18th-century world, and he’s trying.

This episode may not move the overall plot forward much, but it does develop Jamie and Roger’s relationship. Jamie isn’t pleased with what happened in his absence, or how Roger dealt with the whole “militiaman gets a girl pregnant, but her father is trying to get her married off to someone else” situation. But it’s in how these two (and Claire) come together where we see that Jamie realizing that Roger has it in him. And that level of mutual respect will grow from there.

However, this episode did frustrate me when it came to Brianna. Knowing what she went through with Bonnet, I didn’t understand why Jamie, Roger, and Claire left her behind at the Ridge. I understand that there are other people there, but it doesn’t mean Bonnet can’t get to her anyway. It was annoying to watch Brianna freak out when Jemmy goes missing for a little bit. She shouldn’t even be in that position and needed her family’s support — at least one of them should have stayed back.

This point by no means renders the episode boring or bad, but it grated enough to rank the episode fairly low on the list.