Warning: Massive Outlander spoilers below!
Outlander fans have to officially say goodbye to Tobias Menzies after the latest episode, “All Debts Paid,” because his 1968 character, Frank Randall, dies in a car crash, thereby putting an end to not only Menzies’s time on the show, but also the marriage of Frank and Claire.
Readers of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander book series have never been big fans of Frank — because he’s a bit different in the books than he is on the TV series — but show-only viewers may be quite sad to see him go. Certainly the show’s creators are.
“For me, Frank is one of the tragic figures of Outlander,” executive producer Maril Davis told POPSUGAR in an interview. “He comes in, he agrees to raise a child that’s not his own, and he lives in a marriage where he knows is wife still loves another man . . . . The most tragic line to me is in episode three where he says, ‘In time, do you think you could have ever forgotten about him?’ and she says, ‘That amount of time doesn’t exist.’ That, to me, encapsulates the whole series. I think it’s such an interesting relationship also because we see in episode six that Claire says, ‘I loved raising Brianna with Frank. I didn’t love him, but I loved raising Brianna with Frank.’ That says so much about the relationship. They were good parents together, but they weren’t good life partners.”
Davis also remarked that she’s seen some fans express the opinion that seeing Claire with Frank somehow lessens the Claire-Jamie relationship, but she doesn’t agree with that.
“For me, [the Claire-Frank relationship] just shows how great her love is for Jamie,” said Davis. “It’d be easy to see that Claire would leave a man who isn’t faithful and who isn’t a good person. But the fact that he’s a very good guy and she still can’t love him the way she loves…
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