Spoiler Alert!
Season 4 of W Network’s “Outlander” is over and fans are left waiting with bated breath after its cliffhanger finale on Sunday night, in which Jamie receives official orders from the Crown to fight the Regulators and hunt down and kill his godfather Murtagh.
But the season’s ending was almost very different from what fans got to see, executive producer Toni Graphia told TV Line in an interview.
In the original ending, Jamie received no orders and the cliffhanger was actually going to have to do with Roger’s disappearance.
“We’re like, OK… let’s do a real cliffhanger. Let’s have them come back without Roger, and let’s have Brianna say, ‘Where’s Roger?’ and cut to black,” Graphia explained.
“Then the more we thought about it, ‘Droughtlander’ tends to be long, and we didn’t want to leave people that long wondering was Roger really that much of a jerk that he wasn’t going to come back to her,” she said. “Roger had been through so much this season, and Brianna too, that we wanted them to have some happiness.”
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Asked about season 5 and whether fans of the book series might get to see the Fraser clan attend the gathering of Highlanders in North Carolina, Graphia was tight-lipped.
“I will be killed if I talk about season 5,” she said. “But let’s say that things that we don’t have room for in one season, we do try to find places for down the road. So it’s possible that we’ll see some of that.”
Stay tuned for the return of “Outlander” on W Network next season.
