"Outlander" season 3 will continue the romance of Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) despite being separated across thousands of miles and hundreds of years. However, season 3 will notably open in a very differently way compared to how the original books started.
Season 3 is based on "Voyager," the third novel in the series by author Dana Gabaldon. In the novel, Jamie remembers very little about the tragic Battle of Culloden, which he subsequently lost in. According to a report from Entertainment Weekly, however, the show will start by depicting this very brutal battle.
"It just felt like for the TV show, we've been promising this for a while and it just felt like we should have something," explained executive producer Ronald D. Moore. "We should give the audience some sense of what happened on that moor," he added.
Jamie will be going against Jonathan Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies), his rival who imprisoned him and then raped him back in season 1. Moore also promised that this will be played out more and that the battle which officially ended the Scottish clan system will be one of the show's biggest set pieces to date.
The show will continue its tale as Jamie and Claire try to move on, with Jamie still in the past and Claire now in the Civil Rights era. Sophie Skelton has been confirmed to return as Claire and Jamie's daughter, Brianna, who may serve as a catalyst for Jamie and Claire to get back together.
A previous report also confirmed that before Claire gets back to the seventeenth century, Jamie will be paroled after several years and later employed in a mansion. He is rumored to have a child with the manor owner's daughter, a plot present in the novel, and this may complicate his reunion with Claire.
"Outlander" season 3 is expected to premiere in 2017.
