Stephen Bonnet is back in this week’s episode ofOutlander!
It’s a swan song for him, but he at least gets to go out with a bang.
In Wilmington, Bonnet and Forbes are plotting while hanging out at a brothel.
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Forbes wants Bonnet to lay low and be more discreet, but Bonnet doesn’t roll like that.
All Bonnet is concerned about is going to the magistrate to claim Jeremiah as his son.
Oh, and Forbes will get 20 percent of the inheritance.
She and Bree run errands, but it feels like someone is watching them.
Roger tells Jamie when Bonnet comes, he wants to be the one to kill him.
Jamie is concerned since Roger has never killed a man.
But Roger makes an impassioned speech about how Brianna is his wife and Bonnet is his to take down.
A rowboat arrives, but Bonnet is not there.
The sailors declare that they’ve been sent to fetch the goods.
Ian balks, insisting that was not the arrangement.
The men get suspicious: Where are the barrels of whisky?
Bree and Claire enjoy an afternoon at the seashore.
They collect shells and sponges to use for medical tools.
As they race along the shore, Bree reflects on how much she lovesMoby Dick.
As Claire gathers shells, Bonnet comes upon her in the sand dunes.
He promises to let Claire go if Bree comes with him.
It’s her and his son that he wants.
He knocks Claire and Bree out in a scuffle, and everything goes black.
Claire wakes up to find Bree gone and screams her name.
She goes to tell Jamie and Roger the bad news.
Bree is, in fact, now in Bonnet’s clutches and wakes on a couch in his hideaway.
He’s laying on the gentleman act pretty thick, pouring her tea.
He explains he left Claire on the beach.
Bonnet says they know the truth that they made him together.
He wants to do right by them and be a real dad.
She says he can’t be taught what he needs most: a moral compass.
Bonnet insists fate has brought them together to be parents to Jeremiah.
Bree quickly realizes Bonnet might be illiterate and offers to do the reading herself.
Like I said, this is the most f—ed up version ofBeauty and the Beastever.
Bonnet lashes out insisting there’s two sides to every storyand she doesn’t know his.
He wants Bree to learn to love him for the sake of their son.
To get Bonnet away from her, she offers to read to him.
She picks upThe Art of Husbandry,but she begins to reciteMoby Dickto him from memory.
Because apparently Bree has memorized this entire tome, which may be the single most impressive thing about her.
Like, who does that?
Bree, my appreciation of you rose exponentially during this episode.
Anyway, Bonnet is very into the story and pleased to learn his son likes tales of the sea.
Time passes, and he wants to know the end of the story and whether Ahab gets the whale.
He is, of course, rooting for Ahab to get his revenge and slaughter the whale.
But Bree almost gleefully tells him that the whale prevails and Ahab is drowned.
This leads Bonnet to open up about his nightmares, explaining that the sea calls to him.
Bonnet wants to know if Jeremiah gets scared, and she says he needs his mother.
Bonnet reveals that he had no mother or father, but was an orphan.
He is moved to tears and begs Bree to show him how to comfort their son.
She explains she goes to Jemmy and takes him in her arms and holds him until he feels safe.
Bonnet takes advantage of this, taking her in his arms and asking her to teach him.
She withdraws, insisting a lady would say good night now and go to bed alone.
Surprisingly, he assents and walks out.
The next morning they share breakfast again, and Bonnet continues his flights of fancy.
She tells him she needs to go and fetch Jeremiah.
She even tells him fate would bring her back to him.
Bonnet seems to buy it for a time, relishing that it’s what they both want.
He wonders if he and Bree should spend more time together first to bond.
But she insists she misses Jemmy and wants Bonnet to meet him.
The sooner she leaves, the sooner she can return.
It looks like a perfectly chaste kiss to me, but that’s somehow not good enough for Bonnet.
He immediately gets angry, saying he doesn’t need to be taught to kiss and his is lacking.
He hoped Bree was being truthful, but let his feelings cloud his judgment.
The last time he made this mistake he was a young workman, believing the other men liked him.
Instead, they got him drunk and left him for dead.
He pulls down her bodice and immediately starts ravishing her in front of Bree.
Bree is horrified, the moment triggering an episode of PTSD, remembering her rape.
The woman offers to let Bonnet watch her and Bree for a few more coins.
Instead, he goes to fetch the woman’s money with instructions for her to watch Bree.
Bree uses her to find out where they are, on an island called Okracoke.
Bree tells her she’s being held against her will.
The woman is afraid of Bonnet, however, and rejects Bree’s plea.
Wylie says he doesn’t know and that Bonnet made his life a misery, blackmailing him.
But with a little more pointy persuasion, Wylie tells them to look for information at Mistress Sylvie’s.
Back at River Run, Jocasta is eagerly awaiting a visit from Forbes.
Ulysses comes in just in time and breaks Forbes' neck, saving Jocasta.
Jamie and Claire go to the brothel, wanting to question the women about Bonnet.
The girl Bree saw on the island is there, but denies any knowledge of Bonnet.
Claire diagnoses her hip and back pain.
This prompts the girl to give her information on Bonnet.
Back on the island, Bonnet has decided to sell Bree to one Captain Howard.
He smells her and feels her up.
But the Captain is excited by the prospect of breaking a wild mare.
He offers six pounds for her, and Bonnet says she’s not worth more than that.
She’s only property to him.
The Captain needs Bonnet to follow them to the boat to fetch his purse.
The Frasers are there, and Bree tries to run to Claire.
Bonnet tackles her, and there’s a fight.
Roger chases Bonnet up the dunes, and beats him until he passes out.
They tie Bonnet up, and ask Bree what she wants to do with him.
Bree wants to take him to Wilmington for the law to deal with him.
Later, we see that Bonnet has been sentenced to drown.
His worst fear comes true.
He is tied to a post in the water, left for dead as the tide slowly rises.
He is screaming and struggles to hold himself above the water.
He stares suddenly, as if he recognizes someone on shore and a shot rings out.
He dies instantly as the bullet hits him in the head.
