Outlander Season 8 Episode 7 is titled “Evidence of Things Not Seen,” which is a fancy way of summing up the word “faith.”
Ever since the shocking Outlander Season 7 finale, fans of the Starz hit have been wondering how exactly Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie’s (Sam Heughan) daughter Faith could have survived and if she really was the mother of Jane (Silvia Presente) and Fanny (Florrie Mae Wilkinson). Now we finally have answers…
**Spoilers for Outlander Season 8 Episode 7 “Evidence of Things Not Seen,” now streaming on Starz**
In Outlander Season 8 Episode 7, Young Ian (John Bell) sends Jamie and Claire a letter from Philadelphia. By visiting the brothel where Jane used to work, he learned from one of her friends that a local writer had published a pamphlet about her trial and death. Ian tracked the reporter down and convinced him to part with his more detailed notes from the interview. They contained a wild story that Jane wanted to pass on to her sister Fanny about their mother’s backstory. When Claire and Jamie read this tale — dramatically presented to us via a flashback bringing back Silvia Presente — they connect the dots and realize they have enough proof to officially recognize Fanny as their granddaughter.
So what exactly happened to Faith? And why is the tragedy of her death even more upsetting? Here’s what you need to know about Faith Fraser Pocock…
Outlander Season 8 Episode 7 Ending Explained: What Really Happened to Faith Fraser? Is Fanny Really Claire and Jamie’s Granddaughter?
In this week’s Outlander we learned that Jane and Fanny’s mother Faith told Jane a peculiar story when she was growing up. Apparently Faith was adopted and raised by a lacemaker in Paris. This lacemaker was given baby Faith to watch over by an apothecary who lived across the street. He told her to watch over the infant until he returned, but if he didn’t come back, the lacemaker needed to find the Lady Broch Turouch. When the apothecary never returned, the woman looked for this mysterious lady, but couldn’t find her.
According to Jane, her mother finally learned that the Lady of Broch Turouch was living in the mountains of North Carolina. The Pocock family was literally traveling to America to reunited with Claire and Jamie when pirates took over their ship, resulting in Faith falling overboard and Jane’s sexual assault and enslavement.
Jamie and Claire present Fanny with this information, explaining their connection to Master Raymond in Paris, who lived across the street from a lacemaker. While Fanny is initially overwhelmed, she eventually accepts Claire and Jamie as her grandparents. She even goes so far as to build a cairn for her “Grandda” to mourn fallen adopted son Fergus (Cesar Domboy).
However, even Fanny has one more question. Even if Claire sang the same song to Faith as a baby that Faith sang to her daughters, how did Faith possibly know the song after all that time? Even Fanny knows that newborns don’t exactly have that level of cognition.
The final scene in this week’s Outlander ties it all together…
How Did Faith Learn Claire’s “I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside” Song on Outlander?
The final scene in this week’s Outlander confirms Claire’s theory that Faith Pocock was really Faith Fraser. We literally see Master Raymond take baby Faith to the lacemaker, explaining she is the only person on earth he trusts to take care of the baby.
Master Raymond tells the lacemaker that “her father is in prison and her mother is very ill” and that “her name is Faith.”
After giving his plea to find Lady Broch Turouch if he doesn’t return, he adds that there’s a song that the baby’s mother sang to her.
Master Raymond then sings, “I do like to be beside the seaside,” and the lacemaker joins in, learning the song tout suite as the French would say.
So, yes, Master Raymond saved baby Faith from death and left her in the care of a Parisian lacemaker who had managed to learn an early 20th century bop with just one listen. She then sang that song to the baby, who grew up knowing it as the sole connection she had to her birth mother, the Lady of Broch Turouch. Faith then taught it to her daughters, which is how Fanny came to sing it in that church outside Monmouth, setting this whole storyline in motion!
There are only three episodes left in Outlander. The next episode of Outlander premieres on Friday, April 24 at 9 AM ET on Starz or at 8 PM on the Starz channel.