Afterwards, Roger performs oral sex on Bree, and once again, we see her face so that we can’t miss her pleasure.

Bree’s a virgin, so when Roger does penetrate her, we’re aware of her arousal as well as her pain. It is physically specific, and it’s focalized through Bree’s experience. The sex scene between Bree and Roger in “Wilmington” is visually and ideologically in keeping with the scenes we’ve seen between Claire and Jamie in the past. The foundation of the first season’s wedding episode is a radical trio of sexual encounters, beginning with Claire’s underwhelming first time with Jamie and continuing through a plot that ties communication and emotional openness to the experience of female sexual pleasure. Moore’s insistence that they be realistic and prioritize a female point of view. Outlander has an established history of sex scenes that focus on female pleasure, and the show has gotten so much attention for its sex scenes in large part because of showrunner Ronald D. The effect has less to do with Roger’s (or the viewer’s) pleasure in Bree’s body, because the camera usually lingers on Bree’s face. Roger gazes at Bree’s naked body in appreciation her nudity is sexual, but it’s also a display of her vulnerability and a sign of their intimacy. Bonnet gives her the ring, and then Brianna walks away, injured and stunned. When the camera cuts back to the pub’s private room, Bree is bloodied and weeping, and lifts herself gingerly off the table. One man gives a half-shrug, and continues staring at the table. Men play a card game, and they occasionally turn around, listening to Brianna screaming in the background.

Someone knocks over a pair of boots in a hallway and then props them back up.

Although we can hear Brianna’s weeping and her attempts to fight back, the sound plays over images of mundane activity in the pub. After that initial attack, though, the rape scene that follows is as circumspect as the preceding sex scene is revealing. Brianna spots her mother’s ring and tries to haggle with Stephen Bonnet to get it back, before Bonnet leads her into a private back room where he knocks her to the ground and then pins her to a table. It is romantic, and like many Outlander sex scenes, it’s also explicit. They become handfast in an intimate wedding ceremony from an ancient Scottish tradition, and then consummate their new marriage in front of a roaring fire. One of them is a sex scene between Brianna and Roger, who’ve both traveled to the past and somehow managed to find each other on the other side of the world. Outlander’s eighth episode this season, “ Wilmington,” puts two scenes in conversation with each other. Spoilers for “Wilmington,” episode eight of the fourth season of Outlander, lie ahead. Photo: Aimee Spinks/© 2018 Starz Entertainment, LLC

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