'Outlander': Sam Heughan & Tobias Menzies On The Return Of Black Jack Randall 

'Outlander': Sam Heughan & Tobias Menzies On The Return Of Black Jack Randall

Not long after learning his tormenter was still alive, Jamie Fraser came face-to-face with Black Jack Randall in Saturday night\'s "Outlander." 

The two bumped into each other at a garden party at Versailles, right in front of King Louis XV (Lionel Lingelser). Since the law forbade anyone from drawing a sword in the presence of the King – under penalty of death – the moment was tense and filled with plenty of subtext. 

"What\'s fun about that is to play all that history between the three of us through the lens of being in front of the French King and the sort of etiquette that\'s required with that," Tobias Menzies told Access Hollywood when we asked him what he enjoyed about shooting the scene. "What\'s good about that is it puts a kind of a lid on. That came out through sort of discussion in rehearsal -- to sort of take all that emotion and then jam it into that situation I think pays dividends because it then becomes incredibly sort of like, what the hell do you do in that situation?" 

Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser, Tobias Menzies as Black Jack Randall and Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser in 'Outlander' Season 2, Episode 5 -- 'Untimely Resurrection' (Starz)

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Sam Heughan, who plays Jamie Fraser, said there were a lot of emotions on the day. 

"I hadn\'t seen Tobias since we\'d filmed all that stuff, and to see this red coat from a distance in the gardens, it was so striking -- I mean, Terry\'s costumes look amazing -- this bright red… and it brought up a lot of emotion for me and for I guess the character," Sam told Access. "And then, also to be in his presence, but not be able to address him because the King\'s there, because it\'s dangerous. And then, when he\'s belittled by the King and made to sort of bow down, there was a real satisfaction and again, quite emotional reaction to it, but of course you can\'t show it. But surprisingly Jamie comes out of it very level-headed." 

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While Claire and Jamie had the King\'s favor in the moment, Jack didn\'t fare so well. The King toyed with him after Jack revealed he was in France to ask the Duke of Sandringham to reconsider firing his younger brother, Alex Randall, following Alex\'s arrest on a charge the young man wasn\'t guilty of. In a surprising moment, the King slyly suggested Jack get on his knees, tying the line later to his idea of how Jack could approach the Duke.

Was the exchange a sign that Jack doesn\'t fit into French society? 

"I think he can handle himself," Tobias said of his character. "I was interested in meeting someone slightly less confident than we\'ve met in Season 1, that we [sort] of see the physical fallout from his injuries, and also, that he\'s in a foreign land, a land that Britain is at war with. And yeah, he\'s not in control. And we haven\'t seen a lot of that and I think that\'s interesting." 

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