The latest episode of Outlander, "A Hundredweight of Stone," was intense. Claire Fraser (Caitriona Balfe) was trying to wrap her head around the idea that her husband Jamie (Sam Heughan) had died at sea. She was staying with her friend Lord John Grey (David Berry), who also loved Jamie. They were both distraught, and in their pain and grief, something unexpected happened: they had sex.

The cast and crew talked to Glamour about that surprising scene. “Everyone had big thoughts and feelings about that scene,” said executive producer Maril Davis. “But to me, it was a no-brainer. It had to be shown. I think it just shows the lengths or the depths of grief that's happening, that these two people who would never normally be together are thrown together in their joint grief and their need to connect to Jamie.”

It felt like we had to show some version of them together.