Outlander's Final Season: First Footage Hints At Jamie's Fate (And It's Not Great) — Watch

James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser has cheated death more times than we can count, but still: A new teaser for Outlander's upcoming final season gives us serious pause.

"I've been reading Frank's book," Jamie says in the trailer above, released in conjunction with the show's San Diego Comic-Con panel Friday. What does it say, a worried-looking Claire asks? "War is coming to the back country," he replies gravely, "and that James Fraser dies in it."

Are there likely more than one James Frasers in America at the time? Probably! Has a historical document been wrong before in this series? Absolutely! Do either of those facts do anything to assuage our concern for Big Red as we head into the show's swan song? Nope, not a bit!

The exchange comes near the end of a video highlighting the series' decade-plus run on Starz. We also get an approximate premiere date: early 2026.

When series star Sam Heughan finished his final work on the season in March, he teased that "It's going to be quite, quite an emotional one" and promised fans "I know you're going to love it."

Before Outlander is back, though, Starz will debut the drama's first spinoff: the prequel Outlander: Blood of My Blood, which follows the love stories of Jamie's and Claire's parents. That series premieres with two episodes on Friday, Aug. 8, at 9/8c. (Watch just-released sneak peeks here.)

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