Following the harrowing and barbaric episode last week on "Outlander," which featured Claire unsuccessfully attempting to bust Jamie out of Wentworth Prison, audiences get a new dose of darkness as the Starz series reaches its Season 1 finale.

In Episode 16, titled "To Ransom a Man's Soul," which airs on Starz on May 30 at 9 p.m. EDT, viewers finally get to see how the darkness of last week's episode influences the action in the finale.

According to Zap2it, the show will soon reveal that rescuing Jamie from Wentworth at this point could be just a dark notion of futility, considering how much he has been physically and emotionally tortured. Last week, he submitted to Black Jack Randall's sexual deviance and agreed to allow him to be raped by the monstrous man.

But the exchange was to happen only if he allowed Claire to go free. Randall could have essentially raped Jamie at any moment during his captivity, but he wanted to break Jamie mentally, so submission was the only way he would do it.

In next week's finale episode, Jamie is freed during a bold rescue. But as so often happens when someone is subjected to the torment of evil men with tortures beyond what the mind can comprehend, the freedom may have been a futile attempt to free him in body only, while his mind is still perpetually subjected to the horrors of his experiences at Wentworth.

According to Zap2it, showrunner Ron Moore talked about the last two episodes of the season and how they would eventually play out side-by-side, alluding to the darkness they take the show to.

"The last two episodes really go to some dark places, some deep psychological places. Going into the project, we all knew that's going to be a big deal and we have to really figure out how we're going to handle that," Moore revealed to Zap2it. "It took a lot of work. I'm very proud of the actors, who were fearless in their performances and they worked well with the director. The set design was spot-on, and costume -- all the technical elements were there."

TVLine's Michael Ausiello also gave a few spills about the finale as well.

"Those who've read the book know that a major revelation happens in the last few pages," Ausiello wrote. "I can tell you (via Kim Roots) that a) said revelation is in the finale, but b) it doesn't happen in the same place or in the same way that it does in Diana Gabaldon's novel."