Sam Heughan, Caitriona Balfe 2018: New 'Outlander' Trailer Sheds More Light on Season 4 Challenges

“Outlander” fans may be the luckiest fan base in the world as Starz recently released a new trailer for “Outlander” season 4. The new video fleshes out more details about the conflicts that Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe's characters will have to endure and overcome in the North Carolina expanse.

The trailer starts off with Caitriona Balfe's Claire Fraser telling Sam Heughan's Jamie Fraser about the American Dream. Compared to the rosy picture painted by Balfe's words, it seems that the road ahead for the Frasers is not so easy.

North Carolina's history with slavery looks to be an important plot point for “Outlander” season 4. Fans are shown that a potential conflict between Claire Fraser and Aunt Jocasta (Mary Doyle Kennedy) might stem from their differing views on slavery. The disagreement may force Heughan and Balfe's characters to eventually leave the safety of Jocasta's manor.

Sophie Skelton and Richard Rankin's Brianna Fraser and Roger Mackenzie get more screen time in the new trailer. While fans already know that Sam Heughan and Sophie Skelton's first meeting has been confirmed to happen in “Outlander” season 4, it also seems that Jamie Fraser's influence on Brianna is closer to the present than his daughter expected.

In the preview, Roger Mackenzie discovers an old document with Jamie Fraser's signature. The Fraser daughter's beau ominously warns her about Caitriona Balfe's Claire Fraser being in danger. It looks like Rankin's Mackenzie will be essential to understanding what has happened to Heughan and Balfe's Fraser family in the past. The document that Mackenzie finds could either be the deed to Fraser's Ridge or a more grave description of Claire Fraser's eventual fate. This could eventually force Skelton's Brianna to seek out Jamie and Claire in the past.

Ed Speleer's Stephen Bonnet also gets his chance to shine in the trailer, which hints at “Outlander” season 4's antagonist as a rabble-rouser. The “Downtown Abbey” alum will most likely get into some heated brawls with Sam Heughan in the upcoming installment.

Fans looking forward to continuing the adventures of Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe's time-travelling period drama can catch the “Outlander” season 4 premiere episode on Nov. 4.