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In 1922 he joins Violet and Isobel for lunch, later taking a walk with Isobel. Given that her plans are always easily undone, Edna is a poor plotter who thinks herself cleverer than she actually is. Daisy suggests that he could take up residence with Mrs Patmore, but Mason dislikes the idea of being retired and dependent on a woman not his wife. He is accompanied by his boss Charles Blake as they are working on a government project studying estates and their progress. Andy helps Mr Mason move into Yew Tree Farm with Mrs Patmore and Daisy. She is very trustworthy, polite, and loyal to the Crawley family and her "downstairs" co-workers. Bates becomes protective over Anna at the car racing at Brooklands, when she insists in running after Lady Mary after a fatal crash on the track. Tom and Lucy later have a child of their own, a female, named Violet after the now deceased Dowager Countess of Grantham. During the Great War, after William is brought back to Downton mortally wounded, the Dowager Countess summons him to wed William and Daisy before William dies. Mabel Lane Fox 5 episodes, 2014 . Fearing for his safety, Lord Grantham had him assigned to Matthew Crawley's battalion to be his batman. The toughs who lost the bet follow drunk Jimmy underneath a quiet bridge and jump him. The older Mr Mason later explains to Daisy that William was his only surviving child and he had realised that William married Daisy not just because he cared for her but so his father would have someone to keep company. Anna insists that they marry so that she will have legal rights if the worst happens. At one point Edna enters Tom's room whilst he is changing and impulsively kisses him, after he asks her to leave. When they return, Bates knows that it was she, not Mary that had the medical emergency; however, this time she tells him that the news is happy and that she is in fact pregnant, to which Bates is overjoyed. . Andrew serves drinks before a fox hunt. Ultimately, his actions do not matter, as she confesses to Matthew about Pamuk and Matthew proposes to her despite this. When Barrow attempts suicide, it is Baxter who raises the alarm (based on Barrow's earlier behaviour that morning) and finds him in the bathroom in time to save his life. She tells Anna that she remembers Vera had dried food under her fingernails, meaning that Vera made the pie herself knowing that her husband would be implicated for murder. It is not known whether he went ahead and published the story. In the series four Christmas Special, Jimmy travels with the Crawley family to London for the season. During a dinner in his honour, Branson, the Irish nationalist and socialist chauffeur, attempts to avenge himself on the Army by pouring a soup tureen of slop over the general, but he is stopped in time by Carson the butler (who after reading Branson's apology note to Lady Sybil, found by Anna, thought Branson meant to assassinate the general). Michael Gregson (played by Charles Edwards) (d. around 8 November 1923) is a London editor for the society magazine The Sketch. He joins his fellow former nobles on an outing to Downton in the spring of 1924. Edith's mother Cora suggests that Edith bring Marigold back to Downton on the pretense that Edith is adopting her because the Drewes can no longer afford to raise her. [19], Executive producer Gareth Neame stated that Finneran had chosen to leave the series. Determined to prove him innocent, Anna and Robert try to appeal the decision and are successful in reducing Bates's sentence from execution to life imprisonment. It's just a shame she went about it in such a manipulative and mean-spirited way, attempting to guilt and control Tom Branson. Mason, still enamored with Mrs Patmore, agrees to surrender the farm lease to Daisy and Andy and go to live with her. Martha sees herself as representing modernity, while Violet seems to represent the pre-war aristocratic world that is gradually becoming obsolete. She is rescued (to her relatives' dismay) by black singer Jack Ross. He was further humiliated after being handed a white feather at a benefit concert held in the Crawley mansion. She resorts to lies, blackmail, and playing upon others' emotions to further her own ends. Matthew is paralysed from the waist down while serving in the First World War, but, after a miraculous recovery and difficulty moving past Lavinia's death from Spanish flu, he and Mary wed in 1920. Lady Sybil Cora Branson (ne Crawley; 18951920) (played by Jessica Brown Findlay) is the youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Grantham. She had one favourite brother who had shell shock and later died during the Great War. He threatens Mrs Hughes with leaving Downton in order to find out what is wrong with his wife. He tells Robert in another letter how to contact him. Carson quickly steps forward to comfort her, and assures her she will always find a source of support in him. However at the very end, Mrs Patmore notices a familiar face has snuck into the room. Tom is enraged when she tells him if he was good enough for his late wife then she is good enough for him. Edna is a former housemaid who is conniving and scheming. However, because of his misdiagnosis of Matthew, Robert hires a well-known doctor who strongly disagrees with Clarkson. Only the housemaid Anna offers him any sympathy and friendship. In 1924, she meets, falls in love with, and marries Atticus Aldridge, the Jewish son of Lord and Lady Sinderby. Matthew dies because his actor chose to leave the series. Towards the end of the second series, she becomes guilt-ridden when she finds out her meddling in Bates's private life has started a chain reaction which led to Vera's threatening to expose the family secrets and bring the Crawley family into disrepute. Thomas later tells Anna Bates that he's upset because he wasn't special to Jimmy, which Anna very adamantly disagrees with. This is the official YouTube channel for Downton Abbey. Hold on to your hats as Downton decamps to Scotland, MyAnna Buring says Edna Braithwaite has dreams far above her station! (Interview), Downton Abbey Series 4 (Season 4), Episode 4 Recap: Staying Silent, Speaking Up. He was planning to propose to Edith before Mary tricked him into thinking Edith would reject him and he leaves without an explanation. She also refused to hand the police the ticket regarding Mr Bates's trip to London on the day Mr Green died, telling Lady Mary she could never condemn a man for defending his wife's honour against such a crime. In August 1914 they are successful and Gwen wins a position at a telephone firm. However, relatively quickly, the mystery is solved as another of Green's victims comes forward and confesses to his murder. They share a moment in which Jimmy exhibits some doubt about the plan, wondering if perhaps Lady Anstruther just wants to talk. Thomas is a closeted gay man. Andy later apologises to Thomas about his treatment towards him. Anna and Bates both visit Scotland Yard where Anna is forced to be part of an identity parade to which Bates is outraged. She has blond hair, fair skin, and midnight blue eyes. Shortly beforehand, Thomas signs up to the Royal Army Medical Corps in an effort to avoid being sent to the frontline for the war that is soon coming. Michael encouraged Edith to never be afraid to speak her mind and to write about whatever she wanted, even if it was not expected of a woman. Outwardly prim and somewhat strict in her manner as housekeeper, Mrs Hughes is essentially kindly and generous, as shown when she assists Ethel after she leaves her position and has a baby out of wedlock. An overconfident Thomas makes a snide remark that Mr Bates can do nothing to stop him only for Bates to violently grab him and shove him against the wall, proving that despite his disability he is not to be underestimated. Although Daisy finds this awkward at first, after he tells Daisy that William thought she was special and that his father would have no children left after his own death, their relationship changes and becomes akin to that of father and daughter. While many of the beloved characters earned their happy endings, his . In 1919, she asks Mrs Patmore if, after many years in service, she can be promoted from kitchen maid to assistant cook and Mrs Patmore agrees to ask Mrs Hughes if the budget can support promotion for Daisy. They had been too scared to come forward before but had now stepped forward and informed the police of his actions. Finneran stated that the character "is a thoroughly despicable human being",[16] and that "People actually love that shes a nasty piece of work. By the end of the second series, the couple marry and move to Dublin, having finally gained Lord Grantham's blessing. Thomas Barrow (played by Robert James-Collier) is under-butler at Downton Abbey and is a character who creates many conflicts. Cora blames Robert for Sybil's death because he did not listen to Clarkson. She resists claiming her widow's pension as she thinks it wrong to claim money for marrying a man that she liked but would have not married under normal circumstances. One evening Drake kisses her and Lady Edith is pleased. He returns to Downton in 1922, clearly still interested in the recently widowed Mary. She is the daughter of a farm-hand. Bates returns to London with her to live in his mother's home but soon separates after learning that she has been unfaithful to him. Her efforts are rewarded when her father-in-law is offered the tenancy of Yew Tree Farm, located in the Downton estate. She is petite, slim, and of average height. Her child by him, a daughter named Marigold, was at first given to a family in Switzerland, where she gave birth. However, this alliance does not last very long, as Edna is fired after she successfully seduces Tom Branson but is foiled in her effort to blackmail him into marrying her. He attempts suicide but is rescued by his friends. Elsie May Carson (ne Hughes) (played by Phyllis Logan) (b. She would be replaced by Phyllis Baxter, who had been hired on Thomas' recommendation (although he failed to reveal to Cora that she had been a criminal). Sir Herbert leaves Downton the next morning with no knowledge of the incident. Mary is concerned that the royal staff is running roughshod over Barrow. Carson is reluctant to go along with the servants' plan to overpower the royal staff and take over serving the royal family, but ultimately agrees under prodding from Mrs Hughes. Deducing that Miss O'Brien is pressuring Jimmy to have Mr Carson demand Thomas leave Downton with no reference, he informs Lord Grantham of the details, and asks Thomas to give him a weapon to use against his former ally. Tony instead becomes engaged to the Hon. She plays outside with her cousins Sybil and George, as the adults are having tea inside the Downton estate. The next day, Vera is found dead from ingestion of rat poison. This makes Bertie, as the nearest male heir, the new Marquess of Hexham. Before going to Munich to begin his path to obtain German citizenship, he and Edith spend their last night together, making love for the first and last time. After visiting Bates in prison, Anna declares that she will not rest until Bates had been proven completely innocent and is free. Alfred Nugent (played by Matt Milne) was the new footman brought on to replace William Mason and is introduced in series three. Some of the family do not recognise her at first, but when they do they are surprised at her elevated status. After Lady Edith has a letter published in a newspaper proclaiming support for women's rights, Michael writes to her at least twice offering her a column in his magazine. However, when Tom Branson speaks to her about his own experiences in learning to live with the Crawley family despite their differences, she is inspired to make her marriage work. Violet has Clarkson lie to mend their marriage. Things move at such a pace in Downton Abbey, storylines can sometimes be over before you've even noticed that they've properly begun. She describes Edna as dreaming of a life above her station and being waited on rather than waiting on others. Bates is angered when Miss Baxter informs the police that he could have made it to London the day Green was killed, despite her making clear she could not swear on the evidence. Tom Branson was supposed to appear in only three episodes of the first series,[8] and Branson was originally Yorkshire-born. He only changes his mind when he learns more of Sir Richard's questionable moral character, and is clearly distressed by Lady Mary's reaction to his decision. The show ran for six series and fifty-two episodes, including five . Isobel later receives a marriage proposal from Lord Merton, and despite a health scare and his sons' attempts to prevent the marriage, Isobel decides to marry him in the final series. Maureen Lee Lenker of Entertainment Weekly described Barrow as one of the series' "most polarizing figures".[14]. She is originally from Argyll, Scotland, where her father was a farmer. When O'Brien seeks to assist Alfred by enlisting Thomas' support, he refuses to help tutor him, irritated that someone else should progress rapidly when he spent years trying to reach his position. Henry Lang (played by Cal MacAninch) was Lord Grantham's valet in the absence of Mr Bates. But Mr Mason insists to Daisy she has to say goodbye to him properly, and offers to help her find the right words to say. When the staff see that he uses a cane, they are at best surprised and at worst angry feeling that they will have to pick up the slack for him, due to his disability slowing him down in the large house. Mrs Patmore tries to hide her deteriorating eyesight but Lord Grantham decides to send her to Moorfields in London for treatment when she accidentally puts salt on the pudding instead of sugar. An unofficial will from Matthew comes into the family's hand, Thomas plots against Anna, Rose gets involved in a scrap at a servant . He finds it difficult to reconcile the traditionalist, aristocratic lifestyle of Downton with his middle-class upbringing, but he is eventually accepted into the family and becomes something of a surrogate son to Lord Grantham. Encouraged by her family (excepting her father, who thought Gregson just wanted to take advantage of her title and wealth) she went to see him in London and accepted his offer. Molesley gains access to the Bateses cottage and finds a picture of Bates; he and Baxter use it as they travel around York's pubs to find out which pub Bates had been to the day Green died. But Edith, Mary, Matthew and Isobel defend Tom, and Mary settles the matter once and for all by revealing Sybil did not object to her child being a Catholic. Defeated, Edna leaves the room. In the first film, Carson is called back to oversee the royal family's visit to Downton. Chamberlain later reveals to Tom that he had been blackmailed into attending by Violet, who knew of his role in one of the notorious pranks performed by his brother-in-law, Horace de Vere Cole (in their youth, de Vere Cole, Chamberlain and some others had disguised themselves as workmen and had dug a trench across Piccadilly Circus, causing a massive traffic jam "from the East End to Belgrave Square."). She uses her position to curry favour with Lady Grantham to consolidate her influence, although her actions usually benefit them both. Eventually he returns to his post as Robert's valet, and he and Anna rekindle their romance. I will not post major spoilers from series 4 without warning. She plays the victim, and accuses him of using her, then casting her aside, and not being a man of honor. During her visit to Violet in 1920, she unexpectedly joins Edith and Matthew on a trip to London, claiming that she is planning a surprise for her mother. Eventually, his wife persuades him to accept the child as his grandson, and Mr Bryant offers to adopt Charlie. This sums up her second appearance quite well She's not either, she's a rapist. Edna also remarks to Lady Grantham that anyone would be lucky to be a member of the Crawley family. Before she came to Downton in 1895 as head housemaid, she was courted by a farmer, Joe Burns. When she does, Alfred apologises to her, regretting being blinded by his infatuation for Ivy and failing to see how good and true Daisy had been to him. Lord Grantham sends Thomas after Lady Edith, and Thomas can only watch in horror, unable to protect Jimmy this one last time. During the Battle of Amiens, he threw himself in front of Matthew to shield him from a shell explosion and both men were seriously wounded. Though Prince Kuragin was subsequently released, he learned that his wife had been exiled a year before. Daisy 'guides' Mrs Patmore into suggesting to Mason that he would be welcome in her cottage, and that it would be best for all concerned. With Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle. Although the neighbour at first recants her story, she eventually gives a statement that clears Bates, who is freed from prison, returns to Downton, and moves into a nearby cottage with Anna. The conniving Miss O'Brien left Downton Abbey very suddenly (who will keep Thomas in check now?! At some point before 1922, a copy of Married Love was obtained by one Edna Braithwaite, a maid at a big Yorkshire estate called Downton Abbey. [2] Edith is often the "forgotten" one as she is not considered as pretty and smooth-talking as her older sister, Mary, or as daring and passionate as her younger sister, Sybil. Harold then accompanies his mother to England in July 1923. In series six, Bates and Anna must deal with the shadow of Green's murder; however, the case is resolved quickly when a confession is made by another of Green's victims and Anna is freed from bail. First the American-born chatelaine of Downton Abbey (played by Elizabeth McGovern) takes on Miss O'Brien as her lady's maid, only to have O'Brien plant a bar of soap on the bathroom floor,. The rest of Anna's pregnancy goes seemingly without a hitch. However, Mason becomes persnickety with the living conditions, which grates on the young couple. Although she has adopted the lifestyle of the British aristocracy, her character is portrayed as more forward-thinking and open-minded than that of her family, a trait her husband and daughters attribute to her "American-ness". He, Lucy and members of the Crawley family travel to the South of France, after discovering that the Dowager Countess was gifted a villa in the South of France and arranges for her great-granddaughter, Tom's daughter Sybbie Branson, to inherit it. Anna was the member of staff who helped Lady Mary and her mother Cora carry the corpse of Kemal Pamuk out of Lady Mary's bedroom and was the only one who openly welcomed valet John Bates to the household, despite everyone else's initial prejudice against him on account of his limp. He has a close relationship with Mrs Hughes, built up over a quarter-century of overseeing the household staff. Mrs Hughes discovers a round-trip ticket stub from York to London in an article of Bates's clothing that Anna donates to charity. Anna is frightened that Bates discovered the truth and took his revenge. Specifically, the new housemaid, Edna. Barrow then attempts to gain an ally in the form of Lady Grantham's new maid Edna, a maid fired from Downton following her attempt to seduce Tom Branson, by claiming that Edna's accidental damage to one of Lady Grantham's favourite garments was in fact due to Anna Bates. Bates is overjoyed by the news. This engagement is broken off and during the war he is injured. Using her husband's name, she obtains a service post in the household of the Marquess of Flintshire since the Marchioness of Flintshire is the Earl of Grantham's cousin. We first meet the conniving woman in the second season as a general housemaid. After failing to persuade Dr Clarkson to "bend the rules", a furious Violet manages to pull some strings to have William sent back to Downton, where he was cared for by Lady Edith. Andrew "Andy" Parker (played by Michael C. Fox) is a footman who starts working at Downton Abbey in 1924. This greatly upsets the farmer's wife, who was led to believe that the child was the orphaned daughter of her husband's friend whom she never met. He was hospitalised in Leeds as Downton, then used as a convalescent home, was only for officers, but William's father could not afford to leave his farm or repeatedly travel to and fro to visit. She is employed in Crawley house by Isobel and Mrs Patmore teaches her to cook, despite Mrs Bird leaving her post. Full of regret, Shrimpie later privately confesses to Robert that he has to sell his estate to pay off debts and says that he admires Robert for thinking ahead and modernising Downton. He starts his employment there in 1910 as a junior footman. In the end, when Alfred does leave, Molesley seeks the job but Carson refuses, citing his great reluctance. The story was inspired by true events. She also tells Bertie she is feeling unfulfilled in the role of marchioness. They have three children, the youngest being Rose. After being informed that this story was untrue by Isobel Crawley, the doctor corrected the report to the War Department, and William is drafted shortly thereafter. Sarah O'Brien (played by Siobhan Finneran), who is mainly known as Miss O'Brien by the other servants or just O'Brien by the family, was Lady Grantham's lady's maid, a post she has held since 1910. Throughout the first series she is often seen bossing around and shouting at Daisy while working but cares for her like a daughter and often offers her advice.

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