Bertie accepts that Edith has an illegitimate daughter, but he is also hurt that she may have tried to trick him, so he breaks off their engagement. He returns to Downton, having apparently settled affairs with his wife, but Miss O'Brien contacts Vera and once again, she returns to cause more trouble. Andy helps Mr Mason move into Yew Tree Farm with Mrs Patmore and Daisy. In the final episode of the series, she falls for Andy Parker, the new footman who has been helping at Mr Mason's farm. Before she can bring herself to tell him about Marigold, Mary peevishly reveals the truth. He has a stern, but fatherly, disposition over the servants. More is revealed about Anna's past. Carson's main complaint is that a valet should perform extra duties outside of just seeing to Lord Grantham, including carrying trays and acting as a third footman if necessary. He tries to convince her that despite wanting children, she alone is enough for him, which she has trouble accepting. He starts his employment there in 1910 as a junior footman. She has a strong bond with her granddaughter Mary, to whom she is the most similar. Mason, still enamored with Mrs Patmore, agrees to surrender the farm lease to Daisy and Andy and go to live with her. The Marchioness's lady's maid tells Vera about Lady Mary's liaison with Kemal Pamuk. He also nearly weds Edith to Anthony Strallan before he jilts her at the altar (Travis and the Dowager discussed Strallan's first wife beforehand). She dies at the end of the second film. Tom was briefly seduced by the manipulative maid Edna who made it her life's mission to trick him into marrying her. He has never condemned Mary for any of her more questionable actions, and Mrs Hughes once remarks that "Mr Carson would forgive (Lady Mary) if (she) attacked him with a brick.". During the War, he served with Charles Blake in the Royal Navy aboard Jellicoe's flagship HMS Iron Duke at the Battle of Jutland. [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. She names her son Charlie after his father, before moving away from Downton to start a new life. By 1923, he still has not been found, but pieces of what happened to him are coming to light. She replaced another maid named Ethel Parks, who had been sacked after being caught with a soldier while Downton Abbey was a convalescent home for war wounded soldiers. She appeared in the 2009 comedy film Lesbian Vampire Killers. O'Brien then preys on Jimmy's discomfort and embarrassment to have him blackmail Mr Carson into sacking Thomas without a reference, otherwise Jimmy will go to the police. It is Bates who intervenes to save Thomas's prospects after he attempts to seduce Jimmy, as he is unwilling to see another man lose his livelihood due to the schemes of others. She starts pursuing Tom relentlessly until she finally convinces him that she is pregnant with his child. Mary enlists the help of Anna and Cora to move his body, which is seen by Daisy. Cora blames Robert for Sybil's death because he did not listen to Clarkson. . In the series finale, Carson begins to suffer from palsy that ultimately forces him into semi-retirement. Baxter is not telling the whole story, something Molesley is convinced of when he hears the same story from Barrow. She decides, with some encouragement from Mrs Patmore, to allow William his fantasy to boost his morale in battle and gives him a photo. During the 2014 Christmas special, Anna awaits trial in prison as Mary and Bates visit her. Sensing him as vulnerable, since his wife had just recently died, she proceeded to get him drunk on whiskey and to try to get him into bed. 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. In September 1921, Mary gives birth to their son George, but Matthew is killed in a car crash while driving home from the hospital. 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. 173 likes. She loses her virginity to him. 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. Edith learns that he suffered a debilitating injury to his arm serving in the First World War, hence his refusal. Mr Bates reassures Anna that nothing will change between them, and that he will always support her. . 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. She is best friends with Mrs Patmore. He asks her if she had ever considered adoption, but she tells him that the idea would never work for him nor her as they would want their own child. Michael follows Edith and her family to Scotland in 1921, where he meets her family. In the last episode of series one, O'Brien comes to believe that Cora is going to replace her. Unlike many Russian aristocrats after the Revolution, Prince Kuragin does not appear to be an anti-Semite; when he meets Atticus Aldridge and realises his family fled Odessa due to the Tsar's anti-Jewish pogroms, he tells Atticus that he is "not proud of why they chose to go.". After he confesses to Daisy, she reveals she wasn't flirting and, impressed by his actions, is ready to start planning her marriage to Andy. O'Brien, Cora's lady's maid, schemes to get Cora to talk to Lord Grantham about Bates's unsuitability. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Edith accepts him, and they marry on New Year's Eve 1925. After a hot post-dinner make-out with Lady Mary, the dangerously handsome Turkish diplomat sneaks his way into her bedroom and forces himself on her, only to collapse in an . Thomas is a closeted gay man. Her efforts to prove her husband's innocence become a success when a neighbour of Vera's inadvertently tells Anna details of their last meeting which prove that Vera committed suicide in order to have her husband convicted and hanged for the crime. However, because of his misdiagnosis of Matthew, Robert hires a well-known doctor who strongly disagrees with Clarkson. She leaves Downton at the very beginning of the fourth series in the middle of the night to take her new position, leaving only a letter to explain her actions. The Archbishop of York and future Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang (Michael Culkin) marries Lady Mary Crawley and Matthew Crawley in the spring of 1920. Jimmy ignores this advice and continues to behave recklessly, winning a large bet at the village fair only to spend most of it on alcohol. A shocked Anna begins to ask how the case is sorted out but Bates silences her, saying they will speak of it later. Considering Charlie's future, she gives him to Mr and Mrs Bryant. She calls it off with him but he becomes angry and refuses to break it off with her. Rosamund is one of the more headstrong and outspoken members of the family. Anna insists that they marry so that she will have legal rights if the worst happens. His peripheral involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal leads Martha to request that Lord Grantham appear before Congress to vouch for Harold's character late in series four he escapes with only a reprimand. The neighbour mentions she saw Vera cleaning crust from under her nails, confirming she made the pie herself. Defeated, Edna leaves the room. Lady Rose, who had been staying with her, would convince Cora to hire her, to make up for Sarah O'Brien having left Downton to be in the service of her mother, Susan MacClare. After that, the two of them are often seen in one another's company. During the First World War with the men away fighting, Mr Drake needs help on his farm. Anna, however, tells him that the news is nothing sad and that actually, she's pregnant and expecting their child. During and after the war, Violet remains a strong influence at Downton Abbey but finds her influence under threat as social norms change, particularly from Isobel Crawley, with whom she has a tendency to quarrel, and her daughter-in-law Cora, both of whom are more forward-thinking and strong-minded women. Mr Carson is in charge of the pantry, wine cellar, and dining room, as well as the male staff, who report to him. Edna also remarks to Lady Grantham that anyone would be lucky to be a member of the Crawley family. Phyllis Baxter (played by Raquel Cassidy), is hired as lady's maid to Cora following the departure of Edna Braithwaite. Lord Grantham sends Thomas after Lady Edith, and Thomas can only watch in horror, unable to protect Jimmy this one last time. Lord Merton remarks that both his sons are very much like his late wife, to whom he was not happily married. Whilst Anna is pregnant, Bates continues to attempt selling his mother's house in London as well as purchasing a house in the north. 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. When Elsie turns his proposal down he later married Ivy (died 1910) and had one son Peter, who joined the army. He has feelings for Anna, but they are unrequited and she later marries Mr Bates. In the second feature film, Tom weds Lucy Smith. Rose's society debut is in 1923, when Cora presents her before the king, queen, and Prince of Wales. He is never referred to by name on the show, but the published scripts reveal his first name to be Philip. Rather, she tries to make her victims feel guilty. Tom Branson was supposed to appear in only three episodes of the first series,[8] and Branson was originally Yorkshire-born. He first appears onscreen after Lord Grantham has given Carson permission to hire another footman in addition to Alfred Nugent. While Baxter expected to be fired, Cora forgives her and lets her stay on, with the condition that she won't rob her. Daisy Mason, who is interested in Alfred, repeatedly tries to sabotage Ivy, Jimmy and Alfred in hopes that Alfred will realise that Ivy is no good for him. She experiences multiple disappointments in her romantic relationships: she is jilted at the altar by Sir Anthony Strallan in the third series, and her second fianc Michael Gregson is killed by Nazis while staying in Germany. Edith stays on (she had intended to resign because she was repulsed that a married man was flirting with her) after Michael expresses his hope that she will, citing how much it cheers him to meet her when they do and to read her column. Although scheming in nature and always looking to manipulate circumstances to her and Thomas's benefit, she has a conscience and softens up over the second series. She is devoted to Robert and his family and thus feels it is her duty to speak her mind on every possible occasion, though her interference in her nieces' decisions often has disastrous results. She visits him in London, and he has a cocktail party that important artists and literary figures like Virginia Woolf attend. Edna comforts him, which makes him think she is the only one who understood him those two days. Despite not hearing from him, her intense romantic affections for him never falter. 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. However, this . Bates one day sets off to York alone, and returns the same day, and the family soon learn that Mr Green died in London that day, after falling under a bus. He continues to do so after Barrow returns, telling her that he does not care to know what Barrow has over her, but urges her to stand up to him and not let him make her do things she does not wish to do. At that time, it is inferred that Jimmy has kept up appearances by teasing Thomas and giving him a very clear cold shoulder that even Alfred notices is extreme. Shortly after this, Green is killed near Tony's house in Piccadilly Circus, and Tony travels to Downton to tell Mary the shocking news. Between series five and series six they move to New York; sometime before Christmas 1925 they have a daughter named Victoria. On one notable occasion he wakes the staff in the middle of the night by horrifically screaming during a nightmare. Ethel bursts into the meeting with her son, proclaiming that Charlie is their grandchild, but Mr Bryant accuses Ethel of only being after their money and insists that his son was a good man. Occasionally her caring attitude may become even counterproductive, as when she advises that Daisy should not sacrifice that much of her spare time to try to self-educate herself, as she sees that hopes for that kind of lifestyle which would justify such efforts are set too high considering Daisy's chances to move in the social hierarchy of that era. Cora agrees, though, that Marigold should be brought up at Downton. He writes to Robert also with an address attached so he can be contacted. Edna says she cannot be forced, to which Mrs Hughes refutes that by warning that she would lock Edna up, hold her down, and strip her if that is what it took. She returns to work as Mary's lady's maid but is alone until Christmas. Barrow succeeds him as butler, with Carson serving in a supervisory role. 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. Robert says they will do their best for Marigold for both Michael's and Edith's sake, while still keeping the truth confined to the family. Given that her plans are always easily undone, Edna is a poor plotter who thinks herself cleverer than she actually is. Rose wants to marry Jack, though Mary sees that Rose's primary motivation is to upset her mother. Lavinia Catherine Swire (played by Zoe Boyle) (18951919) is the sweetheart and fiance of Matthew Crawley. He began flirting with her, later admitting he is attracted to her. In the course of a sexual encounter with Mary, Pamuk dies in her bed of a heart attack. He is accompanied by his boss Charles Blake as they are working on a government project studying estates and their progress. Downton Abbey 175K subscribers 365K views 3 years ago We all felt for Tom Branson after Sybil's shocking death. Downton Abbey is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes.It first aired in the United Kingdom on ITV on 26 September 2010 and in the United States on PBS, which supported its production as part of its Masterpiece Classic anthology, on 9 January 2011. Time skips to 29 December 1925, and Anna is shown to be close to giving birth. He formerly worked as a hall boy, but wants to become a footman. Freda Dudley Ward (Janet Montgomery) asks Rose for help after a compromising letter from the Prince of Wales is stolen from her handbag by Sampson. He is a major figure in the community in his own right, as evidenced in series five when he is asked to chair a committee building a memorial to townsmen who died during the First World War. Mrs Bryant, who had been unhappy abandoning Ethel from the start, agrees and Ethel leaves Mrs Crawley's employment. 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. Edith's grandmother (and Rosamund's mother) is highly suspicious of this plan and discovers later that Edith left when she was around 34 months pregnant to give birth there. 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. He was planning to propose to Edith before Mary tricked him into thinking Edith would reject him and he leaves without an explanation. Her Aunt Rosamund finds out and accompanies her to get the abortion in London. Anna returns to Downton but chooses not to inform Bates of the news until she becomes pregnant again and the stitch has worked, so as not to get his hopes up. They then take this to Robert who ensures that the witness makes a statement, then tries to contact Bates. During her time as a housemaid, she would gain a huge crush on chauffeur Tom Branson, but he would not look at her, as he was in love with Sybil Crawley. However, Mason becomes persnickety with the living conditions, which grates on the young couple. Baxter later tells Cora the rest of the story: she was tricked into stealing the jewellery by another servant who made her think he loved her, but he ran and left her to take the blame. After spending the weekend together, he talks of their engagement, but she realises he is not the man for her. She is also the wife of John Bates. O'Brien, always against Bates, writes to Vera to tell her where he is and about his and Anna's blossoming romance. During a conversation with Bates, Anna tells him that something in her history could stack against her in a court case. Thomas later tells Anna Bates that he's upset because he wasn't special to Jimmy, which Anna very adamantly disagrees with. It takes Alfred too long to realise that Daisy was the better match, and only tries to approach her when he comes back to the Abbey after leaving for his cooking course. Downton Abbey stands as a show with great potential to become a classic for generations to come. Despite his questions, he does so. 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. When she feared what he might do next and knew what was about to happen, Anna hid in the dark, waiting for him with a knife. O'Brien is wracked with guilt, and following the incident, she becomes even more loyal and devoted to Cora. Madeleine Allsopp. After Larry unremorsefully calls Tom "only a grubby little chauffeur chappie", Lord Merton angrily tells him to be silent, and apologises very sincerely to Tom for what Larry did, adding his hope that Tom would recover before the wedding. The final series also deals with Carson downsizing staff to adjust for the current times. Gregson arrives in Munich, then vanishes with no word. She is unhappy in her marriage, and seeks to end it. Baxter is hired on Barrow's recommendation, and Cora is pleased with Baxter. Thomas escorts Jimmy to the guest corridor upstairs and plans to watch the door while Jimmy goes through with it. She now realises the 10-month trip to Switzerland was a farce. She is forced to accept defeat in this, not knowing that Lady Mary had already destroyed the ticket, as she wrongly believed it proved Bates's guilt. Sarah O'Brien, who is angry with Thomas for the way he has treated her nephew, Alfred, quickly latches on to this dynamic and uses it to her own ends. Charles Blake stages a scene where Mabel and Tony come across Charles and Mary supposedly in a passionate kiss, and finally, Tony gives up on Mary and decides to marry Mabel. Later on, his father and Daisy become quite close. She firmly believed that she could guilt Tom into responding to her as she represented the same working class that he himself had been part of earlier. She begins to feel he is a sensible match for her. A recurring theme during the first two series is the clash between Isobel's more modern and liberal values with the traditionalist ideas of Lord Grantham and his family. Jimmy is only rescued by Thomas, who had been following him to keep an eye out. Mrs Patmore is in charge of the kitchen and kitchen staff. He was interested in studying medicine once in his life, but his father did not think it suitable for someone of his position. Anna is considered perhaps the prettiest of the female servants. Downton Abbey Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. In series four, Barrow is as shocked as anyone when his old ally Miss O'Brien leaves Downton in the middle of the night. Although convinced that there is no evidence for anything to happen, Anna is later arrested for Green's murder. After Lady Grantham is struck by a severe case of Spanish flu, O'Brien maintains a bedside vigil, attempting to atone for the miscarriage. Alfred Nugent (played by Matt Milne) was the new footman brought on to replace William Mason and is introduced in series three. It is to Carlisle, as a man of influence, that Lady Mary turns to when she concludes that marrying Matthew is not an option. O'Brien and Thomas were the only servants who never did like Bates and the duo constantly try to find faults and uncover his past in an attempt to force Mr Carson to sack him. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Later, having returned to Grantham House, Mrs Hughes interrupts Anna and Lady Mary and informs them that Vyner has returned and has come to arrest her. However, after she explains her feelings on marriage he doesn't act. Manipulative little witch rapist, no redeeming qualities whatsoever! However, she eventually decides she does not want to marry any of them, providing a shock, especially for Tony. Edna, still fixated on Tom, got him drunk and then snuck into his room at night. When Bates is deemed guilty and is sentenced to be hanged, Anna breaks down and briefly prepares to leave Downton Abbey with Lady Mary, whom she is very close to, offering to accompany her mistress on an extended holiday to America, much to Mary's delight. Ryder informs Anna that he has identified the problem and that she has a common issue of having cervical incompetence, a condition which results in a baby becoming too heavy for the womb to support after about three months, but also tells her that the condition is easily treatable with cervical cerclage, a stitch inserted into the womb after a woman has been pregnant for about 12 weeks; however, it does not always work. Her efforts are rewarded when her father-in-law is offered the tenancy of Yew Tree Farm, located in the Downton estate. However, it would endanger Anna once again, who is released on bail. Cora instantly takes a liking to him, whereas Mary and Robert do not. From the start it is clear that Lord Grantham finds Jane attractive and he takes a great interest in the education of her twelve-year-old son, Freddie. Matthew dies suddenly in a car crash only days later, and he never informed his wife Mary or her parents of his discussion with Gregson while fishing. Lady Rose Aldridge (ne MacClare) (portrayed by Lily James) (b. Episode #4.2: Directed by David Evans. She also discusses with Charles Blake his feelings for Mary. As the heir to the Downton Abbey estate, Robert Crawley married Cora Levinson - a young, forward-thinking American, partly at the will of his father who wanted to . Using the controversial methods espoused by the infamous Marie Stopes) and sacked her ceremoniously. Bates then leaves Downton, writing in a letter to Carson that he is going to confess to murdering Green in order for Anna to be freed. She has proven to be manipulative, relentless, heartless, and quite sneaky. Braithwaite had a certain interest in the book's. Isobel Crawley knows of a cure, but as a modern medical technique it is unfamiliar to Dr Clarkson, who is reluctant to try it. He is the husband of Cora, son of Violet, and father of Mary, Edith and Sybil. She makes him feel guilty about having moved up in the world, going so far as to get him to eat downstairs again and suggest that he drive them to the Thirsk Fair, after urging him to come with them. In Downton Abbey: A New Era, newlyweds Daisy and Andy are sharing the farm with Mr Mason. A wealthy American heiress, she married Robert in 1890 when the Crawleys were in straitened circumstances; her fortune helped rescue Downton. Lady Sybil quickly befriends Gwen and tries to help her get a job as a secretary. Edna Braithwaite - Downton Abbey. Most of the staff give him the cold shoulder, while Thomas and O'Brien try to get rid of him to further their own ends. Further, Edith discovers she is pregnant with Gregson's illegitimate child. However, when he goes to reclaim the dog, he discovers her missing, and in his panic trying to find her in the woods, trips on several fallen branches and becomes muddied. 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. Still being ignored by the rest of the staff save Anna, he gains an ally in William when he observes Thomas bullying the younger man, who is suffering with severe homesickness. In March 1913, he is diagnosed as suffering from dropsy of the heart and is certain to die. Bates goes to York for the day but does not reveal the reason for going and Mr Green dies in Piccadilly after "falling into the road". "[16], Alexander Chee of The New Republic described O'Brien as the show's "best, most complex villain" and stated that her departure made the show less interesting.
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