During the First World War, Sybil serves as an auxiliary nurse and develops feelings for Tom Branson, the family's chauffeur and a staunch Irish nationalist. 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. That leads Baxter to guess that Anna is pregnant. He purposefully puts his hand in the line of fire in order to gain a blighty wound and be sent home. In the meantime, Bertie's unmarried cousin dies of malaria in Tangiers. 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Mr. Pamuk's Death. La quarta stagione della serie televisiva Downton Abbey stata trasmessa sul canale britannico ITV1 dal 22 settembre al 10 novembre 2013. In the second series, with most of the male staff depicted as serving in the First World War, Mr Carson finds himself under mostly self-imposed pressure to ensure household duties are carried out to his exacting standards. Ambitious, she decides that she no longer wants to work in service and saves up her money to buy a typewriter to take a correspondence course in typing and shorthand. 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. The Duke of Crowborough (played by Charlie Cox) was one of many potential suitors for Lady Mary, but he was seeking a wealthy wife to cure his financial problems. With its views of life from the upstairs and downstairs, it shows the perspectives of the happenings of early 20th century England's commonwealth. She runs off and leaves Downton immediately. 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. 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). Vera Bates uses the story to blackmail Bates into going back to her, which he does to save Anna's reputation. She has blond hair, fair skin, and midnight blue eyes. Edith Pelham, Marchioness of Hexham (ne Lady Edith Crawley; b. After a fight with Thomas Barrow, in which she called him out as she saw him as being sly and oily and that nobody in their right minds trusted him; and he retaliated against her, by calling her a scheming witch whose schemes came to nothing, she stormed out of the abbey once and for all, after giving her notice, giving the reason of being family troubles. Prince Igor Kuragin (Russian: ; played by Rade Sherbedgia) is a former Russian nobleman forced into exile as a result of the 1917 Revolution. He attempts suicide but is rescued by his friends. During the Crawleys' Christmas celebrations, Anna is seen alone and concerned about her husband. At the end of series three, Jimmy is promoted to first footman, but he holds a grudge against Thomas into the Christmas Special. A wealthy American heiress, she married Robert in 1890 when the Crawleys were in straitened circumstances; her fortune helped rescue Downton. John Drake (played by Fergus O'Donnell) is a tenant farmer on the estate of the Earl of Grantham. [8] Leech at first tried to develop a Yorkshire accent in an effort to prevent his character from becoming an Irish stereotype, but when he was persuaded that Tom would not become such, he used his native Irish accent.[9]. He is extremely tall, which Carson comments is almost too much, even though height is a desirable aspect for a footman. His mother later tells George that it was time for his bedtime, and about the sudden demise of his father Matthew, only moments after his birth. She is played by actress MyAnna Buring. 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. Barrow finds Jimmy just as he is cornered by two members of the opposing team, and puts himself in the way so Jimmy can avoid being beaten and mugged. At the end of the series five Christmas special, Carson has purchased a house and added both his and Mrs Hughes's names to the registry, with the intention of asking Mrs Hughes to marry him; she accepts. When her typewriter is discovered by Miss O'Brien, she informs the whole staff and Gwen's plan to leave service to become a secretary is the cause of much discussion above and below stairs. Daisy was worried about being William's sweetheart but Mrs Patmore urged her not to send him to the front with a broken heart, saying that if she refused, he would never return. Mary insists that Anna shouldn't return to her and Bates's cottage and instead allows Anna to stay in her room to have her baby. Left virtually penniless, he makes his way to England and settles in York, where he receives aid from a charity for migr Russian refugees. During the Christmas episode, Bates visits Anna in prison where she reveals that a secret from her past could compromise any character witness statement the Crawleys make in her favour. At one point Grantham kisses Jane, but they are interrupted by an oblivious Mr Bates and they decide not to have an affair. She would be canned after she tried everything to derail Tom's transition to the upstairs family. Specifically, the new . 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. 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. Robert is immensely proud of Downton as the place he grew up and takes his responsibility for the estate very seriously; he sees himself as its caretaker, not its owner. Rose secretly invites Ross and his band members to perform at Downton for Robert's birthday, by which time she has entered into a secret relationship with Jack. Cora blames Robert for Sybil's death because he did not listen to Clarkson. In 1913, Mason's wife dies of a heart attack leaving him on his own on their farm. Barrow accepts that Jimmy can never give him what he wants, so they instead agree to be friends. However, in the third series, Tom and now-pregnant Sybil are forced to flee Ireland after Tom becomes implicated in the burning of an Anglo-Irish nobleman's house. 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. Thomas tries to remain calm, quietly asking if Jimmy might try writing. After her wedding, to avoid confusion with her husband, Anna is still called by her first name by the staff and family, unlike standard practice for lady's maids of the time. Vyner tells Mary and Anna that the witness has confirmed that they had seen Anna on the pavement near Green in Piccadilly when the incident occurred. Andy later apologises to Thomas about his treatment towards him. She even skips work to go see him in the Grantham Arms, after hearing that he would be eating lunch there. In A New Era, now seven years old, he is seen playing with his young cousins. Mabel Lane-Fox returns and begins pursuing him again, but he is still convinced that it would be dishonorable not to marry Mary after their affair. During the time apart from Bates, Anna refuses to fall into hopelessness or despair, though there is a brief period where this wavers, when letters and visits with her husband are stopped for a time. While many of the beloved characters earned their happy endings, his . His son Larry, who was once keen on Sybil, treats her husband Tom with rudeness and disrespect. 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. Edith then invites him to a party at Downton, where he begins to earn her father's respect. When he pushes into Jimmy's room, he catches Thomas Barrow in the act of trying to kiss Jimmy. Later, at the memorial, Mary speaks to Bates, certain that Anna will not be convicted, and feels there will not even be a trial, as the police have nothing to go on. Anna worries that Mr Bates will have his revenge if her attacker's identity is ever revealed. His father was a local farmer and William used to help with the horses. . Robert very reluctantly agrees, and feels sorry that Edith is a "spinster" with no boyfriend or prospects in sight. In the first series, she is shown to have feelings for first footman Thomas, something that Mrs Patmore tries to discourage as she can see that Thomas is "not a ladies' man". "[12] Emily Orley, also of Buzzfeed, argued that the storyline of the rape of Anna had too much focus on the male characters.[13]. After a confrontation with one of the Russian emigres, Count Rostov, which Rose witnesses, Atticus reveals his family had emigrated after being driven from Odessa in that city's 1859 and 1871 pogroms. The final series also deals with Carson downsizing staff to adjust for the current times. Matthew is left a considerable sum by Mr Swire, and Matthew is initially consumed with guilt and refuses to accept it. 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. He arrives at Downton in the first episode to replace Lord Grantham's previous valet. He also has a special place in his heart for Lady Mary, given she was the first child born at Downton during his tenure as butler. In series two, in the First World War, Thomas has ended up on the battlefield despite his attempts to avoid it, and has become terrified by the conflict. 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. 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. Edna's the fucking worst! Furious that Mrs Hughes went through her things, Edna tries to stand her ground, saying Mrs Hughes could not prove anything. Bertie later encounters Edith in London and helps her with her all-night push to get her magazine to the printer. In the first series, she is asked to stand-in for Mrs Patmore as cook at the Abbey while she is away having an eye operation. 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. Downton Abbey is arguably one of the most popular period dramas of all time. 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. 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. Turning up in the servants' hall unannounced, his good looks and charm quickly impress a number of the maidsas well as Thomas Barrow, currently valet to Lord Grantham. Ethel, however, would not be allowed contact, learning that Charlie will be told that his father died during the war and his mother died of Spanish flu. Manipulative little witch rapist, no redeeming qualities whatsoever! His protectiveness leads Baxter to discover Anna's pregnancy. In series five, Mrs Hughes tells Mr Carson that O'Brien has left Lady Flintshire to serve as lady's maid to the wife of the new governor of the Bombay Presidency in British India. "[17] Finneran stated her belief that O'Brien's negative attitudes originated from how the character "has basically sacrificed her entire life to somebody else, for the good of their life and their home its no wonder that she would get frustrated or angry about things. Finneran stated that the character "is a thoroughly despicable human being",[16] and that "People actually love that shes a nasty piece of work. Thomas s'arrange alors avec Edna afin de faire passer Anna comme mdisante son sujet auprs de Cora - ce qui marche, Robert allant rappeler l'ordre M. Bates ce propos. Violet has Clarkson lie to mend their marriage. After being told he would not make it, William proposes to Daisy and tells her that he wants to marry her, not just out of love, but also to secure her a widow's pension so that she would be taken care of. Upon his return to Britain, he gets permission to work at Downton as sergeant in charge when the residence is made into a centre of recovery for injured officers. Shortly after the war, Cora has Spanish influenza and nearly dies before making a full recovery. It is he who eventually talks Lady Mary out of her listless grief over Matthew's death. In the second film, Carson is scandalised that a silent film is being shot on the Downton estate and plans to oversee matters personally with the film people "to keep them in check". Mrs Drake secretly witnesses the kiss and soon after, the Drakes hire a man to replace Edith. formata da otto episodi e uno speciale di novanta minuti andato in onda a Natale 2013.. 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. Upon hearing about the sordid incident from Tom, Mrs Hughes summons Edna to her office, with Tom present. When she makes others (notably Tom Branson) feel or look bad, she senses no remorse for them or what she has done to them. However, it would endanger Anna once again, who is released on bail. It's just a shame she went about it in such a manipulative and mean-spirited way, attempting to guilt and control Tom Branson. Henry Lang (played by Cal MacAninch) was Lord Grantham's valet in the absence of Mr Bates. After Ethel attracts considerable gossip, the Dowager Countess intervenes, having Lady Edith place an advertisement for Ethel, so she may find a position elsewhere and have a fresh start. Upon learning that her parents are dead, he offers to take her under his wing as a surrogate daughter, which she accepts, though reluctantly at the outset. His aunt is Sarah O'Brien, who brings him forward as a candidate for the empty post based on his previous experience as a waiter at a hotel. In episode 3, Mary asks if Anna has considered Dr Ryder's advice. Barrow asks Mr Carson to hire Andrew for the job. He would ask Mrs. Hughes to write her a good reference. Thomas also leads on the kitchen maid, Daisy, partly for his amusement (since it annoys the second footman, William Mason, who has feelings for her) and for ulterior motives. He also helps cover up the scandal that the murder trial of Downton valet Bates would cause. Edith inherits his publishing company and reclaims their daughter, Marigold. 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. In the third series, she grows to like Alfred but resents Ivy, the new kitchen maid, who steals Alfred's attention. 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. However, Anthony jilts Edith at the altar, devastating her. Bates finally confronts his wife and reveals the truth; he realised Green was the attacker as soon as he returned to Downton, and he did intend to murder the valet the day he was killed. Edna approaches him again when she sees him sitting by himself and gives him a large whiskey, saying she thinks he needs it. In the series three Christmas Special, he tries to call Jimmy off his aggressive streak towards Thomas, and then spends the rest of the episode talking about his interest in cooking. In the series four Christmas Special, Jimmy travels with the Crawley family to London for the season. 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". Eventually, Jimmy decides that the only thing to do is to satisfy her and hope it'll get her out of his hair. Baxter is hired on Barrow's recommendation, and Cora is pleased with Baxter. 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. 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. Robert later realises Marigold bears a strong resemblance to Gregson, and then tells Cora that he thinks Marigold is Edith's daughter. Nevertheless, he maintains a fascination with medicine. But Mrs Hughes and Mrs Patmore intervene and Carson eventually gives in and takes Molesley on as a second footman. 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. At the end, he is seen playing football on the beach, while Thomas watches from a nearby chair. In the second film, Mary has a flirtatious relationship with a film director named Jack Barber, but she stays faithful to Henry. Before the war, he worked for Lady Anstruther and was her favourite footman. She now realises the 10-month trip to Switzerland was a farce. After spending the weekend together, he talks of their engagement, but she realises he is not the man for her. When Barrow is set to be laid off, he attempts to find suitable employment and fails. When it is revealed the new valet, Henry Lang, had shell shock, she was uncharacteristically sympathetic towards him and it was revealed that her own brother suffered from it due to the War. Bates is freed, and the reunited married couple move into a cottage on the grounds shortly thereafter. 1902) is the daughter and youngest child of Hugh and Susan MacClare (Lord and Lady Flintshire). The Prince of Wales (Oliver Dimsdale), the future King Edward VIII, is also present at Rose's debutante ball, and his affair with the married Freda Dudley Ward is the centre of Sampson's blackmail plot. She has a strong bond with her granddaughter Mary, to whom she is the most similar. c. 1530s - The Dissolution of the Monasteries, under Henry VIII . He leaves Downton, telling Carson in a letter that he has confessed to murdering Green in order to have Anna freed. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Shortly after their wedding night, Bates is arrested for murdering his previous wife, although Anna and the rest of the residents at Downton are convinced that he is innocent. After a financial scare, Matthew becomes a co-owner of the estate, and begins working on plans to modernise it with the new agent, brother-in-law Tom Branson. Thomas Barrow (played by Robert James-Collier) is under-butler at Downton Abbey and is a character who creates many conflicts. Alfred also notes that Thomas always defends Jimmy no matter how unkindly Jimmy behaves, and suggests that perhaps he take it easy. Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Strutt KCB, DSO (played by Julian Wadham) is a senior British Army general known as the "Hero of the Somme". Gwen Harding (born Dawson) (played by Rose Leslie) was a housemaid at Downton. Bates does not accept this, and insists that she alone is enough for him. He starts his employment there in 1910 as a junior footman. Braithwaite had a certain interest in the book's. 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. Nevertheless, Tony remains lukewarm about Mabel and seems keen on Mary. During the summer of 1914, Cora discovers she has become pregnant for the first time in 18 years, but she suffers a miscarriage caused by her maid O'Brien. He is in love with Ivy, who is in love with Jimmy, while Daisy is in love with Alfred and determined to break them up. He is an outspoken socialist, Irish nationalist and republican; during luncheons in the servants' hall, he had few qualms about espousing support for early Labour leader Keir Hardie. He is portrayed by Simon Jones in the film. This eyesight problem is declared to be cataracts, the surgery for which is new and daunting to Mrs Patmore, but the operation is successful and she regains the full use of her eyesight. Une soire extravagante Downton Abbey donne aux Crawleys une chance de renouer avec d . When the food does not meet her exacting standards, she takes her frustration out on the maids, especially Daisy. Under English law, her status as a lunatic cannot be used as grounds for divorce because she is neither the guilty nor innocent party. After she got fired, Edna manages to come back to Downton to work as Cora's lady's maid. Richard Clarkson (played by David Robb) is the Crawley family doctor. 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. He encounters Edith during a round of grouse shooting and keeps company with her during afternoon tea and the evening festivities. Bates, however, manages to prove his innocence. Almost immediately, Daisy Mason falls head-over-heels in love with Alfred, but is impeded by the new kitchen maid, Ivy Stuart, whom Alfred is quick to develop a crush on. Later, he confronts Thomas about what happened, and though he is hesitant, eventually agrees to be friends. Her determination to treat the man piques the ire of Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and preparing for a showdown, Violet shows up at Mr Drake's bedside only to witness the procedure and its unmitigated success. Later in series six, Branson is instrumental in setting up Lady Mary with Henry Talbot, and in the series finale, goes in with Talbot on an automobile dealership. Shortly after this, of her free will, Jane leaves service at Downton. Rose becomes restless and persuades Anna into accompanying her to a dance hall in York, where Anna attracts the attention of some young men but barely escapes when a fight ensues. She is also entrusted with teaching Lady Sybil how to cook, something which the pair enjoy. While Barrow is away in America with Lord Grantham (as John Bates asked to be excused from the trip to remain with his wife), Baxter grows closer to Joseph Molesley, who treats her with respect. When Matthew returns from the First World War injured she refuses to leave him despite being told that he will never walk again and is impotent. 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. He is initially reticent about his family, but mentions that his great-grandfather and his family were Russian Jews from Odessa who had emigrated to England during the 19th century and eventually anglicised their family name. Soon, however, Mrs Hughes tells Mr Bates what happened to Anna, although she refuses to disclose who was the culprit. He volunteers to help Mr Mason take care of Downton's pigs and shows an interest in farming. However, Robert relents after seeing how effective Cora is in the role. On one notable occasion he wakes the staff in the middle of the night by horrifically screaming during a nightmare.