![]() And it was nice to see Anna get so mad and angsty for once. "I hope she's burning in hell!" Anna says. If Vera was seen cutting pastry from under her nails, it was from the pastry she was making with Bates was on the train back to Downton, which means Vera poisoned herself and framed Bates for it. Bates might be out of prison soon.Now that Anna and her hubby are allowed to talk again, he takes great interest in what Mrs Bartlett mentioned to Anna about Vera's final hours. But Sir Philip and your father knew better and now she's dead," she says. "If we listened to him, she might be alive. Will you help me do battle for Tom and the baby if the time comes?" she asks Cora.Ĭora: "There's no need to worry about that now. ![]() This is where I began to feel like not all would be well: Sybil, still a bit delirious, rambles on to her mom about Tom perhaps taking a job as a mechanic in Liverpool. While the viewer watches in worry, Mary sprints downstairs to say that Sybil has given birth to a girl that both baby and mother are fine. She says she would have taken Sybil to the hospital an hour ago, but a screaming Sybil makes this argument moot. Robert, in a ridiculous move, doesn't want to get Tom's opinion and completely trusts Tapsell, who says that Clarkson is just overreacting.Ĭora makes the most sense here. Great move bringing this guy in, Robert.Ĭlarkson gets more specific, says the baby seems small and he would like to take her to the hospital to give birth via Caesarian section. Tapsell dismisses his concerns as hogwash and country-doctor ignorance. She says that Sybil is "muddled," sort of unaware of her surroundings and confused. Note: Out of consideration for viewers in the U.S., please do not post Season 2 spoilers in the comments.Sybil starts giving birth during dinner and Clarkson immediately thinks something is wrong. If I am not appreciated here, I will seek some other place where I will make a difference, I mean it, If it seemed a tad overdone, I was still glad to see a little auteurist flair in a series that is more commonly shot in a boilerplate style I’d call Merchant-Ivory Lite.Īs for Branson and Sibyl, I’m afraid I turned against the Irish firecracker last night when he dismissed his beloved’s work as “bringing hot drinks to a lot of randy officers.” Branson! You drive a car for a living, so shut the hell up. ![]() And he frequently employed reflections to show characters struggling with themselves-Mary staring at herself in the mirror after a difficult discussion with her parents about Matthew Branson and Sibyl reflected in the car’s windshield during their argument. Kelly used a surprising, and well-chosen, handheld camera as Edith told Mary the bad news. It started with a long, showy tracking shot through the officers’ quarters and onto the grand staircase. ![]() I thought this episode was directed quite interestingly by Brian Kelly. ![]() (Also cheering, and hilarious: That it never once dawned on anyone at Downton to let Lavinia know her fiancé had gone missing.) The quick hug Bates gave Anna earlier in the episode mirrored nicely the surprising way Mary took up Matthew’s hand when wishing him well-a moment that seemed to discomfit Matthew in a way Matthary partisans had to find cheering. She’s also, not coincidentally, the character who just wrecks me the way Thomas does June and Mary does Seth. It was a deft touch to have Anna find Mary just afterward, for Anna is the anti-Edith, the ne plus ultra of nice at Downton. ![]()
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