"Downton Abbey" continues its exciting Season 4 with Episode 4 this Sunday, January 26 on PBS starting at 9pm/8c. Tom regrets his alliance with Edna, who claims she could be pregnant, and wants to force him to marry her. He asks for help from Mrs. Hughes, who discovers Edna used contraception, and warns her to be silent. Her plot foiled, Edna leaves. Lady Rose accompanies Mary and Tom to London where they stay with Lady Rosamund, who has sneakily invited Lord Gillingham to join them. They go to a jazz club, where Rose dances with a black singer, to the discomfort of the others. Anna feels she is no longer worthy of Bates and avoids him which confuses him. She moves back to the house from their cottage. Lady Rosamund discovers that Edith has been out at night with Gregson. Lord Gillingham follows Mary back from London and asks her to marry him: she refuses, saying she is not yet over Matthew. WATCH a preview of Episode 4 down below!
Episode 3 had The Crawley's throw a house party and a performance by Dame Nellie Melba (Kiri Te Kanawa). Carson feels that 'an Australian singer' - however eminent - should not dine with the family, and proposes to restrict her to her room; Cora is outraged, and insists she join them for dinner. Lady Mary renews her acquaintance with the suave Lord Gillingham, who flirts mildly with her. His valet Mr Green gets too familiar with Anna, and whilst Dame Nellie is singing, he violently assaults and rapes her. Another guest, Lord Sampson, wins heavily at poker; Mr Gregson, Edith's publisher friend, believes him to be a card sharp and uses his own skill in that field to get their money back. Tom feels out of place amongst all the toffs; Edna, still pursuing him, takes advantage, and goes to his room. Anna makes Mrs. Hughes promise to not tell anybody, including Bates, about the rape because she is afraid Bates will kill Green and be hanged for it.
On Episode 2 a letter from Matthew is found where he appoints Mary (Michelle Dockery) as his sole heir; the Earl (Hugh Bonneville) is not pleased at this, nor that Mary wants to work with him and Tom (Allen Leech) on the estate management -- he wants to run things on his own. Violet (Maggie Smith) secretly supports Mary, and urges her to learn the business from Tom. Learning that Molesley (Kevin Doyle) has fallen on hard times, is working as a labourer, and has debts, Bates (Brendan Coyle) gets money from the Dowager Countess, and pretends he's paying back Molesley for an earlier loan.
Thomas' (Rob James-Collier) suspicions about Nanny West are discovered by Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) to be horribly accurate and Cora fires West immediately after overhearing Nanny West when she thought she was alone. The following morning, Cora expresses deep gratitude to Thomas and his instincts. Lady Rose (Lily James) and Anna (Joanne Froggatt) go to a tea dance in York which turns out to be for the servant class; she dances with an under-gardener, but when another man tries to cut in, a fight ensues, and they have to run for it. The Earl announces that his solicitor has confirmed that Matthew's letter is as good as a will, and everyone wants him to include Mary in his plans.
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