Downton Abbey: Season 5

February 1924: Both Robert and Carson are upset by the election of a Labour government. The villagers want to build a war memorial and ask Carson to head the organising committee. There has been no word of Michael Gregson since his departure for Germany in April 1922. Lady Edith is depressed she cannot be part of Marigold's life. Lady Mary agrees to a secret tryst with Lord Gillingham. Tom Branson grows closer to Miss Bunting. Lord Merton pursues Isobel, who is uninterested. Rather than succumb

April 1924: Thomas reveals Miss Baxter's crime to Molesley, which Baxter confirms. Charles Blake brings suave art historian Simon Bricker (Richard E. Grant) to view a painting by Piero della Francesca in the Downton collection. Bricker flirts with Cora, and Robert correctly labels him a bounder. Charles concedes that Mary now prefers Tony Gillingham. Mary asks Anna to procure a birth-control device for her tryst with Gillingham. Tenant farmer Mr Drewe, Marigold’s foster father, suggests that Edi

May 1924: Sergeant Willis reveals that a witness overheard Green saying he was badly treated at Downton and that he disliked Bates. Mary and Gillingham spend an idyllic week driving around Cheshire, unrecognized, but Spratt, Violet's butler, spots them leaving their Liverpool hotel. He later informs Violet, who invents a cover story for the lovers. She confronts Mary, who obliquely implies that she used protection and that Gillingham has already proposed and wants to set the date. Violet still d

May 1924: Violet takes Isobel to visit Russian aristocrats, now living in poverty. Tom and Mary push the housing development. Rose's father, Lord Flintshire (Shrimpie) announces he and his wife are divorcing. Lord Merton proposes to Isobel. Miss Baxter witnesses Thomas self-medicating. Mary tells Lord Gillingham she has decided not to marry him. Mr Bricker visits again, to Robert's disapproval. Miss Bunting goes too far in goading Robert with her left-wing views, and is ordered to leave the hous

1924: Inspector Vyner of Scotland Yard interviews Mary and Anna about Mr Green. Mrs Patmore decides to buy a cottage with her inheritance money and rent it out. Mrs Drewe demands no further contact between Marigold and Edith. Violet gets the entire story from Rosamund; they advise Edith to take the child to France. Charles Blake invites Mary to lunch, along with Tony Gillingham's former fiancée, Mabel Lane Fox. Blake has a cunning plan to reunite Gillingham and Mabel, leaving him free to court M

1924: Violet visits Prince Kuragin. Edith learns that Michael Gregson was killed by some of Hitler's associates during the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. She inherits his publishing company, removes Marigold from the Drewes' care, and goes to London. The police return and interview Miss Baxter. She admits to some suspicions about Bates and Green. Bates discovers Mary's contraceptive device hidden in Anna's drawer and accuses her of not wanting his child because she believes him a murderer. His unus

1924: Rose introduces her new friend Atticus Aldridge and his parents, Lord and Lady Sinderby, to the family. Isobel announces her engagement to Lord Merton. Mrs Drewe tells Cora Edith's secret, and Cora goes with Rosamund to see Edith in London. She suggests that Edith return home and pretend to adopt Marigold. Bates and Anna plan their future, and contemplate selling Bates' mother's house in London and buying a house or hotel nearby to let out. Tom has written to his cousin in Boston about mov

1924: Everyone is in London for Rose and Atticus's wedding. Inspector Vyner calls Anna to take part in an identity parade at Scotland Yard. Tom shares with his sisters-in-law that he plans to move to Boston and become a business partner with his cousin. Inspector Vyner turns up unexpectedly and arrests Anna on suspicion of Green's murder, as she was identified by the witness as having been on the pavement near Green just before his death. The war memorial is unveiled, and Robert unveils a separa