Have fun. Live life. He understands that it may be years for his sentence to be reprieved, if he ever is pardoned. Anna promises Bates that she will try.
What a wild ride. He really is a good guy but with a bad history. Poor Bates and Anna can never catch a break! Vera Bates is super bold and mean is sounds like.
Although it is kind of sad that he was convicted, its unfair and sad. I feel bad for Mr Bates. I always feel bad for characters and people like Mr. It is amazing how much things have changed in regard to the death sentence. To think that his life was so close to quickly ending, but was saved by the hard work of his lawyers, is crazy to think about. What a story! You must be logged in to post a comment. Skip to content. Also, she is shorter than Mr.
Green, and the witness believes the shove-murderer was not as tall as the victim. I mean, I know it is in Texas. If logic must go out the window to make that happen, then logic shall be chucked. And boy, is it chucked when Anna finds out that Green was actually a serial rapist. Before the trip to London, Vyner notes that several women have come forward and admitted to being attacked by Green, which seems like the kind of information that would introduce more, not fewer, potential murder suspects into the mix.
All of them must stand there, Usual Suspects —like, while the male witness eyeballs them to figure out which of them supposedly committed murder. I mean, Fellowes is basically trolling us at this point, right? Where is Gloria Allred when you need her in s-era London, I ask you? She clearly does not belong there. Which raises the question: Who does?
Is it … Mary? Again, I have to say, for the record, that I am watching these episodes in advance, but not proceeding to the next episode until after my recap is written. The big one is that conversation near the end of the episode, when several characters are doing the Downton Abbey equivalent of a West Wing walk-and-talk. Then Mary points out that Anna will not be convicted because the police have nothing to go on.
Which, again, raises the question: How is Anna in jail?? Also: Does no one at Downton have bail money??? I am Lady Mary Crawley. In that episode, we see Mary and Anna go to London, where Mary dissuaded Jack Ross from marrying Rose, and later met with Tony, at which time she asked him to fire Green for reasons she refused to explain.
Have the police questioned Tony, like, once? In order to improve the servants' opinions of him, Bates goes to a a shop that has devices that will supposedly correct his limp.
The device is an utter failure, and it causes him great pain until Mrs Hughes finds out and persuades Bates to get rid of the device, and he does it by tossing it into a pond. Thomas and O'Brien still mercilessly try to sack Bates, while the most of the staff ignore him, he gains an ally in William Mason when he observes Thomas bullying the younger man who is suffering with severe homesickness.
Thomas also ruins his attempts to kindle a romance with kitchen maid Daisy. Bates shoves Thomas to a wall, calls him a "filthy little rat," and threatens to "punch your shining teeth through the back of your head. Bates can do nothing to stop him. Thomas, despite this, still remains smug downstairs, but he learns one thing: Bates, despite his disability, he is not to be underestimated - and he has a temper.
Thomas then steals some wine and Bates has caught him red-handed, although Bates pretends not to notice the theft. Although when Bates makes a statement that questions Thomas' right to property, both O'Brien and Thomas know that Bates saw him steal the wine. Because of this, Thomas steals a snuff box from Lord Grantham's room and hides it in Bates' room.
With Anna's help, he finds the snuff box in his room as Anna predicted , and Anna offers to put it in Miss O'Brien's room if he wanted to. Anna and Bates, in front of the servants, ask Carson and Mrs Hughes , the housekeeper, to conduct a search on the servant's rooms.
She also asks them to do it immediately, so that none of the servants have a chance to hide the box. Carson and Mrs. Hughes agree, and begin to search the servants' rooms.
Hastily, Thomas and O'Brien run to their rooms to search for the box as they speculate that Bates and Anna put it in their rooms. Bates and Anna, to the bewilderment of the servants, are left laughing as they run up. He and Anna also grow closer, and she admits that she loves him. He says "he is not a free man". Thomas and O'Brien try to frame Bates for the wine theft that Thomas actually committed. Thomas gets Daisy to lie to Carson saying that she saw Mr. Bates coming out of the cellar.
Although when Daisy witnesses Thomas bullying William even worse than before, the confesses to Carson that she lied and did it as a favor for Thomas.
Bates was found innocent of the wine theft, but he confesses to Anna, Carson, and Mrs. Hughes that he was a drunkard "until a couple of years ago," and that he went to prison for theft. This leaves all three of them shocked. John Bates returns to Downton Abbey after his mother's funeral. He believes he can finally divorce Vera and therefore proposes to Anna.
But Vera shows up at Downton and blackmails him with the threat to publish Lady Mary 's scandal involving Kemal Pamuk , which could damage Anna's reputation since she helped cover it up. He is forced to resign his job Robert Crawley is not happy to learn this against his will and return to live with her.
Anna is heartbroken. Anna finds him working in a pub in Kirkbymoorside. Both she and Lord Grantham visit him there. John reveals he may have information about his wife having an affair, which means he can sue for divorce. He is convinced to return to Downton, where he is welcomed back by Carson and Mrs Hughes.
However, Vera has compromising information that will delay the divorce. John offers Vera money to keep quiet about the story that she was blackmailing him with and to leave them alone. However, she lies to him. Mary in fact has gone to Carlisle and persuaded him to buy the story. Mary later thanks John for what he did for her. Vera on the other hand is angry and swears John will not escape her wrath.
He goes to confront his wife about this and returns with a scar on his cheek. The next day a telegram arrives informing Bates that Vera has died by eating a pie containing poison. It is suspected that the death was suicide, although lack of a suicide note suggests there was no premeditation. Bates had bought some arsenic to kill rats in their house when they were married, and believes that it was her spur of the moment decision to eat the poison.
Bates and Anna realize that this looks bad for him and that he may be accused of murdering his wife. She suggests that he go to the police to tell them about the arsenic, as they may find out anyway and it would be worse. Growing tired of waiting, Anna tells Bates that she wants to marry him immediately. Only Mary Crawley and Jane Moorsum know of the marriage, but the couple planned to tell everyone after the funeral of Lavinia Swire.
After attending the funeral, they return to Downton and discover two officers who are waiting to arrest Bates for the murder of his wife. Bates and Anna declare their love for each other before he is escorted away by the officers. The time he spends in prison is made all the more difficult because he is confined in close quarters with characters that are described as "undesirable. Worried about what he has seen and what he can tell others, Craig has planted drugs in Bates's bed, intending to frame him.
Fortunately, another prisoner, Dent , who hates Craig, warns him in time. Bates finds the drugs and hides them. But this puts him on bad terms with the guards, who cut off all correspondence between him and Anna and prevents her from visiting him.
Dent later told him that Craig and one of the guards, Durrant , were working together selling drugs. Durrant brings them into the prison and Craig sells them to the other inmates. After Bates successfully got Craig on bad terms with the guards by putting the drugs in his bed, his and Anna's letters were finally delivered to each of them. Another guard, Turner , warned Bates that Durrant did not like him and so he became more watchful for an opportunity to deal with Craig.
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