Edna, still fixated on Tom, got him drunk and then snuck into his room at night. They slept together and Edna lied to Tom that she was pregnant as a ploy for him to marry her. But Tom was smart enough to get Mrs. Hughes to confront her and Edna left.
11. The death of Bates' wife. Season 2, Episode 6.The duplicitous Vera, Bates' estranged wife and the obstacle to his happiness with Anna, selfishly poisoned herself in season two, purely to frame Bates for murder and keep him away from his true love.
All it takes is Bates whispering three words, supplied by Thomas, into O'Brien's ear: “Her Ladyship's soap.” (If you missed season one, O'Brien caused a pregnant Cora to miscarry by purposely leaving soap where the Countess would slip on it, a nasty secret known only to O'Brien and Thomas.)
The actress herself has explained that she was wary of spending too long in the role and then not doing anything else. Brown-Findlay was only 20 when she was cast so it made sense she was afraid of being typecast as the aristocratic Lady Sybil of Downton Abbey and wanted to have a more diverse career.
Lady Mary and Henry TalbotThe newlyweds. While season six begins with Mary being blackmailed for her hotel stay with Anthony Foyle, by its end, she is married to Henry Talbot, and they are expecting their first child together. Both she and her husband are in business with Tom Branson.
Bates is a good 15 years older than Anna, and while he's a perfectly good-looking chap, Anna is stunning.
Mary (Michelle Dockery), the family's eldest daughter, finally found love again years after the tragic death of her husband, Matthew. Given that Matthew died in a car crash, Mary agreed to marry Henry Talbot (Matthew Goode) provided he give up his dangerous racecar driving profession and open a car shop instead.
Mr Bates has been tested time and time again since his arrival at Downton as Lord Crawley's Boer war batman turned valet. He was imprisoned for the murder of his wife and exhoneranted befre finding himself in the frame for Mr Green's suspicious death. He must stay strong for Anna as she has consistently for him.
The evidence shows Bates in a bad light and he is found guilty. Although initially sentenced to hang, the lack of apparent premeditation results in commutation to life imprisonment. Anna and the lawyers are still planning to appeal the verdict.
Mrs. Bates comes to find her husband at Downton, where she threatens to reveal the secret of Lady Mary's affair with a Turkish gentleman. After several attempts to keep her quiet, Mary is forced to beg her betrothed, Richard Carlisle, to buy the story from Vera Bates. But the next day, we learn that Vera Bates is dead.
Branson was introduced as a “socialist, not a revolutionary,” and in his first conversation with Sybil he declared, “I won't always be a chauffeur.” Allen Leech stars as Tom Branson in “Downton Abbey.” Fellowes and the producers determined to keep him on, eventually marrying Branson and Sybil.
The strangest thing about the sixth season opener is how quickly the whole “who killed Mr. Green” storyline gets resolved. He was killed by another woman he raped. This now totally clears Anna's name (to everyone's utter joy).
Lord Grantham takes Isis to a specialist who diagnoses her with cancer. He can't bring himself to have her put down, so on what he feels is her last night, he lays her on his bed, between him and Lady Grantham so that she had "two people who love her and each other very much on either side."
Mary has given birth to a son and heir. Matthew then drives back to Downton to tell the family they can now visit his son.
In Downton's big-screen debut [light spoilers ahead], we finally see Edith get her happy ending, albeit one that falls short of the absolute satisfaction some true Edith stans might be craving. She's now married to Herbert Pelham (a.k.a. Bertie), making her a marchioness and the most titled member of her family.
