Downton Abbey season 5
Season 5
Episode #5.1 (2014)
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3325518
- http://downton-abbey.hypnoweb.net/script-vo-501.211.1043/
- http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&season=1
Episode #5.2 (2014)
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3666186
- http://downton-abbey.hypnoweb.net/guide-episodes/saison-5/episode-502/script-vo-502.211.1044/
- http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e02
Episode #5.3 (2014)
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3689408
- http://downton-abbey.hypnoweb.net/script-vo-503.211.1078/
- http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e03
Violet and Isobel:
- Violet: Oh, what is the latest from your ageing Romeo?
- Isobel: If it's of interest, I haven't heard anything from him ~ since you and I last met.
- Violet: Oh, how disappointing.
- Isobel: To you, perhaps. Not especially to me. By the way, how is Spratt?
- Violet: He's well, I think. Why do you ask?
- Isobel: He wasn't there to open the door. I wondered if he might be ill.
- Violet: Oh, no. He's not ill. He's in Liverpool. His niece got married yesterday and Spratt had to take her down the aisle.
- Isobel: Oh. It seems unlikely to think of Spratt with a private life.
- Violet: Hm. Yes. Unlikely and extremely inconvenient.
- Isobel: But you can't begrudge him that. Servants are human beings too.
- Violet: Yes. But preferably only on their days off.
Violet and Spratt:
- Violet: I hope you're not too tired after your exertions.
- Spratt: Ooh, M'Lady. I'm not tired exactly.
- Violet: Oh, good. I'm glad if the wedding was a success.
- Spratt: Oh. The wedding was a success. Yes.
- Violet: Spratt, I have told you before, I do not appreciate a man of mystery. If you have something to say, say it.
- Spratt: I would, Your Ladyship, but it may not be quite right for me to tell.
- Violet: Well, if that is the case then do no say it. Do you have some other business?
- Spratt: Only that it may not be mine to tell, but it is, in a way, yours.
- Violet: You're testing me, Spratt. And I warn you, being tested does not bring out the best in me.
- Spratt: No, Your Ladyship.
- Violet: I will not repeat myself. Either impart this piece of information, if you can empower yourself to do so, or go.
- Spratt: Very well. I hope Lady Mary enjoyed her time in Liverpool.
- Violet: What?
- Spratt: I was standing outside the Grand Hotel this morning, M'Lady, when I saw her come out with her suitcases. She was accompanied by Lord Gillingham who had clearly also been staying in the hotel.
- Violet: Well, yes. They were both staying there. They were attending an informal conference of northern landowners. Lord Gillingham thought Lady Mary might derive benefit from it.
- Spratt: So you knew about it?
- Violet: Of course I did. Why? What do you imagine you were witnessing?
- Spratt: Well
- Violet: Nothing vulgar, I hope! Nothing beneath the dignity of a butler of this house.
- Spratt: Oh. Nothing of that sort, M'Lady.
- Violet: I'm glad to hear it. Now, if you'll be good enough to let me drink my brandy in peace.
- Spratt: Your Ladyship.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, to Lady Mary Crawley:
- Violet: I hope his arrival means you intend to make it public.
- Mary: Darling, granny, you know how much I value your advice…
- Violet: Which means you intend to ignore it.
- Mary: The point is I won't be hurried into anything. Not by you or him.
- Violet: But if you weren't certain, why on earth did you go to bed with him? Well, in my day a lady was incapable of feeling physical attraction until she had been instructed to do so by her mama.
- Mary: I don't believe that.
- Violet: Seriously, my dear, you have to take control of your feelings before they take control of you.
Episode #5.4 (2014)
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3714404
- http://downton-abbey.hypnoweb.net/guide-episodes/saison-5/episode-504/script-vo-504.211.1111/
- http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e04
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and Isobel Crawley:
- Violet: Hope is a tease designed to prevent us accepting reality.
- Isobel: You only say that to sound clever.
- Violet. I know. You should try it.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and Isobel Crawley:
- Isobel: Lord Grantham sounds rather more subtle than I'd realized.
- Violet: Well, like all Englishmen of his type, he hid his qualities beneath a thick blanket of convention so I didn't see who he really was at first.
- Isobel: It's lucky you found out in time...If it was in time.
- Violet: I forget.
Robert and Violet:
- Robert: He flatters her. He keeps asking her opinion on everything.
- Violet: Well, don't you ever ask her opinion?
- Robert: Of course I do. Sometimes.
Robert Crawley, Sarah Bunting, Mary:
- Robert: Obviously, the lessons have proved successful. I'm pleased to hear it.
- Sarah: Are you, Lord Grantham?
- Mary: Oh, for heaven's sake, let it go. You've proved your point.
- Sarah: Have I, though? All I've proved is that Lord Grantham would like us serfs to stay in our allotted place from cradle to grave.
- Robert (angrily): There is only one thing I would like and that I would like passionately. It is to see you leave this house and never come back! (He leaves the room)
- Mary: Happy now?
Violet and Edith:
- Violet: Edith, dear, are you still writing that very interesting column?
- Edith: Yes, Granny.
- Violet: Oh, you must show me some of them. What is the latest one about?
- Edith: What are they all about? The way the world is changing.
Episode #5.5 (2014)
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3696132
- http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e05
Rose, Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, Robert, and Rosamund:
- Rose: I say, some man has opened a nudist colony at Wickford on Essex.
- Violet: What do you mean a man's opened a colony in Essex?
- Robert: Not that sort of colony, mama. It's for people who want to take all their clothes off.
- Violet: In Essex? Isn't it terribly damp?
- Rosamund: Would that make a difference?
- Violet: Well, yes, if you had no clothes on.
Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Patmore:
- Mrs. Hughes: Would you like me to leave?
- Mrs. Patmore: I'd love to think I have a secret that was too indelicate for a lady's ear but I haven't.
Rosamund to Edith:
- Rosamund: I gave up ten months of my life to make sure she came safely into the world.
Rosamund and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
- Rosamund: Well, it is very hard-
- Violet: Rosamund, you are addressing your mother, not the Committee of the Women's Institute.
- Rosamund: I'm afraid you've read somewhere that rudeness in old age is amusing, which is quite wrong, you know.
Robert and Tom:
- Robert: I would only say this, Tom: In your time here you've learned both sides of the argument, befriended people you'd once have seen as enemies.
- Tom: That's true.
- Robert: You should be proud.
- Robert: Five years ago, would you have believed you could be friendly with my mother?
- Tom: (CHUCKLES) I'm not sure I'd have believed it five minutes ago.
- Robert: Don't make nothing of what you've achieved.
- Robert: That's all.
Violet and Dr Clarkson talking about Isobel Crawley and Lord Merton:
- Dr Clarkson: May I ask to what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?
- Violet: I'll get straight down to it.
- Violet: You know how Lord Merton likes to display his interest in all things medical? At least, he likes to, when in the company of Mrs Crawley.
- Dr Clarkson: Your confidence is a compliment.
- Violet: I confide in you, Dr Clarkson, because I must.
- Violet: Only you can help.
- Dr Clarkson: That is more flattering still.
- Violet: It's the family's fault, really.
- Violet: We've trained her in our ways, and the earnest and intellectual 'bonne bourgeoise' has been replaced by a rather less definable figure.
- Dr Clarkson: Are you saying you liked her better when she was more middle-class?
- Violet: No, I wouldn't go that far.
- Dr Clarkson: But you understood her better.
- Violet: Precisely.
- Violet: Now I do not know who she is.
- Violet: I do not know what it is she wants.
- Dr Clarkson: Well, there are many who wouldn't be puzzled by the desire to marry a lord and live in a palace.
- Dr Clarkson: Can I ask you a personal question?
- Violet: I've lived through great wars and my share of grief.
- Violet: I think I can manage an impertinent question from a doctor.
- Dr Clarkson: Do you perhaps resent the idea of a change of position for Mrs Crawley?
- Violet: I'm sorry.
- Violet: I do not quite grasp your question.
- Violet: It bewilders me.
- Violet: But I will say this: Do you wish to see her live a life devoid of industry and moral worth?
- Dr Clarkson: I do not.
- Violet: And when the glitter is tarnished, you know, what then? A hollow existence in a large and draughty house, with a man who bores her to death.
- Dr Clarkson: It's a terrible prospect.
- Violet: So our duty is clear.
Episode #5.6 (2014)
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3810550
- http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e06
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and Isobel:
- Violet: I do apologize.
- Isobel: Oh, don't. I'm enjoying it immensely.
- Violet: That's what I was afraid of.
Dr. Clarkson:
- Dr. Clarkson: Harsh reality is better than false hope.
Robert and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
- Robert: Maybe it would be good for (Edith) to have a bit of time on her own to think.
- Violet: All this endless thinking. It's very overrated. I blame the war. Before 1914, nobody thought about anything at all.
Episode #5.7 (2014)
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3810556
- http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e07
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and Rosamund:
- Violet: We have to tell Cora.
- Rosamund: Well isn't that rather a betrayal?
- Violet: If anything happens to Edith and Cora learns later we knew all along, she would never forgive us. And I wouldn't blame her. You see, as a mother, it is her right.
- Rosamund: But you don't plan to tell Robert. He is Edith's father.
- Violet: He's a man. Men don't have rights.
Episode #5.8 (2014)
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3810558
- http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s05e08
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and Lord Sinderby:
- Violet: Is it a long list, Lord Sinderby? The things you disapprove of?
- Sinderby: No, as long as I can steer clear of card sharps and undercooked fish.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
- Violet: Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.
Susan and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
- Susan: I don't believe it. Is that it? Am I just expected to be a good loser?
- Violet: It's too late for that, my dear, far too late.
Susan and Rose:
- Susan: Whatever I said or did was done from love.
- Rose: I'm afraid we must have different definitions of the word.
Lady Anville and Cora:
- Lady Anville: I do feel for you. It must be very trying but I so admire you for putting on a good face.
- Cora: I wonder if you remember that my father was Jewish.
- Lady Anville: Oh. I'm afraid I, that is, how interesting.
Mary:
- Mary: Now that Lord Sinderby and Lady Flincher both have a reason to look down on the other, that should keep them quiet.