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Season 5

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Episode #5.1 (2014)

Episode #5.2 (2014)

Episode #5.3 (2014)

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)

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)

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.

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.

Mrs Hughes and Mrs Patmore:

Mrs Hughes: That's nice of you.

Mrs Hughes: I'll just let Mr Carson know.

Mrs Patmore: Oh, could you leave it, for a moment? He's given me his view, about my money.

Mrs Patmore: He says I should put it into a building firm, WP Moss, or, if not them, then into some other building opportunity.

Mrs Hughes: And you don't want to?

Mrs Patmore: It's not that, exactly.

Mrs Patmore: But I don't know about building, and I don't like to put money into something I don't understand.

Mrs Hughes: Then why did you ask him?

Mrs Patmore: Because he's a man, I suppose.

Mrs Hughes: I'm not sure that's a good enough reason.

Mrs Patmore: Nor am I now.

Mrs Patmore: But I don't want to hurt his feelings.

Mrs Hughes: I wish men worried about our feelings a quarter as much as we worry about theirs.

Rosamund and Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:

Rosamund: I don't know what you mean, Mama.

Rosamund: You question my motives every time I come here.

Rosamund: It's as if I weren't welcome.

Violet: Just tell me: what were you and Edith discussing in such a huddle?

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.

Violet: It's about the child, isn't it? That is the secret you share.

Violet: We both know you are not leaving my house until I learn the truth.

Violet: So, shall I have a bed made up for you here, or are you going to tell me now?

Episode #5.6 (2014)

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)

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.

Mary and Violet:

Mary: What's the matter, granny?

Violet: I was worried about Edith.

Mary: I can't think why.

Violet: My dear, a lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears.

Episode #5.8 (2014)

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.

Barrow and Miss Denker:

Barrow: Why are you bullying him, Miss Denker? Can't you pick on someone your own age?

Denker: He'll have fun when he gets there.

Barrow: Maybe, but I suspect you're a bad influence all the same.

Denker: Then I suspect we have something in common, Mr. Barrow.

Barrow: Cheeky!

Mary:

Mary: Now that Lord Sinderby and Lady Flincher both have a reason to look down on the other, that should keep them quiet.

Downton Abbey season 5: Difference between revisions

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Contents

Season 5

Episode #5.1 (2014)

Episode #5.2 (2014)

Episode #5.3 (2014)

Episode #5.4 (2014)

Episode #5.5 (2014)

Episode #5.6 (2014)

Episode #5.7 (2014)

Episode #5.8 (2014)

Episode #5.9=christmas special (2014)

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Downton Abbey season 5: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:00, 8 January 2015

Season 5

Episode #5.1 (2014)

Episode #5.2 (2014)

Episode #5.3 (2014)

Episode #5.4 (2014)

Episode #5.5 (2014)

Episode #5.6 (2014)

Episode #5.7 (2014)

Episode #5.8 (2014)

Episode #5.9=christmas special (2014)

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