While Baxter expected to be fired, Cora forgives her and lets her stay on, with the condition that she won't rob her. Still a man of high standards, his reactions to Hughes' cooking lead to a comic incident where he is forced to cook dinner and fails, teaching him to respect her efforts.
O'Brien is wracked with guilt, and following the incident she becomes even more loyal and devoted to Cora. When Barrow is set to be laid off, he attempts to find suitable employment and fails. He continues to do so after Barrow returns, telling her that he does not care to know what Barrow has over her, but urges her to stand up to him and not let him make her do things she does not wish to do.
She plays outside with her cousins Sybil and George, and do a little dance for In 1921, Rose's relationship with her mother has soured, though her relationship with her father is better. In Series 4, Anna is violently raped and Bates is confused and hurt at her attempts to push him away, as he is unaware of Anna's distress. The Bryants had accepted that Charlie was their grandson. During the New Year celebrations, the Bateses welcome the new year away from the others, together with their newborn son.
In series 6 and the 2015 Christmas Special, Andy and Daisy share some special moments with each other, and it looks as if they might live at Yew Tree farm with Mr Mason and possibly get married. This suspicion leads to Lady Grantham's discovering the nanny's cruelty to Sybbie Branson, resulting in her immediate sacking. They then take this to Robert who ensures that the witness makes a statement, then tries to contact Bates. Bates finally confronts Anna and reveals the truth; he realised Green was the attacker as soon as he returned to Downton, and he did intend to murder the valet the day he was killed. When Thomas decides to buy extra food and supplies on the black market to sell to Downton's kitchen staff, she refuses to get involved in his business, but she sympathises with Thomas after he realises he has been swindled. During the Crawleys' Christmas celebrations, Anna is seen alone and concerned about her husband.
Despite being upset that she kept it from him, he comforts her when she tells him she thinks she's let him down.
Andrew is hired by the Butler, Mr Carson, to work the week of Lady Rose MacClare's wedding at Grantham House in London. Through a series of notes and letters, all of which Jimmy desperately begs Thomas for advice on, the audience learns that Jimmy's former position with Lady Anstruther included a sexual aspect. In the third series, Ethel returns, having entered into a life of prostitution.
Mrs Hughes dismisses her after discovering the two of them in bed together, but Ethel shortly returns having nowhere else to go when she finds out she is pregnant with his child. Season 2: Episode 5.
She also refused to hand the police the ticket regarding Mr Bates's trip to London on the day Mr Green died, telling Lady Mary she could never condemn a man for defending his wife's honour against such a crime. Thomas tries to remain calm, quietly asking if Jimmy might try writing. At the end of the series, Bates is livid as Inspector Vyner calls Anna into Scotland Yard as part of an identity parade. Determined to find any way to legally marry Edith, he learns if he becomes a German citizen he can divorce Lizzy. Soon, however, Mrs Hughes tells Mr Bates what happened to Anna, although she refuses to disclose who was the culprit.
Then she learns he got into a fight with some men in In 1924, news arrives that Michael was probably killed during the Lord Merton is invited to dinner at Downton Abbey along with his family before Mary and Matthew's wedding. Jimmy is mentioned by Thomas during the Series Five Text Santa short while the servants are playing strip poker. Still being ignored by the rest of the staff save Anna, he gains an ally in William when he observes Thomas bullying the younger man, who is suffering with severe homesickness. Edith changes her mind at the very last second, and she and Rosamund concoct a ridiculous story that they would like to stay in Switzerland for six months to "learn French."
When Anthony Strallan reveals what Larry had done, Lord Merton asks his son if it was true.
Lady Anstruther, returned from France, orchestrates a plan to turn up at Downton Abbey in pursuit of Jimmy.
She begins an affair with Major Charles Bryant (played by Daniel Pirrie) when he is being treated at Downton while it is a temporary convalescent home. Thomas later tells Anna Bates that he's upset because he wasn't special to Jimmy, which Anna very adamantly disagrees with. His last name remains unknown.
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Whilst Anna is in Lady Mary's bedroom after the wedding of Lady Edith and Bertie Pelham, her waters unexpectedly break. Bates goes with her, and it is thought that his romance with Anna is over. Whilst Anna is pregnant, Bates continues to attempt selling his mother's house in London as well as purchasing a house in the north. Horace Bryant is the father of Major Bryant.
Tony later calls off his engagement to Mabel, because of his interest in Mary.
Heartbroken and angered by her hesitancy, Matthew withdraws his proposal and decides to leave Downton. He was further humiliated after being handed a Fearing for his safety, Lord Grantham had him assigned to Matthew Crawley's battalion to be his Alfred's largest rival is fellow footman Jimmy Kent, who is shorter than Alfred, but quite handsome. Andy helps Mr Mason move into Yew Tree Farm with Mrs Patmore and Daisy. She volunteers with a charity in Leeds to help For a brief time before entering into household service, Mr Carson was a In the second series, with most of the male staff depicted as serving in the Series 6 deals with Carson's and Hughes' marriage and life as a married couple. For her explosion of anger, she almost loses her job, but Cora, who understands her frustration and anger, talks Carson into letting her stay.