TEXT: [OPENING CREDITS] [SCENE_BREAK] [THE VILLAGE - DAY] [SCENE_BREAK] [Matthew and Isobel ride in a motorcar.] Taylor: Here we are, ma'am. Crawley House. Matthew Crawley: For good or ill. [The chauffeur opens the door for them.] Matthew Crawley: I still don't see why I couldn't just refuse it. Isobel Crawley: There's no mechanism for you to do so. You will be an earl. You will inherit the estate. Of course, you can throw it away with your habit, that's up to you. [A man comes out to meet them.] Matthew Crawley: Can I help? Mr Molesley: I'm Molesley, sir, your butler and valet. Matthew Crawley: Mr Molesley, I'm afraid-- Isobel Crawley: May I introduce ourselves? I am Mrs Crawley, and this is my son, Mr Matthew Crawley. Mr Molesley: (nods) I'll just give Mr Taylor a hand with the cases. Matthew Crawley: I can-- Isobel Crawley: Thank you, Molesley. [Molesley helps with the luggage and Matthew sulks alongside his mother.] Matthew Crawley: I won't let them change me. Isobel Crawley: Why would they want to? Matthew Crawley: Mother, Lord Grantham has made the unwelcome discovery that heir is a middleclass lawyer and son of a middleclass doctor. Isobel Crawley: Upper middleclass. Matthew Crawley: He'll have to limit the damage by turning me into me into one of his own kind. Isobel Crawley: When you met him in London, you liked him. [SCENE_BREAK] [INT. MAIN STAIRCASE - DAY] Cora, Countess of Grantham: I simply do not understand why we are rushing into this. Robert, Earl of Grantham: Matthew Crawley is my heir. Cor
SUMMARY:
September 1912. Matthew Crawley and his mother Isobel move into Crawley House in Downton village. When they visit Downton Abbey, Violet and Lady Mary are openly hostile towards them. The families experience some culture clash due to their differing backgrounds. Isobel had trained as a nurse during the Anglo-Boer War , and occupies herself with the local hospital. Meanwhile, Carson is a former music-hall performer and is being blackmailed by his old show partner, Charles Grigg. Lord Grantham is amused by Carson's background and pays off Grigg. The hostility between Mrs Crawley and the Dowager Countess escalates when Isobel pressures Dr. Clarkson to perform pericardiocentesis on a patient suffering from dropsy . Violet tries to prevent this but the treatment is successful and Robert makes Mrs Crawley chairman of the hospital board. Violet begins to consider the possibility of Mary marrying Matthew, but Mary is opposed.