TEXT: [OPENING CREDITS] [SCENE_BREAK] [INT. GREAT HALL - DAY] Cora: We can put the presents in the drawing room against the window. Mrs Hughes: Very good, milady. [Mrs Hughes leaves to take care of it.] Isobel: I suppose we do have to display all the presents. It can look rather greedy. Lavinia: I can't bear the disruption we seem to have brought down on your heads. Cora: Don't be silly. [Matthew enters and Mary and Lavinia go to him.] Lady Mary: How are you feeling? Matthew: Just wish I could get rid of this damn stick. Sorry. Lady Mary: Don't be. If anyone has a right to swear, it's you. Cora: Don't bully yourself. Think of where we were a few months ago and smile. Lady Mary: I quite agree. Matthew: I want to make it up and down that isle without assistance. Lavinia: Up, yes. You'll have me to lean on when you're coming down. Lady Mary: And you still have three full days of practice, so never say die. Isobel: My goodness, is that the time? I must be getting back. Lavinia: I'll go with you. Matthew: She's just sucking up, Mother. Lavinia: Any bride who doesn't suck up to her husband's mother is a fool. [Isobel chuckles and they exit arm in arm. Matthew smiles after them.] [SCENE_BREAK] [INT. MR CARSON'S OFFICE - DAY] [SCENE_BREAK] [Mrs Hughes knocks and enters.] Mrs Hughes: Can I bother you? Mrs Bryant has written a letter I did not expect. [Mrs Hughes hands it to Mr Carson.] Mrs Hughes: She says her husband wants to see the baby. They both do. Mr Carson: Isn't that what you hoped? Mrs Hughes: Yes and no. Remember what he was like the last time. I don't want to build up Ethel'
SUMMARY:
April 1919. Preparations are under way for Matthew and Lavinia's wedding. Lady Grantham, Carson, and Lavinia are taken ill by the Spanish flu . Matthew and Mary acknowledge that they cannot marry as it would be cruel to Lavinia. Lavinia overhears them and sees them kiss. Ethel is surprised when Major Bryant's parents want to see her but is horrified when she learns that Mr Bryant offers to take custody of the baby and tells her that she will not be allowed to see him. Lord Grantham and Jane have an encounter but are interrupted and Jane decides to leave. Anna and Bates marry in secret. Cora becomes seriously ill. Lavinia succumbs to the flu and dies. Matthew tells Mary that any relationship between them is now impossible. Lord Grantham reluctantly gives his blessing for Lady Sybil and Thomas Branson to marry. Bates is arrested for the murder of his late wife.