One thing that annoyed Gareth Neame, our producer, about the scene was that, for some reason, they had chosen to send Mary outside without a coat, even though we had snowflakes swirling all around her. So in a scene in the fourth series we have her remembering the proposal and saying: ‘I was standing outside in the snow and I didn’t have a coat, but I wasn’t cold, because all I kept thinking was: he’s going to propose,’ which solves it for me. Anyway, the point is, we got there, and to mark the moment we thought we’d have the snow and the moon and the stars and the music and everything. And Matthew going down on his knees. I copied this from someone I knew who told her fiancé: ‘No, you must do it properly, you must get down on your knees.’ I agree with her. Men who try to get out of it by muttering, ‘You know what I’m going to say,’ just aren’t playing cricket.
THE END
PICTURE SECTION
MATTHEW: I want every wounded man taken down the line before it starts to get dark. We’ve bloody well lost enough of them for one day.
MARY: Goodbye, then. And such good luck.
SYBIL: But do you think it’s ready?
MRS PATMORE: I know it’s ready.
DAISY: Go on. You don’t want to spoil it.
VERA: If you don’t come back to me, I’m going to the newspapers with a cracking story. And I’d like to bet the Granthams won’t survive it.
BRANSON: I’ve told myself and told myself you’re too far above me, but things are changing.
EDITH: Don’t look so bewildered. It’s simple. I will drive the tractor.
SYBIL: It’s more savage and more cruel than I could have imagined… But I feel useful for the first time in my life.
CARLISLE: I know Miss Swire. Her uncle and I are old friends.
LAVINIA: Well, old acquaintances, anyway.
GENERAL SIR HERBERT STRUTT: This is all very impressive, Lady Grantham. The nurses and your own staff are to be congratulated.
DAISY: I am glad you’re all right. Honest.
WILLIAM: You should be. It’s the thought of you that keeps me going.
MARY: He says you may have damaged your spine.
MATTHEW: How long will it take to repair?
DOCTOR: There’s an ambulance waiting, although no one quite knows how you managed it.
VIOLET: What exactly is the matter with him?
DOCTOR: His body’s sustained too much damage. He cannot recover.
ROBERT: The ceasefire will begin at eleven o’clock on the morning of the eleventh of November.
ETHEL: They have to see him. They must see Charlie.
MATTHEW: I want to tell you all something. As you know, during this – well, I think I can say horrible – time, Lavinia has proved to be the most marvellous person…
VIOLET: What on earth is it?
LAVINIA: A gramophone.
VIOLET: I should stand well clear when you light the blue touch paper.
BATES: I, John Bates, take thee, Anna May Smith, to be my wedded wife.
MARY: I see what was worrying you. If Lavinia had been carried off, you wanted to be here to stop Matthew from falling into my arms on a tidal wave of grief.
MATTHEW: I know it’s a cliche, but I believe she died of a broken heart because of that kiss… And we were the ones who killed her.
O’BRIEN: Is anyone there? Is anyone there?
The girls start to laugh.
THOMAS: You must take it seriously, otherwise they’ll be offended.
JUDGE: John Bates, you have been found guilty of the charge of wilful murder. You will be taken from here to a place of execution where you will be hanged by the neck until you are dead. And may God have mercy upon your soul.
THOMAS: What about the black bottom, m’lady?
VIOLET: Just keep me upright and we’ll try to avoid it.
MARY: We’ve been on the edge of this so many times, Matthew. Please don’t take me there again, unless you’re sure.
MATTHEW: I am sure.
CAST LIST
Robert Bathurst Sir Anthony Strallan
Samantha Bond Lady Rosamund Painswick
Hugh Bonneville Robert, Earl of Grantham
Zoe Boyle Lavinia Swire
Jessica Brown Findlay Lady Sybil Crawley
Michael Cochrane Reverend Mr Travis
Paul Copley Mr Mason
Clare Calbraith Jane Moorsum
Timothy Carlton Judge
Laura Carmichael Lady Edith Crawley
Jim Carter Mr Carson
Jeremy Clyde General
Jonathan Coy George Murray
Brendan Coyle Mr Bates
Michelle Dockery Lady Mary Crawley
Kevin Doyle Mr Molesley
Maria Doyle Kennedy Vera Bates
Tom Feary-Campbell Captain Smiley
Siobhan Finneran Miss O’Brien
Joanne Froggatt Anna Smith
Iain Glen Sir Richard Carlisle
Howard Gossington Veteran
Richard Hansell Medical Officer
Nigel Havers Lord Hepworth
Thomas Howes William Mason
Rob James-Collier Thomas Barrow
Dominic Kemp Jury Foreman
Allen Leech Tom Branson
Phyllis Logan Mrs Hughes
Christine Lohr Mrs Bird
Cal MacAninch Mr Lang
Christine Mackie Mrs Bryant
Elizabeth McGovern Cora, Countess of Grantham
Kevin R. McNally Mr Bryant
Peter McNeil O’Connor Sergeant Stevens
Sophie McShera Daisy Robinson
Lesley Nicol Mrs Patmore
Lachlan Nieboer Edward Courtenay
Amy Nuttall Ethel Parks
Fergus O’Donnell Mr Drake
Stephen Omer Registrar
Graham Padden Army Doctor
Daniel Pirrie Major Bryant
Simon Poland Defence Lawyer
Tony Pritchard Prison Warder
David Robb Doctor Clarkson
Nick Sampson Prosecution Lawyer
Cathy Sara Mrs Drake
Anton Saunders Police Officer
Sharon Small Marigold Shore
Maggie Smith Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham
Dan Stevens Matthew Crawley
Stephen Ventura Davis
Julian Wadham General Sir Herbert Strutt
Trevor White Major Gordon
Penelope Wilton Isobel Crawley
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Writer & Creator Julian Fellowes
Executive Producers Gareth Neame
Julian Fellowes
Series Producer Liz Trubridge
Director (Episodes 1 & 2) Ashley Pearce
Director (Episodes 3 & 6) Andy Goddard
Director (Episodes 4 & 5) Brian Kelly
Director (Episodes 7 & 8) James Strong
Director (Christmas Special) Brian Percival
Production Designer Donal Woods
Directors of Photography Gavin Struthers
David Marsh
Nigel Willoughby
Editors John Wilson A.C.E
Steve Singleton
Mike Jones
Costume Designers Susannah Buxton
Rosalind Ebbutt
Make-up & Hair Designer Anne ‘Nosh’ Oldham
Casting Director Jill Trevellick C.D.G
Music John Lunn
First Assistant Directors Phil Booth
Howard Arundel
Tim Riddington
Second Assistant Directors Chris Croucher
Sarah Hood
Third Assistant Directors Danielle Bennett
Tamara King
Script Supervisors Sarah Garner
Vicki Howe
Location Manager Jason Wheeler
Assistant Location Manager Mark ‘Sparky’ Ellis
Unit Managers John Prendergast
James Lucas
Line Producer Charles Hubbard
Production Accountant Denis Wray
Production Co-ordinator Jonathan Houston
Assistant Production
Co-ordinator Oliver Cockerham
Assistant Accountant Matthew Lawson
Camera Operators/Steadicam Richard Stoddard
Adam Gillham
Focus Pullers Dean Thompson
Scott Rodgers
David Hedges
Clapper Loaders Milos Moore
Joanne Smith
Grips Simon Fogg
Bobby Williams
David Littlejohns
Paul Hatchman
Gaffer Phil Brookes
Best Boy David Staton
Supervising Art Director Charmian Adams
Art Director Mark Kebby
Production Buyer Corina Floyd
Set Decorator Judy Farr
Standby Art Director Pippa Broadhurst
Assistant Art Director Lucy Spofforth
Art Department Assistant Chantelle Valentine
Sound Mixer Chris Ashworth
Prop Master Charlie Johnson
Dressing Props Don Santos
Standby Props Damian Butlin
Andy Forrest
Neil McAllister
Mark Quigley
Special Effects Mark Holt Special Effects
James Davis
Stunt Co-ordinators Paul Herbert
Paul Heasman
Andreas Petrides
Tom Lucy
Stunt Performers James Cox
Kelly Dent
Jamie Edgell
Rob Hunt
Ian Kay
Will Willoughby
Belinda McGinley
Costume Supervisors Alison Beard
Vicky Salway
Crowd Costume Supervisors Sarah Touaibi
Jason Gill
Costume Design Assistant Joanne Mosley
Make-up & Hair Supervisors Christine Greenwood
Make-up & Hair Artists Elaine Browne
Gerda Lauciute
Polly Fehily
Nora Robertson
Make-up & Hair Assistant Jo Jo Dutton
Historical Advisor Alastair Bruce
Military Advisor Taff Gillingham
Medical Advisor Peter Starling
Script Editors Sam Symons
Claire Daxter
Production Executive Kimberley Hikaka
Business Affairs David O’Donoghue
Aliboo Bradbury
Unit Publicity Milk Publicity
Post-production Supervisor Jessica Rundle
Assistant Editors Mike Phillips
Andrew Melhuish
Colourist Aidan Farrell
Online Editors Clyde Kellet
Re-recording Mixer Nigel Heath
Assistant Re-recording Mixer Alex Fielding
Sound FX Editor Adam Armitage
Dialogue Editors Alex Sawyer
Tom Williams
Titles Huge Design
Visual Effects The Senate Visual Effects
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My gratitude to Gareth Neame and Liz Trubridge remains as fervent as ever. Essentially, we three make the series, and we have spent the last four years in each other’s company, inhabiting the extraordinary place that Downton Abbey has become. We work together to shape the scripts and the episodes and, heaven knows, we have been rewarded. I am also deeply in Ion Trewin’s debt for his Herculean labours in yet again turning the screenplays and my commentary into a book; and, if anything even more than last year, I salute Doctor Alasdair Emslie, whose medical knowledge was constantly employed in finding the wounds and ailments that brought our characters home from the front. Thanks, too, to Andrew Roberts, the military historian, for suggesting several stories, great and small, based on real events from the First World War, and Fiona Shackleton for her expert advice on 1920s divorce. Cathy King and Jeremy Barber are still my terrific agents, and I am happy to say that my wife, Emma, and my son, Peregrine, have lost none of their enthusiasm for rescuing me from glaring plot errors that might otherwise have engulfed us. I am very, very grateful to them all.
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