Of course not! I meant that she saw that she saw him through the door and that was why she bolted.
We never saw Mary as a kid, precocious or otherwise. Sibyl requested cooking lessons when she decided to become a nurse.
Lord Fellowes wanted Mary to know how to scramble eggs, so she knew. Fanwank has Matthew teaching her–after all, the show skipped over much of their married life.
I thought in one episode Carson was relating stories about Mary being a precocious little child and that’s when we heard she learned to cook.
Yes. That’s what I meant.
Poor Edith. Did the “next week” promo imply that she was going to enter into a marriage of convenience with… one of the tenants??!
Or did I misunderstand.
Brilliant as usual. I particularly liked the band leader and Rose picture with the comment “Our names are Jack and Rose and we are literally in a boat. This can’t end well.”
Another good ep. Highlights -
[ul][li]Mrs. Patmore and her “yes yes - we’ve got the flu”.[/li][li]Isobel’s “You’re not allowed to die until I beat your ass at gin rummy”[/li][li]The unconsciously supercilious remark from Mary to the servant - “You’re getting up, so it’s time I go to bed” plus “I’ve shown my new love interest how down-to-earth I am, so clean up my mess in the kitchen”. It’s not so bad being a pig farmer as long as you can sleep 'til noon the next day.[/ul]And apparently some French guy has taken a shine to Albert, eh? Maybe he has been influenced by Thomas. 
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So Michael checked into his hotel in Munich and then disappeared. Is he trying to dump Edith? Kidnapped and held to ransom by Turks? Scheming to burn down the Reichstag?
That nursery is going to get crowded, what with Edith’s love child, Tom’s next child by the woman he met at the political lecture, and Rose’s child by the band leader, alongside Sybil Jr. and George. I can’t remember - did Anna say anything to indicate that she is not pregnant from the rape? Maybe that is the next development.
Along with Mrs. Hughes scheming in concert with Thomas and the new maid with the sewing machine to kill the rapist to prevent Bates from killing him and going on trial again. They will bash him on the head with the sewing machine, and feed him to the new pigs. Mary will help them, and so will the guy from the Ministry to ingratiate himself with Mary and try to get into her pants.
Regards,
Shodan
A conversation between Anna and Mrs Hughes last week (or 2 weeks ago?) put that plot development to rest [thank God] – Mrs Hughes said something along the lines of “well, at least you’re not pregnant”.
Re Mary and the guy in the pig mud… I half expected the next scene to be them running through the park in slow motion. And now Mary has actually worked a few hours in her life so she’s got that going for her.
Edith’s boy Michael… We found out he checked into his hotel in Munchen and went out that evening… Of course. For ein beer. While drinking his litre at the beer hall round the corner from his hotel…a ruckus breaks out. Cops come in an arrest everyone, Michael included. I’m telling you he’s sitting in a Munich jail with a little, Austrian paper hanging son of a bitch. But he’ll be released in time to come home, marry Edith and be a daddy.
Bates is going to go all …Luca Brasi… on Green. He won’t get busted for his action, either. Even if there’s evidence he’ll get off since his action will be justifiable.
Anyone remember Mr Wu’s pigs from the HBO series Deadwood?
On that show, set in a nineteenth century Old West mining town, the Chinese owner of a laundry service kept some pigs that were used in a couple of episodes for body disposal (i.e., the pigs ate the corpses).
But I doubt this show will go that direction. It’s not very genteel.
I’m wondering if Mr. Bates is going to discreetly verify if anybody else came down from the concert while it was going on. He’s going to remember the general seating arrangement so he need only ask those who he isn’t sure if.
I was actually thinking the same thing.
As I recall from the movie, all Luca did was try to go undercover and winds up getting his hand nailed to the bar. The book Luca, though, cuts somebody’s legs off with a chainsaw. I could see Bates doing that. 
Here’s the MP Tom went to see in Ripon: John Ward (trade unionist) - Wikipedia.
He doesn’t need to do that. Green said at dinner that he left during the concert and went downstairs. When he said that, Bates had a look of realization on his face.
What if Lady Mary became a hardass American cop in 2014?: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/downton-abbey-michelle-dockery-spoof-2995265#.Uvoa6_5C9GL.facebook
Yes that raises the level of certainty but it’s not iron clad enough to do something about it. I believe he did say the person responsible is a dead man. Still, I don’t think this actor has a long term contract with the series.
That Was AWESOME.
I love it!
Is Cora dumb as a box of rocks, or what?
That was a boring episode. It was all a bunch of meh.