There's still problems and arguments galore surrounding the hospital merging with the Royal Yorkshire and the Dowager (Maggie Smith) thinks Cora can be persuaded to her line of thinking. However she thinks the merger is a good idea especially after she visits the hospital and has luncheon there too, which the Dowager thinks is a betrayal and Isobel accuses Dr Clarkson (David Robb) of not wanting to go ahead since he's in a position of authority here and she calls him "the king." Which he doesn't take too kindly to.
The dress arrives but it isn't much better than the one Mrs Hughes was going to wear, it looked better in the catalogue. There's not much they can do about it and Anna (Joanne Froggatt) mentions it to Mary, who thinks she can wear one of Cora's embroidered coats over it, but no one asks Cora. Mary also asks Anna if she's pregnant but it's too early for her to tell. Saying that it's not Bates's (Brendan Coyle) fault then. Mary adding as soon as three months are over they'll pop down to London and she can get her business done. Anna acting coy over half the things Mary says.
Edith (Laura Carmichael) has to go to London again having more problems with the editor and she'll stay at the flat instead of with Rosamund. Even if no one will see it as proper she says she's almost middle aged now anyway. Edith meets Bertie Pelham (Harry Hadden-Paton) there and they met last year. More filming of Downton at legal London, by Lincoln's Inn and outside the bookshop, known as Wildy and Sons on Carey Street. They added an underground sign outside for good measure. He asks Edith for a drink later before he heads home and she accepts. When she gets back to the office she gets fed up of the editor refusing to listen to her and sacks him. Now she has to get the magazine to the printers herself by 4am. Telling him she can't have a drink, why didn't she just phone him. Bertie comes along and helps her cos he was going to ask her to dinner anyway. They get the magazine out and he tells her she makes him feel needed and appreciative. Edith feels she needs a purpose and this job gives her a purpose, but she won't be taking this over just yet. She'll get a caretaker editor for the time being. Of course Mary isn't so impressed when she shows Robert the stills/proofs of the magazine, cos Miss Snooty Pants turns her nose up at everything, especially anything to do with Edith.
Mary's got a letter from Branson (Alan Leech) who had a dream about walking by the trees at Downtown and waking up in tears. He misses home and she says she'll write him later after the wedding, talk about lazy. Cora returns home from the awful meeting where she's badgered by the Dowager for taking sides with Isobel again and rushes up before Mary tells her the others are up in her room. Cora loses her temper at them saying someone should've told her, feeling like the scavengers are rifling through her clothes. Anna, Mrs Patmore and Mrs Hughes leave. Anna tells Mary about what happened and Mary tries to fix it in her meddling way. She tells Cora she told them they could borrow a coat, but it would've been courteous if she had asked her first.
Cora gives Mrs Hughes a coat and apologizes since she was angry about something else and took her anger out on them. Which Mrs Patmore says they've all done. Baxter (Raquel Cassidy) fixes the coat for her. Daisy (Sophie McShera) gets high hopes for Mr Mason (Paul Copley) taking over the Drewe farm and she thinks that's what Cora meant when she said she has a plan. So she confronts Cora about it thinking that's what's going to happen and Mr Mason will be able to take it over. Jumping the gun as usual, she still hasn't learnt her lesson and doesn't keep her mouth shut. Molesley (Kevin Doyle) telling her she mustn't get carried away yet.
Thomas (Rob James-Collier) is determined to find another position before he's sacked, but why are Robert (Hugh Bonneville) and Carson so set on firing him anyway. It's not like they don't have enough room for him. He's also angry that the others have poisoned Andy (Michael Fox) against him, when he told him about the position at Downton and he just wants to be his friend, which he was, until they said otherwise. Baxter tells him to tell Andy that.
Thomas applies for an interview at Dryden Park which Robert used to attend with the family years ago. Living up to its name, it was kind of dry. The place is empty now with only a few staff so Thomas can't see why it was still advertized as being prestigious. Even if royalty had been there in the past, that's not the present. Sir Michael (Ronald Pickup) wants someone who's clearly all in favour of royalty and Thomas hasn't thought about it. It's not the right place for him. Spratt (Jeremy Swift) is hiding a secret which Denker (Sue Johnston) finds out about, in Great Expectations fashion, he's been hiding his nephew who's on the run from prison. She tells him she'll keep his secret but obviously that'll come at a price.
The day of the wedding arrives and manages to go off without a hitch. The Dowager finds Dr Clarkson might be changing his mind about the merger being a good thing for the local hospital, which the Dowager isn't pleased about. She thinks that a peer like Lord Merton (Douglas Reith) changing his mind and being in favour of reform, is like a turkey wanting Christmas. The school teacher thinks Molesley missed his calling as a teacher since he's all for "education opening up a gate" for all possibilities. Daisy blabs to Mr Mason about the farm before anything's been decided and before Cora gets to put him right, Branson returns. He's home now and he had to go to Boston to realize that this is his home, if they'll have him. Of course they will since they want Sibby around.
More fairly routine things happening here and nothing to get too excited about. There really isn't much to enjoy this last series and it feels like stories were just being made up as they went along to get through the final series. Still we got some funny lines like Mrs Hughes wanting a proper breakfast table for the wedding, with solid food, not these posh nibbly canapes getting stuck in teeth. Much to Mary's surprise and being put in her place when she tells her people still do the sit-down wedding breakfast tables bit.
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