Mr Selfridge Series 4 Episode 3 Review

Harry (Jeremy Piven) spends the night with Rosie (Emma Hamilton) (how common was that name! Suppose it had nothing to do with his wife Rose and his daughter was Rosalie!!) With his mother buried only a week ago, he's not really much in acceptance yet and more in well, he'll think about it later/denial mode.  He doesn't even want to be with his family and help them sort out his mother's belongings.  That's understandable he doesn't have to do it but they do need each other.  He just goes partying some more with Jimmy (Sacha Dhawan) and the sisters and ends up throwing his money away and at them.  Without a care even if his debts are still mounting up.  He hasn't paid his gambling debt either and the club owner wasn't too happy with that.  "You'll be good for it when I get my money" he tells Harry.  He's not even getting on with Gordon (Greg Austin) and their relationship deteriorates even further as Harry enters a bit of a scam to fool the investors into buying shares in the provincial stores.

Gordon's not too happy with that either as they have so many staff and he built those stores up, so it'll be his reputation on the line, not Harry's.  He's too blinded by wealth though and Jimmy.  I mean he doesn't even know him.  Crab (Ron Cook) tells him they're "exploiting a legal loophole" and even Jimmy doesn't listen to Gordon and tells him to talk to Harry about the scheme with the trust cos he's not pulling out.  No wonder no one understood the scheme as Jimmy used it in the theatre where he sells shares to the trust, then the theatre keeps half and buys them back or something.  Essentially it's where the theatre sells the shares it already owns to the trust, the trust splits the shares in two and sells the shares at the price of the old ones, selling half the shares and keeping the other half.

Trading on the stock market is huge as the shares pick up value.  But it won't last.  Harry throws another party and the Dolly sisters are there as usual making a spectacle of themselves, and Violette (Hannah Tointon) is disgusted with them and Harry's behaviour, she asks him what their grandmother would think of his 'friends.' She leaves and returns to Paris, not even wanting to stay with the family when he needs them the most.

Elizabeth Arden (Madeleine Potter) a friend of Harry's pays a visit and wants Kitty to run the concessions at the store.  Complaining about the pink which is the wrong shade of pink for her display and getting Lyons (Sam Swann) to change it before the store opens.  She also gives a press conference and she is quizzed by a woman from the Christian Herald about not having children, working and why she isn't there to greet her husband when he returns home in her pink negligee!! She lies and tells her she can't have children, telling Kitty (Amy Beth Hayes) that women will always make those sorts of judgements.

She's not much of a positive influence on Kitty as she calls her up in the middle of the night needing help.  Elizabeth shows her photos the PI took of her husband and his mistress, much younger and she's probably giving him a whole family.  She takes sleeping pills and drinks and wants Kitty to stay until she falls asleep.  Kitty tells Frank (Samuel West) and he tells her he'll always be here for her. Not really as Elizabeth's stirring up trouble in paradise there as she offers Kitty a job in New York with her own apartment and good pay.  She tells Frank he can stop his chasing around and she can support them both and he'll be able to write.   He replies he didn't know she didn't think much of what he does.

Elsewhere Grove (Tom Goodman-Hill) has a fall on the stairs at home and his leg is seriously bruised.  At the hospital he must await his test results and has to stay at home.  Crab brings him a transmitter kit to assemble with Earnest and the rest of the children are reminded of Doris as her favourite song plays, "Where did you get that hat?"  He also buys a car and they go driving in it.  His test results show he has a brain tumour which has spread to his lungs and his liver and that's why his leg wasn't healing.  He doesn't have much time left and chooses to spend it with his family, as they go driving again.  Meryl (Lottie Tolhurst) thinks her father as manager should show some favourtism and put her back on the shop floor instead of the storeroom.  She'll have her work cut out for her as she will need to look after the family.  Does this spell the return of Miss Mardle?

Tilly (Mimi Ndiweni) is still being singled out for racist treatment at work and Ellis (Ria Zmitrowicz) doesn't let her attend the party like the other girls, sending her to dispatch packages instead even if it's after hours.  Meryl brings her back some canopies but she's caught eating and can't afford the luxury of not being able to work.  Rosalie (Kara Tointon) drops into a church to light a candle and finds Lord Wynnstay (Robert Pugh) there.  He's the patron of their orphanage and he lost his son in the war so started the orphanage for the war orphans.  Rosalie thinks they can raise funds at the store for the orphans.  He doesn't want anyone to know what he does.

Although Harry originally had an affair with Rosie, it was Jenny (Zoe Richards) that he actually wanted , so much for her saying to him that he chose Rosie over her.  Harry visits his mother's grave and cries.  Not much else to add on this as we know where things are headed, as said before.  So much for Gordon telling Harry he's "in danger of losing everyone who truly cares about you."  Well the dice have already been cast for his downfall.  Signifying his addiction to gambling and not just with money but also with lives.  Wynnstay also telling him how the day of the salesman is over with the death of John Lewis and he's the only one left.  "How does it feel to be a dinosaur Harry?"