September 1940
Garland (Steven Mackintosh) traverses the streets. Yay it's legal London again with Garland walking on what is Middle Temple Lane and round the corner to his left, as we see his back, is Inner Temple! To his right is Middle Temple Library. I should take some pics of where they filmed these scenes and post them sometime. Alas I wasn't around when they filmed this!! Darn it again!!
Retribution for the Great War as Freddie puts it at the end: the way they were attacked during the day by the bombing and later again. Which could sum up this episode in many ways. We get to see Garland's past as he has flashes back to his time in the First war and how he saved a deserter from being shot by his superior. The only thing he thought he could do. Which coincided with this episode in particular and his day off which he chooses to spend by firstly fixing Peggy's (Annabelle Apsion) leaking sink and giving her water on tap. That was a pointless task for the events that followed and he sees her daughter, Dora (Bella Padden). Who shows Ada (Joann Condon) the neighbour looking after her, and Garland how she hides when there's a raid, under the table. Though not much practical use. Of course that was only foreshadowing of what was to come. Garland and Peggy leave as she buys a present for Dora's birthday at the post office. Garland's past catches up to him. As the many faceted character we learn is actually named Sam and the man he rescued, Douglas (Tim Plester) meets him outside. Garland denying who he is, stating his name is Richard. Obviously Douglas wasn't going to take that from him considering he would remember the man who saved him. As said, not a coincidence this happened in this episode the way it did. This one clearly being a Garland episode.
There's a wedding at The Halcyon and Emma (Hermione Corfield) is left to deal with it, as well as the fall out from her own life and fall out there was, literally and otherwise. Priscilla (Olivia Williams) feels Toby should get acquainted with Lady Teresa (Alice Bailey Johnson) as he was always awkward around girls and spelling it out, they'd be a perfect match. As once again she dresses for the wedding, she invites D'Abberville (Charles Edwards) as her guest and even if it wouldn't be appropriate as he says people will think he's after ere money, she insists. Especially as she has money, plenty of it.
Freddie (Jamie Blackley) is best man and he confides in Toby (Edward Bluemel) about being hit during a fight and how his plane was being downed and all he could think of was Emma, luckily he caught some wind and returned. Now he thinks they shouldn't be together as it will only bring them hurt, especially Emma but it should've been her choice to make, whether he's part of her life in the romantic sense or not, she will still think of him and be hurt by him no matter what happens, since she does love him and that's the sort of person she is. But Daddy Garland threatens Freddie at the end for what he's done to her and treated her that way, so if he ever comes near her again he'll deal with him, regardless of status or his position. And you know from his past, he will put his words into practice.
Betsy (Kara Tointon) finds Sonny's (Sope Disiru) pawn shop receipt in his tux as he puts it around her shoulders as the air raid siren sounds. He wasn't even wearing his tux so why even put it in there. It would've been safer in his other suit instead of carrying it around, where she conveniently finds it.
Peggy decides she can't stay in the air raid shelter and needs to find Dora, he'd do the same for Emma. Also as a way for viewers to see some of the tragedy on the streets. But not before Douglas speaks with Garland in the shelter and asks if he still thinks about him. The officer (Jonathan Christie) he shot, but he doesn't. He wouldn't. But Douglas does. He doesn't like how his life's turned out, even if Garland saved him, he's not knocking that, but Garland's a manager and he's nothing really and he wants Garland to help him. Why? He saved his life, he doesn't owe him anything to live it for him or what he does with it.
As Garland passes when a bomb hits, he recalls they covered the officer with leaves and took their chances as deserters. They'd be seen as MIA, or dead but it would be a new start for them and they had to get back. Peggy manages to find Dora as her house suffered from the blast and she manages to free herself from under the table with Garland's help.
As the air raid sirens blast Joe (Matt Ryan) asks if Emma's not going down into the shelter, she replies anyone who wants to go can. Joe adding it's business a usual then and she tells him of the story of the boy who cried wolf. Joe recalls the wolves entered the village. She sends the staff down and Chef (Gordon Kennedy) and Max (Nico Rogner) don't go. Instead Max has a panic attack, or fit as Chef tells him he know 7 September is his daughter's birthday and he lashes out, until he gives in. As they bond over icing the wedding cake, he thinks his family may be interned on the coast like everyone else and so he needs to find out. Apologizing for losing it. Toby tries to escape the advances of Teresa and ends up with Adil (Akshay Kumar) in the pantry, as Toby covers his mouth and hides behind the wall. Cue Adil kissing him. Later he says he will resign f he wants him to, but Toby, who can't tie his tie now, says he's meant to be clever and now he understands everything, as they kiss some more. No class distinctions there like Freddie made excuses to Emma about.
Freddie is paid a visit by Celina (Georgia Maguire) Stanislav's widow and she says he's not gone but he's dead, as Freddie uses the phrase of being gone. Thinking what he did was worthless. She gives him Stanislav's cross and later this makes Freddie think of the futility and uncertainty of what he does and how he can't keep Emma hanging on that way.
Freddie: "love doesn’t change. It will last no matter what obstacles face us, because it is ours and ours alone. We are defined by those who love us and whom we choose to love in return."
The wedding guests are perturbed at having to sit in the shelter for the reception and Lady Ashworth (Fenella Woolgar) tells Priscilla that D'Abberville is too young for her. Also letting slip how she knew about Lord Hamilton's dalliances and didn't say anything. Well the wife's always the last to know. This makes her determined to 'get it on' with D'Abberville and they share a bed together, as well as a dance at the reception.
"The Emma and Joe playbook on pick up lines and dating." No, seriously there'd be something in that especially as how she comes up with those one liners, as does he and that much more. In the final scene with Emma as she watches Freddie drive away and Joe saying how he even thinks Freddie looks good in a uniform. She replies it's not like that and then he mentions the disaster bit. And her retort of how it must be good being so all-knowing. See it's that love/hate thang going on already. Yet you know Emma will always have eyes and heart for Freddie. Regardless of being worlds apart, the world was changing and especially for people who were young like her and Freddie. As Peggy tells Garland, she envies Emma as she's got more choices to make, war aside and not just the ones of getting married and having children as soon as she was old enough. As Joe can't believe "the bastards came back, using the fires as goddamn guidelines." Referring to the Germans attacking again of course, not Freddie! Ha.
Joe says she's gonna miss him. She replies, "no, they're not suited."
Joe: "guess not, he's an aristo, you're staff it's a dictionary definition of a disaster waiting to happen."
Emma: "it must be wonderful being so wise Mr O'Hara."
Joe and the looking good in uniform remark, ha, kinda flashback to Downton Abbey and Thomas! If you get my meaning!!
No radio broadcast for Joe this episode and you'd have expected it especially since they were bombed twice in the same day/night and Joe saying it was really bad out there, terrible, even the sky's on fire." Yet his words didn't light up the airwaves this episode particularly as he's "seen nothing like it" before. Alas that was left to Freddie to say in some ways as he talks of love during the best man's speech. Yet at this point he's broken up with Emma. Who does a lot of turning around and walking out of and away from rooms.
As for the break-up speech it's more along the lines of how their worlds are different and it wouldn't work out between them, he can't tell her the truth. Though he could say how they have to be honest with each other. He wasn't and she didn't do anything about it, but just accepted it and gave up. As if it was easier to move on to bigger and better. Not that that's a bad thing as far as Joe is concerned (my bias aside) but she should've fought for her feelings and not get trampled on by him cos he's suddenly discovered status. That was even before Garland told Freddie he'd threaten him, irrespective of Freddie's status and boy would he, especially when he didn't have any remorse over shooting that officer. Who also had status!
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