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by Julian Fellowes


  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 Houstonr />
  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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  © Julian Fellowes 2013

  Photography by Nick Briggs

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