'Downton Abbey' season finale: Here's how it ended
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Molly Driscoll Staff writer
In contrast to previous season finales that ended with tragic surprises (the death of a certain leading man, anyone?) or suspenseful cliff-hangers, the newest 鈥淒ownton鈥� season finale finished with some satisfying resolutions.
Three of the 鈥淒ownton鈥� characters may be headed off to America. Rose (Lily James), cousin to the Crawley sisters, and her new husband Atticus (Matt Barber) are moving to New York, while Tom Branson (Allen Leech), who was the Crawleys鈥� chauffeur and then became their son-in-law when he married now-deceased daughter Sybil, says he鈥檚 going to Boston.聽
While it was revealed earlier that a former competitor for Mary鈥檚 hand, Tony Gillingham (Tom Cullen), is marrying someone else, Mary seemed intrigued by Henry Talbot (Matthew Goode), a guest at a shooting party she attends.聽
Anna (Joanne Froggatt), a maid in the 鈥淒ownton鈥� household, was arrested for the murder of a man named Green 鈥� Anna鈥檚 husband, Bates (Brendan Coyle), was previously suspected of having murdered Green, but a witness told police that he or she saw Anna near Green before Green鈥檚 death. However, Bates pens a letter saying he killed Green and vanishes. Two of the other servants prove that Bates was elsewhere and not in London, where Green was killed, on the day in question, so Bates is presumably exonerated and Anna is released after the witness becomes unsure of what happened.
Meanwhile, Carson (Jim Carter), the 鈥淒ownton鈥� butler, and Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan), the head housekeeper for the household, have decided to buy property together and get married.
Isobel (Penelope Wilton), Mary鈥檚 former mother-in-law, refuses a proposal from Lord Merton (Douglas Reith), and the Dowager Countess, Violet (Maggie Smith), brings her former paramour, the Russian Prince Kuragin, and his wife back together.
Most of the family now knows that Marigold, the girl that Crawley daughter Edith (Laura Carmichael) adopted, is Edith鈥檚 illegitimate child.
And heads up, Dowager Countess fans 鈥� is Smith leaving the show? She recently told the of the upcoming sixth season, "They say this is the last one, and I can鈥檛 see how it could go on. I mean, I certainly can鈥檛 keep going. To my knowledge, I must be 110 by now. We鈥檙e into the late 1920s."
