So was the clearing of John Bates’s involvement in the death of his wife, which was a tangled web of nonsense involving revenge-suicide and the precise timing of a pie-crust poisoning that, to this day, I still don’t fully understand.īut when you get right down to it, creator Julian Fellowes doesn’t care about silly things like whether the details related to police procedure make any kind of sense. But that’ll work in England circa 1924, too, won’t it?ĭownton Abbey has always had a problem with making sense out of its crime/mystery plotlines, and this entire, now-two-season-spanning story is a prime example. And … um … that’s enough to get someone executed for first-degree homicide, right? I mean, I know it is in Texas. Green, and the witness believes the shove-murderer was not as tall as the victim. Green get pushed into the bus, Anna was in the vicinity of the crime scene when it occurred. According to the beady-eyed witness who kinda sorta saw Mr. And that evidence is … ummm … well, let’s see. Vyner, who suddenly goes from mildly irritating detective into raging jerkhole cop in this episode, is the man on the case.
MRS BATES DOWNTON ABBEY CRACK
Of course, a woman can’t just get arrested for killing someone, especially not when a crack Scotland Yard investigator like Mr. instead of the Mr.Īnna Bates - one of a handful of Downton Abbey characters who has never done a selfish, mean-spirited thing in her life - is arrested and sent to the slammer for the alleged murder of Mr. But this time, the wrongly accused party is the Mrs. Oh, a Bates gets arrested and sent to jail.
In this week’s episode, the penultimate of season five, Downton Abbey flips the script on that last recurring theme.
John Bates either spending time in jail or dealing with the prospect of potential prison time. There are certain moments and plot elements we’ve come to expect from each season of Downton Abbey: philosophical witticisms from the Dowager Countess, eavesdropping that magically occurs during the most eavesdrop-worthy moments in private conversations, Carson getting his cummerbunds in a twist about stuffy traditions made unfashionable by that punk-bastard known as Time. Photo: Nick Briggs/Carnival Film & Television Ltd
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