'Downton Abbey' Season 5 Spoilers, Recap News: Episode 6 Sees Edith Make Her Move
Last Sunday on "Downton Abbey," Edith makes her move, Anna learns the truth, and Robert and Cora make up.
A telegram arrives for Edith informing her that the business partner of her lover, the missing Mr. Gregson, is about to come to the estate bearing news. Everyone instantly thinks that the news is bad, and it is: Gregson has been killed by Adolf's men in Germany. Edith is upset, but Mary is indifferent and says, "Well of course it's terrible. But what did he think he was going? Living in a tree?"
Meanwhile, Violet hears from Shrimpy that it's possible that he may be close to finding Prince Kuragin's wife in Hong Kong. The Dowager Countess travels to the Prince's place to tell him about the good news, but rather than be happy, the Prince confesses that he has carried a torch for her all these years.
"I wanted you from the moment I first saw you. More than mortal men ever wanted women," he says to Violet. But she's having none of it and tells him that that's all in the past.
Back at the abbey, Anna is called upstairs and she has left her box in the cottage. Her husband, Bates, offers to get it for her. Then, Bates discovers the family planning book and the contraceptives that Anna was hiding for Mary. Bates confronts his wife, but she doesn't tell him that it belongs to Mary. Then, Bates tells her that he didn't kill Green even if he knew that he attacked her. He did buy a ticket to London, but he never got on the train. Anna is relieved that her husband didn't kill the man who raped her.
Robert is still smarting from finding another man in the room that he shares with Cora. Though he knows that nothing happened, he's holding a grudge against her. Cora visits him in the dressing room and asks him to come to bed. Robert refuses to do, and at this Cora snaps at him.
"If you can honestly say that you have never let a flirtation get out of hand since we were married, if you have never given a woman the wrong impression, then by all means stay away," Cora tells him. "Otherwise, I expect you back in my room tonight."
Robert considers this, then gets up and heads off to their room.
Later, while the rest of the family is at Charles' horse race, Edith leaves a letter telling her family that she is leaving the abbey. She goes to the Drewes to pick up her daughter, and though they are angry, they concede that nothing else can be done. Marigold goes with Edith. Mother and daughter are reunited at last.
"Downton Abbey" airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on PBS.
