History WMG / DowntonAbbey

Her mother has come into some huge inheritance (like everyone else in the show)so the [[spoiler: evil stepfather.]] is trying ensure she is hanged so he can get the money. He is the main police officer and pays the witnesses.

* Also, another episode or series of episodes around 1933 will involve a German Jew claiming to be Cora's cousin on her father's side[[note]]Isidore Levinson was almost certainly a German Jew, given his name and time period; "Levinson" is a characteristically Ashkenazi name, and the Polish and Russian Jews didn't start arriving in the US until the 1880s, while the major influx of German Jews came in the 1840s-70s, as a result of the anti-Semitic reaction after the Revolutions of 1848[[/note]] trying to escape to Britain.

Since we now know the series won't make it all the way to WWII (and it would have had to have been quite a long runner to do that) they'll need some other event to cap the series, and Robert's death is a natural end to the era at Downton (an alternative, the start of the Great Depression, is more the beginning of an era than the end of one). The other characters are dispensable, but Robert is the series tentpole; without him there is no Downton. It's traditional in drama for the paterfamilias to die and pass on his role to the next generation of leadership, in this case Mary and whoever she winds up wedding; presumably the faux-angina episode is foreshadowing.

After all, they are all guilty of obstructing justice (or whatever the equivalent charge is under English law) in the investigation of the murder of [[spoiler: Anna's rapist]]. All the family's enemies (Edna, Simon Bricker, Richard Carlisle, Mabel Lane Fox, Larry & Tim Grey, Irina Kuragin, Terence Sampson) will testify as character witnesses against them. The Kemal Pamuk scandal will finally come to full public view. In the final shot the camera will pan out as they engage each other in their usual witty banter from behind bars.

After all, they are all guilty of obstructing justice (or whatever the equivalent charge is under English law) in the investigation of the murder of [[spoiler: Anna's rapist]]. In the final shot the camera will pan out as they engage each other in their usual witty banter from behind bars.

** Aching sarcasm aside, [[ArcFatigue at least one of these well-trodden plot points is bound to happen.....]]

Molesley will marry Baxter. Later on it will be revealed that, in the past, Molesley was in prison for a crime he did not commit or was forced to commit. His reluctance to reveal all the details will cost him his job. But just as he sinks into depression, he will receive an inheritance. Only, he will feel he does not deserve such inheritance because of the complicated and/or dramatic romantic circumstances surrounding said inheritance. But eventually he will realize he does deserve the inheritance or will accept it to help Baxter. He will need to help Baxter because her former boyfriend, the one who talked her into stealing in the past, will arrive to Downton to blackmail her after finding out about her marriage and Molesley's inheritance. Said former boyfriend will die mysteriously, and his death will before long be deemed a murder. Molesley will suspect Baxter killed her former boyfriend so he will take the blame and go to prison. He will be released soon, once it's proven that the former boyfriend's death was actually an accident, unfortunately Molesley will not be released before he loses a hand during a prison riot. Still, even though he lost a hand, he will be hired as a valet by a returning Branson, much to the chagrin of Carson and annoyance of Thomas.

** Seeing as Carson is loyal to the hilt, and utterly disgusted by any sort of sexual antics, this seems impossibly unlikely. As a further point, brown eyes are certainly possible with two blue-eyed parents, just as two brown-eyed parents will sometimes produce a blue-eyed child (due to a recessive gene). [[http://genetics.thetech.org/how-blue-eyed-parents-can-have-brown-eyed-children Genetics are not cut and dried by any means]].

Not only does Sophie McShera bear a striking resemblence to Carla Gallo, the two characters seem to share a lot of the same [[Genki Girl]] personality traits, although they are much more repressed in the humble, "simple minded girl" role of subserviant Daisy Robinson.

** [[spoiler: And now that Edith and Mr Grigson have slept together, he's gone MIA.]]

Lord and Lady Grantham both have blue eyes, which couldn't produce the beautiful chocolate brown eyes that Lady Mary has. Carson also has dark brown eyes, and a very fatherly attitude towards Mary. We know Lord and Lady Grantham didn't marry for love, so is an affair in the early days of their marriage really out of place?

HIGHLY unlikely -- Downton is in the middle of nowhere, and the bombings were centred around major cities and areas of industry (London, Liverpool etc). Bombing a country house seems a pointless waste of ammo.

[[WMG: Downton will be damaged or even destroyed by German bombs during the Second World War.]]

When he and Rosamund were courting, he called her "Marmalade" to wind her up about her hair, so she resolved to call him something equally [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous horrid]] and came up with "Marmaduke". His real name was probably John or something equally mundane, so the nickname stuck.

Because they are the FanPreferredCouple. And it's not like Carson would ever do anything improper while they're both working at Downton.

With the house taken over by the government for the duration (and perhaps decades longer), and a DistantFinale showing it presently under National Trust administration with the Crawley descendants scattered throughout the world.

* Doesn't work. the laws of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primogeniture primogeniture]] mean that Mary's son scopes the loot regardless of Matthew dying before he received his inheritance.