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- In late 1800s England, Jude plans to go to the city and attend university but marries early and becomes a stonemason. When his wife leaves, he moves to the city, where he befriends his liberal cousin Sue.
- A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.
- A small group of everyday passengers on a speeding London commuter train battle their warped driver who has a dark plan for everyone on-board.
- In 1860, a young orphaned girl is sent to live with her uncle, but she is troubled by a shadowy figure that appears and disappears.
- Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway halt, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station keeper, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. That evening, the hunchback discovers Ewen with Pauline's body in the shack where he lives, and helps him to bury the corpse in the orchard. Later, however, Ewen inadvertently betrays himself: the body is disinterred by the police and Ewen breaks down hysterically. Years later, the hunchback, who has disavowed Ewen, encourages the friendship of another village youth. Peter Jessop's carefully textured camera work initially lends this mini-feature an edge of the picturesquely sinister. But the resolution of the anecdote is rather forced and anti-climactic, and some of the details (like the police searching the orchard at the dead of night) ring distractingly false. All the same, it represents a debut of some promise.
- In Sussex, Drew has some incredible luck when he is offered first pick of a shop packed full of French items.
- Considered the most beautiful debutante of the 1930s, heiress Margaret Sweeny (Claire Foy) is in the midst of a divorce when she meets the dashing - and married - Ian Campbell, future Duke of Argyll (Paul Bettany).
- April 1912 . The family and staff of Downton are shocked when they find that the heir to the title and fiancé of the Earl's daughter Mary perished on the Titanic, and the Earl hires a crippled army comrade as valet.
- Lucia plans a series of musical evenings with herself playing the piano. Not everybody is enchanted - especially Mapp who sees a chance for revenge when she hears of a forthcoming visit by Algernon Wyse's sister, Amelia. She is the widow of an Italian count and speaks the language fluently whilst Lucia claims to but patently does not. Sending Georgie to a hotel Lucia feigns illness and takes to her bed for the visit and Mapp senses triumph. Sadly for her however Georgie has met an Italian family at the hotel who compose a perfectly worded letter in their language - allegedly from Lucia - apologizing to the Contessa for her indisposition . Later several Tilling residents rush to the station for a visit by the Prince of Wales but no prince steps out of the car, only Lucia and Georgie who announce their intention of selling up and moving to Tilling permanently.