Downton Abbey (TV Series)
Episode #6.8 (2015)
Allen Leech: Tom Branson
Quotes
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Robert Crawley, Earl of Gratham : [to Edith as she enters the room] Did you get hold of him?
Lady Edith Crawley : Yes, he's coming down tomorrow on the first leg of his trip to Tangiers. I've asked him here.
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : Good.
Tom Branson : How is he?
Lady Edith Crawley : [sighing] Sad, he loved his cousin. And it was all so quick. The trouble is, they've already buried him, and Bertie's not quite sure what to do.
Isobel Crawley : Well, that's ordinary in hot countries, it won't mean any disrespect.
Lady Edith Crawley : No, but should they leave him there?
Lady Mary Crawley : [smugly] Surely the decision is down to the new marquess, not to Bertie.
Lady Edith Crawley : [hesitantly] Well, that's the thing. He is the new marquess... Bertie.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Gratham : [Mary looks dumbfounded] Bertie Pelham is now the Marquess of Hexham?
Lady Edith Crawley : Yes.
Lady Mary Crawley : Nonsense, he's having you on. He'd have told you if he was the heir.
Lady Edith Crawley : He did tell me, but his cousin was in his thirties, and they all knew the girl he was going to marry.
Lady Mary Crawley : But that's absurd. If Bertie's a marquess, then Edith...
Robert Crawley, Earl of Gratham : [interrupting joyfully] Edith would outrank us all, yes, that's right!
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : [Everyone smiles, thrilled with the news] Was he a close relation?
Lady Edith Crawley : Second cousin, once removed. Nobody thought it was possible he would ever inherit, least of all Bertie.
Isobel Crawley : Well, he seemed like a nice young man to me.
Lady Rosamund Painswick : [beaming] And getting nicer by the minute!
Tom Branson : With a real love of Brancaster.
Robert Crawley, Earl of Gratham : Golly gumdrops! What a turn up!
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : [Sees the door opening, smiling widely] That's dinner, if we're not too distracted to eat!
[All move toward the door except for Mary, who still appears thunderstruck]
Tom Branson : [teasing] So we'll all bow and curtsey to Edith. You'll enjoy that, Mary.
Lady Mary Crawley : [bitterly] Hardly. And if Bertie really is Lord Hexham, which I still don't believe, he won't want to marry her now.
Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham : [sarcastically] Careful, or people will think you're jealous, dear. We don't want that.
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Tom Branson : You're a coward, Mary. Like all bullies, you're a coward.
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Tom Branson : Well, you got what you wanted. Bertie has left for the train, and now Edith won't be the next Marchioness of Hexham.
Lady Mary Crawley : Well, that's not what I wanted.
Tom Branson : Isn't It?
Lady Mary Crawley : I still can't believe she never told him. How was I to know that?
Tom Branson : Don't play the innocent with me.
Lady Mary Crawley : I didn't mean...
Tom Branson : Don't lie! Not to me! You can't stop ruining things. For Edith. For yourself. You'd pull in the sky if you could. Anything to make you feel less frightened and alone.
Lady Mary Crawley : You saw Henry when he was here. High-handed and bullying and unapologetic. Am I expected to lower myself to his level and be grateful I'm allowed to do so?
Tom Branson : Listen to yourself. Lower yourself to his level? You're not a princess in "The Prisoner of Zenda"!
Lady Mary Crawley : You don't understand me.
Tom Branson : You ruined Edith's life today! How many lives are you going to wreck just to smother your own misery?
Lady Mary Crawley : I refuse to listen.
Tom Branson : You're a coward, Mary. Like all bullies, you're a coward.
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Lady Mary Crawley : [seeing a newspaper headline indicating an English marquess died in Tangiers] Isn't Bertie's employer always in Tangiers?
[Tom nods]
Lady Mary Crawley : Can you buy one?
Tom Branson : [Reading from the newspaper] "The sixth Marquess of Hexam, 39, has died in Tangiers where he was a frequent visitor. The cause was given as malaria; Lord Hexham was unmarried."
Lady Mary Crawley : Does this mean Bertie's out of a job?
Tom Branson : That depends on the heir.
Lady Mary Crawley : [smugly] Poor Edith; it's bad enough he was an agent, now he may not even be that.
Tom Branson : [Looking perturbed] Don't sound so gleeful about it.