Mary Gets Blackmailed by a Maid! | Downton Abbey

Rita Bevan, a former chambermaid at the hotel where Mary and Lord Gillingham stayed, attempts to blackmail Mary by exposing their tryst to the local papers. Mary refuses to pay the demanded £1,000, so Rita confronts Robert, who buys her off with a meer £50 and the promise of legal action if she tried to blackmail the family again.

From Season 6 Episode 1: The local hospital is threatened with a take-over by the larger County Hospital and the board is split with Violet objecting, and Isobel approving. Elsewhere, Mary is being blackmailed by a maid from the hotel Mary and Lord Gillingham stayed. Anna and Bates have their names cleared after a woman confesses to murdering green, however, Anna is upset because she lost a baby. Later Mrs. Patmore asks Mr. Carson if he expects a "full marriage" on behalf of Mrs. Hughes.

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[foofoocudlypoops]

*The working class might be going up but you aren't*

[boostewart]

I love the relationship between Anna and Mary

[Line...]

at this point Mary didn't even care anymore lol

[briancarter]

Nice to see Robert learned his lesson from that guy who tried blackmailing Carson in episode 1x02.

[littlelaguna]

I love how the British are so polite. "Now please get out." When here in America, I'd throw her out myself.

[penultimateh]

"Blackmail me? Apparently you haven't met my lady's maid, Anna Bates. She's been known to disappear people from time to time"....

[Anthony-qicz]

I love how Michelle Dockery adjusts her posture and confidence as she enters the library at 5:05 knowing what awaits her - such a subtle acting detail!

[arteygfddfgh]

I was hoping Lady Mary would call Mr. Bates to take care of blackmailer. Mr. Bates is a mysterious man...

[DeepikaGinger]

This really demonstrates how much Robert respects his daughter. Most fathers would have seen this as a sign that their daughters need to be controlled.

[.Mviews]

I love how Cora just walks in at the end during a dramatic scene and was like, “oh who was that young woman?… You gave her money? That’s cool.” 😆

[Asplera]

The compliment from Lord Grantham her papa means the world to Lady Mary and you can feel her voice shaking. Being the first-born yet female, she had always
felt insecure and insufficiently good and once even broke down and cried over her papa's preference of Matthew over her.
I love this series for its intriguing weaving of storylines and complex yet realistic characters. Set in 1920s onwards it seems, but it's more relatable than many modern-time chic flick series.

[vanillaaudio]

“If I wasn’t so disgusted, that would actually make me laugh” 😂😂

[aritreesengupta]

As expected, so many hate comments on Mary. I mean, if we could imagine this in our perspective, wouldn't it be bad to get blackmailed for this sort of thing? And Mary is not a snob to all people. She's got a boastful attitude, yes, but once she gets to know people, she treats them well. About Edith, she's progressed beautifully, but if everyone can recall, in the first couple of seasons, she could never see Mary happy. Both of them were quite childish at that.

[ghosthelper]

I'm sorry, but the maid's line of when Anna enters Mary's room, she says: "How did you get in here?" And the maid's matter of fact answer: "I lied, " makes me laugh every time.

[dbsven]

They really painted a lot of the working class people as more snobby than a lot of the upper class. Carson, the children's nanny, lord Sinderby's butler, the former partner of Carson who tried to black mail him, and this one. They weren't upper class but they all wanted to live vicariously through the upper class as if it were the same thing. Or act in a way they thought an upper class person could. This lady wasn't personally harmed by anything Mary did, but saw an opportunity to try to make money illegally of off her. Then tries to scold Mary after it for being all high and mighty and think she can just buy her way out if everything. I got to admit, I wasn't a huge "Mary" fan as I watched this series. But in this case I really wanted her to do something serious to this piece of crap maid.

[tobynsaunders]

I love that Downton Abbey is so expansive that I had forgotten about that little conflict.

[errrno]

7:35
Mary: Well, I hope you mean that!

She says it with a catch in her throat, on the verge of tears. I think this is such a great moment for her character. She always wants to hear that from Robert. She feels deeply that it is her right to inherit everything, as she is the eldest child. Since the beginning; she feels he never wants to challenge the entail and fight for her. He never shows that he trusts her or thinks she's strong enough. Then she and Robert go through so much and you can see the changes in their characters. I love how now he sees that Mary is strong enough to run the show and goes out of his way to reassure her. Wonderful character arcs.

[TenshiNakano]

Robert: you may have blackmailed us but I have out-blackmailed your blackmail!

[The_A_Cast]

If I lived in this time, and I needed a butler, I would only pray that my butler would have an inkling of honesty, love, and LOYALTY that Anna had!

[peadar-o]

“It is better to be alone than badly accompanied.”