![]() Bates, and he is arrested for the murder of Vera Bates. Hughes and Carson discover that two officers are waiting for Mr. After attending Miss Swire's funeral, Anna, as well as Bates, Mrs. They get married in secret but they planned to tell everyone after Lavinia Swire's funeral, as only Mary Crawley and housemaid Jane Moorsum knew. Bates is arrested, so she has rights as his wife. Anna insists on marrying immediately in case Mr. Bates is a suspect because of his motives. Shortly after, Vera is found dead and Mr. Bates goes to London to deal with the matter and try to talk some sense into Vera. Bates offered to pay her off to divorce him. After Vera's plan to sell the story to Sir Richard Carlisle backfires on her, she tries to get the divorce overturned by telling the judge that Mr. However, Vera is infuriated that he has returned to Anna and tells them that she plans to sell the story anyway. When he returns to Downton as Lord Grantham's valet again by request, she was delighted. He says he will divorce Vera and come back to Downton very soon, offering Vera more money than the papers will give her through the inheritance he received after his mother's death. She visits him and he tells her that that he can now prove that Vera Bates has not been faithful to him. Eventually she learns through Lady Mary (who found out through Sir Richard Carlisle) that Mr. Bates leaves Anna without telling her the true reason, breaking not only her heart but her dreams. Bates to resign by threatening to ruin the Crawley family by exposing the truth about Kemal Pamuk, including Anna's role in covering up his death. But his wife, Vera, turns up suddenly at Downton Abbey. She immediately accepts, and they begin to discuss their future. Bates arrives back at Downton (having been in London after his mother died) and he doesn't waste time before informing her that there is a possibility of a divorce ahead. Bartlett's testimony was instrumental in Bates' release.At the beginning of the second series, Mr. Bartlett that she must tell the truth to the authorities. She therefore denied having made these statements to Anna.īates, realizing what they had done, threatened Craig by saying that he would go to the prison officials with information which would extend Craig's sentence and result in Durrant's firing, unless they told Mrs. Bartlett thought that Bates having "driven" Vera to commit suicide deserved to be punished by imprisonment, even if he had not poisoned the pie himself. However, when the prison guard Durrant and Bates' cell mate Craig, having their own animosity toward Bates, realized that Bartlett's testimony could set Bates free, they persuaded her not to relay what she had seen to George Murray, Lord Grantham and Bates's lawyer. Bartlett about that evening, she truthfully gave this information which would clear John Bates' name (Bates having been convicted for Vera's murder). So if the pie was made after he left, Vera had to have poisoned it herself. Bates had bought the rat poison, but the poison was only found in the pie and not in the ingredients. Bates' defense as this took place after John Bates had left by train to return to Downton. Bartlett, she was very certain that she had seen Vera making the crust of the fatal pie in the evening of the day that Vera died. When Anna did find and was able to talk to Mrs. Anna wrote to her, but the letter was returned address unknown. Bates found her name in the letters that Anna gave him, when Anna was looking to question people about whether Vera was suicidal. Clare Higgins Mrs Audrey Bartlett was one of Vera Bates' few friends, and she lived around the corner from Vera. ![]()
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