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Shame the Lady Dr is dead. So soon, she just got out. That blackmail storyline was going to go big. Bruce Greenwood is currently the SOLE reason for watching this show. Nic-Conrad, there's no sexual chemistry at all. They're like a sister sister couple, she's the older one, he's the younger black sheep sister. His father storyline - I'm buying it. Im thinking there's more to the background with his mother than has been exposed. There's no real reason for him to be so intense otherwise, THey've set up a character- the writers- presumably to fuel the fire of his emotional life when it goes flat. The Nic character is just so deep breathing and constantly sighing heavily during dramatic moments I switch off. It's not exiting to me. Acting wise it's OK, but nothing sharp or amazing about them. I'd believe him with the Mina character more. I really hate Jane Leaves. She doesn't fit in this show. Like Malcolm Jamal. she's not the same type as the other actors. She's too big like him - good for comedy and can't pull off subtle. Thankfully she isn't doing much interesting lately. And couldn't even if the script called for it. Her acting isn't up to Greenwood's at all. The Saint Dr is BORING. Why are they doing this love triangle? Why? There's no chemistry between Connie anyway, but a jealousy angle won't make it happen other than to enrage his possessive gene. Plus, the Saint is too formula. I split between really loving this show and thinking they're using all their storylines from Medical Drama Scriptwriting for Dummies. Devon is totally unmesmerizing for me. Why did the marriage thing get cut short so soon? Priya was annoying as hell but I couldn't believe she won't come back with a vengeance. I feel like the whole storyline went nowhere. The missing Julian lady, is obviously being held somewhere and it reached a level of unbelievability this episode. They have chemistry but why does anyone care? And the Quovadis guy is too charactery and the storyline boring. I love this show, but they have jumped the shark a few times in the 2nd season. Raptor and Leeves make it tacky. Mina is good except when she's trying to do drama. The storyline with Jamal Warner can't go anywhere, he's just a bad actor.

AZ Christian thanks. I'm rewatching ( again) Series 3 Ep 6. Have re watched all of series 3 in the last two days. Mrs Bartlett does change her story, but I can't find that scene. Anna goes to Bates in EP 5 to describe how she'd talked to Bartlett and to tell him about Bartless saying " I saw Vera with a halo". But the next episode is Bates being released. There is no in between scene with police, or lawyer saying "yes, the halo is a common effect of arsenic, therefore Vera Bates must have being consuming it for a long time and this proves his guilt" ( or something to that end). Susan Sunflower = this is info I've poured over but we already know Anna goes to see Bartlett and Bartlett tells her for the first time, of a halo effect, and scrubbing of the fingers. In the Bartlett scene, this is the first time it's said out loud - that Vera had a halo and scrubbing the fingers. And yes, the Wiki info is that, the halo is a side effect of arsenic. But NONE OF THIS IS KNOWN by the people in Downton. This is extra info for us viewers. I am looking for the scene, where the halo, and its' proof that Vera was ingesting arsenic for a while, is explained. Bartlett only mentions it, and Anna thinks it's weird. So does Bates. But I'm looking for the key scene where someone like pathologist, doctor etc, explains WHY this would prove Bates is innocent ( because it proves long time arsenic poisoning. Like I said, its making me potty. Thanks for your input, and I've already watched each of these scenes a dozen times. Episode 5 is where Anna goes to Bates to inform him of what Bartlett said about the halo and finger scrubbing. At that point, with Anna sitting across from Bates in jail, neither of them know the halo is a long term arsenic effect. I need to know who says it!

This is driving me crazy. I NEED TO FIND AN EPISODE BEFORE MY HEART GIVES OUT. Vera Bates commits suicide. Next episode John Bates is asked by Lord Grantham how she did it. He considers the rat poison ( arsenic) he bought. Mentions it to Anna. He's worried. Then he receives (from his lawyer) a copy of a letter from Vera writing to her friend, saying that "John Bates is coming tonight, I'm scared" (sic). He's more worried he'll be framed. Vera was poisoned/made to look like suicide. He is arrested for murder. Anna goes to John's house ( he had to share with Vera before he left), finds her adress book and asks him to copy names. She will write to all the people whom Vera could have written to saying she was depressed ( meaning she would have had a motive to commit suicide thereby freeing Bates). OK, so she finds Mrs Whatsername ( Vera's friend) in London. Goes to visit her to ask about Vera's mood on the last day. The friend mentions the scrubbing of the fingers and a weird luminescent halo from Vera's head in the lamplight. OK SO MY QUESTION IS THIS-------------------> At SOME POINT IN THE SHOW ( I don't know which episode), the "halo" around the head" of Vera, is the actual proof of her having been drinking Arsenic for a long time, therefore making it impossible that Bates killed her, and proving she had for along time been slowly killing herself by swallowing arsenic. This halo is a common side effect of arsenic poisoning ( read about it anywhere, and is in fact mentioned in an Agatha Christie book). BUT, WHICH IS THE EPISODE in Downton that this out-loud dialogue. I'm guessing from a pathologist, or the lawyer or a doctor, is shown? WHICH FREAKING EPISODE!! I'm not talking about when Anna visits Bates to update him on that conversation with the woman. I'm talking about when the halo is mentioned as PROOF. I can't find it. When I first watched Downton , I'm convinced I saw it. It's either a bit of dialogue from a policeman or the lawyer of SOMEone. I've read every transcript I can find, yet it eiudes me. Please let me know in which episode, the description if Vera's halo as proof go her long-term arsenic ingestion, mentioned. Please! Oy vey!