Working draft of Downton Abbey season four first episode

The New Yorker’s John Kenney imagines what the first episode of the next season of Downton Abbey might be like, following on from the past season’s many twists and turns.

TOM BRANSON
Lady Crawley appears to have choked to death on a big hunk of meat.

THE DOWAGER COUNTESS
The lengths that woman will go to for attention.

LADY GRANTHAM
I think we’ll go through now, Carson.

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