家族成员的生活遭遇戏剧性的变化，格兰瑟姆伯爵一家在拜访了一位靠着变卖家当以维持生计的邻居之后，意识到他必须精简开支。为了省钱，夫妇二人无奈遣散了家中的仆人。为了学会自己照顾自己，从穿衣到做饭，他们都需要自己动手。令人吃惊的是，推动这一改变的正是家族的大家长格兰瑟姆伯爵。他意识到家族的命运开始走向衰落。为了维护摇摇欲坠的庄园，他们需要付出一些代价，那就是家族的成员们不能再像以前那样奢侈地生活。
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第一集
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Violet Crawley: They wrote to me.
Isobel Crawley: Who did? I’m the hospital Almoner. Nobody’s written to me.
Violet Crawley: Ever since you took that position, you talk as if you run the place.
Isobel Crawley: I do run the place! Or, at least, I know every detail of how it’s run. And I ought to be told about any proposed changes.
Violet Crawley: If you must know, it was a friend, on the board in York, who whispered it to me. They’ll write to all of us soon.
Isobel Crawley: So, you want to protect your power at the expense of the patients, I want to protect the patients at the expense of my power.
Violet Crawley: And may the best man win.
玛丽与吉林厄姆子爵曾暗度春宵，饭店的丽塔以此向玛丽勒索，罗伯特伯爵帮女儿解决了麻烦。休斯太太要与卡森结婚，但她却担心婚后的问题，卡森表示需要一段真实的婚姻，休斯太太决定克服心理障碍。伯爵有意顺应历史潮流，裁掉佣人，仆人们感到担心。皇家医院欲接收小镇医院，克劳利夫人支持这一想法，但与格兰瑟姆老夫人意见相左。安娜和贝茨身陷命案仍未了结，但最终他们等来了好消息。
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第二集
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Mrs. Hughes: ‘Decorate the servants’ hall’? I’m not sure how enticing that sounds.
Charles Carson: It was meant kindly.
Mrs. Hughes: I daresay.
Charles Carson: What would you like us to do?
Mrs. Hughes: If I’m honest, I’d like to get away for the day. Find somewhere local, where we can throw our own party instead of a gathering by courtesy of the Crawley family.
Charles Carson: You do mean to invite them?
Mrs. Hughes: Of course I do. Why, did you think you would have to get married without Lady Mary to witness it?
Charles Carson: She’s an important figure in my life, Mrs Hughes. I won’t apologize.
Mrs. Hughes: Nor do you have to. I just don’t want to be a servant on my wedding day. Is that so wrong?
Charles Carson: What should I tell His Lordship?
Mrs. Hughes: Tell him thank you, but no.
休斯太太希望能在外面选地举办婚礼，但卡森却认为不应拒绝玛丽的好意在唐顿庄园举办。托马斯开始寻找工作，但应聘的工作并不如意。柯拉表明态度支持医院兼并，罗伯特却不想与母亲做对。安娜为不孕而担忧，玛丽带安娜去伦敦求医，医生的诊断令安娜安心。小镇农展日玛丽戈尔德走失，德鲁明白是妻子私下带走了玛丽戈尔德，为了让妻子走出阴影，德鲁决定搬家离开唐顿庄园农场。
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第三集
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Cora Crawley: May I come in?
Mrs. Hughes: Please.
Cora Crawley: Mrs Hughes, I won’t beat about the bush. I behaved badly earlier. I hope you’ll accept my apology.
Mrs. Hughes: It must have been strange to find us all there, My Lady.
Cora Crawley: Nevertheless, I have no excuse to behave as I did. Not to someone who deserves our loyalty as you do. Please forgive me.
Mrs. Hughes: Of course.
Cora Crawley: I can only say I was angry about something quite different. I allowed it to cloud my judgement.
Mrs. Hughes: We’ve all done that, My Lady.
Cora Crawley: Finally, I’d like you to have this coat.
Mrs. Hughes: I···I’m not sure it was a good idea.
Cora Crawley: Please. Or I’ll feel I’ve spoiled the day which is the very last thing I’d want to do. Furthermore, I want you to keep it.
Mrs. Hughes: Well, I···
Cora Crawley: I’ve asked Baxter to fix it for you tonight, she’s happy to do that.
Mrs. Hughes: Very well, My Lady. I’m very grateful. I’m not sure when I’ll wear it again. But you never know.
Cora Crawley: You never do.
柯拉在众人面前问休斯举办婚礼的地点，休斯希望按自己的想法安排婚礼。伊迪丝来到伦敦工作遇到了伯蒂，伯蒂在伊迪丝遇到困难后热心帮忙。玛丽想为休斯太太的婚礼尽点心，她让休斯太太去母亲房间挑选一件婚礼穿的衣服，却被柯拉误会，事后柯拉向休斯太太道歉。卡森与休斯的婚礼上，汤姆带着女儿西比出现，这令唐顿众人感到惊喜。
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第四集
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Rosamund: You don’t have to tell me your mother’s in the right.
Edith Crawley: We can’t have a public quarrel or they’ll both be asked to resign from the board and even I don’t want that.
Rosamund: Which means I’m not to make Granny any angrier than she is already.
Edith Crawley: So how are you? What’s the news?
Rosamund: I do have some as a matter of fact. Have you heard of a place called Hillcroft? It’s in Turperton.
Edith Crawley: What sort of place?
Rosamund: A college for women from modest backgrounds but clever women with potential. I’m a trustee.
Edith Crawley: How interesting.
Rosamund: I knew you’d think so. So I’m going to suggest you as a trustee, too. Oddly enough, our treasurer lives up here. It’s one of the reasons I’ve come, so I can meet him while I’m at Downton. We’ll ask him over.
Edith Crawley: What’s his name?
Rosamund: John Harding. I like the sound of him. Self-made, clever, successful. And nearer your age than mine.
有男佣曾诱骗女佣偷主人珠宝，曾受其害的巴克斯特受邀作证。亨利和姑妈来到唐顿庄园作客，他再次见到了玛丽。黛西本以为公公梅森将到唐顿庄园农场工作，但不想这并非确定之事，冲动的黛西欲质问柯拉，幸好中途得到了好消息。格温随夫来到唐顿，她并未告诉大家她曾在这里当过女佣，托马斯故意当众揭穿她。安娜感到有流产迹象，玛丽亲自护送她前往伦敦保胎。
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第五集
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Mary Crawley: If we put the gate here, you’d be on a lane that links with the main road. You’d get power and plumbing from the supply at King’s Barrow.
Mary Crawley: Why don’t we put the repair shed there?
Tom: King’s Barrow is a working farm. There isn’t a spare farmyard half as accessible as here.
Mary Crawley: We ought to look at the costs. It’s good of you to come with me today.
Tom: Glad to, but he won’t want me there.
Mary Crawley: Nonsense. You have far more in common with him than I do.
Tom: Is it serious?
Mary Crawley: He’s attractive and nice, and it’s good to remember I’m a youngish woman again. But that’s all
Tom: Youngish?
Mary Crawley: I don’t mean to sound snobbish, but I won’t marry down.
Tom: Was Mr Matthew Crawley so very special in that way?
Mary Crawley: Matthew was the heir to the earldom and estate. I don’t want to be grander than my husband. Or richer.
Tom: It may surprise you, but I agree it’s important to be balanced that one should not be far stronger than the other. I just don’t think it has much to do with money or position.
Mary Crawley: Is that how you felt about Sybil?
Tom: To all of you, she had everything and I had nothing. She was the great lady, and I the man who drove the cars, but that wasn’t true for us. We were evenly matched, Sybil and I. She was strong in her beliefs, so was I. We were a marriage of equals. We were very happy.
Mary Crawley: I think we see that now. The family, I mean. Not at first, you’re right. But now.
伊迪丝与伯蒂伦敦再见，两人陷入热恋。亨利有意追求玛丽，但玛丽却因亨利的地位及财力不及而有所顾虑。安德鲁想要学习当农民，但他不识字，看不了农具书，托马斯主动表示愿教他识字。老夫人请来了卫生大臣张伯伦，她欲让张伯伦反对医院合并计划，宴席上罗伯特胃溃疡发作，口吐鲜血。汤姆对张伯伦为何答应老夫人前来赴宴感到好奇，张伯伦称因自己年轻时的荒唐事，被老夫人拿来当把柄。
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第六集
精彩对话
Violet Crawley: My son’s wife, whom I have treated like a daughter.
Robert Crawley: Too like.
Violet Crawley: That she should connive at my humiliation, should revel as I am cast into the dust.
Robert Crawley: Steady the buffs. Cora doesn’t control this any more than you. You’ve had different opinions, but neither of you made it happen.
Violet Crawley: If only Mr Chamberlain had spoken···
Robert Crawley: He was never going to say a word. The truth is, Mama, officialdom doesn’t care what we think any more. Our influence is finished.
Violet Crawley: You can say that! You, whose very life has been saved.
Robert Crawley: You know dealing with emergencies won’t be affected. Do be logical.
Violet Crawley: I am sick and tired of logic! If I could choose between principles and logic, I’d take principle every time!
合并后的医院委任柯拉顶替老夫人的主席职位，柯拉甚是为难。莫斯利对教育的理念甚得校长欣赏，校长提议对莫斯利进行测试后再给职位。梅森对帕特莫尔太太展开追求，黛西不悦地想拆散两人。唐顿庄园为帮医院筹款举办开放日，汤姆提议经常开放以增加收入，玛丽强烈反对。卡森看到安德鲁出入托马斯房间，他以为托马斯坏毛病再犯，卡森警告了托马斯。
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第七集
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Violet Crawley: Do you enjoy wedding?
Isobel Crawley: Yes. But I’m not going to that one. I’d feel like the wicked fairy at the christening of Sleeping Beauty.
Violet Crawley: Why would Larry Grey want you to be there? I mean, you of all people.
Isobel Crawley: I’m sure he doesn’t. Dickie must’ve persuaded them to ask me.
Violet Crawley: I doubt that. He wouldn’t want to subject you to more insults.
Isobel Crawley: Well, who then?
Violet Crawley: I’d say this is the work of Miss Cruikshank. She’s the one always making a show of friendship. Why don’t I pay a call on her? See if I can winkle out the truth.
Isobel Crawley: I’m sorry I showed it to you now.
Violet Crawley: Oh, don’t be, don’t be.
···
Violet Crawley: Precisely. But don’t fear. I’ll call on Miss Cruikshank before I leave.
Isobel Crawley: I suspect she’s quite a tough nut.
Violet Crawley: And I’m quite a tough nutcracker.
克劳利太太收到默顿伯爵之子的结婚邀请贴，老夫人一眼看出默顿的未来儿媳想把公公推给克劳利太太照顾。罗伯特一家前往伦敦观赏亨利的赛车比赛，但中途出现意外，亨利好友丧命，玛丽自觉无法承担意外，她向亨利提出分手。伯蒂向伊迪丝求婚，伊迪丝意外惊喜。莫斯利通过测试，他受邀去当小学教师。因与柯拉的矛盾，老夫人离开小镇，前往法国散心。
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第八集
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Mary Crawley: If that’s what you feel, then why are you here?
Edith Crawley: Because, in the end, you’re my sister and one day, only we will remember Sybil··· Or Mama or Papa or Matthew or Michael or Granny or Carson or any of the others who have peopled our youth··· Until, at last, our shared memories will mean more than our mutual dislike.
帕特莫尔太太意外地被卷进通奸案，毁了名声，罗伯特决定帮助帕特莫尔太太恢复名誉。伯蒂的堂兄突然去世，伯蒂成了新一任的侯爵。亨利来到唐顿，玛丽对他冷言冷语，却又为亨利的离开感到伤心。心情不好的玛丽失语说破玛丽戈尔德的身份，伯蒂对伊迪丝感到失望后离去。托马斯自杀，幸好被发现，及时保住性命。莫斯利告诉学生他的身份是仆人，但是仆人只要抓住学习机会同样可以改变命运。伊迪丝面见杂志专栏作者，发现他竟然就是老夫人的管家。汤姆写信叫回了老夫人，老夫人对玛丽一番启发，玛丽如梦初醒，她和亨利和好完婚。
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第九集
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Edith Crawley: Is this all a set-up? Somebody tipped you off I was in London. Was it Papa?
Bertie Pelham: It was Mary.
Edith Crawley: Mary? How? What did she do?
Bertie Pelham: She booked the table and got your aunt to play along. They thought you might not come if it were me.
Edith Crawley: They were right there.
Bertie Pelham: Will you stay now? Please.
Edith Crawley: Bertie, I don’t know what I’m doing here. You broke my heart. I’m not blaming you, exactly. I know why you felt you had to···
Bertie Pelham: I want you back.
Edith Crawley: Nothing’s changed.
Bertie Pelham: I’ve changed.
Edith Crawley: Well, if you have, you haven’t said a word to me about it. I don’t believe you’d have spoken now if Mary hadn’t telephoned.
Bertie Pelham: I would have, I promise.
Edith Crawley: But what’s the difference? I still have Marigold. You have your mother.
Bertie Pelham: I’ve never told her we’d split up.
Edith Crawley: Well, we have.
Bertie Pelham: Would you believe me if I said I couldn’t live without you?
Edith Crawley: You’ve done a pretty good job of living without me lately.
Bertie Pelham: I’ve done a very bad job.
Edith Crawley: I don’t understand what you want of me. What are you asking?
Bertie Pelham: I want you to marry me.
Edith Crawley: Just like that?
Bertie Pelham: Whenever you choose, but···that’s what I want.
Edith Crawley: If I agreed, which is a big if, would you tell your mother the truth about Marigold?
Bertie Pelham: Let me put it this way, if we tell her, we’ll have to break with her. I’d prefer not to do that.
Edith Crawley: Even without your mother, there are people out there who know the truth. There could be gossip. Are you ready for it?
Bertie Pelham: Well, I hope to avoid it, but I’m ready if we can’t. The only thing I’m not ready for is a life without you.
托马斯找到了新工作，他离去前与共事的佣人们和解。姑妈和玛丽帮助伯蒂见到了伊迪丝，伊迪丝与伯蒂和好，但伯蒂的母亲却不赞成婚事。卡森突然手发抖，原来他也遗传到了家族病。伯蒂坚持与伊迪丝结婚，拗不过儿子，伯蒂母亲只得答应。默顿勋爵得了绝症，克劳利太太把他从恶媳妇手中接了出来，她决定嫁给默顿以便照顾。罗斯和丈夫从美国回来参加伊迪丝的婚礼，罗伯特对柯拉热心医院事务感到不满，罗斯帮助罗伯特理解了柯拉的工作。伊迪丝的婚礼上，医生带来了好消息，默顿勋爵虽然患上贫血病，但却并不是恶性的。罗伯特邀请托马斯回来当管家，但卡森仍保留管理庄园的权力。安娜在玛丽房里突然临产，生下一子，罗伯特一家向她送上祝福。
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