Brendan Coyle credited as playing...
John Bates
- [the servants are discussing Matthew Crawley, Lord Robert's heir, and his mother Isobel]
- Thomas: So what d'you think we'll make of them?
- Sarah O'Brien: I shouldn't think much. *She* hasn't even got a lady's maid.
- Anna: It's not a capital offence.
- John Bates: She's got a maid - her name's Ellen. She came a day early.
- Sarah O'Brien: She's not a lady's maid. She's just a housemaid that fastens hooks and buttons when she has to. There's more to it than that, you know.
- Anna: We want some *very* precise reporting when dinner's over.
- Thomas: Are we to treat him as the heir?
- Sarah O'Brien: Are we heck as like! A doctor's son from Manchester? He'll be lucky if he gets a civil word out of me.
- Anna: [drily] We're *all* lucky if we get a civil word out of you.
- John Bates: Even Mr. Carson wasn't born standing to attention.
- Thomas: I hope not, for his mother's sake.