AU MEME: DETECTIVES/CRIME

“And what about your fortune?”
“My fortune?”
“Your fortune. It’s the reason he married you, isn’t it?”
“You are sailing, Miss O’Brien, precariously close to things that are none of your business.”
“Just doing my job, M’lady.”

In which Sarah O’Brien is a private detective, investigating the murder of Robert Crawley, Cora is his widow and prime suspect, and Thomas is O’Brien’s less-than-legitimate informant. In which Anna Smith is an amateur who has become far too entangled in the murder of Mrs. Vera Bates and can’t seem to stop poking around in O’Brien’s business. In which Charles Carson and Elsie Hughes are police officers because of reasons.

Phyllis Logan on The Sarah Millican Television Programme

“Oh, Mrs. Hughes, this is a time of grief for us. Of grief and heartbreak.”