Downton Abbey (TV Series)

Episode #6.5 (2015)

Kevin Doyle: Joseph Molesley

Quotes 

• [the police have requested Baxter to testify against the man for whom she stole her former employer's jewellery many years ago; reluctantly she turns up at court, with Molesley there to give her moral support, only to find that she won't be needed] 

  Baxter : Did you hear?

  Joseph Molesley : That he changed his plea? Yes. I was in court. I've only just come out. I expect when he heard that you'd turned up, he must have known it was pointless.

  Baxter : So I've been spared.

  Joseph Molesley : How do you feel?

  Baxter : In one way I feel relieved, of course. The newspapers won't find me and there'll be no repercussions.

  Joseph Molesley : But...

  Baxter : I suppose I'd worked myself up into facing him across the courtroom - this man who ruined my life - and now it feels a bit anticlimactic.

  Joseph Molesley : [facetiously]  Shall I go back in and ask him to plead not guilty after all?