Rose is helping the Russian aristocracy by bringing them to Downton and showing them what they could have had if it wasn't for that pesky revolution. Spratt happened to be in Liverpool whilst Mary was having her sex holiday, and comes back bursting with news that he's far too scared of the Dowager to come out and say directly. His "I have a secret, can you guess what it is?" routine is glorious, but is countered by Violet informing him "I have told you before, I do not appreciate a man of mystery." Does he frequently skulk about the drawing room dropping unsubtle hints? What else does he know? He does make the rookie mistake of bringing it up with Mary when the Dowager summons her for a scolding, which goes about as well as you'd expect. Do not try and out-sass Lady Mary, Spratt. You will lose. Coming the week after Joanne Froggat's Golden Globes win and tearjerking accceptance speech, we get to see her giving a superb performance whilst seemingly doing very little. When Anna has to hide Mary's contraceptive, a scene that could be judgemental, we see just how weighed down by her rape she is and her terror at the possibility of being blamed for what happened. Froggat is magnificent, Anna is magnificent and creepy Bates should go far, far away and stop ruining everything. "Is this a mysterious present for me?" he asks, when Anna's trying to hide the Paper Bag of Sin. Not unless you want Lady Mary's used diaphragm, Bates. Poor Cora tries to take an interest in the running of Downton, but Robert doesn't want to distract her from her flower arranging. She tries to make polite conversation about Edith's newfound love of children, only to have him scoff "I only hope she isn't driving the mother mad." It leads to a wonderful shot of Cora, who really seems to despise Robert in that moment. He's a loathsome patronizing snob who mocks one of his daughters when he's not outright ignoring her, and Cora is tired of it. Up the social ladder, Isobel is starting to get a bit ticked off that her spinster companion for life is so keen to see her shacked up in heterosexual bliss. But karma is a funny old thing, and one of Rose's Russian refugees seems to have a bit of a past with Violet...