![]() Thomas and O'Brien attempt to get him fired for theft by planting one of Robert's snuff boxes in his room, but Anna warns him, and he replaces it without informing them. ![]() Bates catches him stealing wine and threatens to tell Mr Carson, unless Thomas stops insulting William. Thomas remains extremely annoyed that he had been passed up for the position of Lord Grantham's valet by "Long John Silver", which is what he calls John Bates when talking with Miss O'Brien about the new valet. Thomas also makes a comment about William's mother who has died, which results in a fight. Daisy has a crush on Thomas, and Mrs Patmore tries to tell her that Thomas isn't a ladies man, but naive Daisy does not understand why that isn't a good thing. He shows her how to do the latest dances. Thomas realizes that his fellow footman William has feelings for kitchen maid Daisy and is planning to ask her to go to the fair. He is one of the few people who knew that Kemal was in Mary 's room the night he died, but it is uncertain if he knows that he died there. ![]() The next day he is shocked to find Kemal dead in his own bed. Thomas agrees and takes him to her room that night. Thomas later mistakenly makes an advance on Kemal Pamuk, a Turkish envoy who is staying as a guest for a hunt, but Kemal slaps his hand away and says he will tell Lord Grantham if Thomas does not tell him where Mary Crawley's room is. Thomas is furious that he was not offered the job. A local man, Molesley, is hired to serve as butler and also as valet to Matthew. The new heir, Matthew Crawley, and his mother, Isobel Crawley, arrive. However, the Duke steals his letters back from Thomas and burns them right before Thomas's eyes. It is revealed that they had an affair (what the Duke calls a summer dalliance) when the Crawleys were staying in London. When this information proves inaccurate and does not work, Thomas tries to resort to blackmail, with love letters the Duke had sent him. The Duke wants a wealthy wife (to aid his financial discomforts) and Thomas wants to be hired as his personal valet. In actuality, Thomas had written to the Duke to advise him that Robert Crawley will contest the entailment, and Mary Crawley will be a wealthy heiress. The Duke of Crowborough comes to Downton, ostensibly to pay his condolences for the deaths of James and Patrick Crawley on the Titanic. Thomas and Sarah O'Brien, Thomas's friend and Lady Grantham's lady's maid, begin plotting to get John Bates fired, and they try to sabotage his work. Thomas replies bitterly that he was never very kind to him, implying a difficult relationship with his father.Īt the beginning of the series, Thomas the footman has been working toward being a valet, and the position of valet to Lord Grantham looks like it will be his, when suddenly Lord Grantham hires John Bates, who has not been a valet before and walks with a cane. When Thomas lies about his father's illness in order to go to London to receive treatment to cure his homosexuality, Baxter tells him she feels sorry, as his father was always nice to her. This is also the first mention of Thomas having a sister, thereby shedding some more light on his background. It is only in 1924 that it is revealed that Baxter was a friend of his sister when they were growing up. In 1922, he brought his acquaintance Phyllis Baxter into the house to serve as a lady's maid to Lady Grantham. ![]() He is a homosexual, and once had an affair with the Duke of Crowborough, while the Crawleys were in London. ![]() He mentions to Bates that he has a cousin in Bombay. He also appears to be quite talented at cricket, Lord Grantham stating as much, noting he got most of the house team's runs in the 1919 match. He has worked at Downton for over 10 years, and as a footman used to wind all the clocks in the house. O'Brien calls him the house's clock expert. As a result, he apparently has a natural affinity with clocks, saying that he grew up with them and "understands" them. Little is known of Thomas's family, but he does tell Sarah O'Brien and later Jimmy Kent that his father was a clockmaker. ![]()
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