Episode V

There is an extra scene outside the Lambton Inn as Elizabeth and the Gardiners are preparing to return to Longbourn.

• Mrs. Gardiner cannot believe that Lydia has actually eloped and believes that it may be a "misunderstanding - a passing folly that her friends can hush up and will be, in time, forgotten."
• Mr. Gardiner agrees with his wife since Lydia is not unprotected nor friendless, and the temptation is not worth the risk.
• Elizabeth, however, does not agree with her Aunt and Uncle. She argues that Lydia’s head has been full of nothing but love, flirtation and officers ever since the militia have been quartered at Meryton. She believes that although Wickham will not risk his own interest, he is capable of risking everything else.

Following Elizabeth’s departure from Derbyshire, the party Pemberley are gathered in the drawing room. Georgiana is playing the piano. Caroline Bingley wanders over to where Darcy is silently sitting and says: "You are very quiet this evening Mr. Darcy, I sincerely hope you are not pining for the loss of Miss Eliza Bennet." Roused from his thoughts, Darcy replies absently: "What?... Excuse me..." and stalks out of the room leaving Caroline lost for words.

We see the Gardiners’ four children playing on the lawn in front of Longbourn right before the carriage containing their parents and Elizabeth arrives from Lambton.

Darcy’s search in London is more extensive. We see him walking in the streets of London during the day. He is accompanied by two men. He takes a drink from a mug on a platter carried by one of the men while talking resolutely with the other man.

At the very end, after the image of Elizabeth sitting at the foot of her bed mulling over how Mr. Darcy is alive in the world and thinking ill of her, there is an image of Mr. Darcy with a serious, disapproving expression on his face. (It is probably Elizabeth’s idea of how Mr. Darcy would look when thinking ill of her.)

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