Unfortunately, I was reading an article online months ago that said what was going to happen (they didn't warn about spoilers and I was NOT amused!). I didn't tell anyone else of course, and when my DH and I watched it and it was over he just said "What?!" Loved Matthew and Mary together, she probably be going back to her witchy self. I was sorry to read that it's going to pick up six months later. I think we needed to mourn with the characters. Now we (in the US) have to wait until January, 2014 for series 4. Also, series 4 is the last one that Julian Fellowes will be writing, because he's developing a show for America (on NBC, I believe). He'll be a hard act to follow.