‘Mr. Selfridge’ Recap: Season 4, Episode 7

Previously, on Mr. Selfridge: Everyone’s sad that Victor is dead, maybe, but we don’t see his funeral either way. Jimmy, Harry and Gordon decided to purchase Whiteley’s, another legacy London department store, even though it takes all their available cash. Kitty leaves for NYC to take that job at Elizabeth Arden, but unfortunately decides to take her cheating husband along with her when Frank shows up at her leaving party and grovels some more.  Meryl tells her father about the crappy way the Selfridge Sewing Girls are treating machinist Tilly Brockless, but instead of helping the situation, all Grove does is manage to fire her for not being honest about the references from her previous job. Whoops?

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Tilly’s Big Secret is Revealed. Meryl confronts Mean Head Sewing Girl about the fact that Tilly hasn’t been in to work in a few days. She’s shocked to find out that her friend has been let go from Selfridges and threatens MHSG with an attack of nepotism (“You just wait till my father finds out!”) as payback. Imagine how much more furious she is to discover that her father’s actually the one who fired Tilly in the first place, instead of helping her achieve better working conditions in the sewing shop the way he’d promised to.  She stomps off to confront her dad directly, and he explains that Tilly had to be let go due to her inappropriate and scandalous behavior at her previous employer, which she refused to explain when asked.