"If you watched this premiere episode and felt like you must have forgotten last season, it is definitely not just you. We have all been the victims of a time jump. Jimmy is a child now! When we last saw him, it was his first birthday, and now he's traipsing after James and looking like a real five-year-old. Also, James and Helen are living at the farmhouse, Tristan is serving in the army in Italy, and Mrs. Hall is gone."
"I'm sorry, is it twentieth-century amateur hour over here? Of course the war in Europe is coming to a close if it's 1945! Re-open the schools! Even if this somehow isn't common knowledge anymore, are you really spelling out the end of World War II to a group of people voluntarily watching men in tweed jackets fix a sheep's broken leg while singing Gilbert & Sullivan?"
The timeline advances to May 1945, revealing a clear time jump with Jimmy now a five-year-old. James and Helen occupy the farmhouse while Tristan serves in the army in Italy and later returns home. Mrs. Hall has departed, leaving daily routines and the veterinary practice in disarray. Bills are paid late, clutter and chaos spread through the practice, a miniature horse appears in the study, and Siegfried is found passed out with a woman under a trench coat. James and Tristan note that the household has sunk into a prolonged low point.
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