It's such a breach of decorum when servants treat their employers' homes as their own and have the audacity to even allow their pets in the drawing room, much less do what you're suggesting! As an example to others to never overstep their positions, Quentin should have had Trask killed immediately and, of course, buried in an unmarked grave in the woods!!
( How very odd that you would catch the flu within days of watching it! Maybe the station was testing out broadcasting in Fluevision for the government to use against other countries!! )