Anna Smith is a British Intelligence operative assigned to work in Ireland on a kidnapping investigation (Marigold Gregson). She is partnered with John Bates and his partner, Tom Branson, to find the perpetrator before he strikes again.

When DCI John Bates is called to the crime scene at the Cerulean Swan it is up to his investigative skills, along with the skills of his forensic scientist Anna Smith, to find the killer in a room of suspects.

When four gods cast their eyes on the small town of Downton, West Virginia, no force on earth can predict what will become of those who live there. Not the gods, the people, or even the poor man caught in the middle… John Bates.

Death can bring many memories to the fore. Even memories that never happened. Memories of what some wished there might be.

Anna and John are single parents trying to handle demanding lives that include children and careers. They find out they share more than their parental status or international work. What neither of them reveal is they also work as contract assassins. With so much in common yet so much to hide, what happens when their interests in one another align but nothing else does?

John Bates is a professional thief. He excels in his job because no one suspects him: the older man with a cane and a limp. But when corrupt industrialist, Alex Green, hires him to steal the formula to drought resistant crop hybridization from noted botanical biologist Anna Smith, John may have to rethink his life's goals.

When Anna Smith decides to take the summer-long research position to finish her PhD in oceanography in the South of France she never expects to meet John Bates, government auditor. When the summer ends, both must return to their lives. The moment comes to both of them, in the darkest of their abysses, when they rely on the memories of one another and the hopes of making more.

As a child, Anna Smith survived a year in the Yorkshire Moors all on her own. At least that's what people said. She claimed she was abducted in the dead of night and held hostage on an island. No one believed her. Until someone came for her again. Until John Bates appeared. Until she realized it was all real.

After his divorce and the death of his mother, John Bates seeks to fulfill his mother's last wishes and spread her ashes at Greener Pastures in Alberta, Canada. What he doesn't expect is for his mother's solicitor to inform him that she invested heavily in a ranch or that she made yearly trips there. Even more, he doesn't expect the ranch manager, Anna Smith.

After the death of her grandmother, DI Anna Smith goes to Snowy River, Australia for answers. She tells everyone she's retracing her grandmother's planned trip there when the reality is she's trying to discover her grandmother's origins. On her way she meets a bartender, John Bates, who provides clues about the tragedy surrounding the hauntingly familiar ranch there.

Two worlds meet and disaster strikes. The repair of a broken heart is never an easy task.

Everyone told him she was no one of any particular standing but when John Bates extended his hand to Anna Smith at the ball at the Bavarian Embassy he upset the order of things and they would either be torn apart in the coming storm or seek strength in one another.

John Bates works as a psychiatrist at a lucrative practice that gives him no satisfaction anymore. One day, contemplating suicide after his divorce, he meets a woman in the Grantham men's room. She blows him away and leaves only her name, Anna Smith.

There is only one thing worse than dying in war. It's surviving on the losing side. John Bates ran away from the shame of his loss and sought his fortune in Hong Kong. What he did not seek, but what rather sought him, was Anna Smith.

Lady Mary Crawley recently hired a nanny for the three children under her care and Anna Smith was the only one to meet her exacting standards. Principle among them, Anna is English. With her family located in the American south she worries her children will lose the heritage that matters most. To help Anna, though not obvious to Lady Mary, is the gardener for the estate, John Bates

John Bates works as a cardiologist and meets Anna Smith at hospital when she's on a routine visit for a music therapy session, one of her volunteer activities away from her work as a professional cellist.

When a man who claims to be a bandleader comes to town, everyone in Downton finds themselves on edge. Life, which had for so long been safely the same, is about to be tipped upside down.

Anna Smith is the newest instructor at Downton Ladies' College and one of her students, Emmaline Bates, immediately identifies with her and they form a strong friendship. Little could either of them know, Anna will form a much stronger friendship with someone else. Someone like Emmaline's father, John Bates.

What the world teaches us only matters if we care to learn it. What could John Bates and Anna Smith learn when put to the test? Do they learn it together or alone?

John Bates, Army Captain, is on trial for the murder of Vera Bates.

The coal boom in Cardiff, Wales 1860. John Bates has come from Ireland to Cardiff, Wales to work for his old army commander, Robert Crawley. While attending to his duties as manager of the mine John meets local seamstress Anna Smith. They strike up a fast friendship that quickly develops into something deeper.

Anna Smith, with her son James, has been hired to instruct the children living on the estate of Lord Wuthering in Bombay.

Season 4, Episode 13 "A Man of Worth". Denied the details of what happened between Jocasta throwing whiskey in Murtagh's face and the next morning... another perspective on what happened in the night between. And the morning after.

Season 4, Episode 13 "A Man of Worth". Denied the details of what happened between Jocasta throwing whiskey in Murtagh's face and the next morning... here is one perspective on what happened in the night between. And the morning after.

John Bates- a single, eligible WWII veteran- returns to his adopted home of Guernsey and begins a relationship with Anna Smith, the local divorcee with a child, and it throws the whole community into a tizzy.

Artist and illustrator John Bates is trying to paint an elusive butterfly. He expects it to be very difficult but he does not expect it to be more difficult to woo Anna Smith

Anna Smith owns a trashy blues bar where many a soul has sold itself to the Devil to sing the blues. But when John Bates, a famous blues singer, comes to play there, Anna Smith wonders if she has nothing else to lose and nothing more to live for.

Army Major Anna Smith and photojournalist John Bates work together in Afghanistan trying to piece people back together. What they do not expect is to piece history back together too. Once there was John Bates, foreign correspondent, and Anna Schmidt, German national… and their tale still needs telling.

John Bates is a thief on the run from his old boss and trying to steal enough to get by when he breaks into the house of consumptive heiress Anna Smith. When John meets Anna, it's love at first sight and John risks everything to be with Anna.

A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is. -Jay Neugeboren, An Orphan's Tale How will John Bates and Anna Smith bear the sorrow threatening to tear them apart?

At the end of his life John Bates flicks through a box of discount books and finds one with a child's scrawl in the inside cover reading, "This is Averi Smith's Copy, please return" followed by an address. Reading it changes his life to the point where he decides to take up her cause as his own. A cause that leads him to someone else. Someone named Anna Smith.

Anna Smith is the head of a mafia-like institution under investigation by John Bates.

A half British-half Belgian woman (Anna Smith) works as the doctor at a mining outpost in the post 1920s Congo. The newest supervisor, an ex-Army surveyor (John Bates) recently released from a contract with British Petroleum, comes and they butt heads over the care of the miners and the locals because of the mining process.

When the scandalous news that Lady Anna Smith had a man die in her bedroom finally breaks, she leaves her home in Yorkshire to ride out the storm in America. After a dismal month in New York, she takes up an offer to ride west to see California. In the company of cowboy rancher, John Bates (who invites her to visit his spread in Northern California), she discovers a new world.

There is only one person that gets called when someone needs to be cleaned. This was just the first time he needed to call her.

John Bates, poor fisherman, pulled up his net one day and never could have expected what he saw inside.

Bates works as a detective and is returning to London from a conference in Vienna. Anna, traveling on the same train, is a crime reporter coming from the same conference. They work as partners to figure out who murdered one of the passengers on their train in the middle of the night as they are stranded in a snowstorm.

It's anything but quiet and mild in the town of Downton when noted gunslinger John Bates rides into town.

Inspired by the Korean movie (same title) In May 1933, Captain Green recruits sniper Anna Smith, demolitions expert Tom Branson, and breakout expert Joseph Moseley to assassinate the head of the newly formed SS. Little do they know their mission is already compromised. Or the hitman Belfast Pistol and his partner have come to Berlin. Or that they already walk over their own graves

Anna Smith, Air Force veteran, works as the English and Mathematics teacher at the local high school in an old coal mining town of Southern Ohio. Her town, old and on the brink of falling off the edge, gets a surprise when industrialist and secretive entrepreneur John Bates rents the room above Grantham Bar.

Anna Smith comes to Downton Abbey to work for Lady Mary after a rather scandalous event. Only Lady Mary and Mrs. Hughes know the truth of what happened and, despite misgivings by the family, Lady Mary insists on Anna's services as her Lady's Maid. It is there that Anna Smith, timid and reserved, meets the buoyant and kind John Bates, valet to Lord Grantham.

The cycle turns as the immortal being, John Bates, fights against his immortal adversary for the right to escape to the mortal coil and find love.

John Bates is starting a new life while seeking to revenge himself on his enemies from his past life.

Steampunk western: Anna Smith runs her bar the way any single woman living at the edge of the frontier of science and the world does: with an iron fist, a quick laugh, and a sharp eye… aided by her steam powered repeating rifle. Therefore it was a bit of a surprise when she met John Bates. A poet philosopher not quite man for this world… and yet made for no other.

A guardian angel comes to John Bates and begins an introspective journey that will help him find love and love of himself. She is Eve.

In 1895, New York City Police Chief Robert Crawley is faced with a rash of violent murders. To stop the spread of the violence he transfers his old Army friend, now a detective in Five Points, to help him solve the murders. But times have been hard on John Bates and when faced with a killer slaking a savage thirst he might be out of his depth.

How do we remember the dead?

Dr. Anna Smith works at a private research firm. Tasked with delivering a research update to their chief investor, she travels to French wine country. There she meets John Bates, reclusive investor. Heavy snows trap them together in the house long enough to realize that they may never want to be apart.

Lady Ravensburg has lived her whole life knowing she had to marry for position, for fortune, and- if she was very lucky- for companionship. But when Anna was young she dreamed of someone else. She dreamed of the Illusionist, long before he was called that. He's always been John to her. Now, after so many years apart, Anna wants him to be John to her again.

Recruited to Naval Intelligence by Admiral Robert Crawley, Commander John Bates (codename: Bernhard) enters the world of espionage during the Battle of Britain. Working with him is Crawley's top agent, Anna Smith (codename: Monday), as they try to uncover German spies in Allied territory and bring Hitler to his knees.

Anna Smith owns a jazz club called the Cerulean Swan and John Bates enters the scene to replace a lagging alcohol maker and distributor, Green. He invites her to come to his alcohol refinery, The Bubble Room, and specializes in refined champagnes and other alcoholic beverages. Together they will create a new kind of night club with his new brand: Ugly Duckling.

John Bates is looking for a quiet, backwoods kind of job in Kiandra. He wants nothing more than to live alone, tend to his life, and do his job. He does not expect bushrangers, gold miners, anti-immigrant riots, angry locals, or the loveliest woman he ever saw to enter his life. But when he left Ireland for the colonies of Australia he forgot, it's a big country and he's only one m

The goddess of love (little 'g') decided that John Bates and Anna Smith needed a little push to get them together. As she slowly encourages them- individually- to see the beauty of love with one another they start to see a future for themselves they never before imagined.

I know the link says "Hateful Eight" but it's really just an appendage to the end of "The Salvation (2014)" with Mads Mikelsen and Eva Green.

When John Bates takes over the management and operation of the lighthouse he expects a life of quiet and serenity. What he does not expect is to save the life of prominent Council Member and fishery magnate, Robert Crawley, or to meet the manager of the day-to-day operations of the closest fishery, Anna Smith. What follows, between the tumults of wind, rain, and sea, is unknown