![]() The first time I watched it, it was only when she walked into Duck's suite that I realised that he was the man in the bed. Peggy's whodunit was more clearly signposted than Don's. Plus, who'd have guessed that Betty was a Bryn Mawr College anthropology graduate? "You're good, get better, stop asking for things." – Don He's handsome of course but is it a leap too far to suggest a hint of Electra complex in a still-mourning Betty's admiration for Henry? Looks like we'll be seeing more of the Republican strategist anyway. We know that ice-cool Betty is keen too, and she confirms it with the purchase of the antique fainting couch ("for ladies who got overwhelmed"), ruining the feng shui of her newly designed front room.ĭon is obviously older than Betty, Henry is even older. His immediate callback after she leaves him a message suggests he's been thinking about her and so it proves – their meeting over coffee about the reservoir is loaded with subtext. She, like us, remembers Henry Francis – the stomach toucher from Roger's party. Having been made secretary of her junior league group, she is asked to help stop the demolition of a reservoir. "We all have skills we don't use."ĭon might have Connie Hilton, but Betty also has a new older man in her life. He may have a gang of sycophants hovering outside clapping him, but these two men aren't afraid to put him in his place. More important was Don's hallucination (similar to Betty's a fortnight ago) in which his guilt (for tonight, for always) manifests itself in a vision of his father telling bawdy jokes and calling him a bum – "What do you make? You grow bullshit." We often forget that underneath that grey suit there's a scared heart beating and waiting to be found out.įinally, I liked the directorial touch of having Cooper and Hilton both sit in Don's chair at the desk. The whodunit involves Don's little misadventure with hitchhiking newlyweds-to-be/con artists Sandy and Doug who drug Draper with two phenobarbitals before taking his cash. Eventually he signs it as Cooper uses some old persuasion tactics (ie, he knows Dick Whitman) and Don is now tied, for three years, to the company store. But as Connie Hilton – after a nervy chat – offers him his NYC hotels, Draper finds himself staring down the ink barrel. Tonight it's a case of two whodunits: who did Peggy sleep with? And why was Don out cold on the floor? The fiddling with the narrative enlivened an episode that while good, perhaps existed to set up a lot of the action for the second half of the series.ĭon, as we know, is not a man who likes being tied down by a contract. "They want me, but they can't have me" – Don
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