What Goes Around Comes Around

This season Don has been carrying on an affair with his neighbors wife, this episode proves to be quite interesting as it pertains to Don Draper’s philandering ways.  She calls him at work, tells him that she can’t be without him and needs him right away.  He tells her to get a hotel room and call to him back with the room number, he arrives and they meet, he leaves and tells her to get undressed, get back into bed and to not go anywhere and to not answer the phone and says things to her like, “you’re here for my pleasure only”.  He has a red dress delivered to the room for her from Saks Fifth Avenue, he comes back to find her wearing it and then subsequently asks her to take it all off.  He leaves again on business, comes back and she tells him it’s over and that she needs to go home and that she had a dream that Don was killed in an airplane crash and that she went back to her husband.  We see Don tear up as this is the 1^st time in the history of this show that a woman has broke up with Don, later in the episode we see Don listening to his wife talking and then just tune out what she is saying to him.  He’s smiling and looking at her, pretending he is listening to what she is saying but he isn’t grasping any of it at all.  So Don gets dumped by his lover and tunes out his wife, the guys got problems when it comes to women.  His ex wife Betty is below on the right and his perhaps soon to be ex wife Megan below on the left. 

The episode starts off very crazy as all of the new employees in the merger are trying to figure out where they go on the 1^st day.  Ted Chaugh from Cutler, Gleason and Chaugh attempts to work with Don on his 1^st day on some creative work for a margarine brand.  Don gets him so drunk on his 1^st day that he embarrasses himself and passes out on the desk.  Peggy doesn’t like that at all and tells Don to take it easy on the drinking with him.  Ted was quite embarrassed of how drunk he got and vowed to make up for what he did and come back  the next day, he really wants to earn Dons respect so he takes him on a flight in his airplane to see some clients in upstate New York.  The weather is terrible and Don is looking like death from all of the turbulence, I suppose Ted got him back good for all of the drinks the day before.  All and all the transition looks to be happening smoothly, I really like the part in the episode where Joan saves the job of the guy who helped her get to the hospital when she wasn’t feeling well. 

There was a lot of craziness from Pete Campbell this episode, he as usual is all paranoid about the merger and about being let go from his position at the firm.  As with any merger there can be dead weight or redundant workers that are let go, Pete being a partner you would think would be safe but never the less he’s super paranoid he’s going to get fired. My favorite scene of the episode comes again from the character of Roger Sterling; he fires Dan Gleason again for the 2^nd time in a few years.  Roger really doesn’t like the guy and took a lot of enjoyment out of firing him.  In his usual Roger smart ass approach to it all he mocks him in a professional and elegant way all at once while letting him go. 

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