Next to last episode for this year. This is no fun.
Anyway, we see Peggy surveying customers at Burger Chef.
Pete Campbell and his girlfriend, Bonnie are on a plane to New York. And they become members of the Mile High Club. She goes to see Don when they arrive at Sterling Cooper & Partners. Pete angers Peggy and Lou by having Don in the pitch meeting. Don doesn’t rock the boat by agreeing with Peggy’s pitch. Pete wants Don to lead. Peggy is pissed. Ted is on the phone and Peggy is not happy. Peggy swallows her pride and asks Don to lead. Don is surprised. Peggy dismisses Stan out of her office. At her apartment, Peggy looks at the Burger Chef file only to toss it away. Peggy is pissed.
Peggy calls Stan, but he wants to see someone. Peggy then calls Don to yell at him that his idea sucks, but Don hangs up on her.
We see Joan leaving her apartment as mother bothers her once again.
Roger’s in the sauna where he meets with a rival.
Bob Benson returns to the New York offices with GM executives and wants to see Peggy. Ken Cosgrove comes out of his office to greet them and wearing his eyepatch, makes a “keeping an eye” joke to which no one laughs. Matt Weiner is such a cut-up.
Bob gets a late night call and bails one of the GM execs out of jail. Apparently he was arrested at one of the gay bars in NYC. The exec tells Bob Benson that Buick will offer him a job.
Peggy sees Megan and one of the secretaries says she didn’t know Don was married. Don is surprised to see her. Later at their apartment, Don wakes up and sees Megan getting breakfast ready. He tells her that they’re going shopping.
Jim Cutler continues to plot to get Don out.
Pete sees his daughter, Tammy and she doesn’t know him. He notices Trudy is not there so he decides to look after his daughter. Trudy comes back and Pete after drinking accuses her of seeing someone behind his back. He eventually storms out after Trudy reminds him they’re getting divorced.
When Bonnie returns to the hotel, she sees Pete and she’s pissed.
Bob takes Joan, his son and her mom out. Bob proposes. After Joan doesn’t totally accept. And she tells him he shouldn’t be with a woman. He tells her of the GM job offer and that it’s taking its business away from SCP. She rejects him by telling him she’d rather be in love and that Bob should be true to himself. He leaves.
Megan suggests to Don they see each other again away from their respective homes.
Don and Peggy start to work together after she tries to pick his brain. He wants to help. They rework the Burger Chef pitch. Peggy laments about turning 30. She wonders what she did wrong. Don tells her she did great. And she pulls out the final pitch while Frank Sinatra’s My Way plays. Don and Peggy dance.
Bonnie and Megan are on the same plane going back to LA alone.
As GM takes its business away, the partners vote to make Harry Crane a partner. Roger abstains and walks out.
Peggy pitches the Burger Chef ad to Pete inside one of their restaurants. Pete doesn’t like it, wants Don to override, but he doesn’t and backs Peggy. In the meantime, they all eat …. and scene.
And the mid-season finale is next week. Gah.
Let’s go inside the episode. Matthew Weiner, Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss and Vincent Kartheiser talk about it.
And here’s the great scene between Don and Peggy near the end of the episode.
Here’s the promo for next week which gives us nothing.
The mid-season finale of Mad Men airs next Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on AMC.
