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3. Sally Draper. The episode opens with Sally calling Glen, who is apparently at some sort of boarding school now. Nice to see they're still in touch, both so they have someone to talk to and for future storyline possibilities. The phone call has the added bonus of taking out Pauline (more on that anon). Sally gets to spend time with Don and Megan and Megan's folks, and gets to see Don get an award from the American Cancer Society (and inadvertently freak Don out with her look for the ACS event, in a dress with make-up and knee-high boots). She gets to have Roger as her "date" for the event, which goes well until it really doesn't (also more on that anon). The episode ends as it begins, with Sally talking to Glen, this time saying that the city is "dirty." There are some tough growing up moments for her - she even tries eating fish, which she hates - but all in all she ends up in the positive.
2. Don Draper. While the ACS award is the big event of the episode, Don shows flashes of his prior greatness when he lands the Heinz account over dinner (though Megan did most of the work - the ad idea is hers, and she alerts Don that they're getting fired after she has a chat with the Heinz guy's wife in the bathroom). He also shows a softer side with Megan when her parents have a fight in their apartment. He's not still clear as to the nature of their relationship - and Emile's relationship with his female grad assistant - but he's picking it up and is appropriately consoling to Megan. Don does take a hit at the end, when Ken's father in law has a talk with him noting that all the corporate fat cats who make up the ACS board are happy to give him awards, but will never bring him any business because his anti-tobacco letter makes them scared that he'll do the same thing to them.
1. Roger Sterling. Roger continues on his way back. He's still processing his LSD trip, but it's making him think clearer in a couple of ways. The first is with his relationship with Mona, his first wife. He meets her for drinks to commiserate his failed marriage, but he also recognizes how helpful she was to him with clients, and he asks her for help with some of the ACS crowd. He's also clearer about business, if his attempts to work the room at the ACS event is anything to go by. And while it may not be an example of clearer thinking, he is back on the prowl as well, as he charms his way into getting a blowjob from Megan's mom. Only problem is that it's witnessed by Sally Draper, though she looks too shocked to tell her dad or anyone else about it.
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3. Pauline Francis. While she's bellowing for Sally to set the table for dinner (and wandering the house cocktail in hand), she trips over the phone cord and breaks her ankle. She winds up needing Sally to call for help, and it's to Sally's benefit that she does so calmly. It's luck for Pauline that Sally didn't call a cab and leave her wallowing in the hallway.
2. Peggy Olsen. Abe calls and sets a firm dinner date for a weeknight, which Peggy takes even though it screws up her schedule. She's now worried that Abe is going to dump her, but Joan says is a man makes this sort of date, he has a proposal. And Abe does, sort of: he wants to move in with her. Peggy, who has dressed and mentally set herself for a marriage proposal, covers her disappointment reasonably well and agrees to move in (though she does answer "I do" when Abe asks if she still wants to eat, a dig that goes way over Abe's head). They later invite Peggy's mom to dinner to tell her about this, which goes as well as expected: she decides to leave before dessert (and takes the dessert back), noting she can't support their living in sin. She's convinced that Abe is going to use Peggy and dump her when he finally decides to settle down. It was actually somewhat subdued for Peggy's mom, I was expecting holy water to make an appearance. Oh, Peggy is also a little jealous about Megan's success with Heinz, but manages to let her happiness for Megan and the firm win out.
1. Emile and Marie Calvet. Megan's parents are not exactly a happy couple. They bicker a lot, with Emile (who is some sort of leftist professor) saying Marie wants him to be miserable until he dies, while she flirts with pretty much any man, which I assume is partially in response to her belief that Emile is having it off with his grad assistant. She's also a bit of a lush, just for good measure. Emile doesn't approve of the money that Don makes or advertising in general, and thinks Megan is settling by working for SCDP. Marie scores the ultimate hit on their marriage, though, when she follows up her flirting (and Roger's reactions) by giving him head at the ACS dinner. For all of Megan's protestations that her parents are always like this and get through things fine, this is clearly not a happy marriage, even for the sort of tortured French Canadian union you'd expect from stereotyping.
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