Don on the morning commuting train is looking at a full page ad for Volkswagon. He is interrupted from his reverie when someone passing by, stops and calls him 'Hi Dick', for a moment, Don is startled. When he regains his composure, he shakes the man's hand. He is a former army acquaintance that he is only too glad to see him go away. This is an unexpected inside at a man that is hiding something from his past.
Pete Campbell is back from his honeymoon. In the elevator, he is greeted by some of his co-workers. As Pete opens the door to his office, he finds what appears to be a Chinese peasant family with chickens and all. It is a prank from his fellow junior executives. Pete stops by Peggy's desk on his way to a meeting in Don's office. Pete informs Peggy that he is married now, that way she will not get any ideas about a relationship with him.
Joan comes in to where the girls are getting coffee with her paperback copy of "Lady Chatterley's Lover". She passes it to one of the secretaries indicating the reading will be too racy for Peggy, who gets interested in Joan's recommendation to read the book. Peggy wants to read it, but Joan advises her not to read it in the subway because she will attract undue attention.
The meeting with Rachel Menken does not go well. All the creative team come up with does not satisfy her. It is perfectly clear no one of the men had taken the interest to visit the store to even suggest a plan for the advertising campaign, something that Don promised to remedy right away. As Rachel is going, Don accompany her to the elevator. Don who is clearly attracted to her, kisses her, but informs her he is married.
Don is wakened by his daughter Sally, whose birthday is going to be celebrated that afternoon. Betty asks her husband to put together the playhouse they are giving the girl. Don spends time doing so, going to the garage refrigerator to get beer. Francine has come to help Betty, who mentions she invited the new neighbor Helen Bishop. Francine is surprised because not of the women like her presence in the area.
The celebration finds all the grownups together and the children running around. When Helen Bishop arrives, everyone show not being comfortable with the woman. One man, approaches Helen offering to be a friend to her son. She flatly refuses the suggestion because she tells him, point blank, she knows what he wants. Don is asked to go get the cake at the bakery. He never returns on time, prompting Helen to bring a frozen cake so Sally can blow the candles. When Don reappears, he has a big dog as a present for his daughter.
Ed Bianchi directed the episode that was written by Tom Palmer. This chapter in the series takes a look at the scare in trying to protect a secret Don Draper is trying to hide. It also zooms in the life in suburbia for a divorced woman in those years and the hypocrisy that surrounding the inter action of women left alone at home and how they saw a threat to what they considered to be their happiness.
Good performances are what makes this series the success it has been. Jon Hamm is perfect as Don Draper. The regular cast does wonders under the guidance of Mr. Bianchi.
Pete Campbell is back from his honeymoon. In the elevator, he is greeted by some of his co-workers. As Pete opens the door to his office, he finds what appears to be a Chinese peasant family with chickens and all. It is a prank from his fellow junior executives. Pete stops by Peggy's desk on his way to a meeting in Don's office. Pete informs Peggy that he is married now, that way she will not get any ideas about a relationship with him.
Joan comes in to where the girls are getting coffee with her paperback copy of "Lady Chatterley's Lover". She passes it to one of the secretaries indicating the reading will be too racy for Peggy, who gets interested in Joan's recommendation to read the book. Peggy wants to read it, but Joan advises her not to read it in the subway because she will attract undue attention.
The meeting with Rachel Menken does not go well. All the creative team come up with does not satisfy her. It is perfectly clear no one of the men had taken the interest to visit the store to even suggest a plan for the advertising campaign, something that Don promised to remedy right away. As Rachel is going, Don accompany her to the elevator. Don who is clearly attracted to her, kisses her, but informs her he is married.
Don is wakened by his daughter Sally, whose birthday is going to be celebrated that afternoon. Betty asks her husband to put together the playhouse they are giving the girl. Don spends time doing so, going to the garage refrigerator to get beer. Francine has come to help Betty, who mentions she invited the new neighbor Helen Bishop. Francine is surprised because not of the women like her presence in the area.
The celebration finds all the grownups together and the children running around. When Helen Bishop arrives, everyone show not being comfortable with the woman. One man, approaches Helen offering to be a friend to her son. She flatly refuses the suggestion because she tells him, point blank, she knows what he wants. Don is asked to go get the cake at the bakery. He never returns on time, prompting Helen to bring a frozen cake so Sally can blow the candles. When Don reappears, he has a big dog as a present for his daughter.
Ed Bianchi directed the episode that was written by Tom Palmer. This chapter in the series takes a look at the scare in trying to protect a secret Don Draper is trying to hide. It also zooms in the life in suburbia for a divorced woman in those years and the hypocrisy that surrounding the inter action of women left alone at home and how they saw a threat to what they considered to be their happiness.
Good performances are what makes this series the success it has been. Jon Hamm is perfect as Don Draper. The regular cast does wonders under the guidance of Mr. Bianchi.