While Cosgrove watches from outside the glass door and lights a cigarette (the equivalent of munching popcorn at a movie, or of Don's pulling the drapes, while he, Bert, and Roger positioned themselves to enjoy the spectacle of Lane and Pete's squaring off).

Again. Harder.

Yikes, I just read Don Draper's bio at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik….  I'd forgotten Don was once a used car salesman. Speaks volumes.

@Rogers Aching Ticker

You got that right, subpar.

But not Betty.

I liked Megan's "confession" to Sylvia -  a "friend" who was also raised "devoutly Catholic". How sad that Sylvia's such lousy friend and a sinner who commits adultery - with Megan's hubby, no less - in a maid's room filled with Catholic imagery. And how ironic that Megan's shared confidence and her interaction with…

In "The Doorway", Abe said something like: "I didn't know what it took to join the fraternity."  The copywriter who called Peggy "coach" after she made her conciliatory comment and her awkward physical gesture of solidarity with that characterization opened her up to frat boy-like hazing. She'd tried to give the guys…

I agree with all you said…and…I wondered if maybe he had some kind of sexual encounter (attempted or actual) with the blonde hooker who said he was a "good lookin'  kid".

Hi Core Concept:

WHAT it was Don wanted to stop doing was ambiguous. (Having the affair? Sneaking around? Staying in a marriage in which he wasn't understood?) Anyway, I'm with Marquis Moon:  I think Don sometimes tells people what they want to hear.

RE: Herb will likely try to get his revenge.

At the time, I thought the irony was she was saying that to Don. Now, I think the irony is she confided in Sylvia (who, like Don, is a conniving, backstabbing ho').

A dirty little spy. Just like young peeping Don and the U.S.S. Pueblo crew.

They're Munich.

Both. She was exiling him to his Manhattan apt., with orders to remain married and dutifully on call to play husband at her command and to keep his peccadilloes at least 50 miles away from Cos Cob. Hopefully, she'll "build a life raft" (as Betty did with Henry Francis before kicking Don to the curb) and then divorce…

While Peggy and Stan might have been peers on the SC org. chart, Peggy trumped Stan on the project's worker-bee team, as the Art Dept. serves Creative.

Right, Herb? (Who's forced to agree.)

Herb epitomizes the Munich concept (and Davey Scatino's description of doing business with the mob: "Once you let them in, they eat their way through everything, like termites") .

She wouldn't be stealing ketchup. The beans guy SCDP brung to the dance explicitly told them to stay away from ketchup, and ketchup made it clear the SCDP meeting was informal and no notes could be taken.