I think that Chaough is definitely trying all angles to defeat SCDP. Maybe Pete will go to Chaough but bargain to take Don and Peggy with him, thus being in the head seat over them both.

Very good, Arundel. Wish I had thought of that.

@ Orange Whip: There is a twist in the Faye relationship. Whereas, Betty shot pigeons and then finally left the marriage, Faye can access her anger very easily and she can name what's behind it. She bent her rules this time for Don. If she figures out how shallow he can be and he hurts her, we don't know what she…

Don was just dropping piles of shit on anyone that day whenever he could; Pete, Roger, Faye. He just kept slinging the stuff around. He's acting alot like he did in his "bad period" because he's drinking more on this eventful day. What's interesting is that in our heads we just buy into his drinking and think, "oh,…

I keep pointing out, way too many times I am sure, that Don is back into his drinking which means he's going to be mean to his work colleagues and impulsive with women. He was ugly to Roger, Pete, Faye, and the collective art department. He went to Meghan in a blink after arguing with Faye. Don has no controls once…

I kept telling the nay sayers that Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) was a beauty in the style of Claudine Longet and this episode proved it. Peggy was HOT in the beach scene.

Well, its taken Joanie alot longer to see the user in Roger. I thought their hug at her apartment and Joan's beautiful face was really powerful.

@ Chico and wife: That's a very creative rating system. In this last episode I saw Roger flipping over the company because of his pride, Don flipping over Faye because she wouldn't cooperate with him, but I didn't see where Pete was going to go yet. Pete is the cliff hanger here. Part of it is because Trudy was…

@LeFebre, this seemed to be one of those bridge episodes, where the bridge is being built to the other side and the other side is the BIG ONE.

@SarCCastro: When you think about it, Don in his married days usually had two women in his life. He's keeps forming that symmetry. Roger seemed to do the same thing in his life. At the end of the evening he couldn't even personalize the signature in his book…"To my loving wife"……"Oh," says Jane.

You mean when she was the Queen of Porn?

@ Uptowngbv, Since French women care alot about their perfume, I, too, thought Don would be busted when Faye got close to him. And right after she handed him Heinz. I was getting ready for the scream.

On_2: What an excellent post. It will be hard to add to it.

@Ricin Beans! I feel you on this (as I have been watching The Wire). Where have you been?! I've been missing your pithy remarks on MM. Have you been decoying again?

Here's the mistake all young men make, taught to me by a very knowledgeable person. If you were Roger's age when you went into the market place, you could have been half way smart and made alot of money. The market place was ripe for it. By Pete's age it became a little harder to do the same work. One had to be a…

To be clear for my own pet theory, socio-economic status has nothing to do with whether one has sociopathic tendencies or not. Several CEO's of large corporations may have served time who might have had antisocial (sociopathic) tendencies. Pete looked good supporting Don in the board meeting, but we don't know what…

The Mouse and the Cockroach
In "The Suitcase" Peggy sees a mouse.
Peggy: I think its a rat.
Don: It's a mouse. I grew up on a farm.

@o_2 Wonderful ideas in your post. Something to look forward to. Joan did have a way with handling Lee at the Christmas party. And she let Peggy know the way to handle the office jerk (Joey, how soon we forget him). She would go out to lunch with the CEO. Maybe she will save the company for a trade off for a…

Good catch, Madison 2. I had forgotten that one.

We saw Betty fixing breakfast every morning, carpooling, putting dinner on the table every night whether Don was there or not. She had Roger over to dinner, prepared a dinner party which included Duck who shamed her, threw a political party in her home, gave a birthday party for Sally from which Don disappeared. She…