There's so much to get into a season's worth of episodes!

This ep made me dizzy with the number of land mines people stepped on. Wow! Can this agency be saved?

I'm afraid that Don confiding to Dr. Faye is not a step forward in intimacy for him, but rather the death knell for that relationship.

That's how I viewed that last shot of his glance at Megan.

He doesn't want a romance with a woman who knows that secret. With Anna it was a friendship, and with Peggy it could be a friendship, and I could see him confiding in her.

But he doesn't want a love interest to see him as that vulnerable, to see him as he sees himself when he's Dick Whitman. Literally, unlovable. That's his confession to Anna about Betty. And really, that's the reason why he became Don Draper.

When you think about it he didn't have a hugely compelling reason to become Draper. He still had to earn his success under that name. He was already wounded and going to leave Korea. What it offered was a chance to leave Dick Whitman behind.

Holy moley, they're all in deep shit. They need a big account quick, and Don's going to have to really pull out some Draper magic pixie dust to sprinkle all over it.

Things I'm wondering:

If Joan is still pregnant.

If Conrad Hilton will be the White Knight account.

How long until Don breaks up with Faye. And how big a dick he'll be when he does it.

What's going to happen with Glenn before the end of the season.

How Lane will come back. Or if. I'd hate to lose him.

Also, what's up with Harry so eager to be in LA? Is he having an affair? Being courted to work in Hollywood?

Will Joey come crawling back to Peggy with a less superior attitude? Will Roger's young wife dump him and take all his money?

I'm afraid that Don confiding to Dr. Faye is not a step forward in intimacy for him, but rather the death knell for that relationship.

I agree. It could have been a step toward intimacy, and it is the first person that he told that he didn't immediately have to tell, but I agree he doesn't want to be that vulnerable.

That's how I viewed that last shot of his glance at Megan.

Definitely, this.

If Conrad Hilton will be the White Knight account.

Oooh, this would be interesting. But it would also make Don a rainmaker and I'm not sure I like that idea. I would love it if Pete got one of his Fishers Island accounts to come over, like Bethlehem Steel.

He was already wounded and going to leave Korea.

Are you sure? I got the feeling that when he recovered he was going to be sent back into combat. But I only watch eps once, and that was a long time ago, so I could have missed something. BTW I agree that Sal won't be coming back. Not because fired people don't come back (what about wotisname the recovered AAattending drunk) but the way he was fired makes it impossible. Don would have to grovel and as Hec says, Don won't grovel, not for something like that. Don can't even conceive that he was wrong.

Are you sure? I got the feeling that when he recovered he was going to be sent back into combat.

Well, as Don Draper he got sent home after he was wounded. So I'm not certain if Draper's tour of duty was closer to be finished or what. That would have been a compelling reason for Dick Whitman to change identities. God knows, Dick Whitman doesn't like guns. Or fist fights.

I have to say that it's been interesting watching Pete's character this season. Again and again he's shown leadership, put the firm forward, gotten accounts, worked hard. It's an interesting parallel with Peggy, but Pete's coming into his own.

That glare he gave Roger as Roger spewed at him was not resentment but pure Fuck You. Don owes him now, too. Not that Pete acted out of friendship, but for the sake of the firm. But Don still owes him.

And Lane owes Don a solid too.

Trudy looked like an amazing ruffled peach in that pink preggo peignoir.

He was already wounded and going to leave Korea.

I don't think this is necessarily true. The other guy was due to go home in a couple of days, while Dick just got there. I don't remember what the injury was, but they could have patched him up and send him back

Trudy looked like an amazing ruffled peach in that pink preggo peignoir.

I was gonna say! My additional question is: How many more fab maternity outfits will we see Trudy in?