Which may include leaving her before she leaves him?

Right? That's the Hobo Code.

However, Peggy has also been set up to be Anna's replacement in his life. The one person who does know him and accepts him and doesn't believe he's rotten at the core. And Anna was the one person who made him feel most at ease - a woman as a friend instead of a lover, co-worker or wife.

All of those roles are extremely conflicted for Don. But being friends with a woman is a safe haven if he can have it. He could have been friends with Dr. Faye, I think. And Rachel. He had some of that with Midge. But they were all lovers instead and that's not a relationship that endures with him.

So, the most hopeful thing for Don would be to have a friendship with Peggy.

I hope it's been clear that what we're discussing is ECT as it was practiced in 1966. Psychiatric care in general has come a very long way in the past half-century.

I am also sorry if my personal anecdote was troubling. I was referring to ECT as practiced in about 1954.

I (hope) think the series will end with Don living in California. Maybe working in TV, maybe just hanging out on the beach. It's where he is always freest. Megan could be there....or not.

Same here. I am not sure if any of my comments offended. I apologize if so. Not intending to offend. I too was referring to '50s and '60s ECT not present.

Oh, I certainly wasn't offended by anyone! But I do think it's interesting that it does work for some people (now and then) -- I mean, I guess that's why they kept doing it in the first place -- because it just sounds so bad.

Megan could be there....or not.

I just don't think there's any way after that shot of Don walking away from her commercial. That's kind of like the end scene of The Searchers where Ethan's character is framed in the doorway and then he walks away. The visual in that shot (and composition/framing/blocking is often The Truth on this show) is that Don is leaving her. And the ambiguity of that last scene in the bar underscores that.

Did everybody recognize that the movie Don and Peggy were watching was Casino Royale? And that the last song was the theme from You Only Live Twice, a different Bond film? Two different James Bonds, two completely different takes on that character, one of them a sendup of that idealized notion of masculinity.

So Tom & Lorenzo read Don's expression as seeing Megan as someone who could be a star based on her looks (but that he does not know how she does in terms of acting with her voice). I am not sure what to conclude about Don watching Megan on screen.

Megan at times seemed as petulant as Betty, but she certainly seems a bit more ruthless - which is probably good for an actress to be!

I see Hec's points though: Don was at a crossroads, trying to decide whether to help her (and her career) actively which likely means she will leave at some point, or have what he had in Betty, someone chained to him.

When Don was married to Betty did he convince someone not to give Betty a modeling job or am I misremembering.

I bought they offered the job to Betty to get Don to come to their firm. When he said no, they fired Betty

everyone in it was depressed, so there's that, but ugh.

Well, Roger didn't seem too depressed at the end.

I adored the scene between Don and Peggy! So glad we saw them together for at least a little while.