Over in the engineer's booth, Ken and Peggy watch as three women audition their vocal talents for the " Relax-a-Cizor" on the other side of the glass. Peggy and Ken audition women for the Relax-a-Cizor, in The Wheel. Don jokes that "Kodak reinvented The Wheel". He explains that it does not jam and is continuous like a wheel. He tells her not to worry.Īt the office, Herman Phillips puts the Kodak Carousel slide projector on Don's desk, and refers to it as a 'donut'. "How could someone do that to the person they love?" she says, watching him. "People want cars, they want to fly." He passes out a list of people they should be wining and dining, offers incentives to the account men for meetings, and mentions that Kodak, and their new slide projector, is on the market.īack at the Draper residence, Don Draper arrives home and Betty tells him about Francine's situation. "No automobile, airline, pharmaceuticals," he says. He explains that he is disappointed with their current clientele.
Meanwhile, Herman Phillips holds his first meeting with the ad men at Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency. Betty walks straight into Don's study, picks up the sealed phone bill with some trepidation, and slips it into her pocket.
Francine says she wishes she could just poison him and then leaves, embarrassed. Francine and Betty are glad that Carlton doesn't know that she knows. That, and the fact that he sleeps at the Waldorf two nights a week, makes her believe he's having an affair. She called a number, and a woman answered. She tells Betty that she was paying the phone bill, something Carlton normally does, when she noticed a lot of long-distance calls to Manhattan. The next day, Betty comes home from the store to find Francine at the door, distraught. She rejects the idea, so he settles in for the night. Meanwhile that night, Harry, who had sex with Pete's secretary Hildy in the previous episode, sits in his office and pleads to his wife, Jennifer, to let him come home. "I don't understand why you can't make my family your family," Betty says, concerned for the real reason why he doesn't want to leave the city. Don, squinting to read a magazine, explains that he can't join her because of his workload as a new partner.
"The only family and business you should be mixing is the production of a child," he says.Īt the Draper residence, Betty Hofstadt makes a list of things to bring to her family's home for Thanksgiving. Tom thinks it's time to take focus off work. Pete Campbell sits with his father-in-law, Tom, who knows Pete was passed over for a promotion. The episode begins the week of Thanksgiving, 1960. Don elects not to spend Thanksgiving with Betty's family.
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Don's professional and private lives affect each other in curious ways as he's left to fend for himself. Pete brings in an account through his father-in-law but has to commit to his wife in return. Peggy gets promoted but receives news that may interfere with her career. Betty discovers a secret, leading her to re-evaluate her marital situation.
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