Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 1246 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Draper's Eight
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2009.11.08
She shouts that that's exactly right, and I completely agree, so with as ugly an expression as you could imagine on his face (and he's being lit very evilly in this scene, I should add), he tells her she won't get a nickel in the split, and he'll take the kids. "God knows they'll be better off." Betty doesn't bother telling him she's no longer interested in his money, but does inform him New York State law won't be a problem for her: "I'm going to Reno, and you're going to consent, and that's the end of this. Don't threaten me. I know all about you." That's checkmate, and Don's well aware of it, so he does what he knows, which is to grab her and call her a whore. She returns his gaze unblinkingly, though, which says something about the stones on her, not that she hasn't demonstrated them time and again since mid-Season Two. The viewers, at least, are saved by Baby Gene starting to cry, and after a moment, Don pushes her away toward the crib, which I assume they moved in there after Don started sleeping in the nursery. After she picks her son up, she turns back to Don in victory: "I want you out of the house." Don looks at her like he doesn't know who she is, which is kind of the point, and leaves.
The next day at SC, Pete is joined on the elevator by Harry, who is completely clueless as to what could be going on despite the mysterious carpet-cleaning memo and the fact that Pete is holding what should be a telltale cardboard box. He must be an absolute genius at television ad buying. Pete, not realizing that Harry is in the dark, offers that he's scared, but when Harry doesn't know what he means...