Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 372 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Smoke Does Not Get In Your Eyes…
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2010.10.10
Roger thinks the air of desperation is due to them going after such small potatoes, and Pete barks about the work he's been doing while Peggy hilariously puts an ear to her wall to listen in, although the volume seems high enough to me that even Joyce is probably getting it all loud and clear. In a more subdued tone, Pryce tells them he met with the bank out of caution, and they're willing to extend SCDP's line of credit to the tune of "six months or so," but on two stringent conditions: One, the senior partners each will have to put a hundred grand up as collateral, with Pete and Pryce also on the hook for fifty each. And two, there will have to be massive layoffs. As we see that Ken and Harry have followed Peggy's lead, Pete, still stuck on the first thing, flatly refuses, but Bertram points out that it's an obligation of his partnership contract. Pete tries to tell them that if they make it to cold and flu season, Vick's will carry them for a while, but Pryce tells him the money is absolutely necessary even though it's a financial hardship for him as well. I'd hope so, considering the total amount the bank is requiring, four hundred grand, is over $2.7 million accounting for inflation. Not chump change even for people who dress as well as these guys do. Bertram thinks they never should have gotten these fancy offices, but Roger spits out that if they move now, they'll only look more desperate, and Don, frustrated at being on the Creative side when it's the Accounts people that are going to save or kill them, tells them to give him a call when they figure it out and then leaves. With that attitude, I'm surprised no one asked, "But you are good for the hundred grand, right?"