Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 425 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Beyond The Veil
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 1-2 | Aired on 2013.04.07
Don reaches his office, and our vantage point lets us see the SCDP space has been restructured - there's now an internal staircase going up to the second floor, referenced earlier by Benson. Dawn, looking from her outfit like she's gotten a raise or two since last we saw her, explains the crowd gathered around the stairs by telling Don they're taking portraits for publicity purposes, and Don then goes over and greets Joan while Pete, posing on the stairs, welcomes Don back in that inimitably pompous tone of his. Joan takes Pete's place (the photographer addressing her as "Gorgeous" indicating that the glass ceiling has not exactly disintegrated), and then Roger appears and, after asking Caroline about his shoeshine guy - he just depends on him, don't you know - he greets "Don Ho" before looking at Joan and saying he thinks he's next, "but I don't want to follow that act." Pete ribs Don for a bit, which Don does not take as well as when it's coming from his Creative team, and then Harry appears and notes that they're taking new pictures. Roger: "Yeah, we'll be done in a second." In case you were wondering if the hiatus brought any change to Harry's whipping-boy status.
Don enters his office and freezes in horror, and Dawn is like ohhhhhhhhhh, right - they rearranged your furniture for the pictures. Don isn't thrilled, but merely sends Dawn off to get the files he was working on when he left. He then steps back into his office and looks out the window, and the city sounds give way to surf noises. Damn, Foley guys. Now I want to go to the beach.