Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 491 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT A Change Is Gonna Come
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2009.11.01
When we return, Pete and Trudy are watching a slow-motion replay of the Oswald shooting, and Pete spits that there was no security even though Oswald was the most hated man in America. "Why even have a trial? Just throw him over to the mob!" Trudy shares his outrage, and while Pete's always been painted as progressive on the show despite his monied roots, I'm glad to see Trudy is on the same page. She then, no doubt thinking of the attitudes Pete was describing earlier, tells Pete that the SC people don't care about him. "You did everything they asked you to do, but you don't owe them anything." After another moment, she counsels him to start gathering his clients. "They'll follow you wherever you go." That might be a slightly optimistic assessment, but Pete's face lets us know he's eating it up. The only question is whether he'll slap Ken in the face on his way out the door.
Betty enters from the front door, and Don looks wary at the expression on her face, but volunteers that Francine has the kids. Betty steps into the room, takes off her coat, and gets into it: She wants to scream at Don "for ruining all of this," and it's unclear whether she means she wishes he never lied in the first place or merely that she wishes he'd taken more care to ensure she never found out, but regardless, even though he tried to fix the situation, there's no point to any of it. "There's no point, Don." Still uncomprehending, he gets to his feet and tells her he knows she's upset, but while it's painful, "it's going to pass." But not the way he thinks, as, with steel in her eyes, she tells him flat-out that she doesn't love him. He tells her she's distraught, but while she admits that's true, with an almost scientific curiosity at the words coming out of her mouth, she reasserts that she doesn't love him. She adds that when they kissed the day before, she didn't feel a thing, and this, I think, wounds him far more than he can afford to let on at the moment, but he soldiers on the only way he knows how, saying that she'll feel better the next day. I never thought when this couple was first introduced that he'd end up the one desperate to hold on to her. Letting some disdain creep into her voice, she says he can't even hear her right now, and he responds, "You're right." He leaves the room, and she sits down on the couch and flops her head back in exasperation...