Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 6 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Beyond The Veil
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 1-2 | Aired on 04.07.2013
Megan returns home after dark and finds Don in bed; she wonders if he even made it to the funeral, and he replies that he put in an appearance. "I just should have had lunch." Megan's familiar with this shorthand, and asks if he needs aspirin, but he claims to be feeling better now. After some talk about the turn toward evil her TV character apparently took that day, Megan goes to fix Don dinner - but not without returning the lighter "Rosa" found in the trash. When Megan's gone, Don looks at it like it's a bad penny. U.S Mail, Don! This is what it's there for!
After a close-up on the pot full of dirty goulash, one of the guys offers Betty a toke off his joint, which she declines before asking him if marijuana is expensive. He doesn't answer, and soon, they're joined by two other dudes who are there for dinner. The one guy asks the new arrivals about Sandy, and the speaking one tells Betty that the violin is his now - Sandy sold it to him, as she's trying to get enough money to go to California. Betty asks "Zal" where Sandy might be, but he dismissively calls her "Blondie" for the second time and tells her to run along, prompting her to ask why he's being so rude. He talks about control and how she can't "grok" the notion that people like him are her garbage, the waste product of a broken system, but Betty in no uncertain terms informs him that she came looking for someone she does want. Zal grabs her purse and examines the contents before handing it back to her with a snide comment about her "bottled" hair and how they don't like her life any more than she does. Betty: "You have bad manners. You deserve to live in the street in this pigsty." He tries to tell her the violin is his, and when she asks what he wants with it, he tells her he's going to learn to play it. Betty spits, "Because it's so easy," and storms out, the violin still in her hand, and the fact that she rips her coat on the way out doesn't diminish how great an exit that was. Once she's left the guys behind, though, she reconsiders, and whether or not it's because she's realized that this whole effort was an exercise in, as Sandy would probably put it, kidding herself, she sets the violin down on the floor and gets the heck out of there.
Abe enters Peggy's office with two hero sandwiches, both decidedly non-vegetarian, and asks how it's going. She tells him she's doing an exercise Don taught her, which is to write a letter to a fictitious acquaintance describing the wonders of her new headphones. It doesn't sound like a bad idea in theory, but I have to wonder whether its efficacy is going to be compromised by the fact that Peggy doesn't really have any friends. Abe is happy that "this unjust war is finally having an impact on commerce," and I found Abe's hippie babbling a lot more tolerable when his appearance was more presentable. Two flunkies enter and ask if dinner was ordered for them, and Peggy's like, "No," but Abe offers to share, which is nice, but then again, with all the Commie ideology he spouts I guess he kind of has no choice.
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