Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT California, Here I…I Mean, "You" Come
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 13 | Aired on 06.23.2013
Peggy enters her building to find Ted waiting in front of her door. She's not thrilled, but she lets him in, whereupon he notes that she didn't bring her date home. She confesses she had a terrible time -- "he works in finance, and ate with his hands" -- not that it's any of Ted's business. He weakly tells her he doesn't know what they're doing, so she suggests he have his wife drop by again, before asking why Nan gave her that look on her way out -- did he tell his wife something about her? Ted retorts that he doesn't know why women do anything, least of all her "parading" her ass in front of him on her way to see another man, but she shoots back that she was merely following his lead! "You let Don terrify you into ignoring me, and now you're here..." Ted finishes, "...because I don't want anyone else to have you!" Well, that's direct, at least. Peggy tells him he should go, but he steps into her space and declares that he's going to leave his wife. She uncomfortably tells him not to say that, which is a good instinct because it never happens and as such is a curse even to say, but he tells her he loves her, and very soon they are going at it. It may be immoral, but it's still better than their schoolyard giggling.
Don and Megan are asleep when the phone rings, and Don groggily answers to find it's Betty calling with the news that Sally's been suspended for buying beer with a fake ID reading "Beth Francis." Don sits up, and Megan turns on her bedside lamp and listens with interest as Don bright-sides that at least they didn't kick her out. Betty, fighting off tears, tells Don that Henry's already in Albany and she's supposed to go up there tomorrow, and she knows Don's getting the boys on Thanksgiving Day but could he go pick Sally up tomorrow? She tells him she doesn't want to have "that conversation" with her mother-in-law, and I can surely understand that, but Don tells her he has a big meeting. Betty tells him Sally was drunk and got other girls drunk, and she's tried everything she can think of, everything her own mother did, but nothing's working. "The good is not beating the bad." Again on the verge of tears, she goes on that Sally needs more than she can give her, and Don calls her "Birdie" for the first time since they got divorced as he tells her it's not her fault. The use of that nickname isn't lost on Megan, but Don isn't looking her way as Betty goes on, "Don. She's from a broken home." This hits Don hard, not least because of his secret contribution to Sally's state of mind, but after he takes a few moments, he tells Betty that Pauline doesn't need to know; he'll grab Sally on Thanksgiving morning after he gets the boys. He adds that he's sorry, and after Betty hangs up, Megan asks if everything's okay, getting an obvious negative in response. She then asks if there's anything she can do, but after he looks at her, they settle for settling back into bed, with Megan putting a soothing arm across his chest...