Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 950 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Are You Gonna Drop The Bomb Or Not?
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2008.10.26
...and enters Don's office asking for a minute of his time. Don, reading the paper: "From the look of this, that might be all I have." Witty to the last. Pete closes the door, sits, and rats Duck out for his plan to be President. I just have to admire the symmetry of Pete's journey -- last season, Pete cost him that same position. I'd be tempted to describe that as "awesome" if I hadn't way used up my quota of that word for this recap. Don asks why Duck would have told Pete that, and Pete pointedly replies, "Picking sides, I guess," driving home the obvious fact that Pete is throwing his lot in with Don here. Don, however, has to ask Pete why he's telling him, and Pete replies that if he were Don, he would want to know. Don thanks Pete with no sarcasm, and Pete gets up to go, but turns back: "You know, they stopped a ship this morning. I bet the Russians are reconsidering now that we made a stand." It sounds to me like Pete is giving Don a call to action, casting PPL as the Soviets in their situation. But this is Mr. Sheffield we're talking about! He's not a Communist -- just a bad theater producer!
Betty gets home from riding and finds an envelope waiting for her, which Carla tells her is from Don. She opens it: "Dear Betty: I'm sitting in the Roosevelt, looking at the backs of Bobby and Sally's heads as they watch TV. I'm not letting them change the channel, because watching the news makes me sick, and they can see it. I think about you, and how I behaved, and my regret. I know it's my fault you are not here right now. I understand why you feel it's better to go on without me, and I know that you won't be alone for very long. But without you, I'll be alone forever. I love you. Don." The threat of the end of days bringing on confession and the hope of absolution -- Father Gill may have brought it up to Peggy, but she's not the only one who heard it. Betty's face looks like it's being pulled in several directions at once...