Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 1246 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Draper's Eight
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2009.11.08
Actually, whatever number he thinks it went for is irrelevant, considering he obviously doesn't nearly know the entire scope of the deal, but regardless, he apologizes that they had to find out this way, adding that it wasn't his decision, and that last bit certainly won't be argued by anyone. Pryce stands and tells the disappointed threesome that he's truly enjoyed working there, and when he's gone, Roger bright-sides that they've only got him for a year and Don for three (less for both of them now, I suppose), and they'll make another go of it in the future. But building the accounts up from nothing will be difficult enough that it renders his words hollow, and the expression on Don's face suggests he knows that. Not that he smiles all that much as a general rule, but still.
Francis and Betty have come to the lawyer together, and he rattles off the short list of grounds for divorce in New York State: Absence of a spouse, incurable insanity, life imprisonment, or adultery. Betty volunteers that Don hasn't been faithful, but when the guy asks if she has any witnesses or corroboration, she replies, "Not really." Damn, girl, you're not even trying here. I mean, if you're not going to call up Jimmy or Bobbie Barrett, at least pay one of Don's secretaries to give you some dirt. The lawyer goes on that it wouldn't matter anyway "with both parties at fault," earning him some babbling denials from Betty and this question from Francis: "You think the governor needs another scandal on the ticket?" I'd imagine that's not the most disingenuous use of that phrase in history, but that's still some nerve on Francis.