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By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2009.09.06
...and heads into the TV room (and she's still in her damn ballet outfit, heartbreakingly enough). She settles down to watch a news report about a Buddhist monk fatally setting fire to himself, and you'd think Buddhism might be a source of comfort at a time like this but apparently you'd be wrong. We cut to a shot of her lying on the floor in the dark as the adults carry on in the kitchen...
...and then we cross-fade to a shot of Don once again waking up in the middle of the night, with he and Betty still in their clothes this time. He gets up and covers his wife with the blanket, and we see a tissue in her outstretched hand as Don leaves the room. He opens Sally's door to find her asleep, her copy of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire in the crook of her arm. Aw. He then goes into Gene's bedroom and folds up his cot, presumably as a last act of respect for a fellow soldier, and the strains of "Over There" continue to play as the credits roll.
John Ramos is a writer and film producer living in Los Angeles. You can reach him at couchbaron@gmail.com.
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