Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 5 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT If You Love Someone, Shoot Them With A BB
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2007.09.13
Sometime later, we pan across several dresses laid out across Betty's bed; Francine calls in to Betty, who's getting changed, and asks if he really made her all these and still had a platonic relationship with her. Betty comes out happily sporting a sassy dress that I won't bother describing when I can link to it, and Francine's reply is "Mamma mia!" You said it, ragazza.
Don enters his office as Peggy's boobs trail after him; five minutes later, the woman to whom they're attached enters and briefs Don on his day. She does mention "the Menkens' artwork," just so we know Rachel is still alive, and then tells Don that a package was delivered late the previous day for him After she leaves, Don opens the box, in which he finds a membership card to the New York Athletic Club and a note from Hobart asking him to call. Don immediately buzzes Peggy and asks for an outside line.
Connected with Hobart, Don says he appreciates the gesture, but he's still pretty clearly reluctant even to agree to a face-to-face meeting. Hobart clears the flunkies out of the room and talks straight: Sterling Cooper is a "Mom and Pop," while McCann is an international company. Well, maybe he's saying that SC doesn't have international locations, but since it did business in South America and was considered by the Israelis, this doesn't seem like the strongest argument. His larger point, though, is that McCann has a huge network and is a publicly-traded company, and basically, it could open opportunities for Don beyond his wildest dreams. He offers Don a three-year contract at thirty-five grand a year, and closes with this: "All I can say is, eventually you come up here, or you die wondering." Well, he's certainly stepping up his verbal game. He hangs up, and Don is indeed left to look like some things are on his mind as he stares at Hobart's card.
Nice cut to Betty telling Dr. Wayne about Hobart giving her his card. This leads into her telling Dr. Wayne how she and Don met; she was modeling a Russian Blue Fox coat, and Don was a copywriter at the fur company.