Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Are You Gonna Drop The Bomb Or Not?
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 10.26.2008
At SC, the boys are listening to a missile-oriented radio broadcast when Harry rushes up and tells them there's bad news -- the conference room is signed out all day. "And I checked the fridge --- there's canapés. Really good ones." Heh. Pete then appears and expresses calm over the whole merger thing, as he might given what Duck said to him, so Harry tells the rest of them that he talked to his father-in-law about it, and "regime change is always tricky. You want to stay neutral -- the loyalists are always hung, and you don't want to get caught in the fallout." Paul's understandably disgusted by this attitude, probably particularly with the incredibly tin-eared use of the word "fallout" here, but Harry says PPL doesn't care about them, and will draw a line and fire everyone below it. Paul sounds like he's going to cry as he says he likes SC the way it is (which is a nice counter to what Sheila said a few episodes ago), and this seems to have an effect on Pete, who goes marching purposefully away...
...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!