Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 448 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT All the Real Girls
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2010.09.19
He then barks at Megan to find Bertram and Roger at lunch and stop them from bringing Secor back to the office, and there's a joke about Secor shitting their pants to be made but once again, I'll leave that to Roger. Don then takes Faye into his office, introduces her to Sally, and informs his wayward daughter that Faye will be taking her to his place, declining to explain further. When he's gone, Faye re-introduces herself far too formally, and when Sally's like, "I got your name the first time," we know just how far Faye's in over her head here. But maybe she can teach Sally how to speak in a true Noo Yawk accent. Wouldn't Betty just love that?
Sometime later, the coroner's people are wheeling a sheet-covered Miss Blankenship out when Bertram stops them, saying she's not going to the morgue but to "Frank E. Campbell," who I assume is a funeral director. Roger sympathetically pats Bertram on the back as Megan touchingly places Miss Blankenship's handbag on top of her, and it's always the little things that get you, you know? Don appears and asks if anyone tracked down her family, and Bertram offers that she has a niece, and he'll make the call. Roger watches in despair as the coroner's people resume taking Miss Blankenship out, and he then shuffles out of the room, with Joan following in concern. Megan, who's being kind of a rock here, then tells Don that he should go home, patting his arm as she does, and after taking a moment to process the awful events of the last couple hours, Don agrees.
Elsewhere, Joan follows Roger into his office, on the way ignoring the people in the break room who shockingly have decided to commemorate Miss Blankenship's death by drinking, and once inside, Roger flops down in a chair and tells Joan he doesn't want to die in this office. "I almost have, twice." Well, technically, that was another office, unless he's had a couple episodes since that we haven't heard about. But his point is taken, and Joan assures him that won't happen before sighing, "Poor Ida," and Roger agrees: "She died like she lived. Surrounded by the people she answered phones for." Wow. That's the most depressing line in the entire episode, bar none. Roger then begs Joan to have dinner with him, even saying he'll meet her in the lobby, I'm assuming for the purposes of discretion, and even though the look on Joan's face says she knows this is a bad idea any way you slice it, I'm pretty sure she's in. I mean, any excuse to get out of that office at this point, right?