Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 546 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Strange Bedfellows
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2013.05.05
Pete comes into Ken's office with "a high-level Accounts question," and after Pete then waves away Benson and his two coffees (gotta love that character continuity), Pete gingerly tells Ken what happened at "that party house" on Lexington Avenue; as he puts it, he saw his father-in-law emerge from a room "with the biggest, blackest prostitute you've ever seen." Pete! I thought people like you didn't see color! After laughing for a bit, Ken tells a story involving running into one of his teachers at a dirty movie when he was a kid, the point of which is that neither of them could say anything, as it was a situation of mutually assured destruction, and since Pete's situation is as well, he can rely on Tom not to spill. Oh, Ken. That logic didn't work on Veronica Mars and it's not going to work here. Pete is mollified, but that doesn't last long, as Ken gets word that the British guys from Jaguar are on the line. Geez, Ken has gotten fired from a lot of accounts lately through no fault of his own, right?
Oh, here's Don, sauntering in like he owns the place (well, you know what I mean), and when he asks Caroline if she has any idea where Roger has been, Caroline tells him no as if the topic is the furthest thing from her mind right now. Of course, this is explained when Pete comes storming down the stairs -- actually falling on his ass in the process, which is AMAZING -- and lights into Don for having "harmed the company irreparably." A crowd is already gathering as Don, voice raised as well, tells him they'd already lost the Jaguar account, as Herb was going to bring in "some kid to write copy." This does nothing to calm Pete down, and soon, he's practically screaming that they had a public offering underway, which is now RUINED!
Everyone starts buzzing about that one, but Joan pulls the brass into the conference room -- Ken joins them -- and asks what the heck is going on. Don gets in the first salvo, asking why the hell he didn't know about the public offering, but Pete bites out that he tried to tell him the night before, "but you'd rather have dinner with Herb Rennet!" Pete, you're not Don's favorite person, but I don't think THAT'S true. Roger then jauntily enters and announces that he's got good news and bad news, at which point Pete finally announces that "Don fired Jaguar." Joan's, "WHAT!" portends evil things for Don, but Roger's unfazed: "Then I just have good news!" Hee. He explains that they're giving a presentation "this Friday on Chevy's top-secret new car," and after Pete and Don give appropriately flabbergasted reactions, Roger happily tells the group that his "friend Mikey O'Brien; look him up" said he was seeking something cutting-edge, but none of the agencies had it. Don turns to Pete and is like "Chevy, am I right?" but Pete isn't impressed, snarling at Don not to act like he had a plan. "You're like Tarzan, swinging from vine to vine!" Hee. Don is unfazed as he starts giving orders pursuant to getting the pitch ready, but when he tells Joan to get the Creatives into his office, she replies in a voice carved from ice for him to get them himself. Uncomprehending, he asks if she doesn't feel "three hundred pounds lighter," but Joan tells him actually, she does not. The resentment causes her voice to quaver as she tells Don that if she can stand Herb, he should be able to, and what -- she went through all of that for nothing? She starts to storm out, and when Don calls to her that he'll win "this," she turns back and snaps, "Just once, I would like to hear you use the word 'we'." She adds that they're all just waiting for him to decide what's best for their lives, and then exits, leaving the men to look glum. On the plus side, there's no need to send someone to assemble the Creative team, since they're all standing outside watching.