Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 279 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT No Good Deed Goes Unsexed
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2013.06.09
Rather than visit that possibility, though, Peggy brings up the conversation she had with Dot, and when he hears some details, Pete asks exactly what she said. I guess he'll know after this to be more careful with his wording, because Peggy asks if his father ever gave her spa treatments "that released a 'fire in her loins'," and they laugh/almost-barf for a bit about that before Ted returns and is like, heeeeey, drunkies, let's hit the road? Peggy and Pete, though, can't stop the giggling fit into which they've dissolved and Ted looks a little jealous at the moment they're sharing. If it's any consolation, Ted, your tomorrow's going to be a lot less dehydrated than theirs.
Don's pouring a drink (that hardly narrows down the time frame, I know) when the doorbell rings, and he opens up to find Rosen, whom he invites in. Rosen says he would have called, but Sylvia's in a state and he then starts to bring up Mitchell's visit when Megan appears and haltingly confesses she wasn't sure if she should tell him. Rosen says Mitchell saved her the trouble, and they don't want Megan in the middle. "His mother's treating it like he's dying. She doesn't want anyone to know." After some talk of drinking...
...we cut to Don and Rosen in a bar, with Rosen telling him he's been meaning to visit him anyway before confessing he didn't even know Mitchell had left school, and Sylvia told him she didn't know either. "She's doing that a lot lately -- lying about little things." I wonder if he's counting the "smoking." He adds that he's known something's been wrong with her all year, and he probably wouldn't have to be such a detective if he'd actually been present for the times Sylvia screamed at "him." Don thinks there has to be a way out, to which Rosen bitterly replies that everyone's an expert on that subject, including Sylvia's father. "It's thrilling to see a plumber interpret international law." Don thinks Rosen's elite status as one of the top surgeons in the country surely has to be worth something, but Rosen -- a note of panic creeping into his voice -- says he knows a lot of people, but it doesn't change Mitchell's 1-A-ness. "He's on a damn list for the rest of his life." Don, unsure of what to say to that, offers that on some level, they should admire Mitchell's idealism, but Rosen -- approaching his wit's end -- tells him Sylvia won't let her baby rot in jail for a cause before asking what Don would do. God, "WWDDD" is not a slogan I need to contemplate. Rosen remembers that Don was in the service and asks if he saw action, and Don takes a loooong moment, probably trying to figure out how much he wants to reveal, before settling for saying it was very different, and he wanted to go... until he got there. Even though Don goes on to declare the war morally wrong, Rosen talks for a while about service being part of being an American and how he and Don understand that, and he's not coming out and saying it, exactly, but it sounds like he thinks his son is a soft mama's boy. Well, he does actually say "soft" explicitly, but then he tries -- not entirely successfully -- to hold back tears as he adds that Mitchell's the best, and Don looks like he might be moved in spite of himself. I mean, I'm sure his immediate solution will be to order another round, but still.