Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 10 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT No Good Deed Goes Unsexed
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 11 | Aired on 06.09.2013
...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.
Nan is sitting in bed watching TV when Ted comes home, and it's clear she's got something to say -- Ted was supposed to have dinner with her and the kids. Ted doesn't know what the big deal is about one missed meal, but Nan reminds him what the minister at Gleason's funeral apparently said about God turning the lights off at any moment. "You know where you're going to be? The office." Ted assures her that the hours he's working are due to the merger, but she A) denies that and B) tells him that even when he's home, his thoughts are elsewhere, "and I can feel how disappointing this all is compared to your battles at work." This goes on for a bit, and Ted eventually hangs his head, to which Nan says she just wishes he liked being home more. Ted's like, I already bowed in submission, woman? What more do you want?