Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 10 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Toeing The Line
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 9 | Aired on 05.26.2013
Peggy's sleeping in the parlor -- it's further inside -- when threatening noises from outside awaken her. She picks up a makeshift spear -- a knife fastened to the end of a broom handle -- and moves toward the window to try to get a look. Suddenly, from behind, Abe asks what's going on... and she turns and sticks the knife straight into his gut. They both kind of flap their arms about it, metaphorically, especially in Abe's case -- and Abe tells her not to pull the thing out...
...so the knife part is still sticking out of his stomach when we cut to the two of them in an ambulance. Heh. Peggy assures him he's going to make it, but when she asks the male EMT with them to back her up, he just shrugs noncommittally. Gotta stick to SAG actors when you're looking for someone to support you verbally, hon. Abe then is like, this has nothing to do with the stabbing, but you're a scared person who's in advertising. "Your activities are offensive to my every waking moment. I'm sorry, but you'll always be the enemy." Peggy can't believe he's breaking up with her, whereas I can't believe it took this long, and he closes the burn by grimacing that she at least gave him a great ending to his article. He looks away, whereupon Peggy turns to the EMT again, whose face is like, "I'm sworn to heal, but if you want to pull the knife out, I'm sure I can't stop you from over here."
Megan's on the balcony when Don returns home. He kisses her and tells her he missed her, and he's obviously determined to try something here, but Megan somewhat despondently tells him she misses him all the time. "I don't know when I started pretending like everything was sunny." She goes on that she doesn't know where he's gone, emotionally, but she's still there. "And I keep trying to make things the way they used to be, but I don't know how." Her point is that something has to change, and as he takes her head in his hands, she looks terribly vulnerable and sad, but he tells her she's right -- he hasn't been there. He doesn't explicitly say he will be there, but if he can avoid using the elevator for a while, that will probably help matters.
On Monday, presumably, Roger comes in to see Joan and hands her a gift for Kevin -- Lincoln Logs, which I must say I adored as a child. Of course, I'd expect Roger to have good taste in toys. Joan tells him he can't just drop by and she does sound apologetic, but she sticks to her guns that it's too confusing for the boy -- he thinks his father is a war hero, and it's best for him to keep it that way. Roger asks if "Bob Bunsen" is going to be the one to watch TV with Kevin and says he just wants to be around, and Joan smiles that she knows. "But I can't count on that." Time to put your home life in order, Roger, rather than grasping for alternatives. If it makes you feel any better, you're not the only one learning that lesson. Joan does thank him for the gift, but Roger still trudges defeatedly out...