By Couch Baron
Trudy and Pete go to see an obstetrician about their inability to conceive, allowing Pete to show off both his comic timing and his rather miserable philosophy of life. He also learns that his boys can swim, not that we didn't know that already, which of course makes Trudy feel completely inadequate, not that Pete has a lot of sympathy. Joan gets engaged, and everyone duly admires her beautiful rock, except for a rather wistful Roger. Joan also has found a new secretary for Don named Jane, but has to lecture her for showing too much of her goods, even deliciously using the word "décolletage" to make her point. Bobbi calls Don with the news that a pilot for her show is going to be made, but when he goes to meet her for a celebration, he runs into Rachel, who's newly married. Bobbi then invites Don to her beach house in Stony Brook, and they bond over their love of movies before Don crashes his car. He gets hit with a fine he doesn't have the cash on him to pay, so he gets Peggy to come pick him and Bobbi up and bring them back to the city.
Don arrives home early in the morning to an angry and worried Betty, and does nothing to relieve her state of mind by blaming his accident on the medication for his high blood pressure, which Betty didn't even know about. Bobbi stays with Peggy to hide out from Jimmy while her wounds heal, and she wonders why Peggy is going to such lengths to help Don, but the answer comes when we get a flashback to when Peggy was in the hospital, heartbreakingly drugged-up and unable to deal with or even acknowledge the fact she had a child, and it was Don who came to the hospital and basically gave her the strength to move on, albeit in a very denial-heavy way. Bobbi counsels Peggy to treat Don as an equal if she wants to get ahead, and also to embrace her womanhood rather than trying to be a man. Peggy takes the advice by calling Don by his first name for the first time, and then Don goes home to a salt-free but love-filled meal.
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