Roger and Mona support Margaret through her wedding as everyone is reeling from President Kennedy's assassination. Betty meets with Henry and confronts Don, and Pete suffers after not getting the top job - again.
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Episode Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:44 "Mr. Cosgrove has the rare gift of making clients feel as if they haven't any needs."
Do we feel sorry for Pete about losing this job again?
02:53 Apparently dull men are tolerated, and Karen's calling Peggy on it
03:42 "I don't like her, Daddy, and I've told you I don't want her to be there."
Mona referees the ongoing Roger - Margaret battle over Jane
07:17 "Lane told me Kenny is senior something of accounts and I'm not. I'm head of accounts something. I couldn't even hear. All I could see was his frog-like mouth flapping."
Trudy turns cold casserole into some lemonade for her pouty husband
08:57 Don's actually home when the baby wakes Betty up late at night
A discussion about marriage, detente, and why Don broke things off with Suzanne
13:06 We all know what "I have to go the printer" is code for at this point
14:13 In which Pete and Harry commiserate about who has more toys than they do
14:57 In which Don is complaining to Lane about a budget to hire a new art director
16:02 In which Peggy continues her pattern of poor romantic partners
17:35 News of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is breaking at Sterling Cooper
18:20 And at the Draper house, where Betty, Carla, and the kids are watching TV
20:59 And for Peggy and Duck in the hotel room
22:20 Don Draper processing the news, internally, with Betty, and with his kids
27:46 To attend, or not to attend Margaret's wedding? That is the question for Pete and Trudy.
31:24 Margaret's wedding
33:27 Henry arrives at the wedding
34:57 Toasts and TV
36:41 When you're getting that full Don Draper magnetism, and you're no longer into it
40:03 "He was so handsome, and now I'll never get to vote for him."
Who does Roger call when the world doesn't make any sense?
43:02 Life is short. Take a drive.
"I'm not in love with the tragedy of this thing. I want it to happen."
47:52 Pete, Appalled, and Trudy
48:53 "I don't love you anymore."
54:59 "My mother was crying and praying so hard there wasn't room for anyone else to feel anything."
56:46 Episode wrap-up and listener shout-out