At the Draper home, Betty gets a phone call from Helen, who asks her to watch her kids so she can volunteer for the Kennedy campaign. Betty hesitantly agrees. She puts Bobby and Sally to bed and heads over to Helen's house. She snoops around in Helens bathroom before sitting down to take care of business. Just after she has herself situated, Helen's 9 year old, Glen, barges in, and just stares at Betty while she yells at him. Later, Betty explains that what he did was wrong. "Your hair is beautiful, you look like a princess. Can I have some?" he asks. Betty is confused. "Of your hair," he continues. She resists. "Just a piece, you won't even miss it," he tells her. For some reason, perhaps to try to placate him, she relents, and cuts a small lock of hair and gives it to him. Later, Helen comes home, with a JFK pamphlet for Betty, who says nothing of the strange events. She goes home. Don fell asleep writing copy in bed.
Trudy and Pete go out to dinner with Trudy's parents. After hearing about the apartment Trudy found, Tom offers to help them out. "Pete, this is an investment for me, in you," he explains, but it's clear Pete resents it, as he tries to politely refuse the help. After dinner, Pete heads off to take care of some work. It turns out that Mr. Bethlehem Steel stayed in town, and he likes the ladies. Pete pitches an idea to him - "Bethlehem Steel, the backbone of America", that gets no traction, thanks to the presence of a couple of lovely young women.
The next day, Bethlehem Steel comes back into SC for one last meeting. Walter loves the "Backbone of America" idea. Pete is unrelentingly smug. Then Don fires him. Smug Pete becomes distraught Pete. Roger and Don are summoned to Bert Cooper's very Asian office. They take off their shoes before entering. Cooper steps on Campbell's firing, citing the power of Pete's mother's family, which happens to be one of the oldest in New York.
Don and Roger return to Pete's office, where Roger flips the script. He says that both he and Bert Cooper wanted Pete gone, but Don stepped in and insisted that Pete get a second chance. Pete is ecstatic. "I won't let you down, Don," he says. "Jesus, Campbell. Never say that!" Sterling replies.
At the Campbells' new apartment, Pete, Trudy, and Trudy's parents meet one of the neighbors, Mrs Lyman. "Tell Mrs. Lyman the story about your great great aunt getting in a fight with the British soldier and the Hessian," Trudy insists. "You tell it dear, you do it so much better," Pete replies wistfully. As Trudy begins the story, Pete wanders over to the window and stares out on the city as Ella Fitzgerald's "Manhattan" plays, and the episode fades out.
Stray Observations
Trudy in a nightgown. Yes please.
Music: Ella Fitzgerald - Manhattan
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