Newbie Spoilers
It's worth noting the attitudes of everyone in this episode about Kennedy - most of the older people at Sterling Cooper are not fond of him. We don't get a lot of sense of how the younger guys - Pete, Paul, Ken, etc - feel about him, but it's ambivalent at best, I think. In a scene that comes up shortly, Betty tells Francine that she doesn't like Kennedy, which slightly surprises Francine. Later in the series, of course, Kennedy is assassinated, and many of these same people, Betty especially, take it very hard.
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The next day, as Pete is heading into the office with the rifle he can't keep at home, Don heads to the elevator. "Hollis, let me ask you something..." he says to the attendant, as he starts peeling off bills.
At the market, Betty runs into Helen, who confronts her about the incident with Glen - she found Betty's hair in his "treasure box". Betty petulantly slaps her. Later, Francine swings by the Draper residence to see if it's true, and if Betty's alright. They have a long talk after Francine notes that people think Betty is so "sweet and perfect" about what it is to be a woman. Francine asks what Dr. Wayne thinks. "I'm pretty sure Dr. Wayne tried to look down my neckline the other day," she says. "He sits behind me... And as far as I'm concerned, as long as men look at me that way, I'm earning my keep... And then every once and a while, I think 'No, this is something else, I don't want my husband to see this."
Meanwhile, at lunch, Don and Roger are eating oysters and drinking martini after martini. Don is on the Roger Sterling diet, he says. They talk about Desi and Lucy's second divorce. "What makes a man marry the same woman twice?" Roger wonders. "I think in this case it was the lure of orange hair," Don responds. "I like redheads," Roger says. "Their mouths are like a drop of strawberry jelly in a glass of milk." It's no secret to us, or to Don, that he's talking about Miss Holloway, who was the first of four women he made a pass at in this episode. I also think it's his failure there that drives the rest of the episode. He has no luck with her, so he makes eyes at the ladies at the bar. They're only interested in Don, so he makes a pass at Betty.
They finish the lunch to end all lunches, and head back to the office. When they arrive, Hollis tells them that the elevator is out of service. Don notes that if they wait, they'll be even later for the Nixon meeting than they would be if they took the stairs. So up they go. Don stops on 8 and lights up a smoke. They keep going. Roger is clearly laboring much more than Don is - he's literally "red in the face" by the 17th floor. By the 20th floor, Roger goes down. He pretends to have lost his tie clip, sends Don ahead. Don gets up to 23, where Sterling Cooper is located, briefly fixes his hair, and walks in to find the Nixon people in the foyer, with Bert Cooper. Moments later, Roger walks in and promptly vomits at their feet.
"Oysters. 23 floors. Elevator out."
Don walks towards the camera, away from Roger and smiles.
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