Roger comes into work the next morning, for an hour. "I shall be both dog and pony," he says cheerfully. In his office, where Joan touches up his face - "We don't need Miami beach," Don says. - he is a different man. He is somber, aware that he has returned to the proverbial scene of the crime. He's even reverent towards Joanie. "I missed you. You know that right?... I want to tell you something, because you're very dear to me, and I hope you understand it comes straight from the damaged, damaged heart. You are the finest piece of ass I've ever had, and I don't care who knows it. I'm so glad I got to roam those hillsides... I've had a lot of time to think about the things I've done, and have been sorry about. And being with you is not one of them." She weeps.
Roger heads into the meeting. He cracks a bottle of Coke, grabs a slab of pastrami, and sits down. Lights up a smoke. Three years minimum before the Surgeon General can do anything as regards legislating against cigarettes. As he stands up to give a toast to New Yorkers, he has another coronary episode. Mona is rightly rips***. Bert tries to make sure Lucky Strike'll stay. Lee Garner says they like Don, but SC needs to make sure he knows that they do too.
Everyone else in company is manning the lifeboats, thinking Roger is done for, even if he survives. Sal has updated and sent out his resume. Harry astutely notes that Don'll be made partner, the boys debate over it a bit, but eventually let it go - whatever happens happens.
Peggy is out on a blind date. She does her very best to end it as quickly as she can - drinking, smoking, talking about the city. She wants to alienate him as quickly as possible. "So, you drive a truck," she says dismissively of his work. He drives for Lays potato chips. "We have a potato chip account - Utz," she responds, more or less running him over. Everything he brings up, she brings back around to work. "Advertising doesn't work on me," he says. Sure it doesn't, I think. "It's just a lot of people screaming at you from the walls and the TV." Peggy doesn't even lift her head to meet his gaze. "Advertising is good, people never think it works." Eventually, she gets up and walks out.
At the Draper home, Don gives a quick call to Dr. Wayne. Don criticizes him for "taking a woman with a bad case of nerves and [making] her weaker, not stronger." Ouch.
Peggy has to make her pitch for "The Rejuvenator" to Don, Freddy and the boys. "Isn't it nice to feel that way whenever you want?" she posits. It's not a perfect pitch, but for a first time, it's good. When the guys realize what "The Rejuvenator" does, they start joking about another man's wife, who is apparently a fine young thing who rather enjoyed using the product when she was sent home with it. "Mitch's wife is very attractive," Freddy tells Peggy. "Oh... I don't know her..." Peggy blushes. Then Ken realizes that Freddy's wife had one and loved it, and Don has to break up an almost-fight because Freddy's a bit of a hothead, especially when he hasn't been drinking.
At home, Betty is doing the laundry when one of the machines goes a little off kilter. She goes into the laundry room to push it back into place, and the vibrating of the machine... ahem... "rejuvenates" her. She fantasizes about the door-to-door salesman while she gets off... until the machine stops, leaving her hot and bothered.
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