Ken was at the dinner with Pete when the Jaguar guy expressed his desire for Joan. Ken was appalled that Pete didn’t immediately shoot the idea down…
Right!!!
D’oh. :smack:
Thanks- that makes perfect sense now.
And, if this had happened on real life, they would have sold the Sterling Cooper name to the Brits, so they wouldn’t be able to use the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce name now
I don’t think Don was really demanding that Kenny be fired. He had just gotten out of a meeting with Lane and has for a few weeks now, been sick of the bullshit and the lying and being in anything but first place. So he says “Roger, we’re going after first place.” and Roger responds with a weak excuse “But what about Kenny?”
“Fucking fire Kenny then. We’re doing this.”
Don really didn’t care about Kenny’s status. He just didn’t want anything standing in the way of his pitch.
With regard to SCDP, I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is a partnership is dissolved upon the death of a partner. The Partnership agreement should determine the method of dissolution and how the assets will be divided. Of course, they (the partners) must have put some thought into what would happen as a result of a death to a partner (particularly Cooper). It will be interesting to see what happens.
Only in the absence of some other arrangement put in place by the partnership agreement, I believe.
And honestly, who thinks Pete can keep his mouth shut?
Anybody interested in the history of menstruation, particularly in how companies presented their products and “explained it all” (and a lot of young women were introduced to the idea by a booklet from Kotex) the Museum of Menstruation site is awesome - a coworker and I spent a long rainy afternoon at the desk once reading all these Marjorie Maybooklets. Totally worth the read, since they’re actually more explicit and useful in the early days than later!
OT: I suppose I’m the last person on earth to know that Elisabeth Moss is a scientologist.
I need to learn not to read about the personal lives of actors and actresses, especially if I enjoy their work.
Oh no…, that makes me sad. Oh, well.
That’s possible, but I think it was more that using the Jaguar was the most convenient method available to Lane. Because dying in the Jaguar would hurt SCDP, it would hurt Lane’s wife Rebecca a whole lot more. They had a rocky relationship but I think they genuinely cared for each other. She got him a gift that she thought he would love since he never seemed to spend money on himself. She was hurt when he refused to drive it for seemingly no good reason. She’ll be devastated when she finds out he’s dead, but it would have added huge insult to injury if it had been in the gift she bought for him.
So I’m curious how the suicide will be treated. Wasn’t it seen as more shameful back then? Would it be possible for it to be covered up as a heart attack or something like that? I know that the coroner must know the actual reason for death and that all the officials must know, but would they allow for the family’s sake that the official reason being released to the public was natural causes of some sort?
I’m a little disappointed we didn’t get to see any of the fallout from Peggy leaving, but I guess it wouldn’t have fit in with everything else going on in this episode.
I noticed there was no mention of her in the “Next week…” although that means next to nothing.
I think they already told the police that Lane had hung himself – they mentioned to Don that the police told them not to move anything “because it was a crime scene now”.
Come to think, suicide might void that insurance policy someone mentioned earlier, too, even without Lane’s formal resignation.
If you read this Wikipedia list, you’ll probably find one or two other disappointments among the current and former members.
In a previous episode, Pete mentioned his insurance policy–that covered suicide after two years.
The death has already been reported as hanging–probable suicide. But I wonder if the partners will tell his wife about the embezzlement or just leave it at one of those tragic cases of undetected depression…
(Besides, it would look better for the company if the embezzlement remained a secret.)
The thing is, I don’t see Pete letting the embezzlement go without being a total bitch about it, it’s just who he is. I think he is also going to be pissed at Don for trying to settle it behind the backs of the other partners.
what I am also going too find interesting is how much sympathy they try to make us feel for Joan as the truth comes out and the whispers start. I am hoping they make Joan own it, that would be the most empowering thing she could do.
This has already been elaborated on, but Pete has worked with his father-in-law (Clearasil/Vicks Chemical) and essentially killed that relationship; he also used his father’s death in an American Airlines crash to try to land them as a client. Ken was trying distance himself from Pete, but when he saw what Pete did to land Jaguar, he realizes that he has to play dirty a little bit.
Interesting juxtaposition of rites of passage: Glen’s “driving for the first time” and Sally’s “having your first period”–one happens by choice and one is forced upon her.
Speaking of “next week,” I’ve noticed that the episode previews for Mad Men are the most incomprehensible I’ve ever seen for a show— and I can’t tell whether whoever’s editing them is completely incompetent or they’re intentionally cut to reveal nothing about the coming show. They always seem to be a completely random collection of dialog snippets quick-cut together in no apparent order.
I don’t want spoilers, of course, but every preview just leaves me saying “huh”?
From what I’ve heard, it’s completely intentional and practically an on-going joke at this point. Weiner doesn’t want any sort of spoilers and I think AMC demands the “Next week” previews. The result is what we get.
My all time favorite was a woman asking Betty if she was contemplating suicide… in the context of buying a new couch.
The only person who knows about the embezzlement is Don. As someone else said, Cooper thinks Don just signed off on the bonus Lane had been whining about for the last two months. No one knows the check was a forgery except Don. The only way anyone will know different is if Don tells them.
The $50k credit extension is certain to come to light but that, by itself, doesn’t mean embezzlement. To everyone else, the assumption may be that Lane committed suicide when he mismanaged (not necessarily stole) the company books and found himself in a hole he couldn’t find a way out of.
I’m not following what you mean here. The partners already know that Joan slept with the guy. “How much sympathy THEY try to make us feel for Joan” and “I am hoping THEY make Joan own it…” Who is “they”? And make Joan own what?