Don takes a business trip to Los Angeles, where he hooks up with some interesting new acquaintances; Peggy's in the mood for an office romance; Herman Phillips contemplates the future at Sterling Cooper. Don takes a business trip to Los Angeles, where he hooks up with some interesting new acquaintances; Peggy's in the mood for an office romance; Herman Phillips contemplates the future at Sterling Cooper. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. "I fix you," he adds, meaning a new hairdo.
Back in Palm Springs, Don and Joy are still in bed; she's reading Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury". "Something about taxes." "Why would you deny yourself something you want?" "I'm glad to be home," he tells Herman Phillips heads up to Cooper's office, where he tells Roger and Still in Palm Springs, Don makes a call and says: "Hello.
He tells the person on the other end of the line: "I'd love to see you. Told there aren't any, he proposes that the company buy Sterling Cooper to increase its U.S. presence. "You are old style," he declares.
Pete returns from California saying that there were plenty of business opportunities, although he found the people unusual. After dinner, he and Joy make love. Over wine before they depart, she asks what makes her always pick the wrong guys. Soon."
It's Dick Whitman." Back in New York, Roger meets with George Rothman, a divorce lawyer who warns that Roger's wife, At the convention, Don and Pete attend a presentation about MIRV missiles and nuclear warheads, by which Don seems somewhat taken aback.
Back in suburban New York, finding no one is home, a deliveryman leaves Don's lost suitcase outside his front door. "Just a trim," she says, but right off he slices away most of her ponytail. In between kisses, she tells him that her father will take care of Don because Don's beautiful and doesn't talk too much.
Although Peggy is initially shocked, Kurt affirms that the end result will be worth it.
Joy asks Don later that day, convincing him to drive with her to Palm Springs, where her mostly Euro set ("We're nomads together") is hanging out at a friend's swank house. The next morning in New York, Herman Phillips receives a case of Tanqueray gin compliments of his British colleagues. That evening, Kurt drops by Peggy's apartment to escort her to the Dylan performance. Sipping a drink in the pool with Joy, Don learns that her crowd is heading to the Bahamas. "It's what we do," she replies when he asks why. she replies that their sex was good, the book merely okay. In New York, Herman Phillips meets up with two British colleagues to inquire about openings at his old firm. Upon arrival, Don collapses from heat exhaustion but recovers sufficiently by evening to charm the guests with his repartee. Asked, "Is it good?" Afterwards, Pete gleefully points out that one defense company spends more on media buys than "three Lucky Strikes".
He says he can make this happen on these terms: He receives a finder's fee, is made president, and gets control over the creative department.
When Willy drops by the bedroom and says about Joy, "I make beautiful babies," Don realizes that Willy is Joy's father.