Shoot

Hi...Laurel here.  This episode Don was being courted by another agency.  The boss of the other place cornered him at the intermission of an opera and offered him a job at a bigger more prominent agency.  An offer which he backed up by casting Betty in a coca cola print ad.  Of course Betty buys into this thinking that he is offering her the job based on her good looks but we come to find out that it was all just part of the ploy to poach Don.  Poor Betty.  Again.

Roger hears of the courting and responds by offering Don more money to stay at Sterling Cooper, and Don accepts.  Of course Betty's coca cola contract is terminated at this point.  wah wah.

Also in this episode the buzz around the office is that Peggy is putting on a lot of weight.  We are left wondering if she is putting on weight because she is getting complacent at the office or is there some larger factor to consider?  Either way Joan loans her and extra outfit that she has hanging around the office for just these type of situations.  Of course Joan has a contingency plan for every situation secretarial...

Mark here...to touch on what Laurel said, I think we get a good idea of how Joan is way more worldly than Peggy.  At one point Peggy thinks Joan is being bitchy to her, when actually Joan is trying to help her.  Clearly, Joan has been around the office more and has good advice to give.

Separately, Betty has thrown all her eggs into this one basket of a deal modeling, when she lacks the business savvy to realize the offer is really more about her husband.  It's too bad too because the art staff clearly likes working with her and accepts her as a professional, but when she's dropped she loses her nerve and is willing to go back to being a housewife.  Don for his part is actually quite accepting of her choices, although he's unwilling to tell her to keep pursuing modeling.  At the end of the episode we start to see Betty really unraveling.  She's taking to shooting pigeons with a rifle in the yard.  The pigeons are ones the neighbor has been feeding, and she's in her nightgown (at 1:00pm) and smoking a cigarette!  I'm very interested to see what happens next!