Mad Men 3x09

Mad Man Don Draper has brought in the Hilton account for Sterling Cooper. Conrad Hilton warned him things are going to change with Hilton in his life. So, in the middle of the night, Don wakes up as the phone rings. Connie wants to talk business with him: he’s thinking about giving him Hilton’s international business. He wants hotels around the globe, even on the moon, “to bring America to the world.” At the pitch, Connie at first appears impressed but then gets upset when the campaign doesn’t show Hilton on the moon. Don is stunned, but Connie persists that when he says he wants the moon, he expects the moon... To compound things, Sterling Cooper just about lost the Lucky Strike account, because Salvatore (the new commercial director) rejected the owner’s son, Lee Garner, when he came onto him. Garner wanted Sal fired, but Harry Crane (the Media Liaison) told him he doesn’t have that authority. At the presentation, with Sal still there, Garner stormed out. And Roger fires Sal when he hears what happened. Apparently, Mad Men are supposed to be whores, too, if you pardon my French.

Bets has been dreaming about that Henry Francis from the Governor’s office – and trying to contact him. Then he rings her door bell unannounced, but changes the subject to a fundraiser when Betty’s help walks in on them. Bets gets miffed when, later, he doesn’t show up in person, but Henry wanted her to come to him, because she’s married. When push comes to shove, though, she backs off (fortunately!), reproving that “it’s tawdry” to have sex in his office. Meanwhile, Don’s been crossing paths with Sally’s teacher, sassy Suzanne – first by accident, and then not so much. After the debacles at work with Hilton and Lucky Strike, the numbskull visits her, telling her he can’t stop thinking about her and that he wants her ... and the rest you can fill in with your own vivid imagination. Great episode! Things are really heating up now. I can’t wait to check out the next one!