1964 is almost over for the Mad Ad Men on Madison Ave. Financially Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is still in a precarious position, but Lane tells Don it’s been a magnificent year. Don is spending the holidays in Acapulco, but makes a stopover in L.A. to visit Anna, the widow of the real Don Draper. She knows more about Dick Whitman than anyone alive. Anna’s sister Patty is helping with chores, because Anna broke her leg. And Anna invites her niece to stay over, not only to meet Dick, but also because she got “grass.” Stephanie is a college-age, pretty girl and it is obvious Dick is instantly attracted to her. Anna steers the conversation to Betty. He’s still broken-hearted about it, but seems to think she couldn’t be with him anymore because of his false identity, not because of his patronizing and promiscuous ways. Later, Dick drives Stephanie home and flirts with her. She tells him Anna has cancer, but that they’ve decided not to tell her, because it’s terminal. Next day, instead of flying to Acapulco, he returns to New York.
Meanwhile, Joan’s relationship with Greg is tearing at the seams because their busy schedules hardly leave time for them to be together. When she asks for some days off after the holidays to be with Greg, Lane rebukes her in a most unkind way. Joan is worried Greg will be sent to Vietnam as a military physician, and all he can tell her is that they will make it. Joan’s the kind of woman who wants to be in control, who doesn’t leave anything to fate, while Greg is stumbling from one failure into the next. He wants to take care of her, raise a family, but it’s hard to picture how that’s going to happen. Meanwhile, Lane was supposed to visit his family in London. He has been arguing with his wife, and his secretary accidentally sent her the wrong apology card. She hates New York, he loves the City; you say eether, I say eyether; let’s call the whole thing off. His wife left him. Don finds Lane still at the office and they decide to have some fun together. They go to a B-rate Godzilla movie, have dinner at a steakhouse, visit a comedy club, and invite some lady friends. Lane thanks Don for the “welcome distraction.” Heading the office meeting after the New Year’s weekend, Joan says, “Alright, Gentlemen, shall we begin 1965?”
Meanwhile, Joan’s relationship with Greg is tearing at the seams because their busy schedules hardly leave time for them to be together. When she asks for some days off after the holidays to be with Greg, Lane rebukes her in a most unkind way. Joan is worried Greg will be sent to Vietnam as a military physician, and all he can tell her is that they will make it. Joan’s the kind of woman who wants to be in control, who doesn’t leave anything to fate, while Greg is stumbling from one failure into the next. He wants to take care of her, raise a family, but it’s hard to picture how that’s going to happen. Meanwhile, Lane was supposed to visit his family in London. He has been arguing with his wife, and his secretary accidentally sent her the wrong apology card. She hates New York, he loves the City; you say eether, I say eyether; let’s call the whole thing off. His wife left him. Don finds Lane still at the office and they decide to have some fun together. They go to a B-rate Godzilla movie, have dinner at a steakhouse, visit a comedy club, and invite some lady friends. Lane thanks Don for the “welcome distraction.” Heading the office meeting after the New Year’s weekend, Joan says, “Alright, Gentlemen, shall we begin 1965?”
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