Mad Men Season 3 Episode 2
In case you missed last night’s episode of Mad Men Roger gets the heat about his daughters wedding (he’s not allowed to go), Betty’s dad moves in and well…I won’t spoil it but Peggy gets a little crazy.
Lane tells Don that Betty was charming at dinner. She lifted his wife’s spirits “inestimably.” Lane asks Don and Roger to have lunch with Edgar Raffit of Madison Square Garden to undo the damage from his encounter with Pete and Paul.
Betty’s father, Gene, arrives at the Draper home with her brother, William, and his family. Gene has brought lunch, including a sandwich for Gloria, though according to William he knows she’s gone and is just being dramatic.
Roger, waiting with Don at the restaurant for Raffit, blames Mona for turning Margaret against him. “All of a sudden I could give two craps about that wedding,” he says. “All I want to do is win.”
A moment later, Raffit arrives and Don suggests that he stop fretting over public opinion: It shows a guilty conscience. Sterling Cooper could help Raffit change the conversation about Penn Station’s destruction to one in which Madison Square Garden is the cornerstone of New York’s renaissance. Raffit likes the approach but doesn’t want “the communist” (Paul) handling the account.
At the Draper home, William proposes putting Gene into a nursing home, and Betty accuses William of going after their dad’s house. Nursing homes are “for people who don’t have families,” she contends.
That night, William tells his wife, Judy, that Betty and her father fought constantly — something his sister forgets. Family is important to Betty, Judy replies.
At her apartment in a nightgown, Peggy brushes her hair into a flip and mimics Ann-Margret’s rendition of “Bye Bye Birdie” in front of a mirror.
