Mad Men: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag…

Updated 6:45 AM PST, Mon, Oct 26, 2009

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Joan practices with Greg for an upcoming interview about his foray into psychiatry, and in the process learns that his father had a nervous breakdown, which is such a surprise. Greg then screws up his interviews and says he doesn't want to be a shrink, and his ensuing childish outburst causes Joan to break a vase over his head, which is what I'd call "a good start." Greg then apologizes and joins the Army so he can become a surgeon again, which hopefully means he'll be shipped off to Vietnam and we'll see him nevermore.

An old client, the widowed Annabelle Mathis of Caldecott Farms, a dog-food company, turns up to SC with a PR problem, but the real issue is that she seems to have had a thing with Roger in the past that she's by no means over, and when they go out to dinner, we learn that she left him for another man, but just when you think she's going to get him into bed, he tells her he wants to remain faithful to his wife, which pretty much kiboshes the prospect of them doing business again, in all senses.

Betty takes the kids down to dead Uncle Gene's house for Halloween, as advertised, and a fight over the house ensues between her and her brother. Betty then takes the opportunity to pull the family lawyer aside and tell him of the compromising information about Don she discovered, although she doesn't have a handle on the exact situation. The lawyer gives her some shitty, sexist advice that amounts to telling her to suck things up, and I'm glad that she follows her instincts about anything to do with her family and doesn't listen.

Suzanne tells Don that regardless of what they're doing, she can see that he's not happy. She then confesses that she wants more from him that she originally thought she would, and he's surprisingly okay with that, so they plan to head up to Norwich (Connecticut, I think) -- but when Don stops home to get something, he finds the family already returned, and on top of that, Betty finally, with steely determination, confronts him with his Drawer Of Secrets and his Dick Whitman identity. He's completely overwhelmed, but manages to tell her just about the whole truth of how he came to be who he is, and adds that he's always been surprised that she ever loved him. She refuses to waver in coming at him, but when she's distracted by the baby, instead of running, he shows her the pictures from the box and desperately tells her everything about them, even the part about Adam, and since Betty only sometimes seems like she's made of stone, she consoles him. The next day, Don breaks it off with Suzanne, not that it's a complete surprise to her after he didn't come get her out of the car, and when he gets home, he, Betty, and the kids go out trick-or-treating like a family. We'll see to what degree that's a costume soon enough.

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