[Review & Recap] Mad Men: Season 5 Episode 6 “Far Away Places”

We witness his 8:30pm phone call to Peggy from his point of view. It was Megan he was asking about all along. He even calls her mother although he earlier disparaged their relationship, but doesn’t let on they’ve been in a fight and she’s missing. He stays all night and heads home in the morning, worried sick. On the drive he thinks of happier times, like driving the children home after their California trip; Megan navigating and him humming The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”

When he gets to their apartment the chain is on the door. He’s angry and relieved, but she won’t unlock the chain and he kicks the door in. “I thought you were dead,” he says. She calls him a pig and tells him she spent six hours on the bus and had a hard time getting a cab at port authority at the crack of dawn. She hits him, they struggle, and he chases her around the apartment until they collapse on the floor. “It was a fight, it’s over,” he reasons. She shakes her head. “Every time we fight it just diminishes this a little bit.” She gets up to go to work and he gets on his knees and grabs her. “I thought I lost you.”

They walk into work together and share a knowing smile; they’ve made it through another argument and emerged stronger. But Don is about to face the music of what happens when he neglects work. Bert waits for him in the conference room and accuses him of being on “love leave.” After Bert offers his words to the wise, Roger enters proclaiming “it’s going to be a beautiful day.” –Next Page–The Good and The Bad