'Mad Men' recap: All The Real Girls

Early in the "Mad Men" episode, Roger tries to hit on Joan, but after she leaves his office in an even less amused mood than normal, Caroline tells him that Greg is going straight to Vietnam from basic training. To make his ill-timed insensitivity up to her, Roger sends her two women to give her a massage and manicure, which makes us wish he were around to hurt our feelings sometime.

The next day, Miss Blankenship dies in the office  in an extremely unceremonious way even for someone who wasn't the Queen of Perversions, and even though the whole thing kind of turns into Weekend At Miss Blankenship's, which we assume is evocative enough to obviate any further explanation, Roger takes the whole thing very hard, and before you know it he and Joan are going out for dinner, after which the two of them get mugged for everything they have, including Joan's wedding ring, and the raw emotion of the incident prompts them to have sex right then and there. The next day, Joan tells Roger she has no regrets, but that doesn't change the fact that they're married to other people. Roger, however, informs her that he's interested in seeing where this goes, and we said at the end of last season that we thought the two of them might be headed back into each other's arms, but now that Greg really is gone and we haven't seen Jane in ages, the possibility seems a lot more tangible.

Joyce and Peggy go out for a drink, and soon, Abe, that cute guy that ended up in the closet with Peggy during the police raid, turns up, and Joyce does a girl a solid and leaves the two of them alone. In talking business, Abe drops the bomb that SCDP client Fillmore Auto Parts won't hire African-Americans, but when Peggy compares that discrimination to the kind she endures as a woman, Abe takes issue with it, which leads to a quick end to their impromptu date. The next day, with Fillmore execs in attendance for a pitch meeting, Abe shows up to see Peggy with a piece he wrote titled "Nuremberg On Madison Avenue," which Peggy begs him not to publish as she thinks it could get her fired. However, when she pitches Harry Belafonte as a potential spokes-singer for Fillmore and gets shot down in a "They're racists, honey" way, it leaves her something to think about. Like, in a "Is this the career path I want?" way.

Last week's discretion has been abandoned with extreme prejudice as Don and Faye are enjoying some rather energetic nooners, but the fun ends when Sally turns up at SCDP in the hands of a stranger who found her on the train into the city with no money, and when Don calls Betty to chew her out, Betty tells him he can see what it's like to deal with her for a change.

Don asks Faye to take Sally to his apartment while he deals with the Miss Blankenship fiasco, and when he gets home, Sally has cottoned on to the fact that there's something between Don and Faye, and Don later seems happy that Sally has a reasonably decent opinion of her. Also, Sally, who even with the jaunt into the city seems to be a lot more together thanks to the psychiatry, tells Don she wants to live with him full-time, and although he tells her that can't happen we wonder if his mind is really completely closed to the idea, especially not after he wakes up to find that Sally has made him French toast for breakfast.

In return, he takes her to the zoo before going to work, but when it comes time for her to leave, she flips out and causes a scene, and even though Don tries to get Faye to help, only Megan, who's temporarily taken over for Miss Blankenship, is able to calm Sally down so she can be delivered into Betty's arms. After she's gone, Faye freaks out on Don for putting her in such a difficult position with his kid, and he apologizes, but after she leaves, he takes a sip of the drink she made for herself. Well, AA might frown on it, but we're inclined to let it go.

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