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S4E9 · The Beautiful Girls

A romantic gesture in the form of a thoughtful gift could lead to professional problems for Peggy.

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At SCDP, the elderly Miss Blankenship dies at her desk while Don is meeting with Fillmore Auto Parts, leaving the grief-stricken employees to quietly remove her corpse without distracting the Fillmore clients. After learning that Greg is being shipped off to Vietnam, Roger and Joan go to a diner to commiserate with each other. While walking on Broadway, Roger and Joan are mugged at gunpoint; Roger calms Joan in an alleyway, and the two have sex. At a local bar, Peggy engages in conversation about race and feminism with Abe, but she angrily leaves when Abe reacts dismissively to her assertions that women have it as bad as African-Americans. The next day, Abe arrives at SCDP with an article he has written about corporate injustice towards women; Peggy is enraged, as the article could get her fired. Don and Faye's burgeoning relationship is tested when Sally runs away from home and turns up at the office. Don asks Faye to handle Sally when Betty refuses to pick her up; Faye lambasts Don for pushing her into a high-pressure situation with his daughter. When Betty finally arrives, Sally refuses to go home until she is comforted by Megan, Don's new secretary.

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