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Don will never bone Joan.

1) It's a TV schtick, he's sentimentally connected to her and will always protect her.

2) He is one of the founding members of the RCMB (back when it was actualy a bulletin board in the break room) and he thinks she's fat.

Yea, they mentioned something about taxes, but I don't think that's the full story. I think more is going to come out, and Lane will be sent to jail during the season finale. Also, that Hari Krishna stuff was great and the girl is crazy - she is going to pissed at crane, I wonder what she'll do. Also, Don seems to be into driving fast again, that should lead to some bad results.

$5,500 for a new jaguar....that would be nice

Yea, we finally saw a fight where Megan was actually the one in the wrong. I don't really know what's going on, and i'm always wrong in my predictions. I don't really think it's about the acting or the play they went to, I think the problem is that they aren't with each other all the time. She is never going to get Don to tell her where he is and what he's doing, but when she was working with him she knew. So maybe that's her problem. I wonder if she's going to try and go back to advertising - I doubt it, at least not back to Don's firm.

- The lead in to next weeks show, which never shows anything, made it look like Megan was helping Don with an ad, so there's that.

As much as Don liked having Megan in the office, she was ultimately stealing his focus away from his usual genius. Now that Megan is only involved with "home Don", "work Don" can get back to his usual brilliant self.

he should've just asked for a loan from the p'ship, partners do that all the time

kind of a bad miss by the writers

It was hard to understand where this whole issue came from but I had a feeling that there was a reason why he didn't want to tell the partners he owed England this money... "You took the queen's money and invested it abroad" or something like that was the comment from the accountant, right? I assume that meant there was some sort of tax on investments with british pounds? Maybe because his former firm was HQ'd in London? Who knows, interesting, thickening plot though.

He should go back to his chocolate bunny.

'Taxman...Mr. Wilson, Taxman, Mr. Heath"

What an episode.

I really liked the last scene with Don and Peggy. But his Jaguar pitch, unfortunately not needed, reminded me of his projector pitch in season 1.

Interesting episode. I think there is something else at play - Joan took a shortcut and Peggy didn't. By this I mean that I think Joan was played by Pete, by the partners (except Don), by the Jaguar dealer, and most importantly I fear, by Lane. Joan was raped by her former husband and she could at least feel in-control at work. Take that away and what becomes of Joan?! She is a character that we're emotionally invested in and I just don't see this becoming her Cleopatra moment. But I will add that Christina Hendricks was outstanding in this episode and attention for that fact should come her way.

I compare her choice to Peggy, who has grown beyond Don and came to realize that fact. Don, in a touching scene, perhaps came to understand it as well. Her work has brought her rightly to a different level and we saw another level of her growing confidence. Yes, Peggy "sold" herself (which was the point of the episode) but the contrast between her, Joan, and their choices was stark.

Two people came out of this episode more likeable - Don and Peggy. Don didn't sell out a friend; Peggy had the courage to realize the point had come to try something new. I felt incredible sorrow for Joan, whose intelligence and strength was flat-out used by her colleagues. For the rest, especially Roger Sterling, you have to realize how truly little they think of Joan when making their vote. Her trust in them, I fear, will not be rewarded......

Peggy's baby was given up for adoption.

Lane is going to get exposed and probably back to England in the season finale.

Season finale of season 2 she tells Pete she gave it up for adoption when he confesses to her that he should have married her instead of Trudy.