Don and Betty go to dinner with Roger Sterling and his wife, where Don is noticeably reluctant to discuss his past. Even Betty doesn't know anything about her own husband's past, which he puts into the same category as "politics, religion and sex...why talk about it?"
While driving the kids home, Betty's hands start shaking and she gets into a crash. She thinks about seeing a psychiatrist, which Don is against, not seeing how she could possibly be unhappy. Eventually, he agrees to let her see one, but the doctor informs to him behind her back.
Meanwhile, Pete Campbell is on his honeymoon, so Paul Kinsey shows Peggy around the office. He tries to seduce her, but she flatly refuses him. He correctly guesses that she "belongs to someone else." Peggy notes that the same woman can often be found crying in the ladies' room.
This episode contains examples of:
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: An interesting variant of the trope, after Peggy complains about how the men seem to expect sexual favors every time they treat a woman, Joan tells her its all very normal and she deals with men following her on the street and expresses pity when Peggy says she doesn't deal with that issue. The point being that Joan values male assessment of her beauty to the point she'd overlook them infringing on her personal space.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: When Betty and Francine are in Betty's kitchen, and Francine calls for their children, Sally comes in wearing the plastic cover of her mother's dress. Betty's reaction is to tell Sally that if her dress is scattered on the floor, Sally's going to get punished, with no word of concern about the fact she could suffocate.
- When Betty is driving, the kids are climbing between the back and front seats and loudly playing. The fact that they don't get hurt when Betty crashes is a miracle, and incidents like this are exactly why cars have seatbelts today.
- Male Gaze: Observed from the woman's point of view. A montage is shown where Peggy feels the stares of all the men from the office as they pass her desk.
- Oblivious to Love: Paul takes an interest in Peggy, playing himself up as a friendly face and giving her a mini-tour of the office, all in the hopes of sleeping with her. Peggy thinks of his behavior as underlining a platonic friendship, and is stunned when he makes the move to kiss her.
- Therapy Is for the Weak: Don expresses some reluctance at putting Betty through it, initially, saying that it's supposed to be for people who are unhappy. Justified given the time period, when therapy for "normal" people is only starting to enter the mainstream.
