And when was the last time we got a scene of Don making a great pitch or just having a good time with his work pals, the Don Draper of old? In the penultimate episode of the season, we see Don Draper at his best and worst, and the Bob Benson mystery is solved (well, sort of), Ted Chaough, Peggy Olson, Megan Draper and Don Draper in Mad Men season six, episode 12. Pete doesn’t have it in him to do it. All political parties thrive, to some degree, on “us vs. them” rhetoric, but Nixon turned the idea of a nation divided into an art form. And the more one focuses on that one shot, the more the episode’s fascination with babies—born and about to be born—becomes apparent. On one condition: "I'm off limits.". Or, given the state of most of the men in this show, the good guy. The secret was revealed. This week I was going to be prepared for the drama and it looked like I was going to need to be. The scene where Pete seems about to send Bob packing, then offers him an ounce of mercy might be my favorite in the episode, because it plays so thoroughly off of everything we know about Pete Campbell after six seasons of this show. It’s not immediately clear, but I think what’s going on in this episode is that writers Andre and Maria Jacquemetton and director Phil Abraham are getting at all of these unbreachable walls and unbridgeable gaps the characters have built between themselves this season. All of which might help to explain the jibe above. Campbell, who cares?”. What he said was that all men have a kind of fascination with the womb. My colleague Alan Sepinwall said after last week’s episode, with its exemplary scene between Pete and Peggy, that one of the chief pleasures of the show at this point in its run is the chance to have scenes between characters who have long histories. In that light, almost every relationship this season offers a perspective on Don’s increased sense of loss, the nostalgia he has for a world that never was that he keeps trying to create in his ads. Not for writing "mouse" instead of "rat", but for underestimating the Bob Benson mystery. We might long to, and we might race toward it, but no man can return to that state or even recapture it in the process of forming a relationship. What a glorious and fun episode this was! Pete won’t betray his secret. From writer and executive producer Matthew Weiner, Season 6 leads the audience into the captivating world of 1960's New York. Watch that ad Don watches again. Bonnie notices a man looking at her, and Pete rises to spot George Payton, an old friend. In this year of Gatsby reinventions, it seems appropriate that Mad Men should have one of their own, except Jay Gatsby is an open book compared to Bob Benson. Like a small child, he wants what he wants, and he wants it now. 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