And Ken Cosgrove, artistic soul that he is, isn’t really adept at bossing people around.Ken's in Pete's old office now, and it's rubbed off on him. He's worried about corporate hierarchy and the power of perception, dumping a meeting with the new head of marketing at Butler Shoes on Joan because he's sure it's beneath him.

Elisabeth Moss
Can Peggy Olson just get a break now?

Joan, who is still being treated like, well, a girlie. In yet more chauvinistic news, Butler barely treats her like an adult human, much less a professional – because meetings with women are beneath him, obviously. But Joan has to figure out a way to wow him anyway, because he’s planning to pull the account from SCP and create an in-house marketing department. Joan is so accustomed to being either ignored or pawed-at that she misinterprets a college professor's quid pro quo intentions when he agrees to give her a tutorial in Business Marketing 101 (though maybe he was being intentionally ambiguous with his friendly remarks). Regardless, Joan gets the inside-baseball knowledge she needs to put Butler's marketing dept plans on hold indefinitely.

 

Christina Hendricks
Christina Hendricks' Joan is on the rise, but full of frustration.

And in Don news – finally, we hear you groan, he and Megan are still together, sort of. They’re in a cross-country relationship, he I NY and she clawing at roles in NBC pilots on the West Coast. We catch up with him shaving in an airplane bathroom on his way west, then walking through the airport to Steve Winwood and the Spencer Davis Group singing "I'm a Man." Disoriented for Don and detatched for Megan – that seems to be the mood of the reunion, as the two meet with her flamboyant agent Alan Silver (who reassures Don that his interest in Megan is purely professional, as if anyone had any doubts) and gives Megan the good news – she has a callback for something called Bracken’s World – which turns out to be a minor show, having run for a couple of seasons in the late 60s. It’s clear Meg has been seduced by the glamour of LA and Don seems to be on his way to losing her.