Going into Season 3, I see some of the relationships as stacked up this way:
Don and Betty are pretty "square" with each other at the moment.
Mona's holding big-time markers against Roger, as is Jane. (Re Jane's markers --it's her youth and beauty which have Roger eating out of her hand -- plus the fact that he's staked so much on their relationship). (Side Note: Having his life in the hands of 2 women may take some of the wind out of Roger's sails for the moment).
Joan and everybody else: With Joan's mind so distracted by the "loss" of Roger and the need to find a husband, she's not played potential markers...("the Joan of Season One" would never have let her hard work and lack of recognition on reading all those TV summaries for Harry go un-addressed; would never have let Jane "beat" her, etc. etc). And I won't even get into the subject of the emotional markers she holds on Dr. Rapist --only to say that if she marrys him, she's forfeited those.
Don and Peggy are pretty square--he saved her and she saved him... however, her saving him "cost her " a favor from her brother-in-law whose car she had to borrow in the middle of the night.
Peggy and her other family members: Who knows, except that her "self-pitying" sister seems obsessed with proving to the world that Peggy owes "Somebody" intimately connected with the Church, big time....and sister seems intent on making Peggy pay up on that debt.
Lois holds (useless) markers against Harry, Paul and Ken...she is reliant upon their "good-will" to collect. Not knowing how the game is played, Lois in effect bestowed a "gift" -- which she has no way of enforcing. I predict that if they don't "pay up" Lois will go after the weakest link of the three --using her power at the Switchboard to cleverly and un-traceably sabatoge one of them over time....
Pete and Don: I'm afraid Don's vulnerable here--who'd ever "thunk it?" But Pete's tipping Don off was a hugely significant "favor" -- enabling Don to be emotionally ready at the PPL meeting. (Come to think of it, Pete's "not in debt" right now to anyone at work, PLUS, he's incurred no major ill-will from anyone)....hhmmmm....
.....While I fully agree that practically everyone has markers of some kind on everyone, remember that there is a possibility that the neighborhood of two years may have elapsed, meaning we don't really know who is square with whom.
The characters are going to be in very different places from where we left them in Meditations.
If Don is cheating while his wife is pregnant, I doubt she will miss the clues, now that she's a pro detective (all except for that desk drawer, of course). A man cheating on a pregnant woman, or his wife who is stuck home with the baby, isn't going to be too square with her, I don't think.
All your points are good original thinking, but the ones that I worry about are Pete knowing Don's secret, Peggy possibly knowing Don's secret (remember he told her after returning from California about the disappearances).
They mentioned in the little "breadcrumbs" they are throwing us that two beloved characters will be forced to vy for the same position on the corporate ladder.
While we always think of Pete as the snake-in-the-grass, something in the back of my mind wonders often about Peggy, and her threat to Don.
She has a LOT of markers on him, and I can't help but remember the scene where she confronts Pete about ratting on Freddy, and how quickly the mention of a raise and her own office shut her right up.
For Peggy, what if Pete is the one to betray her? Perhaps THEY will be forced to compete for the same position?
And don't even get me started on Anita. She's a sure thing, in the backstabbing department.
I agree about Lois - she's definitely a wild card, and also has a little dirt on Don.
Joan has dirt on Don, after hearing his office door lock "snick" while Bobbie Barrett was inside. Not that she'd ever use that information, but everyone has their breaking point, as we've seen over and over.
As you pointed out, the list of potential betrayals is LONG!
I suppose Pete COULD hold Don's real identity over his head with Betty. Nobody at the office would care, really. But I think Pete would really have to have his back to the wall to even hint at outing Dick/Don to Betty because he knows he (Pete) might be the one doing the "disappearing." His next business trip with Don might be his last, lol.
.....As to Joan and losing out on the promotion, it seemed as though she wasn't completely aware that she even wanted it, until it was snatched away from her.
Like she had told Peggy, "I've never wanted your job." All Joan's early counsel to Peggy was about enchanting and serving the men in the office, not strategy for succeeding in the world of business.
I don't think Joan had ever been conditioned to think of success in that way, which seemed very much like a generational difference, and which seemed even more pronounced in the scenes between Jane and Joan.
Her idea of success, previous to that taste of self-achievement, was a rich doctor and a house in the country. It was also clear in the beginning she really thought she had it all wired.
So many people were pulling for Joan, after seeing how bright and apt she was with all things advertising, and how well she went over, as a whole, with the clients.
It's hard, especially after the year she had, not to want that for her now, but she didn't know to fight for it.
.....Also remember Bert informing Don he is now on the Board of Directors (or something) of The Museum of American Folk Art (or something), thereby moving to the next level, socially.
Some people theorized that THAT is the crowd who might be most scandalized to learn of a false identity, but it's hard not to imagine Betty being pretty freaked out to discover the real Dick Whitman.
Did anyone else wonder why Sal is on the trip to Baltimore, rather than Pete or Paul? Not that it's not appropriate, but I wouldn't have thought he'd have been the first choice.....
For a while, before the engagement (and presumed "retirement"), I thought that Jane and Pete would end up teaming up, and that once SHE learned Don's secret(s), she would be the most dangerous person on the show.
She's already proven she's capable of just about any level of dastardly deeds.
If Don was the one to make the choice of who went to Baltimore with him I can think of possibly a couple of reasons for taking Sal: Perhaps there's some art work with the "pitch" they may be working on, and Sal is needed to be there to change it/ re-work it or something. OR, the other angle I think of is that business people, if they have a choice, will take someone along who they feel comfortable with and who, at least on some level, they feel is "quasi-equal." I might have thought Don would have picked Peggy, but as you pointed out, they may not even be in each other's camp anymore. Same thing with Pete. And as for Harry, Paul and Aaron --they don't seem to me to be as "sociialy adpet" or as sophisticated/mature as Sal...so I can't quite imagine Don being able to "tolerant" sitting next to them on the train/plane, or depending on them for the cock-tail party coversation that's required on these kinds of business trips.. You raised a lot of other interesting issues too... Including the Museum Board of Directors story line -- I wonder how that's going to play out...there ARE alot of potential "pitfalls" for Don threre.
Sal is from Baltimore, so it makes sense to take him along. Maybe Sal got the lead about London Fog from a contact or old acquaintance, so he and Don are doing the follow-up. I could see Sal not wanting to have Pete with him on his home turf, and definitely not Ken, Harry or Paul -- especially after Kurt's coming out incident.
.....Right, grin.....(my "duh!").....you could very well be right on both counts.
jackie I thought the same things as you.....maybe Sal's the only one Don can actually stand! .....Or trust.....he is pretty antisocial as far as the office people. I think Roger is the only one he's ever socialized with, beside the one night with Freddy.
(Was it "proper" in the early 60s for a man and a woman to take business travel together?)
They said two people will be laid off, and two will get promoted. I can't imagine having to choose the two being laid off, they are all so critical to the show (at least to us!).....
Dry, on the older post where I put the link to the new pics, at least one of the links on that page (there are a lot of them) confirms specifically that the show starts in 1963, and that the British takeover is still fresh. MW supposedly said some where it would be summer, while someone remarked that Betty's clothes looked right for spring (I agree). Joan's wedding was to be in December, and the way the ring is being featured so prominently in all the new promos seems very newlywed-ish. I think we can count on it being 1963 at this point.
Duck will have a lot on Pete if he promotes him to Head of Accounts as promised. Pete will owe him big time, and you know Duck will want to exploit the jealousy Pete has for Don assuming Duck is still around. That could make for some really ugly scenarios, and pitting Pete against Don could make some really tough choices for Pete. He's jealous of Don for sure, but deep down, I think he really wants Pete to respect and like him.
Don would take Sal if he needed on-the-fly artwork or if they're at London Fog to get a better feel for the style direction they want to take. It doesn't seem odd to me at all, especially considering it's Sal's home town. If Pete is Head of Accounts (Duck's old job) then he's not going to be on these types of trips any more.
Pete could hold Dick's past over Don's head with Betty, but I don't see it. I think Pete has decided marriage is a sham anyway, and that perhaps Don wouldn't car enough to stop him, or he would just realize that he didn't get anywhere with that the first time so no point. I could picture another woman holding it over his head. However, if MW plans on a five season run, I wouldn't expect it to get too close to home just yet. Maybe a brush too close with it as the season finale? From looking at the imdb cast list for the first episode, we're going to have a Whitman family flashback.
I can't see Peggy holding anything over Don's head. She owes him too much and they just seem to have a mutual understanding. Like Elisabeth Moss said in a recent interview, it's like he sees some of himself in her. and being mean or unfair isn't Peggy's style.
Another drama that may play out is when Joan tells Dr. Date Rape she's going to continue to work at SC after they're married. That's not going to sit well with him, especially after Roger's revealing remark (I thought you hated French food), and the way he acted when he came home when Joan was reading the scripts. If she develops higher aspirations than Head Secretary, there will be big problems there.
I was just thinking about what I said in another post about how few scenes Jane actually had. She could cause all kinds of problems without actually being on the show, but she wasn't around long enough to get any dirt on anyone.
Dry - it would be unusual for Peggy to travel with Don on business, and give rise to lots of talk at work, even if really work-related. Can you imagine the snickers and elbowing among the boys? Not a lot of women, copy editors anyway, traveled on business as far as I know.
.....MsFab.....Your date sounds very logical to me based on all that information. I'm so glad they didn't skip too far into the future, since so many things were happening right around then, historically-speaking.
Auburn Annie posted that timeline of events for that period, too bad it's buried way back there.....any chance you could post it again, Annie? Especially after what they said about every day on the show being the actual date from history.
Agreed that if Duck is still around (and we weren't totally conclusive about that), whether or not he is President of the new SC, he would definitely want to get to Draper however he could, because of his innate personal jealousies, and also agree that Pete is most likely still going to be torn for the reasons you mentioned and because, well, that's just Pete.
Unless, of course, there are now two Sterling Cooper offices - east and west. In that case, does it seem logical that Duck would head up one office, and Draper the other?
The reason I mentioned Peggy is largely because she is the last person we would suspect of treachery, and you know how Matt loves to do the thing you never expect for shock value.
Someone said something about Peggy being ruthless and calculating, and the only thing I could think of in terms of ruthlessness was the audio voiceover session with that one model, whom she harangued mercilessly, to the point of tears, before firing her. She just gratuitously took that poor girl right down.
No one had seen that side of Peggy before, who apparently got a little carried away with her first taste of power. It seemed like, with that, they were really trying to show how good people (who may just be feeling their way along) can act badly, but it doesn't necessarily define who they are. We never really saw her act that way again.
As to the calculating, I'm not so sure I would go straight to that, but I would say she is a very fast learner, and is very lucky to have sussed herself out so early in life, despite Joan's version of how she should behave, and what she should want. Some people spend years trying to undo that kind of conditioning.
Someone mentioned why Peggy didn't give Pete the cold shoulder or whatever, but who among us didn't get hung-up on the wrong boy, or do something dumb at age 20 or however old she is.
She was fresh out of secretary school, so it doesn't seem that unusual to see someone committing a string of mistakes at that age. She just didn't know any better.
The first day when she put her hand on Don Draper's hand, she thought that was what she was supposed to do.
It really struck me that that moment of him rebuffing her, respectfully and kindly and letting her get past it, was the turning point that she might not be a "Joan," after all, and there might be more to life and work beyond Joan's description and expectations.
That is such an interesting relationship - almost a "Mutt and Jeff" type of thing. Like Draper and Pete, they are so different, and the fascination comes from seeing them continuously thrown together.
Annie.....Even today, don't you think that men and women travelling on business get winks and snickers? It seems like human nature usually assumes the seamiest thing, whether or not it's actually the case.
I feel like I'm babbling so I'll shut up now. (I keep saying that!)
This is literally going to be the hardest two weeks of the whole wait, now that the clues are trickling out.
.....One last thing (I promise?).....Barring all the markers we DO know, with all these new characters, and all the new people Draper will meet through his philanthropic activities, don't you think it's just about time for him to run into someone pivotal who DOES know the real Dick Whitman or Donald Draper?
I don't think Joan has anything on Don in regard to Bobbie Barrett and the closed office door, because Betty already knows about Bobbie (Jimmy Barrett told her.)
Question: Do we know where (in what city/town) Don was when Anna Draper ran into him selling cars?
Regarding DM's point that Don's had a long run in terms of not running into anyone else who "knows" him, I believe there have only been 3 people so far:
1. Anna
2. His "step-brother" (forget his name); and...
3. Larry (on the commuter train,( who was on his
way to a meeting at IBM, I believe). I've wonder-
ed if Don stopped taking that particular train
to work...because Larry mentioned he had
run into someone else from their unit --the
fellow who slept with his firearm under his pillow
(and Don indicated he remembered that fellow
also).
Going into Season 3, I see some of the relationships as stacked up this way:
Don and Betty are pretty "square" with each other at the moment.
Mona's holding big-time markers against Roger, as is Jane. (Re Jane's markers --it's her youth and beauty which have Roger eating out of her hand -- plus the fact that he's staked so much on their relationship). (Side Note: Having his life in the hands of 2 women may take some of the wind out of Roger's sails for the moment).
Joan and everybody else: With Joan's mind so distracted by the "loss" of Roger and the need to find a husband, she's not played potential markers...("the Joan of Season One" would never have let her hard work and lack of recognition on reading all those TV summaries for Harry go un-addressed; would never have let Jane "beat" her, etc. etc). And I won't even get into the subject of the emotional markers she holds on Dr. Rapist --only to say that if she marrys him, she's forfeited those.
Don and Peggy are pretty square--he saved her and she saved him... however, her saving him "cost her " a favor from her brother-in-law whose car she had to borrow in the middle of the night.
Peggy and her other family members: Who knows, except that her "self-pitying" sister seems obsessed with proving to the world that Peggy owes "Somebody" intimately connected with the Church, big time....and sister seems intent on making Peggy pay up on that debt.
Lois holds (useless) markers against Harry, Paul and Ken...she is reliant upon their "good-will" to collect. Not knowing how the game is played, Lois in effect bestowed a "gift" -- which she has no way of enforcing. I predict that if they don't "pay up" Lois will go after the weakest link of the three --using her power at the Switchboard to cleverly and un-traceably sabatoge one of them over time....
Pete and Don: I'm afraid Don's vulnerable here--who'd ever "thunk it?" But Pete's tipping Don off was a hugely significant "favor" -- enabling Don to be emotionally ready at the PPL meeting. (Come to think of it, Pete's "not in debt" right now to anyone at work, PLUS, he's incurred no major ill-will from anyone)....hhmmmm....
.....While I fully agree that practically everyone has markers of some kind on everyone, remember that there is a possibility that the neighborhood of two years may have elapsed, meaning we don't really know who is square with whom.
The characters are going to be in very different places from where we left them in Meditations.
If Don is cheating while his wife is pregnant, I doubt she will miss the clues, now that she's a pro detective (all except for that desk drawer, of course). A man cheating on a pregnant woman, or his wife who is stuck home with the baby, isn't going to be too square with her, I don't think.
All your points are good original thinking, but the ones that I worry about are Pete knowing Don's secret, Peggy possibly knowing Don's secret (remember he told her after returning from California about the disappearances).
They mentioned in the little "breadcrumbs" they are throwing us that two beloved characters will be forced to vy for the same position on the corporate ladder.
While we always think of Pete as the snake-in-the-grass, something in the back of my mind wonders often about Peggy, and her threat to Don.
She has a LOT of markers on him, and I can't help but remember the scene where she confronts Pete about ratting on Freddy, and how quickly the mention of a raise and her own office shut her right up.
For Peggy, what if Pete is the one to betray her? Perhaps THEY will be forced to compete for the same position?
And don't even get me started on Anita. She's a sure thing, in the backstabbing department.
I agree about Lois - she's definitely a wild card, and also has a little dirt on Don.
Joan has dirt on Don, after hearing his office door lock "snick" while Bobbie Barrett was inside. Not that she'd ever use that information, but everyone has their breaking point, as we've seen over and over.
As you pointed out, the list of potential betrayals is LONG!
I suppose Pete COULD hold Don's real identity over his head with Betty. Nobody at the office would care, really. But I think Pete would really have to have his back to the wall to even hint at outing Dick/Don to Betty because he knows he (Pete) might be the one doing the "disappearing." His next business trip with Don might be his last, lol.
.....As to Joan and losing out on the promotion, it seemed as though she wasn't completely aware that she even wanted it, until it was snatched away from her.
Like she had told Peggy, "I've never wanted your job." All Joan's early counsel to Peggy was about enchanting and serving the men in the office, not strategy for succeeding in the world of business.
I don't think Joan had ever been conditioned to think of success in that way, which seemed very much like a generational difference, and which seemed even more pronounced in the scenes between Jane and Joan.
Her idea of success, previous to that taste of self-achievement, was a rich doctor and a house in the country. It was also clear in the beginning she really thought she had it all wired.
So many people were pulling for Joan, after seeing how bright and apt she was with all things advertising, and how well she went over, as a whole, with the clients.
It's hard, especially after the year she had, not to want that for her now, but she didn't know to fight for it.
.....Also remember Bert informing Don he is now on the Board of Directors (or something) of The Museum of American Folk Art (or something), thereby moving to the next level, socially.
Some people theorized that THAT is the crowd who might be most scandalized to learn of a false identity, but it's hard not to imagine Betty being pretty freaked out to discover the real Dick Whitman.
Did anyone else wonder why Sal is on the trip to Baltimore, rather than Pete or Paul? Not that it's not appropriate, but I wouldn't have thought he'd have been the first choice.....
For a while, before the engagement (and presumed "retirement"), I thought that Jane and Pete would end up teaming up, and that once SHE learned Don's secret(s), she would be the most dangerous person on the show.
She's already proven she's capable of just about any level of dastardly deeds.
Sorry if I'm overposting today. I'll shut up now.
If Don was the one to make the choice of who went to Baltimore with him I can think of possibly a couple of reasons for taking Sal: Perhaps there's some art work with the "pitch" they may be working on, and Sal is needed to be there to change it/ re-work it or something. OR, the other angle I think of is that business people, if they have a choice, will take someone along who they feel comfortable with and who, at least on some level, they feel is "quasi-equal." I might have thought Don would have picked Peggy, but as you pointed out, they may not even be in each other's camp anymore. Same thing with Pete. And as for Harry, Paul and Aaron --they don't seem to me to be as "sociialy adpet" or as sophisticated/mature as Sal...so I can't quite imagine Don being able to "tolerant" sitting next to them on the train/plane, or depending on them for the cock-tail party coversation that's required on these kinds of business trips.. You raised a lot of other interesting issues too... Including the Museum Board of Directors story line -- I wonder how that's going to play out...there ARE alot of potential "pitfalls" for Don threre.
I mean "socially adept" up there. :-(
...and as you can tell...reality and "fantasy" have blurred for me...I meant "Ken." (Time for me to to take a break)!
Sal is from Baltimore, so it makes sense to take him along. Maybe Sal got the lead about London Fog from a contact or old acquaintance, so he and Don are doing the follow-up. I could see Sal not wanting to have Pete with him on his home turf, and definitely not Ken, Harry or Paul -- especially after Kurt's coming out incident.
.....Right, grin.....(my "duh!").....you could very well be right on both counts.
jackie I thought the same things as you.....maybe Sal's the only one Don can actually stand! .....Or trust.....he is pretty antisocial as far as the office people. I think Roger is the only one he's ever socialized with, beside the one night with Freddy.
(Was it "proper" in the early 60s for a man and a woman to take business travel together?)
They said two people will be laid off, and two will get promoted. I can't imagine having to choose the two being laid off, they are all so critical to the show (at least to us!).....
Dry, on the older post where I put the link to the new pics, at least one of the links on that page (there are a lot of them) confirms specifically that the show starts in 1963, and that the British takeover is still fresh. MW supposedly said some where it would be summer, while someone remarked that Betty's clothes looked right for spring (I agree). Joan's wedding was to be in December, and the way the ring is being featured so prominently in all the new promos seems very newlywed-ish. I think we can count on it being 1963 at this point.
Duck will have a lot on Pete if he promotes him to Head of Accounts as promised. Pete will owe him big time, and you know Duck will want to exploit the jealousy Pete has for Don assuming Duck is still around. That could make for some really ugly scenarios, and pitting Pete against Don could make some really tough choices for Pete. He's jealous of Don for sure, but deep down, I think he really wants Pete to respect and like him.
Don would take Sal if he needed on-the-fly artwork or if they're at London Fog to get a better feel for the style direction they want to take. It doesn't seem odd to me at all, especially considering it's Sal's home town. If Pete is Head of Accounts (Duck's old job) then he's not going to be on these types of trips any more.
Pete could hold Dick's past over Don's head with Betty, but I don't see it. I think Pete has decided marriage is a sham anyway, and that perhaps Don wouldn't car enough to stop him, or he would just realize that he didn't get anywhere with that the first time so no point. I could picture another woman holding it over his head. However, if MW plans on a five season run, I wouldn't expect it to get too close to home just yet. Maybe a brush too close with it as the season finale? From looking at the imdb cast list for the first episode, we're going to have a Whitman family flashback.
I can't see Peggy holding anything over Don's head. She owes him too much and they just seem to have a mutual understanding. Like Elisabeth Moss said in a recent interview, it's like he sees some of himself in her. and being mean or unfair isn't Peggy's style.
Another drama that may play out is when Joan tells Dr. Date Rape she's going to continue to work at SC after they're married. That's not going to sit well with him, especially after Roger's revealing remark (I thought you hated French food), and the way he acted when he came home when Joan was reading the scripts. If she develops higher aspirations than Head Secretary, there will be big problems there.
I was just thinking about what I said in another post about how few scenes Jane actually had. She could cause all kinds of problems without actually being on the show, but she wasn't around long enough to get any dirt on anyone.
Dry - it would be unusual for Peggy to travel with Don on business, and give rise to lots of talk at work, even if really work-related. Can you imagine the snickers and elbowing among the boys? Not a lot of women, copy editors anyway, traveled on business as far as I know.
.....MsFab.....Your date sounds very logical to me based on all that information. I'm so glad they didn't skip too far into the future, since so many things were happening right around then, historically-speaking.
Auburn Annie posted that timeline of events for that period, too bad it's buried way back there.....any chance you could post it again, Annie? Especially after what they said about every day on the show being the actual date from history.
Agreed that if Duck is still around (and we weren't totally conclusive about that), whether or not he is President of the new SC, he would definitely want to get to Draper however he could, because of his innate personal jealousies, and also agree that Pete is most likely still going to be torn for the reasons you mentioned and because, well, that's just Pete.
Unless, of course, there are now two Sterling Cooper offices - east and west. In that case, does it seem logical that Duck would head up one office, and Draper the other?
The reason I mentioned Peggy is largely because she is the last person we would suspect of treachery, and you know how Matt loves to do the thing you never expect for shock value.
Someone said something about Peggy being ruthless and calculating, and the only thing I could think of in terms of ruthlessness was the audio voiceover session with that one model, whom she harangued mercilessly, to the point of tears, before firing her. She just gratuitously took that poor girl right down.
No one had seen that side of Peggy before, who apparently got a little carried away with her first taste of power. It seemed like, with that, they were really trying to show how good people (who may just be feeling their way along) can act badly, but it doesn't necessarily define who they are. We never really saw her act that way again.
As to the calculating, I'm not so sure I would go straight to that, but I would say she is a very fast learner, and is very lucky to have sussed herself out so early in life, despite Joan's version of how she should behave, and what she should want. Some people spend years trying to undo that kind of conditioning.
Someone mentioned why Peggy didn't give Pete the cold shoulder or whatever, but who among us didn't get hung-up on the wrong boy, or do something dumb at age 20 or however old she is.
She was fresh out of secretary school, so it doesn't seem that unusual to see someone committing a string of mistakes at that age. She just didn't know any better.
The first day when she put her hand on Don Draper's hand, she thought that was what she was supposed to do.
It really struck me that that moment of him rebuffing her, respectfully and kindly and letting her get past it, was the turning point that she might not be a "Joan," after all, and there might be more to life and work beyond Joan's description and expectations.
That is such an interesting relationship - almost a "Mutt and Jeff" type of thing. Like Draper and Pete, they are so different, and the fascination comes from seeing them continuously thrown together.
Annie.....Even today, don't you think that men and women travelling on business get winks and snickers? It seems like human nature usually assumes the seamiest thing, whether or not it's actually the case.
I feel like I'm babbling so I'll shut up now. (I keep saying that!)
This is literally going to be the hardest two weeks of the whole wait, now that the clues are trickling out.
.....One last thing (I promise?).....Barring all the markers we DO know, with all these new characters, and all the new people Draper will meet through his philanthropic activities, don't you think it's just about time for him to run into someone pivotal who DOES know the real Dick Whitman or Donald Draper?
Yes, Dry....Yes I do......
I don't think Joan has anything on Don in regard to Bobbie Barrett and the closed office door, because Betty already knows about Bobbie (Jimmy Barrett told her.)
Question: Do we know where (in what city/town) Don was when Anna Draper ran into him selling cars?
Regarding DM's point that Don's had a long run in terms of not running into anyone else who "knows" him, I believe there have only been 3 people so far:
1. Anna
2. His "step-brother" (forget his name); and...
3. Larry (on the commuter train,( who was on his
way to a meeting at IBM, I believe). I've wonder-
ed if Don stopped taking that particular train
to work...because Larry mentioned he had
run into someone else from their unit --the
fellow who slept with his firearm under his pillow
(and Don indicated he remembered that fellow
also).
I think Anna found him in California, Jackie; don't know what city.