Why Does Betty Draper Let the Baby Cry

The Fog
Production
Season 3 Episode five
Air engagement	twenty September 2009
Written by	Kater Gordon
Directed by	Phil Abraham
Previous The Arrangements	Next Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency

Contents

• ane Synopsis
• 2 Cast
  • 2.ane Main Star
  • 2.ii Guest Star
  • two.3 Co-Star

Synopsis

Don and Betty visit Emerge's school for a briefing about their daughter'south recent bad behavior. Learning of Gene's death, her teacher, Miss Farrell, suggests that Sally'south grief over the loss may be the problem. Information technology likewise probably explains Sally's many questions about Medgar Evers, the recently murdered civil rights activist.

Later that day at piece of work, Don enters then abruptly exits a meeting at which Lane is complaining well-nigh company expenses, right down to staff consumption of pads and pencils.

Pete, reviewing his client Admiral's mostly flat sales figures with Paul, concludes that the television set set manufacturer is popular with African-Americans.

Admiral

In private with Don, Lane continues grousing most expenses and productivity, realizing the creative staff's penchant for cocktails followed by afternoon naps. "You came hither because we do this better than you," Don replies. "And part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are."

Pete takes a call from "Uncle Herman," who turns out to be Herman Phillips, now at Greyness, another advertizement agency. Herman Phillips invites Pete to lunch.

That evening, Emerge'due south teacher calls the Draper home and apologizes to Don for the forenoon's conference. Her father died when she was eight; she might have overreacted on Sally's behalf. Don ends the call when Betty announces she'south going into labor.

"Your job's done," the intake nurse at the hospital tells Don every bit she pushes Betty abroad in a wheelchair. Betty thinks she sees Cistron mopping the corridor floor and calls out to him.

In the waiting room, Don meets Dennis Hobart, a Sing Sing prison house guard and offset-fourth dimension father. He's brought some Scotch. "I thought it'd be a party," he says.

The two men talk nigh fatherhood and prison life. Mentioning the prisoners he encounters, Dennis reflects that "every unmarried i of these animals" was a baby one time. "Every ane of them blame their mom and dad", he adds. "That'southward a balderdash-- excuse", Don replies. Dennis agrees.

Betty, agitated considering her md hasn't arrived, argues with the nurse who gives her a sedative. Betty slips into a dream. Wearing a summer dress, she strolls a pristine suburban neighborhood. A caterpillar slides down its string of silk into her open hand. She smiles.

Back in the waiting room, Dennis worries about his married woman, who is having a breech delivery. If something happens to her, he remarks, he'd exist left with the baby. "How could I love that baby?" he asks. "Our worst fears lie in anticipation," Don tells him.

Betty continues to resist her nurse. "Where's Don?" Betty screams. "Have yous been with him?" she asks.

Dennis learns that his wife's delivery went fine. Pointing to the heavens, Dennis says that he doesn't know who'south "up there," but he testifies to Don that his newborn son volition make him a better human. "Tell me yous heard me," he asks Don. "I heard you lot," Don assures him.

Betty slips into a dream again. Her father, still in the janitor'due south uniform, is at her house mopping blood. Her female parent stands adjacent to a seated black man, presumably Medgar Evers. Holding a bloodstained cloth, her mother says, "You encounter what happens to people who speak up?" Betty should exist happy with what she has. "You're a housecat," her father adds. "You lot're very of import, and you have little to do."

Betty wakes, holding a baby boy. "His proper noun is Eugene," she tells Don.

Pete arrives for dejeuner with Herman Phillips to find that Peggy is also invited. Herman Phillips offers both of them jobs, but Pete gets up to get out. "If you desire to woo me, you'll have to buy me my own dejeuner," he says. "You're a freewheeling career gal with neat ideas," Herman Phillips later tells Peggy. "This is your time."

Back at Sterling Cooper, Pete quizzes Hollis, the building's black elevator operator, about his goggle box. Hollis has an RCA. "A lot of Negroes prefer Admiral," Pete states, but Hollis is reluctant to continue the conversation.

The adjacent day, Pete stuns two Admiral representatives past proposing commercials featuring white and black actors. One rep wonders if this is even legal. "Who'due south to say that Negroes aren't buying Admiral televisions considering they think white people want them?" the other man asks.

Peggy tells Don she wants a enhance in pay equal to the men. "Information technology'south not going to happen," Don says. He'due south fighting for paper clips these days. "I look at yous and I think, 'I want what he has,'" Peggy replies. "You take everything and and then much of information technology." Her request denied, Peggy departs, asking, "What if this is my time?"

Pete sees Peggy exit Don's office, and asks her if she discussed Herman Phillips's proposal with him. "Your decisions affect me," he says when Peggy refuses to say either way. Peggy walks abroad.

Roger and Cooper chew out Pete for upsetting Admiral, which, Cooper says, "has no interest in becoming a "colored" television company." Lane observes that equally a newcomer to the U.s.a., he senses changing attitudes regarding race. Perhaps Sterling Cooper should capitalize on this, if with another client.

Don drives Betty and the baby home. Betty describes the delivery to Francine every bit "all a fog." That night, the infant cries. Betty walks slowly in the direction of the audio. She pauses while he continues to wail, then proceeds into his room.

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Main Star

• Jon Hamm every bit Don Draper
• Elisabeth Moss equally Peggy Olson
• Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell
• Jan Jones as Betty Hofstadt
• Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway
• Bryan Batt as Salvatore Romano
• Michael Gladis as Paul Kinsey
• Aaron Staton as Ken Cosgrove
• Rich Sommer as Harry Crane
• Robert Morse equally Bertram Cooper
• John Slattery as Roger Sterling

Guest Star

• Jared Harris as Lane Pryce
• Marker Moses as Herman Phillips
• Kiernan Shipka as Sally Draper
• Ryan Cutrona as Eugene Hofstadt
• Abigail Spencer as Miss Farrell
• Matt Bushell every bit Dennis Hobart
• Anne Dudek as Francine Hanson
• Jayne Taini as Nurse Elaine
• Michael Canavan as Bob Adamson
• Yeardley Smith as Nurse Mary
• La Monde Byrd as Hollis
• Peter Breitmayer equally Raymond Garvey

Co-Star

• Alexa Alemanni as Allison
• Jared Gilmore as Robert Draper
• Lou Mulford as Ruth Hofstadt

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Why Does Betty Draper Let the Baby Cry

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