Mad Men: Nixon vs. Kennedy (2007)
Season 1, Episode 12
Election Party In The Office and Draper's Past
8 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The Kennedy vs. Nixon election is happening. When Donald Draper leaves the office the entire office start a party. Alcohol and the television is brought out.

They start playing a game where a man chases a girl to see what colour panties she is wearing while they guess what colour. The first couple falls down and the man pulls up her dress to reveal blue underwear.

Peggy goes home. She is not into the celebratory mood of the group. I love the scene where Don comes home to his wife and kids. His wife asks if he wants food.

The secretary who is very professional and sticks to formalities gets tipsy and kisses one of the men. She later goes to her office to apologize to him as he is a married man. He feels the heated tension and they proceed to have sex.

The next morning when the secretary and man wake up, she is lying topless. She gets up wrapping the blanket to cover her chest that is falling out. He tapes his glasses back together. She turns around and we see the outlines of her breasts as she puts her white bra back on.

Peter looks through the box of photos and things from Don's brother at home. Trudy comes in wearing a light blue nightgown.

Peter attempts to blackmail Don with the information he has of Donald Draper not being his real name. His real name is Dick Whitman.

Don goes to Rachel the Jewish girl's place and cries tearfully. They kiss. He asks her to run away with him to Los Angeles, leaving his wife and kids. Rachel sees he just wants to run away from his problems, not because of her.

Don comes into the office where Peggy is crying and he yells at her for being there as he is upset and needs space. Peggy is crying as she called security and got two men fired. Peggy thinks aloud about how she is a good person but people end up hating her while those with bad intentions get to walk around the place. Don realizes he should proceed with the blackmailing in an honest and good way.

He goes to Peter and does not follow what Peter wants. Peter wants to be head of accounts. They walk to Cooper's office and Don announces he will hire that candidate previously discussed as head of accounts. Peter tells Cooper about Don's real name but Cooper replies who cares. It does not matter.

We see a flashback of Don and his leader in South Korea. Don is the only man left. The leader gets killed by an explosion and we see his charred body. Don switches the necklaces and has a new identity. He watches his supposed body go home to his family and his younger brother sees him on the train. His bro calls out for him but his parents tell him to stop that.
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