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[[Don Draper]] meets with a representative from [[Heinz |
[[Don Draper]] meets with a representative from [[H.J. Heinz Company|Heinz]], to discuss the potential move to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, but is dismayed when the potential client says he will hear ideas from SCDP in six to eight months, as he has doubts about the agency's immediate future. At the office, the partners talk with an advisor who recommends they get another tobacco account to replace [[Lucky Strike]], and says he will try to arrange a meeting with [[Philip Morris]]. However, Philip Morris turns the would be meeting into a negotiating ploy, which helps them to get a better deal with another firm. To provide funding to make up for the drop in revenues from losing Lucky Strike, Lane asks each of the partners to loan money to the firm. |
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Without consulting the other partners, Don writes a full page ad, which he places in the ''[[New York Times]]'', to publicly say that he is relieved to no longer be advertising a product he knows will kill people, and that tobacco accounts are no longer welcome at SCDP. The resulting commotion at the office is that the other partners get livid at Don, although Lane is the only one who fully appreciates what Don is trying to do. Cooper, in a rage, declares he is leaving. The other partners also agree to dismiss most of the staff. Don meets with Peggy, who fears that she is being let go. Instead, Don wants her to approve a list of the people in the Creative Department who need to be dismissed. In the midst of the firing, SCDP receives a call from the [[American Cancer Society]], inquiring about launching an anti-cigarette campaign. |
Without consulting the other partners, Don writes a full page ad, which he places in the ''[[New York Times]]'', to publicly say that he is relieved to no longer be advertising a product he knows will kill people, and that tobacco accounts are no longer welcome at SCDP. The resulting commotion at the office is that the other partners get livid at Don, although Lane is the only one who fully appreciates what Don is trying to do. Cooper, in a rage, declares he is leaving. The other partners also agree to dismiss most of the staff. Don meets with Peggy, who fears that she is being let go. Instead, Don wants her to approve a list of the people in the Creative Department who need to be dismissed. In the midst of the firing, SCDP receives a call from the [[American Cancer Society]], inquiring about launching an anti-cigarette campaign. |
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== Sub-Plots == |
== Sub-Plots == |
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Revision as of 17:18, 12 October 2010
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"Blowing Smoke" is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of the American television drama series Mad Men, and the 51st overall episode of the series. It aired on the AMC channel in the United States on October 10, 2010.
Plot
Don Draper meets with a representative from Heinz, to discuss the potential move to Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, but is dismayed when the potential client says he will hear ideas from SCDP in six to eight months, as he has doubts about the agency's immediate future. At the office, the partners talk with an advisor who recommends they get another tobacco account to replace Lucky Strike, and says he will try to arrange a meeting with Philip Morris. However, Philip Morris turns the would be meeting into a negotiating ploy, which helps them to get a better deal with another firm. To provide funding to make up for the drop in revenues from losing Lucky Strike, Lane asks each of the partners to loan money to the firm.
Without consulting the other partners, Don writes a full page ad, which he places in the New York Times, to publicly say that he is relieved to no longer be advertising a product he knows will kill people, and that tobacco accounts are no longer welcome at SCDP. The resulting commotion at the office is that the other partners get livid at Don, although Lane is the only one who fully appreciates what Don is trying to do. Cooper, in a rage, declares he is leaving. The other partners also agree to dismiss most of the staff. Don meets with Peggy, who fears that she is being let go. Instead, Don wants her to approve a list of the people in the Creative Department who need to be dismissed. In the midst of the firing, SCDP receives a call from the American Cancer Society, inquiring about launching an anti-cigarette campaign.
Sub-Plots
Don runs into his old flame, Midge Daniels (Rosemarie DeWitt). She confesses that she and her husband are addicted to heroin, and that she tracked him down so he would buy a painting she had done, which in turn would enable her to buy more heroin. Don buys a painting and takes it home.
Betty learns that Sally and Glen have been talking in private, after hearing from Sally's psychiatrist that Sally is making excellent progress. At the dinner table, Betty suggests to Henry that they move to another town, and Henry agrees. Sally runs up to her room, heartbroken.