...and then Betty's rushing into the Rye Town Francis Estate and calling for Henry. She gets no reply...

...so the next thing we see is Don getting a buzz that Betty is on the phone. In a panic, she tells Don that the doctor found "a node or a nodule or something" on her thyroid, and they're not sure what it is, but it's definitely a lump and now she has to go to the city to see a specialist. Don, no stranger to people close to him dying of cancer, takes her seriously and offers to collect the kids, but that subject understandably only magnifies Betty's fears. So Don calls her "Birdy," probably for the first time since they divorced. After a moment, Betty asks him to say what he always says and he's right there: "Everything's gonna be okay." Interesting that the words she questioned right after the Kennedy assassination, the words that might have been as responsible as anything else for her decision to leave him are what she's begging to hear now. When they disconnect, however, Betty still seems terrified, while Don looks straight-up sad. He does not, however, run straight to his bar, at least not while the scene is still going on.

In the copywriters' room, Peggy is reviewing portfolios and noting with some heat how many of them contain knockoffs of the Volkswagen "Lemon" ad. Stan is equally unimpressed and Peggy boredly flips book after book onto the loser pile until she comes across one that has "Judge not, lest ye be judged" embossed on it. Amused and backed up by Stan's opinion that the irony is promising, she opens it and is just as impressed by the contents. Stan agrees, but thinks Peggy shouldn't consider hiring anyone with the potential to upstage her and I'm only liking Stan more for his protectiveness, even though it's unsurprisingly crudely expressed. Peggy, however, says she likes working with talented people, but Stan points out that this guy will be in direct competition with her. "Are you suddenly not competitive, the chick who races people to the toilet?" HA! Peggy doesn't object to that characterization, but does ignore Stan's advice and says she's bringing the guy in. It's not just because I love Stan that I think he's going to be proven at least partially right, although it doesn't hurt.