Mad Men

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There's That Past, Informing the Present Again

...while Betty and Henry are, um, enjoying their alone time together when the doorbell rings. Henry offers to get it, which is nice of him, but I hope his robe is fairly loose-fitting, especially given what just happened with Sally. Downstairs, Henry asks if Sally's sick, and says he would have come to get her, but the woman stiffly says no, that's not it, and could she speak to Betty for a moment? When Betty appears, the woman dismisses Henry and then informs Betty that Sally was "behaving inappropriately." Betty gets a look of no surprise on her face, and despite the awkwardness of the scene I'm looking forward to seeing that wiped clean. When the woman breaks the news, Betty has to compose herself, but apologizes and says she would have done the same thing with respect to telling her were their positions reversed. The woman softens a bit and says she's sorry about the whole thing, and then Betty sees her out...

...before marching into Sally's room, and kind of heartbreakingly, Sally's sitting on her bed not even having taken her coat off, like, I don't think Betty's going to turn you out on the street quite yet, kid. Well, at least not as long as Henry's around. Betty grabs Sally by the chin and tells her she doesn't do such things, especially not in public, and when Sally denies any wrongdoing Betty threatens to cut her fingers off. Trying to one-up your mother, eh Bets? Betty tells Sally to go to bed...

...and then heads there herself, lighting a cigarette and saying how mortified she is before telling Henry what happened. She throws up her hands and asks what's wrong with the kid, and Henry pushes the idea of therapy for Sally, apparently not for the first time. What is new, however, is that Betty tells him about her stint seeing a psychiatrist, adding that she doesn't think it helps anything. Well, no, not when the shrink is reporting to your husband on the sly and then you find out about it. That truly does not help anything. Henry, however, says his daughter benefitted tremendously from seeing a child psychiatrist he found through her school, and he's not even so convinced that anything's so wrong with Sally, but it's obvious that her recent behavior has been hard on both her and Betty. When he tries to probe a little more about Betty's experience, she shuts that line of questioning down, but she does seem to have heard him about the Sally idea. I should also note that whatever demands are being placed on Henry's time these days, he apparently still works out, because for someone who looks and acts (and we've been there before, but ew) old enough to be Betty's dad, dude is in shape.

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