Mad Men

Jon Hamm as Don Draper

Don Draper, the creative director for Sterling Cooper advertising agency, has the corner office -- and the stress that comes with it. With young executives vying for his job, Don fights to keep his running list of high profile accounts, including tobacco, from leaving the company and finds himself losing a steel campaign to the conniving Pete. With what spare time he has left, Don struggles to handle his increasingly complicated personal life, which just so happens to include his affair with Midge and a romantic interest in Rachel Menken. Rachel has rebuffed his advances since finding out he's marrried, but when he struggles to find a way to pitch a potential new client, the Israeli tourism bureau, he goes to Rachel for help. He considers talking about oneself a sin of pride, yet he’s so interested in finding out the hidden thoughts of his wife that he's making follow-up phone calls with her psychiatrist. He can’t help but get frustrated with her childish behavior, especially when he notices something between her and Roger.

An army vet, Don considers talking about oneself a sin of pride. He soon discovers that his younger brother -- who calls Don, Dick Whitman -- is in New York and offers him $5,000 to keep their relationship and family history hidden. Apparently Don’s mother was a prostitute, and when she died during childbirth, he was delivered to his drunken father and his unforgiving wife, whom he still despises.

Soon, Don is courted by Jim Hobart -- an ad man at the internationally acclaimed firm McCann Erickson – for a high-paying, high-profile position. After some thought -- and a good counter-offer from Roger -- Don decides to stay at Sterling Cooper. With Lucky Strike still sore from a lost lawsuit, Bertram needs to put out all the stops to keep the clients happy. Roger, still recovering from his heart attack, suffers another one during the big meeting. Bertram offers to make Don a partner, and he accepts.

When Pete steals a package that Adam had mailed to Don he unravels the secret of Don's identity. In reality, Dick Whitman served under Lt. Draper ten years ago, and when a gasoline explosion left the lieutenant dead, Dick switched their dog tags so that when he came home, he could start a new life.

Pete uses this information to try to blackmail Don to get a promotion. Don, at first fearful, begs Rachel to flee to Los Angeles with him and never come back. When she kicks him out, he decides to stand up for himself. He tells Pete and Cooper that he’ll be hiring Duck Phillips instead. Pete makes good on his promise to spill the beans to Cooper, but discovers to his amazement that Cooper doesn't care.

Don, after discovering that his younger brother hanged himself, takes an emotional look at his latest campaign, Kodak’s new slide projector. After he wows clients with his take on the machine as not a wheel but a carousel -- allowing people to travel around until they’re back home again -- he rushes out of the office to join his family for Thanksgiving.