Roger Sterling is working the office with a lot of energy, making sure that everyone is on top of their game.
Jim Cutler is in there asking Don Draper to take up a Hershey's chocolate account. It turns out the company is letting about 30 firms make the pitch to them and SCP is on the list.
Roger Sterling calls Bob Benson into his office. He is upset that he's been seeing him hanging around Joan's apartment, making her food and escorting her around.
Don calls his daughter Sally up at her new girl's school. After the phone call, he heads out to a dimly lit bar in town. Cutler and Chaogh are in the office talking about Don going missing again.
Don runs into some man talking loudly about Jesus in the bar. Don in effect tells him to shut up. He has a flashback to his childhood at the whorehouse when a preacher came in to talk about the sin going on in the house. When we cut back to present day, Don is sitting in a jail cell with his suit.
A telegram comes in... It's word that Pete Campbell's mom is lost at see. It says she is presumed to have gone overboard on a ship.
Don gets home after spending the night in jail. He tells Megan he's tired of New York, and he wants to move to L.A. to handle the Sunkist account.
Peggy and Ted Chaough are heating up. Ted Chaough offers to leave his wife because he admits he loves Peggy. Peggy says to leave but Chaough closes the door and kisses her.. They both disrobe..
Meanwhile, Don's daughter gets suspended from boarding school since she bought beer.
"She was drunk, and she got other girls drunk," says Betty...
She asks Don to go pick her up since she doesn't want to disappoint her parents, but she obviously doesn't know about what Sally saw that night in Sylvia's apartment. Betty makes her appeal by saying she is part of a broken home and that she needs somebody.
Betty and Ted are finished, and they are laying in bed, going over the kind of future they have together.
Ted and Don are hassling over who gets to go to California-- Someone from the firm has to go out there to set up an office just for Sunkist. Ted tells Don that he needs to make distance between him and Peggy, for the sake of his family. Ted wants to run away with his family away from Peggy.
Don and Ted are both pretty distraught. They are in the conference room making the pitch to the Hershey's brand. After making a copy pitch of a very idyllic family ad, Don opens up to everybody about growing up in a whorehouse... And remembers his first Hershey's bar all alone. It was in an extremely somber tone that made everyone have ugly looks on their faces.
Instead of Chaough saying "What was that all about!?," as he's always done, Don says he's letting Ted go to California with his family. Him blowing up the interview was his way of giving it away.
Don goes home and tells Megan about giving up the California plans. Megan is pissed because she quit her job on the soap already and is already arranging for acting opportunities in Hollywood. Megan tees off on Don about all the problems in his life.
By the way, she says, Don needs to show up at 9 A.M. the next day, Thanksgiving morning, for an emergency meeting.
Don heads upstairs to the meeting taking place in an empty office. They say he's blown up Hershey's, and his behavior is questionable, they're sending him for a few months. Is he fired? Don wants a return date, but Bertram Cooper doesn't want to give him one.
It's time for the season-ending music montage.
Peggy is sitting in Don's seat... She's taking over! Does this imply she's the new creative Director?
It ends with Don taking a day with his kids, and he takes them to show him where he grew up, at the whorehouse. He just doesn't tell them it was a whorehouse.
Don ends up with his children in this episode, but we are left with the big question of whether he'll leave with his wife to California or stay home with the kids while Sterling Cooper has him on leave.