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Mad Men Season 1, Episode 5
EPISODE Fundamentals
Air date: August 16, 2007
Writer(s): Matthew Weiner
Director(s): Lesli Glatter
Guest star(s): Jim Abele (Jack Kongi); Maggie Siff (Rachel Menken); Alexa Alemanni (Allison); Bryan Batt (Salvatore); Jay Paulson (Adam Whitman); Andy Hoff (Charlie Fiddich); Alison Brie (Trudy Campbell); Anne Dudek (Francine Hanson); Aaron Staton (Ken); Rosemarie DeWitt (Midge); Rich Sommer (Harry); John Slattery (Roger Sterling); Michael J.X. Gladis (Paul); Maxwell Huckabee (Robert Draper)
MINI Synopsis
After Don wins an award, his photo is featured in Advertising Age. Don must deal with the fallout as the photo brings back a past he isn't ready to confront. Ken gets a short story published in "The Atlantic Monthly," inciting jealousy among his colleagues and driving Pete to make an unorthodox request of his wife. Peggy overhears a startling conversation in the office and shares the secret with Joan.





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Don and Betty Draper
MUSIC in this Episode
Song Title Artist Scene
Blue In Green
 Miles Davis
You
Aquatones

Non Dimenticar
 Percy Faith
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GETTING DOWN to Business
DOUBLE-Dealing
Lies, back-stabbing, deception
Don Draper

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Adam Whitman
 Relationship: Brothers

Double-dealing: Don pays Adam $500 to leave town and forget him.

Outcome: Adam takes the money and leaves.
Don Draper
Adam Whitman
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STOLEN Glances
Office liaisons, tawdry affairs and hot encounters
Trudy Campbell

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 Relationship: Ex-fiance

Scene of the 'crime': Charlie's office - he hits on Trudy.

How did this affair start? They used to be engaged.
Trudy Campbell
Charlie Fiddich
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Midge Daniels
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Scene of the 'crime':

How did this affair start?
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Midge Daniels
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SIGNS of the TIMES
MAD MEN Historical and Cultural References
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 The Atlantic Monthly was founded in Boston in 1857.It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. It achieved national reputation and held it for more than a century.
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We've Come a Long Way, Baby
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 Peggy eavesdrops on Don's conversation with Midge.
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MAD MEN Episode Essentials
DICK WHITMAN verses DON DRAPER
Dick Whitman and Don Draper
Insight into Don Draper/Dick Whitman's past:
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 Dick's younger brother, Adam, comes to visit him in the office. Adam assumed Dick had died in the army.
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 Dick's mother died of stomach cancer.
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MAD MEN Quotes
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 Betty: I liked your girl Peggy. She’s fresh.
Don: As the driven snow.
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 Midge:(to Don on the phone) I want you to pull my hair and ravish me and leave me for dead.
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BEST Episode Moments, BIGGEST Episode Shockers
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 After a brief reunion with his brother, Adam Whitman, where he learns his mother died of stomach cancer, Don/Dick tells his brother to never come around again.
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 Don/Dick pays off ($5,000) his younger brother, Adam, to leave town and never come back.
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MAD MEN Screencaps and Photos

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